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(This piece contains spoilers for Netflix’s Sense8 – you have been warned!) Netflix has come under fire recently for its tendency to giving a platform to progressive, inclusive and boundary-pushing shows, before cancelling them after just two seasons. Sense8 is one of them. Created by the Wachowskis, this ambitious, world-spanning show is the story of eight sensates – people across the globe who all took their first breath at the exact same time on the 8th of August 1988. They were living their life as normal humans until they were ‘birthed’ by a mysterious woman called Angellica (Daryl Hannah), and became inextricably connected forever. ...

(Warning: the below contains mild-ish spoilers for Amazon Prime series ‘The Boys’.) Amazon’s new series The Boys imagines an America where superheroes walk among humans, and capitalism has turned them into money-making machines with a much bigger reach than even Kevin Feige’s MCU has in our universe. After his girlfriend Robin (Jess Salgueiro) is obliterated by one of the ‘supes’ in a shockingly graphic scene that instantly sets the tone for the series, Hughie (Jack Quaid) wants justice, and he wants revenge. He teams up with mysterious maverick Billy Butcher (a laughably accented Karl Urban) and his crew to get it, and they begin to attempt to expose all that is wrong with these commercialised caped crusaders. ...

Say what you like about Tom Cruise – he knows how to make a damn good action movie. The man is 57 years old and last year starred in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth in the iconic secret agent series – and they just keep getting bigger and better. It seems Cruise has found a strong creative partner in director Christopher McQuarrie; either that or McQuarrie is carrying out some sort of elaborate plan to send him to his death, which, judging by the stunts Cruise pulls off in this film, would not surprise me. ...

April 2019 – this is it. The movie we’ve all been waiting for. The culmination of 11 years of cinematic world-building, origin stories and rainbow coloured MacGuffins, Avengers: Endgame sees Marvel deliver an epic three hour conclusion to the Infinity Saga. If you haven’t seen Endgame yet, look away now; spoilers incoming. Maybe a third of the way in, we find Valkyrie and the rest of Thor’s people in New Asgard, their new settlement on Earth. Bruce Banner and Rocket have gone in search of Thor to recruit him for the Time Heist, but Valkyrie warns that they don’t see him often; only when he comes to get ‘supplies’, as the camera pans to barrels of beer. ...

Time is ticking on until **Avengers: Infinity War is upon us. There’s not long now until we see all our favourite Marvel heroes come together to stop giant purple space dude Thanos from finding those multicoloured MacGuffins known as the Infinity Stones. So what exactly are these cosmic baubles that Thanos is tearing across the universe trying to find? Created after the birth of the universe, each stone grants power of a certain element of reality itself – Space, Reality, Power, Time, Mind and the Soul. ...

‘In times of crisis, the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers’. Picking up shortly after the events of his father’s death in **Captain America: Civil War, **Black Panther starts with T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) on a recon mission ahead of the ceremony to crown him as the King of Wakanda, and solidify him as its protector – the Black Panther. Meanwhile, ex-soldier Erik ‘Killmonger’ Stevens (played by Michael B. Jordan, and so named because of his effectiveness at ending lives) helps Andy Serkis’s South African menace Ulysses Klaue to steal an artefact dripping in Vibranium, the strongest material in the world and native to Wakanda, from a London museum. ...