Describing the origins of the show to Variety, the Duffers said the first inklings for the show came from a movie idea about the Montauk Project, a purported government program involving children with ESP and a monster. “We love conspiracy theories,” admitted Matt, and the project “was something we hadn’t seen on screen before.” With that concept in their pocket, the Duffers began pitching to studios. “But this was at a time when, you know, Paranormal Activity was really big,” Matt explained....

Supergirl Season 6 Episode 13 Supergirl thankfully gives the totem quest some structure (seven total, in a specific order) and rules (they must be activated before use and a person has to pass a test in order to control them) and gives the audience the quick and dirty exposition, courtesy of Brainy. Meanwhile, Kara welcomes Lena back with open arms and they pretty much immediately become a totem-chasing, emotionally supportive, crime-fighting duo....

Previously, SXSW already announced the intriguing Everything Everywhere All at Once will be the opening night film. That A24 release looks to combine the recently popular sci-fi concept of “multiverse theory” with martial arts genre tropes as it follows Michelle Yeoh into parallel dimension madness. Now with the full line-up, we also know the Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, and Daniel Radcliffe-starring The Lost City will also be making its world premiere at SXSW, as will the meta comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which stars Nicolas Cage as a version of himself who’s been kidnapped by his greatest fan, and a world renowned crime lord, played by Pedro Pascal....

SXSW’s music lineup isn’t limited by genre, region, or popularity. Over 2,000 performers from 60+ countries are represented at the festival, spread out through Austin everywhere from intimate spaces to massive stages. Navigating the festival and its plethora of options can be a little intimidating, so we put together a guide of some can’t-miss artists to help steer you in the right direction. From local favorites to international sensations, hip-hop groups to lo-fi troubadours, here are just a handful of acts you should make an effort to see in Austin....

Olivia Munn as Evie Olivia Munn will play Evie in the first episode of the season, who partners with a reclusive doomsday prepper to find their lost loved ones. Munn has an extensive filmography of both genre and comedy work, and worked as a correspondent for The Daily Show from 2010 to 2019. You will most likely recognize her from her short time as the mutant Psylocke in X-Men: Apocalypse or from the HBO series The Newsroom, but she also had a small arc in the beloved sitcom New Girl....

Thomas Ian Griffith is returning as Terry Silver, the villain he played in an entertainingly over-the-top manner in the 1989 threequel, as Netflix and the actor himself confirmed upon the release of the Cobra Kai Season 4 teaser trailer. Yet, like the show’s past movie character reunions, Silver’s return is, paradoxically, an expected surprise, since it’s the culmination of series-spanning hints such as a crucial name-drop back in Season 1, and was quite obviously set up in a cliffhanger scene at the end of Season 3....

The 100 Season 4 Episode 10 If you didn’t watch the previews, this very Hunger Games episode started off with two quick surprise contenders in the Conclave to up the ante, and it didn’t let up from there, giving us perhaps the best fight scenes of the season so far. The Blake siblings warm up Octavia and Bellamy had some tense moments, but I take her willingness to say, “May we meet again,” as a good sign....

The 100 Season 6 Episode 6 This episode brings us not one but two mind palaces and it’s good to see Raven, Echo, and Emori back in play, even if Emori didn’t get enough to do. The 100 may kill a lot of people off, but there always seem to be plenty more of them, usually dispersed geographically until the end of the season, making it tough for non-Clarkes to get decent screen time....

American Horror Story Season 10 Episode 10 It took the full four episodes, but American Horror Story has finally tied its two story threads together using the most unlikely character. Of course, it wouldn’t be American Horror Story without a last-minute twist that may or may not make sense, and Death Valley continues that tradition with a jam-packed finale episode that doesn’t necessarily tie up the plot, but definitely doesn’t lack for big, crazy ideas....

“We’ve had to have a discussion with Disney about the swearing,” Jackson told Radio Times. The six-hour documentary follows the band writing and rehearsing 14 new songs on a tight deadline. They were planning their first live show in over two years. Things get said. As John Lennon paraphrased this period of the band’s intensity in Anthology, “it’s because you got the tambourine wrong that my life’s a misery.” The documentary doesn’t censor the long-time friends....

When we last saw Homelander, he wasn’t in a good place. At the end of The Boys Season 2, we parted ways with him angrily wanking over the city after his Nazi girlfriend Stormfront got her limbs lasered off by his own son. Little Ryan then chose to embrace the thorn in his side, Billy Butcher, over him. As the narcissistic leader of The Seven loudly repeated the phrase “I can do whatever I want!...

When The Boys’ showrunner Eric Kripke stopped by the Den of Geek studios at this year’s SXSW festival, he had a bold proclamation to make about the show’s third season. “The very first 15 minutes of episode 1 is by far the craziest thing we’ve ever done…like, by a mile.” Naturally, when we had a chance to speak with Kripke again the week of season 3’s premiere on Prime Video, we decided to remind him of that statement, to which he responded “Did I oversell it?...

Don’t celebrate yet. Don’t you know what show you’re in? Until Hannah is stretched out on your couch tossing M&Ms into her mouth, sharing TikTok videos on her phone and groaning when you ask her how school is, she’s not home. A lot can go wrong between ‘The US army has planned a raid’ and a happy ending – maybe save dancing to The Cure and hugging grocery clerks until your girl’s out of Gilead....

But first, to get us all in the mood for the new 10-episode run, all of which arrives on Netflix on the 9th of March, here’s a link to the season five trailer, and below is the official synopsis: “Years have passed since the events of the last season, and King Edward is still forging ahead with his ambitions to unite the Saxon Kingdoms to fulfil his late father’s dream....

You can see a snippet of the artwork in question in the image above, but here’s the full thing in case you need a better look. So far, the biggest reveal we can logically draw from that image is that the upcoming multiplayer game will seemingly take place in San Francisco. At the very least, that certainly appears to be the Golden Gate Bridge in the background, and a few other, smaller landmarks seem to match the layout, design, and style of San Francisco....

It’s the piece of the puzzle Rami Malek’s Jim Baxter has been waiting for. The young—and now entirely ruined—LAPD police detective can stop wondering about the night before—the night his shovel cracked the skull of Albert Sparma (Jared Leto). At the time of the murder, there was no clear cut evidence Sparma was the serial killer that law enforcement was hunting—or that Sparma even committed a crime beyond being a full-on creep....

“You just shot me back trying to find a vaccine,” Bullock says when we mention the remarkable time period that The Lost City was made during. “I mean, I was running around trying to find one. They were not available. By the time we had gotten there for the scout, they were becoming more available, but I felt like I was on the black market, you know? Just give me something!...

Which for Palmer came in the form of an audience eager to see her portray Anna Raven, aka Rogue of those uncanny X-Men. And this Halloween season, Palmer responded to that fan-casting by not only going as the mutant Rogue to Halloween parties, but doing a full on Instagram photoshoot as the character. Perhaps Marvel Studios is taking notes? The move was probably a cheeky way of acknowledging fan support for Palmer playing the role, or perhaps it was just an excuse to have an uncanny Halloween costume....

I picked three films in the end: Miracle On 34th Street (double feature with 1947 & 1994 versions), Nativity (never seen) and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Jane hadn’t seen Christmas Vacation, so we popped that in the DVD player. I had a look at the cover, as it was different to the cover I had at home. Then I saw it – a picture of a scene I had never seen before....

The Orville Season 2 Episode 9 This week’s episode of The Orville includes a major space battle and the crew of the Orville saving Earth from a significant extraterrestrial threat. It sounds exciting, but it was not too different from the scenarios we’ve seen in sci-fi before. Even though the story was not too original, the show is, making it entertaining despite the lack of a novel approach to escaping the old “superior alien force taking over our heroes’ ship and bringing it along with their armada to attack earth” routine....