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“With that, the computer-generated animated series Beast Wars: Transformers had begun. Premiering in late September 1996, the series was the first American venture for the Transformers franchise since the original cartoon concluded almost a decade earlier. With a new style of animation and the use of animal transformations as opposed to vehicles, Transformers fans initially met the show with skepticism. Still, before long, Beast Wars was embraced for its dynamic writing and vivid characters....

“It appears that Netflix will not be moving forward with a sequel to Bright. While Bright 2 was confirmed in 2018 with an orc audition, Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw revealed that Netflix has ‘abandoned plans to make a sequel to Bright,’ but disclosed that it was not related to the recent slap incident at the Oscars.” Read more at Hype Beast Speaking of Netflix, The first-quarter reports are in, and it isn’t looking too hot a fourth of the way into 2022....

“Free streaming network Crackle announces new exclusives, movies, and series for December, including Crackle’s original Outbreak. Crackle’s mix of Hollywood blockbusters, award-winning indies, classic TV, and hand-picked exclusive and original content is always free.” Read more at Crackle Sure, it’s not as good as the original Jurassic Park, but The Lost World: Jurassic Park deserves your respect. Read more at Inverse HBO Max accidentally released an edited TV version of Birds of Prey, and its censorship is hilarious....

“Tim Burton’s goth masterpiece (gothsterpiece?) Edward Scissorhands is turning 30. Get your Robert Smith hair going, put on some black leather, and let’s see what you know about one of the most iconic films of the 1990s.” Read more at Mental Floss. Cheesy, lighthearted, and gay, The Christmas Setup is the perfect queer holiday movie you should watch in 2020. Read more at The Mary Sue. From Among Us to The Last of Us Part II, check out I’s tribute to their picks of the best games of 2020....

“When it comes to performances that instantly inspire Oscar buzz, Ben Affleck’s performance in The Last Duel has been a big one this year. The Ridley Scott film is a bit controversial in the sense that it was ‘underperforming,’ and the conversation inexplicably switched to talking about the future landscape of cinema instead of recognizing that a movie that shows a sexual assault twice might just not be something people want to watch....

“Today, Electronic Arts and the National Football League (NFL) revealed a new multi-year partnership renewal for the EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL Championship Series (MCS). The announcement follows competitive Madden NFL’s best season in history as last year’s MCS 22 achieved a 4x broadcast increase for its average minute audience year-over-year. The agreement will help align MCS with NFL events and key moments throughout the season, as the NFL and EA continue to grow and deepen NFL fandom through esports....

“The remake, called Bel-Air, is going to be a serialized one-hour dramatic “analog” of the original. The new take is meant to lean into the darker side of the premise: Will moving from the dangerous streets of West Philadelphia (born and raised) to the rich world of Bel-Air.” Read more at The Mary Sue Marvel star Anthony Mackie is set to lead a Twisted Metal TV adaptation based on the famous video game....

“Netflix’s latest sci-fi movie was first announced in 2017 with Anne Hathaway in the starring role. In 2020, Noomi Rapace replaced Hathaway, but that version fell apart, too. Finally, French movie star Mélanie Laurent replaced Rapace, transforming Oxygen into the French indie now streaming on Netflix.” Read more at Inverse. As the world opens up this year, here are some tips on how to overcome COVID-19 anxiety and have fun outside again....

Truth is stranger than fiction, they say – and Litvinenko shows why this is a gift to crime dramas. So often fictional crime dramas try to be too slick, too perfectly believable, but real life is messier, more mundane, more ridiculous than what most of us can imagine, and all the better for it. Litvinenko doesn’t muck about, either – after the briefest of glimpses into what normal life looks like for the Litvinenko family in 2006 (Alexander, wife Marina, and son Anatoly) within five minutes we’re in hospital, and a wan, now-bald Litvinenko (David Tennant) is telling detectives he’s been poisoned, helping them solve his own murder even as he’s dying....

Lovecraft Country Episode 10 Tic recites the spell to open the Book of Names, then he and Leti fall unconscious. Their subconscious/spirits are brought to an ancestral plane and it’s there they learn the truth about magic from the ancestors. They are tasked with casting Hannah’s spell, which will use Christina’s spell against her to take magic from the Braithwhites. The ancestors help Tic and Leti heal Dee, then send them back to their bodies to enact their plan....

Lucifer Season 4 Episode 5 “I’m not a relationship kind of devil.” Leave it to the wisdom of Doctor Linda to once again set the Devil on a path that leads somewhere he least expects. “Expire Erect,” the fifth episode of Lucifer’s fourth season, gives Lucifer and Chloe a well deserved and touching opportunity for the closure he feels necessary to close the book on a partnership that ended so abruptly....

Let’s do the math, folks: Henry Cavill made a long-rumored cameo during the end credits of Black Adam—a cameo practically willed into existence by that film’s star, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson—in full Kal-El gear. It’s the first time Cavill has played Superman since shooting ended on 2017’s Justice League. At almost the same time, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced that fan favorite James Gunn, director of the Guardians of the Galaxy films and The Suicide Squad, and creator of Peacemaker, would be one half of a new team taking over DC’s film and TV universe, rebranded as DC Studios....

It’s Halloween in Westview, and WandaVision is going all out. From the most comics-accurate looks for Scarlet Witch, Vision, Quicksilver, and even Wiccan to an eerie “Wicked Witch of the West” getup for Agnes, this episode isn’t messing around with its pop culture references. Oh yeah, and the whole thing feels faintly like an episode of Malcolm in the Middle, too! Let’s get to work, because there’s a lot to unpack on WandaVision episode 6…...

Then I saw the actual sales figure. Metroid Dread is now the best-selling Metroid game ever by virtue of having sold about 2.9 million copies so far. That means that the best-selling Metroid game ever has sold less than 3 million units. To be clear, 3 million is not a bad number in the grand scheme of things. Many developers would be happy to have their games hit that mark and still be climbing....

Their reactions seem to be overwhelmingly positive, with one saying “it’s the best MCU TV show ever.” There are enthusiastic variations on Moon Knight being like nothing we’ve seen in the MCU to date, and Oscar Isaac’s lead performance has also been praised, but the show does apparently have a few issues and I’m sure we’ll find out what they are, or how much they might personally bother us, when we get to see it for ourselves....

He was only three when he appeared in his first film, China Cry: A True Story. He grew up in the business. His father set him on the martial path too, teaching him how to fight at an early age. Outside of acting, Tan competed as an amateur fighter in Muay Thai and trained in Kung Fu, Jiu-Jitsu, and Japanese sword. Due to his lifelong dedication to the martial arts, he insists on doing his own fights and stunts, just like Jackie Chan did when he was younger....

My Hero Academia Season 5 Episode 10 “The time has not yet come” Patience is an extra special virtue in anime. It’s a medium, especially the shonen genre, that’s notorious for dragging out conflict. Patience is something that’s been integral right from the start of My Hero Academia since it engages in what’s ostensibly a superhero origin story. Characters like Midoriya understand that they won’t become the Number One Pro Hero overnight and that it’s a very gradual process....

What Is Noughts & Crosses? First published in the UK in 2001, and in the U.S. in 2005, Noughts & Crosses tells the story of a dystopian alternate reality version of the U.K. (here, called Albion). In the Noughts & Crosses universe, people of African descent are called “Crosses” and people of European descent are called “Noughts.” The Crosses control the government and use the legal and economic system to oppress the Noughts....

Sadly, this is a true story and the subject of Netflix’s latest documentary, Our Father. In Indianapolis fertility doctor Donald Cline used his own sperm as donor material for his patients repeatedly, without their knowledge or consent – sometimes replacing anonymous sperm, and sometimes, horrifically, replacing their partner’s sample. Many of these children – and their mothers – grew up believing the father that raised them was their biological father but it wasn’t until one of the children, now grown, used a home DNA kit to trace her ancestry that she uncovered the truth....

But who is the devilish creature? And which of the eleven feature films (of vastly varying quality) that have taken their name from the Krampus mythology are most similar to the actual ancient folklore that inspired them? 2020 has been a year of horrors so it seems only fitting to do a deep dive investigation into this most important of Christmas horror queries so you can celebrate this year’s Krampusnacht in style and accuracy!...