Superhero psychologist with early on-set Parkinson’s publicly saves the life of a teenager, meets a detective while hanging out with sex workers down the pub, is immediately hired as a consultant on a murder case and then becomes the prime suspect. Oh and he’s played by Poldark (aka Aidan Turner). ITV latest glossy thriller The Suspect, based on the debut novel of Michael Robotham, is a semi-ridiculous, tropey but nonetheless twisty-turny ball of fun told over five episodes broadcast weekly....

James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano comes to mind. Arnold Schwarzenneger as the Terminator. Al Pacino as Michael Corleone. Maybe another actor could have pulled off a decent imitation, but it would have likely ended up looking like a phony doppelganger. Steve Carell’s iconic performance as Michael Scott in The Office certainly belongs among the comedic Mount Rushmore of lead roles in TV sitcom history. His sardonic wit paired with a heart of gold and more than a little naivete served to capture all of the unique qualities of an office boss who loves his workers whether they love him back....

Hilarie Burton, whose role as Lucille was announced this past November, brings invaluable experience for her portrayal as Morgan’s onscreen wife, seeing as she’s married to him in real life. Her casting also made it clear that The Walking Dead Season 10 will devote time to adapting parts of Kirkman’s limited series, Here’s Negan, an origin story originally released in 2016 as 16 four-page issues. Seeing as the topic has been touched upon by Negan himself on the series, it would hardly be a spoiler to point out that Lucille—the name Negan eventually bestows in morbid fashion to his signature, head-bashing barbed-wire baseball bat—died of pancreatic cancer, leaving him to regret his woefully unfaithful ways during their marriage....

Nothing is as it seems as The Walking Dead season 11 heads into its final episodes. Our heroes have discovered something rotten at the heart of the initially benevolent Commonwealth, which has sparked several conflicts that won’t be solved with a pile of paperwork. War is about to erupt once again for Daryl, Maggie, Carol, and the rest of the survivors. Expect quite a few deaths before the show reaches its conclusion....

Still, spinoffs or no, this is a fairly big moment in genre TV history. First premiering on Halloween night 2010, The Walking Dead was an instant ratings success for AMC and remained as such for much of its 11 seasons. It helped usher in a new era of fandom-friendly television for its network (which was coming off big prestige hits like Mad Men and Breaking Bad) and helped bring zombies back into the mainstream....

Titans Episode 9 You know how Titans keeps taking these detours into other corners of the DC Universe that, while very cool, are still keeping us away from the main story? Well, get ready folks, because you’ve heard me sing at least some of this song before. Titans episode 9, “Hank and Dawn” is a good episode, even a compelling one at times, if it was a chapter of a Hawk and Dove TV series....

Saphic sanguinarians started staking their claim in Joseph Sheridan le Fanu’s novella Carmilla (1872). From Gloria Holden’s magnetic eyes in Dracula’s Daughter (1936) through Ingrid Pitt’s sultry invitation in The Vampire Lovers (1970) to the revivalist Lesbian Vampire Killers, the irresistible sirens have held an almost fetishistic fascination over moviegoers. Charles Busch lightly spoofed them in the downtown stage play Vampire Lesbians of Sodom. Jesús Franco exploited them in the 1971 West German-Spanish horror film Vampyros Lesbos, starring Soledad Miranda as the Countess Nadine Carody....

However, as this list shows, there’s more than one way to skin a cat, and movie beheadings have proved endlessly inventive, a fact that explains why something as mundane and straightforward as a guillotine has no place in this top 10. This list is an attempt to celebrate the most shocking, amusing, horrific or just plain silly decapitations in film and in doing so, address an aspect of cinematic history that has been criminally overlooked until now....

Unfriended might change that, though. Borrowing techniques from found footage movies like Paranormal Activity, the focus here never shifts from a computer screen. It’s been a year since Laura (Heather Sossaman) killed herself because a cruel video of her passed out at a party went viral, and her former BFF Blaire (Shelley Hennig) is video chatting with her friends on Skype. But something’s wrong with the program, because an extra person no-one knows keeps being added to their conversations....

So when fellow British actor Tom Hardy called Serkis a few years ago about getting into the same kind of shenanigans, Serkis was intrigued. “Tom and I have known each other for years and years, and wanted to work with each other, both as actors and as an actor-director relationship,” Serkis tells us. “In fact, just before the first Venom movie, he reached out and said, ‘Andy, look. I’m going to be playing a sort of CG character, I think....

As it turns out, Steven Spielberg almost did the same in last year’s enchanting big screen reimagining of West Side Story starring Rachel Zegler, Ansel Elgort, and an Oscar-nominated Ariana DeBose. And if it were not for the efforts of screenwriter and playwright Tony Kushner, one of the more bittersweet moments in the movie—where Zegler’s Maria frolics in Gimbels Department Store, blissfully unaware of what horror is about to befall her—would have been lost....

With all that time on the Bat-books, it’s a little surprising to see the deluge of ideas still pouring out of the writer now that he’s got the flagship title all to himself. Tynion took over after Tom King’s 85-issue mega run, and proceeded to pit Batman against an entire city of clowns in “Joker War” after stripping the Dark Knight of his greatest superpower: his money. Tynion returns to the Dark Knight for the Infinite Frontier era, the post-Dark Nights: Death Metal status quo that has an energy to match Tynion’s voluminous idea output....

On top of Patty Jenkins confirming she’s no longer attached to Wonder Woman 3, Gunn and Safran seem to be shuttering the rest of Zack Snyder’s DCEU that Cavill kicked off in 2012 with Man of Steel. Even though it remains to be seen what will happen to Aquaman and the Flash after their 2023 standalone movies, the much-hyped Man of Steel 2 is no more. When Gunn confirmed Warner Bros....

In a new interview with Galentine, known on social media as @MyBloodyGalentine, she told Den of Geek’s Talking Strange podcast — on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube — that she was living on the fringe, hanging out in the punk scene in Pittsburgh, living day by day. “And then a close friend of mine passed away.” Shocked by her friend’s death, Galentine said she needed to know more. When she entered mortuary school, she believed “dead is dead....

As far as teases go, it’s not exactly a subtle one. The final scene in The Batman gives us a look at the Riddler, alone in his cell at Arkham Asylum, although not truly alone. In the cell next to his sits a shadowy, scarred figure, one barely glimpsed through the tiny, reinforced window on the door, who is trying to comfort the agitated and defeated villain. And yes, it’s exactly who you think it is…...

What We Do in the Shadows Season 4 Episode 1 Whatuuuup?!? The vampires of What We Do in the Shadows are back, and if it seems like they’ve never left, it is by lazy design. The Staten Island bloodsucking contingent ended season 3 scattered to the four corners of the globe enroute to undeath-changing adventures, and, largely unfulfilled, returned home where it is much cheaper to film. It appears the producers spared no expense on deconstructing the sets, however....

Series T of QI is currently airing, with Sandi Toksvig once again steering the ship of Quite Interesting facts and Alan Davies still on board as regular panellist (while keeping an eye out for blue whales, no doubt). Before we add too many of their fun facts to our bank of things to impress with at parties (or more likely make us look like insufferable know-it-alls), let’s remind ourselves of the times QI got it wrong....

This is both good news and bad news, depending on whether you’re an avid Xbox player or not. The Bethesda acquisition means tons of new first-party titles for the Xbox platform. The Elder Scrolls 6, Starfield, Indiana Jones, and other unannounced projects now join Halo Infinite, Hellblade II, Avowed, Everwild, Perfect Dark, and Fable as reasons to own an Xbox or PC as well as Game Pass. The bad news is that this also might mean you’re out of luck if you don’t own one of these platforms....

While a Chrono Cross remake/remaster was included in that massive Nvidia “leak” that dropped a few weeks ago, a new report from VGC and XboxEra co-founder Nick Baker strongly suggests that Square Enix is indeed working on that project and may eventually release it for multiple platforms. “What else I was told—because everyone’s working under the assumption that it’s a PlayStation exclusive—I’ve been told that it’s not. The only word that was used was ‘multiplat,’” Baker says....

See, Square Enix says that these remasters are intended to visually reimagine the original Final Fantasy games through “universally updated 2D pixel graphics” that deliver “timeless stor[ies] told through charming retro graphics.” While it’s certainly a little strange to suggest that retro games need to be updated with retro graphics, the basic idea is that the company is trying wants to use modern 2D pixel art technology to upgrade the look of the first six Final Fantasy adventures while maintaining their original ar styles as much as possible....