The Flash Season 4 Episode 18 The past few weeks on The Flash have been pretty entertaining but not exactly seismic when it comes to story progression. Last week, we got a fluffy but fun Cisco episode along with a look at the burgeoning friendship between Ralph Dibny and Barry Allen. While Cisco’s promotion to full-fledged Breacher isn’t explored at all this week, the bond between Flash and Elongated Man takes center stage....
Anyone who’s ever worked in a newsroom can feel seen by a throwaway line like that. Which is of course by design since Anderson’s new film exceeds being simply a love letter to the press; it’s a fawning portrait of adoration for the printed word in general, and The New Yorker in particular. Because in spite of the film’s intentionally embellished setting in Anderson’s current home of France, The French Dispatch, as both a fictional periodical and a film, is a painstaking recreation of the real wit and urbane conviviality we associate with that magazine....
Antonie Fuqua’s The Guilty, a remake of 2018 Danish hit Den Skyldige written by True Detective scribe Nic Pizzolatto, is certainly a quarantine film. While the cast includes Ethan Hawke, Riley Keough, Paul Dano, Peter Sarsgaard, Bill Burr, Eli Goree, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, you mostly only see leading man Jake Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal plays Joe Baylor, a police officer working a shift at a 911 emergency response center in Los Angeles....
As the film opens we see little Chris (James Quinn Markey) and his mom Sarah (Seana Kerslake) driving in their aging car through a vast swath of Irish forest, the two of them are immediately made to seem small and powerless amidst the large, unknowable surroundings. It’s heavily implied that Sarah and Chris’ dad are estranged, if not divorced (she also hides a scar under her hair that hints strongly at the relationship being abusive), and that the young woman and her child are heading off to a rural village in Ireland to restart their lives in a calmer setting....
Those days are long gone, as the latest The Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer just reminded us. The movie is a virtual who’s who of movie star talent circa the early 2020s: Jack Black as Bowser, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi… and Chris Pratt as Mario. With the exception of Black, none of the hired actors are doing much to disguise their recognizable cadences in the new trailer, but only one has earned the ire of the internet: and it’s once again Chris Pratt....
The Magicians Season 2 Episode 9 It was a week of self-realization for several characters in this week’s episode of The Magicians, and there was a sense of discovery as personality shortcomings came to light and introduced new conflicts to come. Alas, some narrative flaws left the story feeling a bit slapdash, but as is usual with episodes like this, the push forward for the central story arc overrides any misgivings arising from the weaker aspects....
Just hours after Ahsoka Tano had returned to the small screen in the final season of The Clone Wars, Variety confirmed one of the biggest Star Wars rumors circulating the internet: that Rosario Dawson would play Ahsoka in the live-action series The Mandalorian, bringing the Jedi out of the realm of animation for the first time. Ahsoka, Anakin Skywalker’s apprentice who left the Jedi Order just in time to escape the Jedi Purge, was herself a much-discussed addition to the story of the Prequels....
Are you with us or with them? It’s an exceedingly simple question. Reductive, one might say. And yet, the inability to answer this query produces most of the anxiety and tension in what is a fang-toothed laceration of class, capitalism, and the pretenses of foodie culture. In other words, it’s a key ingredient to the new bleakly funny thriller, The Menu. The horror/satire hybrid is directed by Game of Thrones and Succession veteran Mark Mylod, and is written by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, who between them have writing credits in Succession, The New Yorker, and The Onion....
Two of the characters that writer/director James Gunn wanted to feature in his soft reboot of the DC Extended Universe franchise — a follow-up to the Squad’s 2016 big screen introduction — were King Shark a.k.a. Nanaue (played on set by Steve Agee and voiced by Sylvester Stallone) and Starro the Conqueror. The former is a man-eating hybrid of great white shark and human being, while the latter is a giant, intelligent alien life form in the shape of a starfish that has traveled through interstellar space to Earth and can control the minds of other beings through spores it wraps around its victims’ faces....
The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 11 Of all the characters on The Walking Dead, there’s only one who would have the mindset needed to build a proper evidence dungeon, with the red string lines, sketched photos. and everything that entails. Enter Eugene Porter (Josh McDermitt), who is both flamboyant enough and paranoid enough to do just that very thing when his girlfriend Stephanie (Margot Bingham) goes missing overnight. Things were going well, with the two spending the night together and Stephanie enjoying Eugene’s rough draft sci-fi novel, then she fails to show up for an ice cream date, doesn’t answer her door when called, and has put in a mysterious work transfer request shortly after movers pack up her apartment and take her things away....
The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 23 It’s hard to believe that The Walking Dead is almost over. Robert Kirkman’s comic book was designed to be a zombie movie that never ends, and even that came to an end eventually. With 11 seasons and 177 episodes (with next week’s series finale), The Walking Dead as a television property wasn’t endless, but it was as close as an expensive, hour-long cable drama can get, which is a testament both to the staying power of the cast and crew and the dedication of fans....
The Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 7 I’m going to keep things short this week, as “Time for After” was mostly a setup episode for the midseason finale, which will see several sides converge on the Sanctuary. We also had a bit of a catch up with Eugene. In fact, this episode sort of acts as a sequel to last year’s “Hostiles and Calamities,” which saw Eugene first become Negan after being “kidnapped” in the season seven midseason finale....
While Marvel’s first TV effort, WandaVision, is not a classic (yet) nor a sitcom, it does seek to lovingly recreate beloved TV legends like The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched, The Brady Bunch, and more. And to that end, it’s brought in a pair of songwriting titans to pen some irrepressible jingles. Before breaking the pattern in the world-expanding fourth episode, WandaVision’s first three episodes were each accompanied by a new tune to play over the opening credits....
But there’s one bit of casting that has had fans excited from the moment it was first announced: Christian Bale is finally joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And Bale is bringing his rather intense presence to an appropriately intense role, that of Gorr, the God-Butcher. And yes, folks, Gorr is every bit as intense as that impossibly metal name makes him sound. Imagine an alien who lost everything, watching his family die and vowing revenge (wait, is Gorr Batman?...
The Past Is Red by Catherynne M. Valente Type: NovelPublisher: TordotcomRelease date: July 20 Den of Geek says: Valente turns her finely-wrought prose to a climate change apocalypse in what is sure to be an inventive take on a water world. Publisher’s summary: The future is blue. Endless blue…except for a few small places that float across the hot, drowned world left behind by long-gone fossil fuel-guzzlers. One of those patches is a magical place called Garbagetown....
That looks set to continue in 2019 and beyond, with a bevy of exciting horror projects on the horizon. Over the next year, we’re looking forward to a host of bold new visions, intriguing reboots and sequels to some genre favorites, as well as a number of new Stephen King adaptations (natch). We’ll be updating this list with the latest trailers and developments as we get them, as well as adding in new films as they’re announced....
WandaVision episode 2 expands the mystery around Wanda and Vision’s new locale, Westview, and it does so in large part by introducing a slew of new neighbors. Fred, Linda, Dennis the Mailman, Dottie, Phil, Geraldine, Beth, and Herb all make their first appearances in this episode. But who are they? And what clues might they give us to what’s really going on in Westview? Lots, probably. Some of their neighbors seem to track to villains Wanda and Vision faced off with early in their marriage: the Salem’s Seven....
Westworld Season 4 Episode 2 One of the biggest strengths of the first season of Westworld was its massive ensemble cast. Some of them were known performers taking on new characters, with established actors like Ed Harris as the mysterious Man in Black and Anthony Hopkins adding a little class to the story of a very adult theme park full of robots just waiting to go kill-crazy. However, the performers who weren’t as well-known stood out because they all had very distinctive looks, and few characters in Westworld stood out quite like Angela Sarafyan....
Right when all hope seems lost, The Walking Dead season 10 finale, “A Certain Doom,” reveals that our heroes have a plan for luring away Beta’s walker horde from the hospital. No, it isn’t the most fool proof plan, considering Daryl, Carol, and a group of others have to make their way through the horde to get to their destination, but it might just be crazy enough to work! As the Whisperers breach the hospital and the walkers chew on what’s left of poor Beatrice, Daryl and the rest make their way to a wagon waiting for them on the road just beyond the forest separating them from the horde....
It’s like the climax of a Western. Two men stare across from each other in a showdown of ego and calculation. And Gary Oldman’s Herman J. Mankiewicz (or “Mank”) has just told Orson Welles (Tom Burke) he wants writing credit for the Citizen Kane screenplay. This is not going to end well. Before this moment, Welles had been conciliatory to Mank, feigning concern for his health and offering to take sole rewriting duties on the gargantuan script....
