One of the year’s most star-studded science-fiction films is getting a second chance. The Dog Stars arrives on digital platforms today, Tuesday, October 27, giving audiences who skipped its theatrical run the opportunity to watch it at home. The film became available to rent or purchase from 9 p.m. PT on Monday, October 26 — … Read more
Warner Bros. is bringing its return to Arrakis to a head. The studio has lined up the final trailer for Dune: Part Three for today, Tuesday, October 27, capping a marketing campaign that has steadily raised the stakes for Denis Villeneuve’s conclusion to his desert epic. The trailer announcement landed alongside a fresh batch of … Read more
Everything Everywhere All at Once ends not with a battle won, but with a family choosing each other. Evelyn Wang rejects the nihilism of the Everything Bagel, pulls her daughter Joy back from oblivion, and returns to her ordinary life — a laundromat, an IRS audit, and a marriage worth saving — having learned that … Read more
The Batman (2022) ends with Gotham City underwater, the Riddler behind bars, and Bruce Wayne realising that vengeance alone cannot save his city. After a night of flooding and a foiled mass shooting at Gotham Square Garden, Batman stops being a figure of fear in the shadows and becomes a symbol of hope in daylight … Read more
Verdict: 2.5 out of 5. Twenty years after Ali G last headlined a film, Sacha Baron Cohen brings his most famous creation back — and discovers, as many returning heroes do, that the world has moved on. Ali G: Who Iz I? has flashes of the old mischief, a few genuinely funny pranks, and one … Read more
Verdict: 4.5 out of 5. Wicker is the strangest love story of the year, and also one of the most sincere. A lonely fisherwoman, mocked by her whole village, commissions a husband woven from willow — and the film treats that absurd premise with complete seriousness, bawdy humour, and a surprising amount of heart. It … Read more
Laika’s Wildwood has opened to an estimated $11.6 million at the North American box office, taking third place in a crowded weekend — and while that number will not come close to covering the film’s reported $100 million budget, the stop-motion epic has something money cannot buy: audiences who adore it. The handcrafted fantasy, directed … Read more
Marvel Studios has dropped a new trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, and this time the joke is on Marvel itself. Released on Saturday, October 25, the latest preview puts Thor front and centre as the Avengers’ rallying leader, reunites him with Steve Rogers, and then lets Ant-Man point out the awkward truth: there are now three … Read more
The Short Answer In short: Miles Morales never makes it home. After learning that his father is fated to die, he escapes the Spider-Society, only for the journey home to send him to the wrong universe, Earth-42, a world without a Spider-Man. There he comes face to face with a version of himself who became … Read more
The Short Answer In short: Abby does not get a clean revenge in the season 2 finale, because the episode cuts to black on a gunshot and then rewinds the whole story. Jesse is dead, Tommy is at Abby’s mercy, and Ellie is staring down the barrel of Abby’s gun. Then the show jumps back … Read more