It’s a moment that could pass as merely a grace note in Man Of Steel’s second half – a breather in the midst of its city-crumbling action. But it’s a line that gets to the core themes in the filmand its central character, as played by Henry Cavill. More than any screen incarnation we’ve seen before, Man Of Steel plays up the idea of Superman as an alien – a being initially bewildered and frightened of the powers our yellow sun gives him, and in danger of becoming an object of fear among Earth’s puny inhabitants....

One of the many elements that makes Cobra Kai work is its sense of poetic parallelism. Some might simplify this to well laid Easter eggs, but it’s an aesthetic device akin to literary symmetry, layered screenwriting that elegantly fuses storytelling and homage. For example, in The Karate Kid Part III, Sensei Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith) sent Sensei John Kreese (Martin Kove) away to Tahiti where he got bodywork from shadowy Tahitian gals....

While there are a few surface similarities, by the end of the first episode of The Great North you’ll realize there’s so much more to it than just an Alaskan set version of the Belcher family. It’s got humor all its own, unique characters, and the potential to be something that isn’t merely a rival to Bob’s Burgers but a truly unique experience. So let’s head up north to discover all the reasons why The Great North is so wonderful....

Star Trek: Voyager could have been timed just for me. Sure, it aired at an inconvenient time and night for my central time zone household, but I wanted to be on board that ship from the start of its adventures. From what I recall of those more than 20-year-old memories, I was immediately taken in by the women of the series: Voyager’s stern (but not too stern) captain, Kathryn Janeway; her hot-headed engineer, B’Elanna Torres; and the compassionate, short-lived alien who joined her crew when everything went awry, Kes....

When the final episode cuts to black, we’ve just witnessed Leah making a break for it and discovering a secret control room with files not just on the Dawn of Eve (the shady organisation we have watched observe and track the girls) but also the intriguing Twilight of Adam. So is a second run of episodes on its way to explain what exactly that means? While nothing has been confirmed there is certainly enough ground to cover to justify a second season....

While the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie project, as reported by Deadline, has a tight lid securing indicative details such as its plot, the hiring of the Jost brothers—comedy writers and complete newcomers to the action genre—seemingly hints a levity-leaning script; a prospective tonal shift that would boost the notion of it being a reboot. Indeed, the screenwriting personnel for director Jonathan Liebesman’s 2014 Turtles movie had action-focused screenwriters in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’s André Nemec & Josh Appelbaum and Snow White and the Huntsman’s Evan Daugherty....

Windfall was directed by Charlie McDowell, who gave us the interesting, quirky, and eerie The One I Love a few years back and the numbingly dull The Discovery after that. Windfall — which needed four writers to come up with the story and screenplay for this 86-minute affair, including McDowell himself and Seven scribe Andrew Kevin Walker — lands somewhere between the two, but unfortunately closer to The Discovery territory in its blandness and lack of energy....

First, some bad news. While Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty will be available for PS4 and Xbox One when it launches in 2023, this recent demo is currently limited to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Furthermore, it’s a limited-time demo. That means that even PS5 and Xbox Series X/S owners will only be able to access it from September 16 to September 26. After that, we’ll all have to wait until Wo Long is actually released (or Team Ninja is nice enough to offer another demo)....

Yet Sheridan and team have always had a plan. In their own subtle way, there are several threads they’ve set up for season 5, and many threats within those threads. Perhaps they are more subtle antagonists to which Yellowstone audiences are accustomed, but make no mistake, there are many out there who look to get in the way of the Duttons’ dream. It may also be that season 5 reveals that one or more characters within the family happen to be the most disruptive and dangerous force....

Kingdom Hearts‘ greatness comes down to a variety of factors, but discussion about the game really do seem to always circle back to those worlds. Each new area of the Kingdom Hearts franchise takes you on an almost impossible journey through some of the most imaginative environments ever conceived by the finest artists and creators in entertainment. It’s sometimes worth playing these games just to see where you’ll go next....

In fact, it was an especially interesting year for difficult Triple-A and AA games. From Metroid Dread to certain difficult settings in Resident Evil Village, it really does seem like more and more major studios are starting to explore the viability of at least adding optional difficulty modes to their major releases designed to make some of the year’s biggest games as punishing as possible. Of course, many of the year’s hardest games can still be found on the indie scene where smaller studios continue to argue against the idea that they just don’t make hard video games like they used to…...

“I’ve never really played the Hollywood card, I’m not really an insider, that’s just not my thing. And I like to be able to say no. And that’s it.That’s not probably a politically correct thing to do. However, too bad. I’m still here 50 years later.” McDowell is talking to us from LA, his accent a soft mix of Yorkshire, where he grew up, and California where he has resided for much of his professional life....

Bem vindo, babies! Welcome to A Discovery of Witches, a world of magic, mortal danger, extremely covetable houses, and excellent coats (every character has at least one excellent coat. Presumably the babies will be fitted for theirs shortly). Though their world is fraught with danger, little Philip and Rebecca are lucky mites. Yes, they’ve been born into the middle of a war, but they’ve landed on the winning side, with a mum who’s an all-powerful witch prophesied to change the world, and a dad who drives a Bentley – it’s all the start in life any child needs....

Agents of SHIELD Season 5 Episode 11 As this week proves once again, some of the most intriguing and exciting episodes of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD are those shift-to-the-next-story-arc episodes. We just had SHIELD escape from the future, and now we are back home to begin the next leg of our season five journey. The first half of this week’s episode was really just SHIELD acclimating and celebrating being back home but things soon take a shocking and horrific turn....

As we mentioned in our review of the Agents of SHIELD season 6 finale, the strength of the episode was not necessarily in its defeat of the shrike scourge but rather in its surprising, enigmatic setup for the final season next summer. In essence, the narrative arc ended when Yoyo avoided death and May took her last breath, and the epilogue began when Simmons assured us and the rest of her team that May would be perfectly fine....

The Josh Brolin-starring Outer Range premieres April 15 and looks like it could be a wild ride. The synopsis is terse and reads “A rancher fighting for his land and family stumbles upon an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming’s wilderness, forcing a confrontation with the Unknown in ways both intimate and cosmic in the untamable American West.” That, combined with an enigmatic first trailer, has our interest piqued....

Andor Episode 9 At the start of Andor episode 9, Dedra threatens Bix by saying, “The very worst thing you can do right now is bore me.” This is just before an interrogation scene, in which the stakes are high, but also muddled. As the first Star Wars TV series or film to really push into gritty and adult territory, the threat Dedra hurls at Bix is also on the mind of this viewer....

The clue is in the name that Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang/Ant-Man will once again be sharing the screen with Evangeline Lilly’s Hope van Dyne/Wasp, and that we’ll finally be spending some real time in the Quantum Realm. This mysterious land features briefly in 2018’s Ant-Man and the Wasp, but here, it looks like it will be what ultimately unleashes the MCU’s next Thanos in the form of Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror....

There’s a moment during Army of the Dead when a team led by former mercenary Scott Ward (Dave Bautista), on a mission to recover a casino owner’s cash from a vault in ruined, zombie-ravaged Las Vegas, comes upon the remains of a previous team seemingly sent into the city for the same reason. Ward’s right-hand man, a philosophically inclined “zombie killing machine” named Vanderohe (Omari Hardwick), muses that perhaps this is their team — and that they’re caught in a time loop, repeating the same disastrous actions over and over again....

Arrow Season 6 Episode 20 Arrow brought back a sensation I hadn’t felt in a while: waiting at the edge of my seat for every commercial break to be over. Courtroom dramas generally slow down the pace and weaken the story for shows that aren’t already set there, but this episode finally gave us something we’ve been wanting to see all season, and kept us guessing until the very end. Far and away the best performance of the episode is Rick Gonzalez as Rene....