With Anne Rice’s book series as a launching point, Mayfair Witches promises to be one hell of a broomstick ride. Alexandra Daddario stars as Dr. Rowan Fielding, a gifted neurosurgeon adept at uncovering clues beneath the surface. Initially, the house she rents appears to be merely haunted until Rowan is revealed to be the “13th Witch” in a multigenerational tradition that carries severe responsibilities. “It’s really about family and dysfunctional family at the end of the day,” Daddario tells Den of Geek magazine....

Archer season 11 has been a strong return to form and has, in many ways, reinvigorated the series. This new season largely revolves around the changes that have happened during Archer’s coma absence and whether he’s able to persevere through these transitions. Previous episodes have all examined how Archer’s return has effected those that are closest to him, but the season’s newest installment, “Robot Factory,” explores this from the perspective of Archer’s greatest rival, the robotic Barry....

Archer has a fascinating relationship with change. Major elements like the show’s genre have transformed, but a constant through the years are the characters and their relationships with one another. The series has made it clear that these character dynamics are quite toxic in many ways, some of which have left the characters looking for ways to grow. The most recent seasons have prioritized the cause and effect nature of Archer waking up from his coma and returning to work, which has left everyone feeling very raw and vulnerable, including Sterling Archer himself....

You’ve probably heard by now: Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead is a carnival of horrors. Intelligent zombies known as “alphas” feast on human flesh but also procreate. Las Vegas is overrun by a massive horde of the undead and is walled off, leaving survivors trapped inside. And the heroes might be stuck in a time loop, with the Devil as their master. But for some viewers, even those scares pale in comparison to the movie’s most terrifying moment: the dead pixels on the screen during select scenes that will make you think your expensive 4K TV is damaged....

Instead, we tend to ponder how they make us feel on an existential level, and a deepfake starring Mr. Nicolas Cage as Captain America certainly has us reflecting on Marvel’s unseen multiverse, and what could have been. This isn’t the best deepfake we’ve seen so far this year (that would probably be this one) and the mind almost recoils at the enormity of what the Mandy and Con Air actor would have decided to bring to the character of Captain America in an alternate dimension....

For DeVito, the character of Oswald Cobblepot, a.k.a. The Penguin, clearly stands out as a defining career moment. After all, it was an unprecedentedly layered offering in what had thus-far been a primarily comedic career that got off the ground from playing slimy dispatcher Louie De Palma on the 1978-1983 sitcom, Taxi, and subsequently transitioned to success in films such as sequel-spawning 1984 adventure comedy Romancing the Stone and sibling absurdity opposite (future fellow Batman villain) Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1988’s Twins....

Despite the continued indifference of the Academy toward the bedrock importance of stunt work in the moviemaking industry, the daring sights of madmen, and sometimes even madder movie stars, hanging from the sides of planes or riding that fabled horse past walls of fire is as pure a distillation of visual entertainment as you can get. And in the last 15 years, there have been some mind meltingly excellent action movies....

The contest is open to game studios and other brands looking to promote their products in Fall Guys, which is currently the most-watched game on Twitch and the third most-played game on Steam behind only Valve’s own CS:GO and Dota 2. To enter, brands can bid on how much they’d be willing to donate to Special Effect. The highest bidder wins. “The thirst from brands has been unreal, so we’re turning it into something positive!...

The World We Make by N.K.Jemisin Type: NovelPublisher: OrbitRelease date: November 1 Den of Geek says: One of the most anticipated science fiction novels of the year reveals itself this week. Jemisin’s first novel of sentient New York City (and a little bit of Jersey) ended with a big eldritch battle that is only the beginning for the duology. What’s next for the gang, especially the reclusive and corrupted avatar of Staten Island?...

If you have managed to track a PS5 down, there are plenty of accessories and games that would make perfect companion pieces to Sony’s next-gen console. To help you out a bit, Den of Geek has picked the best PS5 gifts to get this holiday: PlayStation 5 $499.99 with disc drive, $399.99 without disc drive The hottest gift of the holidays, Sony’s hulking white monolith, actually comes in two varieties....

Better Call Saul Season 4 Episode 5 Is it possible to enjoy Better Call Saul without first having seen Breaking Bad? It’s been a question asked about BCS since it first aired, but I saw some particularly lively discussion about the topic on Twitter this past week. The short answer is absolutely. Jimmy, Kim, Nacho, and Mike are compelling characters regardless of whether you know what befalls half of the group later on....

The new version, directed by Sophia Takal and co-written by her and April Wolfe, is a different prospect entirely. It’s still set on a college campus with a group of women staying behind during the hiatus at their sorority house, but there the similarities take a sharp turn: this Black Christmas is very much of its time and deals with issues of toxic masculinity, rape culture, female empowerment, the role of diverse voices in the classroom, and the effects of social media, all within the stylized aesthetic of a ‘70s horror film....

The fourth season of Black Lightning will be its last and, barring any CW superhero crossover cameos or the greenlighting of the Painkiller spinoff, this may be the last time we will see these particular iterations of these comic book characters. The benefit of knowing the end is coming—a relative rarity in broadcast network TV, which are traditionally designed to run forever—is that it can allow writers to go places they might not otherwise go....

Even 25 years ago, the idea got stale fast as one Tarantino wannabe after another tried and failed to emulate the original. The film thinks it’s being clever, but the mix of pop culture-drenched, faux-savvy dialogue, ironic and plentiful needle drops, “look at me” cameos, and cartoon-y violence was a lot better back when QT was first doing it. Based on a novel by Japanese author Kōtarō Isaka, the movie is slightly enlivened by hard-working performances from Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joey King, and Brian Tyree Henry, as well as some striking design and cinematography, but when a movie only identifies its inch-deep characters by cutesy nicknames like Ladybug, Lemon, and Tangerine – all of whom are supposedly deadly assassins, by the way – one knows that the character development is all but invisible....

Released in Japan in December 2011 as the follow-up to the PSP, the PlayStation Vita was positioned to be the direct challenger to the Nintendo 3DS (which debuted earlier that year). In retrospect, though, it feels more accurate to say that the PS Vita was designed to compete with the Nintendo DS. After all, Nintendo was still trying to sell people on the 3DS’ core gimmick during the course of its slow rollout (and would continue to struggle to do so during the handheld’s run), whereas the DS was still seen by many as the definitive handheld gaming device on the market and arguably the best handheld ever made....

Yet only one director has had the chance to reboot and reinvent the character twice, with two different actors: Martin Campbell. His first Bond effort, 1995’s GoldenEye, came after a six-year hiatus and introduced Pierce Brosnan as a more suave 007 after the humorless Timothy Dalton. The film also dealt head-on with Bond’s relevance in a post-Cold War world and whether he was a relic himself. Campbell got the call again a decade later when Brosnan left the series after the woeful, ridiculous Die Another Day....

The endgame is finally here in Castlevania season 4, which sees Trevor Belmont, Sypha Belnades, and Alucard face off against the forces of evil that wish to wipe out humanity. While the story takes a few interesting turns you’re not expecting, fans of the long-running Konami series will likely notice quite a few connections to the original video games. As you’d expect, that all means that there are plenty of easter eggs and references to the games as well as real-world history in Castlevania season 4....

It may not seem like it during the first five plodding episodes of Castlevania season 4, but this is meant to be our last trip with Trevor, Sypha, Alucard, Saint Germain, Carmilla, Hector, and Isaac. After years of vampire wars and plots for world domination, the many sides fighting to decide the fate of the planet finally reach the endgame. Yes, the final season of the best video game adaptation ever made suffers from many of the same pacing issues as past seasons....

Netflix has released the first images previewing Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a historical drama set in 1927 Chicago, in which Viola Davis co-stars as the eponymous Ma Rainey, a popular Southern singer dubbed the “Mother of Blues,” who’s come to the Second City for a crucial recording session; an endeavor complicated by her ambitious, machinations-making trumpeter, Levee (Boseman), and clashes with her manager—and other elements of the white-dominated music industry—over the creative direction of the music....

Clarice Episode 10 Clarice, episode 10, “Motherless Child,” finally addresses the elephant in the room. Well, almost. The Silence of the Lambs spinoff is a series of almosts. Agent Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds) almost gets killed every episode, as well as nearly always coming to the edge of getting fired, sometimes twice in an installment. Tonight, Clarice almost helps Catherine Martin (Marnee Carpenter), who almost kills Buffalo Bill’s mom, Lila Gumb (Maria Ricossa)....