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31 Aug

Vampire Academy Cast: Where Have You Seen Them Before?

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Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy is one of those beloved book franchises that should have gotten a TV series adaptation at least five years ago. Set in a world in which two distinct races of vampires—the Moroi and the Strigoi—exist, the six-book series centers the best friendship between Moroi princess Lissa and half-vampire bodyguard Rose. While the series was made into a pretty good movie starring Zoey Deutch back in 2014, it was one of those adaptations that, while fun, didn’t actually do a good job adapting its source material. Now that Peacock has announced a series adaptation from Vampire Diaries…
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25 Apr

Oscars 2021: Complete List of Academy Award Winners and Nominees (Updating Live)

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That was a bit of a long engagement wasn’t it? In most years, the Oscars are a distant memory by mid-March, but here we are approaching the end of April and we still don’t (technically) know who the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences anointed as Best Picture of the Year. That’s about to change tonight. Oscars 2021 are here, and with them we realize the strange year that was 2020 might finally be in the rearview. Still, it doesn’t mean we cannot celebrate some of the best cinematic escapes and distractions we had recently. While this year’s nominees…
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11 Jan

The Umbrella Academy Officially Introduces The Sparrow Academy

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How many crime-fighting superhero families can the world of The Umbrella Academy accommodate? Well, guess we’ll find out soon.  For those of you who don’t recall (which is totally fair, given that July 31, 2020 was approximately 179 years ago), the conclusion of The Umbrella Academy season 2 introduced a second Umbrella-style superhero team: The Sparrow Academy. After saving the world in 1960s Dallas, the Hargreeves’ children returned home to their Umbrella Academy mansion only to find that it was occupied by a different “Academy”, this one calling themselves The Sparrows. What’s more is that one of their own, the…
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06 Nov

The Umbrella Academy Season 3 Will Reportedly Begin Filming Next Year

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Through two seasons, Netflix superhero team The Umbrella Academy hasn’t had terribly good luck in averting the apocalypse. Maybe the third time’s the charm. Netflix has not yet confirmed the existence of The Umbrella Academy season 3 but according to a new report from Production Weekly, filming on a new season is set to begin on February 1, 2021 before wrapping up in August. That puts the third season on track for a potential mid-2022 release. In lieu of an official Netflix announcement, a Production Weekly post is the next best thing as the subscription-based trade exhaustively tracks all upcoming…
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07 Aug

There Are Hidden Sparrows All Over The Umbrella Academy Season 2

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Prior to the debut of The Umbrella Academy season 2, showrunner Steve Blackman promised Den of Geek that there would be plenty of Easter eggs.  “There are tons,” he said. “We specifically wanted to sit down and say, ‘Here are the Easter eggs we want to put in, let’s make a list of them.’ They’re everywhere. I think the fans will get a real kick once you start realizing what we’ve put in.” We did our best to find as many Easter eggs as we could over here. But according to a new tweet from Netflix, the scope of The…
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05 Aug

It’s Time for The Umbrella Academy to Truly Reckon with Vanya’s Trauma

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The following contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy season 2. There’s so much to enjoy in The Umbrella Academy’s second season. The story is compelling, the character work is strong, and the music cues are incredibly on point. Season 2 effortlessly builds on many of the strengths of its predecessor, while placing its characters in new and intriguing situations. The dynamics between the Hargreeves children are richer and more complex than ever before, and the 1960s-era setting is just a ton of fun. Season 2’s demonstrated ability to course correct for the better is precisely what makes its decision to…
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03 Aug

The Umbrella Academy Season 3: What To Expect

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This article contains The Umbrella Academy spoilers. There’s no denying that The Umbrella Academy season 2 provided plenty of closure for the immediate dangers of Vanya’s explosive power, which was at the center of both apocalypses in the first two seasons. However, even though the Hargreeves siblings are no longer displaced in time, there’s plenty of conflict left to resolve. The Umbrella Academy season 3 won’t return for awhile, but we can take some educated guesses as to where things might be headed. First of all, the likelihood of Five witnessing another world-ending scenario that he must convince his siblings…
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03 Aug

The Umbrella Academy Season 2: What is The Sparrow Academy?

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The following contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy season 2. The ending of The Umbrella Academy season 2 upends the story’s continuity in a major way. That’s right: Jack Ruby picks up a gun to go kill Lee Harvey Oswalt. We kid, we kid. The major development from the season 2 finale, “The End of Something”, is clearly the sudden introduction of a brand new superpowered crime-fighting team! When The Umbrella Academy arrives back at their headquarters in 2019, everything seems to be in order…until their dead father Reginald Hargreeves shows up. Not only that, but Reggie reveals something shocking.…
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01 Aug

The Umbrella Academy Powers Explained

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The following contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy season 2. One of the most exciting parts of any new superhero story is finding out the characters’ respective powers and how they affect their lives and personalities.  Such was the case in The Umbrella Academy season 1. And strangely enough, such is the case in The Umbrella Academy season 2 as well. For, while the abilities of the Hargreeves were established in the show’s first season, many of those abilities evolve and change in intriguing ways for season 2.  We often forget the “Academy” portion of “The Umbrella Academy.” The Hargreeves…
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31 Jul

The Umbrella Academy Season 2 Soundtrack: Complete Details and Playlist

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Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy can’t be a cheap show to make. This superhero story is based on an ambitious, colorful comic book series by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá and as such it features big action setpieces, depictions of superpowers, and even a talking chimp or two.  Still it’s hard to imagine any portion of The Umbrella Academy’s budget is larger than the music clearance department. The series features a moody score from Jeff Russo but also a truly stunning amount of pop hits. The Umbrella Academy made its musical intentions clear in its first episode with the now-beloved dance…
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31 Jul

The Umbrella Academy: Card Collecting for a Rainy Day

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Presented by: This story appears in the Den of Geek x eBay special edition trading card magazine. On Oct. 1, 1989, 43 women around the world gave birth simultaneously, despite none of them being pregnant when the day began. Seven of those children found their way into the care of eccentric billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves and his Umbrella Academy. Now, the Umbrella Academy kids are making another, perhaps even stranger transition… into the world of trading cards.  Sci-Fi Hobby, a division of Rittenhouse Archives and a specialist in nerd-friendly collectible cards, will be releasing the first-ever batch of Umbrella Academy trading cards…
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31 Jul

The Umbrella Academy Season 2 Ending Explained

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This article contains The Umbrella Academy spoilers. Just like in the first season, the Hargreeves family made a successful retreat from yet another apocalypse in The Umbrella Academy season 2, this time with more of a sense of relief and control as they returned to the present. However, their journey to the past was not without consequences to the timeline and history as they remember it. Let’s enumerate the various questions and hanging threads that remain. The most obvious change in the finale is the transformation of the academy housed in the Hargreeves mansion. Not only is Sir Reginald very…
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31 Jul

The Umbrella Academy Season 2 Complete Easter Egg and Reference Guide

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The following contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy season 2.  The Umbrella Academy wears its influences on its sleeve. Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s original comic and the Netflix series it was adapted into pay a great debt to properties like X-Men, Doom Patrol, and even The Royal Tenenbaums. Now for its second season, The Umbrella Academy is even more devoted to Easter eggs, references, and many other real life and pop culture homages. This batch of episodes takes the Hargreeves family back to the early ‘60s where they encounter a whole new host of inspirations. “There are tons,” showrunner…
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29 Jul

The Umbrella Academy Season 2 Opening Scene Debuts

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The Umbrella Academy season 2 is about to come back with a bang…a big, big, big, big bang.  Netflix has released a first look at The Umbrella Academy’s second season in advance of its July 31 premiere. And it isn’t just any old clip, this is the second season’s opening act. Keep that in mind as you watch the unexpectedly climactic three minutes below.  If Netflix doesn’t make viewership data public then it sure doesn’t make show budgets public either. It’s fair to assume, however,  that Netflix originals that perform well in their first season are bound to receive some…
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28 Jul

Hearthstone: The Best Scholomance Academy Cards

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Earlier this year, the Hearthstone team kicked off the game’s Year of the Phoenix with the release of the phenomenal Ashes of Outland expansion. Both that expansion and the name of the game’s current content year sent a clear message that the Hearthstone team is looking to restore the CCG to glory in the minds of those who may have walked away over the years. That brings us to Scholomance Academy. The recently revealed second Hearthstone expansion of the year looks to pick up where Ashes of Outland left off by changing the way that we play the game. Naturally,…
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27 Jul

The Umbrella Academy Season 2 Review (Spoiler-Free)

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Any successful sophomore season has to build on the strengths of its predecessor, particularly in the areas of world building and characterization, and create a compelling new conflict to grab the audience’s attention, and The Umbrella Academy season 2 does just that. One would think that presenting another impending apocalypse for which our heroes are once again responsible would be repetitive, but if anything, this end-of-the-world scenario is even more thrilling because it places everything and everyone in the context of 1960s Dallas just before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a quintessential time travel setup second only to…
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24 Jul

The Umbrella Academy Season 2 Goes Back to the Past

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The world is running out of ‘60s clothing.  The Umbrella Academy costume designer Christopher Haragon shares this news as he walks through a warehouse containing capri pants, floral-print dresses, and a large muscle suit costume with the $29.99 price tag still attached. It turns out that no textile lasts forever.  “I know some people have started tearing up upholstery just to get the designs,” Haragon says.  The 1960s have never really felt that far away for pop culture. Countless movies, TV shows, and comic books have returned to the dramatically fertile ground of the turbulent decade so often that it…
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14 Jul

Hearthstone Scholomance Academy: Release Date, Trailer, Cards, and News

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Blizzard has revealed the first details for the next Hearthstone expansion, Scholomance Academy. “Class will officially be in session early August with the arrival of Scholomance Academy, the next expansion for Blizzard Entertainment’s smash-hit digital card game, Hearthstone,” reads a press release from Blizzard. “Within the hallowed halls of this fabled college of magic, Students will encounter 135 all-new cards, designed to supercharge the game with sorcerous synergies and dazzling displays of arcane splendor.” Considering that Shcolomance is Warcraft‘s most famous school of magic, it should come as no surprise that this expansion will focus on Hearthstone‘s spell cards. In…
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16 Sep

Why Nightwing’s Director Thinks The Movie Will Actually Win An Academy Award

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CinemaBlend recently talked to Nightwing director Chris McKay about his upcoming DC film, and he promised an Academy Award win for Dick Grayson's solo movie. Here's what he specifically had to say. CinemaBlend recently talked to Nightwing director Chris McKay about his upcoming DC film, and he promised an Academy Award win for Dick Grayson's solo movie. Here's what he specifically had to say. Source from..
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