The Magicians Season 3 Episode 6 Okay, so this wasn’t the best follow-up to last week’s The Magicians, but with new conflicts arising in “Do You Like Teeth?” the excitement level is still high. This week’s episode mainly suffers from a choppy narrative rather than from a lack of compelling elements, so it’s a bit of a trade-off that still leaves viewers mostly satisfied. Much ado was made of Felicia Day’s appearance on the show, and the layers of secrets that Poppy no doubt is keeping certainly made her character a highlight this week....

One of the more unexpected and intriguing of these easter eggs is the return of the astromech droid R5-D4. We’ve seen R5 in The Mandalorian before as one of Peli Motto’s (Amy Sedaris) many droid companions, but the trailer hints at a bigger adventure in this droid’s future as he joins Din and Grogu in the N-1. See for yourself: In case you need a refresher, R5-D4 first appeared in A New Hope as one of the many droids for sale by the Jawas....

It’s one of many deja vu moments teased in the sequel’s new trailer, which is full of easter eggs and callbacks to the trilogy that saw Neo freed from the Matrix and later save the rest of humanity from vicious, reality-altering machines. Every character in this movie — whether it’s Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), Jessica Henwick’s acrobatic Bugs, or Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s younger Morpheus — seems to rhyme with a character or event from the past....

His films were gorgeously photographed, crisply edited, and marked by above-average special effects and unexpectedly smart scripts. After the 1956 release of his masterpiece, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Arnold began moving away from sci-fi, edging more into less maligned genres like Westerns, mystery thrillers and comedies, as well as diving headlong into series television. Apart from Gilligan’s Island, his post-sci-fi work has all but been forgotten today. But considering how much money his weirdies had made for the studio, and perhaps sensing he was itching to do other things, Universal was desperate to keep the Arnold ball rolling somehow....

Four episodes in, it’s clear The Rings of Power is playing many of the same notes that Peter Jackson did back in the early 2000s. Like in the award-winning film trilogy, Sauron is the main villain, a forbidden romance between a human and an elf is the central love story, an heir to the throne of man in Middle-earth is running from his destiny, and Gandalf (we assume) is hanging out with Hobbits....

Sometimes the horror comes from regular human beings reacting to monstrous situations and sometimes the humor comes from monsters reacting to human situations. Here are 32 of the scariest movies we laugh at. 32. Spook Busters (1946) Long before Ghostbusters, The Bowery Boys set up shop and dusted for ghosts in Manhattan. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall and Bobby Jordan had ghostly encounters before, when two East Side Comedies, Ghosts On The Loose and Spooks Run Wild, paired the boys from the city with the actor from Hungary, Bela Lugosi....

Netflix has not yet confirmed the existence of The Umbrella Academy season 3 but according to a new report from Production Weekly, filming on a new season is set to begin on February 1, 2021 before wrapping up in August. That puts the third season on track for a potential mid-2022 release. In lieu of an official Netflix announcement, a Production Weekly post is the next best thing as the subscription-based trade exhaustively tracks all upcoming productions....

The Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 5 Holy moley, what a gigantic waste of time to open the episode with Gregory’s meeting with Negan and the Saviors before the attack on the Sanctuary. I just don’t get why any of this is necessary. We know Gregory is a coward, we know he turns on a dime depending on what will secure his continued survival, and we know he’s a terrible liar....

Part zombie, part vampire, jiangshi are corpses that are usually reanimated by demons or Daoist sorcerers. They hop along mindlessly with their arms outstretched like sleepwalkers, and feed on the life essence – or qi – of the living. Often a jiangshi is blind but can smell breath. This makes for great comic hijinks as hapless characters struggle to hold their breath while gruesome jiangshi shove their rotting noses close to their mouths trying to pick up the scent....

That situation definitely changed this week! Principle photography may have wrapped on Thor: Love and Thunder back in June, but it’s been reported that some additional photography and reshoots are now underway stateside – and they’ve delivered a set of images that finally reveal Bale’s villain in all his glory. Well, most of his glory. No doubt there will be some visual effects added later to make him even more terrifying, but these pics do give us a really good idea of what Bale will look like as Gorr, and Marvel fans are currently having a fun time online by comparing him to various statues and ornaments (you’ll see what we mean when you clock the photos)....

No, not young Superman. Instead, we’re talking about Conner Kent, a clone made from DNA from Superman and…another donor, whose identity is a massive spoiler if you don’t already know. This Superboy first appeared in the classic Reign of the Supermen story, as one of the four “replacements” who appeared in the wake of Superman’s death. The character has been mostly absent from DC Comics over the last few years, although he has recently made his way back into continuity, and is a regular in the new Young Justice comic book series....

While it’s clear that Jake and Katagiri will continue to build their case against Tozawa, thanks to a flash-forward in the opening scene of the first episode that shows the duo meeting with his men about a “story” that the Yakuza leader wants buried, we don’t know the fate of several other characters put in danger in the season 1 finale. For example, now that Samantha (Rachel Keller) is in business with Chihara-Kai, how long before the gang takes control of her new club?...

“I have my private pilot’s license that I got when I was an undergraduate at Michigan State, so as a private pilot, I said, ‘Well, that’d be fun,’” Epps tells Den of Geek during a recent Zoom chat. “At least I’ll get a jet ride out of it, if nothing else.’” Epps and his writing partner, the late Jim Cash, got a lot more out of it than that out of Top Gun....

But in Top Gun: Maverick, they’re doing it for real as Cruise’s glorified biplane rises above the weather, and Connelly as his wingman in the backseat looks out in astonishment at the horizon. “He did pilot the plane,” Connelly says with a hint of fondness on the surreal moment, “and it’s a very small plane, so it’s just the two of us in there and it was an amazing experience....

The camera watches all this from a slight distance, as if director Derrick Borte (The Joneses) wants us to view these events, at least at first, objectively. We don’t know who this Man is, we don’t know who he’s killed or what has pushed him to commit these horrendous acts we’ve just witnessed, although we’ll learn a bit more later on. As the opening credits of Unhinged roll out, they do so over a montage of news flashes, TV images, and audio clips of a society in the middle of a breakdown, with civility, empathy, and decency steamrolled by seemingly endless instances of impulsive, rude, aggressive, and even deadly behavior....

Vikings Season 5 Episode 18 “What kind of father could do that to a son?” And while the reign of terror accelerates in Kattegat, a psychologically wounded Lagertha emerges from the shadows, Bjorn marries Gunnhild, and the Viking success in Wessex now hinges on Ubbe’s single combat challenge. With several major battles looming on the horizon, Vikings takes a moment to focus on the intimate, behind the scenes political and personal schisms that drive the current narratives....

WandaVision primarily takes place inside an idealized, idyllic, sitcom-themed unreality. One that we’re still not sure is actually happening in any form, or that is strictly a product of the Scarlet Witch‘s reality-altering powers. In any case, the town that most of the show takes place in is called “Westview,” which doesn’t have any explicit Marvel counterpart to speak of, but that still calls to mind the setting of a number of Wanda and Vision’s comic book adventures....

In case you thought WandaVision’s sitcom homages were a passing fad, episode 3 “Now in Color” makes clear that the influences are here to stay…for now at least. Just as episodes 1 and 2 drew inspiration from The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched, and I Dream of Jeannie, so too does this third installment honor some classic TV series. Rather than hanging around the ‘50s or ‘60s, however, this episode bumps WandaVision up to gorgeous ‘70s technicolor....

Bill did it. He went back in time, broke the time loop, erased the aliens out of existence and saved billions of lives by stopping Earth from ever coming under their devastating attack in the first place. Almost erased the aliens out of existence, that should say, because – handily for season three – the alien invasion timeline is still somehow creating ripples in this parallel universe. And almost erased most of the aliens out of existence, that should really say, because when Bill travelled back in time, he took half a dozen of the Invaders along with him....

If for some reason you didn’t get a chance to see 2011’s Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur, you should know that there is a scene in that movie that features Shaggy single-handedly taking out a gang of bikers. Not long after that movie was released, a YouTuber decided to set that shocking scene to some incredible Dragon Ball fight music. It appears that the original video has since been taken down, but here’s a reupload that will show you just how amazing it truly is....