Now that Maggie’s in charge, Negan’s time is almost up. That much is clear to the man who’s been in villain rehabilitation for the past two seasons when he’s drafted to join a group of Alexandrians on a mission to recover the food and supplies the settlement desperately needs after the war with the Whisperers. The journey back to Maggie’s old settlement involves navigating the dark, walker-infested subway tunnels of a city that Negan knows well, but that’s not the only reason he’s been chosen for the mission....

Plex offers a one-stop-shop streaming service offering 50,000+ free titles and 200+ of free-to-stream live TV channels, from the biggest names in entertainment, including Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, Lionsgate, Legendary, AMC, A+E, Crackle, and Reuters. Plex is always overflowing with thousands of new and old familiar favorites on its platform and we’re here to happily select the cream of the crop. This month our picks include new A24 titles as well as a found-footage horror anthology film and a little-seen Paul Rudd vehicle....

Amy Adams plays Anna Fox, a woman with agoraphobia who lives in a big house, with a tenant (Wyatt Russell) in the basement who helps with groceries and errands. Anna has attempted suicide in the past, we learn—the reasons why will unravel before the runtime ends—and has recently started taking new medication. She’s not supposed to drink on the new meds but does so anyway, establishing early on Fox’s position as “unreliable narrator....

And the familiarity is, to begin with, comforting for the audience, too. After a pre-title sequence that’s as close to a big screen version of Spaced as we’ll ever get (yes, including Shaun Of The Dead), the remainder of the opening act plays out with a tone that borders on flat out Pegg-Wright-Frost nostalgia. Wright’s signature scene-pans are in place, the dialogue subtly hints at future plot events in the way Shaun so expertly did, and the character humor – as Gary rounds up a dispersed gang of school chums to their home town to re-enact the bar-crawl-that-never-quite-was – is reassuring and comfortable....

Much like the recent Apple TV+ series 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, This is Pop shows how pop music reflects and influences culture. Music has always been a great unifier, both for listeners and musicians. Regardless of race, faith, or sexual preference, everyone has a favorite song, and people are drawn to the art of music from every background. What starts as a neighborhood sound moves beyond the streets, and for every Boyz II Men, there’s a new kid on the block....

Those Who Wish Me Dead shares several common elements with all of these works, in that it is largely set in a vast rural area of the United States–in this case Montana–and it loosely follows the structure of a classic Western updated for the modern era. But while Sheridan tries to capture a sense of foreboding and danger from the start, and stacks the story with a formidable list of actors, the film never quite attains the urgency or connection with its characters that it needs to make an impact....

If you were a Met officer who was secretly (and – credit where it’s due – successfully) orchestrating a cross-London terror campaign right under the nose of your employers, would you leave your work locker stuffed with evidence pointing your way? Unlikely. If that A to Z doesn’t just turn out to be John Hudson doing his homework like a good little bomb disposal expert, it’s likely been planted. But by whom?...

Van Helsing Season 2 Episode 2 Aristotle said, “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light,” and there’s something about walking in the light of day that helps more clearly define a situation. Now that Vanessa has left The Citadel with her daughter, perhaps she’ll be able to begin the healing process that both so badly need. Unfortunately, Van Helsing never makes things easy for mankind’s savior....

Still, even with all that forewarning, it’s hard to contain one’s surprise at just how seriously and literal WandaVision takes its sitcom mission. Save for a handful of moments that suggest all is not what it seems, WandaVision’s first two episodes are made up entirely of classic sitcom plots. In one, Wanda and Vis endure many classic sitcom misunderstandings as the latter’s boss makes an unexpected appearance at dinner. In the second, the pair must concoct a magic show for Westview’s kids…all while Vision is basically drunk on chewing gum....

The first thing to remember about Howard Overman’s moodily atmospheric War of the Worlds is that if novelist H.G. Wells were here today (and had the required TV streaming package), he probably wouldn’t recognise it as his story. Aside from an alien invasion that wipes out much of Earth’s population, the TV drama had little crossover with Wells’ novel. Instead of tripods with heat rays, it had cyborg dogs with machine gun heads....

Depending on your feelings regarding listening to your Call of Duty opponents, Warzone 2‘s Proximity Chat will either be the game’s best or worst features. Regardless of your feelings, you’re going to want to know how to use (and occasionally fix) that feature. Let’s start with the basics. To enable proximity chat in Warzone 2, you don’t need to do anything. Proximity Chat is automatically enabled in Warzone 2. Unless you’ve played with the game’s settings (more on that in a bit), you’ll be able to “enjoy” Proximity Chat out of the gate....

William, in his customary black suit, is giving a speech in front of a group of high-rollers at the end of Westworld season 4’s second episode, “Well Enough Alone.” He commands the stage, cracks a few jokes, then announces not just a resumption of theme park activities, but a new golden age. For Delos? Perhaps. Or maybe, William is just giving away the theme of Delos’ newest historical attraction. While William speaks to the assembled, Maeve and Caleb step off of the train that sped them from Los Angeles to the middle of nowhere, exiting the dystopian future and stepping back in time and into a town called Temperance....

Whenever gamers dive into a modern open-world title, they usually know about what to expect. A multitude of NPCs and missions, countless side activities, and a large world have all become hallmarks of the genre. For a time, the desire to build ever-bigger worlds seemingly dwarfed developers’ abilities to populate them with worthwhile content. Some relied on the phrase, “wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle” to summarize the problem....

Outlander Season 6 was meant to already be filming. A May 3rd tweet from star and producer Sam Heughan (Jamie) revealed that the season was meant to start filming at the beginning of May, but has been rescheduled, broadly, for the fall. Even in the tweet, however, Heughan seems hesitant to confirm that this will happen, writing “will just have to see.” A season of Outlander generally takes about eight or nine months to film, and the season usually premieres between three and four months following the end of production....

The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 18 You can always count on The Simpsons to go against accepted wisdom. Each of the Simpson kids’ worst traits are indulged in “My Octopus and a Teacher,” and in this case, it is a lesson well learned. Bart drives the school’s new teacher, Rayshelle Peyton (Kerry Washington), to the end of her rope. Lisa reels in another creature to save in spite of itself. Some of the best and worst episodes are predicated on these problematic predilections....

While some gamers have spent the last few years speculating that Blizzard’s string of public problems (which includes layoffs, botched remasters, delays, employee departures, and a series of PR disasters) meant that the company was in serious trouble, a recent report from IGN seemingly confirms that the company is at least struggling to maintain its culture and standards just as new financial issues make the upcoming releases of Diablo 4, Overwatch 2, Diablo Immortal, and Diablo 2: Resurrected more important than ever....

But with the casting news about Fuller’s upcoming feature film directing debut Dust Bunny, the creator will finally be reuniting with his best collaborator, the Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen. Together with Fuller, Mikkelsen already did the impossible, becoming for many the definitive Hannibal Lecter, despite Anthony Hopkins’s Academy Award-winning portrayal in The Silence of the Lambs. Where Hopkins played Lecter as a reptilian predator, staring wide-eyed at his prey, even lecturing on Dante in Ridley Scott’s sequel Hannibal, Mikkelsen brought playfulness and even romance to the famed cannibal....

While there are certainly some (myself included) who still have mixed feeling about New World, it’s becoming clear that millions of gamers have already decided that they love or hate this game and likely won’t be swayed from their views anytime soon. We’re used to seeing major games inspire one reaction or the other, but it’s truly rare to get a modern Triple-A title that inspires both from such a wide array of people....

Riverdale Season 6 Episode 1 Last season, Riverdale jumped ahead in time to skip over the gang’s college and re-contextualize their relationships with each other. That, meshed with subplots about everything from Mothmen to murderous truckers to Mr. Lodge’s latest (and for now at least, last) criminal scheme, resulted in the most uneven season of the series to date. In short order, the standard weirdness of Riverdale had become rote. Something massive had to change in order for the series to evolve....

Yet when it comes to Sweeney Todd, it might surprise many of his fans that he was never happier with a movie adaptation of a stage musical than while watching Tim Burton’s big and bloody reimagining of his music—and with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter’s limited vocal ranges, no less. Often a sharp critic of how Hollywood previously transferred Broadway toe-tappers to cinema, Sondheim was always a thinker who could keep his own counsel, even about films as beloved as Robert Wise’s 1961 screen version of West Side Story....