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06 Dec

The Matrix Resurrections Finally Unveils the New Niobe

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The Matrix Resurrections revives Neo and Trinity from one more adventure inside the simulation. Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reprise the roles that made them sci-fi legends at the turn of the century, and they’re bringing a few other franchise veterans with them. Among the other returners are Daniel Bernhardt as Agent Johnson, Lambert Wilson as an older and disheveled Merovingian, and Jada Pinkett Smith as Niobe. We’ve already seen our first glimpse at the Merovingian, who’s clearly fallen on hard times since he last tormented our heroes during a deadly bondage rave inside the Matrix, and now a new…

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06 Dec

What BTS’ Instagram Accounts Tell Us About The Group’s Future

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In the past 24 hours, BTS announced they would be going on vacation, teased the release of a new album, and launched individual Instagram accounts. As the Korean septet heads into a period of “extended rest,” it’s that last move that may be getting the most attention right now—and for good reason. BTS opening up new social media accounts would always be big news, but the fact that these handles are specific to each member—with Namjoon, Jin, Yoongi, Hoseok, Jimin, Taehyung, and Jungkook all launching their own handle (if you were wondering, JK’s handle is the best)—is incredibly interesting. While…

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06 Dec

How Fear the Walking Dead’s Madison Return Became a Yearlong Secret

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Fear the Walking Dead will soon grant a major wish fulfillment moment for its fans, having officially set the return of Kim Dickens as the show’s maternal demolisher of the dead, Madison Clark. Thus, a surreal reunion is imminent for Season 7B of a series that is nigh-unrecognizable from the era of the character’s controversially-ambiguous Season 4 exit. Interestingly, the plan was set way back in January, requiring Dickens to keep a stupendous secret for nearly a year. Coming off Sunday’s airing of Fear the Walking Dead’s 7A midseason finale, AMC’s long-running post-show, Talking Dead, paid tribute to concluded spinoff…

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06 Dec

The Game Awards 2021: Nominees and Winner Predictions

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While The Game Awards are usually pretty hard to predict (especially by awards show standards), this year’s event happens to feature an especially eclectic collection of nominees that could all just as easily walk away with the show’s top prizes. A combination of delays and strange circumstances deprived this year’s Game Awards show of its most obvious “frontrunners,” which means that we’re all left guessing which of the year’s greatest games will end up being the biggest winners at what is quickly becoming the video game industry’s version of the Academy Awards. Since only a fool would dare to predict…

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06 Dec

The Matrix Resurrections Reveals New Take on Hugo Weaving’s Agent Smith

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“Millions of people just living out their lives…oblivious.” Those are the words first spoken by Hugo Weaving’s Agent Smith while interrogating Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) in the original Matrix from 1999. They’re the same words repeated to Keanu Reeves’ Neo 20 years later in The Matrix Resurrections, only it isn’t Weaving delivering the monologue this time, but the sinister villain played by Jonathan Groff (Mindhunter). It’s one of many deja vu moments teased in the sequel’s new trailer, which is full of easter eggs and callbacks to the trilogy that saw Neo freed from the Matrix and later save the rest…

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06 Dec

Original Pink Ranger Writing a Power Rangers Comic

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Since the Boom Power Rangers line of comics began it’s largely focused on the original Mighty Morphin team of characters. Now it appears that focus is about to go to the next level. Speaking at Emerald City Comic Con this past weekend, original Pink Ranger Amy Jo Johnson (who just directed an episode of Superman & Lois) let slip that she’s working on a comic for the line! Johnson stated that “I wrote a comic book with my boyfriend and Boom is quite excited about it. We’re sort of in the process of getting it made.” Johnson describes the comic…

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06 Dec

Doctor Who: Flux Ending Explained

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The massive, deranged, ‘packed to the gills with plot and lore and side plots’ arc that has made up this season is finally at an end. It is fair to say this has been the most epic Doctor Who story since ‘The Stolen Earth’ (yes, Moffat blew up the universe a couple of times, but even at his most bombastic it was usually a metaphor for a smaller stakes emotional story than to go for Big Universe Spanning Epic Action). It also has the plot of about 18 Doctor Who episodes crammed into six, so now that we’re looking back…

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06 Dec

Link Tank: Could The Punisher Return in the MCU?

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We’ve heard all about Kingpin and Daredevil returning to the MCU, but what about The Punisher? Jon Bernthal weighs in on Frank Castle’s potential revival. “It’s been nearly 3 years since Netflix canceled The Punisher, along with its entire Marvel slate of programming. And while some Netflix characters, like Charlie Cox’s Daredevil and Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin, are being reincorporated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, others are unlikely to join the family-friendly Disney/Marvel brand.” Read more at The Mary Sue 1917 star George Mackay transforms himself into a wild animal for one of the year’s craziest thrillers called Wolf. “It’s a Sunday…

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06 Dec

Den of Geek Presents 2021’s Best: Vote for Your Favorites

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Rarely has the pop culture calendar faced more pressure than in the year 2021. The pandemic delays of 2020 led to the virtual content bonanza in 2021. Release dates came fast and furiously…and we’re not just talking about the release of F9. Now that we stand on the precipice of 2022, it can be hard to remember just how truly wild 2021. So let’s pay homage to the year that was one last time before it shuffles off to meet He Who Remains in the Citadel at the End of Time. In the coming weeks, Den of Geek will be honoring the…

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06 Dec

Marvel Boss Confirms Charlie Cox as Daredevil in the MCU

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This article contains some speculation, and therefore potential spoilers for Hawkeye, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Echo and the wider MCU. In what will come as no surprise to Marvel fans who have been keeping up with various behind the scenes rumors and tantalizing MCU leaks, Kevin Feige has confirmed that Charlie Cox will stay on in the role of Daredevil. As always, the Marvel Studios maestro chose his words carefully when tackling the subject, but did finally say that the fan favorite actor, who led all three seasons of the popular Daredevil Netflix series, would be the one to play…

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06 Dec

You Don’t Know Me Ending: Exploring the Enigmatic Finale

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Warning: contains major spoilers for You Don’t Know Me, all episodes of which are available to stream now on BBC iPlayer. You Don’t Know Me is a story told from a perspective rarely heard from at any length: that of a young Black man being tried for murder in the UK. In the final days of his trial, the defendant (nameless and known only in Imran Mahmood’s novel and Tom Edge’s script as ‘HERO’) dismisses his barrister and chooses to deliver the defence’s closing speech to the jury himself. A four-episode monologue told in flashback follows. It’s an engaging and…

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06 Dec

No Time to Die Is the Best You Only Live Twice Adaptation

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This article contains No Time to Die spoilers. When Queen Elizabeth II attended the world premiere of You Only Live Twice, the fifth James Bond picture produced by Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and the fifth to star the then one and only James Bond, Sean Connery, the monarch allegedly asked the actor if the rumors were true: was this really his last 007 adventure? Connery is reported to have replied back, “Yes, Your Majesty, I’m done.” It seemed unfathomable at the time that Connery would walk away from such a beloved and internationally renowned role at the height of…

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06 Dec

Dexter: New Blood Episode 5 – Runaway

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This Dexter: New Blood review contains spoilers. Dexter: New Blood Episode 5 If the first four episodes of Dexter: New Blood have been merely table setting, then “Runaway” is the episode in which the meal finally arrives. After last week’s season-best installment, “Runaway” is chock-full of close calls and game-changing reveals that will fundamentally change the second half of the show. Not only is Dexter possibly losing his grip on the newfound connection that he has with his son, but his entire assumed identity in Iron Lake appears to be in serious jeopardy. How the writers decide to deal with…

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06 Dec

The Walking Dead May Have Just Revealed The Zombie Virus Origin

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This article contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: World Beyond series finale. Though The Walking Dead is a third of the way through its 11th and final season, The Walking Dead franchise is showing no signs of slowing down. AMC has already announced a whole host of new spinoffs for the zombie series including the Tales of the Walking Dead anthology and a set of feature films for Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln). This means that if The Walking Dead Universe is going to continue on forever, like AMC appears to want it to, it may have to reconsider some of…

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05 Dec

Doctor Who: It’s Dalek Déjà Vu in 2022 with New Year Special ‘Eve of the Daleks’

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The Daleks are back. Indeed, it’s almost as if they never went away. The BBC has announced that Doctor Who’s 2022 New Year special is entitled ‘Eve of the Daleks’, and will see the Doctor once again spend January the 1st battling Skaro’s deadliest. Well, tradition is tradition. Both 2019’s ‘Resolution’ and 2021’s ‘Revolution of the Daleks’ put the Daleks front and centre on New Year’s Day, meaning this latest festive episode completes something of a trilogy for outgoing executive producer Chris Chibnall. The forthcoming festive special was written by Chibnall and directed by Annetta Laufer, and sees the TARDIS…

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05 Dec

Doctor Who: Flux Episode 6 Review – The Vanquishers

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Doctor Who Series 13 Episode 6 Review Warning: this Doctor Who review contains spoilers. Several regenerations and over a decade ago, more than ten million people sat down to watch ‘Journey’s End’, which at the time was intended to be Russell T. Davies’ last regular episode of Doctor Who before a handful of seasonal specials ended his tenure as showrunner. The extra-long finale saw a huge ensemble cast from the show’s history facing the ‘Reality Bomb’, a wave of energy that would wipe out absolutely everything. Fortunately, due to some last-minute technobabble, we effectively had three Doctors working in tandem…

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05 Dec

Across the Spider-Verse: Who is Spider-Man 2099 and How Does He Fit In?

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The trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) gives us plenty to be excited about, but it’s also all about following up on the two big cliffhangers from the first movie. The main part of the trailer focuses on the aftermath of the final scene of the first movie, where Gwen called out to Miles from beyond his reality. The more exciting part of the trailer has Miles Morales flying uncontrollably through the multiverse, almost finding stability until being tackled in mid-air by yet another Spider-Man. Of course, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this guy. Spider-Man 2099…

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04 Dec

Is Young Justice Setting Up a Superboy and Mordru Battle?

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This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 4 Episode 9 “Ondu!” thankfully pivots Young Justice: Phantoms away from the tedium of the Tigress arc and into one starring Zatanna. This change of pace freshens up the show significantly – it’s Young Justice’s first significant exploration of the magical side of the DCU, and it mayyyyyybe hints at some big story points moving forward.  We start with a brief introduction and history of the Lords of Chaos and Order, the primal conflict between chaos and order that sprang from the creation of a disordered universe. It’s a universal…

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04 Dec

Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous Season 4 Ending Explained

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This article contains spoilers for Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous season 4. When Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous brought a PG cartoon into the PG-13 live action franchise, it was unclear whether the eight-episode first season would continue into a second. But the six kids trying to get off Isla Nublar during the events of Jurassic World have now earned themselves a fourth—extra long—season, with eleven episodes of action, that end on a big reveal, indicating that there’s more fun to come. Will the campers—Darius, Brooklynn, Kenji, Sammy, Yaz, and Ben—ever get home? In this season they finally leave Isla Nublar behind,…

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04 Dec

Final Fantasy: Every Story Ranked Worst to Best

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While there is no single aspect of the Final Fantasy franchise that has made it one of the most beloved and successful series in gaming history, it has to be said that few JRPG franchises can compete with Final Fantasy when it comes to consistently incredible storytelling. The Final Fantasy franchise has grown and changed quite a bit over the years, but no matter what direction the series goes in, it almost always offers a story that is worth the dozens (or, in some cases, hundreds) of hours that these epics typically demand. Of course, there are just some Final…

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