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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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03 Nov

Apex Legends: Best Season 11 Meta Weapons

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We’ve already talked about the best legends in Apex Legends‘ impressive Season 11 update, but even the strongest characters in the game won’t make it to the final circle if you’re not using the meta’s best guns. While just about every Legend in Apex Legends is useful in at least some situations, we’re starting to see the gaps between Apex Legends‘ various guns widen. There are a few guns that comfortably dominate the meta, a few that are hanging on to relevancy, and a few that have plummeted to the bottom of the cliff and need to be avoided at…
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03 Nov

Supergirl Sets Up Its Series Finale with a Bang

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This SUPERGIRL article contains spoilers for Season 6, Episode 18, “Truth or Consequences.” Supergirl Season 6 Episode 18 This episode serves as an example of the way that the totem story arc has forced Supergirl to mow through convoluted plot at speeds usually reserved for soap operas. It feels like the show barely pauses to make room for Nyxly and Lex to square off against Supergirl and the Super Friends, in their first real brawl in ages. Meanwhile so much totem-related business cycles through that Lex’s machinations don’t even really register as a reveal, so much as a reminder that these things…
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02 Nov

Apex Legends: Best Legends For the Season 11 Meta

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Apex Legends’ massive Season 11 “Escape” update arrives just as EA and Respawn’s battle royale looks to capitalize on Warzone’s complacency and make its move to claim the genre crown.  This update not only adds a new Legend to the game’s growing roster but reworks one of the game’s formerly bottom-tier Legends in such a way that could completely change the way you look at them. The result is one of the most chaotic and diverse competitive metas that we’ve seen in quite some time. While Apex Legends’ Season 11 meta is nowhere close to being “solved,” here is our…
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02 Nov

Link Tank: Win a Free Guy Blu-ray Signed by Ryan Reynolds

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Enter for a chance to win a copy of Free Guy on Blu-ray signed by the star of the film himself, Ryan Reynolds! Win a Free Guy Blu-ray SIGNED by Ryan Reynolds! A plethora of exciting new titles, including some exclusives, are headed to Crackle this November! “Free streaming network Crackle announces new exclusives, movies, and series for November, including the Crackle original holiday feature A Great North Christmas. Crackle’s mix of Hollywood blockbusters, award-winning indies, classic TV, and hand-picked exclusive original content is always free!” Check out Crackle here Gayming LIVE will be debuting in New York on the…
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02 Nov

Is Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’s Shutdown a Sign of Harry Potter Burnout?

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Developer Niantic (the studio behind Pokémon Go) has announced that they intend to shut down AR mobile game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite starting on January 31, 2022. “We launched Harry Potter: Wizards Unite more than two years ago, bringing together a community of witches and wizards from all over the globe in an epic quest to put an end to the Calamity and keep the wizarding world safe,” says Niantic via a statement. “Not all games are meant to last forever. Our goal with Harry Potter: Wizards Unite was to bring the magic of the wizarding world to life for…
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02 Nov

Army of Thieves: Hans Wagner Safes Explained

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This article contains spoilers for Army of Thieves and Army of the Dead. Army of Thieves, the prequel to Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, has less to do with zombies than you might expect. Yes, there are a few undead creatures shambling around the claustrophobic hallways of Ludwig Dieter’s (Matthias Schweighöfer) nightmares and on European newscasts showing the horrific outbreak in Las Vegas, but the movie’s not really interested in what’s happening across the Atlantic. Instead, Army of Thieves is about the mythical safes built by legendary (and fictional) locksmith Hans Wagner, one of which will eventually become the…
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02 Nov

How Morbius References All Three Spider-Man Movie Timelines

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As multiverse movie mania surges from the trailer for December’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, the post-credits scene of Venom: Let There Be Carnage and mid-2022’s plot-obscured Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, it might be easy to forget the existence of Marvel movie Morbius. After all, the film, in which Jared Leto stars as Marvel’s antihero “Living Vampire,” teased its first trailer way back in January 2020—a time now considered a different era for many reasons. However, a new trailer not only reminds the world that Morbius is coming, but even further contributes to the multiverse mystery. While Morbius’s…
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02 Nov

The Dexter Finale Could Have Been Far Stranger

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The series finale of Showtime serial killer drama Dexter is, let’s say, not particularly well-liked.  After eight seasons of the monstrous Dexter Morgan murdering other monsters, the show’s season 8 finale let him off the hook in unsatisfying fashion. The former Miami-Dade P.D. blood splatter analyst left everything behind for a fresh start in Oregon as a lumberjack, making a case for “lumberjacking” to overtake “jumping the shark” as the preferred term for televised disappointment. With the plot set to pick up again in limited series Dexter: New Blood, star Michael C. Hall is once again making public amends for…
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