The dust has now settled on the Earth-shattering finale of Doctor Who series 12, and in hindsight, not all my predictions were on the money. It was hasty to say “The big reveal in the finale is almost certainly something to do with Rassilon”, or that “There’s no way the Ruth Doctor can be an incarnation before Hartnell” (the jury is still out on that one, by the way). Meanwhile, other people have had better luck with their predictions....

Doctor Who, as a format, requires an intrinsic joyfulness in its stories to be so adored. If adventures become too continually grim, or not sufficiently fun, then ultimately there’ll be a tipping point where it becomes implausible for the story to continue. Why, ultimately, would the character keep travelling if they weren’t enjoying it? And even if they did, would this be something that would sustain a family audience? It’s not that you can’t have darkness in Doctor Who, it’s just that it can’t be sustained and eventually something has to give....

The second half of the Doctor Who Season 12 premiere dropped some major bombs, setting off ripples in the Who universe that could change the show forever. It all began in “Part One,” of course, when “O” (the brilliant Sacha Dhawan) revealed himself to be The Master, another Gallifreyan who has served as one of the Doctor’s primary antagonists since Classic Who days. In “Part Two,” The Master’s plan to wipe out humanity alongside tech CEO Daniel Barton and the Kasavin alien race fails, but he still manages to devastate the Doctor, revealing to her that their homeworld of Gallifrey has been decimated....

Doom Patrol Season 2 Episode 8 With the penultimate episode of the season, the newest Doom Patrol installment sets the table for at least two major conflicts that almost guarantee a cliffhanger next week. However, despite that potentially frustrating possibility, “Dad Patrol” once again features excellent character development, with Abigail Shapiro the standout performance this episode as Dorothy. The episode opens by flashing back to Jane/Kay’s childhood where her abusive father would force her into the well to spend the night....

Denis Villeneuve first daydreamed of making the definitive adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune when he was 14-years-old. He’s said as much when he confided to Den of Geek that “the bible is the book…. I want people who love the book to feel like we put a camera in their minds.” Yet even so, books are books, and films are films, and changes must be made when transitioning between the two mediums....

In both the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Enola Holmes novels by Nancy Springer, Sherlock Holmes has a best friend. And, in most adaptations of Sherlock Holmes—whether it’s Lucy Lui, Martin Freeman, or Jude Law—Dr. Watson is usually close at hand. However in both Millie Bobby Brown Netlix adventures, Enola Holmes (2020) and Enola Holmes 2 (2022), the most famous detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill) lacks his famous partner-in-crime-fighting....

Evil season 2 turned a new page in The Pop-Up Book of Terrifying Things MMXXI. The first episode, “N Is for Night Terrors,” began with Dr. Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers) trying to literally bury the hatchet on things which might disturb her sleep. Ben Shakir (Aasif Mandvi) found something, or someone, new to keep him up past bedtime. David Acosta (Mike Colter) doesn’t need to close his eyes in order to dream....

The streaming world, however, operates a bit differently. Streaming platforms are so big and so important to their respective entertainment conglomerates’ bottom line, that they must hit the market as soon as possible, killer app or no. Recall that Netflix’s first ever original series was the historically irrelevant Lilyhammer in 2012. HBO Max launched in May of 2020 with little-watched shows like Craftopia and Legendary. The newest streaming kid on the block, Paramount+, arrived on March 4 with a similar dearth of blockbuster options....

Family. It’s the mantra by which Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto has lived his life for nine movies, and it’s long been the handy slogan for the Fast and Furious franchise, too. But perhaps fittingly for an installment which sees director Justin Lin step back behind the camera, the theme of one’s chosen family has never been more pronounced. What it means to be in Dom’s “mi familia” is central to F9....

Fear the Walking Dead season 6 has not been without its casualties. While it seemed at first that the season would start by confirming Morgan’s death after the shocking season 5 cliffhanger, it turned out he’d survived his ordeal with Virginia and the walker horde. Others haven’t been so lucky in the first four episodes of season 6. First, we said goodbye to Isaac, who helped Morgan find his way back to the world of the living in the premiere....

Walsh is a Trustee of the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, and was also behind the BBC’s critically acclaimed documentary series Sofa Surfers, which explored childhood homelessness, and the BAFTA-nominated film My Life: Karate Kids, which tackled issues of bullying among disabled children. Den of Geek: You’ve been involved with preserving the legacy of the late Ray Harryhausen, and your first book through Titan was about some of his work....

Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 5 At the start of tonight’s Game of Thrones, I settled in with a group of faithful “A Song of Ice and Fire” devotees, a cup of coffee in hand (these reviews don’t write themselves), and prepared for what I presumed would be a morning after comedown after last week’s giddy highs. For last week was a definite showstopper from David Benioff and D.B. Weiss that delivered a long sought-after Stark reunion, the highest of High Sparrow intrigues in King’s Landing, and a stunning replay of Daenerys Targaryen’s greatest hits from season 1....

Not only that but a season three has been greenlit too. The worst thing about it? You’re going to have to wait until next year at the earliest to get your teeth into more Gangs. Great news, then, that season two lead director Corin Hardy along with writer Rowan Athale and illustrator Ferenc Nothof have created a graphic novel which fill in some of the gaps between seasons one and two....

Officially licensed Cobra Kai mobile game, Cobra Kai: Card Fighter, is set to arrive on March 19 for both iOS and Android. The game will retell the first two seasons of Netflix’s Karate Kid spinoff Cobra Kai. Users will be able to rebuild Johnny Lawrence’s Cobra Kai gym or continue the tradition of Daniel LaRusso’s Miyagi-do Karate. Via card-based combat, players can build up students to black belts and take on other senseis from around the world....

Thankfully, Ragnarok features such a cast. While many of the game’s principal characters (and voice actors) are returning from 2018’s God of War, those familiar faces and voices are joined by some fully-realized new characters that help make this game the most epic God of War adventure yet. Before we dive a bit deeper into all that, you should know that the full God of War: Ragnarok cast is massive....

Gotham Season 5 Episode 10 “I Am Bane?” You sure are, pal. Well, a Gotham facsimile anyway. This week, as Gotham speeds towards a finale (man, the end of Gotham is so going to get lost in the Game of Thrones finale gaga, ain’t it?), Bane makes his debut. Now, whether this Eduardo Dorrance version of Bane is the actually, for real Bane that Batman will face (and get his back broken by) is still up in there; it has to be said that this Shane West portrayal of the man who might break the Bat certainly has a Bane like feel....

Of course we know what really happened: Thor, while a modest hit by modern Marvel standards, became a cornerstone of the MCU and Green Lantern—released on June 17, 2011—flamed out spectacularly, an inarguable bust with both critics and audiences alike. On the surface, the first live-action film based around the interstellar police force had it all: a well-liked leading man (Ryan Reynolds), a director with solid action credentials (Martin Campbell of Casino Royale and The Mask of Zorro fame), a strong supporting cast (Mark Strong, Blake Lively, Angela Bassett, Tim Robbins, Peter Sarsgaard), and the kind of epic visual imagery made for summer franchises....

The journey of Garrity, his estranged wife Allison (Morena Baccarin) and their diabetic son Nathan (Roger Dale Floyd) as they try to reach an Air Force base and catch one of those flights to Greenland is the driving force of the film. The human melodrama is front and center, with the havoc caused by chunks of the comet arriving ahead of schedule relegated almost to the background. Greenland works surprisingly well — it left this writer a bit shaken at points — because it doesn’t flinch from showing us how regular folks will react to the imminent end of everything....

Perhaps some explanation is necessary. Filmmaker James Gunn, of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, DC’s The Suicide Squad, and upcoming HBO Max series Peacemaker, took to Twitter yesterday to report on some strange goings on in his Instagram direct messages. Unless Gunn went through the trouble of fabricating these messages as some kind of weird and wholly unnecessary publicity stunt for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (and to be clear: he definitely does not have the time for that), a dedicated Instagram user has been messaging him the exact same message multiple times per week for more than two years, without fail....

This new animated take is voiced by Kaley Cuoco who does an absolutely splendid job as the wonderfully foul mouthed jester, and it’s a monumental moment as it’s the first time that Harley has led her own TV show. Now the big question, of course, is should you watch her debut series? The answer now that we’ve had the chance to watch the first episode of the new series is absof$&%inglutely....