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Stranger Things – Season 4, Chapter 7: The Massacre At Hawkins Lab (2022) – Review
Can a show get too big? It’s a strange question to ask, but in the age of prestige television delivering the kind of big budget
Stranger Things – Season 4, Chapter 6: The Dive (2022) – Review
By this point in Stranger Things 4’s rather epic run, it’s impossible not to notice that each episode is now pretty much a feature length
Stranger Things – Season 4, Chapter 5: The Nina Project (2022) – Review
After the sheer emotional wallop of Chapter 4, I’m not surprised that the 5th instalment of Stranger Things 4 has decided to step back a
Stranger Things – Season 4, Chapter 1: The Hellfire Club (2022) – Review
Thanks to the demands of prestige television, I’m beginning to suspect that there’s a far bigger issue facing the denizens of Hawkins than the most
Stranger Things – Season 2, Chapter 7: The Lost Sister (2017) – Review
Woah. What the hell happened here?The notion taking a show that mostly follows an ensemble format and suddenly shifting focus to a single character can
Stranger Things – Season 1, Chapter 8: The Upside Down (2016) – Review
Regardless of how good your show has been, there’s always a sense that everyone still hangs almost entirely on the finale. You may have delivered
Stranger Things – Season 1, Chapter 7: The Bathtub (2016) – Review
Oh yeah, now it’s all coming together.There’s nothing like watching a TV show that sets up its characters to figure out parts of a problem
Stranger Things – Season 1, Chapter 6: The Monster (2016) – Review
Doubters may suggest that Stranger Things is something of two-trick pony (80s worship, gradually expanding mystery), but even if that was true, you have to
Stranger Things – Season 1, Chapter 5: The Acrobat And The Flea (2016) – Review
Now that we’ve blown our way through the halfway mark of Stranger Things’ first season, it’s time for the dot joining to truly begin in
Stranger Things – Season 1, Chapter 4: The Body (2016) – Review
A good mystery is kind of like a set of lungs, nestled neatly within a human chest cavity. To do their job, the lungs, like
Stranger Things – Season 1, Chapter 3: Holly Jolly (2016) – Review
When it comes to intelligently co-opting pre-existing iconic visuals and story tropes into its collective, possibly only Quentin Tarantino has managed to take so many
Stranger Things – Season 1, Chapter 2: The Weirdo On Maple Street (2016) – Review
Of all the brazen influences that Stranger Things wears on its sleeve, one of the less apparent ones is the effect the works of David
Stranger Things – Season 1, Chapter 1: The Vanishing Of Will Byers (2016) – Review
When you cast your mind back, the arrival of Stranger Things managed to change the game in quite a few ways. Not least of all
Full Metal Jacket (1987) – Review
It may be a supremely callous thing to suggest, but even though the horror of the Vietnam war devastated an entire generation, split a country
Transporter 2 (2005) – Review
Back in 2002, Luc Besson’s seemingly never ending goal to turn every, random, adolescent idea hes ever had into flashy, eccentric, middle-of-the-road actioners hit something
Wrong Turn (2021) – Review
How deep does a franchise have to twist itself into the ground before the word is given to hit the reboot button? Well, if history
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) – Review
Back in 2008, Batman (with a healthy assist by Heath Ledger’s definitive, punk, anarchist Joker) swung in and changed the face of an entire genre.
47 Meters Down (2017) – Review
Last year The Shallows proved that Hollywood can still make a quality killer shark movie without the added guff of tornados, exorcists, or the Syfy
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