In the galaxy far, far away, names carry a lot of weight. Whether it’s the reveal that the Child is actually Grogu instead of Baby Yoda, that Luke Skywalker was originally going to be “Luke Starkiller,” or the fact there’s a Tusken Raider called URoRRuR’R’R, names in Star Wars to tend to stand out, even when they’re just a jumble of letters or Glup Shittos. Tony Gilroy’s Andor has introduced a whole host of colorful characters with interesting names: Syril Karn, Dedra Meero, Kino Loy, Bix Caleen, Vel Sartha, and even a Tay Kolma....

Anna (Ella Hunt, a talented delight) is a high school senior headed off to a gap year before college, much to her father’s dismay. Her best friend John (Malcolm Cumming) is trying to get over his unrequited feelings for Anna and how much he’ll miss her when she flies off to Australia while waiting for an art school acceptance. Steph (Sarah Swire), a queer American whose parents low-key abandoned her in Scotland before heading to Mexico, has dreams of burying her feelings in making a difference for those less fortunate....

Snyder, a master of shot composition and striking imagery, fills the title sequence of his latest zombie flick with arresting visuals, such as an elderly man being mauled while his jackpot winnings spew from a nearby slot like the blood from his wounds. There’s also a paratrooper slowly descending into a teeming, hungry horde. It’s the kind of eye-catching opening that suggests a hard-charged, neon-lit romp. But in reality, Army of the Dead moves like one of the film’s “shamblers....

Attack on Titan Season 2, Episode 11 We picked up from where episode 10 left off last week, with the Survey scouts and the Military Police in collaboration to rescue Eren and Ymir from Reiner and Bertolt, and this week’s episode did not fail to play out the conflicts that have been mounting for the past few episodes. “Charge” saw Ymir and Historia wrangling over their individual intentions and options in the middle of a dangerous terrain, Erwin’s borderline miniacal ruthlessness on full display, and how Armin may just be the most terrifying one of the Eren-Mikasa-Armin trio....

Of course nothing is judged in a vacuum when considering a James Cameron movie. Indeed, depending on where you look, the Avatar 2 box office debut is either a cautious sign that you still “should never bet against Cameron” (as goes conventional industry wisdom) or a harbinger that the king is dead and Avatar: The Way of Water is on a path toward financial disappointment. It likely couldn’t have helped expectations that Cameron himself mused to the press that for Avatar 2 to be considered a success it needs to gross over $2 billion....

“There are no shops or any kind of logistical support, so it’s a pretty rare breed of person that lives there that’s really in tune with nature. It’s kind of magical and timeless in that way,” explained Cumberbatch of NZ’s Rakino Island, which – as far as we know – is home to no pengwings. Cumberbatch had initially embraced a job as the face of Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Polaris Mariner Memovox watch under the impression that the company wanted him to do a quick bit of scuba diving for the cameras, which turned out to be an error....

What exactly happened during the ending of the Better Call Saul Season 4 finale? Well…this. The Birth of Saul Goodman Yes, Jimmy McGill has said the words “Saul Goodman/S’all good, man” before. He said the latter version as early on as the finale of the show’s first season. This season he even adopted the pseudonym as part of his illicit burner phone selling business. But the real show stopping moment of the Better Call Saul Season 4 finale is Jimmy McGill finally making it official....

These? Yeah, these are not those films. These are a different sort of monochromatic visual feast altogether. These won’t be the type of films that will have you beard-stroking over a glass of late-night wine together. No, these are the type of films that will have you tripping your balls (or ladyballs) completely off, even if you’re as sober as a judge. The American Astronaut I know what it’s like, okay?...

Fortunately, BlizzCon 2021 is here to make up for lost time with an all-digital event full of updates on the latest and greatest from Blizzard Entertainment. This means that if you’ve been waiting to hear more about all of those new Diablo projects, Overwatch 2, and what’s new with World of Warcraft, now’s your time! Although the virtual nature of the event means that attendees won’t be able to gather under one roof for exciting tournaments and a surprise-filled Opening Ceremony, Blizzard is still bringing quite a lot to this year’s event....

As the name suggests, Bloodborne PS1 Demake is an elaborate fan project that recreates Bloodborne in the style of a PS1 game. While the project won’t go beyond the boss fight against Father Gascoigne (though its creators say it will feature “extended areas and some bonus post-game content”), Bloodborne PS1 Demake will be released for free early next year, so there’s really no reason not to try it if you’re one of the many PC gamers who still lay awake at night wondering when FromSoftware and the PlayStation team are finally going to port Bloodborne to that platform....

Perhaps suspecting I’d heard all the “good bits” explains why I was so taken aback at the film’s interruption of the Conservative Political Action Conference. And no, it has nothing to do with what Sacha Baron Cohen did. To be sure, the subversive comedian goes all out with his shtick there, first arriving dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, earning himself annoyed glances but seemingly nothing more (the film was of course selectively edited)....

Isn’t it? That depends. There’s another moment that, every rewatch, makes my stomach clench in ways that the Gentlemen never do. Those grinning freaks are scary, but they’re fun-scary. Outside of a fan convention or a Rupert Murdoch lookalike contest, you’d never actually have to face them. Unlike the couple of boneheads who catcall Buffy Summers on a dark street in ‘Helpless’. (If anybody, by the way, is starting to suspect they’ve been conned into reading some broad’s undergrad essay on women, power and taking back the night instead of an upbeat online list, then bingo, you called it....

Reports suggest that the recent trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 actually included a sneaky preview of the Warzone 2 map. This information primarily comes from reporter Tom Henderson, who has historically been an incredibly reliable source when it comes to Call of Duty leaks. This time, he is suggesting that some of those overhead night-vision shots featured in the Modern Warfare 2 trailer were actually previews of the Warzone 2 map....

In Warzone, players will be able to take the fight to Die Hard‘s Nakatomi Corporation building, which will replace the Broadcast Tower. This will be the perfect place to live out your John McClane Christmas fantasy, with “five floors of a space that will be familiar to those who know and love the original Die Hard,” according to Activision, which also confirms the building will be the tallest structure in Verdansk ’84....

Perhaps. Yet it’s also fair to wonder if this change is temporary. We may now live in a world where superhero and Pixar movies can premiere on streaming, but the new year provides a new movie release calendar, and with it renewed commitments to bring audiences back to cinemas. There are exceptions, of course. WarnerMedia made 17 of them when they announced that, like Wonder Woman 1984, Warner Brothers’ entire 2021 film slate would simultaneously premiere in theaters and on HBO Max in the U....

The “Optimized for Xbox Series X/S” edition of Halo: MCC will run at up to 4K resolution on Series X and up to 120 frames per second, a big upgrade that should result in noticeable graphical improvements on consoles. It’s not quite the next-gen Halo experience Xbox fans were hoping for when the Xbox Series X was first revealed, but it’s certainly better than nothing. While Halo: MCC has enjoyed multi-platform popularity for quite some time thanks to the excellent PC ports released so far, the “Optimized for Xbox Series X/S” version gives the title something even more meaningful: a second shot at a console launch and a chance to correct the mistakes of the game’s Xbox One launch back in November 2014....

We don’t mean actual ghosts, obviously, we’re talking about all those precocious costumed youths in shoddily applied face paint having the audacity to knock on your door demanding some of the multipack of snack-size sweets you got from Tesco on the way home from work. Bought them for trick-or-treaters? Pffft. Those Haribo were all for you, and you know it. So embrace the darkness (and the sugar), draw the curtains, and shut out the world ready to scare yourself silly with these classic British TV ghost stories....

Despite his much maligned debut on the big screen, Green Lantern remains one of the characters DC movie fans keep asking to see in the DCEU the most. While Reynolds’ turn as the cosmic protector made waves for all the wrong reasons when it released, the latest DCEU movie to flirt with a Green Lantern cameo was the talk of Twitter for what it didn’t show: John Stewart in the flesh, appearing before Bruce Wayne to set up a future team up in a Justice League sequel that will likely never happen....

While some of those fan frustrations can be attributed to their “But I want it now!” outlook, the disappointment, confusion, and even anger over this recent delay certainly seems to have something to do with recent updates regarding Cyberpunk 2077‘s development which complicate how fans are dealing with this information. For example, you may recall that CD Projekt Red recently confirmed reports that they’ve asked their employees to begin working six-day weeks despite the studio’s previous promises not to institute a crunch schedule....

Series one of E4 gamer flatshare comedy Dead Pixels – created by Jon Brown and executive produced by Bain and Armstrong – was built on a similar truth minus the façade of normality. Its leads were just as entertainingly idiotic as Mark and Jez, but their shared gaming obsession with MMORPG Kingdom Scrolls stripped them of any fitting-in pretence. Meg and Nicky (Alexa Davies and Will Merrick) were largely adjusted to their outsider status; their inner and outer voices one and the same: filthy, funny and quotable....