About a year after the Nihil raiders nearly destroyed a solar system in Light of the Jedi, the Republic is putting on a show. The Republic Fair — imagine a World’s Fair or Great Exhibition, not a county fair — will show off the glory of the unified systems. In particular, the chancellor hopes to convince the Togruta queen (that’s Ahsoka’s species) to join or form a closer alliance. When the Nihil attack the Fair, the Republic is outgunned....
While the book sold modestly in hardcover, it was the sale of the paperback rights (for $400,000) and the novel’s subsequent success in that format which enabled King to become a full-time writer and launch the historic career that is still going strong 48 years later and has made him one of the most successful and well-known writers of all time. It was in paperback that I first encountered the work of Stephen King as well, although it wasn’t Carrie....
Pop culture has trained us well to expect some corpses in the season finales of our favorite television shows. When it comes to Stranger Things season 4, however, it was particularly clear that a cast culling was in store. Not only has Stranger Things not been shy about callously murdering its characters in the past (R.I.P. Barb, Bob Newby, and countless other Hawkins citizens) but season 4 almost had to kill off some folks as a matter of pure logistics....
To orient us through the new crowd, here’s an introduction to high school students Eddie, Chrissy, Jason, Argyle, Patrick, Angela, Vickie and their counsellor Ms Kelly; military types Dmitri (Valar Morghulis, comrade!) and Lt. Colonel Sullivan; psychiatric hospital nurse Peter Ballard and resident and nurse Victor Creel, played by none other than A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Robert Englund. And that’s not even all of them… Robert Englund/Kevin L. Johnson as Victor Creel The Stranger Things kids are all Freddy’s children now!...
That’s right, we finally know who’s joining Nintendo’s brawler next and it’s none other than Pyra and Mythra! If you’re a Xenoblade fan, you’re probably very excited to see the legendary Aegis blade from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 show up in Smash, although the fact that she isn’t accompanied by Rex may disappoint. Instead, Nintendo is pairing Pyra with Mythra, which does make sense in terms of the lore of the game, since the former is actually an alternate personality of the latter....
Supergirl Season 6 Episode 5 Supergirl’s first trip to Midvale back in season 3 was an incredibly special episode, a moody mix of winding roads and the sense of home, taking inspiration from Smallville and Veronica Mars, while giving viewers an insightful look at a true moment of growth for the Danvers sisters that also offered perspective on where they were in their modern continuity. For the final season’s return, take all those expectations and add in the promise of a young Cat Grant and two episodes to build the story....
Now that series 10 is over, eyes to the horizon for series 11. The new contestant line-up has been announced, along with a Thursday the 18th of March release date, and confirmation of a second Champion of Champions mini-series featuring the winners of 6-10. First up, here’s who’ll be competing for the Taskmaster’s approval in series 11: Lee Mack The comedy TV veteran, creator and star of long-running BBC sitcom Not Going Out and quick-witted team captain on almost-as-long-running BBC comedy show Would I Lie To You?...
The 100 Season 5, Episode 12 When The 100 first began, it was a show that was constantly subverting expectations of what a “teen” show could be. Part of that was CW stigma, but part of that was simply good television storytelling. Most shows aren’t willing to go as dark and brutal as The 100 has gone again and again, most shows aren’t quite so comfortable letting its protagonists and antagonists look so similar....
However it’s all too tempting to boil Williams’ career down to the more obvious highlights: Star Wars, the Indiana Jones trilogy, Superman, E.T., Jurassic Park and the like. In truth, he’s a far more versatile composer than many like to give him credit for, and he’s much more than just a big themes guy. Here are some seriously overlooked highlights in ascending order of greatness. 15. How To Steal A Million (1966) Did you know that the eventual Star Wars composer began his scoring career as jazzy Johnny Williams?...
But if you can’t wait that long, WB has treated us to two very tiny teasers, including a shot from the upcoming second trailer. “Can’t wait to show you more at #DCFanDome this Saturday,” wrote Reeves on Twitter, where he shared an image of Pattinson’s Dark Knight watching over his city from a Gotham rooftop as the sun goes down. He’s undoubtedly preparing to hunt some criminals. The second teaser, released on the movie’s official Twitter handle, doesn’t feature any other images of the Batman for fans to obsess over....
Add in some joyful shockers, subversive slashers, sexy thrillers, and more and you have a decade in horror that is absolutely worth your attention. We have thus picked out the best ‘90s horror to feast your eyes on. The Exorcist III (1990) It’ss perhaps fitting we begin this list with a movie that felt like a leftover from a different age—a throwback to ‘70s horror at a time when the ‘90s vintage was yet to be determined....
It’s a weird time. Yet one thing stays consistent: the satisfaction that comes with seeing a good movie. Whether that film makes you laugh, cry, or shudder, there is still an ineffable joy derived from being lost for a couple of hours in the dark. Finding those stories has gotten a little more difficult in recent years, but trust us, there is gold up in them hills. And sometimes its shine is as big and gaudy as you’d hope—like an F/A 18F rocketing past IMAX cameras....
In the flashback portion of The Book of Boba Fett episode 2, “The Tribes of Tatooine,” Boba Fett is on the hunt for something that can help the Tusken Raiders take down the Pyke Syndicate’s hovertrain, but it isn’t power converters. When the bounty hunter visits a cantina in the desert, he’s searching for the speeder bikes he needs to catch up with the Tuskens’ spice-smuggling enemy, and he has no problem punching and shooting his way through a biker gang to get what he needs....
Jensen Ackles played Dean Winchester for 15 years on Supernatural – and he’ll be doing so again, in voice-over, for CW’s The Winchesters this autumn. Of course, Ackles is a professional actor and entirely capable of playing more than one character, and like his co-star Jared Padalecki (now playing Walker, Texas Ranger, for the CW’s Walker) he did other things during Supernatural’s run as well. But still, that length of time inhabiting one character is bound to have an effect on an actor’s choices....
How will the show cap off its craziest season? Only time will tell, but the previous seven episodes have done plenty of setup for what promises to be an explosive finale. Here’s what you need to know before watching episode eight, “The Instant White-Hot Wild.” The Boys Season 3 Recap If you’ve just been following the show through its fantastic social media campaign and missed the actual episodes, then you might be unprepared for the finale....
The low-budget, independently produced feature was directed by Nathan Juran, the genre master who gave us The Deadly Mantis (1957), Attack of the 50-Foot Woman (1958), and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), produced and photographed by Jacques Marquette, and released by Howco International. The Brain from Planet Arous stars John Agar, a consummate B-movie favorite (The Mole People, Revenge of the Creature) as scientist Steve March. Joyce Meadows (The Christine Jorgensen Story, The Girl in Lovers Lane) is his analytically grounded fiancée Sally Fallon....
The Expanse Season 2 Episode 12 Emotional stakes are everything in The Expanse, and this week had plenty of them. Viewers were likely as surprised as some of the characters when political assassinations, last minutes rescues, and unexpected twists spiced up the already flavorful drama which pitted friend against friend and brought enemies closer together. Who is right about the potential of the protomolecule? Mao, who would exploit it; Holden, who would eradicate it; or Prax, who would reason with it?...
Suffice it to say, Blum has a nose for talent and the clout to do something with the talent he finds. So it goes with The Gallows, another film in the Blumhouse tradition of taking traditional horror ideas and wringing new life out of them. In the amusingly named town of Beatrice, Nebraska (a real town), the local high school has a pretty strong drama department. Every year they put on a play, but back in 1993, a horrible accident occurred....
Serena Waterford didn’t want a Handmaid. A younger woman in your home for your husband to impregnate – what wife would? In Season 5 episode ‘Fairytale’, The Handmaid’s Tale flashed back to the early days of Gilead, when the Commanders’ Wives were still apprehensive about the Handmaid system. We saw Naomi Putnam and Serena walk the glass-lined corridors of a prison for Gilead’s kidnapped children and wrinkle their noses at what was on display....
It’s no wonder this whole season has been lit like a séance; thematically it started dark, and it stayed that way. Anybody expecting a healing arc for post-escape June will have been left wanting, because season four was all about revenge. That’s where it started – with Esther Keyes stabbing her abuser to death and then crawling into June’s maternal embrace – and that’s where it’s ended – with baby Nichole smeared in the blood of her mother’s now-dead rapist....
