What I'm Watching: July 2021

A recap of my month in movies and media, featuring Disney Plus' Loki, Netflix's Fear Street trilogy and Amazon Prime's The Tomorrow War.

Mass Effect 2 and the 'Dark Middle Chapter'

 

BioWare's recent remaster of the original Mass Effect trilogy has meant I've had the opportunity to play one of my favourite game franchises back-to-back-to-back for the first time in forever; and it's the stellar second game which got me reflecting on the nature of middle chapters, and their tendency to skew darker, deeper and stranger. 

Film Review: Black Widow

Scarlett Johansson squeezes into the skintight catsuit of reformed Russian agent Natasha Romanoff one last time in Cate Shortland's much-delayed, Black Widow.