Well, Deadline has finally confirmed that, yes, Sabine is back and will be played Natasha Liu Bordizzo (The Society) on the upcoming Star Wars: Ahsoka series on Disney+. The outlet didn’t dig up any plot details about Sabine’s live-action debut, but we already know plenty, thanks to the Rebels animated series that concluded in 2018. You can say Sabine’s return has been years in the making. Dave Filoni, who is writing and executive producing Ahsoka, along with The Mandalorian showrunner Jon Favreau, first set Sabine on her current path in the final minutes of Rebels....

The last few minutes of The Empire Strikes Back begin to unpack how this revelation has completely shattered Luke’s world. All of a sudden, as he escapes Cloud City on the Millennium Falcon, our hero can hear Vader in his thoughts, calling out to him to embrace their family’s dark legacy. He’s already accepted the truth, replying to Vader through the Force: “Father.” But in that moment, Luke’s also struggling with an even bigger betrayal....

CM Punk is one of the most interesting figures in modern pro wrestling. After cutting his teeth in independent promotions like the one that Heels portrays, Punk gained national stardom as a sarcastic, unpredictable malcontent in the WWE. Where stars of the past proudly guzzled beers to elicit a response from the blue-collar audience, Punk was publicly straight edge. Where other performers would privately complain about the company’s direction, Punk would go off-script in front of a live audience, expressing his displeasure with behind-the-scenes decision makers....

While many King villains are monsters of the human variety (serial killers, power hungry despots, nihilists, etc.), his most memorable are the supernatural ones who use their dark powers to twist the orderly world around them into chaos and pain. Pennywise the Clown isn’t the only monster you need to fear at night. King has created plenty of other horrific things that go bump in the night. Here are just a few of his best supernatural madmen and monsters…...

The Duffer Brothers may be the master storytellers behind the fictional tale of Stranger Things, but they also admit to taking inspiration from real life conspiracies and true crime stories. While longtime fans of the show may already know about the Montauk Project origins of the Hawkins Lab, some may not be aware that the tragically misplaced suspicion that Eddie Munson was under is also based on actual events in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993....

You can call Stray’s early success a meme or a meme-supported movement, but you’d be doing the game a huge disservice. Stray is a brilliant little game that expertly combines worldbuilding, storytelling, movement, puzzles, sound, and atmosphere to offer the kind of experience that hooks you almost instantly and refuses to let go. Stray’s path to what certainly seems to be sales success may have been bolstered by the internet’s obsessive love of cats, but it’s the game’s genuine greatness that will keep it in the conversation long after those jokes have lost their luster....

When October hits, the folks at Den of Geek almost exclusively consume horror content. Any spooky story that has ghosts, ghouls, goblins, or any chill-inducing monster that doesn’t start with a G is fine with us. Whether it’s a campy B-movie or “prestige horror,” we embrace all horror subgenres and relax with old favorites and new cult classics in the making alike. Now that Spooky Season is in full force, we are grateful that Plex TV is here so we can stream all of the creepy content that our black hearts’ desire for free!...

Returning from the first movie are several characters: Harley Quinn, played almost perfectly (twice!) by Margot Robbie; Boomerang gets to be a Captain in this movie, played by Jai Courtney; Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller; and Joel Kinnaman’s Rick Flagg. But it’s the new cast members who are big surprises. Check out this stylish video revealing who everybody’s playing. It’s pretty great. Then we’ll help explain who is who. John Cena joins the movie as Peacemaker....

The swamp is an ancient place, teeming with life, most of which would not turn down a chance to eat you – a chance they might get should you be on the water late at night, when everything is abuzz. And those who live near, and off of, the swamp are a curious folk, both proud and private, and prone to Southern Gothic eccentricities. Add in an element of the swamp itself literally coming alive, and giving birth to a new kind of humanoid lifeform, and you have Swamp Thing, the new sci-fi/horror series on DC Universe’s streaming service....

Scorsese set most of his early films in New York. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore was a notable exception. While Mean Streets caught street level gangsters in their everyday routines, it was shot with loving warmth and a tinge of both nostalgia and a sense that he never wanted to see that neighborhood change in any way. Even the violence had a sense of fun, jumping up on pool tables and calling each other mooks before you retired back to the bar or got hassled from some cop who couldn’t tell a pocket knife from a stiletto unless you slipped him a twenty....

The premise saw Lasso imported to coach Premier League team Tottenham Hotspurs – or, as he calls them, ‘The Spurs’ – despite having no grasp of the game’s rules or context. He gets the lingo wrong, the rules wrong, the training wrong, and is totally unaware that everybody thinks he’s a complete tit. In a 2013 behind-the-scenes interview with Spurs TV, Jason Sudeikis explained: “I’m playing an American football coach who’s come over to Tottenham to implement American football things, styles and ways into soccer, into European football… unsuccessfully, I would say....

The Protagonist didn’t even know what it was when he first saw it. John David Washington’s lead character without a name thinks he’s looking at a bizarre “encapsulation” when he first sees a piece of the “Algorithm” in Tenet’s opening moments—which is to say he thinks it’s a nuclear weapon. Hidden inside of a backpack at an opera house under siege, what else could justify this level of violence and chaos during the movie’s confounding start?...

Assassination Classroom Subs and dubs are new to Crunchyroll Everyone has that one teacher they can think of that changed their lives, for better or worse. For the academically challenged students of Kunugigaoka Junior High, their lives are forever changed when a literal monster starts teaching their class. Worse yet, the world will be destroyed if the students can’t assassinate their teacher by the end of the school year. But despite the intense set up, Assassination Classroom is actually a light-hearted underdog story that is equal parts hilarious and thrilling....

For one thing, Weaving is not the lead baddie this time around, even if most of the rest of the cast from the original encore here. Now you may ask how all the other slain cultist villains return. But a script that combines “no one’s ever really dead in horror” contrivances with some motivation-destroying retconning makes it easy. Too easy. But nothing about the story makes sense on any level, and it’s a wonder that it took returning director McG and three other bros to hammer this nonsense out....

Whether you prefer to sit by the yule log and share tales of happy little elves on shelves, or Christmas goblins from the underworld (the Southeastern European kallikantzaroi) — and whether you hope for a visit from Kris Kringle, or fear one from Krampus — December is primetime for the paranormal. With that in mind, I wanted to assemble a gift guide for the spooky nerds and weird ones in your world....

The Capture series two, episode four ends on a cliffhanger that could have come straight from an episode of The Twilight Zone – a man answers the telephone in his hotel room and hears his own voice speaking back at him. It’s time they met face to face, other-him says, then there’s a ring at the door. He walks over and there on the video intercom is… him, his own face looking up at him and waiting to be buzzed inside....

Jason Blum, horror producer extraordinaire and head of Blumhouse Productions, the outfit responsible for Paranormal Activity, Sinister, The Purge, Get Out, the recently released The Invisible Man, and 2018’s Halloween reboot is remaking 1996’s much loved teen witch movie The Craft and he’s confident it’s going to be a whole lot of fun. Blum tells Den of Geek it was the pitch from director Zoe Lister-Jones that really sold the project to him....

The opening installment of Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier gives us a little time to catch up with Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), as they begin to navigate a post-Blip and post-Captain America world. The weight of what they’ve been through clearly weighs heavily on their minds and the pair are struggling in some ways, but slowly making progress in others. In his winged guise as Falcon, Sam Wilson proves straight out of the gate in the first episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier that he’s more than a worthy fit for Cap’s shield, which was handed to him at the end of Avengers: Endgame....

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 2 The first episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier started off with a fun action sequence to get it out of the way so it could move on to all the dread and depression. Even with the introduction of the Flag-Smashers as a threat, it has nothing on the emotional gut punch of Bucky trying to live with the horrors of his actions under HYDRA’s control....

Affleck’s return to the cape and cowl would be a big enough headline, especially after he initially bowed out of the role after attempts to write and direct his own Batman solo adventure, a movie now being helmed by Matt Reeves and starring Robert Pattinson. But Keaton’s return is huge news. Almost 30 years since his last visit to Gotham, his version of Bruce Wayne is back, presumably as another Bat-mentor for young Barry....