This and so much more won the show an army of fans, many of whom were brand new to the wider Masters of the Universe (MOTU) franchise. This set the standard for what MOTU was for them and the series they’d use to judge all other entries by. With Masters of the Universe: Revelation about to hit Netflix, many She-Ra fans might be wondering if this series is something they’ll enjoy....
While part of the appeal of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Classic is the chance to relive one of the best expansions in WoW history, the truth of the matter is that World of Warcraft has improved in some significant ways in the years since WotLK was first released. The ideal WoW experience is arguably somewhere between “Classic” design and modern innovations. Well, the best WotLK Classic addons essentially help bridge that gap....
Released about a decade late in its attempt to jump on the Men in Black bandwagon from the late ‘90s, R.I.P.D. was a poor attempt at duplicating that high-concept buddy film about a young gun and wisened cowboy that was previously perfected by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in 1997. Like Men in Black, Reynolds and Bridges were an oil and water partnership set in a CGI-heavy world of comedic monsters—albeit ghosts and demons now as opposed to aliens and giant bugs, a la MiB....
Young Justice Season 3 Episode 3 There are two moments in “Eminent Threat” that made me step back in awe of how well the creative team behind Young Justice knows their subjects and how good they are at storytelling. One is a tiny flourish, an attention to detail that I only caught my second time through, and the other is a very subtle character beat that shows how well they understand their own continuity and the story I think they’re trying to tell....
There’s no one quality that makes a superhero game underrated. Some are bizarrely forgotten masterpieces, while others are a little rougher around the edges. If there’s one thing that all of these games share, though, it’s the love that went into them. The sheer number of forgettable or passionless superhero games on the market makes it easier to appreciate those titles that may not have quite leaped the tallest building in a single bound but still helped show that you don’t have to be bulletproof to be a hero....
The main reason for the NES’ massive success story was its enormous library of great titles. Many of Nintendo’s long-standing franchises got their starts on the NES, and while some of the console’s games have aged better than others, all of them deserve our love and respect for helping reignite the industry and kicking off the fun that would ensue for decades to come. As tough as it is to choose between so many true classics, here is our list of the 25 best games released for the NES....
Alongside the sulky real-life Elizabethan playwrights and gruff spymasters of A Discovery of Witches’ second season shines one leading light: Mary Sidney. Styled the Countess of Pembroke following her 1577 marriage to Henry Herbert, Mary Sidney was a celebrated figure in Tudor society with several published works to her name, and close connections to the royal court of Queen Elizabeth I. Played in the series by Amanda Hale (The White Queen, Ripper Street, Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker), Mary Sidney becomes Diana’s ally during her and Matthew’s Elizabethan time-walk....
The 1981-set film stars Oscar Isaac as Abel Morales, a young businessman who runs a growing heating oil business in New York City with the help of his wife Anna (Jessica Chastain) and his lawyer Andrew Walsh (Albert Brooks). Reaching a critical point in his expansion, Abel finds himself in danger on three fronts: he faces financial ruin if he does not meet the terms of a massive loan to buy a vacant storage facility, he is being pursued by a local D....
The narration is positively delicious. It’s like the old Unsolved Mysteries on crack and dusted with meth. The high point of this comes early when the narrator’s voice cracks on the words “what could have driven a man to murder his entire family.” By the time he hits the word “family” it’s no longer a question of guilt or innocence, good or evil. The narrator’s very soul lies in the balance....
For those who don’t know, Mr. Resetti is a mole who debuted in the first Animal Crossing game and quickly became a series regular. As the name suggests, Resetti is practically obsessed with making sure that you properly save your game before resetting. In fact, if you hit reset in the GameCube version of Animal Crossing without saving first, Resetti appears and chastizes you for your risky behavior. The more you reset your game without saving, the harsher Resetti’s speeches get....
So long time Steven Spielberg collaborator Frank Marshall was onto some challenge from the moment he decided to take on Arachnophobia for his directorial debut. Notwithstanding the fact that Marshall was citing the likes of The Birds as his influences (although it wasn’t the sole Hitchcock nod: a shower scene towards the end of the movie has Psycho tattooed throughout it) – thus, not 100% a horror movie – the film was always going to be a tough sell....
At various points during the gameplay preview, we see Ethan do battle with werewolves (now formally referred to as “Lycans”) and a host of vampire-like creatures. Yes, we’ve seen those monsters before in previous trailers, but these recent previews confirm that those archetypes aren’t limited to the game’s major villains. There’s a small army of those monsters running around the village, and your battles against them will seemingly make up most of the game’s action....
Titans are weird, even by anime monster standards. They look like people, if by people you mean eerily distorted caricatures made by deranged five year olds. Even the laws of thermodynamics that anchor the real universe in place are nothing more than a set of vague guidelines where they’re concerned. Titans are ghastly, peculiar, and thoroughly disturbing, but they’re not half as supernatural as the anomaly that brought them into existence....
Attack on Titan Season 4 Episode 20 “Before I save the world, I want to save you.” Last week’s “Two Brothers” is easily one of the strongest episodes of Attack on Titan that’s ever been produced, which puts a lot of pressure on whatever follows. Another action-heavy installment would be the wrong approach after this chaotic high, so the more muted and reflective structure that’s adopted in “Memories of the Future” functions as the perfect cool down period after watching Eren’s head get blown off....
But an amazing thing happened in the 21st century, didn’t it? Streep, the First Lady of the Academy Awards stage, reinvented herself as the prima donna of the musical-comedy. Sometimes that includes performances so rich that they sing even without any lyrics, such as the imperious Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada. But often they come with music and verse too, be it ham-fisted kitsch like Mamma Mia! or something as ambitious as playing the Witch in an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods....
Ironically, the most popular streaming service in the world has chosen to play a bit of a trick on those users wanting a lot of new horror content. While the streamer is providing new original horror films and television programming from its in-house productions, most of the films Netflix is adding for the month of October are not scary at all. Nonetheless, many of them are still a treat. So here are the best movies to expect on Netflix in October…....
Given the wide variety of stories, there’s a lot of anime about LBGTQ people and the queer experience. To be clear, anime has more than its fair share of problematic portrayals such as uninterrogated crossdressing tropes, unchallenged homophobia and transphobia, and comedy at the expense of a queer character. But these things are hardly unique to anime, unfortunately. Despite these shortcomings, the format does have great series exploring the LGBTQ experience in different contexts and genres so here are some of the best queer anime to watch....
However, backgrounds aren’t the only way to have fun with Zoom. It’s actually possible to host your next game night over the virtual conference app. While Zoom doesn’t offer official games for you and your friends to play, it turns out that some of the best party games in the world are playable through Zoom so long as you’re willing to get a little creative. Here is just a small selection of the best (and easiest) party games to play with your friends during a Zoom conference:...
But even if Johnson’s presence is enough to chew up any scene, Black Adam won’t come alone. The movie is being positioned as an entry point for many of DC’s lesser-known characters. Interestingly enough, many of them hail from the Justice Society of America era of the DCU, a team that in-universe predates the modern Justice League. Noah Centineo (The Fosters) plays Atom Smasher, a JSA hero who has the power of growth and super strength (not unlike other, more famous DC and Marvel characters)....
Half-human, half-Atlantean (in the comics), and one of the earliest examples of the evolved human beings that came to be called “mutants” in Marvel canon, he was the fierce ruler and protector of the undersea kingdom of Atlantis with a healthy distaste for the surface world. An anti-hero in the classic sense, he nonetheless teamed over the years with the Avengers, the Illuminati, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and other Marvel heroes to defend the planet from menaces both Earthbound and interstellar....
