Wonder Woman
For a stretch in the middle, Wonder Woman is the best film DC produced in its entire connected universe era. Gal Gadot and Chris Pine carry a charming stranger abroad story to the front lines of World War I, the…
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Suicide Squad
The story behind this movie is better known than its plot: Warner Bros panicked after Batman v Superman got shredded, hired a trailer company to recut a finished film, and shipped whatever survived. You can feel the scissors in every…
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
The movie that broke the fanbase in half. Batman v Superman wants to be a meditation on power, fear, and godhood, and about half of it is genuinely fascinating: Ben Affleck’s older, crueler Batman is one of the best screen…
Man of Steel
Zack Snyder rebuilt Superman from the ground up, and the results still split people more than a decade later. Henry Cavill plays Clark Kent as a drifter who has spent his whole life hiding what he can do, and the…
Resident Evil (2026)
Zach Cregger, the director of Barbarian and Weapons, took Resident Evil back to first principles: one ordinary guy, one delivery, one city eating itself. Austin Abrams plays Bryan, a medical courier who accepts a rush package bound for Raccoon General…
Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness
Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness is a four episode CGI anime that catches up with Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield in 2006, between the events of the games. Leon investigates a hacking incident at the White House that turns into…
Drunk History
The premise is right in the title. Comedians get genuinely drunk and narrate a historical event while famous actors lip sync every slurred word in lavish period reenactments. Derek Waters hosts, coaxing the narrators through bottle after bottle, and the…
Ride or Die
Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer take the buddy action comedy and run off with it across half of Europe. Waddingham plays Judith, a veteran assassin whose firm decides she is a WOACA, a woman of a certain age, and who…
Doctor Who (2023)
The Disney era handed Russell T Davies the biggest budget in the show's history and Ncuti Gatwa the keys to the TARDIS, and the result is the most confident Doctor Who has looked in a decade. After three 60th anniversary specials gave David Tennant a victory lap, The Church on Ruby Road properly introduced Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor on Christmas 2023: a flashier, flirtier, more emotionally open Doctor with Millie Gibson's found family orphan Ruby Sunday alongside. The production upgrade is immediate, with cinematography and score that finally match the ambition the scripts always had.
Belzebubs
JP Ahonen's webcomic about a black metal family man made the jump to animation and lost none of its warmth in translation. Sløth, frontman of the world's least successful satanic band, is a stay at home dad raising Lilith and Leviathan with his wife Lucyfer, and the show's genius is playing every domestic beat completely straight: school interviews, in law visits, band practice in the garage, all conducted in corpse paint. The mockumentary confessionals, where family members speak to a documentary crew that is never explained, give it a Modern Family rhythm filtered through church burnings.