Boba Fett, Fennec Shand, and Din Djarin finally faced down the Pyke Syndicate and ruthless bounty hunter Cad Bane in The Book of Boba Fett finale. What began with very brief negotiations soon broke out into a full-blown battle in the streets of Mos Espa. There were Mandalorians zipping through the air with jetpacks, giant killer droids, a duel to the death, chase sequences, and even Grogu putting a rancor to sleep....
The Alien franchise is another example of this quirk. Alien is a movie and multimedia franchise named after the titular “Alien.” We remember it as humanity’s first encounter with alien life, and that alien life wanting to either kill or lay its eggs in us—which will then kill us later. The popular imagination of the Alien universe is a sparse one: It is occupied by the Alien, the dead Space Jockeys it was found with, and if you’re feeling generous to lesser installments, then potentially some Predators....
I was initially skeptical about the sudden transition to turn-based combat after Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio spent years honing the series’ beat ‘em up combat, but those doubts disappeared a few hours into the game and once I met Nanba, the third member of my party. Nanba is an ex-nurse who fell on hard times and ended up living on the streets of Yokohama’s Isezaki Ijincho red light district. His default class is “homeless guy” and his main attacks are hitting things with an umbrella, summoning pigeons with beans to swarm his enemies, and spitting flaming bursts of alcohol at people....
Fans can quibble with whether Yellowstone season 4 and its all out war saga was creativity successful or not, but what cannot be denied is the awesome ratings power of this Taylor Sheridan-created Paramount Network series. In its fourth season, Yellowstone was once again one of TV’s most-watched properties, with a premiere that drew 10.5 million viewers and a finale that took in almost the exact same amount. Naturally Paramount Network wants more of that good stuff so they ordered Yellowstone season 5 back in February 2022....
The latest installment of You follows creepy creepster Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) as he begrudgingly moves to the tony California suburb of Madre Linda with his wife, Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti). He attempts to atone for his sins and try his hand at being a good husband and father to his new son, Henry. But his plans are soon derailed. What follows is a wildly entertaining meditation on parenthood, marriage, and what happens after “happily ever after....
Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick is the fun and fast-paced second book in the Zoey Ashe series by David Wong, writer of the John Dies at the End series. It picks up a year after the events in the first book, 2015’s Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits, and follows Zoey Ashe and her Ashe Security team as the protagonist continues to adjust to her immense wealth and power....
A Discovery of Witches returns for its sophomore season on Sky One and AMC/Sundance and explores a time-travel induced paradigm shift forcing star crossed lovers Diana Bishop and Matthew Clairmont to gingerly navigate 16th century London. The season two premiere introduces a fascinating new set of historical figures as the search for the Book of Life intensifies, and the romantic entanglement between the witch and the vampire remains at the heart of the tale....
For me personally, he carved out a special place in my heart because Blood Feast was the first proper ‘video nasty’ I watched. For those reading from outside the UK, the ‘Video Nasties’ were a list of films banned in Britain back in the 1980s and – for horror fans/collectors – this served as a convenient shopping list for which films were essential viewing. Some of them, once seen, were admittedly not great, most were surprisingly tame, others still rank among the best genre films of all-time but, wherever else it fits on the list, Blood Feast will always have the honour of being my first....
“Attending” a film festival from one’s desk or couch can be a tricky proposition, so it remains to be seen how successful AFI Fest was overall with paying audiences (screenings were ticketed for the public). But as with other such events we’ve experienced this year, like Fantasia, the technical aspects were flawless and the ease of use and screening windows made the event largely stress-free. And we saw some truly extraordinary films, some premiering for the first time, and others coming from other festivals we missed....
“This is my favorite part of the book. I’ve always been looking forward to doing this,” Whittle tells Den of Geek. In a sense, if you are hiding from the world, there is no better place to do it than Lakeside, which is as far out in the middle of nowhere as can be managed by someone in the modern world. There is no radio or television station; only a local newspaper....
Attack on Titan Season 3 Episode 2 “All of us…We’re not good people anymore.” There’s a lot to enjoy in this episode of Attack on Titan, but perhaps the reason that “Pain” works so well is because it feels like an expanded, more intense version of Attack on Titan’s season premiere, which is definitely not a bad thing. If “Smoke Signal” was a taste of what this new season has to offer, then “Pain” is the first bite of the main course....
Yes, the strength of an individual card is ultimately based on your deck, playstyle, and the decks and playstyles of your team, but when you really look at the complete collection of Back 4 Blood cards, you start to spot the ones that are either generally beneficial in most situations or enable an incredible new strategy that you have to try. So while you can’t always just throw all of Back 4 Blood’s best cards in a deck and call it a day, these are some of the cards that are certainly worth going out of your way to acquire....
Writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Jorge Jimenez kick off a new era of Dark Knight comics with today’s Batman #125. The issue is the first part of their “Failsafe” arc, which Zdarsky described in his newsletter as “Batman’s Doomsday. It’s non-stop action and puts Batman in a very different place by the end of it.” The keyword here is “Doomsday,” which should set off alarm bells inside the heads of Batfans who were around in the ’90s when a villain of the same name killed Superman....
That can prove just as true at home as in theaters. And as luck would have it, Netflix is pretty stuffed with new streaming content this month. Below there are space adventures, comedies, dramas, and more than a few epics worth your attention, either as a revisit or new discovery. And we’ve rounded them up for your scrolling pleasure. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) July 1 When the first Austin Powers opened in 1997, it was intended to be as much a crude love letter to the popular cinema of the 1960s as a modern day raunchy laugh-fest....
Black Sails Season 4 Episode 2 This week’s Black Sails is one of the best episodes in the show’s history, full of revelations and plotting and gunfire and tenderness. As has often happens in this show, the violence is epic, but the best moments come when the characters stand or sit together, by torch or candle light. We pick up mere moments after we left – Long John Silver, having made it to land alive, has been clonked over the head, and is being dragged through the sand....
You upgrade your computer because you want a PC that’s more powerful. It’s really as simple as that. Where things get more complicated is when it comes time to decide just how powerful you want your PC to be. That may sound like a strange problem, but the truth is that most people who are interested in upgrading their PCs aren’t working with an unlimited budget. It’s easy enough to point to the absolute top-tier PC components on the market and say, “Go get those,” but what if that isn’t an option?...
In case you didn’t see the Season 3 patch notes, the Warzone team decided to nuke the battle royale’s arsenal alongside the Verdansk map itself by nerfing several weapons, buffing others, and introducing a couple of new guns. For the first time in a little while, it feels like the Warzone meta isn’t entirely “solved.” Still, it’s already clear that there are a few guns that are quickly separating themselves from the pack as the best overall options....
Chainsaw Man Episode 1 Every year it seems like anime gets weirder, wilder, and more creative. There’s a natural tendency to keep moving forward that continues to push the medium to extreme places. This excess can function at the series’ surface level, but it’s also led to a trend where stylized expressions of magic, energy, or even violence can become powerful metaphors for the internal problems that consume us all. A lot of anime have pushed this idea to the extreme, but few are more ridiculous than Chainsaw Man, an anime where a mild-mannered teen named Denji transforms into a chainsaw-limbed God of destruction....
Thankfully, it would appear that Apple heard those concerns and registered them. For now the company has announced that “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” will be receiving special broadcast airings on PBS in addition to its Apple TV+ premiere. Here is everything you need to know about when and where you can find “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” this holiday season. On the streaming side of things, the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special is already available to be streamed on Apple TV+ as of Nov....
But, for Doctor Who fans, he’ll always be the edgy Ninth Doctor: impatient, dismissive, but ultimately heroic. Without Eccleston, it’s difficult to imagine the Who renaissance. There’s no Tennant and Smith without him, to say nothing of Capaldi and Whittaker. After regenerating abruptly after just one season, fans have been desperate for the return of the Ninth Doctor to the Who canon. Which, now, exactly 16 years after the debut of “Rose,” is happening....
