How can The Expanse follow up an episode in which a two-mile-wide ship is impressively launched and aimed at an alien-infected asteroid in order to ram it and deflect it into the sun? By bringing the asteroid to life! With all the political ramifications, personal sacrifice, and emotional investment involved in destroying Eros, this episode could easily have become overwhelmed by its own inconceivable scale, but thankfully it was grounded in human reactions, both noble and misguided....

Without spoiling story details for non-readers, it is possible to speculate about ways that The Expanse writers could bring in elements of the currently unadapted novels in an accelerated fashion. This is especially true if they manage to compact the rise and fall of Marco Inaros as the central antagonist in both Nemesis Games, the fifth book which forms the core of season 5, and its successor, Babylon’s Ashes. It appears to be what they’ve done by introducing the Laconians in the season 5 finale....

This marks the first time that Deadpool has officially appeared in an MCU character crossover and signals that plans to include him in the Marvel blockbuster juggernaut are still very much afoot after some time passing with no update on Deadpool 3’s MCU status. Waititi voices Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Infinity War’s super casual Kronan rock warrior Korg as he joins Reynolds in full Deadpool attire on the couch to check out the trailer for Free Guy in the new footage, and the pair trade comedic barbs before the Merc With a Mouth eventually signs off with “I preferred The Dark World....

The Flash has hit another speed bump. The long-in-development solo film about the fastest man alive seemed to have finally found the finish line, with a June 2023 release date nearing. But when star Ezra Miller was arrested in March for disorderly conduct and harassment, things looked bleak once again. Rolling Stone has learned that the incident prompted Warner Bros. officials to hold a meeting regarding Miller’s role with the studio....

It is time to discuss something important. Something that, thanks to the many distractions and responsibilities this world concocts, becomes even more important with age. In the wise words of the once-great Canadian Philosopher, Drake, I got a lot of people trying to drain me of this energy…to play video games. That last part may or may not have been added on, but the overall sentiment remains true: it can be difficult to muster up the energy for gaming as life tends to hit you with a Blue Shell at every corner....

The Guilty, Antoine Fuqua’s new Netflix thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is a tense one-man show that finds Gyllenhaal as disgraced cop Joe Baylor, working at an L.A. emergency response center on a particularly busy night. With wildfires raging, complicating responses to even the simplest of 911 calls, Joe receives a peculiar call from a woman named Emily (Riley Keough) who appears to be talking to her child. Upon further investigation, it seems that Emily is the victim of a kidnapping at the hands of her ex-husband Henry (Peter Sarsgaard)....

When Esther, a 14-year-old child being sexually abused by her elderly ‘husband’ and others he invites to assault her says “maybe there are no good men in Gilead,” it’s hard to argue. In season four of The Handmaid’s Tale, June gently tells her that she thinks there are good men everywhere. “It’s just complicated. Gilead makes it hard to be good.” June’s right on all counts. For all Gilead’s performative piety, goodness is not something it values....

The vast majority of The Handmaid’s Tale viewers won’t know what it feels like to tear their tormentor to actual shreds (see that corpse prosthetic in the mortuary scene? Those girls really did a number on Fred). Thanks to ‘Morning’ though, we got a pretty good idea. It clearly feels… incredible. Ecstatic. Orgasmic. A heroin and power and sex and I-can’t-believe-it flood of vibrating, adrenalized joy. That’s the impression June gave as she opened this episode in a euphoric daze....

Should have seen that coming. Two nice things in a row just happened to June and Luke (hot marriage sex plus romantic Al Green slow dance), so by the laws of The Handmaid’s Tale, one of them’s now going to have to lose a limb. No good deed goes unpunished on this show, which keeps its finger hovering over the ‘electrocute’ button anytime a character even comes close to having a good time....

Some cogs are bigger than the others, though, and when it comes to “the others,” one can’t help but notice that 2008’s Incredible Hulk is something of a black sheep in the Marvel movie roster. These days, they’re just starting to dust it off as a property with the return of Tim Roth’s Abomination in She-Hulk and William Hurt’s General Ross’ gradually increasing role in the universe itself (he’ll appear in Black Widow and possibly other projects soon enough)....

This is what MacGruber co-creators Jorma Taccone, John Solomon, and Will Forte were told by the fun-killing higher-ups, in no uncertain terms, when they set out to adapt their popular Saturday Night Live sketch-turned-feature-film into a TV series at Peacock. “We kept having these meetings where people would be like, ‘You know you can’t do this, right?’” Taccone says. “We were just like, ‘Yeah, but… we’re going to do it....

Though Disney+’s first Star Wars live-action series The Mandalorian is only a year old, the series is already starting to circle back on its own mythology. In season 2 episode 4 “The Siege,” the show brings back a secondary character who factored heavily into the series’ very first scene. That’s right: Horatio Sanz’s “The Mythrol” is back and he’s just as useless as ever. Longtime (well, if November 2019 was a long time ago) Mando fans will remember Sanz’s unnamed Mythrol as the first bounty that the show’s titular bounty hunter collected....

After eight exciting episodes of adventures all over the galaxy far, far away, The Mandalorian season 2 has come to an end. A daring rescue mission brings Mando, Bo-Katan, and the rest of their crew face to face with the evil Moff Gideon, who worked all season to capture Grogu for nefarious purposes. What ensues is a battle to the death that includes lots of stormtroopers, killer dark troopers, and even a clash of blades....

Well, not the character of Venom, but the actor behind the role. According to Matrix Resurrections star Jessica Henwick, who plays Bugs in the new film, Hardy stopped by during production and popped into the background of one of the scenes being filmed, alongside Henwick. “We were filming in San Francisco at the same time as Venom 2, and I met Tom Hardy,” Henwick tells Den of Geek. “And so, Tom Hardy and I are running in the background of one of the scenes....

The game is set in ’90s Poland and centers on Marianne, the titular medium who can communicate with lost souls in the “spirit world” by focusing on objects imbued with memories of those who have passed. The spirit world is a parallel version of ours, like a nightmarish reflection, and Marianne has the ability to traverse both realities simultaneously, which allows her to make connections between them in myriad ways....

“Maybe it was a meeting about nothing or maybe Alex had specific designs for me, I’m not entirely sure,” Eggers tells us now. “But we sat and started talking, and quickly he said that he had been trying to make a Viking movie for some time with Lars Knudsen, who was one of the producers of The Witch and a friend of mine, and I didn’t know this. So I said, ‘Well, I have a Viking movie for you,’ even though I didn’t really....

The Orville Season 1, Episode 2 It’s a damn good thing The Orville had a good story this week following Alara Kitan’s journey as a leader because man-oh-man, the attempts at humor at the start of the episode were difficult to slog through. This show isn’t a Star Trek spoof; it’s a modernized homage, and if it continues to have interesting aliens like this week’s zookeepers and heartfelt character moments such as the reminiscences Ed and Kelly share or the pep talks Claire gives Alara, The Orville will enjoy more success with viewers....

The Orville Season 1 Episode 4 You’d think that after many seasons and spinoffs of Star Trek, we’d have seen an episode like this one, but The Orville is proving that it can break new ground even as it treads familiar territory. Encountering a society blinded by self-imposed ignorance is nothing new, of course, but the manner in which this show presents its encounters with other civilizations is quickly beginning to become its own thing....

The Orville Season 1 Episode 6 The Orville has found a scenario that would have been a mundane if thought-provoking story on any other more conventional space drama and made it into a hilarious yet amazingly layered episode. And if that weren’t enough, the series has managed to take what had been a generic, Klingon-like enemy and shown them to have real depth and a singular vision that, however misinformed by racism (species-ism?...

Matthew Vaughn’s The King’s Man is on streaming now. That’s a quick turnaround since its Christmastime release last year, but perhaps it’s for the best. With the largely underappreciated (and under-seen) Kingsman prequel making its debut on HBO Max and Hulu, there’s a chance the strange action mash-up may finally find its audience. Indeed, the film’s pitch always seemed a bit niche, even for this franchise. By eschewing the modern class conflict of the first two Kingsman movies, which created a dynamic of “street” versus posh spy, the World War I-set The King’s Man travels back in time more than a hundred years to tell a story that has more in common with Rudyard Kipling novels than Ian Fleming....