Sometimes a film comes along that just blows you away. It’s unexpected and exciting – you’ve never seen anything like it before and you can’t help but turn yourself into an unpaid walking billboard and show it to everyone you know. That’s how I am with The Platform. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s stunning Spanish sci-fi/horror/fantasy/thriller/whatever film is ...
It’s a great time to be a fan of Star Wars, witches, and the witches that feature in Star Wars. The writing has been on the wall for some time now in The AcolyteThe series’ mysterious coven of all-female Force users shares some familiar characteristics with another all-female Force user group from the Clone Wars ...
The actor Amitabh Bachchan is a metaphorical giant of Indian cinema, a superstar of proportions that even put American A-list celebrities in the shade. In the Indian science fiction epic Kalki 2898 ADhis stature is literal: In his role as the 7-foot-tall immortal warrior Ashwatthama, the 81-year-old towers over his younger co-stars, all of whom ...
In the fourth episode of The AcolyteOsha (Amandla Stenberg) meets some new Jedi and Jedi friends. One of them is a small, otter-like creature named Bazil. Bazil and Pip, Osha’s fussy robot companion, keep sniffing and beeping at each other, interrupting the mission briefing that Osha is trying to follow. Afterward, Osha approaches Jecki Lon ...
In the media landscape of 2024 Scavengers rule feels like nothing short of a miracle. Originally conceived as a 20-minute short film by co-creators Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner, the series was greenlit for a 12-episode season on Max (then HBO Max) and slowly matured in production for several years before premiering last fall. With ...
Summer is in full swing and with it comes an exciting list of new releases to look forward to! With Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Now looking back, the next big sci-fi heroes are on the horizon Deadpool and WolverineEli Roth’s adaptation of the popular looter shooter series Borderlands, and Alien: Romulusthe latest entry in ...
The Acolyte is the latest Star Wars series to launch on Disney Plus. Unlike previous series like Ahsoka (after Return of the Jedi) And Andor (Before A new hope), it is set in a unique and largely unexplored era of the Star Wars galaxy (at least in live action). Created by Leslye Headland, a self-professed ...
How can you top something that is already ridiculous, joyful and emphatically exaggerated? That is the great existential question that faced George Miller in making Furiosa: A Mad Max Sagathe exciting prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road. The first film is over-the-top maximalist, with screaming, shaven-headed, white-painted War Boys gleefully spraying chrome on their teeth ...
George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga complements and enhances the impact of his 2015 blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road in many ways, but there is only one thing that bothers me: how little the new film has to say about Immortan Joe, the iconic arch-villain from the original film. Sure, Joe’s lack of interaction ...
First, “Dot and Bubble,” the latest episode of Doctor Whoseems to borrow from Black Mirrors bag of tricks. It’s set on Finetime, a planet where everyone is accompanied by a small spherical AI assistant called Dot, who projects a “bubble” around their heads. In their individual bubbles, people live their entire lives – chatting in ...
