Actually it’s the first scene of the movie when Gwyneth Paltrow’s Beth Emhoff sits at an airport bar, sweating profusely. As she absently speaks on the phone with an illicit lover, director Steven Soderbergh’s camera is far less interested in her conversation than where her hands are going: on the glass that someone else will clean, on the credit card she hands the bartender, and, yes, in that peanut bowl....
Which Netflix Shows Are Released Weekly? Many have bemoaned the relative death of the weekly TV-watching model. And while broadcast and cable are far from dead, an increasingly large segment of the viewing public is now watching things in a binge-watch model, due to the increase in streaming platforms that offer both new and old titles in bulk fashion. There are pros and cons to each model, but one of the major differences between the two is the shape of cultural discourse around a hit show....
In a note to fans on Twitter, CD Projekt co-founders Adam Badowski and Marcin Iwinski cited difficulties with testing and shipping nine different versions of the game across current-gen and next-gen platforms, all while working from home, as the major factor in the decision to push the game back once again. “Since Cyberpunk 2077 evolved towards almost being a next-gen title somewhere along the way, we need to make sure everything works well and every version runs smoothly,” Badowski and Iwinski explained....
As the video below explains, CD Projekt Red worked with Arch Motorcycle Company (which Reeves co-founded with Gard Hollinger) for both the audio recording of the game’s motorcycles and to add one of the manufacturer’s motorcycles into the game. Actually, Cyberpunk 2077 will feature a modified version of Arch’s Method 143 motorcycle which has been updated to match the aesthetics of the game’s futuristic universe but otherwise retains many of the features and sounds of the real-life model....
The plan is for the updated streaming service to have 24,000 comics available at launch, a roughly 10% increase on the current library. Comics and original graphic novels will be available through DCU Infinite within six months of publication, much faster than the current one year lag time. And DC’s successful digital-first series like Injustice: Year Zero and Batman: Gotham Knights will be available sooner. There’s also a plan for exclusive content created just for DCU Infinite....
Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabe Dell, Bobby Jordan, Bernard Punsly, and Leo Gorcey were the original teen menaces who terrorized theatergoers when the play opened on Oct. 28, 1935. Directed by the playwright, Dead End ran for 684 performances, and is still the longest-running play in the Belasco Theater’s history. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt saw it three times. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, Dead End isn’t the greatest gangster movie of all time....
In the Jon Brown-written, Al Campbell-directed comedy, Davies and Merrick play Meg and Nicky, seasoned online gamers whose every spare minute – and quite a few of the minutes they’re ostensibly at work – is spent in the fictional realm of massive multi-player online role-play game Kingdom Scrolls (a fictional amalgamation of real-life MMORPGs). They’re joined by Charlotte Ritchie as Alison, the sole non-gamer of the group, but a character who isn’t necessarily as on top of things as she may seem....
Ben Affleck plays Vic Van Allen, who’s fabulously wealthy due to his invention of a chip that the military uses in its battlefield drones. In other words, he’s invented something that helps kill people, as numerous characters remind him throughout the film, not that he cares what they think. Flush with cash and retired, Vic lives in a posh New Orleans mansion and does things like raise snails, publish a photography/poetry magazine, and ride his bike through abandoned warehouses....
Dexter: New Blood Episode 3 Dexter has always been at its best when its titular character has his back against the wall. The issue is that as the series progressed, Dex wiggled out of harm’s way far too easily and far too often, repeatedly saved by coincidence and intervening third parties. It reached a point where it seemed that our anti-hero would walk away from a tight spot with nothing more than a shrug, having learned nothing....
Since gear in RPGs tends to determine a player’s strength and survivability, dungeon crawlers like Diablo Immortal are all about loot. While you can improve your existing gear, it’s only a matter of time before you find a superior piece of equipment. So what do you do when you want your character to wear some new shoes but you don’t want to lose all the work they put into their old pair?...
In August 1990, Danny Rolling brutally murdered five college students in Gainesville, Florida—as well as three people in Shreveport, Louisiana in November 1989—and was sentenced to death in 1994 before being executed in 2006. According to pop culture lore, Williamson was watching a television program about the murders while housesitting alone. He realized a window was open in the home, became creeped out, and phoned a friend as he investigated the house whilst carrying a butcher knife....
In a clip circulating on Twitter, Stern is griping about his upcoming schedule when Robin asks if he’ll be working over the summer. “I told you, I’m doing Doctor Doom,” Stern responds, followed by conversation too muddled to make out. One can clearly hear Stern reference the variety show America’s Got Talent, for which he served as a judge, and the phrase “I’m an asshole,” which could refer to either his character on a Doom project or his general dissatisfaction with his workload....
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has had a somewhat bumpy ride to the screen. The film was officially announced in July 2019 at that year’s San Diego Comic-Con, with Benedict Cumberbatch returning to the title role and Scott Derrickson coming back as director. But Derrickson left the following January and was replaced by Sam Raimi – a choice approved almost across the board by Marvel fans. Raimi started from scratch, with Michael Waldron coming on board to pen the script, but filming was delayed from a May 2020 start due to the COVID-19 pandemic....
That number is remarkable because it more than doubles the opening of the first Doctor Strange movie in 2016, which debuted in November 2016 with a respectable, if not earth-shattering, $85.1 million. Conversely, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is only a stone’s throw away from the $200 million benchmark that’s only been crossed by Marvel five times, three of which were Avengers movies. In fact, the only “solo” MCU movies to score higher were Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Black Panther....
Neil Patrick Harris is going to be part of Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary. In a variation on the ‘show, don’t tell’ storytelling maxim, the publicity team and Russell T. Davies have stirred fans into speculation by releasing a photo of Harris in costume and make-up but not telling us who he’s playing. The images we’ve seen suggest multiple possibilities, and speculation around the casting will help to keep Doctor Who in the public consciousness – a speciality of Davies as a showrunner....
Not a Disney Princess Some have pointed to the ambiguity of the phrase “rights to a new Doctor Who series”, wondering if the deal concerns the next season starring Ncuti Gatwa as the 14th Doctor, or whether this is an as-yet unannounced spin-off spawned from new Bad Wolf Studios subsidiary WHONIVERSE1 Ltd, which was filed for earlier this year. It’s more likely that this deal simply concerns international streaming rights for the show....
Ruth Doctor, officially known as the Fugitive Doctor, first appeared last season in the episode “Fugitive of the Judoon.” Her character’s initial cover backstory was immediately endearing to many Doctor Who fans, as we meet the Fugitive Doctor when she is working as a tour guide in Gloucester. In reality, she is a Time Lord on the run from Gallifreyan authorities. Although her initial appearances were a plot device and admittedly conceived as a random afterthought, bringing Martin back for a full series run will not only heal a major plot hole but also set a new positive direction for Doctor Who....
There are two reasons I’m telling you this. This first is that I sucked at Doom Eternal, so I’m speaking from experience and, to be honest, looking for company. The second, much more important reason is that I don’t want the idea that you suck at Doom Eternal to somehow scare you away from one of the best games of 2020 and one of the most surprising games since the release of 2016’s Doom....
From someone who has neither read Dune nor seen the Lynch film (but has read around the film a bit by necessity of the job), the short answer is: yes. “Dreams are messages from the deep” reads a title card at the very start of the movie. It’s a quick bit of shorthand, directly from the book, that helps you understand that the visions Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) is having while he sleeps aren’t memories or flights of fancy, but something more significant....
Den of Geek, the leading entertainment media company, is proud to announce its return to San Diego with a seismic footprint at the epicenter of pop culture fandom, Comic-Con International, and the reveal of the brand’s highest-profile magazine cover star to date: Dwayne Johnson. The star of Black Adam, produced by New Line Cinema, DC Films, Seven Bucks Productions, and FlynnPictureCo, and set for distribution by Warner Bros. Pictures, revealed the magazine cover to his social media followers on Thursday, marking an exciting kick-off to the Den of Geek Comic-Con activations for 2022....
