Lucifer Season 3 Episode 8 After last week’s rare standalone episode, Lucifer follows up with a thought provoking tale examining the struggle to remain true to oneself amidst a world obsessed with image. Featuring an exclusive dating app at the heart of the murder investigation and Monopoly metaphors woven throughout, “Chloe Does Lucifer” gets about as close to perfection as possible. The cold open beautifully crystallizes the essence of the episode....

Barely two years after the Christopher’s death in January 2020, however, that same cynicism toward the industrialized forces of IP-exploitation is beginning to look prescient. While J.R.R. Tolkien’s books were never the sacred texts his son and likeminded fans espoused, they also deserve more reverence than the current trends explored by media companies who are always on the lookout to expand a story’s “universe” until its narrative has the vastness of an ocean… and often the depth of a puddle....

“We are confident that we’ll see PC players (as well as those on Xbox One and PlayStation 4) return to the game as we add exciting new late-game content and demonstrate that we continue to be focused on improving the game,” Amos says. “We have a great community management team at Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix who funnel all of your concerns, suggestions, and feedback to the development team daily....

With that in mind, how much about the original He-Man series is needed to enjoy MOTU: Revelation? Is this something more casual fans can enjoy or do you need to be a hardcore He-Man fan? Can a new fan jump in here? What you need to know from the jump is that Masters of the Universe: Revelation was made specifically with He-Man fans in mind. In fact there might never have been a new version of a classic property that was made with fans in mind quite this much....

Sometimes the best way to stop the bleeding of a wound is to cauterize it. So it was when Dani finally began to heal from the carnage of a personal trauma—and a quieter lingering one—by watching Christian burn to ash in the final moments of Ari Aster’s pastel-colored nightmare. It is an image loaded with allegorical significance as one lover says goodbye to another in a billowy plume, which is scored to the screams of other men in the same burning hut who clearly did feel pain....

“This has been the thing that Milestone fans have been dreaming about for a long time, and we’re happy to give it to you, finally,” said legendary artist, Milestone co-founder, and Hardware Season One artist Denys Cowan during the publishing line’s FanDome panel. Cowan told viewers that the Milestone animated movie would feature more than one character, hinting that the movie would establish the same broad scope of Dakota City that made the comics universe a fan favorite....

While currently only four films in length, Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ MonsterVerse has produced four remarkably different visions of giant monsters (or “Titans”) doing battle in the ruins of our major cities. Starting stark and somber with Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla (2014), this “universe” reached an unapologetically goofy crescendo this week with Godzilla vs. Kong. Each film between them has had a different director and a sharply unique aesthetic. So our staff of monster fanatics and Godzilla geeks has taken it on themselves to debate, vote, and rank every one of them....

“THE MORBIUS returns to over 1,000+ theaters this weekend!” trumpeted the industry’s centralized box office analysts, Exhibitor Relations Co., in a tweet that stylized Morbius’ title in the vein of Matt Reeves’ The Batman. All that was missing was the ‘LOL’ emoji. And why not? It is kind of a funny story. A weekend after the whole industry seemed to breathe a sigh of relief due to an old-fashioned Hollywood epic like Top Gun: Maverick breaking the Memorial Day weekend record, here returns a movie that nobody seemed to like very much a few months ago—and one that’s a grotesque monument to the cynicism of modern “shared universe” Hollywood logic....

Paralleling the character she portrays, 19-year-old Canadian Iman Vellani is an earnest and talented teenage superfan who has been called up to the big leagues. Not long ago, she was reading issues of Ms. Marvel and dressing up as the MCU’s first lead Muslim heroine for Halloween. But after being cast, on her last day of high school, Vellani gets to bring the character to the MCU. Vellani spoke with Den of Geek about the “surreal” experience of going from being a fan on MCU subreddits and doing Avengers nail art to leading her own show on Disney+....

Ms. Marvel Episode 6 Well, it finally happened! While they didn’t actually say the word “mutant” we now have our first, undeniable, canonical mutant in the MCU, and it’s Kamala Khan. But wait, let’s back up for a moment… Throughout Ms. Marvel, there have been a series of mysteries surrounding Kamala’s powers. At first, the show wanted us to believe that the bangle was the source of her light-based powers. But then it was revealed that because of Kamala’s ties to the Clandestine, and their connection to the Noor Dimension, that it was her lineage that allowed her to channel that power via the bangle....

The end of Neighbours has prompted the return of its prodigal children. Not just the on-screen ones journeying to Ramsay Street to reunite with lost loves/burn down Lassiters/marry Paul Robinson, but also us – the Aussie soap’s lapsed viewers. We’re back too, sticking one last hopeful hand into the cookie jar of nostalgia, hoping to feel… well, anything. The only problem: Neighbours is unrecognisable now. There’s no Helen Daniels and Bouncer has long retired to the big farm in the sky....

Over a million people are watching Neighbours in the UK (only a fraction of the 20 million who tuned in for Scott and Charlene’s 1988 wedding, but that’s like comparing apples to massively diversified, digital, globally on-demand oranges). Over a million TV commuters are still travelling daily between here and Ramsay Street. What, I wondered, has changed in the two decades since I last numbered among them? Let’s find out....

“Knowing that we did Dark, everyone can be assured that [1899] is going to be something weird and wild and crazy,” Friese promised Deadline about her and Odar’s new Netflix series. The writer-directors vowed not to repeat themselves with the new eight-episode period drama, but still to give their audience a fun puzzle that returns to the pair’s mystery roots. Job done. 1899 is an addictive game for viewers to play....

The anime, which comes from Qubic Pictures and was produced and created by Justin Leach, is much more plot-driven than its trailer suggests, quickly intensifying from a slice-of-life science fiction to a climate apocalypse story about the value (or not) of humanity. Because this story is only two hours in total (and really can and probably should be watched as a feature film), there isn’t much time to linger. If you’re going into Eden hoping for a chill, low-stakes story about two farming robots raising their human daughter in an apple orchard, then this show probably isn’t for you....

Got a video game fan in your life and want to treat them to something special? Luckily, with the holidays just around the corner and the 35th Anniversary of Super Mario Bros. is currently in full swing, there are plenty of Nintendo-themed gifts to choose from. But if you need some guidance on the latest and greatest from the House of Mario, we’ve created a helpful guide for you! The following is a curated list of products we think would be ideal for both dedicated Nintendo players and those ready to have their first Nintendo experience....

No Time to Die director Cary Joji Fukunaga would seem to think so. In a new profile interview he did with The Hollywood Reporter, the True Detective and Maniac director reflected on the shadier side of 007 in two of Sean Connery’s most popular Bond movies: Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965). “Is it Thunderball or Goldfinger where, like, basically Sean Connery’s character rapes a woman?” Fukunaga said. “She’s like, ‘No, no, no,’ and he’s like, ‘Yes, yes, yes....

Yes, in celebration of the game’s 20th anniversary (as well as the official announcement that a new Mafia game is on the way), 2K Games has decided to make 2002’s Mafia free on Steam from September 1st through September 5th. That obviously good news for fans of the franchise as well as anyone looking for something to play over the long Labor Day weekend. Truth be told, my heart skipped a beat when I heard the news that Mafia will be free on Steam....

Hulu comedy Only Murders in the Building didn’t even have to take its central murder mystery that seriously to begin with. As a satire of America’s true crime podcast obsession, the series could have gotten away with yada yada yada-ing the details of the murder its characters were solving. Charles Haden-Savage (Steve Martin), Oliver Putnam (Martin Short), and Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez) are all amateurs, after all, so who could reasonably expect them to actually solve a murder?...

Part of the charm of Only Murders in the Building is the sheer rewatchabilty of the show. Like any good mystery with twists and turns, going back to watch from the beginning and seeing how the writers misdirected you, or what clues they left, is just as enjoyable as trying to figure it out the first time you watched. The creators of Only Murders went one step further, giving you one more little clue each episode that you can look out for even before the action has started....

Indeed, the most remarkable moment was when Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell were both nominated for Best Director due to their work on Nomadland and Promising Young Woman, respectively. As directors of two of the most talked about films of 2020—one a poignant mixture of documentarian and narrative filmmaking, and the other a dark comedy of blood red lipstick smeared across the zeitgeist—their nominations were not a surprise. And yet, seeing two women hold nominations in that category was still cathartic; the Academy recognized some of the best filmmaking of the year is from women....