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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 …

Love him or hate him, there’s no denying that the crew of the Terror and the Erebus were a hell of a lot more confident with Captain Franklin around. The Terror episode 4 – Punished, as a Boy – sees indiscipline creeping deeper into the crew, with the gap between …

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 …

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 …

Parsing the difference between love and infatuation is a tricky business. There’s a potent cocktail of hormones and pheromones to contend with, intoxicating new emotions warring with old, cautionary memories. But sometimes there’s a transcendent moment when you just know it’s true love – a glance across a crowded dinner …

Assassin’s Creed Origins (opens in new tab) is a game of stories. Stories you’ll uncover in the depths of sandy tombs on fading parchment, stories straight from the mouths of Ancient Egyptians feeling cursed by their vengeful gods, and then bigger, infinitely sillier stories that you’ll remember on the way …

Let’s be totally clear: despite the ‘4’ on the name, this is categorically not a return to the bombastic, arcade-hued mayhem of Dirt 2. This is the still-beating heart of Dirt Rally, transplanted into the long-dead corpse of Dirt 3. The result is an incredibly hardcore simulation masquerading as an …

When the first Wipeout came out on the original PlayStation back in late 1995, I was but a freckled faced, ten-year-old whippersnapper. 22 years on, if Future Me could hop in a DeLorean and travel back to show that kid even 30 seconds of Wipeout Omega Collection running at 4K/60 …