By TREVOR HOGG Images courtesy of Netflix. Stranger Things takes its final outing seriously, with supersized episodes and a feature-length finale, where Eleven and her friends battle Vecna in the Upside Down as his demonic army seeks to conquer a quarantined Hawkins. The eight episodes of Season 5 were released in three volumes and required [...]

By TREVOR HOGG Images courtesy of Columbia Pictures. There is a new genre emerging from the tradition pioneered by George Romero, where disease transforms the living into homicidal creatures rather than undead beings wreaking havoc on the world. This approach can be seen in The Last of Us, where a parasitic fungus decimates humanity, and [...]

By TREVOR HOGG Images courtesy of Marvel Studios. In Wonder Man, things get rather meta in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as struggling actors Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and Trevor Slattery (Sir Ben Kingsley) form an unlikely friendship while auditioning for roles in the remake of the titular superhero film. Now streaming on Disney+, the [...]

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By TREVOR HOGG Images courtesy of StudioCanal and MPC Paris. An infectious fungus escapes from a secret underground cold storage vault, triggering a desperate race to contain the biohazard before it reaches the outside world. This is the premise for the sci-fi horror comedy Cold Storage, directed by Jonny Campbell and starring Liam Neeson, Joe [...]