Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode 3 What kind of monster is Darth Vader? This week’s Obi-Wan Kenobi presents Vader as both terrifying and vulnerable. While Part III doesn’t always nail the visuals, the confrontation between Obi-Wan and Vader brings back classic Star Wars thrills. Obi-Wan and Leia head to Mapuzo, a once-pastoral planet the Empire is now strip-mining. He’s trying to reach Qui-Gon through the Force. Instead, he’s confronted only with memories and visions of Anakin and the other tragedies in his life....

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Episode 15 “Return to Kamino” marks the end of an era for Star Wars. The clones make their final exit from Kamino to parts unknown, ushered away by the Empire, which, judging by the way Admiral Rampart fires down on Crosshair and the Bad Batch without hesitation, no longer has any use for these relics of the Clone Wars. But the ultimate destruction of the clone facility comes only after the episode has written one final love letter to its sights and sounds....

The second episode of The Bad Batch, “Cut and Run,” sees our heroes searching out a clone deserter to find out how to survive after the Republic’s war is over and the Empire’s has begun. Naturally, it proves difficult for all parties involved to gain their footing in a galaxy changing so quickly. There are not a lot of wink-nudge Star Wars references in this one. Instead it’s an episode that brings back some familiar characters and creatures....

“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” said Lucasfilm in a statement. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.” A source told THR that Lucasfilm had “been looking for a reason to fire [Carano] for two months, and today was the final straw.” This was swiftly followed by confirmation from her talent agency UTA that they’d dropped her as a client....

As we all know now, quite the opposite happened. The adventures of a young farm boy named Luke Skywalker caused a chain reaction that would explode into a full-blown franchise of movies, TV series, books, comics, and video games. Oh, and all those wonderful toys, lunch boxes, trading cards, bed sets, and all that other nerdy merch. It’s no exaggeration to say that with a galaxy far, far away, Lucas took over the world....

Supernatural Season 15, Episode 18 Only two episodes left. The clock marking time until the end ticks louder each week. Now, there’s a bit of an echo to the sound. Last week’s episode saw the Winchesters struggling against each other as it became clear that Billie’s plan to defeat Chuck was merely a power grab on her part. But naturally, things are never straightforward on Supernatural. Allies are not always allies, villains are not necessarily always villains....

Thankfully, HBO made a successful bet that quality in storytelling would be enough to convince the usually fantasy-phobic viewer to commit. And the network is set to make that bet again with the almost equally epic story of a generation-sprawling Targaryen civil war in prequel series House of the Dragon. Still, despite the Game of Thrones franchise’s massive success across many TV-watching demographics, it’s undeniable that a big chunk of TV watchers find the commitment to learning dozens of characters’ names and their convoluted histories too difficult to invest their time in....

There’s no air date confirmed for the festive episode as yet, but seeing as the currently airing series 10 finale arrives on Thursday the 17th of December, it’ll be after that. In 2017, the comedians-do-silly-challenges show aired a two-part Champion of Champions special at Christmastime featuring the winners of the first five series (Bob Mortimer, Josh Widdicombe, Katherine Ryan, Noel Fielding and Rob Beckett). This time, the Special will feature an all-new cast of five contestants brand new to Taskmaster....

Much of this is a credit to Sudeikis. The Ted Lasso character was originally created for a series of NBC Sports commercials that aired in 2013-14 promoting the network’s coverage of the Premier League. In them, Sudeikis played the American fish-out-of-water coach as more of an ignorant, macho blowhard. For the series, Lasso is retooled as the epitome of a nice guy, like if you combined Jimmy Stewart, Tom Hanks, and Mr....

“How it was initially staged was the guy says, ‘Who are you?’ And Batman says, ‘I’m vengeance,’ and then beats everybody up,” reveals a much friendlier Pattinson, who cracks up while explaining how he helped tweak the scene to make it even more horrifying. “I said to Rob [Alonzo, second unit director and supervising stunt coordinator], ‘I really want to say it into the guy’s face when he’s basically dead....

Best Horror Books of 2020 Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic was the buzziest release of the summer – and with good reason. Her lush prose, descriptive settings and disturbing plot combine for one of the most compelling – and likely uncomfortable – reads you’ll experience this year. (If you love mushrooms, I’m really sorry in advance.) Set in 1950s Mexico, the novel follows the story of the vibrant debutante Noemi, who must journey to a remote mountain village to check up on an ailing cousin, whose mysterious husband keeps insisting she’s mad....

Spooky season has to start somewhere, and just like Christmas, it often kicks off with a movie. If you’re looking for suggestions of how to ease into Halloween month, here are the movies Den of Geek writers are drawn to as the nights get shorter and the blankets get snugglier. Let us know in the comments what your Halloween must-watch is… It’s not Halloween until I watch… The Shining There aren’t many of the usual Halloween trappings in The Shining....

In this holy — and many times unholy — time period known as the 21st century, we homo-sapiens tend to use our phones quite a bit. You probably can’t help but use it now as you’re reading this, which is okay! Have fun! But as a result, it’s important to make sure you take advantage of your phone in every possible way. One of those ways, glad you asked, is through this phone holder from Primens....

“We genuinely don’t have conversations about trying to top ourselves,” Kripke tells Den of Geek during the show’s appearance at SXSW 2022. “I think it’s dangerous because if you’re working to go bigger and bigger it’s an unsustainable pattern. Eighty percent of the conversation in the room is ‘how do we go deeper with the characters and how do we put them through existential crises?.’” There’s no reason to doubt Kripke and the writers’ room sincerity....

The Aug. 1, 1971 show, and subsequent record and film, set the standard for musical contributions to charity. Mistakes were made, and Harrison himself paid out to fix them, teaching a valuable lesson for rock benefits to follow. But it all began very personally. “My friend came to me, sadness in his eyes, and told me that he wanted help before his country dies,” Harrison sings on the song “Bangladesh....

The Essex Serpent is the latest in a line of quality Apple TV+ shows (Foundation, Severance, Pachinko) unlikely to get the audience they deserve because they weren’t made for a mainstream broadcaster or streaming service with higher subscriber base. This one has stars, beauty, brains, a transportive atmosphere and a quasi-hypnotic pull, and yet will likely slip quietly under the waterline while lesser shows make a bigger splash. It’s an injustice, but one that does no harm to Apple TV’s developing reputation as the connoisseur’s choice for weird, slow-burn drama....

Based on his 1983 novel Legion, writer-director William Peter Blatty’s Exorcist III arrived 17 years after William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, which itself was based on Blatty’s monstrous 1971 bestseller. (Blatty also won an Oscar for the 1973 movie’s screenplay.) There were a million reasons and one why the threequel should have been a complete train wreck. In the end the theatrical version was only one-third a train wreck, but that wasn’t Blatty’s fault....

The Flash Season 4 Episode 7 You know how for most of the first batch of episodes this season I was asking for a little balance? “Therefore I Am” is what I meant. Now, with the complete understanding that this is, perhaps, an overcorrection from the overcorrection in terms of the sheer lack of humor in this episode, I still feel like “Therefore I Am” was more like what I’ve come to expect from this show in general, and in its better moments, like this show at its best....

At the end of the second episode of the new Marvel streaming series Hawkeye, Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) and Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) are captured by the Tracksuit Mafia. Clint willingly lets himself be caught and is brought to what looks like some kind of abandoned shopping center, while Kate crashes the party — literally, through a skylight — as the Mafia is trying to interrogate Hawkeye to no avail about the whereabouts of, you guessed it, Kate....

In 1979, the Canadian Television Network revived 1960s series The Littlest Hobo, a half-hour family show about a German Shepherd dog who drifts around rural Canada helping folk in need. Don’t worry about why the dog does it. We don’t need to know. The desire to have a psychological origin story for every paper boy or nail technician ever to appear on screen is a 21st century weakness. In the 1970s and 80s, TV audiences enjoyed Zen acceptance of outrageous premises from Manimal to Help!...