The Flash Season 7 Episode 16 The War of the Godspeeds continues on The Flash, but Barry and friends get a boost from an old friend: David Ramsey’s John Diggle. And the arrival of the former Arrow star could not have come at a more opportune moment, as his preexisting friendship with Barry – and his general stand-in for Oliver Queen-status – manages to infuse this largely confusing story with something that genuinely feels like emotional stakes at last....

The audience attending the Las Vegas event were also treated to glimpses of Wayne Manor, “iconic” Batsuits from the hero’s past, and the new Batcycle, which is described as being like the Batpod from The Dark Knight films but with two wheels at the front, according to IGN. The footage also shows Keaton’s Bruce living like a recluse inside his mansion, with long hair and a beard now adorning his aged face....

The Flash Season 7 Episode 2 Many of us probably suspected that The Flash wasn’t likely to keep Iris in the Mirror Universe much longer, since that particular subplot trotted past tired and well into dull when we were still officially in Season 6. Yet, “The Speed of Thought” manages to pull off getting her out in a truly interesting and unexpected way, one that promises uncomfortable and unpredictable consequences. It’s a pleasant surprise from a show that I often forget is really good at doing stuff like this and has only gotten better at it under Eric Wallace as showrunner....

So far as that goes, the 2022 Game Awards may be the most difficult year to predict in the award show’s recent history. Yes, a couple of big games will likely end up taking home the majority of statues. That happens almost every year. However, every Game Awards category features numerous wild card candidates waiting to sneak in an upset, while some categories consist entirely of those wild card candidates....

Featuring multiple songs that could just as easily be the basis for extra tracks on Taylor Swift’s newest album, The Greatest Showman aims to be both a classic kind of family entertainment and something as anachronistic as Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! But while it daringly features its own original music, unlike Luhrmann’s pop collage, Showman also lacks that inspiration’s audacity and subversive streak. It is going for a broader commercial audience than Luhrmann’s art house darling, but in the process Greatest Showman becomes as innocuous and toothless as the benign Top 40 bubblegum it so desperately emulates....

The Handmaid’s Tale is nothing if not balanced. Last episode, it showed the intoxicating bliss of taking revenge. This episode, it showed the destructiveness of being consumed by that intoxication. June’s dazed smile as she buried that gun in the yard, dreaming of the wrongs Serena had done her, wasn’t the smile of someone with a future, but the look of a fanatic. Increasingly in Season 5, June is finding her rage countered by the wisdom of acceptance....

The Hate U Give is one of several films in 2018 to face head-on the issue of police brutality and the agonizing frequency of which unarmed black men are gunned down during traffic stops. However, unlike some of the more indie and high-minded art pieces from both the beginning and end of this year, The Hate U Give attempts to consider this real-life nightmare from the vantage of growing up with it....

Yet fans were arguably spared the biggest and brashest of them all following an online protest, the kind of which would soon become all-too-common within the world of fandom. For it was during the midpoint of that decade—a crossroads during which Christopher Nolan and Sam Raimi were still making the most popular superhero movies and Fox was “ending” the X-Men franchise with Brett Ratner—that plans were put into motion for a Green Lantern movie starring Jack Black....

In recent weeks and months, fans have been sharing photos and videos from the set of HBO’s The Last of Us series. As production of that series ramps up, the set leaks are becoming more and more elaborate. Recently, a popular Twitter account that compiles some of those set leaks posted a behind-the-scenes video of a recent filming session that seemingly confirms that the upcoming show will attempt to replicate a classic Last of Us moment as closely as possible....

The characters in The Last of Us games aren’t exactly known for their fashion sense (the apocalypse will do that to your look), which is why most of the set photos we’ve seen of Pedro Pascal’s Joel and Bella Ramsey’s Ellie so far have been…muted. While it’s easy to see that the series’ wardrobe team is trying to replicate the general look of The Last of Us games, we haven’t seen a ton of photos from the set of the show so far that suggest the series’ main characters will be wearing a ton of specific outfits pulled directly from the games....

In George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, the men of the Night’s Watch are known for “taking the black,” describing the night-dark garb they don when they pledge the remainder of their lifetimes to being posted on the Wall at the northern border of the Seven Kingdoms. Night gathers, and now my watch begins, is the start of their vow upon taking the black. It shall not end until my death....

The Magicians Season 3 Episode 11 This week’s The Magicians may have melted a few brains with its multiple timelines, but in placing just the right set of difficulties in front of Julia, the god-touched hedge witch has taken center stage in a big way. In the most unexpected turn of events, characters like Marina, Penny, and Josh were resurrected, transformed, and given completely new conflicts to deal with while at the same time the search for the keys continued in a way that almost indicates that magic wants the quest to be completed....

The DeCavalcante family is much more historically embedded in the mob than most people know, going back to the earliest days of the Black Hand and Mafia in America. Giovanni spent nearly three years undercover working his way into the hierarchy. The assignment ended when he was ordered by capo Charlie “the Hat” Stango to hit Luigi “the Dog” Oliveri, a made man, in March 2015. Giovani turned his house into a fortress for months after the mob takedown....

“Halloween is inching closer, and it wouldn’t be a spooky celebration without an appearance from the ‘First Family of Darkness’ themselves,” reads the press statement. “Get ready for a family fright night like no other.” The Osbournes will go inside the Heritage Square Museum, a haunted historical site in the heart of Los Angeles. “Most families go pumpkin picking around Halloween. The Osbournes – we go ghost hunting,” Jack Osbourne said in a statement....

The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 14 Spoiler alert: this The Simpsons season 33 episode 14, review is filled with clickbait. “You Won’t Believe What This Episode Is About – Act Three Will Shock You!” is more than an overlong title, it’s a very current and radical installment in the long-running series. Okay, radical is going too far, but it is timely, progressive, and long overdue. Herstory is more than an amazing industrial vacuum rental slogan....

This Star Fox fan game on PC that has been in the works since 2014. The game is currently being developed with the Freespace Open engine, which powers the space combat sim Freespace 2. So, technically, Star Fox Event Horizon is a Freespace 2 mod, but when UndyingNephalim is finished, his project will be a standalone title you can play without the source game, and for free. If you’ve ever played a Star Fox game, you basically know how Star Fox Event Horizon functions....

Later this summer, Elba will make his DC Extended Universe debut in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad – a comic book adaption full of talent who could carry their own features if given the opportunity. We recently spoke with him about his role as the lesser-known comic character Bloodsport and what it was like to be part of such a chaotic batch of DC villains and antiheroes. How were you first approached for the role for Bloodsport, and what made you say yes?...

As literally said in the new sizzle-turned-trailer footage below, The Suicide Squad is intended to be unlike any superhero movie you’ve ever seen. “This one is completely unique,” says producer Peter Sarafan in the teaser. “This one is a gritty 1970s war movie combined with the brilliance of James Gunn’s character and comedy.” That means Harley Quinn looking more like how Paul Dini and Bruce Timm originally imagined her ever before, and John Cena’s Peacemaker walking around like a literal parody of Marvel Studios’ Captain America....

Grief is all the rage on television right now. Though series like WandaVision and Snowpiercer went into production before the coronavirus pandemic gripped the globe, they arrived during a time in which we all had a lot of trauma to process. Over on The Walking Dead, however, grappling with such concepts has been the norm all along. The show’s first episode dealt with an apocalyptic event that wiped out the majority of the population and since then its characters have known the names of the dead better than the names of the living....

What we’re talking about is the fact that the show is littered with conversations between disgustingly rich people that often make you want to shield your eyes and clog your ears. The awkward tension that emits off the screen is palpable in a way that can only be described as Succession on steroids. The characters say things that would make the corniest characters who have ever existed blush a dozen different reds....