Grimm: Season 6 Episode 13 All seems lost at the beginning of tonight’s series finale. Zerstörer has left a trail of corpses in his wake at the gas station: a homeless man, and several policemen and detectives. It was painful to watch Nick suffer through Hank and Wu’s demise. The magic stick was inoperable when it was most needed. Nick was beside himself with grief, as anyone would be in his position under those circumstances....
Halo Episode 3 It all depends on Cortana. That was true for a large portion of the Halo games and it’s true for TV. Unfortunately, her role, appearance, and relationship with Master Chief are significantly changed for the TV series in a slow third episode. While original voice actor Jen Taylor gives her all in challenging mo-cap scenes, the script and the production design mostly fail to cohere. Halsey goes ahead with the Cortana program now that John-117 is back on Reach....
While Halo Infinite sets up quite a few mysteries that clearly won’t be solved until developer 343 releases an inevitable sequel, few of the game’s mysteries are as prominent or compelling as the origins of the Harbinger. The Harbinger is treated as one of Halo Infinite’s primary antagonists (they even serve as the game’s final boss), but there’s this lingering feeling that they’re so much more than another villain. The problem is that the game doesn’t exactly slow down long enough to try to explain what, exactly, the Harbinger is and what they really want....
HBO Max’s new offerings this month are highlighted by two enormous Warner Bros. film releases. The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark opens things up on Oct. 1. The movie is getting a theatrical release as well but you can certainly just watch it via streaming to make Sopranos creator and film purist David Chase mad. Next up is the sprawling sci-fi epic Dune on Oct. 22. It’s long been thought that a faithful and suitably enormous Dune adaptation was impossible....
1.3 The Spies In material terms, episode three didn’t move us very far forward. Like a docked boat, Lyra’s journey stalled in one place while other characters were frustrated in their various searches. By the end of the hour, Lord Boreal was still on the trail of Stannislaus Grumann/Col. John Parry, Mrs Coulter was still on the trail of Lyra (the spy flies only telling her what the Magisterium already knew – that Lyra and the alethiometer were with the Gyptians), and – Benjamin and Tony’s break-in having failed to uncover the location of the Northern station – the Gyptians were still on the trail of their missing children....
The first season of House of the Dragon shows us the events that lead up to the Dance of the Dragons – a bloody civil war between two Targaryen factions, The Greens and The Blacks. Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and her father Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans) are the driving forces behind The Greens, pushing for Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) to ascend the Iron Throne as King Viserys’ (Paddy Considine) first born son....
But adaptations of Rice’s works always find controversy. With the new AMC series, there will be alterations to established canon, and Vampire Chronicles fans can be resistant to change. The timeline now starts in the Jazz Age, and Louis (Jacob Anderson) owns brothels instead of plantations. Sam Reid is Lestat, whose first-book character reflects the full book series’ persona. Bailey Bass plays the young plague victim turned immortal child, Claudia, now aged 14....
Although we know that Jonathan Majors’s Kang the Conqueror will be the overall bad guy in Marvel’s Phases 4 through 6, aka The Multiverse Saga, he’s very much in the nascent stages. We met a variant of Kang in the finale to Loki, the chatty He Who Remains, who warned about an evil counterpart on his way. And we know that Kang will arrive in full in next year’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania....
By contrast, David Lowery has offered at least a partial answer in his version of the tale, A24’s The Green Knight, which is in U.S. theaters now. While Lowery’s film basks in the nuances and subtleties of the original text, and adds some of its own, there is no confusion about what the Green Knight is. Appearing like a pagan god assembled from the foliage and dead weeds and barks of the forest, the titular character played by Ralph Ineson in the film appears as much like the pagan symbol the Green Man as he does a knight of an unusual hue....
Malignant has a twist so wild you need to see it to believe it. Seriously, stop reading right now if you have even the faintest interest in watching James Wan‘s latest horror offering. You really don’t want to spoil this for yourself. Sure, you’ll either really love or absolutely hate the movie’s batshit third act, but the experience of watching the twist for the first time is worth the price of admission....
Wakanda Forever has now closed the book on Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the conclusion of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law brought an end to the TV show aspect. While the past few years of Marvel have certainly been overstuffed, the Disney+ shows have acted as an interesting development to this expanded superhero narrative. Doing TV in the MCU is nothing new. They gave us seven seasons of Agents of SHIELD, 164 episodes of the Netflix shows, a season of Inhumans that nobody watched, and various other projects....
“With Rand, we wanted to find an actor that really brought out not only the goodness of the character but also the complications, and really embodied this guy who was a shepherd in the mountains and never wanted this adventure that’s been thrust upon him,” says Judkins about the point-of-view character in Jordan’s debut The Wheel of Time novel. As for the other two, Judkins says, “Mat and Perrin are so much more than sidekick characters… Sometimes people felt like they didn’t really fall in love with those characters until some of the later books when they really got to know them and got to see their POV on the world....
Even in its shift from Netflix to Adult Swim and HBO Max, animated comedy Tuca & Bertie isn’t afraid to tackle heavy topics. Season 2 sees Bertie (Ali Wong) start therapy to deal with her anxiety and childhood trauma, with her growth continuing on into season 3. Tuca’s (Tiffany Haddish) sobriety is a big part of the series and we get to see how that decision both enriches her life and makes some things more challenging....
Emergency call handling is one of the highest-stress jobs that take place in an office environment. Handlers need to keep their head as they extract information from panicked and injured callers, who are often in dangerous situations. There can be highs, like the first call taken by Iain de Caestecker’s lead in BBC One thriller The Control Room – over the phone, Gabe talks a scared couple through the emergency roadside delivery of their child and they name the baby after him, their own angel Gabriel....
The last James Bond movie to star Daniel Craig still sits with a 63 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, right in that vague netherworld between “fresh” and “rotten.” And while it was an enormous financial success ($881 million at the worldwide box office), it was considered something of a step back since its predecessor, 2012’s Skyfall, which grossed more than $1 billion. It might have been unrealistic to think Bond could hit that mark again, so in relative terms Spectre did quite well on its own terms and as part of the overall franchise....
Sometimes the chronology of inspiration doesn’t quite line up as neatly as skeptics would like to think. Even though Inception was released in 2010, Nolan had presented a treatment to Warner Bros. about “dream stealers” in 2002 before shelving it to work on other projects. With that in mind, could the following properties have inspired the Academy Award winning film as some have theorized, and if not, how else could the similarities be explained?...
This animated series, adapted from Robert Kirkman’s comic of the same name, opts to not only include a post-credit scene at the end of its first episode…it includes damn near a whole new post-credit episode! “It’s About Time” concludes with Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) suiting up and announcing his new “Invincible” monniker to some villains, sending the show to its end credits around the 37-minute mark. But there still remains a staggering 10 minutes to the episode’s run time....
Hit superhero animated series Invincible closes out its first season with a clash of global proportions between Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) and his dad, Omni Man/Nolan Grayson (J.K. Simmons), who reveals that his home planet of Viltrum is actually a world-enslaving evil empire and he’s one of their conquerors, sent to Earth to overthrow and indoctrinate. The world looks on as Nolan puts a one-sided whooping on his son when Mark refuses to join his cause, and Debbie (Sandra Oh) is forced to question everything about her marriage to who she thought was a loving husband but turned out to be a murdering warlord....
Sony Pictures Television, the studio behind Jeopardy!, announced today that two guest hosts will see the beloved quiz show institution through to the end of the calendar year, following the ousting of the former executive producer and the show’s (poor) choice to replace Alex Trebek, Mike Richards. Former guest host Mayim Bialik, who has already secured a job hosting primetime Jeopardy! specials, will begin her next guest hosting stint on September 20 and end it the first week of November, for seven weeks total....
Grønbekk’s new book, due out June 8, has a hell of a hook. “Someone is plotting in the shadows, somewhere Sif’s all-seeing sight doesn’t reach, bringing together the enemies of Asgard, promising that if they attack, Thor will be gone,” she tells us. “And when they attack, Thor is gone. The only trace of him is the bloody hammer smashing through Jane’s living room window.” These villains, a who’s who of Asgardian baddies including Ulik the Troll, The Enchantress, and the goddess of death herself, Hela, are enough to get Jane to pick up the hammer that, once upon a time, led to her death....
