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If the previous episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 was all about the character-driven emotional payoff, Episode 8, “Separate Ways”, is all about...

The best episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 thus far does (almost) everything you want from a show like this. A woo-woo sci-fi...

Now this is more like it! The Hunting Party slipped into Season 2’s familiar holding pattern last week, with a decent enough case that just didn’t feel...

A while ago, I reviewed the movie Train Dreams on Netflix – don’t worry, this is going somewhere – and said that it was basically...

Lightsaber fights are like buses. You wait ages for one, and then several come at once. As it turns out, Devon’s little stand-off with Maul...

Well, it took until Episode 3, but Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord finally included a lightsaber duel. And it was fine! Not a patch...

As a network procedural, you can’t fault The Hunting Party for having a pattern. Season 2 has relied on it to varying extents, delivering a slew of...

“Exposed” is a fairly apt title for the ending of Memory of a Killer’s first season run, since it applies to Angelo and his nemesis,...

I entered Episode 6 of Marshals mostly wondering how it was going to function as the first climax of a two-part arc. If you recall,...

Working from the rubric established by the premiere – opening action scene, a bit of development, and a closing set-piece – Episode 2 of Star...

Maul is an interesting character, even by Star Wars standards. Initially a cool-looking but admittedly one-note evil henchman, he disappeared from the main continuity and...

The Hunting Party has always had a penchant for coming up with creepy villains, but even by the usual standards, "Elliot Carr" is a nutter.

Just in case you were worried that Monarch: Legacy of Monsters might not commit to Hiroshi's death, fear not -- he's very much dead. You can't escape the spectre of his loss in the opening scenes of "Requiem", and it's clearly going to be an event that informs the rest of Season 2 going forward.

Most action movies treat their plot as a conveyor belt for fight scenes and their characters like crash test dummies, so on that level, at...

One thing I’m thankful for – and it says a lot about Memory of a Killer’s underlying respect for the audience, I think – is...

If last week’s episode of Marshals was a bit of a team-building exercise, then Episode 5 is very much designed to put those strengthened bonds...

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is a consistently surprising movie that arguably over-delivers on all of its promises. One of the most exciting...

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is the rare movie that is better in practice than it is on paper. Between the fussy title...

I’ve argued in favour of typecasting before, and Jason Statham is one of my go-to examples of actors who do one thing well enough that...

The thing that worked about Greenland was that it was an anti-disaster movie. It promised a world-ending calamity and eventually delivered it, but the impact...