Homeland Season 7 Episode 12 For a show that prides itself on twists and turns, the season finale of Homeland Season 7 almost played out exactly how I imagined last week (with several major caveats in its very final moments). Yet while sometimes being able to see the arc of a path too far ahead can be disappointing, at least so far as television is concerned, it can also on the rare occasion be enjoyable....
The first hint at this comes in the film when the movie’s protagonists Jenko and Schmidt (Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill) are assigned to Jump Street and they’re told that the police are “reviving a cancelled undercover police program from the ‘80s.” By itself this line could just be taken as a setup for a meta joke about needless remakes and reboots, and a not full blow confirmation of being in the same universe....
The good news is that Arcane has already excelled at pacing itself when it comes to revealing champions in their full power, allowing its main characters to be featured using recognizable in-game weapons while keeping its supporting cast in earlier stages of backstory development. The show has also localized its narrative to the twin cities of Piltover and Zaun with only hints of the expansionist nation of Noxus, and as such, only League of Legends champions from these locations have been explored (with the exception of that initial glimpse of Ryze, the mage who saved Jayce and his mother)....
But as much as the fact of Jason’s death impacted Batman stories for decades, so too did its manner: “A Death in the Family” will always be remembered as the comic that gave fans a say in Jason Todd’s ultimate fate. They chose to murder a Robin. And in the latest DC Animated feature, you too will be able to choose to murder a Robin. “This was the perfect opportunity now, with the Blu-ray technology that we’ve got to re-present that famous moment in comic history,” Batman: A Death in the Family producer Brandon Vietti tells us in an interview....
Talk about timing! With the conclusion of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier on Disney+, Marvel wasted no time in revealing the next project that will spotlight Anthony Mackie’s newly minted Captain America. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier showrunner Malcolm Spellman is co-writing a currently-untitled Captain America 4 with another FWS alum, Dalan Musson. There’s no director attached, and no other details available just yet, but it does raise some interesting possibilities right out of the gate....
Gillespie says that the way the soundtrack was used in I, Tonya was an element that Sean Bailey, Disney president of production, wanted to deploy in similar fashion for Cruella. “When Sean pitched it to me, he talked about the tracks from I, Tonya and how they wanted to really embrace music with this,” Gillespie explains. “So I warned them up front that there was going to be a huge bill for this....
To be transparent, I will admit that I previously compared Elden Ring‘s hype to Cyberpunk 2077‘s hype, and I will stand by that warning. We should all be aware by now that there is no such thing as a guaranteed great game, and we should all prepare ourselves for the ways the nature of the development process (as well as the unique challenges of pandemic-era game development) can make even the most promising games fall well short of their potential....
It’s easy enough to look at photos of scalpers hoarding PS5s and feel a sense of outrage, but there’s always been some reasonable doubt regarding how much of an impact these resellers actually have. There are some who suspect that scalpers are little more than a few people who managed to beat the system. However, new information regarding the methods of these reseller groups suggests that the problem is actually much bigger than that....
Meanwhile, Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), Annie a.k.a. Starlight (Erin Moriarty), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso), Frenchie (Tomer Capon) and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) take a road trip to the Sage Grove Center, a facility Annie stumbled across on Stormfront’s laptop. They discover the institution serves as a testing ground, where reluctant subjects are being injected with Compound-V… to varying results. To further complicate matters, former Seven member Lamplighter (Shawn Ashmore) had been recruited to keep the patients in line – or roast the unruly alive with his fiery powers....
Probably before all of that. Have you seen The Empty Man? Prior and the former executive vice president of production at Fox, Mark Roybal, really wanted you to. The pair knew they were embarking on delivering a unique and ambitious horror movie, and Roybal was its studio champion – instrumental to getting that important initial greenlight. But during the final week of production when filming had to be halted due to bad weather, Roybal was out at Fox, and the behind the scenes struggles to get the film finished and released began....
The majority of changes made by screenwriter David Farr to the source material for Sky’s new adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos were tweaks rather than departures. In the seven-part series, Midwich is no longer a remote country village, but a commuter town within easy reach of London. Its lead character isn’t erudite author Gordon Zellaby, but child psychiatrist and single mother Dr Susannah Zellaby, played by Keeley Hawes. Book narrator Richard Gayford and his wife Janet are absent, replaced by new characters Zoe (Aisling Loftus), Sam and DCI Paul Haynes, played by Max Beesley....
“When the Jews return to Zion and a comet rips the sky and the Holy Roman Empire rises; then you and I must die. From the eternal sea he rises, creating armies on either shore, turning man against brother, ’til man exists no more” is pure fiction, from the mind of writer David Seltzer. Following soon after The Exorcist in 1973, which was a massive commercial and critical success and was nominated for 10 Oscars, The Omen was seen by some as a bit of a cash-in, with both films featuring devilish kids, the perversion of the relationship between parents and children, as well as religious and demonic paranoia....
Part traditional teen drama, part ‘90s-set horror movie, and part modern-day mystery, Yellowjackets is a deliciously clever and disturbingly entertaining survival thriller that doubles as a rather deft exploration of the complex inner lives of teenage girls. The end result is something completely unlike anything else on TV at the moment, which explains the slow and steady drumbeat of genuine buzz (pun intended) that’s been building around it since its November premiere....
Rebel Moon’s very title may sound like a mishmash of Star Wars concepts, and that seems to be by its very design. That’s because the project is essentially a repurposed platform for a story Snyder conceived a decade ago for a pre-Disney pitch to Lucasfilm for what the director described as “a mature” take on the space epic set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Now, Snyder is set to direct his own Star Wars-esque adventure, which will work off a screenplay he will co-write with familiar collaborators Shay Hatten and Kurt Johnstad....
Unfortunately, however, conspiracy theory thinking has run amok in the digital age. This has led to the mainstreaming of some truly dangerous ideas, like let’s say hypothetically, that a vaccine for a deadly virus is actually a microchip/population control device/mark of the best/whatever else. How does Shion Takeuchi (Gravity Falls, Disenchantment), creator of Netflix animated conspiracy comedy Inside Job, feel about these developments? “I’ll tell you what: I don’t love it!...
5.2 Death Be Not Proud If last week’s episode was a generous half hour’s entertainment for the general public, then Death Be Not Proud was one for the fans. Not Inside No. 9 fans, but Psychoville fans, devotees who’ve been clamouring for the black comedy to return since it ended almost a decade ago. Return it has, in the form of this surprise crossover featuring none-more-dysfunctional mother-son duo Maureen and David Sowerbutts....
Interview with the Vampire Episode 7 Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire’s season 1 finale is a vast departure from the novel but makes for exciting horror TV. The episode hits all the beats of the page, but exchanges the locales for more cinematic settings, and keeps its options open. “The Thing Lay Still” is laid out like a murder mystery, except the investigator is the most surprised person in the drawing room reveal....
With his taped on mask and oversized glasses, Dano’s Riddler initially looks like something out of a David Fincher movie. John Doe meets the Zodiac Killer. Yet the more we’ve seen of him—and from how the new The Batman trailer even hides what appears to be the Riddler’s face during an interrogation scene—I’m left wondering if there’s a reason for all the mystery, especially in light of the ways this film is clearly inspired by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee’s Batman: Hush, a 12-issue comic book story arc from the early 2000s....
The Purge franchise has been astonishingly successful since the series — which now incorporates five movies and two seasons of TV — launched in 2013 with the eponymous first movie. As of this writing (with the fifth film, The Forever Purge, just hitting theaters), the saga has racked up $460 million in worldwide box office receipts, against a combined budget for all five films of a reported $53 million. That’s a damn good return on investment, especially for an R-rated, graphically violent, politically charged, and often bleak narrative....
“Screaming relaxes me so” Though Vampira’s reign as the first queen of late night would last less than a year, she was groundbreaking in more ways than one. She appeared on all the popular shows of the day, including Ed Sullivan’s Toast Of The Town and The Red Skelton Show, and her photo shoots graced the pages of Newsweek, Life, and TV Guide. Though a dispute with ABC over the rights to the character would scuttle her nascent empire, the incredible ratings her show achieved would kick-start a wave across the United States, as every city began popping up with a horror host of their own....
