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If you’ve pored over the list of Bafta 2018 winners (opens in new tab), you may be left with the nagging feeling that something’s missing. Namely, most of Marvel and DC’s recent output, alongside Star Wars: The Last Jedi (opens in new tab), and Denis Villeneuve’s critically acclaimed sci-fi sequel, …

There’s a reason most people don’t bother to watch the entire Oscars ceremony each year, and that’s because – unless you’re up for an award yourself (like this weekend’s list of potential Oscar winners 2018) – they can be a pretty dry affair. The jokes are naff, the speeches are …

From Captain Marvel (opens in new tab) to Star Wars 9 (opens in new tab)’s Rey, female action heroes are on the rise. However, no matter how female positive the characters and the stories are, they still fall victim to a handful of unrealistic and frankly ridiculous female movie action …

You were probably having too much fun to realise, but something was missing from Black Panther. (opens in new tab)It’s easy to forget, with much of the action taking place in the isolated nation of Wakanda, that the movie connects to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole – except …

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 …

What must it be like coming in fresh to one of, if not the, biggest film franchises in the world? Black Panther (opens in new tab) stars Danai Gurira and Lupita Nyong’o had to deal with not only joining a huge multi-connected universe, but also working alongside Chadwick Boseman’s established …

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 …

One of the biggest questions around Star Trek Discovery (opens in new tab) has been what universe it’s in? That’s actually not as easy as you might think to answer, despite what the showrunners and cast might say. Star Trek is a world where anything could happen because… physics. There’s …

So long January. You were… actually, pretty OK. Capcom’s fabulous Monster Hunter World (opens in new tab) took the edge off winter’s longest month, and the next wave of big games, movies and TV releases are already upon us. In the week ahead, you can look forward to Mission: Impossible …

Throughout his long history in comics, Marvel hero T’Challa (AKA Black Panther) has been portrayed many ways. He’s been presented as Marvel’s answer to Batman, as a brilliant scientist whose IQ easily rivals that of Tony Stark or even Reed Richards, as a solemn king who puts his people above …