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14 Oct

Legends of Tomorrow Showrunner Breaks Down Season 7 Premiere and Previews What’s Next

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This article contains Legends of Tomorrow spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 7 Episode 1 Legends of Tomorrow remains one of the most delightful, unexpected shows on TV. Despite its official title as DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, the show has strayed so far from its comic book roots as to be almost unrecognizable as a superhero show in most episodes. That isn’t a bad thing, by the way. Legends of Tomorrow is more workplace comedy than superhero show, full of compassionate, quirky weirdos who just happen to have superheroes…and one of the coolest space/timeships in TV history. And Legends fans have…

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14 Oct

The Best Cosplay at New York Comic Con 2021

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For the first time during the pandemic era, a major Comic Con was held in person, and where there’s a Comic Con, there’s a cosplayer waiting for a chance to display their impressive handmade looks. Mask mandates and vaccination requirements didn’t stop fans from strutting their stuff around the showroom of the Javits Center at New York Comic Con 2021. Den of Geek was on the floor, bringing you on-the-ground coverage and our print magazine featuring an exclusive Dune cover story and the NYCC show guide. One of the more enjoyable parts of the convention for us, beyond spending way…

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13 Oct

New Star Wars Character Teased in Obi-Wan Kenobi Series

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While upcoming Disney+ Star Wars series Obi-Wan Kenobi will be set during the eponymous Jedi’s years of hermitage between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, it will nevertheless showcase adventures on which he’ll encounter a sizable array of characters both old and new. Notably, one of the show’s debuting characters will be played by Eternals co-star Kumail Nanjiani, who—despite a Disney-dealt gag order that even his Marvel character, the mighty celestial Kingo, dare not break—recently teased details that, while vague, seem intriguing. While the main Obi-Wan Kenobi cast set to join star movie-role-reprising star Ewan McGregor was officially…

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13 Oct

Warzone: Why Ricochet Anti-Cheat Has Fans Worried

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Activision has finally revealed Ricochet: the long-awaited anti-cheat software that they’ll use to battle Call of Duty: Warzone‘s small army of hackers and cheaters. While millions of gamers are celebrating this announcement, many others are already raising concerns regarding the privacy and security of Richochet and the implications of its kernel-level design. You’re going to be hearing a lot of talk about Ricochet and what the anti-cheat software means for the future of Call of Duty, Warzone, and anti-cheat software in general, so let’s just take a step back and take a broad look at what the Ricochet anti-cheat controversy…

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13 Oct

The Last of Us HBO Series Set Photo Offers First Real Look at Joel

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Apart from one or two exceptions, video game adaptations have always been losing propositions, whether it’s Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat, or Assassin’s Creed. But even successful translations like Netflix’s excellent Castlevania series haven’t had gone through the level of scrutiny from the fandom that’s currently aimed at HBO’s The Last of Us. It probably has something to do with the fact that the network is taking on one of the greatest video game stories ever told. Fortunately, the creative director behind the video games, Neil Druckmann, has written all of the episodes of the show’s upcoming first season,…

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13 Oct

Run BTS: Is the Variety Show Ending?

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BTS has been professionally “running” in the form of a “self-produced” variety show for six years and over 150 episodes, and, last week, Weverse announced the long-running series will be taking a break. Run BTS is a variety show, first launched in 2015, that features the seven members of BTS taking part in challenges, fighting zombies, dodging water guns, playing games, making kimchi, being silly, and occasionally writing heartfelt letters to one another. This past Tuesday marked the release of Episode 154, which saw the members reflecting on all they’ve done on the show so far, as well as what it…

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13 Oct

The Last Duel Review: Ridley Scott’s Most Timely Historical Epic

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Ridley Scott loves his historical dramas: from Gladiator to Kingdom of Heaven, to even his stony faced Robin Hood, the director may be the last filmmaker still interested in making classic Hollywood epics based at least on partially real-life ancient events or figures. What perhaps differentiates his latest such film, The Last Duel, from some of those others mentioned above is that this time, the story is directly relevant to today, even if it takes a while for Scott to get to the point. Based on a book by Eric Jager of the same name, which chronicled certain events in…

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13 Oct

Why The Guilty Cast Will Surprise You

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Antoine Fuqua’s new Netflix thriller The Guilty is essentially a one-man show for lead actor Jake Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal stars as Joe Bradley, a police officer awaiting a manslaughter trial and who’s been forced to work in a Los Angeles emergency call center until he is either cleared of wrongdoing or found guilty. It’s a great role for Gyllenhaal, who gets to react to numerous callers with his ever-expressive face and high-strung energy. However, Gyllenhaal isn’t the only big name in The Guilty, he’s just the one of the only actors physically onscreen. Several high-profile stars have voice acting roles here,…

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13 Oct

The Flash Season 8 Set Photos Tease Surprise Villain Joining Despero for Armageddon

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This Flash article contains spoilers for season 8 and “Armageddon.“ The Flash season 8 premiere will be unlike any you’ve watched before. This year, the show is opening with a five-part crossover event called “Armageddon,” the type of CW superhero extravaganza that is usually reserved for the holidays. This massive superhero team-up will bring several Arrowverse favorites back to Central City to fight a mysterious alien threat. The cast of heroes includes Javicia Leslie as Batwoman, Brandon Routh as The Atom, Cress Williams as Black Lightning, Chyler Leigh as Sentinel, Kat McNamara as Mia Queen, and Osric Chau as Ryan…

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13 Oct

Squid Game Isn’t Netflix’s First Korean Hit, and It Won’t Be Its Last

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Squid Game has proven itself to be Netflix’s biggest launch ever, with more than 111 million household views in the first month of release—but it’s far from the streamer’s first Korean hit, and it definitely won’t be its last. South Korea has been successfully exporting its culture for decades now, and Squid Game is only the latest success story in the country’s economic and political strategy to become one of the world’s biggest exporters of popular culture… Hallyu as Korean Economic & Political Strategy If you know anything about Korean history as an American, then you probably know about the…

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13 Oct

The Velvet Underground Review: Lou Reed Was a Pop Singer All Along?

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With The Velvet Underground, director Todd Haynes effectively evokes the Andy Warhol Factory’s experimental celluloid renderings, and captures both why Warhol was so taken by the band, and the reason the Velvet Underground were not made for factory settings. Both Lou Reed and John Cage are renowned as antagonistic agitators, and the band had nothing but disdain for much of their contemporaries. They even had a spat with their west coast counterparts, Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, who were also musically adventurous, and virulently anti-hippie. Because The Velvet Underground’s songs were about drugs and dregs, Zappa thought they were a…

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13 Oct

Back 4 Blood: The Best Cards In the Game

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We’ve talked about the best decks in Back 4 Blood, but since a deck without cards is…well…nothing, it’s time to look at the absolute best cards in the game that we’ve used so far.  Yes, the strength of an individual card is ultimately based on your deck, playstyle, and the decks and playstyles of your team, but when you really look at the complete collection of Back 4 Blood cards, you start to spot the ones that are either generally beneficial in most situations or enable an incredible new strategy that you have to try. So while you can’t always…

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13 Oct

Link Tank: Lashana Lynch Doesn’t Want to Be the Next James Bond

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No Time To Die breakout star Lashana Lynch doesn’t want to be the new James Bond, she’s thinking much bigger. “‘It made me appreciate the changes within the franchise that were happening,’ says Lynch. It ‘made me excited as an actor. That first scene in Casino Royale is the most memorable opening scene in cinema history. I thought, ‘This is feeding my soul.’ It made me connect in a way I hadn’t before.’ 15 years later, Lynch is 007. In No Time to Die, Lynch co-stars as ‘Nomi,’ a young, skilled MI6 agent who replaces Craig’s retired Bond — and takes over his…

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13 Oct

Horror Movies That Should Get the Halloween Reboot Treatment

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Three years ago, director David Gordon Green and producer Jason Blum took on a challenge: reboot the classic horror movie Halloween (1978) with a new sequel that basically ignored all the other sequels and remakes, some nine in all, which had come out in the last 40 years. 2018’s Halloween was a resounding success, both creatively and commercially, acting as a direct sequel to the John Carpenter milestone and dispensing with all the canon (good or bad), and baggage that had built up in the previous decades. Now that Gordon and Blum have proved that their experiment was viable—and are…

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13 Oct

11 Actors Who Could Be the Next James Bond

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James Bond Will Return. It’s a promise made during the ending credits of pretty much every 007 flick, but they felt especially poignant during the final scrawl of No Time to Die. Without getting into spoilers, one might wonder about the longevity of the franchise after an ending with as much closure as Daniel Craig’s swan song. But while Craig’s particular version of Bond has ridden off into the sunset, you can rest assured that… James Bond will return. Hence the question now becomes not if Bond shall return—or if Bond should have a spin-off, as we considered here—but rather…

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13 Oct

Doctor Who’s Scariest Episodes: One Fan’s Horror Highlights

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Based on all known criteria, I am an adult. Doctor Who is not meant to scare me very often. It’s meant to scare children, and if it freaks anyone else out that’s a bonus. I can write about which episodes scared me when I was young but then I have to factor in that I hadn’t seen most of Doctor Who when I was young. Born in 1985, my fears were based on what little I had seen on telly and the videos I could afford – I was less likely to be able to afford a VHS double-pack so…

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13 Oct

Supergirl: Alex Danvers is Finally a Mom

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This SUPERGIRL article contains spoilers for Season 6, Episode 15, “Hope for Tomorrow.” Supergirl Season 6 Episode 15 Supergirl packs a whole lot into one incredibly long day in this episode. Kara finds herself in a real Sword in the Stone situation with the Hope Totem, which requires her to, “Inspire a hope that burns brighter and longer than the sun.” Alex and Kelly welcome Esme to their very adorably excited family, and have some pretty realistic first-day hurdles for a kid who has had a really tough time. But in the end, Alex Danvers and her family are going to be…

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13 Oct

Back 4 Blood: Every Cleaner Ranked

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Back 4 Blood is the spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead in every way that matters most, but first-time players may be surprised to learn that each of the game’s playable cleaners actually come equipped with unique skills and abilities that make them so much more than interchangeable survivors. While Back 4 Blood does a surprisingly good job of balancing those cleaners in a way that makes it easy to justify inviting any of them to the party, the fact of the matter is that there are just some cleaners that feel more powerful than others (at least at this…

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12 Oct

How Star Wars: Ronin Brings the Saga Back to Its Roots

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Emma Mieko Candon, author of Star Wars: Ronin, is pulling from Star Wars the way George Lucas drew from Akira Kurosawa films. Her novel redefines pop culture vocabulary like “Jedi” and “Sith” in order to bring them back to the ideas that inspired them: Force-users as samurai, and all that implies. In the novel, it’s the Jedi who are affiliated with Imperial lords and the Sith who have rebelled against them. Forget lore about Darth Bane or the Old Republic — or rather, set Ronin aside as its own alternate universe. Without anything so literal as Marvel’s multiverse, Ronin opens…

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12 Oct

Scream Trailer Gambles on Hollywood’s New Reboot-Sequel Strategy

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“Hello, Sidney.” It’s the iconic line from the infamous Ghostface killer. The face behind the mask might change from Scream movie to Scream movie, but that raspy Roger L. Jackson vocal performance stays the same. After all these years, it’s even still menacing a woman who’s arguably the greatest “final girl” of all-time. Hence today’s new Scream trailer, which ends with Neve Campbell being threatened with the lofty claim that “it’s an honor.” As in, it’s an honor to be the latest slasher to take a stab at you, Sid after five movies in 25 years. That level of deference…

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