Mossa is a detective who is always three steps ahead, and Malka Older is likewise an author five steps ahead. The first third of this breezy, witty story is a cozy mystery in the least cozy place in human history. Valdegard is a liminal space that feels connected to every University on Earth. You’ve got a reassuring sense of …
You get big answers, very early, and all it does is makes their lives infinitely more complex, worse and shorter. Fontaine is expected to deal drugs and die. He’s a cog of meat in a machine that’s designed to break everyone down and rebuild them over and over again. Slick Charles and Yo-Yo are the …
Barnes, Zardoe and crew take their time with the set up across the podcast’s first few episodes, and the concept benefits from being given the room to breathe. It also plays on your expectations, especially with Mark Antony and Gaius. The former is deeply cunning, cheerfully alcoholic, and pleasantly surprised he’s still alive. He knows …
Without writing another thousand words about it, Dead Reckoning feels a little like it’s playing a trick on its audience, using Ilsa. By assuming she’s dead we’re exactly where it wants us to be and so is The Entity, the movie’s villainous Artificial Intelligence. Ethan Hunt, Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie, playing four-dimensional chess with real and …
The direction, by Catherine Green, Spoek Mathambo, Graham Gallagher finds new ways to explore post-apocalyptic spaces and tells us how humanity is still finding joy, even on a dangerously reduced planet. The script, by Green, Mathambo and Phumlani Pikoli uses that backdrop to drill down on the fragility of the boys, the gang pressures they face, and the uncaring brutality of …
Moretz’s Nimona is the gleeful, furious heart of the movie. Her ‘origin story’ intentionally subverts what fantasy trope dictates, telling a familiar tale in an honest, heart-wrenching way. Nimona’s life has been shaped by anger, fear and rejection. Facing down those emotions brings stunning visuals that remind you of Studio Ghibli – form and light and …
Faulkner builds the book out into its supernatural elements with the barely contained glee of a mousetrap architect who just got their hands on a 3D printer. Jack is a fascinating presence: amicable until he’s terrifying, a force of nature in every way whose final reveals are just pitch-perfect. Jack feels convincingly alien, like a …
The elements of this show combine, like a Voltron of light entertainment, into a ridiculously fun podcast. Not just because hearing these four people shit-talking the universe is hilarious (it absolutely is), but because of how intensely focused the final episodes are. We’re a prequel and three mysteries in, and no episode has cracked an …
This is a small book with a big voice and big objectives. It brings the receipts that these characters have always been here, and it gives new and returning readers countless opportunities to explore their other stories. Most importantly it makes a simple, compassionate point on every page: everyone deserves to be seen in the …
Jamie McRae’s cinematography is the point where a lot of people will step off the movie but it’s also Skinamrink’s pounding, hummingbird heart — surrounded by towering concepts and towering threats expressed through the dreadful personal scale that only kids truly understand. Contents SkinamarinkInterstitials: Tasting History with Max MillerPlayout: Rescued by Foo Fighters Read More