Review

Mid-way through Mandy, Nic Cage sits on a loo backdropped by the worst wallpaper you’ve ever seen and unleashes a series of guttural howls that make Brando’s cries of “Stella” seem like whispered sweet nothings. But Cage, cinema’s bastion of batshit, is just doing his breathing exercises for the main …

There are some major, myth-rewriting revelations about Superman’s ancestry in Krypton. But since this is a time travel show you kinda suspect there are going to be reset buttons galore. And the producers have confirmed it exists in an “alternate reality” to the comics and big-screen DCU, so the fact …

Like a two-headed Shane Carruth, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are the multi-hyphenate filmmakers behind clever found-footage movie Resolution (2012), and sort-of psychotronic Before Sunset, Spring (opens in new tab) (2014). And like Spring, their latest effort – a sci-fi/horror with Lovecraftian undertones – combines a barrel-scraping budget with sky-scraping …

Phase Space officially takes us into the second half of Westworld season 2 (opens in new tab) and while I’d love to report that Dolores’s storyline has come into its own and things are finally starting to come together for a shocking finale of epic proportions… that’s sadly not the …

Westworld season 2 (opens in new tab) has been a long time coming. If you can believe it, the first season (opens in new tab) aired back in 2016 and since then showrunners and creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have been hard at work creating a second outing, which …

I wouldn’t bring puppies into this world,” says a performing pooch in Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs, the auteur’s latest fastidious feature. It’s set in a dystopian Japan run by a grotesque demagogue who campaigns on a platform of fear-mongering bigotry. As such, it’s no stretch to see the film’s …

If you’re not familiar with Dragon Quest Builders, it’s basically a spin-off from the main Dragon Quest RPG series, meaning you need to know little to nothing about them to play Builders. Instead, this is a game that’s part Minecraft and part Zelda, which might sound like a strange combo, …

After chronicling childhood and early adolescence in Boyhood (opens in new tab) and the college years in Everybody Wants Some!! (opens in new tab), Richard Linklater turns his attention to those heading past middle age. Last Flag Flying isn’t only about such matters: it’s also a study of friendship, regrets …

How far would you go to protect the ones you call family? That’s the question The Punisher poses throughout its run, and it manages to reveal a surprisingly intimate, unflinching portrayal of a grieving Frank Castle and the people who surround him. While the show carries much of the same …

Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus is a bold game. Not just in the way it depicts the savage violence you – as thoroughly broken hero BJ Blazkowicz – inflict on the entire Nazi army, but also in the way it tells its story and treats its players. New Colossus mixes …