When Marvel Studios first announced that they were pressing ahead with a sequel to 2016’s Doctor Strange, the news was welcomed by fans of the character and of the movie’s returning director, Scott Derrickson. It seemed like the MCU was about to finally start embracing the kind of horror themes that run through a swathe of Marvel Universe comics. Retaining Derrickson, a favored creator who had previously helmed the likes of Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose, seemed like the right choice....

Whittaker was answering questions at the post-screening Q&A for her final episode, ‘The Power of the Doctor’, held in London on Tuesday 11th October, alongside co-stars Mandip Gill and Sacha Dhawan and showrunner Chris Chibnall. When an audience member asked Whittaker: ‘What did you take as a memento and why?’ Mandip Gill’s teasing response was: ‘What didn’t she take?’ ‘Can I just check you’re not from the police?’ Chris Chibnall quipped, prompting Whittaker to add ‘Or the art department, because they’re probably furious!...

By many measures, the current era of Doctor Who is more diverse than ever before. Not only does the central team feature two characters of color in the form of Ryan (Tosin Cole) and Yaz (Mandip Gill), but Head Writer Chris Chibnall has brought on the first writers of color in the more than 50-year history of Doctor Who to help shape this story behind-the-scenes. While these are steps in the right direction, Doctor Who is not immune to the current pattern of “progression” in mainstream media: From casting more diversely without thinking about how those diverse identities affect the character and story to killing off characters with marginalized identity in the service of white male character development, Doctor Who is making a lot of the same missteps that we see throughout the current era of storytelling....

It seems fitting. The news, which comes out of Deadline ahead of the film’s fall start date for principal photography, is in-keeping with a universe already populated with familiar faces after the first movie. In that 2021 picture, Timothée Chalamet led an all-star cast that included Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Josh Brolin, and Stellan Skarsgård. Even Gen-Z fan favorite Zendaya agreed to only show up for what amounted to an extended 10-minute cameo....

It’s not exactly surprising to see a major new release prove to be divisive, but what’s fascinating in the case of Dying Light 2 is the idea that there seem to be quite a few people out there who just don’t know which words to use to describe how they feel about this game. Even those who have already devoted quite a bit of time to the title usually won’t hesitate to tell you about every one of its problems....

“This will differ significantly by player,” Kitao says in response to a question about approximately how many hours it takes to complete Elden Ring. “In terms of the targets set during development, the idea is that the main route should be able to be completed within around 30 hours.” Kitao goes on to note that those who really want to see everything that Elden Ring has to offer can expect to spend much more time with FromSoftware’s upcoming open-world RPG....

While Elden Ring isn’t technically a Dark Souls game, you don’t exactly have to squint your eyes to see the many ways that the upcoming game borrows certain ideas from the Dark Souls series. This is a FromSoftware game, after all, so nobody thought the studio was just going to abandon all of the incredible work that they’ve done up until this point and somehow decide to start fresh. At the same time, not every Dark Souls game is exactly the same, and with Bloodborne and Sekiro, FromSoftware has shown that they’re willing and able to retain key elements of the Soulsborne formula while playing with the specifics in such a way that makes each title feel distinct....

Come to Daddy is the directorial debut of New Zealand filmmaker Ant Timpson, who spent a number of years producing independent horror fare like The ABCs of Death and The Greasy Strangler before finally getting behind the camera himself. Part of what made the decision for him was the passing of his own father, whose death not only spurred Timpson to action but had a profound influence on the film....

Netflix film Enola Holmes is a revolutionary parable about rejecting the status quo and choosing your own destiny. In it, Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown plays the sixteen-year-old sister of Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes (Sam Claflin and Henry Cavill), a bright spark raised in splendid isolation by their mother Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter) to think, fight and plot her own path through life. When Eudoria mysteriously disappears, Enola undertakes her first missing persons case and reconnects with her estranged detective brother along the way....

You know nothing…about the Black Knight. Get it? Because the Black Knight is played by Kit Harington? You know, the dude that played Jon Snow on Game of Thrones? So like, “you know nothing…” Ah, forget it. Ahem. But Dane Whitman is a great character with a rich and surprising history that stretches back to the early days of Marvel. He even makes a reference to that when he tells Sersi in the film that “my family history is…complicated....

Evil Season 3 Episode 3 “And you may kiss the bride a second time,” Father David (Mike Colter) opens Evil’s “The Demon of Sex,” and it turns out he’s pushing a young couple’s luck. This is the first time we’re seeing David perform a happy sacrament, and he appears to personally enjoy the ceremony. His minor grandstanding gesture of a third kiss is offered as a blessing, and the congregation takes it like a punch line....

McGregor paints an auspicious picture about the Obi-Wan Kenobi series in a podcast interview with Empire, which is the latest example of the dribs and drabs of updates that have been slowly surfacing about the long-gestating project. Indeed, set to work under the auspices of director Deborah Chow (The Mandalorian, Lost in Space), the actor is clearly excited to return to the role he played in the 1999-2005 Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, continuing to build upon a legacy started by Alec Guinness’s portrayal in the Original Trilogy....

Dead Star was set to follow a similar idea, and that meant a modest budget at most – around $6 million was cited – would be needed to tell the story of alien artifacts being brought back to Earth. Fun fact: H.R. Giger duly did some concept art work to help promote the script. MGM was the studio that bit, although it had ideas. Lots of them, as it happened, and by 1997, the film had changed to focus on the ship Nova....

Fargo Season 4 Episode 4 Up until this point, Fargo has been moving at a breakneck pace. It was inevitable that a slower episode would come, and “The Pretend War” feels less like a war, and more like a slow preamble to one. That’s the danger of dumping so much plot into early episodes; whenever you take a mid-season breath, it will feel more noticeable. Much of the episode deals with the fallout from the two separate, unsanctioned attacks on the Cannon family....

If you’re looking to check out other work from Pugh, you’re in luck. The 25-year-old thespian has made quite a name for herself over her relatively short career, regularly elevating good material to great with her performances, and already earning an Oscar nomination. Here are some of our favorite roles… Midsommar Prior to Black Widow, Pugh was perhaps best known to certain audiences as the flower crown-wearing protagonist Dani in 2019’s Midsommar....

As such, Frank was also a cultural ambassador, a hero of free expression, a hysterical satirist, and a guitar virtuoso. He was celebrated in the Czech Republic after the Velvet Revolution, and castigated by parental control mongers in America. But even Frank knew his rep enough to drop an album series called Shut Up N Play Your Guitar. It should be compulsory listening for anyone who’s ever put fingers to strings....

Just to be clear, that isn’t a request – it’s an order. The NBC football drama is simply one of the most affecting, thrilling American TV shows of all time. Though premiering in 2006, the show can mark its lineage all the way back to a true story from the late ‘80s. In 1990, sports journalist H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger published the non-fiction book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream....

At the time, Goldblum’s filming the opening segment for his latest episode of The World According to Jeff Goldblum, a streaming documentary series courtesy of Nat Geo and Disney+. Yet, simultaneously, he’s also being transported back to childhood and career obsessions. Like everyone else visiting the Immortal Masks shop that day, Goldblum loves monsters. But unlike those other fine folks, he’s actually played one of the most famous monsters ever unleashed on cinemas: the grotesque Brundlefly in David Cronenberg’s 1986 version of The Fly....

Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 3 Well that was a pretty short trip, now wasn’t it? Just last week, Jon Snow was waving goodbye to Sansa Stark, not even warning her that Littlefinger was being sneaky and lecherous in the tombs (not that she needs the hint), and now here he is in a rowboat approaching Dragonstone. Presumably several weeks have passed, but then again, only a few days likewise went by for the Greyjoys....

What follows is an intense nine part thriller full of twists, turns, surprises and a massive body count. It’s also very complicated. Here’s our handy guide to what happens in the finale, what it means for a second series and where all the main players are left at the end of Gangs Of London. Who killed Finn Wallace? As we saw in the first episode, the actual hit was carried out by Darren (Aled ap Steffan) with Ioan (Darren Evans) driving him....