Warning: spoilers for Ms. Marvel episode 6 ahead – turn back now if you have not seen the latest episode of the MCU show. Ms. Marvel’s finale brings all the pieces together. We get the suit, the name, and the embiggen powers, all wrapped up in a low-key episode that …
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Playing Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes feels like cooking in a really big kitchen. You might be stirring the contents of a pan one moment, only to turn around and find to your horror that another dish has literally gone up in flames. So over you run to this new …
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The Alienware Aurora R13 is the brand’s latest in a long line of Intel-led machines, and in my opinion it also happens to be one of the best gaming PCs that you can get your hands on this year. Featuring the latest Intel Core 12th gen Alder Lake processors, you’ve …
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“You have to listen to what isn’t being said!” remarks a character in Kelly Reichardt’s latest, an observation that applies not just to the First Cow filmmaker’s latest minimalist effort but pretty much every film she’s directed so far. It’s particularly apposite this time around, though, in that her lead …
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The PS5 has had an incredible start to the year, with games like Elden Ring, Horizon Forbidden West, Dying Light 2, and Gran Turismo 7 all dropping in just a few months. Now, as we gear up for E3 2022 and the inevitable announcement of even more exciting upcoming PS5 …
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The Mavix M9 is an ergonomic model taking on the most elite names in the pursuit of being crowned one of the best gaming chairs. With an MSRP of $999.99 / £863.99, it’s far from a cheap gaming chair, boasting a suite of features we barely ever see from the …
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The crimes, pursuit and eventual punishment of a real-life killer of women who preyed on unsuspecting sex workers in early 2000s Iran are chillingly reprised in this grimly compelling procedural. Reminiscent in form and trappings to the likes of David Fincher’s Zodiac, Michael Mann’s Manhunter, and the 1967 film adaptation …
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Hitchcockian vibes abound in the sumptuous new melodrama from Park Chan-wook, a murder mystery love story that marks the South Korean helmer’s first film at Cannes since 2016’s The Handmaiden. An achingly romantic throwback to the noirs of yesteryear, it’s a contemporary crime thriller with a distinctly retro vibe: the …
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The top-end of the gaming monitor market expands in a few directions – size, speed, resolution, and so on – and the AOC Agon PD32M looks to grab as many of those threads as possible and smash them all together in a premium display that costs a pretty penny. Well, …
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