Masters of the Universe Dives into The Toy Box- A Review
This review contains no spoilers Masters of the Universe is at its best when it turns a childhood toy box into an entire universe and refuses to tidy any of it away. Travis Knight’s film is colourful, kitschy and gloriously unembarrassed by the absurdity of He-Man....
Mayday Is Saved by Its Own Stupidity – A Review
This review contains no spoilers. Mayday is at its best when it is stupid. Not the careless kind of stupid, where an SR-71 Blackbird behaves like an ordinary fighter jet and an untrained man can apparently fly one from the second seat. The committed kind. The sort...
Pressure Makes Grand Cinema Out of Men Arguing About Clouds – A Review
This review contains no spoilers. War likes to remember itself as a contest between men. Pressure gives the final word to the sky. Generals have assembled armies, ships and aircraft for D-Day, but all that power waits beneath clouds no rank can command and no plan...
Unveiling Elros in The Rings of Power Season 3: Elrond’s twin & First King of Númenor
The September winds have brought us one of the most highly anticipated reveals for Season 3 of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, centered directly on one of the show's core protagonists: Elrond. Via a feature on Polygon, we now have our first...
The Invite turns Marital Misery into a Feast – A Review
This review contains minimal spoilers for The Invite. Olivia Wilde spends one of The Invite’s funniest moments crouched before an oven, watching a soufflé rise with the devotional intensity of a woman awaiting divine judgement. Behind her, a marriage is collapsing. The soufflé ends up in...