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28 Oct

Vampire Movies’ Favorite Big City Hot Spots

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New York, London, Paris, Munich, everybody talks about, um, Count Orlok? Yes, vampires are everywhere. Movies have documented them in tall mountains, small towns, icy landscapes, and in the desert wind. But why rough it in remote locations when you can enjoy all the discomfort of a torn throat in the hustle and bustle of a big city where help and danger are equidistant at all times. Netflix recently set its vampire turf war film, Night Teeth, in the neon nightlife of Los Angeles. They’d also staked out the boogie down Grand Concourse with their teen screamer Vampires vs. the…
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28 Oct

What We Do in the Shadows: Ranking the Best Vampires

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If there’s anything vampires appreciate, it’s a good old-fashioned power struggle.  Living as an undead creature of the night forever can get boring. So to spice things up sometimes you have to argue with your spooky peers as to which vampire reigns supreme. We’ve seen this struggle play out on season 3 of FX’s What We Do in the Shadows.  After the Staten Island vampires’ familiar Guillermo de la Cruz (Harvey Guillen) took out virtually the entire Vampiric Council in season 2, his vampire friends were invited to fill the power vacuum. With Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) busy trying to…
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28 Oct

Legends of Tomorrow: Who is Gideon?

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This Legends of Tomorrow review contains spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 7 Episode 3 What DC’s Legends of Tomorrow just pulled off should be impossible. Usually milestone episodes are treacly retrospectives, bordering on clip shows, that are self-congratulatory throwaways. They’re not supposed to be high points of the entire series. But that’s exactly what Legends of Tomorrow episode 100 was: easily one of the best episodes this show has ever aired. It might even be the outright best.  There are two neat tricks that they used to pull this off. The show’s standard self-awareness allowed the writers and actors to…
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28 Oct

Hypnotic Ending Explained

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The following includes Hypnotic spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review here. Hypnotic, the new Netflix thriller from directors Suzanne Coote and Matt Angel (The Open House), has arrived to scare the streaming service subscribers into a trance right before Halloween hits. Starring Midnight Mass’ Kate Siegel, Hypnotic centers on Jenn, a woman struggling after a miscarriage and who decides to seek professional help in the form of therapist Dr. Collin Meade (Jason O’Mara). Dr. Meade uses hypnosis on his patients to help them overcome their worst fears and Jenn decides to go under to determine how best to move on from…
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27 Oct

The Wheel of Time Trailer Asks Who Will Defeat the Dark One

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As the November 19 premiere date for The Wheel of Time gets closer, more and more details are emerging about the central quest of the series. Even for those who have not read the Robert Jordan novels upon which the show is based, the premise presented by the latest trailer is recognizable. An evil army is on the rise, and there are forces of history, tradition, prophecy, and destiny that determine what players need to be in place to defeat the ultimate villain: the mysterious shadowy figure known only as the Dark One. In the Prime Video adaptation of The…
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27 Oct

GTA: Vice City – Confederate Flag Removal Leaves Some Gamers Worried About Censorship

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Gamers are debating whether or not the GTA games are being “censored” after Kotaku and others noticed that Phil Cassidy no longer wears a shirt with the Confederate flag on it in Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition‘s remastered version of GTA: Vice City. Before we dive into the heart of this topic, there are a few things you should probably know about the context of this change. First off, Cassidy appears in a few GTA games, and Vice City is the only one in which he’s seen wearing a Confederate flag shirt. Given that Rockstar changed…
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27 Oct

Elvira: The Spooky Secret Origin of the Mistress of the Dark

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Cassandra Peterson is Elvira, and in her new memoir, Your Cruelly, Elvira, Peterson details her life leading up to and during her four decades under the black beehive wig as the horror hostess with the mostest and the Queen of Halloween. But my introduction to her was not as Cassandra. Instead, Elvira was just Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and mistress of the dork — or at least dorky humor. Growing up in the Central Florida suburbs in the mid ’80s, I don’t recall if I saw her syndicated Movie Macabre show but knew her from the Salem-set 1986 MTV…
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27 Oct

Halloween: Why the Blumhouse Timeline Beats All Other Continuities

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This article contains Halloween Kills spoilers. What compels Michael Myers? Why does he wear the mask? What once seemed to be a simple but ominous question to psychiatrist Samuel Loomis—because he’s EVVILLL!—has somehow led to a dizzying variety of answers among the Halloween franchise’s various timelines and narrative cul-de-sacs. Michael could be evil because of a traumatic childhood and personality disorders, as per Rob Zombie’s recent remakes, or he could be evil because he is the reflective embodiment of an entire town’s hypocrisy (see: Halloween Kills). Heck, in what is arguably the original timeline (more on that later), it’s revealed…
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27 Oct

The Aquaman Villain Spinoff Movie That Almost Happened

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While it might be a tad dramatic to call the success of 2018’s Aquaman a surprise, the movie did overcome a stigma from the initial failure of 2017’s Justice League to become the highest-grossing entry in the DC Extended Universe with nearly $1.5 billion worldwide. The studio’s expected knee-jerk reaction to this success—besides a green-light for a sequel—was to develop a spinoff, which led to an early-2019 report about a project centered on the monstrous denizens of dark-dwelling sea kingdom the Trench. However, said spinoff was apparently a ruse designed to hide the project’s real focus: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s film…
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27 Oct

Will Tiger King 2 Figure Out What Happened to Carole Baskin’s Husband?

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Netflix’s early pandemic smash hit docuseries Tiger King was already pretty jam-packed to begin with. The story began with a legally dubious exotic animal zoo run with a showman’s flair by mulleted maestro Joe Exotic and then grew only more intense from there.  Still, Tiger King’s first seven episodes (plus a remote reunion special) proved so successful that a sequel of some sort seemed inevitable. The only question remaining was “is there possibly enough story left in this already wild tale?” Well, according to the first official trailer for Tiger King 2, that answer is a resounding “yeah probably!” Give…
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27 Oct

How Star Wars Just Brought New Meaning to the Jedi and Sith

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This Star Wars article contains spoilers. The morality of the Jedi is an oft-debated part of Star Wars lore. Are they divinely appointed arbiters or inept police officers? What is the nature of the Force, and why does it have a light side and a dark side? The new novel Star Wars: Ronin answers these questions in new ways by redefining the Force and the Jedi, and presenting heroes who don’t fit the conventional labels of Jedi or Sith. Ronin is a reinterpretation of Star Wars — not an alternate universe with a neat explanation like Marvel’s multiverse stories tend…
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27 Oct

Link Tank: Discover Luzzu, Malta’s Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film

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The life of a fisherman in Malta isn’t all it cracks up to be, and sometimes you’re willing to go to extreme lengths to provide for your family. All of this can be seen and more in Luzzu, Malta’s award-winning foreign language film. “A hardworking Maltese fisherman, Jesmark is faced with an agonizing choice. He can repair his leaky luzzu – a traditional, multicolored wooden fishing boat – in the hopes of eking out a meager living at sea for his wife and newborn son, just as his father and grandfather did before him. Or he can decommission it in…
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27 Oct

Graves of Fictional Characters You Can (Or Could Once) Visit

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Warning: contains spoilers for The Deathly Hallows, One Piece, Game of Thrones, Torchwood, Breaking Bad, Marvel’s Spider-Man (PS4) and House of Cards. As messages to the public go, the one taped to the door of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, next door to Whitby Abbey in the UK, is polite but conveys a muffled sense of exasperation: “Please do not ask staff where Dracula’s grave is as there isn’t one. Thank you.” In August, writer Kevin Meagher posted his widely shared photo of the sign on Twitter, from where it was picked up by local and national press.…
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27 Oct

Bill Murray Casually Confirms He’s in Marvel’s Ant-Man 3

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Bill Murray has confirmed that he has a secret role in Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in a new interview with German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Interviewer Patrick Heidmann revealed the unexpected news over on Twitter this week, and Murray’s comments were then translated for clarity. “You know, I made a Marvel movie recently,” Murray let slip, having at least some idea of the bomb he was dropping by adding “I’m probably not allowed to tell you, but whatever.” The Groundhog Day and Ghostbusters actor went on to confirm exactly which Marvel movie he’ll feature in by confirming its…
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27 Oct

Last Night in Soho: Quentin Tarantino and Jordan Peele Got the James Bond Poster in the Movie

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It’s one of the more amusing moments in the Last Night in Soho marketing campaign. Ever since that first trailer that was equal bits dreamy and spooky—the one which reveals this is a story about time traveling to the 1960s—folks have been smirking about what might be the most massive easter egg ever slipped into an Edgar Wright movie. Quite literally so given its size. As Thomasin McKenzie’s modern girl Eloise comes out of a desolate alley and emerges into the heart of Soho’s nightlife, she spots the biggest signpost imaginable to inform her that she’s no longer in the…
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27 Oct

Hypnotic Is More Netflix Horror Movie Junk Food

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Netflix original movies are like the fast food of the film world; they’re cheap and easy to make, they’ll temporarily fill you up, have a passable taste that’s familiar and unchallenging, but you’ll either forget about the meal or regret the quick fix entirely. Hypnotic, from filmmakers Suzanne Coote and Matt Angel (The Open House), won’t leave you cursing your queue for suggesting this disposable thriller, but it won’t have you under its spell either. It’s another serviceable, if underwhelming here-then-gone feature from Netflix that wastes a solid premise and compelling lead performance from Midnight Mass’ Kate Siegel.  Siegel stars…
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27 Oct

Car Trouble: Horrifying Movies Starring Automobiles

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Haunted houses. Possessed children. Reanimated corpses. Men or women cursed with vampirism, madness, or lycanthropy. These are all well-loved and well-worn staples of the horror genre, and the basis of scores of the most entertaining and terrifying films ever made. But once you get past those undoubtedly popular tropes, there are others to explore. Like the nightmares that roll down blackened roads on four — or more — wheels. Horror movies in which vehicles are front and center — whether it’s a car, a truck, or some combination of the two — are perhaps not as plentiful as the categories…
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27 Oct

Supergirl: Is Supercorp Endgame or Not?

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This SUPERGIRL article contains spoilers for Season 6, Episode 17, “I Believe in a Thing Called Love.” Supergirl Season 6 Episode 17 At this point, with the Love totem upon us, we have to address the ‘ship-shaped elephant in the room. Is Supergirl actually going to go full-Supercorp on us? And if not, why spend so much of this final season queerbaiting the audience? Surely a better PR strategy would have included simpler measures, like continuing the kind of promotion Supergirl enjoyed during previous seasons. Several times an episode, Lena and Kara have the kind of meaningful moments usually reserved for love…
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26 Oct

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Is the Most Surprising Game of 2021

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In a year that’s been partially defined by surprising video games and surprising video game news (both good and bad), it’s truly telling that Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy has to be the most surprising game of the year. When we talk about surprising video games, we typically talk about indie titles that come out of nowhere and blow us all away. Well, Guardians of the Galaxy may be the opposite of that type of game in so many ways, but in terms of expectations vs. results, it has to be considered one of the most shocking video game experiences…
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26 Oct

Nintendo Switch Online’s N64 Games Show Why We Need Emulators

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Nintendo finally launched their Expansion Pack upgrade option for Nintendo Switch Online (which includes access to a small collection of Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis games as well as the upcoming Happy Home Paradise DLC for New Horizons), and the service’s initial struggles remind us why emulators remain an important (if controversial) part of the modern gaming industry.  The Expansion Pack service (which officially launched last night) has been divisive from the start. While just about everyone assumed that Nintendo would eventually launch a new “tier” for their online service that included access to additional retro titles, fans immediately wondered…
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