Avengers: Doomsday is putting three Marvel generations in one frame
Doctor Doom, the Avengers, Fantastic Four and returning X-Men turn December into the year’s biggest casting experiment.
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day remembers that Peter Parker is the special effect
Tom Holland’s fourth solo chapter gets bigger, but its strongest moments are built from loneliness, friendship and consequence.
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Beauty in Black returns with Kimmie finally inside the room
Season three shifts the power map as Kimmie and Mallory discover that alliance may be more dangerous than rivalry.
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Kevin Hart and The Rock bring Jumanji into the real world
Open World flips the game again: this time the avatars escape the console and arrive in our reality.
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Why Saturday Night Live’s pressure still produces stars
The weekly read-through, rewrite and live broadcast remain a rare machine for turning competition into comic trust.
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Toy Story 5 turns screen time into a question about attention
Lilypad enters Bonnie’s room as a device, a rival and a reminder that play now competes with an infinite feed.
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Supergirl works best when Kara’s power cannot outrun her grief
Milly Alcock gives the cosmic road film a bruised centre while Krypto and Lobo keep its strange edges alive.
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The Dog Stars puts Ridley Scott back inside survival with nowhere to hide
Jacob Elordi and Josh Brolin carry a post-pandemic story in which an empty horizon can be both freedom and threat.
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- 01Avengers: Doomsday is putting three Marvel generations in one frame
- 02Spider-Man: Brand New Day remembers that Peter Parker is the special effect
- 03Beauty in Black returns with Kimmie finally inside the room
- 04Kevin Hart and The Rock bring Jumanji into the real world
- 05Why Saturday Night Live’s pressure still produces stars
- 06Toy Story 5 turns screen time into a question about attention
- 07Supergirl works best when Kara’s power cannot outrun her grief
- 08The Dog Stars puts Ridley Scott back inside survival with nowhere to hide
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