Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Episode 1 “Grounded” Living and laughing often go in the same sentence. That’s the case with Star Trek: Lower Decks, which just kicked off its third season. Laughter has a purity of spirit. If something can’t survive a little ribbing, then it’s not worthwhile and can’t hold up to the serious criticisms in life. “When I was growing up, the way we expressed our love for something in my family was to make fun of it,” Star Trek: Lower Decks creator and showrunner Mike McMahan tells us....

When we think, we escape our biological bodies. We hardly ever reflect on it, but from the day we’re born until we collapse into ash – that’s all we are. Organic machines, birthed in balance with an environment we spend our lives harvesting. No matter how much we sometimes take it for granted, we can’t survive without the land, sea, and sky working in perfect harmony, yet we all likely face a problematic future where the world will look quite different....

Because of this, we have our first set photos from the Indiana Jones 5 production and, while they don’t tell us much about what we can expect from the upcoming film, they a) do make us very excited that this thing is finally happening and b) still get us theorizing about the details of Indy’s next adventure. Set photos shared by Switzerland_Forever on Reddit show the beginning of what appears to be a castle....

Also starring Richard E. Grant, Patton Oswalt, Betty Gabriel, and Joe Manganiello, The Spine of Night is an adult cartoon with responsible themes. Barbarians and librarians vie for power while necromancers try to restore balance to a bent and broken world. Time flies by with nods to Ridley Scott’s Legend and John Boorman’s Excalibur, if fed through the meat grinder of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead. In their first collaboration, animator Morgan Galen King (Exordium, Max Thrust), and filmmaker Philip Gelatt (Love, Death + Robots, Europa Report) merge hallucinogenic cult classics with modern sensibilities in a full-frontal assault of brutal nostalgia....

With hypnotism, Elise represses Josh’s ability to astral project and the spectral parasite dissipates…until we jump cut to the present where adult Josh has finally projected into “the Further” (New Age Purgatory) to save his son’s soul from a demon. Unfortunately, that same old lady beat Josh back to his body, just in time to strangle an aged Elise to death in the original film’s final moments and… It turns out not a whole lot of blowback for such a decidedly definitive conclusion....

This is the story of Anna Delvey, or Anna Sorokin, played by Julie Garner, a woman who posed as a wealthy heiress and fooled high class New York society, including rinsing a number of people for considerable amounts of money. The show is framed via the journalist who is building a story about Delvey’s case after she’s due to stand trial. This character is named Vivian Kent, played by Anna Chlumsky....

In short, the sequel has some big shoes to fill. But if the game’s latest teaser is any indication, it looks like Nintendo will at the very least deliver a satisfying continuation of the Breath of the Wild story and aesthetic, if not something as revolutionary as the original. There’s more to the E3 2021 trailer than just beautiful visuals and scene setting, though. Clues sprinkled throughout the teaser could also have just confirmed what the game is about....

The anthology magazine Weekly Shonen Jump has published many blockbuster manga throughout its decades-long history. Most have become anime. In recent memory, these titles have included the ninja epic Naruto, the superhero-themed My Hero Academia, and the record-shattering Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. In October 2020, Jujutsu Kaisen joined their ranks with a 24-episode TV anime. Much like Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen‘s popularity skyrocketed once the anime began airing. By the time the season concluded in early 2021, fans were clamoring for a second one....

Leslie Bibb successfully made the transition from modeling to acting, making her television debut 25 years ago in the TV series Pacific Blue and on the big screen a year later in Howard Stern’s Private Parts. Since then she’s appeared in more than two dozen movies and a wide variety of TV shows, including the main cast of The Big Easy, Popular, Line of Fire, Crossing Jordan, GCB, Salem Rogers: Model of the Year 1998 and the forthcoming Home Movie The Princess Bride....

For almost a decade, Ted Hastings’ AC-12 has been a thorn in the side of Line of Duty’s organised crime group. In series one, when the OCG blackmailed DCI Tony Gates with his lover’s corpse to make him stymie investigations into their money laundering and drug dealing operation, AC-12 uncovered it all – and they’d only been called in to investigate a freebie bacon sandwich. In series two, when the OCG blackmailed DS Jayne Akers and DI Lindsay Denton to reroute the police transport of former gang leader-turned-witness Tommy Hunter so they could ambush the convoy and kill Hunter to stop him from talking, AC-12 sussed the lot....

While each Line of Duty series welcomes a new guest character to be investigated by anti-corruption unit AC-12, there’s plenty of connective tissue between each run. Faces from the past regularly pop up in roles of varying significance – some just a face in a case file, others actively interfering with play. The production team works on the assumption that viewers have been paying attention, which is generally the case....

Adiós Marcus. So much for Jimmy Nesbitt’s starring role. Those of us looking forward to a Hastings v Thurwell Northern Irish grudge match next week will have to go without. Unless the finale features an interview between AC-12 and a fly-buzzing body bag, that’s Nesbitt’s character done with. The Jed giveth, and the Jed taketh away. Who giveth the order to kill Señor and Señora Thurwell? (Some time ago by the looks of those decomposing corpses....

“Austin Butler, who got his first big break in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, is circling the key role of Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in Dune: Part Two. This announcement comes after a report earlier this week touting Florence Pugh’s potential casting as Princess Irulan.” Read more at Den of Geek Who would’ve ever guessed we’d see Hayden Christensen back as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader again? Here is our first look at him (in costume) for the new Obi-Wan Kenobi series....

“A hardworking Maltese fisherman, Jesmark is faced with an agonizing choice. He can repair his leaky luzzu – a traditional, multicolored wooden fishing boat – in the hopes of eking out a meager living at sea for his wife and newborn son, just as his father and grandfather did before him. Or he can decommission it in exchange for an EU payout and cast his lot with a sinister black-market operation that is decimating the Mediterranean fish population and the livelihoods of the local families who depend on it....

Titled “The Deep Sea,” the interactive page features over ten thousand meters of the ocean depths that visitors can access via scrolling, interspersed with stories and facts about known sea and deep sea critters, sunken ships, and even one daring submarine journey. Neal’s other projects on the same site include a fascinating perspective on the size of space, an all-encompassing life checklist, a forecast of outer space events, and more....

“Netflix released Bridgerton on Christmas Day, and while it’s not meant to be a strictly historical portrayal of Regency life, the big inaccuracy that caught my eye just from the trailer was the costumes. Not only did the show seem to be using costumes from different centuries, with typical Regency looks from around the late eighteen-teens mashed against much earlier looks from forty years prior, but they also did the thing I hate in period movies and made a joke about a woman not being able to breathe in a corset....

“The sequel to the Oscar-winning 2019 smash hit starring Joaquin Phoenix has been in the works for some time and now Deadline reports the studio has slotted it for release on October 4, 2024, five years exactly after the original’s release. The film’s title, at least according to co-writer and director Todd Phillips’ script, is Joker: Folie à Deux, which roughly translates to ‘shared madness.’ It’s used to describe when multiple people share a similar delusion....

“Sony Pictures has delayed the premiere date of Jared Leto‘s Morbius as the United States faces a surge in COVID-19 cases involving the Omicron variant. According to reports, the film adaptation of the famed Marvel Comics story will now hit theaters on April 1, 2022 instead of its January 28 date. This marks the sixth time Morbius was pushed back; the movie was initially slated to release on July 10, 2020 but was postponed to July 31 then March 19, 2021, October 8, 2021 and January 21, 2022 before its most recent schedule of January 28....

“Marvel artist, Mike Deodato, is being slammed after he publicly body-shamed Black Panther: Wakanda Forever star, Tenoch Huerta, on Twitter. Huerta is best known for starring in Spectre, The Forever Purge, and Narcos: Mexico. During San Diego Comic-Con 2022, it was revealed that Huerta had joined the cast of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and would be portraying Namor (a.k.a. Sub-Mariner). Often referred to as “Marvel’s First Mutant,” Namor is a prevalent character in numerous Marvel storylines and has worked with the likes of the Avengers, Illuminati, X-Men, and Fantastic Four over the years....

“While action addicts love to extol the Christmas themes of 1988’s Die Hard every time December rolls around, the Bruce Willis-led blockbuster has plenty of company in the no man’s land between ‘Definitely a Christmas movie; and ‘Definitely not a Christmas movie.’ From romantic comedies to rip-roaring thrillers, here are some other Hollywood hits that you can definitely justify adding to an upcoming holiday movie marathon (whether your guests like it or not)....