Reviews

For the past two years, Marvel Comics has been moving the X-Men franchise further and further away from superhero tradition by positioning mutants as an intergalactic political power. The myriad...

Each Saturday, the townspeople of Henford-on-Bagley descend upon the village square for the weekly fair. There are booths for fresh flowers and local vegetables, with picnickers huddled around woven baskets...

Fear Street Part Two: 1978, the second installment in Leigh Janiak’s Fear Street trilogy for Netflix, winds the proverbial clock back several decades from the first film. The story that...

Terraforming Mars is one of those sprawling board games that fans adore, but which novice players find intimidating. That’s why Stronghold Games launched a crowdfunding campaign for Terraforming Mars: Ares...

Steven Soderbergh’s HBO Max film No Sudden Move starts like all heist movies: with what’s supposed to be a simple job. A small team of criminals are hired with the...

Shortly after season 1 of the sketch-comedy series I Think You Should Leave premiered on Netflix in April 2019, it began to blow up on social media. It was hard...

Back in 2017, fresh off the continued success of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise and gearing up for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Chris Pratt gave a cover-story interview to...

A generation of readers knows R.L. Stine for his bestselling Goosebumps series, the children’s horror novels published throughout the early-to-late ’90s that spawned dozens of spinoff series, a television series,...

Netflix’s Dynasty Warriors movie — like the video game series of the same name on which it’s based — is a complicated thing to review, or to recommend for viewing...

Black Widow mostly feels like an apology. It arrives as the 24th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, two years (one of them a pandemic mulligan) after the 22nd film,...