However, Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong’s The Midnight Club provided me with something else – the understanding I needed to put another morphine syringe into my father’s blistering mouth. What appeared on-screen mirrored what was unfolding in my home, which, yes, gave validation to how unbelievably hard this is. The writing whispered permission for me (like the show’s teens) to feel a range of conflicting emotions at the prospect of letting someone die on their terms … including relief....

At least that is the crux of director Nia DaCosta and producer/co-writer Jordan Peele’s reimagining. In a world where urban communities’ legacies are at risk of erasure from relentless developers, the forgotten atrocities of the past can still come back in painful and violent ways. The filmmakers suggested as much when they introduced the film at a press event yesterday. “Gentrification in our film is what helped us reimagine the story, because Cabrini-Green is gone,” DaCosta says to a group of outlets, including Den of Geek....

In that diminished state, you’re good for nothing. You’re duvet fodder. And so to pass the time while your enzymes get to work breaking down that acetaldehyde, you legend, you’re going to need company. Not actual company. Other people are what got you into this mess, probably. No, what you need are on-screen friends – softly spoken, slow-moving, on-screen friends who may well be doing something in a meadow, or near a pond....

The six-episode limited series stars Oscar Isaac as unassuming, lonely, nebbishy museum gift shop employee Steven Grant, who lives by himself in a dark London apartment and has the odd habit of chaining himself to his bed because he apparently likes to go on walkabouts in his sleep. But as we soon find out, Steven shares his body with at least one other persona entirely — Marc Spector, an American mercenary and assassin who was at one point near death and was revived by Khonshu, an ancient Egyptian moon god who uses Spector’s body and considerable skills to enact justice on those who would do evil in the world....

“The tragic disappearance of these two young women is every parent’s worst nightmare, and completely shifted the dynamics of parenting back in 1975,” Investigation Discovery’s Henry Schleiff said in a statement. Investigation Discovery’s two-hour special features the findings which came from the reporting of bestselling author Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down, The Last Stone). Bowden followed the case from the beginning. “When news of their disappearance broke, a community was rocked to its core,” reads the press statement....

As shown on the latest episode of House of the Dragon, the unhatched offspring of the dragonlords’ mighty beasts embody significant symbolic and literal power. When Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith), rejected as heir to the Iron Throne by his brother Viserys I (Paddy Considine) in favor of the king’s daughter Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock), storms out of the Red Keep with his loyal gold cloaks and his mistress Mysaria, he knows the quickest way to hurt his family is to help himself to a dragon’s egg....

According to Illyrio Mopatis, a Dothraki wedding without at least three deaths is considered a dull affair. If that’s the case then perhaps Westeros and Essos in George R.R. Martin’s sprawling Word of Ice and Fire are not so different after all. As viewers have seen through eight seasons of Game of Thrones and five episodes of House of the Dragon, it’s rare for a Westerosi wedding to come and go without some bloodshed....

Olivia Castle (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) knows things are about to be bad. Despite her doctor’s kind assurances that her laser eye surgery is routine and harmless, despite the stuffed bear she clutches, Olivia cannot help but shudder. Strapped to a table, her head held still and her eyelids pulled open, Olivia only grows more agitated. In contrast, the doctor goes through the setup process in a patient monotone, calmly talking her through the process....

And now Lawrence, in conversation with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, has been chatting about why the follow-on movie never happened. “Warners was really, really, REALLY into coming up with something, and I just didn’t know how to do it,” he said. “I saw very quickly after the movie came out, and I went ‘people came to see the last man on earth. We’ve done the last man on earth, he died at the end of the movie, we can’t do it again’....

Fan-favorite mobile game Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War is celebrating its 4th anniversary this year. Even more impressive than the milestone itself is the way Tides of War has continued to find new ways to keep its players engaged with one of the most thriving, social-friendly gaming communities on mobile devices. The high seas of Tides of War are absolutely teeming with more action and adventure than ever before, with thousands of players and alliances contending for dominance as they hunt down abominable sea creatures, plunder hapless islands for treasures and resources, and rain cannon fire on their bitter rivals....

Back at San Diego Comic Con, Marvel Studios announced that Thunderbolts would be the grand finale to MCU Phase 5. Fans had been excited to see if the classic Marvel Comics antihero squad would emerge in the MCU, and now we know that they will. Not only that, D23 has given us a look at what the team’s roster looks like! It’s a wild line-up that makes plenty of sense and has the potential to be an awesome team-up movie....

Well, as you probably guessed based on this article’s headline, my answer to that question is “No.” The PlayStation 2’s position atop the best-selling console chart isn’t an accident and it’s not a record meant to be taken lightly. It’s arguably the one video game sales record that will never be beaten. Here are just some of the reasons why the PS2’s astonishing 155 million unit sales record likely isn’t in danger of falling anytime soon....

No character captured the spotlight in last week’s episode of The Mandalorian quite like Admiral Jeff Blue-Jeans, who literally stole the scene when an eagle-eyed viewer caught him in the background of an action sequence in “The Siege.” If you missed it the first time around, the cunning admiral can be seen in the bottom left corner of a shot, scheming while Greef Karga (Carl Weathers), Cara Dune (Gina Carano), and Mando fight off a platoon of stormtroopers inside the Imperial base on Nevarro....

Young Justice Outsiders Episode 15 “Leverage,” the latest episode in Young Justice‘s nearly flawless comeback season, does two things really well. It likes all the same comics I like, and it uses them to somehow make a really good X-Men episode. That’s a bizarre bit of praise for a show that is one of the most thorough and entertaining representations of the DC Universe ever put on screens, but what “Leverage” does exceptionally well is bring the social pressures on metahuman teens, the alienation and the puberty metaphor and the weird power stuff, to the forefront....

Young Justice Season 3 Episode 24 Young Justice starts the final run of the season by closing out most of its Apokalips storyline. Who could have guessed that a Gorilla-Beast Boy vs. Business Granny Goodness showdown would be so much fun? Now that I typed it out, I’m sure the correct answer to that is “everyone.” As The Team headed off to Granny’s Orphanage in space last week, Beast Boy also gathered a crew to go investigate some of Granny’s Earthly holdings....

Kurt Wallander’s first murder case left him disillusioned and questioning the point of it all. He’d solved the murder and identified the culprit, but was justice done? Was it hell. After spending weeks discovering who was behind the murder of Malmo teenager Hugo Lundgren – time in which he was beaten up, stabbed, saw his best friend in Intensive Care, and lost his mentor – Wallander was left wondering if any of it had made a jot of difference....

At a time when the market for collectible video games is going through an unbelievable boom period, retro gamers everywhere are taking mental and physical inventory of their classic game collections in the hopes (or horror) of discovering that one of the games they owned is secretly worth a fortune. At the risk of disappointing some, though, it turns out that many of the SNES’ most valuable games are only valuable because so few people owned them....

Now we know the meaning of the watch. Last episode, traumatised witch Lena arrived at Sept-Tours wearing Benjamin’s stolen jacket – left out for exactly that purpose – and in which he’d planted a message. In the pocket was Philippe de Clermont’s engraved Cartier watch, a talisman of cruelty telling Matthew that Benjamin was the WWII Nazi who had tortured Philippe to madness. If you were – like Benjamin – trying to find the perfect way to torment Matthew ‘Guilt would be my middle name if it weren’t Gabriel Philippe Bertrand Sebastien’ Clairmont, that would be the way to do it....

Subscribe to the magazine here. Alienware isn’t the first company to build a small and light gaming laptop, but the x14’s 14.5mm-thick chassis undercuts every rival in this respect. It also looks fantastic, with a machined aluminum design that mimics Alienware’s larger machines, and its 3.95 pound body is light and robust. The Alienware impresses in practical areas too. Around the rear you’ll find a futureproof HDMI 2.1 port, two Thunderbolt 4 connections, and a micro-SD slot....

All American Season 3, Episode 8 All American just doesn’t quit when it comes to prioritizing mental health, and we love to see it. We’re reeling from the aftermath of what happened in Vegas, and what this means for Spencer (Daniel Ezra) and Olivia (Samantha Logan) and even Layla (Greta Onieogou). But first, we take a mental health day. I really loved how Laura decided to give the twins a “mental health day” to regroup....