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Early in the 2022 Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase, Microsoft showed off the latest offering from developer Squanch Games: High On Life. Going by the project’s debut trailer, the game revolves around an alien drug cartel that is selling humans as drugs. The only person who can save innocent people is a young woman with a gun voiced by Justin Roiland (the voice of Rick and Morty themselves). Mind you, we don’t mean that the gun is like Skippy, the pistol with an onboard and interactive AI from Cyberpunk 2077....

Recently, YouTuber ER-SA posted a video of Elden Ring‘s character creation system (or at least an early leaked build of it). While you should take some of the details in this video with a grain of salt given that official info on Elden Ring‘s character customization features haven’t been released, it’s worth noting that a number of accurate leaks have emerged from the recent Elden Ring network test. That means that the footage below likely represents at least a working build of Elden Ring‘s final character creation system....

The entire season of Ghosts leading up to the finale rests on a foundation of carefully adapting a successful BBC sitcom for American audiences. For readers who haven’t been able to see the UK series on HBO Max, the basic premise is the same: a city dwelling couple inherit a massive old mansion called Button House from a distant relative of the wife. An accident enables the wife to see the ghosts who have died in the house or on the grounds....

To paraphrase Huey Lewis and the News, the power of PEZ is a curious thing. Invented in Vienna, Austria in 1927 by Eduard Haas III as “an alternative to smoking,” the ubiquitous candy’s name was derived from the German word for peppermint – its original flavor. The various iconic dispensers not only helped make snacking on sweets more portable but also fueled a collector’s frenzy around the globe that continues undeterred to this day....

For the better part of 20 years Power Rangers has actively resisted a strict continuity. Sure it would drop a reference here or there but most of the time the show was content to keep its season closed off from one another. When we did get references or connections to the past they were often throw away at best and actively contradictory at worst. Sure we had a few great callbacks like Dr....

For nine seasons, The Blacklist has offered fans a panoramic view of the intersections between science and fiction. Paying attention to these blurred lines is not an attempt to poke holes in the episodes or to reclassify the show’s genre: The Blacklist is a fictional crime drama without question…and that means there is room to play with reality. For nearly a decade, the show has kept viewers shrouded in a veil of confused mystery on multiple fronts: what was the nature of Red’s relationship with Elizabeth, who is Red really and where in the world is Katarina Rostova?...

For Bly Manor, the version of the same source material chosen was Jack Clayton’s The Innocents, released in 1961 and starring Deborah Kerr. It’s a film that Flanagan wanted to celebrate in his own adaptation of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. “It’s a movie, I think, that isn’t talked about for whatever reason,” says Flanagan. “It doesn’t come up as often as The Haunting does. Though it employs a lot of the same technique and came out two years prior....

It should come as no big surprise that, in an era of leaked concepts and trailers (we’re looking at you, Spider-Man: No Way Home), the words “Luke” and/or “Skywalker” were strictly forbidden to use during production of The Mandalorian‘s second season due to the enormous magnitude of THE secret that needed to be kept throughout the entire 8-episode run. The second Season 2 episode of Disney+ behind-the-scenes documentary series Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian has revealed how the creative coalition navigated this proverbial Death Star trench run, notably with Plo Koon in the script as a red herring firewall of sorts for leaked Luke intel....

Slated to appear in The Many Saints of Newark’s 1967 version of Tony Soprano’s New Jersey are: a young Tony Soprano (Michael Gandolfini), his father Giovanni “Johnny Boy” Soprano (Jon Bernthal), uncle Corrado “Junior” Soprano Jr. (Corey Stoll), mother Livia Soprano (Vera Farmiga), Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri (Billy Magnussen), Silvio Dante (John Magaro), Sal “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero (Samson Moeakiola), and potentially more. According to The Many Saints of Newark director Alan Taylor though, the film nearly opened with a scene featuring one of the series’ most important characters played by her original actress....

Naturally, the book has been adapted many times and in several mediums, including stage plays, an opera, a ballet, TV productions (including one coming this fall, The Haunting of Bly Manor, from The Haunting of Hill House director Mike Flanagan) and films. The most famous is arguably The Innocents, a 1961 movie starring Deborah Kerr as the governess that remains one of the most chilling horror films ever made. And now comes The Turning, a new take on the material directed by Floria Sigismondi (The Runaways) and starring Mackenzie Davis (Terminator: Dark Fate) as the governess....

The most obvious use of humorous artistic license with vampire lore lies in the depiction of Colin Robinson as an energy vampire. The 2014 film upon which the FX show is adapted used the mockumentary style often imitated by single camera office comedies on television. Now the show introducing a creature that uses small talk and idle chatter to drain the life-force of co-workers and housemates fits perfectly into that formula....

For any fan of Money Heist, the upcoming final season is bittersweet. This global phenomenon has been one helluva ride. The Season 5, Volume 1 finale left us hanging on the edge of our seats with a brutal episode that broke our hearts once more. At the end of Season 4, we were shocked by the death of Nairobi (Alba Flores). But Season 5 Volume 1 was even worse. The death of Tokyo (Úrsula Corberó) was a twist that no one saw, despite ample foreshadowing....

Out in the world of TV and movie production, millions are regularly spent on scripts containing a fraction of the complexity, ambition or potential in ‘A Random Act of Kindness’. Inside No. 9’s first sci-fi story was an imaginative feat frustratingly limited inside a BBC comedy budget. Given the right backing, this desperately sad tale of a bereaved son’s guilt driving him to invent time travel and sacrifice his life to repair his relationship with his mother would make an excellent feature film....

“It all comes from this very logical place of ‘if there really was a superhero orgy, what would it look like? How would you depict it in the most honest way possible?’” Kripke says. “Because we’re all about integrity here. We’re just telling the truth, man.” The Vought Corporation creates supes via their proprietary pharmaceuticals, gives them some media training, and then sets them loose on the public to bring in advertising dollars, movie deals, and, hopefully, keep the body count down....

Day Shift, as the film is titled, will see Oscar-winning actor and box office draw Foxx as its star. However, the director’s chair will be occupied by an untested talent in J.J. Perry, a second unit and stunt coordinator from major films such as Fast & Furious 9, The Fate of the Furious, Bloodshot and the John Wick franchise. Perry will work off a script by burgeoning screenwriter Tyler Tice (a winner of the Slamdance Writing Competition,) that was revised by Shay Hatten (John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum)....

One such physically adept geek, Dungeons & Dragons enthusiast Joe Manganiello, will be lending his talents to a little-watched (but really good) Peacock comedy A.P. Bio this fall when the show returns for its fourth season on Sept. 2. Manganiello will play the whimsically named Malachi, who is described as “a big and intimidating personality who unexpectedly steps into Jack’s life, causing Jack great distress and insecurity in his personal relationships....

So news about his third movie was exciting even before we knew anything about it beyond its cast, which includes Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and Steven Yeun. But now we at least know the title: Nope. Revealed alongside its poster and release date by Peele on social media (which you can see below), the title is a cheeky and amusing nod which follows in the tradition of 1960s and ‘70s horror movies like Nicholas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now....

Hence the beguiling charm of Juliet, Naked, a sweet and romantic daydream about what happens when you meet your hero—as well as the laconic good cheer and poignant sadness that can be derived from such modern adulation. For Annie (Rose Byrne) is the bright and neglected girlfriend of the snobbish Duncan (Chris O’Dowd), whom she’s lived with for 15 years. While Annie is vaguely content with her seaside English town existence, and working at the local museum, she quietly regrets a marriage without wedding bells or children to a man who would rather spend his nights online discussing his teenage hero with other 40-somethings on the internet....

Constantine was a modest hit upon release, grossing $232 million worldwide on a $100 million budget. Still, it was the highest-grossing DC superhero movie that didn’t feature Batman or Superman prior to the release of Wonder Woman in 2017. With its religious horror bent and superhero connections, it was a novel property in 2005, but in the years since then, the superhero genre has exploded and audiences are more willing than ever to explore something a bit more high-concept....

And with Spider-Man: Far From Home – the 23rd movie in the 11-year-old franchise and the official end of the three-phase ‘Infinity Saga’ – he looks set to repeat the previous movies’ success. The follow-up to Spider-Man: Homecoming and a conclusion of sorts to the events of Avengers: Endgame, this second solo outing for Tom Holland’s webslinger sees him striking out on his own, heading to Europe and taking on the monstrous Elementals – alongside his enigmatic new mentor-of-sorts, Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal)....