Certificate: 12A Director: Greta Gerwig Writer: Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach Distributor: Warner Bros Running Time: 114 mins Everything is awesome! Well, that’s not what Barbie actually says in the first few minutes of meeting her, but it’s along those lines and like Lord and Miller’s The Lego Movie, Barbie is a giddily fun frolic with
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Even after decades in the video game business, Nintendo seems to be at an all-time high right now. The Switch continues to sell well after six years on the market, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is being almost universally lauded as one of the greatest games ever made, and The Super Mario
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Released: 21 July 2023 (in cinemas) Director: Samuel Bodin Writer: Chris Thomas Devlin Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Cleopatra Coleman, Antony Starr Quiet, timid, sad Peter (Woody Norman) is a preadolescent only child who keeps to himself and finds anxiety in everything. Near the beginning of Cobweb, he stays behind in the classroom during recess
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Fans of the FX series Justified were fortunate enough to get six prodigious seasons of one of the best neo-Westerns ever put on television from 2010-2015. The show’s critical success was in no small part due to the stellar supporting cast throughout its run. Fans not only gravitated towards Timothy Olyphant’s Kentucky-fried charm as the
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This article contains spoilers for the Justified finale. The finale of FX’s seminal neo-Western Justified was in 2015, when the network decided to end the series on a high note after six critically acclaimed seasons. Unlike so many shows these days, Justified seemed to get exactly what it needed out of its run – it
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John David Washington and Gemma Chan star in Gareth Edwards’ sci-fi action adventure, The Creator, which sees a futuristic special agent befriending an AI child that could destroy the world. Watch the trailer here… <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”>&#65279;</span> Amidst a future war between the human race and the
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Warning: Contains the outcome of the murder investigation dramatised in The Sixth Commandment. In November 2015, The Guardian published an obituary for retired English teacher Peter Farquhar under its “Other Lives” umbrella – a feature that pays tribute to the legacies of non-public figures. Written by a former pupil, it commemorated Peter as having inspired a love of literature
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Author: Eve Smith Publisher: Orenda Books Price: £9.99 (Paperback) ONE by Eve Smith, acclaimed author of Off Target (read the review here), takes readers on a gripping journey through a not-too-distant future marred by the devastating consequences of climate change and a resource crisis. Set in Britain, a nation seeking salvation from catastrophe turns to the
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If it feels like the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are the talk of the internet right now, it’s for good reason. Hollywood is essentially shut down due to the work stoppage, and the unlikely hero of the union is SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher. After verbally eviscerating Disney CEO Bob Iger and standing tall and confident
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It’s funny to think about how Sony never even really wanted to enter the console market. The PlayStation was originally conceived as a CD add-on for the SNES, but Nintendo broke off the deal at the last minute, infuriating Sony executives. So, they decided to go it alone, quickly developing a little grey box that
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This article contains spoilers for Jack Ryan season 4. Superheroic CIA analyst Jack Ryan is one of author Tom Clancy’s most iconic creations. In addition to spawning a whole “Ryanverse” in print, Jack has been played by some of Hollywood’s most prominent heavy hitters including Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck, and Chris Pine. With
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This article contains major Outlander spoilers from the books In the seventh season of the popular Starz series Outlander, time travel is once again a big plot device that separates the Fraser family across the centuries, and this time it’s Roger (Richard Rankin) and Brianna (Sophie Skelton) who are in “the future” with their children
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You’ve got your Casualty and Doctors – medical soaps that have been around forever and will hopefully stay around forever to reliably entertain, educate and break in the stars of tomorrow. Next, there are your factual medical shows of questionable taste – Embarrassing Bodies, 101 Things Removed From the Human Body and other fleshlump-zoo tours that’d put anybody off their dinner.  And
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Though franchises dominate nearly every corner of the entertainment industry, they are not invincible. Even the biggest franchises can only survive and thrive for so long. While time is ultimately most franchises’ biggest enemy, there have been times when once-mighty series have been toppled by an entry so bad that they not only sunk the
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The only other time members of both the actors and writers guilds were simultaneously on strike was in the first half of 1960. For context, this was around the same time that Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho was unleashed on cinemas, the biggest movie stars of the screen were still Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marilyn Monroe,
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The mission statement for Foundation, the Apple TV+ sci-fi epic based on Isaac Asimov’s novels, is pretty clear in season 2. As the season’s trailer ominously intones, “this is an age of darkness.” That’s right: it’s time for war. But one needn’t have watched the season 2 trailer nor have read Asimov’s books to know
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