Like all great horror stories, Netflix’s Archive 81 starts off small. Film conservator Dan Turner (Mamoudou Athie) is approached by a mysterious corporate benefactor, Virgil Davenport (Martin Donovan) to restore some tapes from the ‘90s. Somehow this simple job escalates into a pulse-pounding supernatural mystery that incorporates a Roaring Twenties era demonic cult, mold that bends time and space, and an honest-to-goodness Lovecraftian horror. It’s easy to see why Archive 81 has caught on with viewers....

Despite usually wanting to present the objective truth, documentary filmmakers wield an enormous amount of power in shaping the perception of their chosen subjects. Documentarians are the arbiters of what footage does and does not make it into a documentary in the first place. Then, once that footage is incorporated, the filmmakers can always add subtle touches like music, subtitles, or further context to influence the audience in one way or another....

While Battlefield 2042‘s beta strongly suggested the game was going to suffer from an array of the usual technical problems we’re treated to whenever a modern online multiplayer game launches (bug, glitches, disconnects, etc.), the game’s Early Access players are disappointed by not only some of the title’s larger problems but the fact they had to pay a premium for what seems to be an extended beta. While there is no way that Battlefield 2042 will be a perfect game at launch, these are some of the title’s more significant issues that have to be addressed before it is released to the general public....

Which is what makes his new film, Belfast, so surprising in so many ways. It’s the opposite of what we’ve come to expect from a Branagh joint. Yes, it’s a period piece, but it’s in black and white. Gone are the elaborate sets, like the throne room of Asgard from Thor or the castle in Cinderella, or the Gothic laboratory from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The eye-popping costumes from any of those three films or the director’s entire Shakespeare oeuvre are nowhere to be found....

A mixed bag, all told. One thing you can largely rely on in worrying times is television, and below are the top returning British shows that fought their way through the Covid-19 lockdown to come back in 2020. After Life series 2 Release date: Friday 24th of April, Netflix Read more:the best stand-up specials on Netflix here. Blood series 2 Release date: Monday 27th April, 9pm, Channel 5 2018 welcomed the arrival of Sophie Petzal’s award-winning Irish domestic thriller Blood, which starred Line Of Duty‘s Adrian Dunbar as a widower under suspicion when his estranged daughter Cat (Carolina Main) returns to the family fold....

And one of the most successful character adaptations for the screen was T’Challa, the Black Panther and King of Wakanda who was played to perfection by the late Chadwick Boseman. Introduced in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War and given his own historic film in 2018’s Black Panther, Boseman became instantly synonymous with the role and became the face of the movie’s massive cultural impact. Boseman’s shocking death in August 2020 at the age of 43, after a long, private struggle with cancer, was a blow not just to the MCU but to the millions of fans worldwide who finally saw a persona and culture on the screen that represented them in a positive, forward-leaning manner....

Yet here we are in the shadow of a true, kingly MCU movie. Still, the road to its sequel has been long and marred by tragedy. We may never know exactly what director and co-writer Ryan Coogler had in mind in his initial drafts for what became Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but it obviously changed after the monumental loss of star Chadwick Boseman, who passed away in 2020 at the age of only 43 after a long, private battle with cancer....

While specifics are exceedingly scarce, Sneider reported that social media rumors about Sacha Baron Cohen portraying the character of Borat again on the streets of Los Angeles in August are true, and further the film is already wrapped. Indeed, the website elaborates the film is already screening for “industry types,” although reports of the actual content of the film—and just how the humor works when most people should have at least a faint memory that Kazakh TV personality Borat is a shtick the actor Cohen does—are conflicting and ambiguous....

“We love cats. So that was a fun day,” series co-creator Nick Antosca tells Den of Geek. “The cats are professional actors. So they do exactly what you tell them and they never mess up a take. That’s a joke.” Why open a story about a horror series with an anecdote about kittens, you might ask? Because, as the coyote-eating portion of that anecdote might indicate, Brand New Cherry Flavor isn’t your typical kind of horror tale....

However, a number of events have delayed the return of the series. Besides the obvious production hurdles due to COVID-19 restrictions, showrunner Dan Goor revealed that his writing team threw out completed scripts for the eighth season following George Floyd’s death and the Black Lives Matter protests that followed it. It’s clear that the series will deal with the Black Lives Matter movement and the current sentiment about policing this season, but how remains to be seen....

Here’s a full breakdown of the dates: While Activision didn’t share more details about what will be playable during the beta, it’s safe to say that it will focus on the multiplayer aspect of the game. A mix of Team Deathmatch, Search & Destroy, Domination, and Kill Confirmed are probably your best bet, although Cold War is also introducing a few new match types to the mix. Activision broke down the new modes in a blog post: In this new 6v6 objective core game mode, teams either protect or subdue a randomly selected player who becomes a VIP....

Castle Rock Season 2 Episode 1 Reinterpreting a beloved Stephen King villain like Annie Wilkes is a tall order, but Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex) makes it look easy. Channeling a nervous energy and an obsessively clean mouth (although no “cockadoodies” just yet), Caplan completely transforms into the unstable Wilkes for a new take that pays homage to Kathy Bates’ legendary turn in Misery while also revealing a different side of the character....

Victories Greater Than Death is a young adult space fantasy set against the backdrop of an intergalactic war, and it’s set to drop in both print and audiobook formats on April 13th. Such an auspicious (read: poised to be a lot of weird, wonderful, empathetic fun) debut deserves an audiobook narrator to do the story justice, and Macmillan seems to have found that person in the very talented Hynden Walch, whose voice you may recognize from her voice work as Princess Bubblegum in Adventure Time, and Starfire in both Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go!...

Clarice Episode 12 In Clarice episode 12, “Father Time,” Agent Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds) finally loses her shit and clocks someone, and the series is better off for it. The young agent who rose to the top of a media circus on her first serial killer case has been scrutinized, chastised, hypnotized, and downsized since returning to the field. She’s had to run amok straight into danger just to get a point across which will solve cases....

Cloak and Dagger Season 2 ends on a quiet, yet incredibly powerful note: with Tandy and Tyrone holding hands, on a bus, heading out of New Orleans to use their superhero powers to help people elsewhere for a while. Where is that bus heading? “Yes, there is a specific place. I can tell you nothing else,” showrunner and episode writer Joe Pokaski told Den of Geek during a phone interview prior to the finale’s airing....

Generally speaking, the classics that tend to be celebrated one generation after another, and especially those that are passed down from one century to another, are works that speak of something timeless. The times we live in will change, culture will change, and even our values change. But the experience of living, of loving, of losing (to name just a few such topics)? Those will remain as universal as the human experience is long....

Or did they? Cobra Kai has fleshed out Johnny’s character to new depths, redeeming his shallow portrayal in the original movies. Through the Netflix series, Johnny has had the rare opportunity to explain his odious actions. Everyone is the hero in their own story, and Johnny sees Daniel as the bad guy. In the eighth episode of season 1, “Molting,” Johnny tells Miguel (Xolo Maridueña) his side of the events in The Karate Kid....

One thing Coming 2 Ameirca is not lacking in is nostalgia and easter eggs for the past. Before the opening credits have even concluded, we’ve learned that Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) has surprisingly kept a sentimental photo of his one-time barber from 1988, and another of himself in a McDowell’s uniform. (To be fair though, McDowell’s is at least where he wooed his future queen Lisa.) Soon enough John Amos and Louie Anderson also show up for a bow in the opening montage....

While CDPR enjoyed a 2% increase in product sales during Q1 2021, the company has watched its net profits plummet 64.7% during that time from the previous year. The company reportedly expected a net profit of 80 million zlotys during that quarter and instead only recorded a net profit of 32.5 million zlotys. Surprisingly, the studio made it clear that Cyberpunk 2077 was part of the problem, though they went about confirming that information in a strange way....

While composers Marcin Przybyłowicz, P. T. Adamczyk, Paul Leonard-Morgan are looking to surpass The Witcher 3‘s incredible original score, the real story of Cyberpunk 2077‘s soundtrack may be the game’s GTA-like radio stations and their lineups of licensed songs. Of course, you may not initially realize that Cyberpunk 2077‘s soundtrack is loaded with licensed hits as a quick Spotify search for in-game bands like Window Weather, Bara Nova, and Tainted Overlord yields no relevant results....