Colony Season 3 Episode 1 If you feel like you’re tuning into a completely different TV show while watching Colony’s long overdue season premiere “Maquis”, you’re not alone. I, too, felt as though I was sitting through the pilot of a whole new series altogether. Well, folks. That’s the point. Switching up filming locations will often change the tone of a series. This happened when The X-Files moved from Vancouver to Los Angeles twenty years ago....

To be sure, there is indeed tragedy connected to the film. Most notable is the murder of 22-year-old actress Dominique Dunne in November 1982–five months following the film’s June release–and the death of 12-year-old Heather O’Rourke during the filming of Poltergeist III due to complications from an undetected bowel obstruction. The premature deaths of the two were enough to create the notion of a cursed franchise, which was only exacerbated by the revelation of the skeletons… plus the 2002 E!...

For that reason, no one should be surprised that the newly-installed head of Warner Bros, David Zaslav, would want to emulate Disney’s triumph with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Many studios have tried to launch their own cinematic universes, some more successfully (The Conjuring and its myriad spin-offs) than others (your light shone too bright, Dark Universe). WB would inarguably fall into the latter category after its attempts to build out a universe based on director Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, unofficially dubbed the DC Extended Universe (DCEU)....

So I’m happy to say that Reynolds serves up more of what made his Wade Wilson so instantly iconic on the big screen in Deadpool 2, only this time he’s got more of everything: more characters, more plot (which was pretty thin the first time out), more jokes, and more money to spend. And in this case, more is actually more: Deadpool 2 still delivers all the gore, brutal action, and wildly coarse humor of the first (if a bit less of the raunch), only with a better story, bigger, more expansive action, and some great new characters to play with....

Dexter New Blood Episode 6 Dexter Morgan and Kurt Caldwell are on a collision course. It’s not just that Iron Lake is too small for two serial killers, it’s also the fact that both men seem to be fighting for the soul of Harrison. Obviously, Dexter is conflicted with whether he should open up to his son. Not many people would react to news of their dad being a serial killer well, but because of their history and the resentment Harrison already feels, plus his worsening mental state and desire to “hurt people,” Dexter is probably the best person for Harrison to talk to....

But director and screenwriter Mike Flanagan, whose resume includes the Netflix adaptation of Stephen King’s “unfilmable” Gerald’s Game, as well as last year’s acclaimed The Haunting of Hill House, has arguably improved on King’s book by streamlining the plot and altering some story points. He’s also fashioned a deliberately paced script that gets you to care a great deal about what happens to the people in the tale. But perhaps most astonishing of all, he’s crafted an eerie movie that serves as a sequel to both the novel The Shining and Stanley Kubrick’s iconic 1980 movie version, drawing on our memories of both to deliver something that is unique and respectful of each....

The Doctor Who: Flux finale came and went with the chaotic clanking of a milk float taking a corner too fast. It had a billion plot threads, a dozen villains, twice as many companions, and four Doctors, one of whom didn’t count because she was really Time. If you’re in need of a more thorough explanation than that, we can offer this. Even if it did skimp on coherence, Series 13 did not skimp on ambition....

As we anticipate the Doctor’s next change, due this autumn in 2022’s third special, here are the past regeneration stories ranked from least to most successful. 12. Time and the Rani (1987) Colin Baker to Sylvester McCoy ‘Time and the Rani’ is all over the place. I wouldn’t say it’s the worst story ever, because while it’s a lacklustre romp remembered mainly for its camp, it isn’t mean-spirited. Its CBBC tone was imposed by the BBC after the excesses of Season 22, but it manages a genuinely good cliffhanger to its first episode, and Sylvester McCoy’s performance – while also all over the place – does contain a few moments that showed where he would later take the character....

That was it! The Thirteenth Doctor’s story has finally come to an end. And what an end it was. No toys were left in the bag. UNIT, the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Master, Rasputin, multiple Doctor incarnations, and a few old faces. But with that many ideas being thrown at the screen at once, you can be forgiven for wanting to be clear on a few things. And so, here’s the necessary explainer....

Bernard Cribbins, a legend who spent seven decades acting and entertaining after joining a theatre club in Oldham as Assistant Stage Manager aged 14, was cast in “Voyage of the Damned” as Stan, selling newspapers from a kiosk as the aliens of the starship Titanic beam down and away again. It was intended as a cameo appearance only, but Howard Attfield was ill. Due to return as Donna Noble’s dad Geoff, Attfield filmed some scenes for Series 4 opener “Partners in Crime” before retiring from the role....

As the trailer implies, Home Sweet Home Alone’s ordeal of Yates’s Max is far from unique in the now-six-film Home Alone franchise. Indeed, he’s an unassumingly prodigious kid accidentally left behind by distracted, vacation-departed parents—notably an agitated mother (Aisling Bea)—and forced to fend off invaders from his family’s advantageously-spacious American upper-middle-class suburban abode using clever traps. Granted, the idea of said invaders being an unthreatening couple (Ellie Kemper and Rob Delaney) reluctantly attempting to recover an heirloom from the house is a bit of a twist, but a perfunctory nature prominently adorns the film’s proverbial sleeve....

Silent Hill 2 casts players in the role of James Sunderland: a mysterious man who receives a letter from his deceased wife that asks him to come and find her in the town of Silent Hill. What follows is a haunting trip through the town itself that eventually leads us to one of the most shocking revelations in video game history: most of Silent Hill’s horrors are manifestations of James’ psyche born from his guilt over killing his sick wife....

Everyone remembers their first horror movie. Or for me, horror adjacent movie – it was Quatermass and the Pit and I was about 10 (ages all approximations, I can’t honestly remember). I loved it completely, was slightly terrified, completely fascinated, totally inspired, and it marked the start of a lifelong love affair with the genre. At a little older (circa 13), I fell in love with Poltergeist, then with The Omen trilogy, then a little later with BBC2 series Moviedrome and selections from Doctor Terror’s Vault of Horror recorded off the TV on a VHS player, watched back on a Saturday morning....

When describing to friends what makes his new superhero series unique, Doom Patrol star Alan Tudyk knows the moment they’ll blink themselves out of polite half-attention, lean forward and say “wait…what?” “When I mention the donkey that farts sky writing it stops them,” he says. Yes, as the weird-seekers among you may know by now, DC Universe’s Doom Patrol’s pilot concludes with the donkey familiar of Tudyk’s villainous Mr. Nobody farting and releasing gas into the sky that spells out “The mind is the limit....

Doom Patrol Episode 4 The world of magic is introduced to Doom Patrol this week with a fourth episode that, while good, is a frustrating detour from the main mission of finding the Chief, and stopping Mr. Nobody. But, as far a two-episode side adventure goes, “Cult Patrol” succeeds largely due to the arrival of Mark Sheppard as Nonstantine chaos magician Willoughby Kipling, a character straight from the comic books. Sheppard is the kind of actor who automatically injects any show he’s on with energy, and mischief, and Kipling is one those roles he seems born to play (and reunites him with Supernatural producer Jeremy Carver)....

Unlike in past years, E3 2021 will an all-virtual event, meaning you won’t have to wait in line at the Los Angeles Convention Center to experience the most highly anticipated games. You’ll be able to watch everything E3 has to offer with everyone else from the comfort of your home. Best of all, this year’s event is free for everyone! The four-day digital event will be hosted by Alex “Goldenboy” Mendez, Jacki Jing and Greg Miller, and will also feature industry panel discussions as well as celebrity appearances....

When they finally sat face-to-face, according to the Everything Everywhere All at Once directors, Yeoh had one immediate question: What did you write?! Says Yeoh, “For me, I have to know where the project is coming from and for two people to have written this insane script, I had to meet them to understand where’s the passion. Is there real passion or is it just a job?” “We wanted to make something that felt so impossibly ambitious, and yet so playful that you can’t fault [the movie] for the chaos of it all,” says Kwan....

But Eyes was also meant, at one point, to usher in the most important change in any Bond movie: the introduction of a new actor in the role of 007. Roger Moore’s original contract was for three films, with his participation going on a film-by-film basis starting with Moonraker. Following the completion of that film, rumors surfaced that Moore was ready to retire from the role, leading 007 production company Eon Productions and producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli to begin the search for a new Bond....

There’s much to love about The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. From its sweeping visuals that bring every corner of Middle-earth to life to its expansive story that weaves together half a dozen major plots and twice that many central characters, it’s a series that feels magical from its opening frames and stands (at least thus far) as a worthy companion and prologue to Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning The Lord of the Rings trilogy....

House of the Dragon is still on track for its pre-pandemic 2022 launch window, as HBO president Casey Bloys confirmed to Deadline in a post-Emmys interview in which he also revealed that casting for the series is currently underway. The confirmation comes over eight months after a January winter TCAs interview in which Bloys told the trade that his guess for a release window was “sometime in 2022,” and that scripts were in the process of being written....