New DVD release

20 Nov

1883: Yellowstone Prequel Release Date, Cast, Trailer, and News

New DVD release

By just about any metric, Paramount Network drama Yellowstone is one of the most popular shows on television. Created by actor-turned-filmmaker Taylor Sheridan and starring Kevin Costner, Yellowstone boasts some truly eye-popping viewership numbers. Though the show was a hit right out of the gate, it’s reached new heights in its fourth season. The season 4 premiere drew in 12.7 million viewers in the Nielsen Ratings Live+3 metric. That made it the most-watched premiere on cable since The Walking Dead in 2017. Naturally, a show this successful almost has to become a franchise and introduce at least one spinoff. Well,…

Read More

19 Nov

Star Wars: What Sabine Wren Return Means for Ahsoka Series and The Mandalorian

New DVD release

It was basically a foregone conclusion that Mandalorian warrior Sabine Wren would eventually make the jump to live action once Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) showed up on The Mandalorian still searching for Grand Admiral Thrawn. After all, when Ahsoka first set out on her mission to find the Imperial villain — and the Jedi friend he’d stolen from her — it was Sabine who joined her on that journey. Well, Deadline has finally confirmed that, yes, Sabine is back and will be played Natasha Liu Bordizzo (The Society) on the upcoming Star Wars: Ahsoka series on Disney+. The outlet didn’t…

Read More

19 Nov

Hellbound Ending Explained

Netflix, New DVD release

This Hellbound article contains MAJOR spoilers. You can read our spoiler-free review here. Heading into Hellbound, I can almost guarantee you could not guess how the Netflix series would end its six-part first season. So many beatings, one precious newborn baby, and one time jump later, the Korean drama races towards its unpredictable, snowy conclusion in the backstreets of Seoul, leaving fans with both a satisfying (and surprisingly hopeful) ending to the first season as well as so many lingering questions about what might happen in a potential second season. Here’s everything that went down in the Hellbound season finale……

Read More

19 Nov

Battlefield 2042: Best Meta Weapons and Loadouts

New DVD release

Battlefield 2042‘s launch hasn’t been…great, but anyone looking to try out the latest entry in this historic multiplayer franchise will probably want to go into the game with at least a little knowledge about which guns and weapons are currently dominating the meta. Well, so far as that goes, I’ve got some good and bad news for you. The good news is that Battlefield 2042 eliminates much of the pain and confusion that come from needing to “choose” a gun by making one of the game’s weapons so absurdly powerful that there’s really no reason to use anything else. The…

Read More

19 Nov

Spider-Man: How the No Way Home Integrated Suit Connects All Three MCU Spidey Movies

New DVD release

While fans are still reeling from Spider-Man: No Way Home’s new trailer, the medium that provided a first glimpse at the film, toys, is teasing another revelatory release. Hot Toys, the company known for providing the pricey pinnacle of poseable plastic doppelgangers, has revealed a stunning take on one of star Tom Holland’s new costumes, the Integrated Suit. While said suit was introduced to the public in this past summer’s preview of No Way Home’s retail tie-in toys, the movie-accurate details here highlight an intriguing aspect. With Spider-Man: No Way Home being touted by Holland himself as “the end of…

Read More

19 Nov

How Young Justice: Phantoms Fixes a Problematic Batman Story

New DVD release

This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 4 Episode 7 Getting off of Mars was the best thing to happen to Young Justice: Phantoms, and even though it returns there this week, the parallel structure of the episode combined with the show taking on a HUGE story from the comics and making some pretty significant improvements to it, even if it doesn’t quite land in the end.  Plot-wise, not a ton happens this week. Miss Martian, her sister, and J’onn head back to Earth after M’gann cracks her brother’s skull a little and finds out he didn’t…

Read More

19 Nov

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 1 Easter Eggs & References

New DVD release

This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 1. Read our full review here. The crew of the USS Discovery might be firmly established in a century well beyond the rest of Star Trek canon, but that doesn’t mean the rich history of the Final Frontier isn’t always with them. In fact, even the title of the very first episode of Star Trek: Discovery, Season 4, is an Easter egg. “Kobayashi Maru,” references Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and the famous no-win scenario first introduced in that film. The idea of a no-win scenario is…

Read More

19 Nov

Why Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop Doesn’t Work

Netflix, New DVD release

This article spoils much of Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation as well as the original anime series. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Cowboy Bebop, the anime directed by Shinichirō Watanabe, is what got me into anime. The series was and remains a great gateway title for numerous reasons. The beautiful, high-quality animation looks as awesome now as it did when it premiered in 1998. Yoko Kanno’s jazzy soundtrack swings so hard that people who don’t normally listen to jazz find themselves downloading the soundtrack (guilty!). Also, for English-speakers, the dub is so good it’s widely accepted as…

Read More

19 Nov

Halo Infinite’s Campaign Borrows Far Cry’s Best Idea

New DVD release

The first extended previews of Halo Infinite‘s campaign reveal that the game not only embraces a kind of open-world format but seemingly…borrows a few ideas from the Far Cry series and other notable modern open-world games. While the various Halo Infinite previews that have been published by multiple outlets are only based on a few hours with the game’s upcoming campaign, they all suggest that it seems like the bulk of that campaign will see Master Chief navigate Zeta Halo’s fairly open environment. While there are still campaign-like missions spread throughout that environment, Infinite players will be afforded an unprecedented…

Read More

19 Nov

Ghostbusters: Afterlife’s Jason Reitman Wants ‘Marvel’ Like Shared Universe

New DVD release

This article contains Ghostbusters: Afterlife spoilers. The last moments of Ghostbusters: Afterlife feel as much like a new beginning as a final farewell. The closing scenes of Jason Reitman’s love letter to his father’s work bring the curtain down with a sense of finality on multiple elements. This is definitely the last we’ll see of Harold Ramis’ Egon Spengler, who is brought back by digital magic as a kind-hearted ghost. One also gets the suspicion that Bill Murray’s Peter Venkman is making his goodbyes too with the respectful nod to Spengler and a revealed happily ever after with Sigourney Weaver’s…

Read More

19 Nov

Link Tank: Lily James and Sebastian Stan Look Unrecognizable in Pam and Tommy

New DVD release

Lily James and Sebastian Stan look almost unrecognizable in our first look at Pam and Tommy, about the infamous Baywatch and Motley Crew stars. “Pam & Tommy is telling the story of the infamous sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. If you were a kid of the ’90s, you probably heard whispers of this tape. I know that I knew it existed, but I was way too young to know anything else about it. But for whatever reason, Craig Gillespie loves the ’90s, and I love the ’90s and Craig Gillespie, so it is a win-win for me.”…

Read More

19 Nov

The Last of Us HBO Series Set Photos Suggest Major Character Death

New DVD release

This article contains spoilers for The Last of Us. While we know that HBO’s The Last of Us series will make some changes to the original game’s story, recent set photos from the production of the upcoming show strongly suggest that it will still feature one of that game’s most shocking and impactful character deaths. Before we dive into that, let’s make it clear that while we’re theorizing about the upcoming HBO series’ plot based on what happens in the games and what these set photos strongly suggest will happen in the show, it’s possible that those theories will prove…

Read More

19 Nov

Scarlett Johansson Confirms Marvel Return With ‘Top Secret Project’

New DVD release

Up until now, it seemed as though Scarlett Johansson’s time with Marvel and its parent company Disney was over. After all, not many relationships, professional or otherwise, survive protracted litigation. Well apparently this one has! According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scarlett Johansson has revealed that she has already resumed her working relationship with Disney. At the red carpet for a 35th annual American Cinematheque event honoring her career, Johansson spoke with the trade about what’s to come. “I have had some of the best times of my career working for both of those studios,” she said. “I feel really excited…

Read More

19 Nov

Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road Review – The Beach Boys’ Troubled Genius Finds Solace

New DVD release

The most telling moment in Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road is when the Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson asks his longtime friend, Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine, what he does when he’s scared. The de facto interviewer and guide through the musician’s documentary responds by asking Brian what scares him, and Wilson says “What a Fool Believes” by the Doobie Brothers. The songwriting legend has always had one wary eye on the competition. It’s been an education, and he’s learned so much it’s scared him. The Beach Boys’ singer, bassist, and keyboardist, besides being the chief and mostly-hit songwriter, was…

Read More

19 Nov

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Post-Credits Scenes Explained

New DVD release

This article contains Ghostbusters: Afterlife spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review here. Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife is very much a film of two minds: it is a love letter to the past and his father’s work, and it’s also an attempt to strike out and be its own thing. The movie both basks in the nostalgia we associate with “legacy sequels” while also attempting to create a new generation of heroes who look decidedly nothing like Stantz, Venkman, or Zeddemore—although Spengler’s spirit is pretty well captured by the pint-sized Mckenna Grace. So perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise that the film’s…

Read More

19 Nov

Andrew Garfield Astonishes in Jonathan Larson Movie tick, tick… BOOM!

Netflix, New DVD release

It would take a unique kind of audacity to reach out to Stephen Sondheim and insist he be your mentor. But then it took a unique kind of audacity—and pain, and tears, and talent—to be Jonathan Larson. As the brilliant if ill-starred artist who wrote a generation-defining musical in Rent, and then didn’t live to see it performed once in front of an audience, Larson was a singular voice who throughout his short life burned like a Roman candle, dazzling many all too briefly. That includes Sondheim. This dynamic is brought to life in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s profoundly impressive debut as…

Read More

18 Nov

Marvel Explains Why Hawkeye Can’t Call Spider-Man or Doctor Strange in the Disney+ Series

New DVD release

The arrival of Disney+ series Hawkeye will have Marvel Cinematic Universe archer Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) dealing with the implications of his post-Snap international vigilante spree as Ronin, which made him enemies among the world’s conventional criminals. Yet, rather than hit up one (or all) of his super-powered Avengers contacts, he instead relies solely on the help of an upstart fangirl and would-be arrow-apprentice in Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld). This leads to a rather obvious question, which Marvel’s Kevin Feige now addresses. Indeed, while we’ve been seeing Disney+ Marvel television shows entangle Avengers members in a variety of personal struggles,…

Read More

18 Nov

Halo Infinite Shows Why Battle Passes Need to Go Away

New DVD release

The surprise launch of Halo Infinite‘s (mostly excellent) multiplayer mode was somewhat compromised by the game’s Battle Pass and XP systems which left some fans wondering if Infinite‘s developers were trying to softly encourage players to spend money on the shooter’s microtransactions. At launch, Halo Infinite only allowed you to acquire XP (which is used to unlock tiers and items on the Battle Pass via gameplay) through daily and weekly challenges. Because Infinite did not allow you to acquire Battle Pass XP by simply playing matches (as is the case in many other games with a Battle Pass), unlocking new…

Read More

18 Nov

Star Trek: Burnham’s Kobayashi Maru Likely Predates Captain Kirk’s

New DVD release

This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 1. Star Trek captains are like secret agents or base jumpers: they’re constantly trying to figure out how to not die while, at the same time, recognizing that the dangerous situation they’re in are partially their fault. In Star Trek: Discovery’s Season 4 premiere episode — “Kobayashi Maru” — Captain Michael Burnham is forced to relearn the most hardcore starship captain lesson in all of Trek: You can’t always win and you can’t always save everyone. The basic idea of the Kobayashi Maru has its roots in Star Trek…

Read More

18 Nov

WB MultiVersus Trailer Embraces Ultra Instinct Shaggy Meme

New DVD release

The official reveal of MultiVersus (the previously rumored fighting game starring various Warner Bros. characters) has already been met with excitement, confusion, and a lot of feelings about the fact that this game seems to be embracing the idea that Shaggy from Scooby-Doo is basically a Dragon Ball character. If for some reason you didn’t get a chance to see 2011’s Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur, you should know that there is a scene in that movie that features Shaggy single-handedly taking out a gang of bikers. Not long after that movie was released, a YouTuber decided to set that…

Read More