(There are some spoilers for the film The Banshees of Inisherin ahead.) Colm Doherty cares about important things. A lifelong resident of the fictional Irish island Inisherin, Colm has spent his days playing music and chatting at the pub with his best friend, Pádraic. But when stricken by existential dread—hastened in part by the 1923 Irish Civil …
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Ant-Man doesn’t sweat the small stuff. Even when he’s trapped in a prison cell in the mysterious other world known as the Quantum Realm, staring down his purple-and-green-suited captor, Kang the Conqueror, the superhero remains undeterred. “You’ve made a big mistake,” Ant-Man tells Kang, pausing for full effect. “I’m an Avenger.” “Oh, an Avenger,” Kang responds, …
A young woman in a skimpy bathing suit floats in a hot tub. Just seconds ago, she caught sight of an unfamiliar creature, a hulking figure in the background of the selfies she took. But like so many horror movie victims, she ignored good sense and laid back in the tub, unaware of the danger …
“Without the me, without the TVA… everything burns.” With those chilling words from the finale of Loki season one, He Who Remains set the new stakes of the MCU. The multiverse was held in tenuous balance by He Who Remains, and when a vengeful Sylvie killed him, she exposed the multiverse to its greatest threat: his own Variant, …
Who is Kang the Conqueror? That’s surely the question many have going into Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, in which Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lily) go up against Kang, played by Jonathan Majors. Fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe already got a taste of the character when Majors appeared in the Season 1 finale of Loki as He Who …
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Despite some worries that Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania would abandon the laid-back attitude of the previous two movies starring Scott Lang, the latest MCU entry managed to be a pretty light adventure. Until the mid-credit scene, that is. That’s where we learn that Kang isn’t really gone and that the heroes of Earth will need to …
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“Part of humanity has been judged.” So declares the home invader Leonard after his three captives—husbands Andrew and Eric, along with their young daughter Wen—refuse his obscene message. Together with three associates, Leonard has interrupted their vacation to tell the trio that only they can forestall the end of the world by having one member …
ric and Andrew just wanted to get away. When the married couple at the center of M. Night Shyamalan’s new thriller, Knock at the Cabin, took their daughter to a rustic lodge in the Pennsylvania woods, they hoped to escape the demands of a world that hated them simply for existing. They wanted nothing more than …
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Saint Omer begins and ends the same way, with the sounds of a mother’s breath layered over a black screen. Exhausted, worn down by not just the weight of the children they carry but also the expectations thrust upon them, these mothers labor on, waiting for their final rest. But between these gasps for air, Saint Omer feels …
Miles Bron (Edward Norton) is an impressive man. He founded the impressive tech company Alpha, creator of a new fuel system sure to revolutionize travel. He owns an impressive private Greek island dubbed Glass Onion, complete with a mansion topped by a recreation of the titular object. Even the invitations to his parties are impressive, intricate …