Midway through The Falcon and The Winter Soldier’s third episode, “Power Broker,” Helmut Zemo (now fully recognized as a Baron) demonstrates some impressive quick thinking. Alongside an undercover Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes, Zemo is in the Lowtown underworld of Madripoor trying to score a meeting with the Power Broker. When things are going poorly and the trio is forced to defend themselves, Zemo decides to pretend that Bucky is still the brainwashed Winter Soldier who can be controlled through some helpful Hydra keywords like “Winter Soldier....

The Flash Season 4 Episode 23 There’s a moment that comes about halfway through The Flash season 4 finale that got to me in a very weird, very specific way. When Barry encounters Ralph in DeVoe’s mindscape, the bizarre, dreamlike world where most of the episode takes place and where Team Flash must make their stand against the Thinker, the two exchange pleasantries and information. And then the unreality of it all sets in, and they ask each other “wait, how are you here?...

The Gilded Age‘s two-part premiere episode is 90 minutes of epic period drama world-building. In the new HBO series, creator Julian Fellowes melds many of the storytelling tropes and elements that made Downton Abbey a worldwide hit with a less explored decade in American history into a story that delivers on the social drama and historical recreation. Let’s talk about “Never the New, Parts 1 & 2.” The Gilded Age Setting The Gilded Age‘s setting is 1882 New York City, a city of rapid changes in both society and industry....

The Gilded Age Episode 3 not only raises the stakes but also sees a noticeable tonal shift between this series and Julian Fellowes’ earlier series, Downton Abbey. In “Face the Music,” the nouveau riche’s war against the old money elites has turned deadly by the end of the episode. The actors across the board have risen to the challenge of more complex and dark scenes. The episode begins with a nice history Easter Egg....

If you’re going to direct your first TV episode, why not do it like that. Elisabeth Moss – whose 30-year acting career has given her ample time to figure out what and what not to do behind the camera – did not go small in her debut. ‘The Crossing’ stood apart from the normal run of things by using almost no existing locations or sets. Largely set in a monumental prison facility where June was subjected to a series of brutal interrogation methods, it was horror through and through....

Burnistoun writer and performer Robert Florence’s debut feature The House Of Him aims to tackle this head on. Sophie and Anna are invited into a photographers house for a shoot. However when he dons his mask, things take a murderous turn. Anna is left trapped inside the house at his mercy but the skeletons in his closet start rattling and soon the hunter is the hunted. Opening on familiar territory, masked killer murders attractive woman, the bread and butter of slasher movies, so far so ho-hum....

Den of Geek consulted Dr. Hermann Bayer, an expert authority on Okinawan Karate and the author of the upcoming book Analysis of Genuine Karate―Misconceptions, Origin, Development, and True Purpose. Dr. Bayer remembers firsthand how The Karate Kid stimulated the Karate boom in the mid-eighties because he was a practicing Karateka then. But as a martial scholar, he’s pragmatic about his opinions. “First and foremost, we have to bear in mind that we are talking about a movie, not about a documentation or a piece of research,” says Bayer....

The Magicians Season 2 Episode 3 How did The Magicians manage to pack this many different types of stories into one episode? The morbid humor stemming from the cursed throne assassination attempts received as much attention as the frighteningly dangerous attempts to entrap Reynard and Martin, but by the end, “Divine Elimination” sent chills down everyone’s spines and broke a few hearts, capping off a nearly perfectly constructed narrative. First, let’s talk about that episode title....

As the special look trailer released by Disney during Monday Night Football yesterday confirmed, Mando will turn to old friends Greef Karga (Carl Weathers) and Cara Dune (Gina Carano) for help at some point in season 2. At the very least, it looks like the trio will tangle with the Empire on Nevarro, the volcanic planet where Mando last faced the villainous Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito). While most of this “special look” video features scenes previously revealed in the season’s first trailer, there’s one line that seems significant....

The Ancestral Plane is a personal thing for each person who accesses it. This truth was made explicitly clear in the original Black Panther movie. During that 2018 landmark superhero epic, the metaphysical space is revealed as a destination reserved for members of the Wakandan royal family. New arrivals to the afterlife (or simply visitors stopping briefly by, thanks to the Heart-Shaped Herb) see a uniquely individual paradise that best suits the events and memories from their own lives....

While director and co-writer Lana Wachowski isn’t giving away any of the answers, she did join fellow Matrix Resurrections writers Aleksandar Hemon and David Mitchell at a panel at the Berlin International Literature Festival to share what it’s been like returning to this beloved universe after so many years. And one of the best insights from Wachowski gives us a clue as to the themes and messages the new movie is set to tackle....

Family Guy creator MacFarlane first debuted his sci-fi comedy series to a dubious audience back in 2017, and after a wobbly start it gained a faithful fan base. MacFarlane had written himself a plum lead role as the 25th century captain an exploratory space vessel with a diverse crew, and the series has often played with ‘story of the week’ standalone episodes that are more akin to The Next Generation’s glory days than the likes of Star Trek: Discovery, which seemed more interested in sticking with season-long arcs....

Indeed, part of the fun of playing a game like The Quarry comes from trying to figure out where you know so many of its cast members from. While a few names will jump out at you instantly, others most certainly fall into that “Oh yeah, I know them” category. So if you’re tired of scratching your head over who is who in The Quarry, here’s a breakdown of the game’s cast of primary characters and where you might know their actors from....

In May of 2019, David S. Goyer made my deepest, wildest fanboy dream come true by asking if I wanted to adapt Neil Gaiman’s award-winning, best-selling The Sandman into a streaming series. Naturally, I said no. That’s not entirely true. First, I said, “May I have 24 hours to re-read the books?” Then, after re-reading, I said no. I asked David why Neil Gaiman himself (who had just wrapped Good Omens) wasn’t going to be the one to adapt The Sandman....

The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 4 Halloween is the special time for many series, giving them the chance to throw logic and canon out the window to plumb the fantastic for fearful flights. But The Simpsons season 32, episode 4, “Treehouse of Horror XXXI” opens with the scariest of all fantasias: Reality. The episode begins a short while after Halloween on what looks to be the most frightening day in recent memory, the upcoming election between Trump/Putin and Someone/Anyone....

Literally dozens of King’s novels, novellas, and short stories have been made into theatrical motion pictures, limited TV series, or streaming movies, ranging from classics like Carrie, The Shining, The Dead Zone, and The Shawshank Redemption to more recent milestones like It and The Outsider. Some, like ‘Salem’s Lot, The Stand, The Shining, and It, have been adapted more than once. Along the way, there have also been many King adaptations that never actually made it to the screen, or made it in vastly different form than originally intended....

Nobody would call Doctor Strange the worst MCU movie. But not too many people would say it’s the best either. The fifteen films released since Doctor Strange hit theaters in 2016 have occasionally been universally loved (Black Panther) or largely panned (Eternals), but the cinematic debut of surgeon-turned-sorcerer Stephen Strange remains in the lower middle of most MCU rankings (including ours!). The movie’s detractors point out the similarities between Doctor Strange and the first MCU entry Iron Man, as both stories feature arrogant successful men with facial hair who have a heroic turn after being laid low....

Perhaps the most iconic armor in all of pop culture is that of the storm troopers in Star Wars. Clean, imposing, yet disposable, the shiny white duds perfectly capture the sanitized yet all-powerful nature of The Empire. It only makes sense then that, when introducing its own Empire of sorts, The Walking Dead looked to those same storm troopers for style inspiration. When Eugene, Yumiko, Ezekiel, and Princess arrive in The Commonwealth in The Walking Dead season 10, they know that they are immediately dealing with a formidable community....

The survivors on The Walking Dead are from all walks of life, across a wide spectrum of ages, races, nationalities, and ability levels. As such, all could have benefitted from a bit of advice from experienced experts in the field of survival. So, Den of Geek reached out to a pair of preppers and asked them some questions about just how the various groups on The Walking Dead have fared in their quest to navigate the end of the world....

The children are entrapped in the bodies of mice, and the Warner Bros. feature adaptation of Dahl’s 1983 novel was supposed to be released in theaters. But it will hit HBO Max on Oct. 22. Just in time for Halloween. The film will fly into theatres internationally beginning October 28. “Based on the timeless story, the reimagined Roald Dahl’s The Witches … brings a fresh sense of humor along with warmth and the unexpected to what is sure to be a Halloween favorite,” reads the official synopsis....