In The Quarry, players have to guide a team of teenage camp counselors to safety through relentless horrors. Life and death teeter on every decision players make, and the story is far from forgiving. One wrong move can result in a domino effect that ends up killing everyone. But, if players remain vigilant and make smart decisions, not only can they maximize the number of survivors, but they can actually make sure everyone survives the night....
This list excludes all of the feature films, which tend to be scarier on the whole as they’re aiming to make an impact on a cinema audience (Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan and Star Trek: First Contact have some especially terrifying sequences). It also excludes The Animated Series and Lower Decks. The Animated Series is seriously under-rated, but it’s bright, colourful style and slightly lighter tone don’t really bring the scares....
The Simpsons Season 34 Episode 11 The Simpsons season 34 episode 11 “Top Goon,” may have taken its title, and leather jacket, from Top Gun, but it owes more to George Roy Hill 1977’s hockey comedy classic, Slap Shot, a far more sportsmanlike film. The Simpsons previously let kindness win when Bart and Lisa tied a crucial game in season 6’s “Lisa on Ice.” The latest installment brings out the brilliance of the bully....
The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 15 The Simpsons Season 32, episode 15, “Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?,” is a reaffirmation of all things Simpson. It is off the rails as far as timelines go, but captures the classic subversion of all things sacred. The episode is about rekindling the sparks of youth which have burned out and the destruction of memory, specifically childhood memories. The first thing the episode tackles is what we know about the Simpson family....
The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 7 The Simpsons season 32, episode 7 carves the turkey a little thin for a pre-Thanksgiving offering. “Three Dreams Denied” has all the makings of a full and funny meal for the whole family. But a half hour later, you wish there was more stuffing. The ballooning game hunters even miss the flying turkey in the opening gag, which ends with the couch so exasperated she tells the family to sleep on the bed....
The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness is an impressive entry in the true crime documentary premiere run at Netflix. It focuses on the work of journalist Maury Terry, whose investigation into the Son of Sam case was criminally sidelined. Terry was convinced that convicted lone serial killer David Berkowitz was part of “a highly motivated and well-organized cult group whose various criminal enterprises included the .44 homicide.” Terry’s 1987 book The Ultimate Evil: An Investigation of America’s Most Dangerous Satanic Cult, is a must read....
At its core, the premise was simple. Swap out a high school filled with curious and complicated characters for a foster care home called the Dumping Ground, sit back, and let the rest take care of itself. Ten-year-old Tracy (Dani Harmer) is sent back into temporary care after a failed adoption placement and is often told she has behavioural problems. Alongside a fresh crop of clueless social workers, Tracy lives with a motley crew of mischievous pranksters, including her arch nemesis Justine Littlewood....
The Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 14 The Walking Dead moved at a lightning-fast pace this week to nowhere really all that interesting. “Still Gotta Mean Something” is all about addressing a few hanging plot threads as the season races towards the finish line, one that will apparently end with…one more big battle? It’s unclear exactly where the last two episodes of season eight will lead. It feels like Rick and his remaining forces should have been arming up and marching to the Sanctuary by the end of the episode....
The Walking Dead Season 9 Episode 1 We’ve been here before: The Walking Dead is back, promising a new beginning and a shift in the status quo in the aftermath of a big conflict that left the characters’ lives forever altered. Rick Grimes and his cast of friends have settled into their new lives and are rebuilding the communities they worked so hard to protect from their enemies. The new world, which has been on its way for at least five seasons, has finally arrived and all of its inhabitants are at peace....
Viewers could be forgiven, in fact, for thinking the powerful sorceress Yennefer had died at the end of The Witcher season 1 when she sacrificed everything to defeat the Nilfgaardian army. “After her victory at the Battle of Sodden, she’s captured,” Chalotra reveals. “Her whereabouts are unknown and she has to survive being a prisoner of war… She goes back to Aretuza and she has to navigate that situation there after everyone thought she had died....
Titans, a 10-episode series coming to the DC Universe streaming service in October, will fix that. The series will unite Robin (Brenton Thwaites), Raven (Teagan Croft), Starfire (Anna Diop), Beast Boy (Ryan Potter), and other DC characters with an eye on telling more mature, harder-hitting superhero stories than you might find elsewhere. And, while there have been previous attempts to bring Titans to the screen, it was worth waiting to tell the story right, with all of its necessary characters....
Titans Season 2 Episode 1 At the end of the Titans season 1, we saw a dreamscape version of a murderous Batman while Trigon entered into the realm of man, and began his plan to destroy all creation — and things felt a little jumbled. However, the Titans season 2 premiere re-shuffles an already pretty good show, and resets it with a promising new beginning. The premiere – titled “Trigon” even though he feels like an afterthought — picks up right at the end of the first season finale....
While Holland is still a young man of 25, he’s been speaking to the press with the drained demeanor of a grizzled veteran who’s ready to walk off into the proverbial sunset. That’s likely due to the fact that the British actor has been a front-row passenger on the wild ride that is Marvel movie mania for six years now, having been plucked from relative obscurity in July 2015 to be announced as the new, Marvel Cinematic Universe-adherent Spider-Man....
While the notoriously loose-lipped Holland has been walking a tightrope narrow enough to even challenge Spidey himself when discussing Spider-Man: No Way Home, his comments for an Empire cover story imply the involvement of a character whose mysterious status clearly raises eyebrows of intrigue. Holland, when pressed to describe his favorite scene in the upcoming threequel, offered a surprisingly understated answer about what he calls “one of the coolest scenes I’ve ever shot....
Clean Air by Sarah Blake Type: NovelPublisher: Algonquin BooksRelease date: Feb. 8 Den of Geek says: Early reviews are positive for this post-post climate apocalypse story combining speculative fiction and a poet’s sensibilities. Publisher’s summary: The climate apocalypse has come and gone, and in the end it wasn’t the temperature climbing or the waters rising. It was the trees. The world became overgrown, creating enough pollen to render the air unbreathable....
For all its ‘oh shit Sarge’ tension, there’s a serene simplicity to new ITV thriller Trigger Point. Episode one takes place in a single location, in a single time period, with two main characters so far exhibiting no signs of the post-traumatic flashback syndrome that sadly afflicts so many other prime-time TV leads. Joel ‘Nut’ Nutkins and Lana ‘Wash’ Washington have work to do, and they do it, while taking regular breaks to rehydrate with cans of energy drink....
It was lucky they let Wash back to work early. As our point-of-view character, if she hadn’t been reinstated, we could have faced another half hour of lethargic dialogue and vodka dance breakdowns. Instead, it was thankfully on with the Ray-Bans and the ponytail, and on with the show. Making Wash so central to this story has stymied it. She’s in almost every scene, which sucks the urgency out of the police investigation because any discovery has to be reported to her after the fact rather than made on the spot....
Most of the year’s biggest true crime dramas have so far focussed on tales from the USA, but if you’re looking for unbelievable criminal cases from the UK, there’s plenty of must-watch series depicting some of the country’s most notorious criminal scandals coming later this year and beyond. Here’s a few to add to your watch list. The Reckoning (BBC – later in 2022) Actor, comedian and Alan Partridge creator Steve Coogan is set to portray the life-long sexual predator and disgraced TV presenter Jimmy Savile....
As much as we love it, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has never been great about telling complex emotional stories. Perhaps that’s understandable, as the franchise’s various Avengers must regularly wrestle with potentially world-ending stakes and still somehow save the day, all within a two-and-a-half-hour theatrical runtime. These aren’t stories that generally time to be but so concerned with things like the psychological trauma that inevitably resulted from these life-or-death events or how our heroes are meant to heal from them, provided they manage to do so at all....
The Addams Family is iconic. Created by Chas Addams, the single panel cartoons debuted in 1938 in The New Yorker magazine. Director Tim Burton is an obvious fanboy, eager to put his unique spin on the family dynamic. The Netflix series Wednesday is an original spinoff. Jenna Ortega plays Wednesday Addams without much family support, the way the character prefers it. The series opens with the traditional dysfunctional unity. Wednesday protects Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) from bullies because only she is allowed to torture her brother....
