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Whether or not we finally do get some new Star Wars on the big screen in the years to come, the future of the franchise is still very bright, thanks to TV series like The Mandalorian, which has already expanded across multiple spinoffs full of Original Trilogy nostalgia and exciting new characters. Meanwhile, animated takes like Visions and Tales of the Jedi continue to explore new ways to tell stories in this beloved universe....

“After a long voyage on a small boat, a lot of things would sound good.” Fourteen months have passed since Michael Hirst’s Vikings concluded its six season run, and fans of the History/Netflix series bade farewell to the Lothbrok clan. Nevertheless, the Viking saga continues with a spinoff created and written by Jeb Stuart. Vikings: Valhalla introduces Leif Ericksson and a host of new characters who immediately become embroiled in parallel tales of revenge....

There’s a disturbing moment in Marvel’s WandaVision episode 2 that breaks up the otherwise note-perfect rhythm of sitcom life. Wanda, out on the street in front of her house in the evening, spots a manhole cover being pushed aside…and a man in a beekeeper suit climbs out. He doesn’t seem too pleased that she spots him, either. It’s a moment that we first saw in one of the recent trailers, but it didn’t make it any less unsettling when it happened onscreen in this episode....

Of course, we’re talking about WandaVision, which premieres this Friday on Disney+ with the first two of its nine episodes. As promised after months of hints, teases, photos, and finally trailers, WandaVision stars two of the most powerful beings in the MCU, Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and the synthezoid known as Vision (Paul Bettany). The setting is derived from the studio-bound comedies of the ‘50s, with I Love Lucy being one touchstone while more obscure titles like I Married Joan also come to mind....

When The Wire premiered on HBO nearly 20 years ago, it revolutionized the way television could tell a story. David Simon’s crime drama created a world in which we got to see multiple sides to the same person and the institutions they occupy. Cops were seen through the eyes of criminals, politicians were brought to life behind-the-scenes, and even homeless folks were given space to demonstrate their struggles and humanity....

Westworld Episode 10 Of all the films that the brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan have collaborated on over the years, The Prestige is perhaps the most flawlessly and intricately designed. To be clear, my favorite of their joint efforts remains The Dark Knight (a big surprise, I’m sure considering this site). However, The Prestige seems to somehow effortlessly place narrative layer atop narrative layer until, finally, the end result is the viewer traversing in the ever-dizzying design of the movie’s structure without a sense of confusion… yet you’d probably be lying if you said that you knew for certain what was exactly going on the first time that you watched it....

As the first Thor movie to be helmed by a returning director, in this case Thor: Ragnarok’s Taika Waititi, there’s a lot of connective tissue with that film and this weekend’s Thor: Love and Thunder. But you might be surprised at which other MCU projects will be apropos to enjoying Thor 4. Thus we’ve compiled a list of all the MCU movies you might want to revisit or be familiar with before entering the theater....

The Sumerians, thousands of years before Christ, believed all diseases were caused by ‘sickness demons’ and had their sorcerers attempt early exorcisms as cures. The Quran talks extensively of Jinn (demons) that can drive people to insanity and may only be expelled via worship. In the Bible, Satan and his demons are very much at large using human beings as vessels for devilish deeds. Jesus casts a whole bunch of them out before he’s accused of being demon-possessed himself (arguably an early example of The Shyamalan Twist?...

Annabelle Comes Home is the third film in the series based upon the hideously possessed doll, a mini-franchise launched out of the belly of the larger Conjuring mothership. Annabelle (2014) kicked off the saga in less than spectacular fashion, while 2017’s Annabelle: Creation was a major course correction and overall improvement over what had come before. And now there’s Annabelle Comes Home, a title which has more than one meaning....

What We Do in the Shadows Season 4 Episode 7 What We Do in the Shadows’ season 4 episode 7 “Pine Barrens,” is the most regressive and progressive of the series. Stylistically, the episode benefits from dipping into the manic and impromptu energy of both its earlier seasons and the original film it was based on. The forward motion is propelled by Guillermo (Harvey Guillen), who comes out as gay to his family, something they never had a problem with in the first place....

Vampires don’t like to be upstaged. It gets them quite cross, which they like even less. Guillermo’s last name is de la Cruz, which means “of the cross,” so he doesn’t need to carry one. The easygoing vampire familiar took a major loss in the tri-state area. Season 3’s first episode puts the true death toll at somewhere around 70 percent. “Oh, boy. To do the math would be difficult,” WWDITS writer and executive producer Paul Simms said during FX’s panel at the 2021 Television Critics Association summer press tour....

Not long ago, sports fans and superhero fans were two very different types of people, each distrusting the other. But those days are long gone, as demonstrated by not only the vast popularity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but also by the fact that Disney uses sporting events to advertise its new offerings. Just this year, Marvel dropped trailers for both Moon Knight and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness during the Super Bowl....

America’s favorite quiz show has been inviting celebrities on to try their hand at trivia since its ninth season in 1992. And yes, like in the aforementioned SNL skits, the questions are usually a bit “dumbed down” from the usual games. Still, many celebrities over the years have revealed themselves to be secret brainiacs with their surprising performance on the grueling game. Comedians like Cheech Marin, athletes like Aaron Rodgers, and actors like Jane Kaczmarek have all brought home some serious money for their respective charities....

But the oddest moment in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lewis’ first written The Chronicles of Narnia novel and the most often adapted, cannot be so easily lifted out. In that fantasy epic, the first major sign that the White Witch’s eternal winter is fading is the appearance of Father Christmas (aka Santa Claus), who has been kept out of Narnia ever since the Witch arrived. Father Christmas gives three of the four child protagonists magical gifts that are both far more impressive and far more dangerous than most children expect to find waiting for them on Christmas morning, and these gifts play important roles in the story, not only in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but in its sequel Prince Caspian as well....

Is this really happening? That is the anxious, painfully relatable plea Leonardo DiCaprio’s Dr. Randall Mindy cries repeatedly during the pre-title sequence of Don’t Look Up. Over the extended prologue of the new Adam McKay and Netflix phenomenon, Mindy and his best student, PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), have discovered that a comet is a) going to collide with earth in six months; b) that it will trigger an extinction level event; and c) it’s forced them to inform the President of the United States that all life on Earth is about to end....

Instead…well, let’s just say that you might want to take a look at the dislike to like ratio the latest GTA 5 trailer has received so far on YouTube. That trailer is currently sitting at 121,000 dislikes compared to 33,000 likes as of the time of this writing, though it’s honestly futile to report the trailer’s exact dislike number considering that it’s constantly rising. Let’s instead say that there’s no indication the number of likes will ever come anywhere close to the number of dislikes....

If you’re watching that gameplay reveal for the first time, you may be wondering what the big deal is. After all, most people assumed that Midnight Suns was going to be a strategy game set in the Marvel universe, and that’s pretty much what it seems to be. However, much of the controversy surrounding Midnight Suns‘ gameplay at the moment is based on a brief line in that preview regarding the game’s use of a “card” system....

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Cowboy Bebop, the anime directed by Shinichirō Watanabe, is what got me into anime. The series was and remains a great gateway title for numerous reasons. The beautiful, high-quality animation looks as awesome now as it did when it premiered in 1998. Yoko Kanno’s jazzy soundtrack swings so hard that people who don’t normally listen to jazz find themselves downloading the soundtrack (guilty!...

Hammer (Call Me by Your Name) is joking of course, and he acknowledges working under the shadow of both the 1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and the classic 1938 Gothic novel by Daphne du Maurier. But he also says that giving the story another go on the screen is a risk worth taking. “You know, we’re doing an adaptation of a film that Hitchcock also made an adaptation from the same book,” says the actor in our Zoom video interview below....

But Pet Sematary Two is not just a sequel to a horror movie. It’s a follow-up to a Stephen King classic that wasn’t born out of his mind. Naturally, there was going to be some backlash. It’s simply not the kind of story he’d tell. Richard Outten‘s script reaches for It level intrigue with Stand by Me realism and Cujo-esque scares, yet fails to capture the appeal of any of those....