Scroobius Pip, who plays a shady black market debris purchaser named Anson Ash, enjoys the narrative flexibility this gives Debris. “It was one of the great appeals because the fact that the debris has different properties and does different things makes it this endless, exciting pool of things that can happen each week,” he says. “So I’d imagine the viewers’ experience will be similar to me as a reader of the scripts....

However, as season 3 concluded, the series took a different approach. In the final few moments of the finale, the show suddenly dropped Joe—and us—off in an unexpected place: Paris. And, as the show was renewed by Netflix for a fourth season ahead of the season 3 premiere, we know that we’ll be following Joe as he settles into a new city and gains all sorts of new French fetishes....

Due in part to an unfailingly passionate fan campaign, Warner Brothers’ major DC superhero team-up got two bites at the apple, first with the studio-favored Justice League (2017), then with director Zack Snyder’s cut on HBO Max last month. The existence of the pair has provided an interesting case study in exactly what audiences really prefer. Based on fan response (and our own, albeit mixed, review), it would appear that a singular, auteur’s vision wins out creatively....

To celebrate those great genre-bending efforts, here are a dozen and a half of our favorites from the last ten years (with a doff of the cap to Panic Button, a low budget Brit horror that just misses out)… 15. Devil (2010) Shamelessly exploiting many people’s paralysing fear of elevators, Devil pitches the situation of five strangers trapped inside a elevator in a high-rise tower block. Scary enough, right? Well some malevolent force soon turns up to start messing with them, too....

However, if you spend a little more time looking through the NES library, you may find quite a few titles that feel…out of place. It’s not that they’re bad (though some arguably are), but rather that they’re so unlike everything else that was available at the time (and often for many years after) that they strike you as anomalies that just need to be explained. Those are the games that we’ll be talking about today....

At a time before the ESRB and a global conversation about the impact of video game violence, Nintendo took it upon themselves to impose a strict series of content guidelines that almost all developers had to follow. Those guidelines (as well as regional content standards) resulted in some of the biggest NES games ever made effectively being “censored” in ways that many of us never knew about when we were young....

It’s a bold choice to set up a season with multiple magical villains and then not conclude it with an earth-shaking, lightning-bolts-from-fingers battle, but with a… meeting. Admittedly, a meeting in which a massive glowing tree spurted out of a book and so very much not your average huddle, but still, a meeting all the same – one we’ve seen in almost every episode of A Discovery of Witches since the start....

On the surface, Aliens: Fireteam Elite is in a tremendous position to do just that. With its Left 4 Dead-style cooperative gameplay that casts you and your companions as space marines tasked with exterminating a horde of Xenomorphs, Aliens: Fireteam Elite seems to capture what many people remember most (or perhaps most fondly) about the Aliens movie. Yet, as you play Aliens: Fireteam Elite, you’ll likely start to realize that Aliens‘ action may be the aspect of the movie that many people mention first when discussing it but was actually just one of the components of that film that made it work as well as it did....

The morning after, there are countless reports among entertainment outlets and hard-nosed news organizations alike: Rock is not pressing charges; Smith may be asked to return his Oscar; there was an after-party dance of “Getting Jiggy With It!” And oh yeah, some movies won some awards. Apparently. For all the ugliness of last night’s spectacle, it is perhaps befitting of what was the most shameful Oscars in recent memory—a capstone on an evening that seemed to be about everything except the movies the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was allegedly there to honor....

So how is it done? Taking a whole novel and turning it into a graphic novel isn’t a smooth process, especially for a sci-fi series like Animorphs that features a ton of internal first-person narration. Covering the adaptation of a whole book would need a book of its own to cover so instead artist Chris Grine gave us detailed insight on adapting a specific scene from the second Animorphs novel, The Visitor....

For his first feature length film since The Raid 2, Evans switched gears a little and made a mystery/horror film for Netflix, Apostle. The film follows Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens) as he attempts to rescue his sister from the clutches of megalomaniac Prophet Malcolm (Michael Sheen), who is holding her for ransom, in hopes of helping fund his fringe religious group on a secluded island which the British Empire is trying to shut down....

Critics groups like the New York Film Critics Circle previously made a splash when they awarded Best Director to S.S. Rajamouli, the filmmaker of the Telegu-language RRR, which is a three-hour action fantasy that took international cinema by storm when it grossed $102 million worldwide this spring (and then was seen by far more on Netflix). However, the NYFCC has always gone to a beat of its own drum and its pick for Best Picture, Todd Field’s exacting and masterful Tár, was far more in line with the group’s reputation for celebrating challenging work that demands introspective consideration....

For that reason, ANY review, ANY comment at all could be seen as a spoiler and we don’t want that. So we’ll try to keep this review as spoiler-free as possible. But if you’re worried, wait until you’ve had a chance to see the film and pop back later to discuss. Top line, then, if you just want to know if it’s any good or not: it is. In fact, it’s brilliant....

While Back 4 Blood is an often impressive Left 4 Dead-style shooter that immediately distinguishes itself through its card system and other roguelite/looter shooter elements, there’s no getting around the fact that the game is in true beta state at the moment and currently suffers from a number of “little” problems that are starting to add up to form genuine concerns. So while it remains to be seen what shape Back 4 Blood is in when it launches on October 12, these little issues with the co-op shooter’s beta might be enough to raise some reasonable doubt about whether it is quite ready for primetime....

Do not go down there. Just turn around and leave. This is a thought audiences have shared—and even screamed—in movie houses for as long as there have been horror pictures. Why did this ostensibly smart character make that dumb choice? Why did they not say, “nope!” This is a question Zach Cregger’s Barbarian addresses head-on by having its heroine Tess (Georgina Campbell) time and again recognize what is the smart thing to do and what is the dangerous/foolish choice....

While historians may have other items on their wish list (including more a more accurate representation of 9 AD, judging by some responses), what most viewers want from a second season of Barbarians is escapist action. We want hefty sword fights, ferocious armies, blood-daubed faces screaming for revenge, shocking deaths, betrayals, and naked hook-ups in the dye shed. All that is hopefully in the pipeline now that filming on season two is underway....

Finding out there’s a new reality TV show format is like finding out there’s a new brand of cigarette on the market. They’re still making those things even though they kill people? The chemical rush obtained from watching estate agents make each other cry must be a powerful high to justify the death toll and spin-off media careers. Dutch-Belgian original De Verraders doesn’t use estate agents, but celebrities. Professional sportspeople, actors, models and presenters compete for a prize fund in what’s billed as the ultimate game of suspicion and lies....

Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky Type: NovelPublisher: OrbitRelease date: May 3Den of Geek says: Known for his creative aliens and hard science, Tchaikovsky is back with the second in a space opera trilogy. Classic ancient aliens feature in this adventurous installment. Publisher’s summary: The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel in an extraordinary space opera trilogy about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man’s discovery will save or destroy us all....

My personal favorite so far… The doll may be internet famous, but that celebrity has translated to the “real” world too. The Mugunghwa doll has been spotted in the outside world following the release of the drama. According to Koreaboo, some eagle-eyed Netizens made the connection between the Squid Game doll and a Korean historical museum in the country’s North Chungcheong province. One user posted a photo of the doll in her new home at the Jincheon Carriage Museum Adventure Village, aka Macha Land, via The Qoo, a Korean forum....

As we continue to anticipate the show’s final episodes, we were lucky enough to get the chance to talk with executive producer Thomas Schnauz about how much the drama has already accomplished, how instrumental actors like Rhea Seehorn and Tony Dalton have been to the program’s success, and what the show’s lasting legacy will hopefully be. Den of Geek: Do you have any inklings of information on whether AMC is going to split the sixth season into two parts?...