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03 Jun

Sailor Moon Eternal Brings Long-Time Fans’ Dreams to Life on Netflix

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This Sailor Moon Eternal review contains NO spoilers! Read on with confidence. Back in 2016, the final episode of Sailor Moon Crystal closed out the manga’s “Infinity” arc and in its last moments teased what every fan was hoping for next, something we’d all been deprived of for far too long… a faithful adaptation of the manga’s fourth arc, entitled “Dream.” The premise of “Dream” is that on the day of the solar eclipse, the Dead Moon Circus, an ancient enemy of Silver Millennium (the Moon Kingdom) appears in Tokyo. Their leader, a withered hag named Zirconia, sends her minions…
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03 Jun

Army of the Dead 2: Questions That Need to Be Answered in a Sequel

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This Army of the Dead article contains spoilers. Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead packed a punch on Netflix the weekend of its release. By the following Monday, the Justice League director’s zombie heist epic was well on its way to becoming one of the streaming service’s top 10 most watched movies of all time. What does that mean? That there’s a good chance we’ll be getting a sequel in due time. A sequel won’t come as much of a surprise to those fans who’ve been following along, though. After all, Army of the Dead was always meant to be…
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01 Jun

Best Movies Coming to Netflix in June 2021

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The movies are back. That’s the rumor, anyway. One which is circulating through Hollywood and the movie industry at large as audiences slowly acclimate to returning to movie theaters. But cinemas are not the only option for movie lovers this June. In fact, if you’re still a bit wary about going near a big screen—or just want to watch some old favorites on the nights you stay in—Netflix has you covered for a few evenings. Hence below are the better movies coming to the streaming service this month. The Big Lebowski (1998) June 1 Look, it might just be like…
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29 May

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 14 Review: Nothing Lasts Forever

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 14 “Heaven’s never been a democracy.” You’d think the return of God and Tricia Helfer would be enough to carry any television episode, but Lucifer’s parents also seem to confirm the veracity of the multiverse theory. Still, it’s the heartwarming scenes within the celestial circle that drive “Nothing Lasts Forever,” and once again, Lucifer reveals another facet of its titular hero as his dark side continues to recede and his light shines more brightly than ever. But do we really need Michael redux? The central storyline centers around whether or not…
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29 May

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 13 Review: A Little Harmless Stalking

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 13 “That’s what you get for bringing a beanbag to a demon fight.” Love is in the air, and as long as the principals don’t overthink things too much, everything should work out that way God intends it. We just don’t know who’ll be taking over should Lucifer’s father make good on his intent to retire. Since a peaceful transfer of power doesn’t appear imminent, “A Little Harmless Stalking” takes the opportunity to deliver some of the series’ most poignant and heartfelt moments, and Lucifer appears on track to continue breaking…
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29 May

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 16 Review: A Chance at a Happy Ending

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 16 “Never loving anyone is far worse than loss.” Heads up, humans, there’s a new God in town, and Lucifer fans couldn’t be happier. The near perfect season finale, “A Chance at a Happy Ending,” gives fans of the Netflix series some resolution regarding Lucifer and Chloe’s turbulent love story while at the same time setting up what might be the ultimate paradigm shift. Good triumphs over evil, the Devil sits on Heaven’s throne, and all’s right with the universe.  There’s no real crime to solve this time, but the spectacular…
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29 May

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 15 Review: Is This Really How It’s Going to End?!

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 15 “He’s not trying to win an election; he’s trying to win a war.” Lucifer does heartwarming and heart wrenching as well as any television series when the story requires it, but nothing adequately prepares us for the devastating news of Detective Daniel Espinoza’s death at the hands of mercenaries hired by Lucifer’s brother Michael. However, it’s the powerful, multi-layered narrative in the season’s penultimate episode that vaults “Is This Really How It’s Going To End?!” into rarified critical air leaving an impossibly high benchmark for others to aspire to. And,…
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29 May

Lucifer Season 5 Ending Explained

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This article contains spoilers for the Lucifer season 5 finale. During the final episode of Lucifer season 5, “A Chance at a Happy Ending”, Michael (Tom Ellis) arrives at Lux with an offer for Lucifer (also Tom Ellis). The loss of Dan Espinoza (Kevin Alejandro) still fresh in his mind, Lucifer lashes out at Michael when he suggests that Lucifer could get his old job back as the Hell’s king, but having assembled the Flaming Sword and with the angels on his side, it appears that Michael will be victorious in his efforts to rule Heaven. Michael tries force Lucifer’s…
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28 May

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 11 Review: Resting Devil Face

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 11 “Don’t mysterious ways me; you just exploded a man.” Grammar faux pas aside, Joan Osborne’s 1995 release raises a philosophical question that to this point has gleaned no satisfactory answer – “What if God was one of us?” I’m not sure we’ve gained much meaningful insight to this question, but Lucifer has a lot of fun exploring that scenario while at the same time addressing much of the pain with which so many of the characters continue to struggle. “Resting Devil Face” takes a multi-layered approach to examine the  emotional…
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28 May

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 10 Review: Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 10 “We celestials are pretty much the same as you.” It’s the bold series that takes on the demands of producing a musical episode that manages to not only seamlessly blend lyrically into the overall narrative arc but also give fans a peek into another side of the characters and actors. Like it or not, any attempt to blend singing and dancing with an active storyline will be somehow measured against Joss Whedon and Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s “Once More, with Feeling,” long considered the gold standard of musical episodes. “Bloody…
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28 May

Terry Silver’s Return Brings A Manipulative Villain to Cobra Kai Season 4

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Cobra Kai has spent three increasingly successful seasons of television reintroducing The Karate Kid film franchise’s cast of characters. Unsurprisingly, that effort is now confirmed to continue, thanks to a surprise teaser for the show’s fourth season, which has whetted appetites for the return of a major movie villain, Terry Silver. Indeed, the return of the character, the sinister schemer of 1989’s The Karate Kid Part III, could provide a game-changing sinister force for the show’s escalating war of rival karate dojos. Thomas Ian Griffith is returning as Terry Silver, the villain he played in an entertainingly over-the-top manner in…
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28 May

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 12 Review – Daniel Espinoza: Naked and Afraid

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 12 “Sometimes it feels as if the entire universe is against me.” I’m going to say up front that I honestly don’t know what to make of this episode, and from the opening scenes, something just feels off in this chapter of Lucifer. At the moment, no one fears the power of the celestials more than Daniel Espinoza, and remembering past history, it’s understandable why he feels this way. While the participants of Lucifer’s highly orchestrated charade may contend they did it for Dan, the truth revealed in “Daniel Espinoza: Naked…
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28 May

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 9 Review: Family Dinner

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 9 “All I wanted was a nice family dinner.” After a nine month Covid-19 related hiatus, Lucifer returns to Netflix for the second half of its fifth season, and the family dynamic changes dramatically with the introduction of Dear Old Dad to the mix. Throughout the course of its run, the series’ writers have masterfully woven a crime-of-the-week drama into the fabric of the emotional turmoil the core characters, both celestial and mortal, experience in their everyday lives. “Family Dinner,” takes this narrative technique and sets into motion a series of…
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28 May

Lucifer: What Happened to Tricia Helfer’s Charlotte and the Goddess?

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This article contains pre-Lucifer Season 5b spoilers. Battlestar Galactica actress Tricia Helfer has predominantly played two different – but very memorable characters – on Netflix‘s fan favorite police procedural Lucifer, making her journey in the series a complex one. In season 2 of Lucifer, long before Fox cancelled the show and it was revived by Netflix, Helfer joined the cast as a defense attorney called Charlotte Richards, but Charlotte’s body was soon taken over by Lucifer’s mother, who originally co-created the universe with God. Long ago, Lucifer (Tom Ellis) had rebelled against God (Dennis Haysbert) over his love for humanity,…
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27 May

Netflix’s Eden Review: Coming of Age in a Robot Future

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The concept of the last or only human is a classic science fiction set-up, one we most often see in the post-apocalyptic genre, which often sees a human wandering a dystopian landscape, in search for meaning and connection in a grim reality. In Eden, Netflix’s new Japanese-language original anime, we get a clever twist on the old convention: Here, humans disappeared 1,000 years prior, and Earth is populated by a few settlements of robots. These robots spend their days growing apples, an act driven by their initial creation by and for humans. When a pair of apple-harvesting robots, A37 and…
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27 May

Army of the Dead: Dead Pixels Fiasco Explained

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This Army of the Dead article contains spoilers. You’ve probably heard by now: Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead is a carnival of horrors. Intelligent zombies known as “alphas” feast on human flesh but also procreate. Las Vegas is overrun by a massive horde of the undead and is walled off, leaving survivors trapped inside. And the heroes might be stuck in a time loop, with the Devil as their master. But for some viewers, even those scares pale in comparison to the movie’s most terrifying moment: the dead pixels on the screen during select scenes that will make you…
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26 May

Army of the Dead: Time Loop Theory Explained

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This Army of the Dead article contains spoilers. It’s the most far-out moment in Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead: when Dieter (Matthias Schweighöfer) finds the skeletons of another squad of “graverobbers” just outside the casino vault, Vanderohe (Omari Hardwick) asks the young safecracker an ominous question: “Is it another team or is it us, Dieter?” As the camera slowly pans over the corpses, we’re shown captivating evidence that Vanderohe might be on to something (or possibly knows something the rest of the team doesn’t). One skeleton has Scott’s (Dave Bautista) red scarf, while another died wearing necklaces that look…
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26 May

Army of the Dead: What Happened to Geeta?

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This Army of the Dead article contains spoilers. The internet is destined to debate the artistic merits of Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead for years to come, but you’ll never be able to accuse the director of pulling any punches in his return to the zombie movie genre. By the time the credits roll on this two hour and 28 minute undead extravaganza, it’s clear Snyder’s left nothing on the cutting room floor, and even he’s confirmed there will be no need for a Justice League-sized director’s cut in the future. On display is his full artistic vision, down…
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25 May

Sailor Moon Crystal Recap: What You Need to Know Before Netflix’s Sailor Moon Eternal

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Sailor Moon is one of the most well-known anime from the last 30 years. Based on a manga that first launched in 1991, the series has been adapted into a beloved 200-episode anime, several films, a live-action drama, and more recently, an anime reboot called Sailor Moon Crystal. And if that legacy weren’t enough, we can now add another film to the franchise: Sailor Moon Eternal. What Is Sailor Moon Eternal? As previously mentioned, Sailor Moon Eternal is the latest addition to the Sailor Moon franchise. It’s a two-part anime film based on the Dream arc of the original manga.…
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25 May

Army of the Dead: The Problem with Zack Snyder Song Choices

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This article contains Army of the Dead spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review here. No one has ever accused Zack Snyder of being subtle. As the director who once had Henry Cavill’s Superman and the image of Jesus Christ in red and blue stained glass share the same frame, Snyder’s a filmmaker who likes his subtexts to be written across the screen whenever possible, preferably in neon. It’s an impulse that can lead to sometimes stunning visuals, such as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Doctor Manhattan filming the moon landing in Watchmen, and it sometimes can be as heavy-handed as Bruce…
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