Altered Carbon Episode 8 “Clash by Night” seems to be specifically engineered to force viewers to proceed to episode nine to figure out what they just saw in this episode of Altered Carbon. With Reileen stepping into the spotlight and Kovacs ostensibly wrapping up the Bancroft case, the revelations would seem to preclude so many hanging threads, but there are so many layers of deception to this century-spanning tale that it would be naive to think anything has been resolved....

As hard as it is to imagine now, there was once a time where Bale was not a movie star, and even though he had done sterling work in Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun and Gillian Armstrong’s definitive adaptation of Little Women, he remained a mystery to studios who were eager to cast bankable stars in risky projects—and as Harron tells Little White Lies in a new interview, there is nothing safe about American Psycho....

“My brain does this very clever thing, I think,” Taylor-Joy says, “which is it either doesn’t really let me know what’s going on or it doesn’t impress upon me the importance of a situation, because otherwise I’d be in my bathroom screaming.” Hence how she can go from getting a cold call about meeting with a first-time director for a new Emma adaptation to agreeing the next day with filmmaker Autumn de Wilde that they’ll take a stab at a protagonist who’s thwarted many a previous leading lady....

While the part of that interview where Sasko says the developers obviously aren’t overworking themselves rings loud following CD Projekt Red’s decision to implement crunch scheduling, the bit that stands out most is the implication that at that time, Cyberpunk 2077 was nearly content complete. According to Sasko, the “year of work” that was left on the game (spoilers: it was longer than that) would largely be spent “iterating [it], polishing it, playing it, making sure it looks and feels the way we want....

Army of Thieves, the prequel to Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, has less to do with zombies than you might expect. Yes, there are a few undead creatures shambling around the claustrophobic hallways of Ludwig Dieter’s (Matthias Schweighöfer) nightmares and on European newscasts showing the horrific outbreak in Las Vegas, but the movie’s not really interested in what’s happening across the Atlantic. Instead, Army of Thieves is about the mythical safes built by legendary (and fictional) locksmith Hans Wagner, one of which will eventually become the vault Scott Ward (Dave Bautista), Ludwig, and the rest of the squad of mercenaries will risk their lives for in Army of the Dead....

A lot of emotions come to the surface for all of Attack on Titan’s characters, but it’s also been an incredibly cathartic experience for the voice actors that have brought the anime’s icons to life for nearly a decade. Every episode in this final season feels like a new apex for the series’ storytelling, but there are some earlier moments from the anime’s run that continue to stick with its voice actors and remain raw sequences....

Attack on Titan Season 4 Episode 2 “You’ve achieved great things.” “No, not yet.” Fringe is a television series about an unstable rift between two alternate Earths where the survival of one depends on the destruction of the other. The characters on these opposing Earths both view themselves as the heroes because by nature the very existence of the other Earth makes it the “enemy.” Neither side functions as a villain, but this necessity for survival demands that they’re both viewed in this light anyway....

It’s entirely possible that those blue macarons Baby Yoda flagrantly stole and porked his way through in The Mandalorian Season 2’s New Hope-y fourth episode tasted better coming out than they did going in, as showrunner Jon Favreau has revealed that they actually “didn’t really have much flavor.” Favreau popped up on the ever-popular YouTube series Binging With Babish this week in an installment where host Andrew Rea, aka Oliver Babish, attempted to recreate the blue snacks, with objectively dodgy results....

Barry Season 3 Episode 5 I’ve gone on the record praising Barry’s pacing and episode lengths. The show consistently moves at a clip, pushing the story forward with kinetic energy. That said, “crazytimesh*tshow” may be the first episode of the series to feel too overstuffed. Not only does this week’s episode explore Barry’s feelings after his and Sally’s breakup, furthers the war between the Chechens and Bolivians, and continues Sally’s Hollywood journey, but it also reintroduces Barry’s old Marine buddy Albert Nguyen as an FBI antagonist, continues to follow Julie (Annabeth Gish) and her son as they plot to kill Barry, introduces a new scorned woman from Gene’s past, and finds Fuches trying to stir up more trouble with Taylor’s sister....

Far more than an exercise in “wouldn’t it be cool…” Batman ‘89 has a perfect creative team at its helm, with Joe Quinones (who initially helped pitch the concept to DC several years back, and whose art perfectly captures both the atmosphere and spirit of Burton’s films) teaming with the writer of the first Batman movie, Sam Hamm. Together, they’ve crafted the closest thing to a third Burton bat-film as we’re ever likely to see, bringing back Catwoman (who takes the spotlight on the cover of the fifth issue, which went on sale on April 12) and delivering perhaps the most tragic and horrific version of the Two-Face origin story yet told....

Batwoman Season 2, Episode 8 This season of Batwoman has focused a lot on the question posed in the season premiere title: What happened to Kate Kane? Despite what could have been an open-and-shut, neatly wrapped-up character exit where Kate Kane dies suddenly in a plane crash, the writers felt it was important to keep Kate in play and reintroduced the possibility of her survival in Episode 3 of the season, “Bat Girl Magic....

Batwoman Season 2, Episode 9 The False Face Society has been flooding Gotham with Snakebite, which is thee hot new drug. And in the absence of the Wonderland Gang, the masked menaces have risen up to terrorize the city, much to the dismay of… everyone. The gang is led by a businessman Roman Sionis, who moonlights as Black Mask (Peter Outerbridge) and he has a bandaged—and soon to be entirely remodeled—Kate locked away....

One of the most helpful traits that Better Call Saul shares with its title character is an attention to detail. When trying to capture the attention and trust of someone – whether that be an audience member watching an AMC show or a Cinnabon-loving mall security guard – it helps to meet them on their level. You’ve got to talk about what they want to talk about. And you have to be knowledgable when doing so....

And like that, the ground gave way again beneath cinemas and supporters of the theatrical experience. And this fall is going to hurt. Despite other studios seemingly making moves to return to theaters this summer, Disney revealed Tuesday that even if the pandemic might be ebbing soon, the company’s transition to a Disney+-first media strategy is barreling full steam ahead. Indeed, Marvel Studios’ long-delayed Black Widow and the Emma Stone-starring Cruella are leading the pack with planned day-and-date releases in theaters and via Disney+’s $30 paywall, “Premier Access....

During the first Avengers movie, in the midst of the Chitauri invasion into Manhattan’s Midtown district, Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow) and Clint Barton (Hawkeye) are standing shoulder to shoulder as wave after wave of aliens swarm. The archer has just saved civilians on a bus while the Russian spy is emptying her pistols into intergalactic monstrosities’ skulls. Under normal circumstances, this should be a once-in-a-lifetime event. And even in the case of the Avengers, it should at least be a first....

Xolo Maridueña (Cobra Kai) plays Jaime Reyes, a teenager from El Paso, TX who finds an alien “scarab” that bonds with him, manifests a suit of high tech armor, and grants him super powers. Created by Keith Giffen, John Rogers, and Cully Hamner during DC’s Infinite Crisis event back in 2006, Blue Beetle’s sleek, almost Tokusatsu-influenced design seems like it was destined for the screen almost from its inception. But despite appearing in numerous DC animated projects (notably Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Young Justice), Beetle’s only live action appearance so far came in Smallville season 10, episode 18, “Booster” where he was unfortunately saddled with a weirdly bulky look that didn’t manage to capture the coolness of the comics look....

Along the way, Campbell’s had more success (The Mask of Zorro) and some elaborate failures (Green Lantern), and he returns to the big screen this week for the first time in four years with The Protégé, a violent, very gritty thriller starring Maggie Q and Michael Keaton as deadly professional assassins who are drawn to each other as the former sets out to avenge the murder of her mentor (Samuel L....

The Beach Boys’ singer, bassist, and keyboardist, besides being the chief and mostly-hit songwriter, was also the band’s producer. The Beatles had George Martin, and they were listening to what the surfer boys were laying down. Brian noticed what was happening in England, and became competitive. He is the one who wrote “Be True to Your School,” and bragged about the hot rods he didn’t actually own, but he had the spirit....

Call of Duty: Warzone‘s Pacific Season 2 update isn’t just one of the biggest updates in the history of the free-to-play battle royale; it’s an update that is guaranteed to shake up the game’s competitive meta and almost certainly change which guns you’re going to rely on. While there are a few good reasons to believe that some of the recent best guns in Warzone will remain dominant in the new meta (more on that in a bit), the new update seems to have done a great job of shaking up the meta in such a way that will at least make it worth your time to explore some of the game’s new guns and even a few guns that will feel new thanks to nerfs and buffs....

Our first introduction to Jurassic Park and its dinosaurs is on a dark and misty night, Men wait with guns as the crane crashes through the forest carrying a Velociraptor we are only allowed glimpses of. Tension hangs in the air. When she tries to escape, there are cries of “Shoot her! Shoot her!” The raptor attacks, and rest in peace Jophery, first victim of the monster. If this scene tells us anything, it is that we are undoubtedly watching a monster movie....