The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling Type: NovelPublisher: RazorbillRelease date: Dec. 7 Den of Geek says: We are here for powerful young women whose relationship depends on protecting one another, but who also have to struggle with the dark flipside of their powers and their symbiotic bond. Publisher’s summary: From the author of These Witches Don’t Burn comes another paranormal romance for fans of Richelle Mead and Stephenie Meyer. At first, Elise is reluctant to work with a vampire, but when she predicts a teacher’s imminent murder, she’s determined to stop the violent death, even if it means sacrificing her own future to secure Claire’s help....

Vikings Season 5 Episode 7 “And the winner shall inherit the earth.” The winds of war are gathering steam, and Vikings sets up the long awaited clash for control of Kattegat and ultimately all of Norway. “Full Moon” takes its time and sheds first light on the impact of Bjorn’s homecoming, Floki’s promised land, and the impending civil war that threatens to tear apart the Norse universe. In retrospect, it’s certainly fair to question the narrative value of Bjorn’s trip to the Mediterranean, but now that he’s back, the power dynamic shifts in Lagertha’s favor as far as Kattegat is concerned....

WandaVision Episode 3 As we saw at the end of last week’s two-episode premiere of WandaVision, Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) had decided to avoid some troubling cracks in her black-and-white sitcom world (like that eerie beekeeper) by sprucing the place up with some color. In episode 3, WandaVision fully embraces the 1970s TV comedy esthetic, complete with crazy hairdos and outfits, brightly lit sets and even a new theme song and credits sequence that all look like they arrived fresh from a Brady Bunch audition....

Excellent questions, friends! We will do our absolute best to explain them in clear, concise terms to you right now. Here are simple answers to complicated questions: NFTs are ecologically devastating vaporware created to part very dumb, very wealthy collectors from their money, made by stoned libertarian math nerds trying to prove a point they think is profound but is actually just very banal. Veve is no different than any other secondary huckster that springs up around a particularly successful snake oil economy....

In the gory aftermath of the Mardi Gras blood feast in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire’s season 1 finale, it is easy to underestimate how much there is to digest. Even if it is easier to keep down than a paralyzing brew of laudanum and arsenic. The journalist Daniel Molloy, played by veteran actor Eric Bogosian, is finding it harder to swallow the realities of things that rise up....

Lee, in the storyline, clearly thought it was. After the match, he got to his feet and kicked Strowman in the groin, standing over him and yelling that he wasn’t going to be pushed around, and that Strowman had messed with the wrong guy. There could be two purposes to a move like that, and quite frankly, both of the roads work. First, this could be a move to make Lee’s character a little edgier....

What We Do in the Shadows Season 3 Episode 10 What We Do in the Shadows’ season 3 finale is a perfect example of how seasons should end. Every character is caught in their own personal cliffhanger. Each one is about to be scattered to uncertain futures and new beginnings, but with old habits that die hard. Everything dies hard when you’re a vampire who lives forever. Which brings us to the most recent death in the household on the island of Staten....

What We Do in the Shadows Season 4 Episode 4 It is an agonizing pleasure to see the Staten Island vampires mingle with others who are not quite of their sort, but different nonetheless. What We Do in the Shadows season 4 episode 4, “The Night Market,” benefits from the change of scenery and the creative creatures who mingle after hours. Against all odds, the vampire club Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) opened in “The Grand Opening,” is doing remarkably well....

What We Do in the Shadows Season 4 Episode 6 Speak now, because you’ll be holding your peace for the duration of What We Do in the Shadows’ “The Wedding,” if Laszlo (Matt Berry) has anything to say about it. Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak) is living up to his name. The once-living and still blood-thirsty medieval warlord will stop at nothing to procure the perfect wedding, and sees only treachery and betrayal in its path....

If you’re unfamiliar with the series, Yellowstone “chronicles the Dutton family, led by John Dutton, who controls the largest contiguous cattle ranch in the United States. Amid shifting alliances, unsolved murders, open wounds, and hard-earned respect – the ranch is in constant conflict with those it borders – an expanding town, an Indian reservation, and America’s first national park.” Paramount’s official synopsis for season 5 says “The Dutton family fights to defend their ranch and way of life from an Indian reservation and land developers....

“Steven and I have a rule that there’s no more popping his eyeballs out. I can live with that – once is enough,” Kirkman tells Den of Geek and other outlets during the series’ press day. Kirkman’s imagination is as violent as it is vast. Yeun’s character Glenn Rhee on AMC’s The Walking Dead (based on the Kirkman comic of the same name) was a notable unfortunate recipient of that bloodlust when he was beaten to death with a barbed wire baseball bat in the show’s seventh season....

Indeed, decades before director Zack Snyder cast the actor as a new version of vigilante billionaire Bruce Wayne/Batman for 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Affleck faced bright prospects to play DC Comics’ other mascot-level superhero for a Superman reboot project. Contextually, this was during the late-1990s, in which would-be writer Smith—still riding the wave of Clerks’ success—was still the toast of the industry town, and would-be star Affleck was being groomed as a blockbuster marquee star....

“A few years ago, we also launched a consumer gaming service, Stadia,” reads a post on the Google blog. “And while Stadia’s approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn’t gained the traction with users that we expected so we’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service.” To be clear, this is as complete of a shutdown of a major service as you’re likely to see....

“I thought we were just getting together socially,” Condal recalls in 2022, “but he said, ‘I need you to write a pilot for me. Would you be up for it?’” Martin had handpicked Condal to take over the Game of Thrones “successor show” the author was most excited about. He wanted Condal to help him create and run what became House of the Dragon for HBO. “Fireworks were going off in my head,” Condal smiles....

“Students in engineering and the physical sciences need lots of compute [power] for 3D design, modeling, and simulation,” Jesse Clayton, NVIDIA’s Director of Product Management, explains to Den of Geek. “Students in the life sciences, the social sciences, computer science, and data science need lots of compute [power] for data analytics, for machine learning, and for deep learning.” How many STEM disciplines can benefit? This chart shows the most frequently used applications, frameworks, or libraries used in a collegiate setting....

While it’s unclear whether Taylor will play the role in-person or will bring a CGI version of Cortana to life through motion capture, the voice actor’s return is good news nonetheless for the almost 20-year-old shooter franchise. Her casting brings nostalgia, believability, and clout to the show. This is not to discredit what would have likely been a great performance from the talented McElhone, but casting Taylor in the role means keeping a key part of what’s made this pivotal Halo character so beloved through the years: her voice....

Mike McMahan and Justin Roiland’s sci-fi animated sitcom Solar Opposites is technically about a family of aliens stuck on planet Earth learning lessons about how to love one another while they try to repair their spaceship. However, as the first season progressed, the show slowly revealed it was simultaneously telling another story. One of the aliens, Yumyulack (Sean Giambrone), has a habit of shrinking down humans and imprisoning them in a wall-sized terrarium....

Of course, said conversation on prospective returnees for Spider-Man: No Way Home is, naturally, dominated by speculation that current star Tom Holland will be joined onscreen by former Wall-Crawlers Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. The notion is abundantly boosted by the film’s now-confirmed multiverse plot, which will bring about the return of some of their onscreen rivals, notably Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2), Jamie Foxx’s Electro (The Amazing Spider-Man 2), Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin (Spider-Man), and Thomas Haden Church’s Sandman (Spider-Man 3) is strongly believed to be in the film as well....

One of Star Wars’ early guiding forces, Marcia Lucas (born Marcia Lou Griffin), has offered some scathing criticism of Sequel Trilogy films The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019), rife with the kind of adjectives that don’t beat around the bush. The stinging words stem from Howard Kazanjian: A Producer’s Life by J.W. Rinzler, a new biography on the legendary film producer and Lucas collaborator....

Though the ending of the classic HBO mob drama remains controversial years later, it’s hard to argue with the fact that it wasn’t definitive. Counterintuitively, refusing to show Tony Soprano’s presumed final moments has made the final scene of The Sopranos feel more ironclad than many other shows that attempted to achieve real closure. The answer to “how does Tony Soprano’s story end?” is a very curt “none of your goddamn business....