No, we’re not talking about the fact that Chandler Riggs (formerly Carl Grimes) turned up on set and got to be a background extra in an Alexandria scene. Nor are we talking about the fact that series producer and this episode’s director Greg Nicotero portrayed a zombie yet again (you can see him in the image accompanying this article). We’re talking about some cameos that didn’t technically even occur with the episode itself!...

The news, which also reconfirms that director Ruben Fleischer (Venom) has taken over the directorial reins, is a boon for the film given that Banderas is fresh off his first Oscar nomination for last year’s Pain and Glory. Additionally, Banderas is at the point of his career where he has successfully transitioned into being as much a respected character actor as a leading man, which appears to bring him to his first video game adaptation....

Keeping his promise that the next film would not technically be about race in America, Peele instead has crafted a horror movie that’s an allegory for life in the U.S. It’s also one that is defiantly more horrific, in the genre sense, than anything in the satirical Get Out, while likewise being more viscerally evocative. Uniting with cinematographer Mike Gioulakis, who’s been the DP on some of the most visibly dazzling chillers of recent years, including It Follows, Peele crescendoes his intimate family drama into a stealth 116-minute epic that might be the most beautiful-looking horror movie of this decade, as well as perhaps the most top heavy....

The drunken, carefree atmosphere of the previous episode quickly gives way to a mood of desperation that envelops The Farm as one by one the characters battle feelings of self-doubt beginning with the opening scene that finds Vanessa cleaning up the blood from John’s body. When she questions whether or not she needed to kill John, Axel assures her she had no choice, but it’s unclear whether this soul-cleansing act provides her any emotional relief....

What We Do in the Shadows Season 4 Episode 10 Guess what? We don’t have to guess what anymore. What We Do in the Shadows’ season 4 finale doesn’t give all the answers, but it breaks through walls to try. The vampire mockumentary series has made a running gag of breaking the fourth wall, and leans back into it for revelations, brisk rebuttals, and sad goodbyes. “Sunrise, Sunset” closes the chapter by erasing much of it....

Helmed by Doctor Who and Sherlock director Toby Haynes, the initial three-episode Andor arc reintroduces us to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s rebel spy Cassian Andor, who died heroically at the end of that movie. As Andor is a prequel to that prequel, we meet the character here at an earlier stage in his life when he is still just a shifty thief who will kill mercilessly to cover his tracks, and who doesn’t exactly have his eyes on the revolutionary prize quite yet....

While elements of the story are fictionalised it’s a series which tries to capture the essence of the main players as well as the backdrop in 80s Britain which might have hampered justice being done. While parochial compared to massive scale Netflix docs like The Night Stalker: Hunt for a Serial Killer, this is still a fascinating and expertly performed cat and mouse chase which should appeal to fans of true crime of all types....

In conversation with Rolling Stone, Fuller opened up about the difficult process of casting Mikkelsen as the insidious and methodical Lecter, and reflected on why the Doctor Strange and Death Stranding actor always held the advantage over his alternate choice, Doctor Who’s David Tennant. “I love David Tennant,” said Fuller. “There was a levity to David’s performance in some ways that was an interesting contrast to Mads’ sobriety in the role....

Yet upon watching the series premiere of Dragon, the subtle but striking tonal difference between the shows is immediate. You can glimpse from just the far more colorful pageantry that the lords and ladies of Westeros enjoy during the reign of King Viserys I (Paddy Considine). For the new series’ showrunners, Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik, the latter of whom directed some of Game of Thrones’ most iconic episodes, including “Hardhome” and “Battle of the Bastards,” that is by design....

Feige didn’t say anything else about the Fantastic Four reboot, but as usual at these kinds of events, it was also about what he didn’t say: that the Four will take precedence over the X-Men in terms of joining the MCU. To be clear, the X-Men will become part of the MCU at some point. Feige hinted as much at Comic-Con 2019 when he randomly blurted out the word “mutants” toward the end of Marvel’s big Hall H presentation....

Others may blame the loss of Travis Fimmel as Ragnar Lothbrok at the end of Vikings season 4 for the decline in ratings. However, while many felt Ragnar’s sons have not measured up to the charisma of their father, the loss of viewership after Fimmel’s departure was only slightly more than the drop between previous seasons. More specifically, Vikings season four lost just less than two-tenths of a share and an average of 180,000 weekly viewers when compared to season three, according to TV Series Finale....

Whatever your feelings about Thor: Love and Thunder, no one can deny that Natalie Portman’s performance as Dr. Jane Foster aka the Mighty Thor lights up the screen like a flash of lightning. After an absence of nine years, Portman returns to the MCU with an energy and lightness not always seen by the cerebral actor. With a meaty role that lets her play both the cancer-stricken Foster and the Mjolnir-wielding Mighty Thor, Portman goes all-in with the performance, adding vibrancy to a movie that sometimes feels like a retread of its predecessor....

“Xbox Series S was designed to be the most affordable next-generation console and play next-generation games at 1440P at 60fps,” says a Microsoft representative. “To deliver the highest quality backwards compatible experience consistent with the developer’s original intent, the Xbox Series S runs the Xbox One S version of backward compatible games while applying improved texture filtering, higher and more consistent frame rates, faster load times, and Auto HDR.” So what does this actually mean from a player perspective?...

There are quite a few things worth discussing in their preview, but we’d argue the most impressive results are found in the early frame-rate tests. Simply put, the Series X’s ability to produce 60 FPS gameplay in nearly every backward compatible title that was tested is, in many cases, shocking. While many of the better-optimized games available on Xbox One of course run smoother on Series X, the real story here is what the next-gen console can do for games that have traditionally not run well even on the nearly next-gen Xbox One X....

“When you power on your Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S on November 10, you will be greeted by the largest launch lineup in Xbox history,” says Will Tuttle, Xbox Wire Editor in Chief. “Games like Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, Watch Dogs: Legion, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Gears Tactics, and Tetris Effect: Connected will be some of the much-anticipated next-gen games you can play on day one. The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S will launch with 30 new games playable day one, 20 of them with Smart Delivery that are upgraded automatically and thousands of backward compatible titles across four generations....

To be fair, this is a fairly serviceable blandness, erring closer to the thriller side of the horror-thriller movie paradigm. In fact, it has a few sequences that even vaguely unnerve, if only due to Bacon’s ability to sell dread as he and his five-year-old daughter are lost in the pitch black of night. But these scenes, few and far between, merely punctuate what is an incredibly rote and predictable haunted house tale where you’ll spend the whole film waiting for the characters to catch up to what you guessed in the very first scene....

Z Nation Season 3 Episode 14 After a long, complicated, uneven and, at times, backwards season, Syfy’s Z Nation finished up its third outing this week. Although the ending tied up a lot of loose ends, it’d be a lie to say that it didn’t raise more questions than it answered. If there was a main theme of Z Nation Season 3, it would be “faction-building.” Between the Red Hand, Zona, Sun Mei’s people from Asia, Blends, Enders, Operation Bite Mark, Citizen Z and, of course, the zombies, at times there were entirely too many cooks in the kitchen....

Everything lined up. By the time the SNES was winding down, fighters had advanced enough that the next generation of gaming hardware had trouble adapting them. The PlayStation and Saturn could not properly support the likes of X-Men vs. Street Fighter without either cutting apart the engine (the former) or adding extra hardware (the latter). The SNES life cycle also happened to play out at a time when developers were trying to figure out how to evolve Street Fighter II’s foundation....

This left many fans wondering what was to come next, particularly because Paramount had announced weeks prior that new episodes had been ordered. What followed was a fury of news stories on websites akin to our own hypothesizing what the second season of 1883 might look like. Then the finale aired, and everyone hypothesizing about the future of the show were suddenly left scratching their heads. How could there possibly be a second season?...

Yet that doesn’t tell even half the story of the Bronx-born filmmaker’s brilliant filmography. Donner was in his late 40s by the time Superman came along, having made a name for himself in Hollywood two years earlier, with 1976’s suitably terrifying The Omen. Prior to that, he was a budding director making the transition from the small screen to the world of cinema. Donner worked on everything from Gilligan’s Island to The Twilight Zone....