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Situated in the fictional town of Snowbridge in upstate New York, the First Reformed Church is a white clapboard box with its steeple jabbing accusatorially at the grey, possibly empty heavens. It is presided over by Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke), a former military chaplain whose sparse life is one …

We knew The Walking Dead season 9 (opens in new tab) was undergoing a bit of a shake-up (what with Andrew Lincoln’s Rick leaving the show (opens in new tab), after all), but we didn’t think it’d take us to a brand-new side of America. The gang are on the …

A year after fellow Brit Nick Broomfield, Kevin Macdonald tackles the enigma that is Whitney Houston in this sure-footed documentary. The difference from Broomfield’s Whitney: Can I Be Me is huge. Macdonald’s film is authorised, with full access to family and friends thanks to Whitney’s sister-in-law Pat Houston, who takes …

“It is a very strange sensation doing quiet, very emotional scenes, with full wrestling hair and make-up on,” reflects GLOW lead Betty Gilpin (Debbie / Liberty Bell) while discussing the heightened emotions and very on-the-nose issues of season 2. It gets to the heart of what makes Netflix’s accomplished female-wrestling …

Winter’s Bone director Debra Granik’s latest feature is a deceptively simple work – and all the better for it. A father-daughter tale, it’s adapted from Peter Rock’s 2009 book My Abandonment, which itself was inspired by a true story. Ben Foster plays Will, a war veteran living with his daughter …

The world has changed a lot since The Incredibles. Not the world shown in Incredibles 2 – set directly after the first movie, this sees our spandex-suited superfamily still foiling bad guys in the early ’60s and still frowned on by government and public alike – but, y’know, the real …

The pace is picking up as Westworld season 2 (opens in new tab) reaches its inevitable climax, and the big question on everyone’s lips at the end of episode 9 (opens in new tab) is this: is the Man in Black really human? Or has he been a Host all …

Westworld season 2, episode 8 (opens in new tab) is one of the most stunning pieces of television I’ve seen in a long, long time. Up there with some of the great episodes in an era filled with classics as far as the eye can see, Kiksuya changed the game …

If you’ve seen the latest episode of Westworld season 2 (opens in new tab) (if not you really shouldn’t be here because major spoilers (opens in new tab) are on the way), I don’t need to tell you how incredible it is. Episode 8, Kiksuya (opens in new tab), finally …

“Do you remember the first time you saw a dinosaur?” says Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard), returning from 2015’s Jurassic World having ditched the corporate career (she now heads up a dinosaur-protection group) and with it those goddamn heels. “The first time… it’s like a miracle.” Such is the problem …