Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
dir. Sam Raimi (2022)
An untethered kite of a film, flapping about madly with no hint of character or heart. One can imagine Benedict Cumberbatch at the advance screening, mask in place and silently chanting his fee, over and over again, as a mantra of self-appeasement.
At the Narrow Passage
by Richard C. Meredith (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973)
Forty years before Pratchett and Baxter’s ‘The Long Earth’, the multiverse played host to Richard C. Meredith’s Timeliners Trilogy – pulpy, engaging, alternative SF military history with aliens and gratuitously accommodating females thrown in (this objectification undermining what had been a promising start).