The Boys’ demented and thrilling second season opened up a can of Vought International worms by introducing Aya Cash’s fascist Stormfront, and revealing the company’s ties to Nazi experiments during WWII. During a pivotal scene towards the end of the season, Stormfront opened up to Homelander, the current leader of The Seven, showing him her place in Vought’s history as Nazi founder Frederick Vought’s wife. Not only that, she confirmed that she was given the first successful dose of Compound V, turning her into a extremely powerful supe who had managed to outlive her own daughter....

Six seasons spanning 80 years, taking Queen Elizabeth II from her marriage in 1947 all the way to the present day – that’s the plan for Peter Morgan’s glossy Netflix drama, which debuts its third season this November. The 10 new episodes are the first to star Olivia Colman as the Queen, taking over from the terrific Claire Foy. Joining Colman in Season 3 are Tobias Menzies, replacing Matt Smith as Prince Philip, and Helena Bonham Carter, replacing Vanessa Kirby as Princess Margaret....

On the right of the collage, we have a different scene from 20th Century Fox’s San Diego Comic-Con panel circa 2015. In retrospect, Fox’s expectations appeared overly optimistic when they had Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, Channing Tatum, Jennifer Lawrence, and Miles Teller, among others, stand shoulder to shoulder for a selfie with Stan Lee, promising a glistening future of shared superhero movies like X-Men: Apocalypse, Deadpool, Logan, Fantastic Four (2015), and Gambit....

Director Robert Fuest (The Abominable Dr. Phibes) knew as much before he agreed to take on the project. He complained to the screenwriters about this, but they calmly assured him that no, it all made perfectly clear sense. So he went on ahead and made the film anyway, attempting to clarify those things he could as he went along. In the end it didn’t help much. But if you’re going to look at a film in terms of whether or not it “makes sense,” then you’ll have to admit that The Wizard of Oz and The Ten Commandments don’t make a hell of a lot of sense, either....

Twenty years ago, on Jan 25, 2002, The Mothman Prophecies opened in movie theaters. Starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney and directed by Mark Pellington, the movie was a critical and commercial nonstarter, but in recent years it has developed a cult following as a truly creepy psychological horror flick. Atmospheric and unsettling, the movie also features one of the weirdest product placements in cinema when a demon-alien voice on the phone tells Gere’s character that it knows he’s holding Chapstick lip balm....

“That was one hell of a ride.” Yes, it certainly was, Alex! The Expanse season 5 finale gave us plenty of surprises, twists, and shifts in perspective, but the character arc of Alex Kamal shocked everyone with its significant departure from that of his counterpart in the James S. A. Corey novels. Showrunner Naren Shankar was able to shed some light on the narrative decisions that were made, knowing the impact that the changes would have but realizing that, in many ways, they needed to happen....

The Flash Season 8 Episode 8 The Flash’s “The Fire Next Time” is another of what showrunner Eric Wallace likes to call “interlude” episodes, standalone hours that won’t necessarily directly involve the larger arc of the back half of the season (which we’re all assuming will focus on Iris’ continuing time sickness and what that means for her and Barry.) But, despite its more low-stakes feel, “The Fire Next Time” does repeatedly touch on themes that are still prevalent throughout the world of the show, namely, the power of second chances, fighting for those who are marginalized or left behind by the justice system, and lifting up the voices of those who might otherwise not be heard....

The Flash Season 8 Episode 6 Given that The Flash has been on hiatus for the better part of the past three months, one might expect the series’ return—which also kicks off Season 8 proper in the wake of the show’s five-part Armageddon event—to be a bit, well, bigger. After all, Armageddon included the returns of fan-favorite Arrowverse characters like Black Lightning’sJefferson Pierce or Arrow’s Mia Queen alongside the reappearance of Tom Cavanagh’s Reverse Flash....

The Flash Season 3 Episode 22 Holy moley. They really did it. I have been operating under the assumption for the entire second half of this season that when the time came to drive that spike through Iris West, they’d find a way out of it. This isn’t how it’s supposed to end for Barry and Iris, right? The only mystery was in who else the show would break our hearts with, but it certainly wouldn’t be Iris....

The Flash Season 4 Episode 2 I don’t know about this one, folks. I know that “Mixed Signals” was supposed to serve as the true reset after the understandable weirdness of getting Barry out of the Speed Force in the season premiere. And I get that the showrunners want to send a message loud and clear about this season’s new, lighter tone to help kind of wash away any lingering negativity from how intense season three was (disclosure: I didn’t have a problem with it)....

Currently, Fortnite is holding a special Fall Guys-themed crossover event (or is it the other way around?). By completing different challenges in Fall Guys, participants can earn rewards for Fortnite, as well as Rocket League and Fall Guys itself. These tests of skill and balance, which can be found in the “Challenges” section of the main page, are part of Fall Guys’ ongoing Crown Clash event. While Fall Guys doesn’t list the rewards players can earn in Fortnite, it at least tracks progress, so when competitors earn one prize, they earn them across the board....

The Gilded Age Episode 7 Episode 7 of The Gilded Age is clearly gearing up for the major events bound to occur in the season finale on March 21. Thomas Edison switching on electric power for the first time in New York City is the symbolic backdrop for the characters who are resisting change and those who are seizing the opportunities a changing society will bring. Before Edison shows our cast the wonders of what we take for granted, however, there’s quite a bit of drama to sort through....

The Gilded Age Episode 8 The penultimate episode of The Gilded Age takes Bertha’s attempts at breaking into society on the road to Newport, Rhode Island. There’s still a lot of action happening in the city with the characters left behind. Before Bertha and Gladys visit the seaside, preparations for Glady’s debut ball are well underway. Carrie Astor and the other teenagers are learning the quadrille steps. Mrs. Russell conveniently has an entire band stage in the basement....

For those who aren’t well-versed in The Legend of Zelda, players take control of a hero named Link in every installment. Even though art styles shift between games, every Link is a young boy (or sometimes man) in a green Peter Pan-like tunic. While Link swings his sword in his left hand and holds his shield in his right, he occasionally swaps his dominant hand. Moreover, every entry sports a fairly stable roster of weapons....

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Episode 4 There’s a loose theme around the subject of parents and children running through this week’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. And also themes of risk and safety. We see that clearly in Míriel’s dream during the opening where she greets a roomful of babies before the titular Great Wave comes and destroys the city. The dream of “The Great Wave” is a recurring one Tolkien himself had....

It told the tale of a wealthy medieval prince in a country decimated by an epidemic. The satanic overlord, played by the legendary actor and horror icon Vincent Price, locks his gates to his god-fearing dominions while he and his friends party like it’s 1999. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” is about 2,300 words. Corman’s adaptation, which has been fully restored and can now be seen in its lush, psychedelic splendor, padded it with more Poe to reach 90 minutes....

People getting stuck in a cycle of comfort food doesn’t just happen at the table. Since the advent of cable, the TV equivalent of comfort food, reruns of Law and Order, Seinfeld, and the like, suck in viewers who’d rather have something predictable and familiar. Traditional television viewers weaned on “57 channels and nothing on” can be forgiven for surrendering to the easy comfort of syndicated programming, but it’s a bit less defensible in the streaming age....

It only made sense. Despite antibiotics and advances in medical research, new dread diseases continued to crop up on an annual basis, each one threatening (for a while there anyway) to become a pandemic that could wipe out millions. In recent decades, none of them had killed more than a few thousand people, but the threat and the fear were a constant presence. There was swine flu, various incarnations of bird flu, SARS, West Nile Virus, mad cow disease, Hantavirus ,superbugs, and Ebola....

The Orville Season 1 Episode 7 Okay, now you’re trying too hard, The Orville. Maybe for those who haven’t seen the Black Mirror episode, “Nosedive,” “Majority Rule” was an innovative satirical look at our social media obsessed culture, but even those seeing this idea for the first time might wonder if the nearly identical planet to Earth was a bit too on the nose. The tension of Lieutenant Lamarr’s ordeal was authentic, and plenty of the jokes landed solidly, but taking the story planetside makes it seem like this was an existing script adapted to the template of The Orville....

With guests including Patton Oswalt, Margaret Cho, Amy Bruni, and even your truly, Ghosted! maintains a balance, which fits just perfectly for her. After all, before she became known as Roz Drezfalez, she grew up in a potentially haunted house, as she revealed in an episode of Den of Geek’s paranormal podcast show Talking Strange (available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube). “I grew up in a house I believed to be haunted, and grew up with a belief that that kind of thing is possible,” she says....