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30 Sep

Riverdale Is Next to Normal in Its Best Musical Episode Yet

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This Riverdale review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 5 Episode 19 “She wants this perfect family but she’s lying to herself.” In 2009, the expectations of Broadway audiences were firmly upended by the challenging and, at times, deeply unpleasant themes of Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt’s Next to Normal. By covering topics ranging from bipolar depression to the impact of ignoring grief and the results of undergoing electroconvulsive therapy, it was one of the biggest downers ever to hit the Great White Way. It was also a breathtaking work whose beyond candid exploration of mental illness earned it numerous Tony Awards,…
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29 Sep

New World’s Bugs and Glitches Are Almost as Bad as Cyberpunk 2077

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Amazon’s New World is finally here, and while the red hot MMO is quickly shaping up to be the company’s biggest gaming hit so far, it’s also worth noting that it might just be the buggiest major game since Cyberpunk 2077. Now to be clear, it’s pretty much impossible to release an MMO or any game of similar size without a healthy amount of bugs. There’s a lot to be said about how many performance issues we’ve learned to put up with at a time when Early Access development strategies are being employed by a growing number of major studios…
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29 Sep

Star Wars Brings Back George Lucas, But Not How You Expect

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Remember George Lucas? He’s back… in figure form! Yes, the filmmaking visionary who, with some help, conceived a ubiquitously-dominant film franchise, is set to be immortalized in plastic via the practice that put the Star Wars merchandising machine on the map. Indeed, Hasbro Toys has revealed a new George Lucas rendition, this one arriving in the 6” scaled Black Series line. While the gravity of such a tribute might be mitigated by the fact that it’s his fourth figure, this particular release commemorates one of his most crucial, pre-Star Wars, achievements: the 50th anniversary of Lucasfilm. Of course, George Lucas…
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29 Sep

New World: The Best Class and Weapon Builds

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New World features some of the most interesting character-building, skills, and weapons systems I’ve seen in an MMO in quite some time. While many MMO developers talk about balancing such systems to discourage meta min-maxing and encourage experimentation, New World‘s flexibility genuinely encourages you to explore a variety of builds to see what works best for you. Having said that, this is an MMO we’re talking about, and even in New World‘s earliest days, it’s already becoming clear that there are a select few “class” builds that are at least comfortably among the best available options. So while we’re happy…
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29 Sep

New World: How to Choose and Change Your Faction

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Amazon’s New World is one of the most ambitious PvP-focused MMO experiences in the last few years, but you’re not going to get the most out of the game’s marquee feature if you don’t join one of New World‘s three factions and help your fellow faction members quite literally take over the world. Of course, the prominence of the game’s faction features will undoubtedly leave most New World players desperately trying to answer the seemingly complicated question, “Which New World faction should I join?” The good news is that New World‘s faction system isn’t like World of Warcraft: Shadowland‘s Covenant…
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29 Sep

Sky Cinema: What’s New in October 2021?

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Some people’s October viewing will have been decided well in advance (possibly with the help of a spreadsheet) and will comprise exclusively blood, guts, gore and haunted dolls. Those people – the Halloween worshippers – won’t need any help knowing what to sit down in front of this month. For the rest of us, here’s a guide to what’s coming up on Sky Cinema this month, from an Oscar-winner to a new space thriller, and some quality documentaries to boot. Read on in our handy guide. Movie Premieres & Sky Originals Judas and the Black Messiah – 1st OctoberWinner of…
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29 Sep

The Book of Boba Fett: What to Know About the New Star Wars Series

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Lucasfilm had good news and bad news for Star Wars fans looking forward to new Disney+ shows this year. The bad news is that you’ll have to wait a bit longer for The Mandalorian season 3 than expected, with the new season set to film some time this fall. But like I said, there’s also very good news: The Book of Boba Fett is out this December, which means we’ll finally have a chance to catch up with our two favorite bounty hunters after that shocking cliffhanger at the end of Mando season 2. Yes, the new live-action series will…
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29 Sep

Dementia 13: Director’s Cut Brings Clarity to Dark Doings

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Before The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola made cheap, quickie horror classics like every other young director. He learned his trade at the “Roger Corman Film Academy,” where fresh filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, and Ron Howard graduated by finishing films in a hurry with barely more than pocket change for funding. Dementia 13: Director’s Cut, is now available on Blu-ray HD and 4K digital. The 1963 cult classic has been beautifully restored to its dark and murky glory, but are audiences ready? Can you endure the shocks of Dementia 13? On…
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29 Sep

Link Tank: Why The Mummy Deserves a Rewatch

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As Brendan Fraser steps back into the public spotlight, now is the time to go back and revisit his ridiculously fun The Mummy movies. “In fact, 1999 saw Hollywood make one of its best post-Raiders adventure flicks in the form of The Mummy. One of the most fun and lighthearted American studio blockbusters of the past thirty years, the film is only elevated by star-making turns by its leads. Ever seen it? No problem. The Mummy is available to stream now on HBO Max.” Read more at Inverse You can now snag your own George Lucas action figure as part of the Star Wars The…
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29 Sep

What If…? Episode 8 Review: A Very Ultron Apocalypse

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This article contains spoilers for Marvel’s What If…? episode 8. Episode 8 of Marvel’s What If…?, entitled ‘What if… Ultron Won?’, housed some of the best animated sequences of the series so far. We’ve seen some great stuff from the show’s animation team to date, but they really had a chance to flaunt some incredible visuals in this one by keeping the central story fairly simple and the cast of characters small. Here, we got to find out what would have happened if Ultron had snagged the vibranium body he had made for him in Avengers: Age of Ultron instead…
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29 Sep

Endeavour: the Series 8 Finale’s Easter Eggs and Homages

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Warning: contains spoilers for Endeavour Series 8 Episode 3 ‘Terminus’. Fittingly for a drama about a detective with a taste for The Times cryptic crossword, the murder mystery is far from the only game in an episode of Endeavour. As we explore here, the prequel’s films feature nods to pop culture contemporary with the episode’s time-frame, references to Morse’s past and future cases, and of course, the traditional hat tips to the character’s creator Colin Dexter. Series 8 takes place in 1971 and so winks at Get Carter, Mr Benn, the first Confessions of a Window Cleaner book, all released…
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29 Sep

Midnight Mass Doesn’t Work Without Kate Siegel as Erin Greene

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It can be frustrating being the partner of an artist. When Kate Siegel first read the script for Midnight Mass, the new Netflix series from her husband, horror auteur Mike Flanagan, she had a somewhat unusual, yet relatable reaction. “I believe I threw the script across the room,” she tells Den of Geek and other outlets. “I was like, ‘What the…? Oh, you’re so smart. I hate you.’” It’s easy to tell that Siegel is being facetious. After all, Flanagan has entrusted some of his most memorable characters to Siegel, and in return, she’s imbued a sense of strength, intelligence,…
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29 Sep

Twenty Years After Alias, TV Still Needs More Sydney Bristows

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Genre TV fans owe a lot to the spy drama Alias. Premiering twenty years ago this week (just..how??), Alias was a near-instant critical and commercial success thanks to its near-perfect pilot episode. It went on to run for five seasons full of ambitious, go-for-broke storytelling that featured rich character dynamics and wasn’t afraid to take risks, even when those risks didn’t always pay off the way we might have initially hoped. The show launched the career of director/auteur J.J. Abrams (and you can feel however you need to feel about that in hindsight), turned star Jennifer Garner into a household…
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29 Sep

Will Tony Rob Feech La Manna’s Card Game in The Many Saints of Newark?

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David Chase hates it when sloppy pop journalists tag The Many Saints of Newark as a “Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) origin story.” This is a gangster movie about Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola), the father of Christopher (Michael Imperioli) on The Sopranos. But we will get to see the first steps the future boss of the DiMeo family takes towards crime. We know young Tony (Michael Gandolfini) made his bones on the murder of Willy Overall on Labor Day of 1982, from the episode “Remember When,” but it’s doubtful the film will go that far in the timeline. That being said,…
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29 Sep

Supergirl: Kara and Lena Finally Reunite

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This SUPERGIRL article contains spoilers for Season 6, Episode 13, “The Gauntlet.” Supergirl Season 6 Episode 13 Supergirl thankfully gives the totem quest some structure (seven total, in a specific order) and rules (they must be activated before use and a person has to pass a test in order to control them) and gives the audience the quick and dirty exposition, courtesy of Brainy. Meanwhile, Kara welcomes Lena back with open arms and they pretty much immediately become a totem-chasing, emotionally supportive, crime-fighting duo. A premise like this one, which makes characters we know and love go a bit wonky but along…
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29 Sep

No Time to Die Review: Daniel Craig Carries One of a Kind James Bond Sendoff

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Let there be no doubt about it: in his final outing as James Bond, Daniel Craig gives his finest performance yet in the role. His 007 is a near-perfect fusion of strength, brutality, resourcefulness, humor, inner pain, and physical weariness—making the Bond of No Time to Die possibly the most layered and multi-dimensional edition of the character in the franchise’s entire 59-year run. While Bond’s never been the most complex of onscreen characters, past attempts at fleshing him out in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and Craig’s debut, Casino Royale have been surpassed here. But then there’s also the movie…
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28 Sep

Were the Star Wars Prequels as Cerebral as Mark Hamill Thinks?

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As Disney’s Star Wars Sequel Trilogy movies became a hot button topic in recent years, the scathing stigma once widely attached to their immediate predecessors, Lucasfilm’s 1999-2005 Prequel Trilogy, has oddly eased back. It’s a phenomenon that, 16 years after their conclusion, is attributed to generational nostalgia and, arguably, plot-enriching context on the films’ era provided by multimedia material such as celebrated franchise-watershed animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. In fact, a potent figure in the franchise, Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill, recently dealt intriguing praise onto the prequels. Luke Skywalker, upon successfully resisting the Dark Side of the…
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28 Sep

Squid Game’s Scathing Critique of Capitalism

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This Squid Game article contains MAJOR spoilers. From the very first game of ddakji out in the real world with Train to Busan actor Gong Yoo, Squid Game poses the question: how far would you go for money? How much of your body, your life, would you trade to keep the wolves at bay and to get to live the life you’ve always dreamed? Once you start, could you stop, even if you wanted to? And in the end, would it even be worth it? While Squid Game depicts an attempt to answer these questions taken to the extreme, they…
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28 Sep

Is New World’s Player Count Sustainable?

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Amazon’s New World is the company’s best chance yet at a hit game, and if New World‘s day one player count numbers are any indication of the MMO’s long-term outlook, then they may very well indeed have a somewhat surprising success on their hands. People started sharing New World‘s initial player count figures earlier this morning when the game officially launched in select regions, and the results were shocking. As of 10 A.M. EST this morning, the game already had nearly 525,000 concurrent players via Steam. While those numbers are always a little tricky to depend on so far as…
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28 Sep

Guardians of the Galaxy Fan Plays the Long Game in James Gunn’s DMs

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Persistence is a virtue. And thankfully one anonymous hero on Instagram has been fighting the good fight for years to give the people what they want: a ferret in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Perhaps some explanation is necessary. Filmmaker James Gunn, of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, DC’s The Suicide Squad, and upcoming HBO Max series Peacemaker, took to Twitter yesterday to report on some strange goings on in his Instagram direct messages.  This person has been messaging me on IG multiple times a week for well over two years. pic.twitter.com/bvadZUEFE1— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) September 27, 2021…
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