Aidan

If you’ve been to a movie theater in the past few months, odds are very high that you saw the trailer for Argylle. The latest film from director Matthew Vaughn (Kingsman, Kick-Ass) has been promoted so much, it’s become meme-worthy, especially the question of “Who is the real agent Argylle?” Well, I’m happy to report the film answers that question in a suitably enjoyable way but, in doing so, gives the audiences so much to chew on, what should be a fun, frivolous roller coaster becomes an uneven slog. Some of it’s good -…

The Umbrella Academy meets Gekkoukan High. With Persona 3 Reload launching next week, Atlus West’s YouTube released an out-of-the-blue live-action commercial with Aidan Gallagher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maL1PDVsGpo Persona 3 Reload is an RPG/life sim where you take on the role of Makoto Yuki, a recent transfer to Gekkoukan High. He then becomes a member of the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad (S.E.E.S) and takes on the many levels of Tartarus during the elusive Dark Hour at midnight. The almost…

Fans of “Sex and the City” have had to weather a lot of twists and turns since their beloved show was revived as “And Just Like That” in late 2021. First there was the demise, via stationary bike, of a certain cigar-loving steak enthusiast — and the scandal surrounding the actor who played him. Then there was Miranda’s transformation from pragmatic career woman to lovesick dingbat, and the glaring absence of Samantha, a character who now exists solely via text message, like a saucy phantom trapped inside Carrie’s phone.…

Ours is an age of acceleration and dislocation. The pandemic hurtled us from the end of one decade to the early years of another without pause for reflection, and we can’t quite connect who we are now with who we were – or what the world was – in the Before Times. So it’s fascinating that Aidan Cottrell-Boyce’s thrillingly ambitious debut novel, The End of Nightwork, features a narrator who suffers from a rare hormonal condition that dramatically accelerates the ageing process. At 13, Pol finds he has undergone a…