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When Treyarch announced it would be doing away with a campaign in this year’s Call of Duty, I was apprehensive. There was potential for Black Ops 4 to turn into a multiplayer carbon copy of the last few franchise instalments, without the mode that gave it some substance. Don’t get …

Every new band fears the curse of the ‘Difficult Second Album’, that niggling worry that they’ll fail to raise the bar set by their own breakout LP. But what if your debut wasn’t any good in the first place? What then? It’s a question Iron Fist season 2 is in …

I’m no doctor, but medical management simulation Two Point Hospital is definitely a cure for boredom, sadness, and my dreams of having a career in the business sector. A perfect blend of intricate systems, a British sense of humor, and miniature animations of people vomiting into trash cans, this is …

Like the Hook of the Winnie-the-Pooh cinematic universe, Christopher Robin finds its protagonist – who should be forever preserved in childhood – all grown-up and unable to remember his adventures. It’s a delightful concoction that will work your tear ducts gently but consistently over its runtime. Better suited to nostalgic …

GLOW season 2 is one of the best originals on Netflix (opens in new tab), and likely one of the boldest, warmest, and darkly-hilarious things you’ll see on TV this year. For a show focused on a subject matter so niche, GLOW 2’s themes are broad, the silliness and fakery …

It’s not advisable to see Hereditary alone. Setting aside the fact you might need an arm to clutch in the dark of the auditorium, you’re going to want to talk about it to somebody afterwards: for comfort, and to help you dissect what the hell you just saw. This is …

Between The Walking Dead’s decline and goofy filler like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (opens in new tab), the pressure’s on to sharpen zombies’ bite. Colm McCarthy’s The Girl With All the Gifts (opens in new tab) managed it; so did Yeon Sang-ho’s rattling-good Train to Busan. Now, writer/director David …

Following his temporary retirement, Steven Soderbergh is making up for lost time, knocking up this inventive thriller as a chaser to his heist caper comeback Logan Lucky (opens in new tab). Filmed in secret (on an iPhone!), with Soderbergh also cinematographer and editor, Unsane benefits from being seen cold, giving …

Chances are that if you’ve heard of Tonya Harding – the disgraced US figure-skating champ allegedly connected to an attack on her rival, Nancy Kerrigan – you’ve already formed an opinion of her. And, if you haven’t, you won’t see this movie. Both notions are worth reconsidering. Billed, baitingly, as …

When the Red Sparrow trailer first dropped, the general consensus was that it looked like the origin story for Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow, the one that Marvel hasn’t yet got round to making yet. Let’s make something clear from the outset: Red Sparrow is absolutely not that film. Set in …