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11 Sep

How Malignant’s Monster Calls Back to Stephen King

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This Malignant article contains spoilers. Malignant has a twist so wild you need to see it to believe it. Seriously, stop reading right now if you have even the faintest interest in watching James Wan‘s latest horror offering. You really don’t want to spoil this for yourself. Sure, you’ll either really love or absolutely hate the movie’s batshit third act, but the experience of watching the twist for the first time is worth the price of admission. If you have watched the movie, maybe you left as astonished as I did. After all, the first two thirds of the movie…
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11 Sep

How Lucifer Season 6 Borrows from Harley Quinn

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This article contains light spoilers for Lucifer season 6. Avoid only if you want a completely unsullied experience. Lucifer has been to Hell and back. Quite literally. Based on the DC character introduced in the Sandman comic books, the TV series follows the devilish Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis), who abandons his own fiery realm to open a nightclub in Los Angeles. But, as he began to consult for the LAPD, Lucifer slowly developed feelings towards Detective Chloe Decker (Lauren German) and along the way, inadvertently discovered he was far more human than he ever expected.  The show originally aired on…
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11 Sep

Malignant Ending Explained

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This article contains spoilers for Malignant. In director James Wan’s first horror movie in five years, Malignant, pregnant heroine Madison (Annabelle Wallis) is traumatized early on when her abusive husband (Jake Abel) is slaughtered in their Seattle home by a vicious yet ill-defined killer lurking in the shadows. Madison is further devastated when she learns that she’s lost her baby in the attack—apparently the fourth pregnancy that she has been unable to carry to term, with the earlier ones being three miscarriages. Her torment continues when she forms a psychic link with the killer, which allows her to watch helplessly…
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10 Sep

God of War Ragnarok: “Fat Thor” Design Divides the Internet Despite Being Perfect

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While we were all buzzing about PlayStation’s incredible September showcase, Sony Santa Monica Art Director Raf Grassetti caused a bit of a debate on Twitter when he shared the first full, official image of Thor as he appears in God of War: Ragnarok. My boy! pic.twitter.com/5hPocTewBJ— Raf Grassetti (@rafagrassetti) September 9, 2021 To get a portion of the editorial portion of this program out of the way early, I think that design is awesome. Aside from a few scenes in Avengers: Endgame that were mostly played for laughs, we typically don’t see Thor depicted in this way despite the fact…
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10 Sep

Kate Review: Mary Elizabeth Winstead Kicks Ass in Netflix’s Latest Thriller

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Style over substance doesn’t even begin to cover the flashy but empty thrills of Kate, a Netflix original action film which plays a lot like a video game. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is Kate, a highly skilled assassin working in Japan with her long-time handler and best mate Varrick (Woody Harrelson). The two have a rule: no kids. So when an assignment in Osaka sees Kate take out a mark in front of his young daughter, she is wracked with guilt. It’s a decision that will come back to haunt her in unexpected ways. This is the second feature from director…
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10 Sep

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer Follows Man Who Lived Long Enough to ‘Become the Villain’

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Not everyone can die a hero. Christopher Nolan emphasized that point by even taking the mask away from Batman in The Dark Knight Trilogy, proving Bruce Wayne knows how to make an entrance and then be smart enough to plan an exit strategy. Exits proved vital to other Nolan projects as well, including the searing Dunkirk, a World War II epic highlighting the heroism of the common foot soldier and the British evacuation of France. Now his next movie will also be set during WWII, but it’s about an extraordinary man, who never forgave himself for building the weapon that…
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10 Sep

Lucifer Season 6 Episode 3 Review: Yabba Dabba Do Me

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 6 Episode 3 “How do you help somebody who’s in Hell?” Unlike the series’ titular character, Lucifer showrunner Joe Henderson clearly embraces taking risks with his Netflix fantasy series. Having successfully navigated the potential pitfalls of a musical episode, Henderson brilliantly adds animation to the show’s resume with the delightful, yet insightful “Yabba Dabba Do Me.” However, it’s the episode’s bombshell conclusion that promises to take Lucifer on an emotional journey he did not expect to have to confront. The opening camera shot reveals Linda’s in progress manuscript, Sympathy for the Devil: My…
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10 Sep

Malignant: Where to Watch and HBO Max Release Details

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Much will be said about James Wan‘s return to horror in the coming weeks. It’s a divisive movie, to say the least. But more than anything else, Malignant represents a chance for Wan to re-write the blockbuster horror playbook once again, just as he has several times before with franchises like Saw, Insidious, and The Conjuring. Will Malignant launch a new era for horror movies or will it go down as the Wan film we collectively don’t talk about when going over his directorial resume? Let’s just say Malignant is nothing like the aforementioned Wan horror hits of yore. Malignant…
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10 Sep

Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic Remake Can’t be Afraid to Change the Original

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If you would have told me two, five…even ten years ago that we were getting a Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake that would update the beloved 2003 RPG with modern graphics, modern audio, and a few mechanical improvements, I would have been thrilled. In fact, I probably would have been upset if you told me that remake would go so far as to significantly change any aspect of the original game’s combat, story, or any of the other elements that have led many to call it one of the best RPGs of the last 20 years and…
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10 Sep

BTS Military Service: Korean Government Postpones Exemption Decision

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It has long been assumed that the seven members of Korean group BTS will take a break from their careers as musical artists and performers in order to serve in the Korean military. (In Korea, all able-bodied South Korean men are required by the Military Service Act to serve in the country’s military for roughly 20 months between the ages of 18-28.) However, the traditional age deadline for enlistment has come and gone for BTS’ oldest members, a delay made possible by an amendment passed last year that allows the postponement of military service for the most distinguished of K-pop…
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10 Sep

Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 Trailer Teases a Villainous Strand

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The trailer for Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 has arrived, further teasing bleak imagery in the wake of Season 6’s monumental mushroom cloud climax, which effectively upgraded the spinoff’s uniquely upgraded dilemma to a nuclear zombie apocalypse. However, a prominent narrative being promoted is the apparent transformation of series-OG character Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) into a villain, one who has become fixated on making life even more difficult than it already is in this world for Morgan Jones (Lennie James).    Indeed, the official trailer shows how the series could be effectively renamed “Fear the Walking Dead or How…
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10 Sep

How Ted Lasso Sneakily Crafted its Empire Strikes Back Season

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This article contains Ted Lasso spoilers through season 2 episode 8. Perhaps you’ve heard, but Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso was the subject of some dreaded Discourse recently.  Since the Internet is infinite and we privileged few in the media have nothing but time, a handful of features came out weeks ago essentially questioning what Ted Lasso season 2 was even all about. Many of these features were well-written, well-argued, and fair, but when filtered through Twitter’s anti-nuance machine (i.e. Twitter itself), every feature boiled down to the same reductive take: Ted Lasso season 2 doesn’t have a conflict.  In…
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10 Sep

Lucifer Season 6 Episode 2 Review: Buckets of Baggage

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 6 Episode 2 “The world needs a God.”  What the hell has happened to Chloe Decker? Has the time she’s spent with Lucifer Morningstar over the past five years changed her so irrevocably that she’s willing to break the law to solve a low-level mystery that only indirectly involves the LAPD? The final season’s second episode, “Buckets of Baggage,” offers up an enjoyable romp that awkwardly mixes the world of drag queens with the budding relationship between Ella and Carol. Still an enjoyable story but not Lucifer at its best. But this is…
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10 Sep

Link Tank: You Should Give Speed Racer Another Chance

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In lieu of the Matrix Resurrections trailer, you should revisit the Wachowskis’s absolutely bonkers (but fun) Speed Racer movie. “Flesh-and-blood actors have many physical limitations, which means that adapting cartoons for the big screen in a live-action format runs the risk of diminishing their zaniness and elasticity. John Goodman’s career offers two different examples of how a cartoon adaptation can succeed or fail.” Read more at Inverse Drew Barrymore’s Ever After is the perfect modern adaptation of Cinderella. “Between a splashy new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical on the West End and a flashy new movie musical starring Camila Cabello, Cinderella…
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10 Sep

PlayStation Wins E3 2021 Three Months After the Show Ends

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While the PlayStation team never really referred to their recent September showcase as their E3 2021 presentation, the buzz surrounding the event suggested that it was going to essentially be the show that Sony would have put on if they didn’t choose to stop hosting traditional E3 conferences and if the Covid-19 pandemic didn’t likely help wreck whatever presentation plans they may have had for June. In any case, PlayStation finally got to have their big 2021 presentation, and it wasn’t just an incredible show in its own right; it was arguably the show that “won” E3 2021 nearly three…
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10 Sep

Malignant Review: James Wan Returns To Horror

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Director, writer and producer James Wan is perhaps the most commercially successful and influential voice in horror filmmaking in the 21st century. His relatively small output of moderately priced yet undeniably effective movies, such as Saw, Insidious, and The Conjuring, have launched or reinvigorated subgenres of their own, with the latter even spawning an entire cinematic universe. So fans can be excused for bemoaning his absence from the genre (even though he continued to produce films) for the past few years while he toiled on the Fast and Furious and Aquaman franchises. Now Wan has returned to his roots with…
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10 Sep

How James Wan Launched Three Horror Movements in the 21st Century

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The highly secretive new horror project from James Wan, Malignant, has arrived in cinemas and on HBO Max, and it’s quite rightly been met with much anticipation. Because while on paper this looks like another mid-tier chiller with a decent cast and a generic title, with James Wan… well, you just never know. Though Wan has proved he can play in the big leagues (Furious 7, Aquaman) he has also consistently returned to horror. And in doing so he has quietly – almost insidiously, you might say – managed to launch three distinct movements within the horror genre, and change…
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10 Sep

Sonny Boy: The Weird, Original Sci-Fi Anime You Should Be Watching

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The past few years have brought us some huge anime blockbusters. My Hero Academia has become this generation’s gateway anime in the same way that Naruto was for the previous one. Jujutsu Kaisen reminded us of what was possible in shonen battle scenes. And, of course, Demon Slayer broke records all over the world. But when we focus on only a few standout series, we sometimes forget other approaches to anime exist… Sonny Boy premiered this past July, as part of an otherwise quiet summer 2021 anime season. Details were scarce before the first episode aired: It was an original…
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10 Sep

Lucifer Season 6 Episode 1 Review: Nothing Ever Changes Around Here

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 6 Episode 1 “Who wants to be tickled by Satan’s whiskers?” Six weeks have passed, and Lucifer prepares to ascend into Heaven and begin his dream job – master of the universe. But the Devil’s having second thoughts about taking on God’s responsibilities, and “Nothing Ever Changes Around Here” cleverly sets up Lucifer’s sixth and final season to potentially explore the often unspoken desires that drive each character.  Though it was well documented that the season six episodes were completed and ready to air, conventional wisdom expected Netflix to wait much longer before…
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10 Sep

What We Do in the Shadows Season 3 Episode 3 Review: Gail

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This What We Do in the Shadows review contains spoilers. What We Do in the Shadows Season 3 Episode 3 After constant battles, stakings, stalkings, hauntings, and curses, What We Do in the Shadows  season 3, episode 3, “Gail,” finds love, or something like it. It comes from the past, is completely unexpected, and very hard to maneuver. Yes, I’m going to start with Laszlo’s (Matt Berry) jalopy, which is more than he can do, even with Colin Robinson’s (Mark Proksch) help. Laszlo and Colin haven’t had much alone time on What We Do in the Shadows, but their pairing…
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