There is a distinct kind of whiplash that comes with watching modern Star Trek. One week, you are looking down the barrel of a universe-shattering temporal crisis, and the next, your captain is navigating a high-stakes dramatic narrative that feels entirely unanchored from traditional sci-fi stakes. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has always worn its theatrical heart on its sleeve, leaning hard into the episodic anthology ethos of the 1960s original series while adding a glossy

★★★★★ In a world full of flashy, celebrity-voiced CGI movies that never seem to stop talking, Aardman Animations is still out here producing pure cinematic magic. With Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, the studio heads back to the farm for what might be one of their funniest outings yet. There isn’t a single line of spoken dialogue in the entire runtime, and honestly, it doesn’t need one. By stripping things down to expressive grunts, brilliant pantomime, and sheer

★★★★☆ Dir. Zach Cregger Starring: Austin Abrams, Paul Walter Hauser, Kali Reis, Zach Cherry Runtime: 90 mins Let me lay my cards on the table before the purists sharpen their pitchforks: I have never played a Resident Evil video game. In fact, if we are talking about electronic gaming of any description, my experience essentially began and ended in arcades pumping coins into Space Invaders, or was it Asteroids? Beyond that, modern consoles might as well be particle accelerato