Moon Knight (season 1)

Museum gift shop worker, Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac) has problems. He's rubbish with romance, his boss won't give him a promotion despite his encyclopaedic knowledge of all things Ancient Egyptian, and he has to cuff himself to the bedpost every night to stop some quite extreme sleep-walking. As in, wake up in a different country …

The Batman (2022)

To be honest, I wasn't desperately fussed about this movie. It feels like we've had at least twenty Batmans (Batmen?) in the past couple of years, and superhero fatigue has long since set in - even for me - more generally. But then people started raving about this a bit, and I allowed myself to …

Eternals (2021)

7000 years ago, a group of super-powered, immortal beings were sent to Earth to fight against the monstrous Deviants. Long thinking their mission complete, they've formed lives among humanity while they wait for their masters, the Celestials, to call them home. It's those masters who banned them from interfering in other human struggles, be that …

Loki (season 1)

Of all the new MCU tv shows - WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier - the one I was most looking forward to was this, Loki. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is a fascinating character, as is his evolution in the Marvel universe: from pure, if faceted, villain in both Thor (2011) and Avengers (2012), the character was so …

The Suicide Squad (2021)

While I would never say that Suicide Squad (2016) was a great movie, I didn't seem to hate it quite as much as the rest of the world. And now it seems I really don't love the slightly-sequel-y reboot anywhere near as much as everyone else. Seriously, people are raving about this like it's the best comic …

What’s Up Beanie? – Alina Tysoe

I've enjoyed the What's Up Beanie comic strip online for a while now, a cute look at little pink-haired Beanie - sometimes as a child, sometimes older - and some 'acutely relatable' (as the tagline states) life situations. In this book the author takes a few of those plus a whole pile of new ones and …

Jupiter’s Legacy (season 1)

There's nothing like a studio/company cancelling a new show when you're halfway through watching it - cheers for that, Netflix. But, was it deserved or should it be offered a reprieve? Jupiter's Legacy is split between two timelines. In the 'now', we have a modern world where superheroes are real and have been for 90 …

The New Mutants (2020)

Dani Moonstar (Blu Hunt) loses her parents in some strange and horrific event one night. She awakens in a secret facility led by Dr Reyes (Alice Braga), where several young mutants - because yes, this is the X-Men universe - are either being helped, or held prisoner - or both? They are a danger to …

The Umbrella Academy (season 2)

My love for The Umbrella Academy was clear from season 1, with its quirky, irreverent take on the superhero genre. Season 2 would finally solve the cliff-hanger ending, but would its appeal wane with the shifting story? Well I'm delighted to report: absolutely not! In fact, there's as much if not more to love here 🙂 …

Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)

Adaptations of video games rarely go well, and even less so when the game itself didn't really have a plot to speak of. Still, I have fond memories of my Sonic-playing days, and if nothing else, the disastrous first attempt at a look for the blue speedster piqued my interest. So, in need of something …