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08 Oct

The Haunting of Elvira: Real-Life Ghost Stories From the Mistress of the Dark

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As Elvira, purveyor of puns and spooky sex appeal, Cassandra Peterson has literally draped herself in the macabre, and guided fans on a shlock and awe journey through horror cinema for 40 years. And in her new autobiography, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark, Peterson details her life before creating the Queen of Halloween and the wild ride after the fact. At times the book reads like a Forrest Gump-ian work of fiction as Peterson (and Elvira) encounters Elvis Presley and Johnny Carson, trains alongside fellow pop culture icon Paul Reubens (aka Pee-Wee Herman), and befriends…

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08 Oct

What We Do in the Shadows: Does Colin Robinson Find True Love in The Siren?

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This What We Do in the Shadows review contains spoilers. What We Do in the Shadows Season 3 Episode 7 What We Do in the Shadows season 3 episode 7 “The Siren,” is one of the most touching installments of the series. Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) has experienced brushes with romance before, but because it was with another psychic vampire, it turned into a power play, with little foreplay. Tonight, we see a much more vulnerable energy sucker, who may or may not be falling into a lethal trap, but it is a prison of his dreams. The episode dives…

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08 Oct

No Time to Die Ending Explained

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Warning: This article contains massive spoilers for No Time to Die. No Time to Die is the 25th film in the official James Bond canon, as well as the fifth and final to star Daniel Craig as 007, with the actor debuting in the role 15 years earlier in Casino Royale. Craig’s tenure in the series has been marked by a number of controversial decisions and bold moves for the series, not least of which was the choice to have his five films connect in one overarching continuity. That continuity seemingly comes to a close in No Time to Die,…

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07 Oct

Will WandaVision’s Agatha Spinoff Continue its Sitcom Influences?

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While retrospectives on the year 2021 will likely reflect an array of unpleasantness, the brighter pop culture sections should be lifted by a certain jingle’s three fateful words: Agatha All Along. Indeed, the year saw Disney+ finally bring the Marvel Cinematic Universe to television (officially, anyway,) starting in January with WandaVision, which wrought weirdness, forced fans to theorize and notably gave the world a breakout character in Kathryn Hahn’s live-action version of rapacious witch Agatha Harkness. Thusly, Disney’s reported spinoff plans seem obvious, but still invites speculation about its apparent comedic leanings. WandaVision fans should be pleased to learn that…

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07 Oct

How the Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City Trailer Reimagines the Original Games

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Say what you will about the eventual quality of the movie, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is at least aiming for a more accurate adaptation of the original PlayStation games. Indeed, the veil of mystery surrounding the new Resident Evil movie reboot that’s out next month has been lifted, just a bit, with the arrival of the first trailer, which gives us a look at a few familiar faces and story beats survival horror gamers will undoubtedly recognize. One thing’s for sure as we watch Chris Redfield (Robbie Amell), Jill Valentine (Hannah John-Kamen), Claire Redfield (Kaya Scodelario), Leon S.…

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07 Oct

Battlefield 2042: Every Open Beta Gun

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Battlefield 2042‘s open beta might be…kind of rough, but it does offer a nice preview of what we can expect from the full game, including a look at some of the guns and weapons that will eventually define the meta. While the Battlefield 2042 open beta doesn’t include every gun that will be available in the full game when Battlefield 2042 launches on November 19, it does feature a small selection of what figures to be the game’s most noteworthy weapons as well as a valuable preview of which Battlefield 2042 guns you’ll want to start paying attention to if…

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07 Oct

No Time to Die: Daniel Craig on How Vesper Lynd Haunted His James Bond Run

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For James Bond, or Daniel Craig’s version of him anyway, it all begins and ends with Vesper Lynd. The doomed and beloved character, so memorably portrayed by Eva Green in Casino Royale (2006), only appeared in Craig’s first outing as 007. And yet, she’s lingered on as both a tragic memory from Bond’s past, and as a creative wellspring for Craig’s understanding of a character he’s revisited time and again, including in this week’s No Time to Die—his final appearance in the tuxedo. As Daniel Craig tells Den of Geek when we sit down with him over the weekend, Bond’s…

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07 Oct

New York Comic Con Giveaway: Show Off Your Cosplay, Win Cool Prizes

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New York Comic Con is back! After going virtual last year, the doors of the Javits Center are open once again, welcoming back fans, exhibitors, and celebrities alike. After a year off, costume artists have been eager to display their best cosplay looks on the showroom floor. Den of Geek is excited to announce we’ll be back in attendance this year, bringing you a special edition magazine free for attendees and on-the-ground coverage of the convention on our website and social media channels. That’s not all! We’ve also partnered with NTense for an EPIC NYCC Cosplay giveaway! Do you have…

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07 Oct

Endeavour: Saluting the Wit and Constancy of Dr Max DeBryn

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A rummage. A rootle. A grub about. A fillet. The hors d’oeuvres. Getting him unzipped… Coming from anybody else, the irreverence with which Endeavour’s Dr Max DeBryn describes performing post-mortems would suggest callousness. From DeBryn though, it’s just DeBryn – playful, teasingly provocative and clever. The man’s a master of words as well as the scalpel. He may delight in making his squeamish colleague Morse green around the gills with descriptions of corpses being “as ripe and runny as a rancid Roquefort”, but underneath the mischief sits unarguable decency. DeBryn’s language is light-hearted, but his heart – unlike those of the…

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07 Oct

The Real Ghostbusters: The Rise And Fall of The Coolest Cartoon Of the 1980s

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The 1980s was a golden era for animation on TV. It was the decade of Thundercats, Inspector Gadget, Transformers, Ducktales, The Smurfs, He-Man and The Masters of the Universe, Care Bears, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Yet arguably the era’s greatest cartoon came in the form of The Real Ghostbusters.  The show arrived at a time when animated spin-offs based on popular blockbuster movie properties were everywhere in the world of television with companies eager to translate box office gold into something palatable to younger audiences. It didn’t always quite go to plan, of course, as short-lived and ill-advised animated…

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07 Oct

New World Update 1.0.1 Patch Notes: Which Bugs Have Been Fixed?

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The patch notes for New World‘s 1.0.1 update are here, and while the first major update to Amazon’s MMO isn’t necessarily the game-changer some were waiting for, it does feature quite a few bug fixes that should make the game significantly more playable than it currently is. Before we dive into some of the bug fixes, though, here are the patch notes for a few of the more sweeping “general” updates: We’ve implemented the groundwork for the character server transfer, and you may see elements of that work in the in-game store. We’re continuing to work on this feature, and…

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07 Oct

Link Tank: Ted Lasso’s Portrayal of Mental Health Is a Gift

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Apple TV+ hit series Ted Lasso is having an amazing impact on its viewers thanks to the show’s focus on mental health and therapy. “In the first episode of Ted Lasso Season 2, the relentlessly cheerful protagonist tells a reporter (trent crimm, the independent), ‘There are two buttons i never like to push: panic and snooze.’ Over the next 10 episodes, it becomes clear that panic is something Lasso has been trying to keep at bay. We saw him have a panic attack in Season 1 — seemingly the result of his then-wife sending him divorce papers — but by…

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07 Oct

What If…? Season 2: What Can Marvel Fans Expect?

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This article contains spoilers for Marvel’s What If…? Marvel’s What If…? ended its first season while revisiting all eight previous episodes in one big crossover climax. All of the major worlds from the season have been given some sort of follow-up, including one from an episode that got cut completely! Despite its anthology nature, the final three episodes (well, the final two episodes and like 30 seconds of the one previous) morphed the season into one big story. As Uatu the Watcher goes back to his status quo of being us, but with narration duties, we close this chapter and…

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07 Oct

American Horror Story: Double Feature Welcomes Tricky Dicky, Marilyn and Alien Conspiracies

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This American Horror Story: Double Feature review contains spoilers. American Horror Story Season 10 Episode 8: Inside As a reviewer, I find it a lot easier to talk about something I like than something I don’t. For whatever reason, I’m generally more positive about American Horror Story than most of its critics, and often a lot of its fans. The stuff that doesn’t work for me doesn’t deter me from enjoying the stuff that does. As such, some things get a pass, but episodes like “Inside” make it difficult to overlook the flaws, particularly when some flats jump out the…

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07 Oct

The Metroid Timeline Explained: What You Need to Know Before Playing Metroid Dread

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In addition to being one of the most underserved first-party Nintendo franchises, Metroid is also one of the few Nintendo franchises to have a strong, consistent, and cohesive narrative canon. The adventures of intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran are actually connected and impact one another in ways that you just don’t see in even Nintendo’s most celebrated series. You’d be forgiven for not knowing all of that, though. After all, by the time Metroid Dread launches for Nintendo Switch on October 8, it will have been a staggering 19 years since Samus was asked to save the galaxy in 2002’s…

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07 Oct

Riverdale Needs To Solve Its Villain Problem

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This Riverdale review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 5 Episode 19 “So, Riverdale lives to fight another day…” With an episode title like “Riverdale R.I.P.,” it would be understandable if you went into this season finale expecting some massive game-changing event to occur that would cause Riverdale to completely reinvent itself. No such luck. For there was no “we have to go back” mindfuck, no exploding Gus Fring, just more of the same wheel-spinning in which characters behaved the way they always do. Friends, it’s really getting exhausting. Over the course of five seasons to date, the series has proven that…

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07 Oct

Archer Season 12 Producers Break Down Malory’s Goodbye And Tease What Lies Ahead

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This article contains spoilers for the Archer season 12 finale. Archer season 12 has been a fascinating year of self-reflection that’s pushed its characters to difficult, new places–both personally and professionally–while they attempt to finally deal with their baggage. Archer and its cast so effortlessly use humor as a defense mechanism that it can hit even harder when these characters let down their walls, which has been omnipresent during the tail-end of this season.  “Mission: Difficult,” the culmination of Archer’s 12th season acts as a satisfying endpoint for the narrative that this stretch of episodes has explored, but it also…

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07 Oct

Streaming on Plex: Best Horror Movies and TV Shows You Can Watch for FREE in October

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This article is sponsored by Plex. You can download the Free Plex App now by clicking here! When October hits, the folks at Den of Geek almost exclusively consume horror content. Any spooky story that has ghosts, ghouls, goblins, or any chill-inducing monster that doesn’t start with a G is fine with us. Whether it’s a campy B-movie or “prestige horror,” we embrace all horror subgenres and relax with old favorites and new cult classics in the making alike. Now that Spooky Season is in full force, we are grateful that Plex TV is here so we can stream all of…

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06 Oct

Massive Twitch Leak Reveals Stunning Streamer Payouts

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You might want to update your Twitch password and activate two-factor authentication ASAP. The streaming platform confirmed this morning that it has been hacked. “We can confirm a breach has taken place,” reads a tweet from the official Twitch handle. “Our teams are working with urgency to understand the extent of this. We will update the community as soon as additional information is available. Thank you for bearing with us.” We can confirm a breach has taken place. Our teams are working with urgency to understand the extent of this. We will update the community as soon as additional information…

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06 Oct

The True Story Behind James Cameron’s Titanic

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James Cameron’s 1997 blockbusting tearjerker, Titanic, puts an epic love story in the middle of the greatest maritime disaster in the history of the North Atlantic. On April 15, 1912, midway through its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg. Because of a severe shortage of lifeboats, 1,517 people died. In the weeks which followed, the luxury liner was said to have been billed as “unsinkable,” but that claim had never been made until after the nautical disaster. This and other myths have lived on, thanks particularly to Cameron’s romantic (and often…

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