The Flash Season 4 Episode 15 The Flash takes a bit of a break from the DeVoe plot this week to deliver an incredibly powerful self-contained episode that allowed the series to do some pretty effective character meditations. The villain of the week, an insane eco-terrorist named Veronica Dale (more on her in our Flash Facts), is almost secondary, as it is the consequences of her actions that cause one of the greatest threats Team Flash has ever had to deal with....

The Flash Season 4 Episode 17 Well, “Null and Annoyed” is something of an apt title. It’s not surprising that there would be a bit of a regression after The Flash turned in its two best episodes of the season (and two of its best ever, if I’m being honest) with “Enter Flashtime” and “Run, Iris, Run.” It’s just a shame that all of the flaws of The Flash Season 4 had to come to the foreground in such a pronounced way in an episode directed by Kevin Smith....

The Flash Season 7 Episode 18 The Flash Season 7 ends as it lived, with a mixed-bag finale that is generally entertaining to watch, but that doesn’t make much sense if you look at it too closely. “Heart of the Matter, Part 2” gives us some highly entertaining visuals (the Flash family runs together at last!) and the surprising return of an old enemy (welp, we made it almost two entire seasons without Eobard Thawne!...

With the Hunger Games series, Collins was looking to explore some themes of revolution, depicting the games as a political arena as much as a literal one. We see this depiction of the Hunger Games as a tool of political control ramp up in the second book/film in the franchise. In Catching Fire, President Snow wants to reassert control over the games, and make a statement to the people of Panem, so the 75th Hunger Games—the third Quarter Quell—only pulls tributes from the existing pool of winners....

Praise be for a proper ending! Too many new Netflix series pull their punches when it comes to the finale, bowing out on a cliff-hanger that gambles on a second series commission that often never arrives. The Irregulars does nothing of the sort. It delivers a traditional, big, flashy conclusion that bests the bad guy, saves the world, and leaves plenty of space for emotional breakthroughs and teary goodbyes. Yes, some groundwork was laid for a potential return, but if these eight episodes turned out to be it, you won’t leave feeling dissatisfied....

Anime has grown by leaps and bounds over the past decade as it’s progressively evolved from a niche interest into mainstream entertainment. There are now more places than ever to consume anime, whether it’s on broadcast television or any of the available streaming services, some of which are devoted entirely to anime content. It’s truly exciting to see the medium’s continued success, but part of the reason that it’s found such universal acclaim is because often anime is just as concerned about representation as it is with entertainment....

Fresh NBC streaming service Peacock today confirmed all the details of The Office’s impending arrival to its streams. In the form of a very clever Dunder Mifflin memo from David Wallace to “All Employees,” Peacock made their big plans for the classic mockumentary known. And they are as follows. All nine seasons and all 201 episodes of the series will be available on Peacock. The first two seasons (which amount to 28 episodes due to the first season’s short six-episode run) will be free and available to all....

Almost as if by galactic design, cue two major ‘big bangs’ in the 20th Century Fox television universe: an acquisition by Disney and global pandemic. While production had begun on season 3 over three years ago, the production team had no idea where the show would end up, but the Disney-owned streaming service Hulu warped in to save the now fan-favorite. The hour-long sci-fi adventure series, starring creator Seth MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson Jerald, Peter Macon, Scott Grimes, and J....

Stone may have earned a writing credit on the finished film, but what ended up on the screen was a far cry of “Crom!” from what he had envisioned in the script he presented to producer Edward R. Pressman in 1978. That screenplay was bold, brilliant, and, potentially, unfilmable. But to Stone at least those two words will linger on: What if. Pressman had recruited Stone amid the buzz surrounding his script for Midnight Express, the real-life story of the imprisonment and eventual escape of American national Billy Hayes from a Turkish prison, which eventually bagged the scribe a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar....

Per Netflix, those 62 million households watched The Queen’s Gambit in its first 28 days of release. The show made Netflix’s curated “Top Ten” list in 92 different countries and topped out at number 1 in 63 countries, including the U.S. and U.K. The Queen’s Gambit is a seven-episode miniseries produced by Scott Frank (Godless) and based on Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel of the same name. It follows Beth Harmon (Taylor-Joy), a young Kentucky orphan who is thrust into a larger world of competition and intrigue when she is revealed to be a chess prodigy....

It’s an intriguing premise. But another intriguing secret the film studio really doesn’t want people talking about is the way Kya’s situation might mirror the troubling past of Crawdads’ author Delia Owens. Several high-profile news articles and television shows that originally discussed Delia and her then-husband Mark Owens’ time in Zambia have resurfaced due to the heightened attention around the new film and the novel, which was published in 2018....

In case you somehow need any sort of reminder, the film opens with us being introduced to a new gang of lovable misfits: there are old reliables like Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn and Joel Kinnaman’s Rick Flag. And hey look over there, that’s Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang! And then there’s the new meat we’ll get to know about and love over the course of a rousing adventure: Pete Davidson as Blackguard, Michael Rooker as Savant, and of course Nathan Fillion as T....

There are many aspects that likely contributed to The Last Duel’s box office failure. The pandemic, for one, has left the movie industry on uncertain footing for nearly two years, a period of time where Scott’s pricy melodrama had already been greenlit and filming before the ground fell out beneath the feet of theatrical releases. While recent franchise spectacles like Venom: Let There Be Carnage, No Time to Die, and Shang-Chi are doing big business, audiences appear still recalcitrant about venturing to cinemas for adult-skewing dramatic work....

The Walking Dead season 10 finale, “A Certain Doom,” finally answered one of the season’s biggest questions: did Connie survive her run-in with the Whisperers and their walker horde earlier in the season? The final minutes of the massive episode that brought the communities’ war with the Whisperers to an end reintroduced the missing character, stumbling through the woods in a daze until she found Virgil. It remains to be seen if this is good or bad news for her....

Though The Walking Dead is a third of the way through its 11th and final season, The Walking Dead franchise is showing no signs of slowing down. AMC has already announced a whole host of new spinoffs for the zombie series including the Tales of the Walking Dead anthology and a set of feature films for Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln). This means that if The Walking Dead Universe is going to continue on forever, like AMC appears to want it to, it may have to reconsider some of its own mythology....

The Walking Dead Season 10 Episode 18 As far as episodes of The Walking Dead go, “Home Sweet Home” will not be considered one of the brighter lights of the vastly improved season 10, thought it was very far from the nadir of the series. This show has been better and it has also been much worse. Overall, The Walking Dead is trending up under the direction of show runner Angela Kang, thanks to a focus on improved writing over twists, spectacle, and cliffhangers on a show that has never needed them....

Today, in the final installment of its “11 Weeks Until the Season 11 of The Walking Dead” promotion, AMC unveiled the opening scene of The Walking Dead season 11 premiere, “Acheron Part I.” As promised, the opener finds most of our Alexandria main characters engaged in a food-finding mission. What’s slightly less than expected, however, is how dangerous said mission is. The Walking Dead has contained more than a decade of in-universe storytelling....

The White Lotus’s second season has featured an abundance of mystery, sex, and deceit, but perhaps no plot line has been harder for fans to decipher than the one involving Tanya and Portia (Jennifer Coolidge and Haley Lu Richardson). They originally arrived in Sicily with little to no purpose, wandering aimlessly and waiting for something external to sweep them off their feet and give them a vacation worth remembering. That exact item manifested in the form of Quentin (Tom Hollander) and his supposed nephew, Jack (Leo Woodall)....

The White Lotus Season 2 Episode 1 It’s hard to pinpoint one exact thing that makes The White Lotus such compelling television. The first season (which was originally supposed to be a stand-alone miniseries) featured some of the best acting of 2021, with performances by Jennifer Coolidge and Murray Bartlett taking home Emmy wins. The composer of the series, Cristobal Tapia de Veer, did a phenomenal job of immersing the audience in this fictional version of Hawaii that is equal parts ominous and effervescent; this musical juxtaposition is very hard to pull off, replete with an opening title sequence ripe for analysis....

GWAR is best known as an iconic heavy metal monster band with gory stage shows, blistering lyrical assaults, and costumes which land bandmembers in court on indecency charges. GWAR have been teetering on the edge of commercial success for over 30 years. It is also a special effects lab, a live musical theater troupe, and an independent filmmaking studio, all under a creative conglomeration called The Slave Pit Inc. This is GWAR includes current and archival interviews with the musicians and the creative team, as well as artists who appreciate the work, like Weird Al Yankovic, who gave his own face to the band when their frontman tried to pass himself off as a children’s party clown in a very animated project....