To say that fans were distraught to hear that Henry Cavill is no longer playing Geralt is an understatement. While some believe that Cavill’s return as Superman and the scheduling conflicts that may ensue is the primary reason for his departure, others aren’t convinced that Cavill wouldn’t find some way to make both roles work. Fans are noting Cavill’s love of the character and the source material, stating that there must be something going on behind the scenes that would cause him to take this opportunity to move on from the show....

Trigun Stampede Episode 1 “I’m really not much of a fighter….” There are endless anime series that feature hyperbolized action and aloof heroes, but Trigun is a very special piece of ’90s action anime that the genre remains incredibly indebted towards. Trigun’s stamp remains on many series, yet it’s fallen into obscurity over the past few decades. For many anime fans in the 1990s, Trigun was synonymous with genre-bending western gunplay just like how Cowboy Bebop was for bounty hunter space operas....

Sorry, I was just doing a little light roleplaying as True Detective writer and creator Nic Pizzolatto. To get into character, I went outside and starred into the eye of a dead raccoon I found in the street while pounding cans of Lone Star. Anyway, welcome to the True Detective Awards! Each week, we’ll be breaking down all of the big moments from True Detective Season 3, honoring each episode’s best, strangest, and most hard-boiled scenes with completely arbitrary, silly awards that I made up....

Series one saw the duo called to investigate the remains of a man long-buried under the foundations of a London home, while series two began with the discovery of a skeleton dredged up from the River Lea. Series three was the distressing story of a missing teenager whose body was discovered under the central reservation of a motorway. Series four, which starts with the discovery of a body stored for decades in a domestic freezer, will star New Tricks’ Sheila Hancock, Killing Eve’s Susan Lynch, Wanderlust’s Andy Nyman and more....

Van Helsing Season 2 Episode 6 “And here we are. Home at last.” Whether or not truth prevails depends on whose truth one believes. What is true, however, is that Van Helsing once again manages to shock its audience as the mystery of Vanessa’s origin story ratchets up more than a few notches. “Veritas Vincit” seamlessly introduces a dynamic character with the potential to completely alter the landscape in the human race’s battle for survival, but as always, things may not be quite as they seem....

Vikings has always been concerned with legacy: that of the Vikings themselves, and of Ragnar and his sons. It’s clear from the show’s coda – Ubbe and Floki side by side on a distant beach, contemplating existence as the sun glows down upon the endless stretch of ocean before them – that the two ultimately are inseparable. Bound up in this spider’s web of myth and mayhem, too, is the fate and legacy of the show itself....

Vikings Season 4 Episode 19 “On The Eve” should rightly be viewed as the second part of a season ending trilogy, and coming on the heels of last week’s horrific conclusion, nobody could blame Michael Hirst if he chose to go heavy on the exposition to set up what will undoubtedly will be a spectacular finish. But this is Vikings, and that’s not how it rolls. “On the Eve” provides significant insight into the minds of a number of the major players as the history of western Europe continues to evolve, but make no mistake, the Lothbrok clan continues to be a force with which to be reckoned....

Vikings Season 6 Episode 10 “Today it is a sad day; we lost a child. But it will be far worse to lose a country.” It would appear that the gods have, in fact, abandoned Bjorn Ironside. Now that it nears the end of its six season run, there’s not much Vikings hasn’t already shown us, but by continuing its experimentation with a challenging nonlinear narrative in the mid-season finale, the series takes viewers on a surreal journey that brings the Lothbrok brothers together and ends with the death of the man who would be king....

WandaVision Episode 7 There are only a couple of episodes left of WandaVision and in case you were worried you’d have to wait and see who has been behind the nefarious nature of Westview then worry no longer. As we hit the end of WandaVision episode 7, “Breaking the Fourth Wall,” we learn who’s been pulling the strings. And while you might be expecting one of the two big bads we discover today, the last one might take you by surprise....

But then in September, Andrew got some great news. He was cast alongside Brad Pitt in a new David Leitch film called Bullet Train. Cinemax released Warrior Season 2 on schedule and new episodes will arrive through November when Bruce Lee would have been celebrating his 80th birthday. Koji spoke with Den of Geek about Warrior, Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, and much more. Den of Geek: What was your favorite Bruce Lee movie?...

To help answer that question, we first have to define what a JRPG is and what separates that subgenre from tabletop RPGs, CRPGs, ARPGs, strategy RPGs, and every other type of role-playing game out there. The problem is that defining a JRPG has always been an especially contentious topic. It seems easy to say that a JRPG is an RPG made in Japan, but even that definition doesn’t satisfy everyone....

When Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy took the stage at New York Comic Con in October 2016, Westworld had not yet even screened its second episode on HBO. Still a fledgling series with lots of expectation and rumor swirling around it, no one was quite sure yet what to make of the series about violent delights and violent ends. Yet even in the halls of a Manhattan ballroom, the frenzied obsession fans were developing was already palpable… as was its effect on the future....

Westworld Season 4 Episode 5 From its first season, Westworld has been a show concerned primarily with outliers. Dolores Abernathy on her quest for vengeance against humanity is an outlier. Maeve Millay on her quest for self-discovery is an outlier. The whole purpose of Rehoboam was to hunt down and remove outliers from the world, because they’re dangerous to the survival of the human race. And now, even with humanity under the control of the Hosts and the Hosts prowling the streets of New York City like minor deities, there are still flaws in the system....

It must be gratifying for filmmakers to know that the Monday after Prey’s premiere on Hulu (and Disney+ in Europe), many were debating whether the Predator prequel should’ve been released in theaters. The quality is certainly good enough with the film generally impressing most critics as demonstrated by its 92 percent “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes. A majority of viewers also seem pleased if social media chatter is to be believed....

It’s been announced that Attack on Titan season 4 will be the show’s final year. Now that a full trailer has been released for these concluding episodes it looks like season four is only going to expand the boundaries of this universe even more and end on a scale that’s far bigger than anything that’s been seen before. The tail end of season three spent a healthy amount of time in the past with Grisha, Eren’s father, and detailing the history of how this Titan situation really got moving....

The series follows four vampires sharing a house on Staten Island. They have “lived” together for hundreds of years, and most of their work is done by the now-problematic familiar. FX Networks dropped a preview, called “Kickball,” showing how much the vampires appreciate “Gizmo,” their pet name for the pet human. They especially love his latest duty, securing virgins for dinner. You can watch the “Kickball” preview here: The preview ends with Guillermo confessing how easy it is to find Staten Island virgins if you know where to look, and presents adult kickball teams as an easy option....

Netflix’s announcement that Regé-Jean Page won’t be back for Bridgerton Season 2 has revealed an interesting disconnect between those who are familiar with romance book series tropes and those who are not, as well as between show-only fans and fans who have also read the books series (who may be less invested in Simon’s character compared to the other, more popular male romantic leads from the Bridgerton book series). Avid readers of romance novels will know that, when it comes to romance series, usually, the main couple of the first book steps aside as main characters so the main couple in the second book can have the spotlight....

Despite the fact that GTA Online can rightfully lay claim to being one of the most successful online multiplayer experiences ever, there are times when it is remarkably easy to forget it even exists. That’s hardly a surprise given that so many fans are still wondering how we’ve gone nearly a decade (nine years) without a proper new GTA game. During all that time, though, GTA Online has promised to offer a nearly infinite GTA experience....

On top of that, a recent report reveals that only 8% of New World‘s players have reached the game’s level cap. While these figures do not mean that New World is in any kind of serious trouble (it’s actually doing quite well, but we’ll talk about that more in a bit), it is clear at this point that New World is starting to lose players and has seemingly lost quite a few active players so far....

In the movie, the two men — who couldn’t be farther apart in their manner and cultural background — find common ground in challenging the ugly racism of the region and era. “The last thing I wanted to do was a caricature and (director) Pete Farrelly felt the same,” says Mortensen, whose Tony Lip is certainly cut from some of the same cloth as other classic cinematic Italian-Americans of a certain period in New York City, but whose surface bigotry and provincialism masks a deeper humanity and empathy....