Yet even that cast, which includes (deep breath) Christian Bale, John David Washington, Margot Robbie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Robert De Niro, Rami Malek, Mike Myers, Michael Shannon, Zoe Saldana, Chris Rock, Taylor Swift (!), Alessandro Nivola, and Matthias Schoenaerts, is trotted out one by one as if on the runway at a fashion show, with Russell more interested in showing you what a glittering ensemble he’s gathered than actually having them create (for the most part) characters that live and breathe....

Aside from Andy Serkis appearing in the Star Wars universe once again, episode 8 of Andor, “Narkina 5,” features two more familiar faces: Forest Whitaker as Partisan leader Saw Gerrera and Duncan Pow as Ruescott Melshi. In the episode, Saw meets with Luthen Rael on the planet Segra Milo to discuss future Rebellion plans, while Melshi is a prisoner in Cassian Andor’s unit on Narkina 5. Here’s why these characters are so important....

No one has ever accused Zack Snyder of being subtle. As the director who once had Henry Cavill’s Superman and the image of Jesus Christ in red and blue stained glass share the same frame, Snyder’s a filmmaker who likes his subtexts to be written across the screen whenever possible, preferably in neon. It’s an impulse that can lead to sometimes stunning visuals, such as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Doctor Manhattan filming the moon landing in Watchmen, and it sometimes can be as heavy-handed as Bruce Wayne turning into a literal bat in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice....

“This change means we’re also evolving along with the video game industry,” reads a blog post from Ubisoft regarding the Infinity project. “Rather than continuing to pass the baton from game to game, we profoundly believe this is an opportunity for one of Ubisoft’s most beloved franchises to evolve in a more integrated and collaborative manner that’s less centered on studios and more focused on talent and leadership, no matter where they are within Ubisoft....

Audiences prepared for the worst as Attack on Titan’s 12-episode final final season got closer to its end. However, the final episode, “The Dawn of Humanity,” concludes with one of the series’ biggest cliffhangers rather than a resolution to seasons of storytelling. Audiences will fortunately get a little more time to contemplate the events of this season’s finale, as well as consider what’s to come and how to properly mentally prepare for the true final final final finish....

That joyous fact is revealed by the latest batch of set photos from the set of Greta Gerwig’s delightfully surreal-looking Barbie movie. The film, which marks the first time the iconic Mattel toy has become a live-action film character, continues to set the social media sphere on fire each week. It began earlier this month when Warner Bros. Pictures released the first official images of Robbie as Barbie in an appropriately pink convertible, and then later Gosling as a literal Ken doll made flesh (and with abs)....

Since then we’ve had Christian Bale as Nolan’s Batman, Ben Affleck as an older, more vengeful Caped Crusader in the Snyderverse, and most recently Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson’s ultra-dark take about a younger Batman still finding his way. Each of them has had their supporters and detractors, but all have managed to make the memory of Batman & Robin slowly fade and heal by sheer virtue of their more respectful, complex, and darker-edged variations....

Batman: The Movie (1966) The first Batman movie on our list is the one that’s sometimes forgotten. Indeed, for a brief shining moment in 1966, Adam West and Burt Ward’s small screen Batman and Robin got to POW and WHAM! baddies on the big screen. Released in theaters by 20th Century Fox two months after the first season of West’s Batman TV series, the highlights of his colorful rogue’s gallery are all here: Cesar Romero’s Joker, Burgess Meredith’s Penguin, and Frank Gorshin’s Riddler....

Batwoman Season 2, Episode 2 This week’s Batwoman doubles down on an idea first introduced in the season premiere: Ryan Wilder is meant to wear the Batsuit. Last week, Ryan was shot with the kryptonite bullet, which she survived, but is still healing from. The wound isn’t normal, and it seems there will be long-term repercussions for her, especially if she continues to ignore the pain or try to treat it with generic ibuprofen....

“I have always been fascinated by animals, but [particularly] lions. So I was like, ‘Okay, this is something I would love to do,’” he tells Den of Geek magazine. Kormákur is talking to us from London, where he’s currently in the edit suite putting the finishing touches on the movie. He had one condition when agreeing to the project: “I made it clear that, if I was to do this movie, I would have to shoot it in Africa....

“It was ‘WTF!? Oh my God! I’m not going to sleep! Why did you do that to me?!’” The moment the credits rolled on Inside No. 9’s series one finale ‘The Harrowing’, director David Kerr was deluged with messages. “People were very responsive,” he laughs. “We’d gone for something bold that was properly horrible and would haunt them. There’s not much out there that scares a horror fan because they’ve seen it all so many times....

And like the veritable Bo Burnham once said on a Netflix project last year, daddy’s made your favorite with a slew of genuine classics and plenty of crowdpleasers, new and old, coming to the service. Enjoy a preview of the best of the selection below. Gattaca (1997) March 1 Released the same year as Starship Troopers (see below), Gattaca attacked a different kind of fascism than that film–one built on eugenics instead of military superiority....

And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin Type: NovellaPublisher: Tor.comRelease date: April 12 Den of Geek says: Part of the intrigue is that it’s hard to describe what this novella really is. What’s real and what’s fake in a world that may or may not include zombies? Spence is one of the “cured” living at the Ironside rehabilitation facility. Haunted by guilt, he refuses to face the changed world until a new inmate challenges him to help her find her old crew....

Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 3 The ballad of Nacho Varga ended not with a whimper, but with a defiant, indignant bang. Ever since Michael Mando’s Nacho graced our screens in the second episode of Better Call Saul, the character has always had a doomed quality about him that has felt more and more inevitable as time went on. Part of that feeling was due to the character’s solemnity for such a young guy, the way that he always dressed well, yet had a somewhat ghastly appearance, and how he rarely talked in a voice that registered above a whisper....

Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 4 In the world of Better Call Saul, you can never be exactly sure about the people you call your neighbors. The county treasurer with the idyllic family? He’s embezzling millions. The owner of the local chicken chain? He’s a drug kingpin. The sickly high school chemistry teacher? He’s cooking meth. Even the parking attendant that takes your ticket may secretly be a one-man wrecking crew for a local criminal outfit....

That doesn’t mean it’s perfect, and the initial Twitter responses hailing it as a “masterpiece” go way overboard (something I have a gripe with these days about a lot of movies, not just this one) Coogler is still growing as a filmmaker and Black Panther exhibits some of those growing pains. But it also shows just how much command and confidence he does have at the helm of his third and biggest feature to date, and he’s helped himself by assembling one of the finest acting lineups ever recruited for a Marvel movie–or any genre outing, for that matter....

Cinema is back! Marvel is back! Natasha Romanoff is back! There’s so much excitement going on all at once that it can be overwhelming. Marvel’s latest—the long awaited Black Widow—is set during Natasha Romanoff’s (Scarlett Johansson) exile period, after Captain America: Civil War left the Avengers divided, and Nat is on the run from Gen. Thaddeus Ross (William Hurt). As well as fleshing out Nat’s backstory, the movie introduces us to Yelena (Florence Pugh), Alexei (David Harbour), and Melina (Rachel Weisz), setting the four on a mission to locate the Red Room and destroy it and its creator Dreykov (Ray Winstone)....

“The fun of the game is bullying your friends,” actor Chase Sui Wonders says with a faint smile now. “It’s really masochistic and becomes just inherently dark, because you’re supposed to have fun yelling and accusing your friends of false crimes that are not real.” Indeed, in the film, “Bodies Bodies Bodies” consists of two phases: the first begins with slapping your friend to the right as hard as you can because why not?...

As its name suggests, choosing the right motherboard for your computer is vital to your build. A motherboard is a printed circuit that not only gives you a place to install most of your other PC components but essentially ensures that said components are working as they should be. As the PC evolved, manufacturers began to rely more and more on the motherboard as not just a hub but as the centerpiece of the design of one of the most important technological innovations of the 20th century....

The PS4 open beta will follow on Oct. 10-12 before the beta hits Xbox One and PC starting on Oct. 15. You can check out a full breakdown of the beta dates below: Ahead of the beta, Activision has confirmed the multiplayer modes fans will be able to try starting this weekend. Players should expect to go hands-on with a few Call of Duty staples, including Team Deathmatch, Domination, and Kill Confirmed, as well as three new modes called VIP Escort, Combined Arms, and Fireteam: Dirty Bomb....