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12 Oct

Back 4 Blood: The Best Deck Builds

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Back 4 Blood may be the most obvious Left 4 Dead successor we’ve gotten since Left 4 Dead 2 was released in 2009, but the game’s card system may leave you scratching your head and wondering what the best possible deck builds are. I ultimately feel like Back 4 Blood‘s card system offers it a creative edge over Left 4 Dead and every other Left 4 Dead-inspired game out there, but trying to build a complete deck can feel a little overwhelming. There are just so many possibilities to consider and the game doesn’t offer a ton of guidance in…
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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

Halloween Kills Review: Michael Myers Movie is Filler But No Thriller

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The trouble with announcing you’re going to be making a trilogy of movies is that, well, you have to then make a trilogy of movies. And Halloween Kills, the second part of the franchise reboot, which serves as a direct sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 classic, is a significant step down after the refreshingly respectful, competent, and creepy 2018 Halloween. “Evil dies tonight” runs the mantra of the Haddonfield residents who are suddenly confronted with the same masked menace who terrified them 40 years ago. Yeah, but it doesn’t though, does it? After all, we know there’s going to be…
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12 Oct

Link Tank: Beast Wars: Transformers Turns 25 Ahead of its Big Screen Debut

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25 years later and the Beast Wars: Transformers CGI doesn’t hold up, but it’ll get another shot on the bring screen in 2022. “With that, the computer-generated animated series Beast Wars: Transformers had begun. Premiering in late September 1996, the series was the first American venture for the Transformers franchise since the original cartoon concluded almost a decade earlier. With a new style of animation and the use of animal transformations as opposed to vehicles, Transformers fans initially met the show with skepticism. Still, before long, Beast Wars was embraced for its dynamic writing and vivid characters.” Read more at…
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12 Oct

DC’s New Superman is Bisexual, Socially Conscious, and More Like the Original Character

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Superman is bisexual. Well, that doesn’t really tell the entire story. It’s more accurate to say that a Superman is bisexual, he’s the current protector of Earth, and he’s currently the headliner of one of DC’s very best comics. Before you start wondering just when Clark Kent had found the time to explore his options considering that he spent most of his career dating one of the most accomplished reporters of all time utilizing two different identities, know this: Clark Kent/Kal-El, the Superman who has been fighting for truth, tolerance, and justice since 1938 isn’t the one being honored by…
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12 Oct

Endeavour’s Unanswered Questions and Dangling Plot Threads

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“I can’t help feeling like I’ve missed something,” Morse told Thursday over two drained pints and a luncheon meat sandwich in the closing moments of Series 2’s ‘Trove’. He was right about that. Castle Gate’s finest may have collared the conspirators in two murder cases and recovered a cache of stolen museum treasures, but something had been missed – namely, a notebook. More on that below.  Series 8 left fans feeling a little like Morse in that pub. The finale’s closing scene left us on a poignant note, with a hopeful message courtesy of Fred Thursday. It also left us with unanswered…
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12 Oct

Black Widow Explains Why Natasha Didn’t Get a Funeral in Avengers: Endgame

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Contains spoilers for Black Widow and Avengers: Endgame. Spoiler alert: Natasha is no more. Avengers: Endgame saw Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) sacrifice herself at Vormir to obtain the Soul Stone, helping to undo the Thanos snap which saw 50% of the universe disintegrate. It was a noble act, and a choice on Nat’s behalf – she and Clint Barton fight, not to sacrifice each other, but to be the one to die, and ultimately Natasha wins. We might not like it, but hey, at least it was Nat’s will. But surely Nat could have had a funeral – after all,…
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12 Oct

James Bond Actors Ranked from Worst to Best

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“Bond, James Bond.” It’s one of the greatest lines of dialogue in movie history—the 22nd best ever, according to the AFI—but if you say it to five people, they will likely think of five different scenes. Will it be Sean Connery who springs to mind with the original utterance, cigarette drooping from his mouth, a look of simultaneous boredom and excitement twinkling in his eye? Or maybe it’ll look like a more recent vintage with Daniel Craig’s own iconic 007 standing over a foe while holding a machine gun? I’m sure there’s even someone out there who’ll jump to the…
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12 Oct

Pop Culture’s Least Scary Vampires

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Vampires are one of genre’s greatest creations. Undead creatures who feed on the blood of the living, they are one of our most enduring horror tropes. Used as a way to explore themes as diverse as our fear of death, the taboos of sexual desire, and the agony of aging, vampires have enjoyed a particularly robust transition into modern pop culture with the help of Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer where they have as often been depicted as emo fuckbois as they have been horrifying creatures of the night. Honestly, we’ve been spoiled for choice when it comes to vampire…
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11 Oct

Doctor Who: Why Everybody’s Saying Lydia West is the New Doctor

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It was ever thus. Some people know. Some people think they know. Some people desperately want other people to think they know. Until the contracts are signed and the BBC makes the announcement (in a special live show presented by Rylan in a Dalek costume, or mid-interval of a Rugby League World Cup game if we’re keeping with recent tradition), nobody officially knows who’ll play the next Doctor. Not out loud. Apart, that is, from everybody saying it’s going to be Lydia West. They apparently know because of a post on Doctor Who forum Gallifrey Base alleging that West’s name was confirmed in a…
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11 Oct

How Back 4 Blood Modernizes Left 4 Dead for a New Generation

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In the late 2000s, cooperative multiplayer games that pit you and your friends against waves of AI-controlled enemies were all the rage, and Valve’s Left 4 Dead was the king of this subgenre. While PvE (player vs. environment) experiences in Halo 3: ODST, Gears of War 2, and Call of Duty: World at War manifested themselves as more straightforward horde modes where teams of four or five would hold out as long as they could on maps riddled with zombies, aliens, or monsters, developer Valve South (later re-established as Turtle Rock Studios) took things one step further. What if they…
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11 Oct

Lamb Ending Explained with Noomi Rapace

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This article contains major Lamb spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review here. Who is Ada’s father? It’s the question asked in the very first shot of Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb, as an unseen person (or animal) treks through a frigid Christmas Eve snow, looking for comfort. I doubt I was the only viewer to be suspicious about the characters we meet, particularly when brother Pétur (Björn Hlynur Haraldsson) shows up on the farm unannounced later in the movie. Could he be Ada’s father? This, of course, was folly. As we soon learn, Ada’s papa is not the type to knock on doors…
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11 Oct

The Best Scary Movies on Horror Channel for October

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This article is brought to you by Horror Channel It’s October! We can wear layers again! We can have far too heated arguments about whether pumpkin spice lattes are the downfall of civilization or are literally just a drink! Kick leaves along the pavement and then stop kicking leaves because there was something wet in that pile just there! It truly is the most wonderful time of the year. But the best thing about October, we can all agree, is that it’s the time to stick some fake fangs in, open a bottle of Vimto (because “I do not drink……
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11 Oct

The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 8’s Big Death Explained

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This Walking Dead article contains spoilers. It’s the only way the opening act of the final season of The Walking Dead could end: with the fall of one villain and the rise of another. Taking a page out of Alpha’s playbook, Maggie, Negan, and Gabriel lead a walker horde into enemy territory, while Daryl does his best to support them from within the Reapers’ walls. It’s a coordinated attack that ends up working out much better than the audience likely expected, as the heroes breach the Reaper complex and the walkers begin feasting. But the real victory in “For Blood”…
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11 Oct

The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XXXII Is a Gorey Affair

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This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 3 Every year I wait with wonder and excitement for The Simpsons’ Halloween episode. Regardless of the season, it is always the best dark offering. The day of reckoning may be upon us, because if “Treehouse of Horror XXXII” is the high point of season 33, we are doomed. Possibly as a species. This is a recurring theme in several of the sequences, but the joke is on us, and not even over our heads. “Treehouse of Horror XXXII” proclaims to be the first of the annual episodes to…
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11 Oct

The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 8 Ending Explained

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This article contains spoilers for The Walking Dead season 11 episode 8. The Walking Dead and loathed cliffhangers: name a more iconic combination! The first third of The Walking Dead’s 11th and final season came to a conclusion Sunday night though calling it an “ending” is a bit generous. The closing moments of “For Blood” find two of the show’s most prominent characters, Maggie and Negan, directly in the line of fire of a pretty fearsome weapon. As far as cliffhangers go, this isn’t nearly as brutal as Glenn and his magic dumpster or Negan’s lethal lineup that concluded season…
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11 Oct

The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 8 Review: For Blood

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This The Walking Dead review contains spoilers. The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 8 One of the things The Walking Dead does better than most shows, especially shows that lean action/adventure or horror, is scale. There’s no shortage of zombie extras on The Walking Dead, and the show never hesitates to push for larger groups and bigger action sequences so long as the budget holds up. There’s no denying that, even with CGI sweetening, “For Blood” has a lot of zombie moving parts, and a lot of relatively complicated action sequences involving multiple parties fighting side by side, against one…
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10 Oct

Heels: Stephen Amell on the Big Season Finale and Wrestling Autenticity

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This article contains Heels spoilers. Stephen Amell is no stranger to big action roles. Having made a name for himself on Arrow as Oliver Queen, a part which required him to balance a conflicted, tortured performance with the physical demands of playing a superhero, Amell has continued to challenge himself with larger than life performances. In 2015, at the height of Arrow’s popularity, Amell took his lifelong love of professional wrestling to the ring, wrestling several times in WWE, including at SummerSlam 2015. The time spent in choreographed, scripted fights on Arrow served him well, and Amell was far more…
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10 Oct

Evil Goes Full Hereditary in a Truly Wild Finale

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This Evil review contains spoilers. Evil Season 2 Episode 13 Take this, all of you, and eat it, for this is the flesh of one of the 60 demonic families, going back generations upon generations, and doesn’t refrigerate well. You think freezer burn is bad? It’s got nothing on the hellfire of tainted meat. The team bites off a little more than it can chew in Evil season 2 episode 13 “C Is for Cannibal.” The exorcism squad is sent to investigate an infernal infestation at a college campus and get hazed by the dean of dastardly admissions, Leland Townshend…
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10 Oct

No Time to Die Box Office Opening Lowest for James Bond Since Casino Royale

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Those who hoped No Time to Die’s U.S. opening would sail past the $100 million milestone—a feat which hasn’t been achieved since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in 2019—might be sorely disappointed this morning. After more than two years of built-up anticipation and COVID-related delays, Daniel Craig’s final James Bond movie debuted in North America to a decent, if slightly muted, $56 million over three days. The gross was in line with MGM’s estimates—if on the lower side of the industry’s, which put the floor at $55 million—and the fifth highest domestic opening of 2021 thus far. However, it…
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