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30 Dec

Link Tank: Squid Game Season 3 Is Already In Talks

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Season 2 hasn’t even come out, but apparently, Netflix is already talking to the creator of Squid Game about season 3. “It wasn’t that long ago that Hwang Dong-hyuk didn’t seem up for more Squid Game, telling Variety, ‘It is quite tiring just thinking about it.’ Then, the show exploded in popularity around the world, becoming Netflix’s most-watched series. The creator soon warmed to the idea of doing a second season. Now, Hwang says he’s even in talks for a third.” Read more at Kotaku Star Wars and movie fans across the globe remember the late Carrie Fisher 5 years…

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29 Dec

Star Wars: How Boba Fett Escaped the Sarlacc Pit

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This Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett article contains spoilers. The Book of Boba Fett kicked off with a few surprises, including answers to some of the biggest questions Star Wars fans had about the bounty hunter’s past. Yes, “Stranger in a Strange Land” finally reveals what happened to Boba Fett during the five years between Return of the Jedi and The Mandalorian season 2. From the very first scene, we’re treated to flashbacks that pick up where Boba’s story left off in Return of the Jedi. Jabba the Hutt’s sail barge now lies as a ruin in the…

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29 Dec

Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett Episode 1 Review: Stranger in a Strange Land

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This Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett review contains spoilers. The Book of Boba Fett Episode 1 For a while now, December has been Star Wars time. With the movie slate wiped clean, this year’s holiday season premiere is the smaller scale The Book of Boba Fett, which already feels fated for a more niche audience than its loosely affiliated cousin The Mandalorian. Trading in the more universal story of an orphan warrior and his adopted baby for an introduction tied up in a whole host of other Star Wars lore, The Book of Boba Fett‘s competently crafted first…

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29 Dec

Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett Episode 1 Easter Eggs Explained

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This Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett article contains spoilers. The Book of Boba Fett returns to Tatooine and a lot of familiar Star Wars sights in its premiere episode, “Stranger in a Strange Land.” As a loose spinoff of The Mandalorian, it’s possible Fett and his right-hand killer Fennec Shand will get involved in wider galactic politics going forward. But, for now, we revisit several different movie settings in a reference-filled episode. Take a look at all the Star Wars easter eggs and references we spotted in this episode… Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett We should all know him by…

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29 Dec

The Best TV Shows of 2021

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And just like that (not be confused with And Just Like That…), another year of television is in the books. In terms of pop culture, 2021 was never going to be as strange and surreal as when the whole world shut down in 2020. Still, this year of TV wasn’t necessarily the return to normalcy that one might expect. TV changed in the year 2021. For one, it got a hell of a lot bigger. That’ll happen to a medium when Disney decides to throw the Marvel Cinematic Universe its way. Series like WandaVision, Loki, and even Marvel’s What If…?…

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29 Dec

Hawkeye: The Wasted Potential of Wilson Fisk’s MCU Return

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe has managed to pull off a lot of truly impressive feats over the course of its decade-long march to pop culture domination. Superhero stories are cool now, and even the most casual of viewers are pretty well versed in things like chaos magic, multiverses, and Infinity Stones. Yet, despite its many successes, the MCU still struggles in several of the key areas that make comic book stories so compelling. For the most part, it’s still pretty bad at telling love stories and it’s got a lot of female characters it doesn’t always know what to do…

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28 Dec

The Batman May Have Confirmed Major Riddler Moment from the Comics

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Many mysteries surround The Batman‘s main villain. The movie not only introduces a version of the Riddler unlike any we’ve ever seen, donning a mask and armed with duct tape, but one who also has a deep connection and obsession with Bruce Wayne. What are the ties that bind these two characters together in the film? We don’t know the answer just yet, but trailers have made it clear it goes all the way back to Bruce’s parents and some long buried secret that the Riddler will dig up to destroy his opponent’s life. But does the Riddler’s plan go…

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28 Dec

Link Tank: What We Know About The Star War Series Andor So Far

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With The Book of Boba Fett about to drop this week, let’s look ahead to other upcoming Star Wars series in 2022, specifically Andor starring Diego Luna. “Disney and Lucasfilm have the most of the Star Wars franchise by bringing new stories to Disney+. While fans of The Mandalorian are waiting on Season 3, the folks over at Lucasfilm are also busy developing the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story prequel series about Cassian Andor. Diego Luna is set to reprise his role as the Rebel spy. It’s been confirmed that the Disney+ show will bring back a host of memorable Rogue One characters alongside new faces.” Read more…

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28 Dec

Link Tank: Honoring the Late Director Jean-Marc Vallée

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Film director Jean-Marc Vallée, who made movies such as Dallas Buyers Club and Wild, has passed away at age 58. “Jean-Marc Vallée, the director of the Oscar-winning film Dallas Buyers Club and two HBO series, Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects, died suddenly at the age of 58. Per The Associated Press, a representative confirmed he died at his cabin outside Quebec City.” Read more at The A.V. Club For the first time in the pandemic era at the box office, a movie has grossed over 1 billion dollars, and to no one’s surprise, it’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. “Yep, that didn’t take long. After a massive…

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28 Dec

Is Jeopardy! Getting Easier?

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Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but a Jeopardy! contestant is absolutely dominating the field right now.  Current champion Amy Schneider of Oakland, California is currently riding a 19-game winning streak in the venerable American quiz show. Many of those 19 victories have been absolute laughers, with Schneider leaving her opponents in the dust. She currently has nearly $750,000 in regular season winnings and her dominance in the Final Jeopardy! round is shocking even current Jeopardy! guest host and forever GOAT Ken Jennings.  In nearly any other of Jeopardy!’s 38 seasons, Amy Schneider would be the biggest story…

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27 Dec

The Best Games of 2021

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Many have called 2021 a slow year for video games, and we certainly understand why. Game development is hard enough without having to deal with the challenges of working during the COVID-19 pandemic, systemic issues within the industry, hardware shortages, and a variety of other factors that have led to some of the delays and disappointments we’ve seen this year. Yet, at the end of this “slow” year, we were still left staring at a list of about 50 games that are more than worthy of being considered the very best of both 2021 and many other recent years. In…

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27 Dec

Dexter: New Blood Episode 8 – Unfair Game

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This Dexter: New Blood review contains spoilers. Dexter: New Blood Episode 8 I wrote at length last week about how Dexter: New Blood has its foot on the brake rather than the gas late in the season, a problem that suggested maybe a 10-episode order was too much time to fill. That criticism is given more teeth with “Unfair Game,” which keeps Dexter busy with a secondary antagonist and spends more time driving home information that we already knew about Harrison. The detour allows Angela some time to catch up on the true identity of her boyfriend and what he…

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25 Dec

Don’t Look Up: Who Are the Characters Based On

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The following includes major Don’t Look Up spoilers. This was supposed to be a comedy, right? That’s what the marketing and 1960s-inspired opening title cards suggest for Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, and yet one might think the happiest moment in the whole thing is when Leonardo DiCaprio’s Dr. Randall Mindy and Jennifer Lawrence’s PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky sit down to dinner with family, friends, and even a new fiancé, before the comet strikes. At least they’re getting a break from trying to force reality into those people’s thick skulls. That’s the bleak vibe and pitch black humor at work…

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24 Dec

The Silent Sea Ending Explained

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This The Silent Sea article contains MAJOR spoilers for the Netflix k-drama. Netflix got in one more grim K-drama before Christmas: moon mystery The Silent Sea. Because nothing says Christmas like a spooky, abandoned lunar base! The drama stars Bae Doona (Cloud Atlas, Kingdom) as Dr. Song, an astrobiologist-turned-ethologist who agrees to go on a mission to the lunar base where her sister died in order to retrieve a mysterious “sample.” The story is set in a probably-too-near future in which climate change has rapidly reduced the Earth’s water supply, leaving the surviving population to fight for the unevenly distributed…

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24 Dec

The Expanse Season 6 Episode 3 Review: Force Projection

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This review contains spoilers for The Expanse. The Expanse Season 6 Episode 3 Like last week, the latest episode of The Expanse benefited from an exciting battle in space, but unlike the previous installment, which had plenty of emotional punch, “Force Projection” seemed unable to focus intently enough on any one subplot to keep viewer interest. Aside from some welcome cameos from Amos’ past buddies, Pastor Anna (Elizabeth Mitchell) and Prax (Terry Chen), this episode was mostly notable for reinforcing our image of Marco Inaros as an incompetent asshat. Even Marco’s strategy of abandoning Ceres, while brilliant in terms of…

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24 Dec

The Real Science Behind Don’t Look Up: Could It Happen?

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This article contains Don’t Look Up spoilers. In Don’t Look Up, the frequently searing new satire from filmmaker Adam McKay (Vice, The Big Short), astronomers Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) discover that a previously undetected comet is headed straight for Earth, with six months to go before the object slams into the planet in what will be an extinction level event. As time runs out, the scientists plead their case to the ignorant, self-obsessed President Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep) and her vile son/chief of staff, Jason (Jonah Hill), who dismiss them. It’s only when Orlean gets…

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24 Dec

Don’t Look Up Review: An All Star Apocalypse in Adam McKay’s Satire

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What would you do if you knew an asteroid was going to crash into the Earth in six months time?  Lie, spin, profiteer, bicker, undermine the science, ignore the warnings and do nothing useful whatsoever according to Adam McKay’s bleak apocalyptic satire Don’t Look Up. In it Meryl Streep’s corrupt female Trump-alike president, flanked by her snivelling, useless Chief-of-staff son (Jonah Hill) are presented with so many end-of-the-world scenarios from climate change to pollution, terrorism to nuclear threat that it’s all reduced to optics and winning the mid-term.  Do something! Do anything! McKay’s film screams. Or we might just fuck…

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24 Dec

How Jessica Henwick Kept Colleen Wing’s MCU Prospects Alive

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This article contains slight spoilers for HAWKEYE and SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME. As Jessica Henwick rides momentum from a performance in The Matrix Resurrections as blue-haired plot-catalyst character Bugs, one would think that her 2018-wrapped role as the sword-swinging cage-fighting Netflix Marvel character, Colleen Wing, is far back in her rearview mirror. However, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is in the midst of a shakeup on that front, as box office smash Spider-Man: No Way Home and Disney+ TV series Hawkeye demonstrated to resounding enthusiasm. Yet, it seems that Henwick’s renewed chances for a return as Colleen are mostly attributed to…

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23 Dec

Link Tank: The Origins of “Last Christmas” by Wham!

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You know the Wham! song, but here are some fun facts about their smash hit Christmas track “Last Christmas.” “Over the course of his illustrious career, George Michael gave the world many gifts. One that keeps on giving is ‘Last Christmas,’ the 1984 holiday classic by Wham!, Michael’s pop duo with Andrew Ridgeley. ‘Last Christmas’ is such a uniquely beloved song that it inspired a 2019 film of the same name, and an internet game that people play each holiday season—but that’s just a small part of the ‘Last Christmas’ story.” Read more at Mental Floss Former Den of Geek contributor Matt…

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23 Dec

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 6 Easter Eggs & References

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This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 6. With “Stormy Weather,” Star Trek: Discovery celebrates the Trek tradition of getting some excellent musical standards into the bold voyages in the final frontier. With Picard, it was a call back to “Blue Skies,” but now, we’ve got a new version of the song made famous by Ella Fitzgerald, “Stormy Weather.” This version is sung by actress Annabelle Wallis, who has voiced “Zora” the intelligent DISCO computer since 2018’s Short Treks episode, “Calypso.” The newest Discovery episode obviously references that story a lot but what else? From galactic…

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