The Boys Boss Confirms Ryan Is More Powerful Than Homelander

“I’m not going to say one way or another, but I will confirm that she is not dead and that she is now officially Stumpfront. She’s just this kind of living torso. She cannot regenerate,” he said, adding “The strength of Ryan’s lasers — which were surprisingly powerful — are way more powerful than even Homelander’s when Ryan gets angry enough.” Antony Starr, who plays twisted Superman character Homelander pitch perfect on The Boys, has been entertaining fans of the show across various social media platforms as Season 3 production delays roll on....

December 21, 2022 · 2 min · 353 words · William Kennedy

The Christmas Chronicles 2 Review Kurt Russell S Hot Santa Sequel Is Too Nice

Kate Pierce (Darby Camp) is a sulky teen spending Christmas 2020 in Cancún—and, clearly, an alternate universe. While there she bemoans the lack of snow and her mom Claire (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) bringing along new boyfriend Bob (Tyrese Gibson, seemingly here only to sing “O Christmas Tree”), plus his son Jack (The Witches’ Jahzir Bruno). It’s not that Kate’s renowned status as a “True Believer” in all things Christmas is in any danger....

December 21, 2022 · 3 min · 584 words · Jerry Sneed

The Elder Scrolls 6 Perfect Dark And Every Game Missing From The Xbox And Bethesda Showcase

Some of the info shared during the show was as welcome as it was expected (such as new trailers for Redfall, Starfield, and Forza Motorsport). Others, however, were pleasant surprises. For instance, few can really say they hated learning that the Persona franchise was finally coming to Xbox or that Hideo Kojima was creating an Xbox-exclusive title. However, those games only make up a small sampling of the titles coming to Microsoft’s supported hardware....

December 21, 2022 · 7 min · 1473 words · Katherine Nix

The Expanse Season 3 Episode 9 Review Intransigence

The Expanse Season 3 Episode 9 The Expanse slows things down this week the same way the Ring has its speed limit, but the narrative still holds its impact as it embarks on the mystery of the pocket universe that the Rocinante finds itself in. Exploring what it means for each of the system factions to cross the threshold will no doubt be explored as the finale nears, but in the meantime, it’s important to take a breath to unpack the motivation behind Melba’s frame job and to allow Holden to formulate a plan in this foreign environment....

December 21, 2022 · 4 min · 754 words · Flora Holley

The Expanse Season 6 The Redemption Of Clarissa Mao

In the latest episode of The Expanse, Bobbie Draper reminds the Rocinante crew that they’re harboring a convicted felon, Clarissa Mao, and it’s easy for the audience to forget that she was in a maximum security prison on Earth for blowing up a ship full of innocent people in season 3. The forgiveness she earned from Amos in the intervening seasons has now been extended by Holden in this week’s most touching scene, and saving Bobbie’s life was a big part of her redemption arc....

December 21, 2022 · 2 min · 426 words · John Keepers

The Falcon And The Winter Soldier End Credits Scene Explained What It Means For The Mcu

The Falcon and The Winter Soldier is over and it ended with one doozy of a post-credits scene. Sharon Carter is back, and she’s apparently flipped on the United States. At the end of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier episode 6, Sharon finally gets her pardon. Senator Government Official (no, seriously, he’s credited as “Government Official” in the credits), the unnamed, definitely not Senator Kelly guy who has been moving the plot forward all show, sits in an extremely insecure presumably Intelligence Committee hearing room and offers Sharon a full pardon, and her old job in intelligence back....

December 21, 2022 · 4 min · 798 words · David Williams

The Falcon And The Winter Soldier S Contessa Val Started Out As A Different Character

One of the most surprising reveals from Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was the introduction of Seinfeld and Veep star (and all-around comic legend) Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine, also known in the Marvel comic book canon as Madame Hydra. While it remains to be seen how faithful the character will be to her comic book origins and narratives, it’s clear from the start that the Contessa (Val for short) is a schemer and string-puller who has leverage in some very high places....

December 21, 2022 · 3 min · 495 words · Brenda Krull

The Flash Armageddon Brings Black Lightning Back To The Arrowverse

The Flash Season 8 Episode 3 As crossovers go, The Flash’s five-part Armageddon event is pretty low-key, so much so that it’s easy to see why showrunner Eric Wallace doesn’t really like the idea of calling it a crossover at all. And maybe that’s a good thing, in the end, because rather than going for the spectacle of, say, a Crisis on Infinite Earths or Crisis on Earth-X, the show has time to give us quieter, richer character moments of the sort we so rarely get between heroes from different shows....

December 21, 2022 · 4 min · 737 words · Dawn Wall

The Flash Batman Set Photo Could Be Teasing Villain From Dark Knight S Past

Yes, this is a movie about Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen, the DCEU’s superhero youngster who is still learning the ropes since his team-up with the grown-ups in 2017’s Justice League, but the film is also much bigger than that. Not only will it feature many of the greatest superheroes in comic book history, but it will bring in Batmen from two separate movie universes, as well as Supergirl (Sasha Calle), to team up with the Scarlet Speedster for a multiverse-spanning adventure....

December 21, 2022 · 4 min · 693 words · Kasha Moen

The Invisible Man Review Well Worth Seeing

Focusing not on the character of the invisible man but his victim, this is a story about domestic abuse and the horror of not being believed. Elisabeth Moss plays Cecilia, married to the increasingly controlling sociopath Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). In a nerve-shredding opener that immediately sets the pace, a terrified Cecilia must escape the prison-like complex where they live, as silently as possible so as not to wake her sleeping husband....

December 21, 2022 · 3 min · 532 words · Dorie Carriaga

The Mandalorian Is Cal Kestis The Jedi Who Will Find Grogu

Ever since Ahsoka Tano sent Mando and Grogu to Tython to find a Jedi who could train the little baby Yoda, fans have been speculating whether this means that yet another classic character from the saga is set to appear on The Mandalorian. At a time when there are so few Jedi left in the galaxy, the list of potential cameos is short, and at the very top is Luke Skywalker, who is arguably the most powerful Jedi still active five years after Return of the Jedi....

December 21, 2022 · 4 min · 643 words · Kenneth Knapp

The Matrix Resurrections Finally Unveils The New Niobe

We’ve already seen our first glimpse at the Merovingian, who’s clearly fallen on hard times since he last tormented our heroes during a deadly bondage rave inside the Matrix, and now a new trailer finally shows Smith back as Niobe. It’s not in the way you think, though. “It’s so easy to forget how much noise the Matrix pumps into your head. Something else makes the same kind of noise: war,” a much older Niobe tells a reawakened Neo in the video....

December 21, 2022 · 2 min · 289 words · Mark Mcclendon

The Nevers Episode 1 Review A Tonal Mishmash

The Nevers Episode 1 Who is The Nevers for? Not kids, clearly. The frolicsome humour, cartoony performances and grade school social commentary might suggest so, but the nudity, cursing and blood say no. It’s meant for adults then, those of us happy to go along with the essential YA-ness of its ‘Victorian orphanage for superpowered misfits’ premise. Episode one opens with a flashback montage introducing the ensemble of – mostly but not all – women in 1890s London....

December 21, 2022 · 4 min · 695 words · Raymond Paxton

The Power Rangers Reboot Universe Is Exactly What The Franchise Needs

However, as the years went on and Power Rangers continued on television its fame slowly evaporated. It fell into the background; successive seasons of the TV show were enjoyed by new generations of kids and hardcore fans but never captured the public consciousness again like it had in the ‘90s. Multiple attempts were made to try and bring it back into the spotlight but they all had little success in the grand scheme of things....

December 21, 2022 · 10 min · 2087 words · John Roden

The Righteous Gemstones Find Godd In Season 2

“The Book of Matthew tells of nation rising against nation – a time of famines, pestilence, and earthquakes. Sound familiar?” patriarch Eli Gemstone (John Goodman) asks the crowd with a wink. “Are you saying people need Jesus’s love now more than ever?” prodigal son Kelvin (Adam DeVine) responds, emerging from the crowd in trademarked ripped jeans. “Oh, we always need Jesus’s love, but especially now,” eldest son Jesse (Danny McBride) replies....

December 21, 2022 · 6 min · 1162 words · John Stimpert

The Rings Of Power What Pelargir Means For The Future Of Middle Earth

In the penultimate episode of The Rings of Power, we see the immense destruction and devastation wrought by the awakening and subsequent eruption of Mount Doom at the end “Udûn.” The Southlands once full of life have now been transformed into the fiery, volcanic wasteland we know as Mordor from The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The human survivors, displaced by this not-so-natural disaster, now need a new home. In “The Eye,” Bronwyn (Nanzanin Boniadi) reveals that she is leading many of the survivors to a place called Pelargir, which has major implications for the future of the Men of Middle-earth....

December 21, 2022 · 3 min · 437 words · Henry Livingston

The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 20 Review Mother And Child Reunion

The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 20 While the Minor Arcana didn’t foretell a major disaster, The Simpsons Season 32 episode 20, ” Mother and Child Reunion,” is a letdown they should have seen coming. The audience sure did. We’ve seen all these scenarios before, and done better. Very much like most Mothers’ Day gifts, the box doesn’t live up to the wrapping, which have been set high for this season. We all know Lisa is going to be president someday....

December 21, 2022 · 5 min · 949 words · Frances Johnston

The Suicide Squad Who Lives And Who Dies

Five years ago, Will Smith uttered the instantly meme-able line, “So that’s it, huh, we’re the patsies, we’re some kind of Suicide Squad.” Yet by the end of that 2016 film, barely anyone in that squad was put six feet under. How times have changed. For the entire rollout of his pseudo-sequel/reboot, writer-director James Gunn has insisted he had carte blanche to kill off any character in his The Suicide Squad roster....

December 21, 2022 · 6 min · 1202 words · Mary Mayo

The Uk Tv Panel Show Is Dying But It S Probably For The Best

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly These shows were initially a great way to finish off your evening after a long hard day at school or work, just like a late night chat show helps to wind our American friends down after the watershed. They were satirical, witty and a fun and fresh look at everything from politics and current affairs to pop culture and more highbrow knowledge. Many of us don’t watch the news these days, especially since the rise of the smartphone....

December 21, 2022 · 8 min · 1658 words · Jennifer Myers

The Undoing Review Spoiler Free Classy Thriller With An All Star Cast

Based on the 2014 novel You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz, Kidman plays the aptly named Grace, a highly successful therapist about to publish a book, married to perfect husband and father Mike (Hugh Grant), with a son, Henry (Noah Jupe), who attends a super elite school. Grace is the absolute picture of elegance and benevolence but the arrival of young mother Elena Alves (Matilda De Angelis) into Grace’s school fundraising committee causes a stir, especially when Elena breastfeeds her baby daughter in front of the group....

December 21, 2022 · 3 min · 487 words · Reginald Parrish