While certain life-shaking events have taken place in the 16 years since Smith made Clerks II—events which we won’t reveal here—the new movie gets the most mileage out of familiar situations and characters in the orbit of the Quick Stop, the fictional New Jersey store based on Smith’s own early work history at a convenience store before he became a filmmaker. Yet while the film retains much of the often coarse, crude humor of many of Smith’s earlier View Askewniverse movies, and while his filmmaking style still usually hinges on long, static shots of people just standing around and talking, there are enough narrative developments, as well as an overall sense of melancholy, to give Clerks III more than a dollop of, dare we say, gravitas....

Counterpart Season 1 Episode 9 Could it be that Counterpart is trying to distract viewers from a deeper mission by focusing on the thwarted attack in this week’s episode? The cards may be out on the table between Peter and Clare, Howard and Emily Prime, and elsewhere, but it’s difficult to accept the idea that sleeper agents prepared for decades just to shoot up the Strategy and Diplomacy offices, shocking as it was to watch unfold....

Creed ended in such a good place–with Adonis embracing his heritage as Apollo’s son, forging his own destiny as a fighter, and finding friendship and love with Rocky and a musician named Bianca (Tessa Thompson)–that a sequel, while inevitable after the movie proved a hit, seemed like a bad idea from the get-go. Remember all those average-to-poor Rocky sequels? And Creed II, it seemed, would be a semi-sequel to one of the least impressive Rocky movies, the Cold War-inspired Rocky IV....

Critical Role, the live role-playing series, can be, in a word, daunting. The actual-play stream has been running for years, featuring a cast of professional voice actors and friends playing characters in long-running campaigns once a week, every Thursday, for four hours a session. That’s a huge time sink for the uninitiated, and it can be intimidating! Fortunately, now’s a great time to get started. Last October, Critical Role returned from a hiatus with their third campaign set in DM Matt Mercer’s homebrew world of Exandria....

While the two Emmas drive the story and take full command of the screen, lurking around the edges is John, played by Mark Strong, the valet to Thompson’s Baroness who doesn’t say all that much. But even his stoic presence eventually reveals a character with more nuance and layers to him than the standard supervillain henchman. Strong often plays antagonists and heroes with a certain level of complexity to them, whether it’s the haunted assassin Prideaux in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the well-meaning but ultimately corrupt Sinestro in Green Lantern, CIA analyst George Panetta in Zero Dark Thirty, the sinister Lord Blackwood in Sherlock Holmes, or Dr....

“There’s stuff with Freddie and David singing together,” Hince told The Guardian. “Proper full-length rock ’n’ roll tracks. Raw, but good. They just started knocking things around. They did cover versions, a few of their own things. They came back the next day and recorded what eventually became ‘Under Pressure.’ But there were other things recorded which were never finished or mixed. David did vocals which ended up not being used....

Announced this morning, DC FanDome is a 24 hour digital event that tries to wrap up every part of the convention experience except tripping over someone’s cardboard buster sword and bring it into living rooms around the world. The event will feature news and announcements, exclusive footage, and interactive presentations for every time zone, in multiple languages. It will include announcements from Warner Bros’ Pictures, TV, Games, and DC Comics, and promises to have new information and creators from some of the biggest deals in DC Entertainment....

“The anchoring narrative is, we have Krypto, Superman’s dog,” director Jared Stern tells Den of Geek. “He’s got all the same powers as Superman. He has a pretty great life. He has the best owner in the universe. But he doesn’t know quite how to be a regular dog. The movie is about Krypto learning to be a bit more of a regular dog and making other friends.” The movie’s all-star voice cast includes Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Keanu Reeves, Kate McKinnon, John Krasinski, Natasha Lyonne, Diego Luna, and Vanessa Bayer, to name a few....

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train is the anime’s first movie and the excitement that surrounds it is unbelievable. Mugen Train has gone on to break every box office record in Japan and become the highest grossing film of all time over there. In what’s been a very difficult year for the box office, Mugen Train has been one of the few titles to experience rampant success....

Miami-Dade County was the unspoken MVP of the serial killer drama’s eight season run. Miami was so integral to the show’s vibes that, in lieu of killing its titular lead character in the series finale, Dexter just moved him to Oregon to be a lumberjack. Because being away from the Slice of Life docked in Bay Harbor is as good as dead. That’s why the new setting for the long-awaited ninth season, Dexter: New Blood, is so jarring....

The Venom: Let There Be Carnage trailer shows a police detective named Mulligan, played by Stephen Graham (Greyhound, Line of Duty), reading a paper that should be instantly recognizable even to those with only casual knowledge of Spider-Man lore: The Daily Bugle, the New York rag of Spider-Man-shading publisher J. Jonah Jameson, who unwittingly employs Spider-Man himself, Peter Parker. While a knee-jerk reaction might declare this image the long-awaited proof of Venom‘s Spider-Man connection, it actually proves the opposite, which might be a sobering revelation for MCU purists....

Well, evil might be too strong a word, according to Ferguson, who spoke to us on the phone a few months after our initial visit to the set of Doctor Sleep, which also stars Ewan McGregor as Dan Torrance and is written and directed by Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House). “I like finding the layers to all characters,” Ferguson says of Rose, an energy vampire who feeds on the psychic essence (called “steam” in the book) of children who possess the Shining....

That’s assuming an opponent is able to sneak up to the back of a helmet-free Sontaran unnoticed, of course. It’s tricky but do-able if somebody else keeps them talking. Sontarans say they’re all action, but they love to talk. Their chief topics of conversation are the glory of the Sontaran Empire, the joy of battle, and the puniness of all other species whose defeat will inevitably come at their own three-fingered hands....

In a Q&A session alongside a screening of “The Power of the Doctor,” departing showrunner Chris Chibnall discussed his desire to pack the episode full of easter eggs, layering in the past, present, and future of the long-running programme. While the story itself may have been somewhat messy as a result – more on that in our spoiler-packed review – there’s no denying there’s a lot here for long-time Doctor Who fans to sink their teeth into, with some references being more obscure than others....

Whether you’re a fan of the modern era of the show or want to find out where to watch classic Doctor Who from the sixties and beyond, there’s plenty of places to stream or buy old Doctor Who series both in the UK and the USA. Where to Watch Classic Doctor Who BritBox – UK and US There’s a whopping 272 hours worth of classic Doctor Who available to stream on BritBox, with 558 episodes spanning the first eight Doctors, from William Hartnell to Paul McGann....

The Sopranos prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark is David Chase’s return to the New Jersey city where his families lived, worked, and occasionally breathed their last. The film focuses on Christopher Moltisanti’s (Michael Imperioli) father Dickie Molitisanti (Alessandro Nivola), and his struggle with doing the right thing against things that have to be done right. He is very supportive of the film’s most important supporting role. Michael Gandolfini, the 22-year-old son of James Gandolfini, plays a young Tony Soprano....

Doom Patrol Episode 11 Review Doom Patrol is something really quite special. More than any other superhero show on television, this series manages to elicit some sort of reaction from me each week. And with “Frances Patrol,” the series now offers up a beautiful story about moving on, and letting go of a loved one – and it involved a giant friggin’ robot-eating alligator. How’s that for variety? When this series began, I was concerned if Matt Bomer and Brendan Fraser would be relegated to cameos and voice work, but that has thankfully not been the case....

Now Warner is set to expand that comfort zone a little more by making some episodes of HBO Max’s Doom Patrol available to all for free in advance of the show’s second season premiere. On Monday, June 22 at 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT, the first three episodes of Doom Patrol season 1 will be available on DC’s YouTube channel and broadcast live from Rooster Teeth’s YouTube channels outside of HBO Max’s paywall In addition, Rooster Teeth will be creating a special “Doom Talkers” after-show to follow each episode....

“Well, can’t he just…beam up?” asks one of the boys. “This is REALITY, Greg,” Elliott responds. The line always gets a laugh from audiences. But it’s an apt one. For “reality” is exactly what distinguishes Steven Spielberg’s 1982 masterpiece E.T. the Extra Terrestrial from most every other science-fiction blockbuster, particularly those marketed toward kids. At its heart is the all-too-common reality of a broken home. Elliott (played by wunderkind actor Henry Thomas), Michael (Robert MacNaughton), and their little sister Gertie (Drew Barrymore) have been left with their mother Mary (Dee Wallace) by their dad, who’s off in Mexico with his girlfriend....

If Endeavour’s deadline isn’t calendar-based, it looks likely to be character-based. For almost a decade, fans have been watching the young detective’s gradual transformation from what Lewis describes as Morse’s “bright-eyed and bushy tailed” first appearance in the 1965-set 2012 special, to the lugubrious and cynical older Morse recognisable from the John Thaw years. Between series one and six, the character “had a lot of the stuffing knocked out of him,” said Lewis, and he’s taken even more of a beating since then....