With the coronavirus crisis forcing schools to close and many of us working from home, millions of parents are looking for something – anything! – to help keep the children occupied. Luckily, the world has progressed beyond trips to video libraries and scouring TV schedules, and there are hours and …
Read More »Mythic Quest interviews: How the new Apple series is authentic (but not pandering) to the video game industry
“The vast majority of what we’ve seen in the media that has anything to do with the video game industry and culture has been so marginalizing and so reductive and just lame,” Rob McElhenney – who you’ll likely recognise from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – says. We’re discussing his …
Read More »Bong Joon-Ho Oscar Winner: Check out these heart warming gifs of the director
In case you missed it, Bong Joon-Ho won four Oscars at this year’s awards. In total he got one for Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture win for Parasite (opens in new tab), the first time a foreign film has taken that honor. (Check …
Read More »Who is Morbius? What are his powers? And whats his comic-book history?
Sony’s Spider-Verse welcomes its newest addition later this year when Morbius flies into cinemas. The first trailer for the character’s solo flick gave us an insight into the Spider-Man villain’s world – one that could potentially link to the MCU (opens in new tab). Morbius isn’t some brooding Twilight-esque bloodsucker, …
Read More »Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Easter eggs and references you may have missed
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (opens in new tab) has finally reached cinemas, bringing an end to the Skywalker saga once and for all. That’s 40 years of storytelling in a galaxy far, far away completed, and, as you would expect, there were dozens upon dozens of references to what …
Read More »Star Wars: The Clone Wars shows us what the prequel trilogy should have been
What the hell was Luke Skywalker talking about when he said he’d bullseyed a womp rat in his T-16? Who was the bounty hunter Han Solo ran into on Ord Mantell? The original Star Wars trilogy featured plenty of throwaway references to events that happened off-screen – world-building that wasn’t …
Read More »Star Wars: 20 things we learned from Rise of Skywalker prequel novel Resistance Reborn
Since the end credits rolled on Star Wars: The Last Jedi (opens in new tab) back in 2017, that galaxy far, far away has been in limbo. Kylo Ren has become the new Supreme Leader of the First Order. Luke Skywalker’s dead. The few remaining survivors of the Resistance are …
Read More »Ad Astra ending explained by director James Gray
Where to begin with Ad Astra (opens in new tab)? The science-fiction movie, directed by James Gray, makes for one of the most inventive and thought-provoking stories ever told on the big screen – one that asks you, the viewer, to reconcile with all those Daddy issues you have locked …
Read More »Paul Feig talks directing Last Christmas: “My goal was to never do a Christmas movie again”
“Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day, you gave it away…” Those are the heartbreaking words of George Michael and Wham’s “Last Christmas”, the classic festive jingle that has been transformed into a feature-length movie starring Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke and Crazy Rich …
Read More »5 moments in Avengers: Endgame that made us punch the air… and 5 more that made us cry
It’s no longer enough for blockbuster movies to show us action set pieces of a scale we’ve never seen before. Avengers: Endgame (opens in new tab) has now proved that they can also be a rollercoaster of emotions, making us laugh one moment and cry the next – anyone who …
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