“I love the dialogue Chris wrote for my regeneration. It captures my Doctor beautifully. It’s simple, epic and beautiful,” Whittaker is quoted as saying, before revealing her final sequence is delivered in one long take. “When I could see the crew was happy with that last shot, that’s when my bottom lip started going,” she recalls. “I was like, ‘Well, they can’t say they need another take now because I’ve f***ing lost it!...

Have you ever been in a work situation when someone insists on everything going through them, but they’re so busy and/or distracted that this takes forever and they never reply to your emails? The office bottleneck? The Thirteenth Doctor is this, essentially, and it’s made her arc shallow as a result. We’re only just starting to get to the upward curve in her last few stories, yet she’s still deflecting....

Doom Patrol Season 3 is happening. The renewal was officially confirmed minutes before the Doom Patrol panel at the second day of DC FanDome was supposed to go live. Of course, as with anything involving this crew of misfit heroes, there is something slightly bittersweet about the announcement. Doom Patrol season 3 is officially an HBO Max show now, making this perhaps the final nail in the coffin of the DC Universe app as a destination for original streaming content....

Considering that the fate of E3 2021 was very much in doubt after last year’s event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and companies everywhere hosted their own digital events as the ESA failed to organize the same, this announcement may be more than E3 fans could have hoped for. E3 shouldn’t be an in-person event quite yet, but a digital version of E3 featuring heavy hitters like Nintendo, Capcom, and Microsoft certainly feels like something close to that return to normalcy that so many of us crave....

Recently, three members of prominent game studios voiced their dissatisfaction over Elden Ring. They were Ahmed Salama of Ubisoft, Rebecca Fernandez O’Shea of Nixxes Software, and Blake Rebouche of Guerrilla Games. Salama expressed frustration that Elden Ring scored a 97 on Metacritic despite him thinking the game had a bad game UX (he, perhaps jokingly, claimed it was the result of the game’s developers’ using CRT monitors and smoking on the job), while O’Shea criticized Elden Ring’s graphics and stability, and Rebouche mentioned that they disliked the game’s quest design....

Bowie first cemented his public image as a stellar performer, we can’t really blame anyone for mistaking the man and the Starman. The rock and rolling space invader had been telling us not to be “afraid of the man in the moon because it’s only me” since he promised to “Love You Till Tuesday” in 1967. Bowie blasted into public consciousness with his song “Space Oddity,” the former and future actor sang in the character of astronaut Major Tom....

We’re excited for HBO’s upcoming Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon. But as always, the problem with a prequel is that it can only fill in more detailed background to the story we’ve already seen – it can’t continue that story, or pick up on any loose hanging threads from its parent show. The Game of Thrones TV finale left us with a fair few unanswered questions – we can only hope a rumoured sequel eventually comes along to answer some of them....

The first season of crime drama Gangs of London arrived all at once on Sky Atlantic and Cinemax with a bang. Allegiances were formed and broken, the body count was high, and those who did survive until the final episode were left in limbo. Gangs of London series 2 has yet to be officially announced, though it seems like a definite possibility given the buzz around series one – THR reports that talks are in progress after the show became Sky Atlantic’s most binged of the year, and second biggest original drama launch ever, after Fortitude....

Their movies are marked by a decidedly feminist point-of-view as well as a gleeful, often outrageous use of gore and visceral horror, so it’s no surprise that they have now taken on the risk of remaking Rabid, one of the early films by their idol and fellow Canadian, David Cronenberg. The original, released in 1977, starred adult film superstar Marilyn Chambers as Rose, a woman who undergoes an experimental surgical procedure after a motorcycle accident and discovers a parasitic new organ in an orifice under an armpit–which gives her a ravenous appetite for blood that soon spreads to everyone she infects....

Michael Myers is dead. For realsies this time. Yes, we’ve seen the embodiment of pure evil, this personification of cruelty, the HUMAN VESSEL for what his own psychologist dubbed “the Devil’s Eyes,” die on screen before. He’s been shot, stabbed, and burned across multiple movies. In fact, all of the above occurred in the last one, Halloween Kills! But this time Michael is gone and he’s not coming back, at least in this current form....

While the various Halo Infinite previews that have been published by multiple outlets are only based on a few hours with the game’s upcoming campaign, they all suggest that it seems like the bulk of that campaign will see Master Chief navigate Zeta Halo’s fairly open environment. While there are still campaign-like missions spread throughout that environment, Infinite players will be afforded an unprecedented degree of freedom (at least so far as the Halo series goes) when it comes to picking your next objective, acquiring upgrades, and generally deciding where you’re going to go next....

Although the Halo TV series puts it front and center for the first time, the planet Madrigal has in fact appeared in franchise lore before. Although its two big appearances take place in separate continuities, with the TV show’s “Silver timeline” opening up new storytelling possibilities, Madrigal is basically the same place in both timelines: a space colony of human insurrectionists, and one of the first to be attacked by the alien Covenant....

All of which is a long way to note the uniquely diabolical nature of Rob Savage’s Dashcam and its hero Annie (played by Annie Hardy). Following in the footsteps of Savage’s Zoom shocker from last year, Host, Dashcam is a relentless found footage chiller that is more scary for how it reflects our status quo in a post-COVID world than its use of any demons, witches, or whatever else is rattling up there inside Savage’s imagination....

House of the Dragon Episode 1 Westeros isn’t real. George R.R. Martin’s epic A Song of Ice and Fire novels and the HBO series upon which they’re based are works of pure fantasy fiction. Though Martin occasionally borrows from real life Medieval history, there is no such thing as a Targaryen dynasty, dragons, or a land of always winter. Still even with all the ice zombies and red witches, a big reason for Game of Thrones’ success was how seriously it took itself as a pseudo historical document....

When Ed and Lorraine (played once again by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) go out of town on a brief overnight trip, they leave their daughter Judy (Mckenna Grace, The Haunting of Hill House) home with her trusted babysitter Mary Ellen (Madison Iseman, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle). But after Mary Ellen’s troubled friend Daniela (Katie Sarife) arrives at the house, Annabelle manages to escape from her priest-blessed glass cabinet and summon the many entities attached to the Warrens’ collection of haunted and dangerous artifacts....

Masterpiece on PBS begins its 50th season with the US airing of All Creatures Great and Small, UK Channel 5’s fresh take on the published memoirs of famous UK veterinarian James Herriot during the 1930’s. His work on the farms of Yorkshire capture rural life as well as advances in animal husbandry. Most of the current advertising for the series revolves around re-sparking the magic for Boomer and Gen X Masterpiece viewers who read the books and remember the original series from the 1970’s starring Doctor Who‘s Peter Davison....

Despite the entreaties of her parents (Katherine Heigl and Harry Connick Jr.) and the threat of being hospitalized, Rain does believe in the reality of one thing: that Dani (Eugenie Bondurant), the seemingly normal teacher who lives next door, is doing something awful in her attic. Filmed before the pandemic gripped the world, Fear of Rain touches on issues of mental illness and attempts to shatter some of the misconceptions around schizophrenia in particular....

Starting with the original Insidious in 2011, Shaye has played Dr. Elise Rainier, a paranormal investigator, clairvoyant and demonologist whose fearlessness is matched only by her dedication to saving lost souls and eradicating supernatural darkness from the lives of the living. Ironically, that first Insidious and its sequel, Insidious 2, told the end of Elise’s personal story. In director Adam Robitel’s Insidious: The Last Key, she must revisit the beginning — returning to the house she grew up in to unlock tortured memories of her childhood and defeat once and for all the evil entity that was inadvertently unleashed....

More than any of the previous six Disney live-action remakes, Mulan requires the greatest narrative leap from fans of the animated original: The remake has done away with the iconic musical numbers, wisecracking dragon Mushu, and fan favorite Captain Li Shang, who is considered by many to be a bisexual icon for his clear attraction to both Ping (Mulan, pretending to be a man) and Mulan. Instead, perhaps in order to separate out the love interest from the potentially problematic power dynamic, Niki Caro’s 2020 adaptation, which now available to watch for no additional fee for Disney+ subscribers, splits Shang into two characters: father figure Commander Tung (Donnie Yen) and fellow recruit Chen Honghui (Yoson An)....

With power-hungry, top-tier components, gaming laptops aren’t usually celebrated for their battery life. But NVIDIA’s latest portable computers tackle the problem head-on with some clever technology: Advanced Optimus. To help get a better grounding in the tech, Den of Geek talked with NVIDIA’s Director of Product Management Vijay Sharma, whose work has touched all aspects of the company’s hardware from G-SYNC to GPUs. The TL;DR of the tech is that it allows gaming laptops to automatically and intelligently switch between graphics outputs, giving you the best possible frame rate, the lowest possible input latency, and maximum battery life....