There was plenty to unpack in The Rings of Power finale. The jam-packed episode not only answered many of our biggest questions but also set up key events that will lead to the saga of The Lord of the Rings books and movies we know and love. “Alloyed” even introduced some actual Rings of Power — the three for the Elves that will soon be worn by Galadriel, High King Gil-galad, and Cirdan....
Lucifer Morningstar is a frequent dark guest of Western culture, with depictions of the fallen angel stretching back to Biblical times and even before that in elemental forms. In Neil Gaiman’s hallowed comic The Sandman, however, Lucifer is a little different from his usual representation. The Sandman‘s Lucifer is bored of ruling hell for billions of years and he’s about to make that boredom everyone else’s problem. Funnily enough, Netflix already has played host to Gaiman’s version of the devil, having produced the final three seasons of the Tom Ellis-starring Lucifer (formerly of Fox)....
The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 2 In order to stay relevant in the present, The Simpsons’ season 32, episode 2, moves back to the past. History has a way of repeating on itself, as does The Simpsons, and “I, Carumbus” is a cautionary tale, twice told, if you watch it again on demand. Just like the often-misinterpreted “Revelations” of The Bible was actually about Emperor Nero, the tale of Obesius and his son Bartigula, is a warning shrouded in the mystery of parable....
The Simpsons Season 34 Episode 1 It’s a conspiracy. The Simpsons season 34 premiere finds middle ground on a very divided topic, follows a twisted story line with single-minded concentration, and still can’t see what’s right in front of them. “Habeas Tortoise” works better as a satire than a comedy, even as it hits every comic beat. The premise is simple. Someone, or some ones, stole Slow Leonard, the Springfield Zoo’s longest-running, slowest-moving attraction....
If that sounds a little confusing, well, it is. The 2016 origin movie, directed by David Ayer (and subsequently recut by the studio), was a massive box office hit with $747 million worldwide in its coffers when all was said and done. But critics and even fans were less positive, despite the movie being one of the DCEU’s most lucrative, so Warner Bros. abandoned plans for a direct sequel and eventually corralled Gunn — fresh off his then-dismissal (subsequently retracted) from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....
To recap, a young woman is found dead, stabbed 21 times (it appears she has stabbed herself, or been forced to stab herself), buried in a shallow grave in a cemetery. Either by coincidence, or for nefarious reasons, O’Loughlin talked himself into a job consulting on the case by muscling in on a meet up between young Detective Devi (Anjli Mohindra) and some sex workers he’s pals with. Then once he’s brought into the morgue to see the body, he claims he doesn’t recognise the woman and yet sneaks back into the room by memorizing the code, foolishly (we guess) assuming a police morgue wouldn’t have CCTV up the wazoo....
The Walking Dead Season 10 Episode 17 The Walking Dead is not a show that can be described as “free from issues.” Since the very first season, the series has made a habit of introducing a group, only for that group to self-destruct, disappear, or die, either on screen in the case of the prisoners from season three’s West Georgia Correctional Facility, or off-screen in the case of the eponymous Vatos from season one’s “Vatos....
The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 3 “Hunted” opens in a flurry of action. Blades and arrows come flying in out of the darkness. Most of Maggie’s companions stumble and fall, as do their hunters. Some get back up and scramble away towards safety, or in pursuit of someone. Most don’t. At least, not until they presumably turn into walkers and join the omnipresent background noise of the undead. As far as cold openings go, this one runs hot, and while it burns itself out quickly, it’s a perfect set-up for the following episode, which features The Walking Dead in hunting mode for both the A plot and the B plot....
In the Prime Video adaptation of The Wheel of Time, the character of Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) takes center stage as the wise woman tasked with finding the Dragon Reborn, the reincarnation of the only one powerful enough to defeat the darkness that threatens to destroy the world. “I didn’t choose this path,” Moiraine says in the trailer, “but I will follow it.” That journey takes her to the town of Two Rivers, where “the old blood runs deep,” increasing the likelihood of finding the fated hero she’s looking for....
Various complaints have been leveled against the movie, which owes more than a small debt to Alfred Hitchcock – not an easy comparison to weather – including that the characters are hard to care for and the plot comes so thick and fast as to be beyond implausible. While in many ways, it is pointless criticizing a film for what it’s not, recent trends on the small screen suggest that this story would’ve just been better as telly....
As per Deadline, Burton and MGM TV, which owns the movie and television rights to the characters, are shopping around a live-action television reboot of The Addams Family, which would include Burton as an executive producer (a first for the filmmaker) and as director of possibly all episodes. Additionally, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar of Smallville fame are lined up as showrunners who will lead the writer’s room in addition to executive producing the project....
Survive the Night by Riley Sager Type: NovelPublisher: DuttonRelease date: June 29 Den of Geek says: Thriller bestseller Sager returns with the pop scares of the summer. Publisher’s summary: It’s November 1991. Nirvana’s in the tape deck, George H. W. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer. Buy Survive the Night by Riley Sager....
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel Type: NovelPublisher: KnopfRelease date: April 5 Den of Geek says: Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven introduced a beautiful new voice. Her novels intertwine with each other, but also work as poetic science fiction stand-alones. Publisher’s summary: Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party....
If you were looking for someone who relishes the notion of kicking ass, it’s hard to imagine anyone more willing to do so than Swedish model turned actress Frida Gustavsson, who plays Freydis Eriksdotter on Vikings: Valhalla. Freydis is a character from The Vínland Sagas, which were probably based on oral histories of earlier historical events. According to these poems, she and her brother Leif left Iceland for Greenland, and then sailed further west to “Vínland,” which we now know as North America....
Westworld Episode 9 It is the mark of a well-made series that upon the moment a “twist” or major story point is correctly predicted, one feels a sense of satisfaction, as opposed to disappointment. And better still, it’s a testament to the quality of a truly fantastic story if instead of just satisfaction, a major revelation (surprising or not) is greeted with exhilaration and the cathartic release that comes from weeks and weeks of narrative crescendo....
While these aren’t the first Nintendo Switch games to support cloud technology (Resident Evil 7 and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey beat them to the punch), previous uses of this concept were seen as a dry run test of bigger things to come. Well, it certainly feels like that’s what’s happening right now. So what does this mean for the future of the Nintendo Switch? It could be years before we know the answer to that question, but based on the information that’s currently available, this is what you need to know about how cloud gaming will impact the Nintendo Switch:...
Naturally, anime is an art style — developed in Japan and with a wide range of inspirations behind it — not a single genre. You can find anime films and TV shows espousing and glorifying a wide range of philosophies, from the green of the trees to the virtues of guns. But some of the most successful examples have included the former. Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, the director and studio behind perhaps the most well-known anime films in the west, make the association between the style and environmental messages clear....
One of these new projects is a spinoff starring Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Carol (Melissa McBride), two of The Walking Dead‘s most beloved characters and the only two survivors left from the show’s very first season. The untitled spinoff will once again be helmed by current Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang, which suggests that this new show will be a true continuation of the story first begun in 2010. Unsurprisingly, fans are dying to know what this new spinoff will be about and how it’ll be different from what’s come before....
This is undeath as usual on Staten Island. In the season 3 finale, the main cast was thrown asunder to the world to embark on adventures beyond the vampire house which binds them. Laszlo rerouted Guillermo’s travel plans to accompany Nadja, leaving Nandor on a train platform with an extra ticket and too much baggage. The reunion is set up perfectly, moving from Doll-Nadja’s introduction to Nandor’s surprisingly boisterous entrance in one sweeping encapsulation of the group dynamic....
In reality, B.B. King did just that in 1956. At the time, he was coming off his best year, according to King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King, by Daniel de Visé. King had just packed the Howard Theater in Washington D.C. and Harlem’s Apollo, as well as 340 other venues. Born Riley B. King on a Mississippi plantation in 1925, B.B. “Blues Boy” King had risen to the height of his musical popularity by the mid-1950s....
