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04 Nov

Link Tank: Celebrating 20 Years of Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone

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It’s been 20 years since the premiere of Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone, and the legacy of the Wizarding World adaptation can still be felt today. “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was originally published in 1997. Although the book series made a splash upon its release, it wasn’t until the film came out in 2001 that Harry Potter really began its ascent into the mainstream pop culture stratosphere. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint, unknown children at the time of the premiere of Chris Columbus’s film, quickly became household names. Author J.K. Rowling herself—and her rags to riches legend—was elevated to…

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04 Nov

How Star Trek: Prodigy Just Challenged Discovery Canon

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This Star Trek: Prodigy article contains mild spoilers ahead for Season 1, Episode 2, “Starstruck.”  The last days of DISCO were erased. In the Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 finale, “Such Sweet Sorrow Part 2,” Pike, Spock, Number One — and even everyone’s favorite Section 31 fashion icon, Ash Tyler — all told Starfleet Command that the USS Discovery had been destroyed. On top of that, Spock doubled down by recommending to Starfleet that everything about Discovery become classified, which is why in the 32nd Century of DISCO Season 3, Admiral Vance, at first, is baffled that Burnham and company…

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04 Nov

How Dune’s Director Helped with Marvel’s Eternals

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Eternals, Marvel’s ambitious ensemble entry (check out our advance review), hits theaters this weekend for a pandemic-era performance that’s hard to predict. Notwithstanding the fact that the film—based on Jack Kirby’s 1976-launched high-concept comic title—stands as the most thematically unique film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it also happens to be the biggest film of indie director Chloé Zhao’s career. Thankfully, she had some help from another director in Denis Villeneuve, who has experience with films on this scale, notably from the just-released, sequel-confirmed epic, Dune. In fact, Zhao reveals just how integral Villeneuve’s help became. On the cusp of…

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04 Nov

Call of Duty Vanguard Campaign Leaks Ahead of Release Time

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Call of Duty: Vanguard, the latest installment in the long-running shooter series, launches this week, with a new story campaign, multiplayer, and Zombies mode, but you won’t have to wait until the release date to experience part of one of these components. The first hours of Vanguard‘s campaign have already leaked on YouTube, as discovered on a Reddit thread. The footage introduces the fictional multinational special ops task force sent into enemy territory to stop Nazi Germany’s plans in the final days of World War II. The story begins with the daring infiltration of a German train that transports the…

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04 Nov

Animal Crossing New Horizons 2.0 Update: Mr. Resetti Cameo Stuns Franchise Fans

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While we assumed that Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 update was going to feature a few surprises, few fans predicted that the update’s best Easter egg would include a cameo from the infamous Mr. Resetti. For those who don’t know, Mr. Resetti is a mole who debuted in the first Animal Crossing game and quickly became a series regular. As the name suggests, Resetti is practically obsessed with making sure that you properly save your game before resetting. In fact, if you hit reset in the GameCube version of Animal Crossing without saving first, Resetti appears and chastizes you for…

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04 Nov

Eternals Soundtrack List: Every Song From the Movie

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As with most other big-budget films, Marvel’s Eternals has a soundtrack featuring some high profile songs, alongside the film’s stunning score, which was composed by Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Westworld, Iron Man, Pacific Rim). While Disney has officially released the Djawadi-composed Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (you can listen below!), they have yet to give any information on the potential release of the accompanying bops featured in the film, including tracks from BTS and Lizzo. The Original Motion Picture is rich and epic—what we’ve come to expect from Djawadi’s work—but let’s talk about the rest of the musical landscape for…

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04 Nov

Animal Crossing New Horizons 2.0 Update: How to Buy and Use the Pro Decorating License

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 update is big enough to be a new game, but you won’t be able to access some of the update’s best new features until you’ve unlocked the new pro decorating license. A pro decorating license is basically your passport to some of ACNH‘s various new interior decoration options. While it won’t grant you access to every new decoration feature included in the update or all of the exterior design options that are coming to the game (some of those features will be added via the upcoming Happy Home Paradise DLC and some are unlocked elsewhere),…

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04 Nov

The X-Men: First Class Sequel We Never Got from Matthew Vaughn

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Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class is making its premiere on Disney+ this week. Normally, content that’s being added to a massive streaming service doesn’t need to be singled out. And yet, when looking back at that now 10-years-old and still groovy superhero adventure, it feels worthy of the spotlight, not least of all because there’s a whole new generation of superhero fans who’ve probably never seen what is quite arguably the best X-Men movie ever made. In our current moment when fan culture constantly obsesses over what’s next—what year will we get that fabled reboot of the X-Men in the…

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04 Nov

The Harder They Fall: Netflix’s All-Black Western Revitalizes Genre

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Westerns were the superhero movies of yesteryear. That’s the first thing you’ll see in any thread on Twitter bemoaning the abundance of cape and cowl flicks, and how they’ve dominated the multiplex. Once upon a time, Westerns were the dominant genre, and all things run their course. But maybe Westerns ran their course because they were all fixated on the same archetype: the white cowboy. Outlaws of color are scattered throughout legends of the Old West, yet we still always hear about the same figures: Butch and Sundance, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday, Jesse James and Cole Younger. If Westerns…

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04 Nov

Showtrial Ending: How the Flashbacks Tell the True Story

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Warning: contains spoilers for the Showtrial finale, available to stream on BBC iPlayer. In episode four, BBC courtroom thriller Showtrial includes an exchange that handily lays out the drama’s premise for anybody snoozing at the back. On the deck of his luxury lakefront villa – in the Cotswolds just outside Cirencester if you fancy it – billionaire property developer Sir Damian Campbell [James Frain] tells the solicitor defending his daughter Talitha in an impending murder trial, “This is a showtrial. It won’t be decided on the evidence, but on her and on us and [gesturing at the opulent setting] this.” Solicitor Cleo [Tracy Ifeachor]…

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04 Nov

My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission – Ryan Stegman Reveals Full Art Collaboration

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This article is presented by Funimation. Marvel Comics has been a phenomenal environment to cultivate growing talent in the world of comics. Ryan Stegman has become a vital player at Marvel, providing artwork for Venom, Superior Spider-Man, X-23, and other iconic comic book icons. Stegman’s detailed and textured approach to superheroes and villains has helped him establish a unique voice and a dedicated audience for his craft. Stegman’s Marvel contributions helped put the artist and his style on the map, but the creator has always had an obsessive fascination with Japanese manga and a passion to bring the medium’s sensibilities…

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04 Nov

Legends of Tomorrow Delivers its Best Action Scene Ever…and a Musical Moment

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This Legends of Tomorrow review contains spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 7 Episode 4 Once a season, Legends of Tomorrow runs an episode where they try and change the past. It’s inevitable on a time travel show: the characters all have histories, and the consequences of changing the past are sufficiently dire to keep dipping back into that well. That’s how you get Zari trying to save her dead brother, or John trying to save his ex boyfriend. It’s always a personal stake because the personal stakes are the easiest to wipe away: the butterfly effect is certainly a thing,…

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03 Nov

24: The 10 Best Villains

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When it comes to reasons to watch classic Fox action series 24, its villains tend to end up pretty low on that list.  The biggest draw of the show, which celebrates its 20th anniversary on Nov. 6, is undoubtedly its unique format. Each season takes place over the span of a day and in real-time, meaning that a season’s 24 episodes make up 24 real-time hours (with some carve outs for commercials, of course). Then there’s the show’s hero, Jack Bauer. The character brought to life by Kiefer Sutherland begins as an ex-military counter terrorism unit bureaucrat before slowly blossoming…

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03 Nov

Star Wars: Matt Smith Finally Confirms His Rise of Skywalker Character

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It remains one of the biggest mysteries in Star Wars: who was Doctor Who veteran Matt Smith set to play in The Rise of Skywalker before plans changed? There were plenty of rumors and theories at the time as to whom Smith would play in the conclusion of the Skywalker Saga, but until now, the actor has never even confirmed he was in talks with Lucasfilm about the movie. In an interview with Josh Horowitz of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Smith has finally said yes, he was up for a role in The Rise of Skywalker. But just how…

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03 Nov

Deadpool 2’s Zazie Beetz Reveals Her MCU Plans with Domino

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While Marvel’s X-Men movie franchise was engulfed by the overwhelming, Phoenix-like force of Disney’s 2019-completed acquisition of licensee studio Twentieth Century Fox, it’s almost poetic that Ryan Reynolds’s obscenely unkillable R-rated mutant movie star, Deadpool, will emerge from the fray as its first survivor. However, as plans for Deadpool’s debut in Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe slowly gestate, Zazie Beetz, who co-starred as mercenary Domino in 2018’s Deadpool 2, is clearly expressing a desire to rejoin Reynolds. Beetz, a German-American actress, debuted as Domino in Deadpool 2 coming off momentum from a role (that’s still ongoing) on FX television drama Atlanta.…

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03 Nov

Will Ryan Reynolds’ Break Delay Deadpool 3 Further?

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Ryan Reynolds is taking a break. Speaking with THR, Reynolds revealed that he is “trying to create a little bit more space for my family and time with them” after recently completing work on a holiday season film called Spirited with Will Ferrell for Apple TV+ (Reynolds is married to actress Blake Lively, with whom he has three daughters). Reynolds has had a busy 2021, and will have shown up in no less than four movies by the time the year comes to an end. In addition to Spirited, he starred earlier this year in The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, the…

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03 Nov

The Last of Us HBO Series: Who is Kim Tembo?

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Actress Natasha Mumba (The Handmaid’s Tale, Rogue) has confirmed via their Instagram page that they are playing Kim Tembo in HBO’s upcoming series based on The Last of Us video game franchise. Rumors that Mumba joined the show’s cast began to spread prior to the actress posting that information on their own social media profile. However, they don’t seem to offer any additional information regarding the role, and nobody else seems to have uncovered additional information about it as of the time of this writing. That lack of information has just about everyone familiar with the games asking the question:…

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03 Nov

Will Kit Harington Ever Become the MCU’s Black Knight?

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With Marvel’s next big budget movie arriving in theatres this week and introducing ten new characters to the MCU, a lot of mystery has surrounded the eleventh major character of Eternals, Dane Whitman. Played by Game of Thrones and 7 Days in Hell actor Kit Harington, the Eternals version of Whitman is portrayed as a pretty regular human in a romantic relationship with Gemma Chan’s thoughtful Eternal, Sersi. But there’s still some doubt over whether Whitman will ever become the Black Knight in the MCU, as he does in the pages of Marvel Comics. In the comics, the Black Knight…

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03 Nov

Captain America: Why Casting Steve Rogers Wasn’t So Easy for Marvel

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It’s hard to underplay just how instrumental Marvel casting director Sarah Halley Finn has been in crafting the MCU and, for the most part, it’s hard to imagine actors other than the ones who have been cast in the MCU bringing these superheroes to life. This is perhaps especially true for the earliest actors to be cast in the fictional universe; at this point, Robert Downey Jr. has been Tony Stark for more than a decade—even if he isn’t actively playing the character anymore, he will always be Tony. The same is true for Chris Evans, who will always be Steve…

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03 Nov

Link Tank: Seth Rogen Donkey Kong Movie in Devolpment

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More than a year before Illumination’s Super Mario movie hits theaters; the studio is also planning a Donkey Kong spinoff starring Seth Rogen. “It’s fair to say that when the cast of the upcoming Super Mario was revealed it led to a lot of chatter online. For one thing, it’ll be strange that a series of characters from a fantastical Nintendo world will have the voices of some of Hollywood’s biggest stars; it’s sure going to be intriguing when the film lands in the Holiday season of 2022. One of the surprise casting decisions was Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, which naturally…

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