What We Do in the Shadows season 3 brings new duties, old flames, sad farewells, and happy endings – though those are mainly enjoyed by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry), who discovers a treasure trove of the rarest pornography in the known world. There will also be a trip for Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) to the three corners of the earth, which Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak) will learn is round, therefore having no corners, but also not held up on the shoulders of four elephants....

Did Jeremy Bamber (Freddie Fox) really tell his girlfriend Julie Mugford (Alexa Davies) that he planned to have his family assassinated or is she just a jealous woman out to spite Bamber after he dumped her? That’s the dilemma the police are facing in episode five of ITV’s drama series White House Farm following the aftermath of the shooting of five members of a family at the titular estate in Essex in 1985....

To further capture the feel of the nomadic experience, Zhao used a bare bones crew who traveled in vans and stayed in motels for the four-month production. Many critics and early reviewers, including our review out of TIFF last September, responded to a more authentic representation of America than we tend to get in mainstream cinema. When one considers Zhao will next be directing the upcoming Marvel’s Eternals, it makes her filmmaking techniques to create this viscerally authentic cinematic experience all the more unique....

Microsoft struck first with a surprise announcement: The company planned to purchase Activision Blizzard. While shocking, this is hardly the first major video game acquisition in recent memory. In fact, Sony and Microsoft have spent the past several years buying up game publishers and developers, racing to grab as much territory as possible. In 2021, Sony purchased studios Bluepoint Games and Housemarque, while the year before, Microsoft acquired ZeniMax Media, owners of Bethesda Softworks and all the studios that come with it....

Directed by Patty Jenkins (Monster), Wonder Woman takes a page from, dare we say it, the Marvel Cinematic Universe playbook by telling a mostly straightforward origin story. While it is somewhat predictable in its basic structure, the movie also provides the kind of satisfying narrative and character arc missing from its predecessors. And for possibly the first time since the DCEU officially started with 2013’s Man of Steel, the movie features a lead character who unambiguously embraces the call instead of refusing it with aspects of that character’s own personality and history creating more organic conflicts later on....

Yellowstone Season 5 Episode 1 and 2 Yellowstone creator, showrunner, and deity to the cowboy-at-heart, Taylor Sheridan, is often praised for his intense, gritty, and typically crime-driven dramas, yet the prolific writer isn’t recognized enough for his sense of balance. It’s one of the major reasons Yellowstone’s audience continues to grow, even while the show is now entering its fifth and rumored penultimate season, and how it has kept viewers hooked the entire time....

Yellowstone Season 5 Episode 8 Yellowstone season 5 can best, and favorably, be described as purposeful or deliberate. There have been a myriad of smaller character moments to build up an already impressive catalog of believable characters. There has been a spitoon filled to the brim with gobs of cowboy wisdom – reminding the show’s millions of viewers what the important things are in life according to co-creator and showrunner Taylor Sheridan....

Young Justice Season 13 Episode 19 I’m conflicted about “Elder Wisdom.” On the one hand, it’s a perfectly fine episode of Young Justice on its own and as a part of the overall narrative of the third season. It’s got good action and a fun running gag (Impulse yelling “I’M FINE” from off camera). It gives a surprising amount of character development to people who feel like peripheral characters like Wonder Girl, El Dorado or Jay Garrick....

But Snyder restored his version last year, debuting it on HBO Max earlier this spring. And it’s led fans to demand that the entire DC film universe be handed back to Snyder so that he could carry on with the now largely abandoned mythology, colloquially known as the Snyderverse. After all, Snyder’s most passionate advocates point out, Warner Bros. is already embracing a “multiverse” strategy with startlingly different versions of characters existing onscreen, independent from each other....

Now it’s hard to take a single step in the pop culture landscape without landing on a reanimated corpse with a belly full gray matter—not that this should be treated as the end of the world. Indeed, as you’ll see in many of the movies below, a zombie apocalypse can be just another chance to turn a frown upside down. And what’s more delicious than a zombie comedy that gets flesh-eating just right?...

It’s been 14 years since Robert Downey Jr. first stepped into our lives as Iron Man, and across four phases, a whole Infinity Saga, and more Easter eggs than we care to count, the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to go from strength to strength. The journey from page to screen is never an easy one, and while the MCU packs a lot into its runtimes, there’s inevitably some stuff that gets left on the cutting room floor....

With nearly four decades of game creation to explore, it’s hard to rank the absolute best franchises from Nintendo’s considerable history, but that’s exactly what we’ve set out to do. To clear up any confusion, this isn’t a list of the best characters in Nintendo’s history, so you may see Mario starring in multiple entries in this hierarchy (he’s dipped his gloves into just about everything). This also isn’t a ranking of individual Nintendo games, though the overall quality of the individual games within these franchises obviously influenced their ranking....

Instead, we asked the assorted writers of Den Of Geek to recall moments where they went to see a film as a child, and found themselves confronted by a character that absolutely terrfied them. One they didn’t necessarily see coming. As you’re about to discover, it seems we’re a bit of a tortured bunch. Here are the 15 movie characters that continue to haunt our minds, many years on…...

Religion can also make for contentious filmmaking: too earnest and the movie feels sanctimonious and dull, too irreverent and you risk making “a holocaust movie that has the power to destroy souls eternally,” as a nun once told Martin Scorsese about his 1988 film, The Last Temptation of Christ. Here are the top 25 movies about the man we can thank for the enormous amount of chocolate we eat at various intervals throughout the year:...

Monsieur de Clermont, we’ve been expecting you! Admittedly, we weren’t expecting you to show up, sniff your son, detect that he hadn’t yet banged his girlfriend, shit stir about it and then offer her the keys to your bread cupboard, but it’s always good to leave people guessing. The reputation of Philippe de Clermont very much precedes him in A Discovery of Witches. He’s a superstar in this world, the vampire who established the Knights of Lazarus and the Congregation, and the patriarch of France’s ruling vamp family....

A pregnancy! Something really has stuck its finger into the creature gene pot and swirled it around hasn’t it? First it was daemons born to witches and vice versa, now a vampire and a witch have conceived, going against millennia of biology. Whatever next – big, fiery birds swooping out of people’s midriffs to smite their enemies? Yes, exactly! Don’t you just love fantasy? Corra the firedrake is Diana’s long-promised familiar, an elemental creature unlocked by reaching level six of her weaver training....

In a statement regarding Microsoft’s stunning acquisition of Activision Blizzard, controversial Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick (who may be on his way out of the company as a result of this deal) shed a little light on why Activision Blizzard agreed to this massive purchase and what it means for everyone moving forward. “As investments in cloud computing, AI and machine learning, data analytics, and user interface and experience capabilities are becoming more competitive, we believe this partnership will better enable our ambitions,” said Kotick in a recent email to Activision Blizzard employees who likely hate him....

2.10 Hollywood Ending Well, it’s fair to say that didn’t disappoint. It’s safe to say I didn’t get everything I wanted – Dottie to come back, for instance – but other than that it’s hard to be upset about anything in this episode. This series has really been more about the characters than the plot, and pretty much everyone’s been through the wringer by the time the episode ends. Predictably, not everyone survived, but it’s safe to say that the death wasn’t at all expected....

Agents of SHIELD Season 5 Episode 19 So while all of you are taking in Avengers: Infinity War, here I am, at home intrepidly recapping Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. Not to worry, I’ll be Infinity Warring tomorrow, but for now, I’m settled in to absorb the latest from elsewhere in the MCU. And you know what, Agents of SHIELD did not disappoint. Because while everyone else gets to see the coming of Thanos, I get to witness the rise of Graviton, and it is pretty freakin’ epic....

Seriously, over the weekend one of the Ambulance TV spots (which Universal Pictures has opted to not officially share online) trumpeted, “Critics have always hated Michael Bay’s movies, but Ambulance has the best Rotten Tomatoes score of his career.” And it’s true! Ambulance has a mixed-to-positive score of 68 percent as of press time, and one cannot help but wonder if that figure would be even higher if the movie came from any director other than Bay—or perhaps was simply presented in the innocuous packaging of another Marvel Studios product....