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01 Nov

Spencer: Kristen Stewart Conjures Diana and Her Own Hollywood Ghosts

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Little girls growing up wanting to be princesses might think again after seeing Kristen Stewart in this dramatized snapshot of three days in the life of the late ‘people’s princess,’ Lady Diana Spencer. Though the movie doesn’t deal with Diana’s death, the looming knowledge of what is to come for the young mother hangs heavy throughout. But instead of directly dealing with that sorrow, Pablo Larraín’s “fable from a true tragedy” focuses on the gilded cage of Diana’s life over Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day in 1991. What results is one the most depressing Christmas movies of recent…

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01 Nov

Link Tank: Hocus Pocus 2 Cast Revealed

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Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham headlines new cast members for Hocus Pocus 2, heading to Disney+ next fall. “Now, this is the kind of Halloween news we love to see: Hannah Waddingham is joining the cast of Hocus Pocus 2! The Emmy winner, best known for playing Rebecca on the smash-hit series Ted Lasso, will be playing an undisclosed role in the highly anticipated sequel. Disney confirmed the sequel and announced several new cast members on Twitter.” Read more at The Mary Sue Sorry, everyone, there will not be a director’s cut of Dune despite campaigns from star Jason Mamoa.…

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01 Nov

Fear the Walking Dead Finally Reveals John and Teddy’s Darkest Secrets

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This Fear the Walking Dead review contains spoilers.  Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 3 I’m going to borrow a page from Teddy’s philosophy that the end is the beginning—at least as it relates to my review of “Cindy Hawkins.” Why? Because by the end of the episode, it occurred to me that viewers’ enjoyment of Fear the Walking Dead’s seventh season will rely heavily upon whether you accept Morgan and Strand as archrivals. This is an important consideration because everybody else will likely find themselves caught in the crossfire of competing ideologies. Perhaps the one thing more dangerous than Morgan and…

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01 Nov

Doctor Who: Flux – Who Is Karvanista?

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Warning: contains spoilers for Doctor Who: Flux ‘The Halloween Apocalypse’ Why did the Doctor travel half the universe to, as she told Yaz, “see a man about a dog”? Firstly, because the Doctor is more evasive than a mid-scandal cabinet member at a press briefing and refuses to confide in the people who regularly risk their lives by her side, and secondly, because the Doctor enjoys making dog-related jokes at the expense of new alien Karvanista. (See also: “I’ve got a bone to pick with you.”) Not a dog Karvanista may look like a dog, sniff things inquisitively like a…

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01 Nov

Amazon Prime Video New Releases: November 2021

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Amazon Prime Video’s epic The Lord of the Rings series won’t arrive until 2022. Thankfully, with its list of new releases for November 2021, Amazon has a pretty major fantasy adaptation to hold us over. The Wheel of Time is set to premiere on Nov. 19 and will bring Robert Jordan’s massive fantasy universe to life. Rosamund Pike stars as Moiraine, a powerful magic-user who guides five young people on a perilous journey around the world. One of them just might be the reincarnation of the Dragon, a powerful entity who could save the world…or destroy it. Read more TV…

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01 Nov

HBO Max New Releases: November 2021

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Eleven months in to 2021, and Warner Bros. movie streaming strategy on HBO Max is still going strong. Now the list of new releases for November 2021 on HBO Max is highlighted by yet another big ticket film. King Richard, starring Will Smith, is set to arrive on HBO Max and in theaters on Nov. 19. The movie will tell the story of Richard Williams, the father and coach of tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams. Smith is already getting some early awards buzz for the role so Oscar-heads may want to check this one out. Read more TV Peacemaker:…

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01 Nov

New on Netflix: November 2021 Releases

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With its list of new releases for November 2021, Netflix will attempt to bravely step into a post-Squid Game world. Helping it in that mission is a diverse array of original series and films. On the TV side of things, it’s a good month to be animated with both Big Mouth and F is for Family premiering their fifth seasons (on Nov. 5 and Nov. 25 respectively). It’s the live-action version of an animated classic, however, that might be Netflix’s crown jewel this month. Cowboy Bebop premieres on Nov. 19 and based on the first trailer, it will maintain the…

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01 Nov

Best Movies Coming to Netflix in November 2021

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Sadly, spooky season is over. That pumpkin you carved a few nights ago? It’s starting to look scary for all the wrong reasons as it decays. Those ghost decorations? Maybe you can let them ride for a few weeks more, but turkey season is around the corner if you’re in the U.S., and the neighbors are going to start talking. Yep, we always regret seeing October end, but that doesn’t mean we have to be blue about it! Indeed, Netflix alone has waited until November to put out some of its best spooky content, from one of the better Dracula…

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01 Nov

Disney+ New Releases: November 2021

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With its list of new releases for November 2021, Disney+ is continuing its dream of always having one big ticket Marvel series running on its servers. After the interesting and entertaining animated effort Marvel’s What If…? wrapped up its run in early October, Hawkeye is set to pick up the Infinity Gauntlet and run with it with two episodes premiering on Nov. 24. This live-action series features Jeremy Renner reprising his role as expert marksman Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye and encountering the next generation of heroes in the form of Hailee Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop. Also there will be a dog…and…

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01 Nov

Hulu New Releases: November 2021

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As the Hollywood blockbuster machine continues to dust itself off and release some early winter hits, Hulu is going in a bit of a different direction with its list of new releases for November 2021. There are no big Hulu original films of note this month. Instead there’s a whole host of original series. The TV parade starts on Nov. 5 with the release of Animaniacs season 2. Also getting a second season this month is monarchal comedy The Great on Nov. 19. The most intriguing series, however, is animated Marvel comedy Marvel’s Hit Monkey. As its name so graciously…

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01 Nov

Why The Office’s Jim Halpert Is the Absolute Worst

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Remember when Martin Freeman played Tim on The Office (UK) and we all cried at the Christmas special when (SPOILER) he and Dawn finally got together? Wasn’t it wonderful? Remember when Jim Halpert shouted down the phone at his wife Pam and made her cry when she accidentally didn’t record their daughter’s dance recital that he couldn’t go to because he was in Philadelphia (working at the company that he had invested in behind wife’s back)? Wasn’t it terrible? Rewatching The Office: A US Workplace is problematic for many reasons; some parts of the show are uncomfortable to watch now…

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01 Nov

Succession Season 3: Is the FBI the End of Logan Roy?

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This article contains spoilers for Succession season 3 episode 3. Your stock is either on the rise or it’s plummeting; that’s how this Succession column works. However, this may be the first time that all the central characters feel like they’re going down.  Between being publicly embarrassed courtesy of a Nirvana track, cowering in a closet at the comedy show you chose to subject yourself to, or getting ready for a raid from the FBI, the Roy family is up against it this week. Succession isn’t a happy-go-lucky show to begin with, but “The Disruption” feels like a particularly dark…

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31 Oct

Doctor Who: Flux Episode 1 Review – The Halloween Apocalypse

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Doctor Who Series 13 Episode 1 Review Warning: this Doctor Who review contains spoilers. From the outset, Doctor Who: Flux has an uphill climb. Quite apart from the significant hurdles of filming anything during a global pandemic, recent announcements concerning the programme’s future – Russell’s coming back! We’re getting a new Doctor! – have firmly distracted everyone from what’s happening to the show in the present. It must be terribly frustrating for everyone involved in the creation of these episodes, no matter what their role was in proceedings, to see something they’ve worked hard on treated like yesterday’s news before…

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31 Oct

The 13 Greatest Horror TV Shows

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Sifting decades of horror television down to just a devil’s dozen requires discipline and ruthlessness. There can be no mercy. If a horror TV show once reigned supreme from a throne of grisly guts but now feels about as desirable an experience as a colonoscopy, it didn’t make this list. If another show spooked us from here to next week when we were kids but didn’t hold up when revisited as adults, it didn’t make the list. And if it made the top of everybody else’s list (hello Twin Peaks) then we left it out purely for the mischief. Of…

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30 Oct

Last Night in Soho: Edgar Wright Explains Easter Eggs in Opening Scene

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This article contains Last Night in Soho spoilers. Our spoiler-free review is here. It takes less than a minute to realize just how much Thomasin McKenzie’s Eloise adores the ‘60s in Last Night in Soho. Strutting into her childhood bedroom as Peter and Gordon’s “A World Without Love” plays (on vinyl, of course), the star of the new Edgar Wright movie is wrapped up in a dress she made out of newspapers—one might even speculate she’d use vintage ‘60s NME magazine covers if she could afford it. Nevertheless, she looks fabulous while basking in her shrine to her grandmother’s generation.…

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30 Oct

What Does Marvel’s New Iron Fist Mean for the MCU?

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Marvel is introducing a new Iron Fist. Recent events in the comics have seen Danny Rand give up the superheroic mantle of Iron Fist, and he’ll be replaced by a new version of the character (with a cool new costume designed by Jim Cheung) this February in a new series. The book, simply titled Iron Fist, “will see the legendary mantle of Iron Fist passed on to a new hero in a revolutionary transformation of one of Marvel’s most fascinating mystical mythologies. Fans can expect an epic hero’s journey in true Marvel fashion as this mysterious character unlocks long-hidden secrets…

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30 Oct

20 Scariest Horror Game Moments, Ranked

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There’s something special about “that moment” in the horror genre. Whether it’s the scene from that movie that’s been burned into your head since childhood or the passage of that book you’ll always wish you couldn’t recite from heart, there are just times when horror is so perfectly distilled into a single moment that we often come to associate those genre masterpieces with that one scene. Well, few horror moments are more memorable than the scariest sequences in gaming history. Horror gaming has always been elevated by the fact that you’re the one who has to navigate these nightmare scenarios,…

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30 Oct

The Walking Dead and Creepshow Showrunner Tells Real Ghost Stories

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After nearly four decades making monsters, Greg Nicotero understands how to create scares. From zombies to vampires, mummies, and more, it would seem there is no type of terror the special makeup effects master, director, and producer has not worked on. And it would seem his expertise focusing on so many fictional fears has even brought him closer to some real-world ones. During a recent interview with Den of Geek about his work as showrunner on Shudder’s Creepshow, and as executive producer on The Walking Dead, Nicotero indulged us with his own belief in the paranormal, and his close encounters…

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30 Oct

Last Night in Soho Ending Explained

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This article contains Last Night in Soho spoilers. Thomasin McKenzie’s Eloise Turner is a young woman who’s always been haunted by ghosts. That was true at the beginning of Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho and it proves just as accurate by the end when she smiles at a blonde haired specter in the mirror. But then learning to live with your spirits, including the horror that comes from their legacies, is all part of growing up. And for Eloise—or Ellie T. as she muses at one point—that takes on quite literal connotations. Perhaps this is why the climax of…

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29 Oct

Amy Hennig’s Marvel Game Could be Justice For Star Wars: Project Ragtag

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Skydance New Media and Marvel Entertainment have revealed that writer and director Amy Hennig (Uncharted, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver) is working on a new AAA game set in the Marvel universe. “I can’t imagine a better partner than Marvel for our first game,” says Hennig, President of Skydance New Media. “The Marvel Universe epitomizes all the action, mystery, and thrills of the pulp adventure genre that I adore and lends itself perfectly to an interactive experience. It’s an honor to be able to tell an original story with all the humanity, complexity, and humor that makes Marvel characters so enduring…

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