It’s been over a year since the season one finale of Raised by Wolves aired on HBO Max, but even if the hiatus had been much shorter, the audience would likely need to be reminded about all the weirdness they witnessed during the opening run. Once season 2 kicks off on February 3, 2022, viewers will be anxious to find out what happens to all of the scattered characters who will likely have a lot of adjusting to do — almost as much reacclimation as the viewers themselves need....

We here at Den of Geek have decided to rank these Christmas entries from worst to best. In terms of ground rules, we’re only going with the baseline Muppet stuff. There are a million Sesame Street Christmas things and we’re not touching them. Same goes for Fraggle Rock and Muppet Babies. We’re focusing on Kermit’s crew, stories where Kermit is the host, and one case where one major Muppet makes his debut....

Where Does Raya and the Last Dragon Take Place? Officially, Raya and the Last Dragon takes place in Kumandra—if the dragons didn’t give it away, the setting is a fictional fantasy world. Of course, like How To Train Your Dragon (which has both Scottish and Norwegian influences), that doesn’t mean Kumandra isn’t based on a real place—or, in this case places. The filmmakers drew from the cultures of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar, and Malaysia in making the film....

Leave it to Ben Wheatley to remake Alfred Hitchcock. The younger British filmmaking iconoclast has been nothing if not provocative with his filmography so far, which includes the disturbing horror-crime hybrid Kill List (2011), the serial killer black comedy Sightseers (2012), the psychedelic, very weird A Field in England (2014), and the unsettling dystopian nightmare, High-Rise (2015). But with Rebecca he takes on not just a classic Hitchcock film, but the master’s sole Best Picture winner....

While even a quick dive into the Resident Evil timeline can give you a headache (just take a look at this), more people than ever seem to be interested in the Resident Evil chronology after Resident Evil Village‘s ending clearly referenced key events in the RE franchise and arguably positioned the series to “return” to that franchise mythology in future installments. So how does Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness fit into that mythology?...

If you’re looking at Resident Evil Village as a product, it’s hard not to consider the game a success even this early into its lifespan. Capcom is probably pretty happy with the game, and in many of the ways that matter most, they should be happy. Resident Evil Village is a very good game. You could even probably throw out the word “great” in many circles and not have to argue about it....

Riverdale Season 5 Episode 1 “Clearly our last two weeks of high school are going to be fraught…” Friends, on this day we find this country starting a new chapter, one that is full of hope and excitement for the future. I am of course referring to the airing of Riverdale‘s season premiere, a somewhat wheel-spinning, melodramatic affair that feels more like the closing pages of a book than the start of another story....

Hence one of the several reasons for my trepidation toward returning to Alejandro’s pack. Whereas Sicario was Denis Villeneuve’s tense journey into night, a sequel like Sicario: Day of the Soldado had to find its own path on a terrain that will be wholly without sunlight (or for that matter, Villeneuve and Blunt). Yet that innate darkness proves to be Soldado’s greatest virtue. With no light, there are also no rules, and as such returning screenwriter Taylor Sheridan and incoming director Stefano Sollima are allowed to build a stripped down and scalpel-sharp action movie....

Poitier, who won the Best Actor Oscar in 1964 for Lilies of the Field, plays magazine reporter Ben Munceford in The Bedford Incident. The Cold War thriller isn’t as well-known as Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb or Sidney Lumet’s Fail-Safe, but it is as chilling as any apocalyptic vision ever put on screen. The Bedford Incident was directed by James B....

Snowpiercer Season 3 Episode 1 One of the strongest features of Snowpiercer is the show’s ability to figure out ways to create claustrophobia. Granted, that’s easy on a train; it’s not exactly the sort of environment in which you can spread out and social distance from your neighbors. On the last train, however, that situation is even more dire, especially if you’re in third class or stuck in the tail. The people on board Snowpiercer toil away elbow to elbow with their fellows, making clothes, breaking up ice, cooking and growing food, even entertaining in the club car....

Snowpiercer Season 3 Episode 2 When situations change on Snowpiercer, there’s not much chance for the characters to absorb the effects of that change before having to act on them. It wasn’t all that long ago that Oz (Sam Otto) and LJ (Annelise Basso) were banished to sanitation, working as janitors for their various abuses of power and crimes. Now, thanks to a little Wilford (Sean Bean) magic, they’re having the Snowpiercer equivalent of the Royal Wedding, the Loyal Wedding....

The penultimate episode of Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 is an intriguing mix of action and politics as Michael and Book infiltrate the stolen Discovery and Osyraa takes ship straight up to the Federation Headquarters’ front door in order to make an unexpected offer to Admiral Vance. “There is a Tide…” turns out to be a rather surprising hour, spending less time on Michael and Book’s undercover rescue antics and instead asking thorny moral questions that it’s not entirely clear that the season has earned the right to ask....

Because everything in the 32nd century is brand-new for the Star Trek canon, it would make sense that the writers of Star Trek: Discovery could get away with not really referencing anything from the existing canon. To put it another way, how much do you really know about the year 1090 off the top of your head? The gap between Discovery’s point of origin in 2258 and 3188-3189 is huge....

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 2 One of the major questions of Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 seems to be how Michael Burnham will balance the professional and personal sides of herself now that she has become a captain. As the person responsible for an entire ship and the lives of its crew, it naturally follows that she’s going to have to make harder, more difficult choices than she was before she earned her spot in that chair....

There’s a lot to break down here, but the first thing you need to know is that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is set in the same universe as the Arkham games. There’s a deeper discussion to be had about the exact ways it will fit into that universe, but the basic idea is that the major events in the Arkham games are being treated as canonical within Kill the Justice League‘s story....

Which is perhaps why nearly every face, and every person we spoke with, over the last several weeks in the Texas state capital seemed to have an incorrigible grin on their face. Be they fans or filmmakers, actors or music artists, or even just folks walking down the street, the thrill and good vibes was everywhere. SXSW is back where it once belonged. During that time, we were able to get a look at some of the most interesting and bizarre films of the year, and preview some of the biggest television events of the season....

Amelia Demoldenberg If you’ve recently been asking yourself ‘Am I well old?’ then your familiarity with comedian and YouTuber Amelia Demoldenberg should give you an answer. She’s best known for her Chicken Shop Date YouTube series, where she interviews bright young things like grime artists, Premier League footballers… and Louis Theroux. Carol Vorderman The Countdown queen! And no stranger to performing tasks under pressure, as her appearances on I’m a Celebrity and The Great Stand Up To Cancer Bake Off (which she won in 2020) proved....

Sterling Archer and the rest of The Agency are forced to roll with some big swings while under the new management of Fabian Kingsworth and IIA–the International Intelligence Agency. Season 13’s premiere, “The Big Con,” playfully eases the audience into this new status quo. Executive producer Casey Willis, and producer/director Pierre Cerato, break down the events of this explosive episode, where Archer’s head is during this busy story, and what lies ahead for the Agency during this transformative season....

Here’s a smattering of the best of the best gifts for the Star Trek person in your life. But, probably best to use the Spore Drive to grab all this stuff before it gets sucked into a wormhole. Hit it! Editor’s note: Den of Geek may receive a small commission from items purchased through the links in this story. Star Trek Holiday Sweaters It’s shocking how few people actually wear sweaters on Star Trek....

The sun is shining brightly as Arne Cheyenne Johnson (Ruairi O’Connor) stands up before the courtroom. On this bright, seemingly glorious day in God’s country, the young man who once sacrificed his own body to a demon in order to save a child is about to receive his verdict from the jury. And, even before the film’s ending crawl explains what that sentence will be, he appears aware enough to know he’s about to go to prison....