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Steve (2025): a portrait of burnout

Eve — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:12:21 +0000

Steve (2025) is a film about collapse — that of personal, institutional and generational collapse.

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The Conjuring: Last Rites Rundown

Imogen Webb — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 21:13:59 +0000

A chilling end to one of horror’s most loved film franchises. The Conjuring: Last Rites has scored the cinematic universe with its final box office hit.

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Mission: Impossible – Every Film Ranked

Siobe Morling — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 23:46:29 +0000

Earlier this year, I made it my mission to watch the entire Mission: Impossible series before the finale hit cinemas in May. The franchise follows Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his IMF (Impossible Mission Force), with a revolving door of team members, who are tasked with a seemingly impossible mission with the world at stake.

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Wolf Alice – ‘The Sofa’ (Single Review)

Lindsay Macdonald — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:40:32 +0000

Wolf Alice is an alternative rock band from London. The band consists of lead singer Ellie Rowsell, guitarist Joff Oddie, bass guitarist Theo Ellis and drummer Joel Amey. Since their first album My Love is Cool (2015) the band have moved through different soundscapes and experimentation, but they’ve always sounded like themselves. Ten years and three albums on, they will release their fourth album 'The Clearing' on the 22nd August 2025.

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Benson Boone ‘American Heart’ — Album Review

EveHutchinson — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 05:24:55 +0000

Benson Boone is the epitome of the rise of a Gen Z pop star.

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Sabrina Carpenter’s Single ‘Manchild’ Playfully Criticises Foolish Men

Isabelle Shaw — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 03:53:35 +0000

Sabrina Carpenter’s latest single, 'Manchild', playfully criticises foolish men, reaching No. in the U.S. and the U.K., the week after its release.

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Code of Silence Review: A Wasted Opportunity?

Kelsey Lee Pargeter — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 04:54:44 +0000

ITV’s latest drama Code of Silence (2025) had all the ingredients to be something extraordinary. Rose Ayling-Ellis stars as Alison Wood, a deaf canteen worker unexpectedly drawn into a high-stakes police investigation by DS Ashleigh Francis (Charlotte Ritchie) because of her lip-reading skills.

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Big Thief – ‘Incomprehensible’ Review

Sarina Maloy — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 03:19:05 +0000

Big Thief's new single ‘Incomprehensible’ sounds like a dream. The first thing the listener hears when clicking play on the track is a sound meant to mimic that of a magic wand.

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Karate Kid: Legends – Review

aliciat786 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:55:01 +0000

Karate Kid: Legends (2025) is a film that carries on the legacy of the Karate Kid cinematic universe, first introduced in 1984.

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Lady Gaga Mayhem Album Review: ‘A fabulous return to campy fashion-forward music’

Cassandra Fong — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 03:40:23 +0000

Half a decade after her theatrically electric Chromatica, Lady Gaga return in fabulous form to her roots of campy fashion-forward music.

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