1.2 Battle At The Binary Star For obvious reasons, episode 1 was all about setup and introductions – introducing the characters, the threat, the world they inhabit – and episode 2 was all about knocking that down. Because it turns out, we weren’t watching the start of a new Star Trek series so much as the traumatic backstory that precedes it. Normally, someone would say “this officer was the best!...
The Book of Boba Fett returns to Tatooine and a lot of familiar Star Wars sights in its premiere episode, “Stranger in a Strange Land.” As a loose spinoff of The Mandalorian, it’s possible Fett and his right-hand killer Fennec Shand will get involved in wider galactic politics going forward. But, for now, we revisit several different movie settings in a reference-filled episode. Take a look at all the Star Wars easter eggs and references we spotted in this episode…...
While author Adam Christopher isn’t promising a twist quite so monumental, he does have plans for a similarly shocking reveal for his upcoming novel Shadow of the Sith. Set after Return of the Jedi, Shadow of the Sith pairs Luke Skywalker with his ally Lando Calrissian when a Sith kidnaps the latter’s daughter. In addition to Sith assassin Ochi of Bestoon, who was first introduced in The Rise of Skywalker, Luke and Lando must also deal with a mysterious new Sith warrior, a woman known to the heroes....
Yes, in case you haven’t heard, Aspyr is not only taking on the tall task of remaking BioWare’s beloved 2003 RPG (and the greatest Star Wars game ever made) Knights of the Old Republic, but Lead Producer Ryan Treadwell has since confirmed that the game will be a “console exclusive on PlayStation 5 at launch.” We’ll have to wait and see whether or not that very specific wording means that the remake will be released on PC at the same time (Update: It’s now confirmed to be a PC release as well), but based on that wording, we can seemingly confirm that the KOTOR remake will not be released for PS4 and will not be available at launch on any other console for an unspecified period of time (likely 6 months, the standard timed exclusivity window)....
In the time of the High Republic, 200 years before The Phantom Menace, control of hyperspace is key. The Republic seeks to expand outward, but much of the galaxy is out of their reach simply by virtue of distance. It makes sense that in this time of unification, the most dangerous threat in the galaxy comes from a band of pirates known as the Nihil who don’t have to use established hyperspace lanes....
No, it wasn’t anything that had to do with Eleven, Hopper, a Demogorgon, or any of the other elements we were all familiar with. Instead, it was a brief shot teased in the very first full trailer that featured some Kirk Hammett-haired newbie named Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn) absolutely shredding on a guitar in the Upside Down. Seriously, get a load of this Mad Max: Fury Road Doof Warrior brilliance: Alas, the hour of Eddie’s guitar solo did not come to pass in any of the first seven episodes of Stranger Things season 4 that comprised of “Volume 1....
Netflix unveiled a new teaser for Stranger Things season 4 on Thursday and in fittingly Strange fashion, it looks to the franchise’s past rather than to its feature. Give it a look below to see what we mean. What we appear to be seeing here is a typical day at the now-destroyed secret CIA laboratory in Hawkins, Indiana that housed Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) for most of her life. Things aren’t too bleak as the test subjects at least have access to chess, Magic 8-Balls, and a Plinko-like game....
Superman & Lois Season 2 Episode 1 The Superman & Lois season 2 premiere, “What Lies Beneath” doesn’t give us any indication that this show will be slowing down after its spectacular first year. If anything, it feels like it’s giving us everything that worked in that first season, but just a little bit amplified. The emotional stakes of Lois, Clark, Jonathan, and Jordan’s home lives have been raised, while the big Superman-focused action scenes are some of the most spectacular on TV....
Written by Zappa, who co-directed with Tony Palmer, 200 Motels is a musical film which sought to project the surrealistic reality of being a pop musician on the road in 1971. The film stands in history as the first full-length feature where the action was shot directly onto videotape and transferred onto 35mm film for cinema release. To do this, they used the old 3-strip Technicolor method of negative and print to isolate the three color signals – red, blue and green – and transfer them to 3-strip 35mm film....
This fact is intellectually offensive when you start to think about not just how many good actors have been on Star Trek, but also, how many specific performances have been ignored by the Emmys, the Golden Globes, and the Oscars. Recently, I caught up with documentary filmmaker Brian Volk-Weiss, the man behind The Center Seat (as well as several pop culture docs you’ve probably seen) to try and get to the bottom of why the acting on Star Trek isn’t praised as much as it should be....
There’s a good reason for that. Batman: The Imposter is written by Mattson Tomlin, who is an uncredited writer on The Batman screenplay. The Imposter takes place in year three of Batman’s career, in a very grounded Gotham City, and features some similarly grounded reinventions of some of the Dark Knight’s lesser known villains. It’s a terrific, atmospheric reinterpretation of the Dark Knight’s early days with art by Andrea Sorrentino....
Thanksgiving doesn’t have candy like Halloween or presents like Christmas. What it does have, thankfully, is television. Just like its Halloween counterpart, Thanksgiving comes along in the fall at an important time in the TV schedule. Traditionally, the last week of November is when many network TV shows are looking for a quick boost of creative and commercial energy to get through the Christmas break. And what better way than to do so than with a Thanksgiving episode, where all characters are basically culturally required to get together?...
In terms of pop culture, 2021 was never going to be as strange and surreal as when the whole world shut down in 2020. Still, this year of TV wasn’t necessarily the return to normalcy that one might expect. TV changed in the year 2021. For one, it got a hell of a lot bigger. That’ll happen to a medium when Disney decides to throw the Marvel Cinematic Universe its way....
In the world of Prime Video’s The Boys, superheroes – or supes as they’re not-so-affectionately called – are a part of normal, everyday life. But these supes aren’t naturally born, they’re created by Vought Industry’s Compound V serum. Even though Vought does their best to control who does and does not become a supe, they don’t have control over how abilities manifest in people who take Compound V. This leads to a wide variety of powers among the supes on the show, including those in the prestigious superhero group known as The Seven....
If you’ve been reading comics your entire life, you probably know how two Batmen from different movie universes can exist on the same screen. But if you’re just learning about the multiverse for the first time now thanks to The Flash or Loki, you might be as confused about what the hell is going as Keaton was while reading Christina Hodson’s script for the upcoming DC movie. “I had to read it more than three times to go, ‘Wait, how does this work?...
In that time, The Flash movie has gone through countless of release date shifts, several directors, even more script drafts, and at least a couple of changes of focus. But now it appears to be back to adapting the Flashpoint story from the comics, where Barry Allen learns how to use his speed to travel back in time and prevent the murder of his mother…a noble intention that causes all kinds of ripple effects in the timeline, and will give DC movie fans their first glimpse of the company’s famed multiverse....
Based on a script by DeMonaco and once again under the Blumhouse roof, The Forever Purge is directed by Everardo Gout best known for Days of Grace and his work on National Geographic sci-fi Mars. Den of Geek got a sneaky early look at the explosive trailer for the movie and chatted to Gout, who broke down the action for us. Watch the trailer: Authenticity was key “Tenoch [Huerta] was my lead in Days of Grace, which is a movie that I made and you guys reviewed it a couple of years ago and it was an amazing review....
The ending will be discussed at length. If you haven’t seen it, I’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse. Find the film, watch it with fresh eyes, then come back and celebrate The Death of Michael Corleone. “The power to absolve debt is greater than the power of forgiveness,” Michael Corleone observes in the revelatory new opening of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. He may well be speaking for Francis Ford Coppola....
“Not a heart – a stomach.” One of the hardest things for any horror movie to pull off is a satisfying ending. Horror works best when things are left to the imagination and endings don’t usually have the benefit of leaving things to the imagination. The Haunting of Hill House’s ending faces an even bigger challenge than most horror movies. At nearly 10 hours, there is a lot of emotion and interest vested in the show “pulling off” a satisfactory ending....
Watching a thirty-eight-year-old, six foot one actor whose headshot you’d keep in a folder labelled ‘rugged chieftains’ turn into a terrified sixteen-year-old girl without a single special effect was a decisive point for The Innocents creators. That was the moment they knew their idea would work. Trying out for his part, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson (Game Of Thrones, The Last Kingdom) had filmed himself performing a scene in which his character is taken over by a teenage shapeshifter....
