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This review contains spoilers for the Obi-Wan Kenobi series premiere. If you haven’t watched the episode, turn away now! Time hasn’t been kind to Obi-Wan Kenobi. In the decade since the events of Revenge of the Sith, Ewan McGregor’s Jedi Master has been broken, chewed up, and spat out by …

In the pantheon of filmmakers whose surnames also double as adjectives David Cronenberg stands apart. After all, plenty of directors have made films that could be described as ‘Hitchcockian’ or ‘Kubrickian’, but venture into ‘Cronenbergian’ territory at your peril. The Canadian controversy-magnet’s first unashamed body horror in 23 years, Crimes …

“The multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little,” cautioned Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in box-office behemoth Spider-Man: No Way Home. Audiences are somewhat better ‘versed these days, as the MCU’s Phase 4 has been laying the groundwork for multiple realities that allow you to have your …

Nostalgia can sometimes be a dangerous thing. As I dive into Switch Sports, I have almost visceral visions of Christmas 2006, with my usually non-gamer parents brandishing Wii Remotes as they took another literal swing at Wii Sports tennis with dangerously full bellies. As vivid as those Wii Sports memories …

Elgato has had a spring clean of their capture card offering and welcomed a new addition to the lineup, the HD60 X. The fourth generation of Elgato’s external capture card offers 4K video with variable refresh rate support and sees the HD60 S somewhat relegated in the company’s lineup for …

“Is this Taken?!?” asks a kidnapped Sandra Bullock in The Lost City. It’s not, thankfully. More like Romancing the Stone Redux, as a successful-but-adrift novelist (Bullock’s Loretta Sage) gets swept up in a jungle-based quest for a precious MacGuffin.  But a key branching-off from Robert Zemeckis’ 1984 breakout (look out …

If you’ve reached the stage of reading a review, you can’t go into Fresh with the innocent ignorance that would make the film hit its very hardest. It can’t be experienced in a vacuum, but that’s not to say it’s not worth your time. And for many viewers, it’ll be …

And so it begins: OLED technology has finally arrived for the PC in the form of the Alienware 34 AW3423DW, a stunning new gaming monitor and the first of its kind for the PC and the internet’s best gaming monitor lists. The basic form factor is familiar enough. The 34-inch …

Back to the Future made time travel simple. Marty McFly’s fading family photograph was an easy, understandable visual cue that demonstrated exactly how the film’s logic worked. Over the years, though, time travel has become a lot more complicated: take Avengers: Endgame, which just about makes sense as it zips …

The Acer C250i is a fun unit that looks to offer the performance of one of the best projectors in a small package, but with a unique twist, literally – it has a twisted design to its body. This portable projector boasts a good range of connectivity and viewing angles …