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29 Nov

True Story and the Diverse Career of Wesley Snipes

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He’s a five-time black belt who showed off a fluid brutality in action films such as the Blade franchise; yet when he went to school, he was originally convinced his future and passion lay in performative dance. He’s a four-time winner of the NAACP Image Awards; he’s played villains, criminals, and that one bleached-blond fiend who wanted to blow up Sylvester Stallone in Demolition Man. He’s worked with the likes of Denzel Washington, Robert De Niro, and Spike Lee in some of the auteur’s most seminal films, but his first big break was being the tough guy who taught Michael…
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29 Nov

UK Christmas TV 2021: Your Guide To This Year’s Festive Specials

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Though our mileage with Christmas may vary (personally mine’s all the way to space and back, but you may well refuse to even back out of the car park), we can all agree on one good thing about this time of year: television. Not the deeply un-special Christmas specials in which Gregg Wallace walks around a mince pie factory with a bit of holly pinned to his lapel, but the actual good stuff: a brand new episode of Ghosts for example, a new Terry Pratchett family animation, a creepy M.R. James ghost story from Mark Gatiss…etcetera. Below is a selection…
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29 Nov

Give Yourself a Break, Watch the Dub

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If you venture into any part of the anime community, eventually you’ll come across a debate that has raged for decades. Dubs v. subs. The argument has been ongoing ever since anime first started gaining a large audience outside of Japan. Some prefer watching anime with an English dub. Others prefer watching the original Japanese audio with the aid of English subtitles. While to some this is merely a personal preference, the debate between the two camps can get extremely heated especially on the side of “sub purists.” To them, the only true way to experience anime is how it…
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29 Nov

Dexter: New Blood Episode 4 Review – H is for Hero

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This Dexter: New Blood review contains spoilers. Dexter: New Blood Episode 4 No one is ever who they say they are on Dexter. The quirky, socially awkward blood splatter guy? He’s a murderer. The Assistant District Attorney? He may be harboring murderous fantasies just waiting for an excuse to come out. The successful self-help guru? He’s fronting a human trafficking ring. We all hide parts of ourselves from the world, but in the world of Dexter, the sides that folks keep hidden are typically monstrous. It looks more and more as if Harrison and Kurt are fostering monsters, or in…
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28 Nov

Doctor Who: Flux Episode 5 Review – Survivors of the Flux

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Doctor Who Series 13 Episode 5 Review Warning: this Doctor Who review contains spoilers. If there’s one thing you can say about Flux, it’s that no two episodes have felt quite the same. For better or worse, each chapter has worked to establish its own tone and tempo, which has helped add to the sense of scale the story possesses. It also means members of the audience will appreciate some episodes more than others, depending on which flavour of Doctor Who they prefer. A selection box rather than a king-sized Toblerone, in other words. This week, we’ve gone from the…
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28 Nov

Why Hawkeye Is The MCU’s First Christmas Story In Years

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One of the first things you notice when watching the new Marvel series Hawkeye is the time and place in which it is set. The show is located in New York City, and the time is some point after the events of Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Far from Home — meaning it’s taking place at the end of either 2024 or 2025, since the former took place in 2023 and the latter in the summer of 2024. And yes, we said “the end” of whichever year it’s in, because as one can glean pretty quickly, Hawkeye takes place just a…
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28 Nov

The Uncanny Parallels Between The Beatles: Get Back and A Hard Day’s Night

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During the period of Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back, John Lennon and Yoko Ono made many experimental films. One of the techniques they pioneered was film speed. They showed the erection of a building, from scratch, fit into a few minutes of screentime by shooting a few frames per day. Jackson does the opposite in his new documentary, creating a slow-mo cinema verité version of director Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night. In the greatest jukebox musical ever made, the band has to retrieve an errant band member in time to make a show, and when they make that…
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28 Nov

MST3K Season 13: All The Movies, Details, and Release Date

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Mystery Science Theater 3000’s Turkey Day isn’t just an annual marathon of classic episodes to sit back and watch on Thanksgiving. Depending on the timing, fans watch it hoping to see some kind of news. In this era when MST3K’s always in flux, viewers have their fingers crossed that we’re going to see some kind of look into the future of the franchise. Luckily, Turkey Day 2021 gave us plenty to sink our teeth into. To get us back up to speed, after years of being off TV, a Kickstarter campaign started up in 2015 and successfully brought MST3K back…
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27 Nov

The Masters of the Universe: Revelation Line Kevin Smith Never Thought He Could Get Away With

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This Masters of the Universe: Revelation article contains spoilers for the first episode of Part 2.  All hope seems lost for the good guys in the first episode of Masters of the Universe: Revelation Part 2. Adam and Teela have returned home but Skeletor isn’t far behind. The sky turns a horrific purple and he appears out of it, empowered by He-Man’s stolen sword. The heroes that were left at the palace realize their time without their most evil foe is at an end. The heroic Eternian known as Fisto steps forth, raises his fist toward Skeletor and says, dead…
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27 Nov

15 NES Games That Deserve a Sequel

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In the 35+ years since the NES changed the video game industry, we’ve celebrated pretty much every aspect of the revolutionary console (including that strange time when we all thought blowing air into an NES cartridge could fix them). However, it’s truly remarkable to look back at the NES’ incredible library of all-time great titles and realize that so many of them haven’t gotten a proper sequel.  While it’s amazing to think that the video game industry has refrained from making sequels to some of these games given the sequel/reboot/remake culture that we live in, the fact of the matter…
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27 Nov

Netflix’s Hellbound: Best Shows To Watch Next From The Leftovers To Jirisan

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Hellbound is the most recent Korean-language hit to make it into the U.S. Netflix Top Ten, and to top Netflix’s global (self-reported) charts. If you’ve already binged all six episodes of the ultra-violent celestial fantasy and are thirsting for more shows in a similar vein, then we’ve hand-picked a selection of supernatural fantasy series that could make the perfect follow-up. Prepare yourself for heaven-and-hell dramas, existential questions, terrifying monsters, human dilemmas, angels, demons and much, much more. The Leftovers  Where to watch: HBO Max Like Hellbound, The Leftovers is an existential drama that starts with an incomprehensible, potentially divine metaphysical…
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27 Nov

The Beatles: Get Back – Do Beatlemaniacs Get What They’re Looking For?

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There’s no mania like Beatlemania, and Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back is both proof of that, and a direct consequence of it. A lot of the reviews said it was an overlong and unnecessary affair. Well, Disney+ let Jackson include swearing in the documentary, so, fuck them. He prefers his own 18-hour cut to this just-under-eight-hour documentary series, and he’s “right and will be proved right,” to paraphrase John Lennon.  Is it an important document? Yes. Does it give Beatlemaniacs everything they want? Of course not, nothing will. For one thing, he doesn’t give us a full version of …
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26 Nov

The Wheel of Time Episode 4 Finally Meets the Show’s True Potential

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This article contains The Wheel of Time spoilers. Being familiar with the books upon which a television adaptation is based already sets up even the most optimistic viewer for disappointment, but this is particularly true for readers who watch The Wheel of Time. The Eye of the World, the first book in the Robert Jordan series, is told from the point of view of the one who is quickly recognized as a candidate for the Dragon Reborn. The show, on the other hand, has managed to dig itself out from its deficient narrative through one major change: hiding the identity…
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26 Nov

How Hawkeye Handles Clint Barton’s Hearing Loss

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Clint Barton, a.k.a. the Avenger known as Hawkeye, is a normal human being. He has many skills, several of them involving weapons and quite lethal, but he does not have any superpowers. So perhaps more than his other superfriends, he is quite susceptible to injury or even death. The Marvel Cinematic Universe version of Barton (Jeremy Renner) has taken his share of licks over the years — that’s what happens when you battle armies of invading Chitauri or legions of Ultron robots — and as a result of being around massive explosions and catastrophic battles, we discover in the new…
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26 Nov

The Nightmare Before Christmas’ Sally Was Almost Very Different

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This Halloween, pop star Billie Eilish wore a patchwork dress and painted stitch scars to sing in front of a sold-out crowd at LA’s Banc of California stadium. The song wasn’t hers, but a Danny Elfman composition from the 1993 soundtrack to animated feature Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. ‘Sally’s Song’ is a broken-hearted lament written for a broken character – a Frankensteinian stitched-together rag doll brought to life by an evil scientist in the town of Halloween. In 2021, Sally really needs no introduction. From October to December each year, she and paramour Jack Skellington are everywhere, from…
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26 Nov

What GTA 6 Should Learn From Vice City

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The recently released Grand Theft Auto: Definitive Edition remasters may be a bit of a disaster, but even in a mostly broken form, it’s hard not to appreciate the brilliance of GTA: Vice City. Released in October 2002 (only a year after the revolutionary GTA 3), Vice City hit a generation of gamers like a lighting bolt. Even though Vice City was developed and released in a shockingly short amount of time (especially by modern GTA development timeline standards) it felt like such an incredible leap forward in so many ways. There are times when that game’s reputation almost elevates…
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26 Nov

Lethal Weapon Is the Action Christmas Movie Die Hard Wishes It Was

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Guns firing, blood flying, goons dying, and an unlikely hero quipping before bringing down the big bad. Just your standard action movie, right? Now replace the blaring guitar or thunderous orchestra with “Jingle Bell Rock,” “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” and “The First Noel.” Wait… is this a holiday movie or Lethal Weapon? Every year, the debate rages on. Bruce Willis, spraying machine gun fire. Hans, nonplussed, killing the world’s worst yuppie scumbag Ellis. Al, the redeemed killer cop, gunning down Karl in a surprise display of heroics. Sure, John McTiernan, Jeb Stuart, and Steven E. de Souza’s Die Hard…
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26 Nov

Could She-Ra Come to Masters of the Universe: Revelation Season 2?

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This article contains spoilers for Masters of the Universe: Revelation part 2. The end of Masters of the Universe: Revelation Part 2 dropped a huge bomb on the audience. Skeletor was overpowered by none other than someone seemingly working for Hordak, the main villain of the original 1985 She-Ra series. It blew open the doors of the world of MoTU: Revelation and made it seem like elements of She-Ra could be a major part of any potential second season. However, MoTU: Revelation executive producer Kevin Smith tells us that isn’t for certain. “The only thing that I’ve been told over…
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26 Nov

Taskmaster Series 13 Line-Up Confirmed: Ardal O’Hanlon, Bridget Christie, Judi Love and more

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Ding ding, everybody off the Taskmaster bus! New passengers incoming! Series 12 – which taught us that Victoria Coren-Mitchell never learned how to ride a bike, Guz Khan owns more framed portraits of himself than is sensible, Desiree Burch can’t burst a balloon with a fork to save her life, Morgana Robinson is able to get goose bumps at will and Alan Davies still has a Jonathan Creek wig in his loft – has reached its climax. One lucky winner has skipped away merrily with the Taskmaster’s gleaming head as a prize and plenty of time to prepare for the…
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25 Nov

Is Young Justice Ending After Season 4?

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This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 4 Episode 8 A series that once ended prematurely and was resurrected by fan passion should not spend so much time on maudlin navel gazing. And yet, here we are with Young Justice: Phantoms, where “I Know Why the Caged Cat Sings” spends most of its run time on infodumps that hint at a MUCH more interesting series of events and characters than the ones put on screen. There are two highlights. The episode picks up more or less where the last left off – with a flashback to Artemis…
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