Books are powerful things—not only good for entertainment, but also defense. There’s a moment in Episode 6 of Netflix’s Shadow and Bone, “The Heart is an Arrow,” that sees the Crows steal the Darkling’s carriage for their getaway after Inej is wounded. In the process, they interrupt David, who is sitting cozily in the carriage, reading a good book. When Jesper startles him, David throws the book at Jesper before he is thrown from the carriage and knocked out....

Despite the heroes’ best efforts throughout the four-hour epic, Zack Snyder’s Justice League still ends in scorched earth, with Darkseid’s forces decimating whatever’s left of the planet’s surface, turning it into a wasteland. Even after defeating Steppenwolf and preventing the disaster of Unity, it’s still not enough to stop what’s been coming to Snyder’s version of the DCEU since Bruce had his first “Knightmare” in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice....

The goal of Wordle is simple: Solve a five-letter word in six turns or less. The game throws players a bone by telling them which letters are in the word but in the wrong spot, and which letters are in the right spot. It’s a simple concept that has since inspired many other developers to create their own daily challenge games based on the idea of discovering some kind of hidden solution....

Avid fans of the horror genre, in all its complexities and subgenres, never have a dull moment. Well, I suppose that is not an entirely true statement, just thinking about how many terrible and dull horror movies are released each year. What I mean, rather, is that there is always another horror movie or filmmaker coming out, promising to be the next great Evil Dead or Ty West, respectively. How does a self-described horror fan, then, decide which movie is worthy of her time?...

Agents of SHIELD Season 6 Episode 1 Fans of Agents of SHIELD are used to fall premieres and twenty-two episodes for their beloved show that lives on the fringes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so they may be wondering what a shortened summer season looks like and if it will have the same impact as previous runs. Fortunately, the series has not lost its edge; in fact it feels much tighter, like a season 4 “pod” from the Ghost Rider days that most remember fondly....

All American continues on Monday, April 19th with “Put Up or Shut Up.” Check out the promo below… Here’s the full synopsis: “Spencer (Daniel Ezra) is feeling the pressure and knows he needs to have the game of his life as he is still trying to follow his dream of playing football. Jordan (Michael Evans Behling) makes a risky choice when it comes to football. Olivia (Samantha Logan) attends a new Narcotics Anonymous in search of a sponsor but is worried about making the wrong choice....

Arrow Season 6 Episode 23 The jam-packed finale was full of great action set pieces, emotional catharsis, and perhaps the most moving scene of the entire season. This finale was a great example of how to let character work, necessary plot development, and great fights sit alongside one another and even become interwoven, like with the excellent final showdown between Oliver and Diaz in the rain, which capitalized on Diaz’s physicality in his fight style and the emotional satisfaction of Oliver landing some serious punches in a well-matched fight....

Attack on Titan Season 2, Episode 9 I can’t believe Attack on Titanspent the whole episode this week on four people talking in a tree. Sure, we got glimpses and shots of Survey Corps Commander and Man-With-Sentient-Eyebrows Erwin Smith leading Mikasa and the rest of the scouts on their way to save Eren and Ymir, and one moment where Hange tries to brave through immobilizing pain for the sake of science....

The story told by Netflix’s Barbarians – the Germanic tribes rising up to take a sizeable chunk out of the invading Roman Empire in the Battle of Teutoburg Forest, also known as the Varian Disaster – is a key historical event that took place in 9 CE. The battle’s events are related in several historical sources, among them ‘Germania’ by Roman historian Tacitus. The tribes’ victory dealt Rome a heavy blow which is now seen as a turning point in the history of the Roman Empire, which lost up to 20,000 soldiers over the three-to-four-day battle, effectively halting its advance across what is now mainland Europe....

But perhaps nothing in the Warner catalog is of greater value for streaming or otherwise than DC Comics and its rich stable of familiar intellectual property, from Superman to Batgirl. Disney already beat WB to this ground, too, by spinning off popular characters into streaming TV shows like Loki and WandaVision. But Kilar and WarnerMedia were going to try something that neither Disney nor Netflix ever attempted: make expensive superhero movies for streaming....

How this definitively anti-Christmas movie got made on a staggering $80 million budget and then slapped on the back of McDonald’s Happy Meals is almost as fascinating as the skintight vinyl of the movie itself. Following up on the financial rewards of 1989’s Batman was a no-brainer in the immediate aftermath of its world domination. The highest grossing movie all time upon its release, the Caped Crusader took in an unheard of $400 million worldwide and toppled the summer’s other heavy hitters, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Ghostbusters II....

Batwoman Season 2, Episode 7 Not to be on the nose, but Ryan is batshit right now. She is dying from the Kryptonite that pierced her skin the season premiere, and while her body slowly shuts down, she is hell bent on a final act of revenge. Dressed in the Batsuit, Ryan visits Angelique—who has apparently already moved on—to learn Ocean’s location, in order to find Alice. Instead of letting Mary attempt to treat her, or doing literally anything else in her potential final moments, she wants to spend her last waking hours killing Alice....

Lute by Jennifer Thorne Type: NovelPublisher: Tor NightfireRelease date: October 4 Den of Geek says: A key element of horror is a spooky setting. The island in Lute seems to fit the bill perfectly, promising the kind of ritual that makes folk horror shine (with blood!). Publisher’s summary: On the idyllic island of Lute, every seventh summer, seven people die. No more, no less. Nina Treadway is new to The Day....

In BBC thriller Bloodlands, in Belfast in early 1998, weeks before the Good Friday Agreement was reached, four people disappeared from both sides of the political conflict. They were former IRA member Joe Harkin, UVF Loyalist David Corry, Catholic priest Father Quinlan and military police officer Emma Brannick. The disappearances were made to look as though the victims had left the country, but it was suspected that all four had been executed by an assassin codenamed ‘Goliath’, an ‘inside man’ with access to police files....

Mr. Malcolm’s List of course shares some genre DNA with Bridgerton, and those elements will be the most appealing to the latter’s fans. Suzanne Allain first published Mr. Malcolm as a Regency era romance novel and she adapts it here as screenwriter, taking on the classic tropes of the Regency marriage market, high society, and social manners, and framing them with an emphasis on women’s friendships and rivalries. While family and social status still play a role in the plot, centering connections beyond family ties is what makes Mr....

We have already spoken to Bizarre Creations’ Neil Thompson, Art Director on Blood Stone(see link at the bottom), but we also had the chance to chat with Bruce Feirstein, an experienced writer who is no stranger to the series, having worked on the screenplays for GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies and The World Is Not Enough. He’s penned the script for both Blood Stone and the revamped GoldenEye, so we were dying to ask him how videogames fit into the Bond franchise, how writing a game is different to a film, and how the new GoldenEye has changed in the shift from Brosnan to Craig....

It’s sometimes easy to overlook monitors when you’re building a PC. When you’re picturing the PC you’ve always wanted, you’re probably thinking about a glowing tower powered by the best GPU and CPU on the market. So much time, effort, and, yes, money goes into the tower that it’s only natural that you might not even consider what kind of monitor you want until the rest of your gaming setup is done....

Riverdale Season 6 Episode 6 “Do we now believe in magic and curses?” Since I began reviewing Riverdale back in 2017 I have yearned for one thing: For the series to become as unpredictably strange as the comics that inspired the series. Friends, I am here to tell you that dreams can come true! But then came Rivervale. The alternate universe miniseries that made up the first five episodes of this season submerged our characters into situations that bulldozed the show’s reality, which is saying a lot given the typical scenarios that are showcased here....

The show’s final story has gone down in history as one of the all-time bonkers meta TV endings. In the episode, titled ‘Deus Ex Machina’, the teenage Grovers learn that they’re characters in a TV show, manipulated for the entertainment of an omnipotent writer, who is bringing their story to a close. Now self-aware, the crew are given the ability to write their own endings by their creator, who can’t bear to kill them off himself....

It was producer Joel Silver who had his eye on Evans for the role. Kevin Feige and Stephen Broussard wanted to cast Sebastian Stan in the part, but Silver, who’d worked with Evans on Losers, made his pitch. In the meantime, he had already called Evans to tell him to go out for the role, as had Downey Jr. Still, Evans hesitated. “It’s a big commitment to do these Marvel movies,” Evans recounts in the book (via CBR)....