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02 Sep

How Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms Delivers a Real Mortal Kombat 2 Movie

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When Mortal Kombat II hit the arcades in 1993, it was a massive hit. It took the first game, improved the gameplay, and gave us more of the gore and dark humor we loved. Plus: more fighters, more ninjas, more Fatalities, more finishing moves, more secrets, and better visuals. It solidified the franchise’s hold on pop culture, and even convinced Nintendo that including a little blood and gore in a video game isn’t the worst thing in the world. Two other things that really helped kick things up a notch were the game’s atmosphere and story. The first Mortal Kombat…
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14 Apr

Supergirl: The Super Friends Battle Grief

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This SUPERGIRL article contains spoilers for Season 6, Episode 3, “Phantom Menaces.” Supergirl Season 6 Episode 3 On Supergirl Phantoms are on the loose, literally spreading misery and despair like a metaphor for unchecked grief. After a vampiric phantom slowly drains your soul, it will eventually cost you your life force. Meanwhile the Super Friends took on their own grief in varying ways, and not a moment too soon. Alex is barely keeping her head above water with her sister in the Phantom Zone, J’onn is burying himself in the work of getting her back, and Lena’s hiding from it by worrying…
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14 Apr

Rick Grimes Will Return to The Walking Dead Comic to Battle Aliens

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The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman has always liked to tease that the real cause of the zombie outbreak in his long-running comic series was extraterrestrial in nature. Back in January 2020, Kirkman responded to a question on Twitter as to the zombie outbreak’s origin with a simple “space spore.” This was a joke, of course, but it was also a stealthy shout out to what The Walking Dead could have been. Kirkman originally developed The Walking Dead as a Night of the Living Dead comic. But when Image Comics encouraged him to develop his own idea so that he…
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09 Apr

From Battle Beast to Titan, The Invincible Rogues’ Gallery is Taking Shape

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As its blood-splattered title card makes clear, Amazon Prime’s Invincible is quite a bit more intense than other animated superhero shows. Adapted from Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker’s comic series of the same name, Invincible takes place in a stylized, yet realistic world where superpowered punches have real consequences. It’s rare that an episode goes by without our titular young hero getting drenched in blood, whether it be his own or some poor villain’s.  Despite Invincible’s commitment to the violent bit, however, the show still does have quite a bit in common with its more all-ages animated peers. The series…
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24 Feb

Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan Is a Netflix Docu-Drama Written in Blood and Ink

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Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan, a new historical documentary series on Netflix, is being billed as a “real-life Game of Thrones” but it’s much more than that. This is actual history, which is far more compelling than fantasy because it really transpired. “It is like something out of a movie,” says showrunner Matt Booi. “If you wrote this down, no one would believe it. And if you saw it, I think you’d say, ‘Nah.’ But it happened.”  According to Booi, the show covers one of the most violent periods in Japanese history. The six-part series begins in 1551 with…
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12 Feb

The Silence of the Lambs and Clarice’s Lifelong Battle Against the Male Gaze

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Special agent Clarice Starling is breathing heavily as she forces herself to turn the next tight corner. Between deep breaths, she knows somewhere in the back of her mind that she’s being watched. And she can assume those invisible, cold male eyes are making a judgement of her five-foot and three-inch frame: She’s in over her head. Yet she pushes past any condescending skepticism, and she perseveres  through the proverbial dark. At a glance, this could apply to the climax of The Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan Demme’s masterful psychological thriller which finishes with a cat and mouse game of…
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24 Jan

Godzilla vs. Kong Trailer Promises Epic Final Battle, Hints at Larger History

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It’s the championship bout that we’ve all been waiting for…and apparently it’s happened before. No, we’re not talking about 1962’s Toho classic King Kong vs. Godzilla, which brought the big ape from Skull Island and the nuclear-powered dinosaur from the Sea of Japan into conflict for the first time onscreen. But as we find out in the first trailer for Godzilla vs. Kong — the fourth entry in the modern-day series of films known as the “Monsterverse” — these two gigantic icons of monster mythology have possibly met before…in the distant past. “The myths are real,” says Rebecca Hall, one…
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02 Dec

Best Fortnite Chapter 2: Season 5 Battle Pass Skins and Items

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Fortnite Chapter 2: Season 5’s Battle Pass is finally here, which means it’s time for parents everywhere to watch their wallets as children across the world prepare to throw money at Epic Games’ absurdly popular battle royale title. In all seriousness, the launch of a new season really is the best time to get back into Fortnite, especially if you’re going for all the new items. This particular season’s unlocks are highlighted by Mandalorian cameos, gladiators, anime visuals, and a mysterious being known only as Mancake. Here are the best Battle Pass unlocks for Fortnite Chapter 2: Season 5 that…
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19 Nov

Seeing Game Of Thrones, and its Dimly Lit Battle, in a Whole New Light

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It’s been a year and a half since Game Of Thrones aired its final episode ‘The Iron Throne’ (although it feels a lot longer thanks to 2020 time dilation), and now a ‘Complete Collection’ box-set has arrived. It’s slightly odd to behold these 33 discs, squeezed into eight Blu-ray cases, snuggled up in a lovely box, with a little booklet nestled in. So much time has passed since the world watched that finale and the online discourse erupted with the fiery ferocity of Cersei’s attack on the Sept Of Baelor. With so much vocal negativity surrounding season eight, it feels…
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30 Oct

Barbarians’ True Story: the Battle of Teutoburg Forest, Arminius and Roman Defeat

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Warning: contains Barbarians spoilers The story told by Netflix’s Barbarians – the Germanic tribes rising up to take a sizeable chunk out of the invading Roman Empire in the Battle of Teutoburg Forest, also known as the Varian Disaster – is a key historical event that took place in 9 CE.  The battle’s events are related in several historical sources, among them ‘Germania’ by Roman historian Tacitus. The tribes’ victory dealt Rome a heavy blow which is now seen as a turning point in the history of the Roman Empire, which lost up to 20,000 soldiers over the three-to-four-day battle, effectively halting…
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14 Oct

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Comic Ends With A Giant Zord Battle

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The Boom Studios Power Rangers comics have given us things the TV show never could. Hundreds of Rangers in combat on the moon, monsters impossible even for Toei to create, and storylines that we could have only dreamed of. However, one of the best things to come out of the Boom comics are the Zord battles. As cool as they are in the show, the ability to render a Zord battle on the drawn page is something to behold. The things that can do when they don’t have to move a person in a costume or a model around have…
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08 Oct

Robert De Niro Talks Going to Battle Again with Christopher Walken in The War with Grandpa

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It’s a different battlefield from what they’ve known before, and a different kind of movie set too. Perched atop a series of trampolines, with bouncy surfaces beneath their feet, and red rose dodgeballs in their hands, Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken are standing side by side on screen for the first time since 1978’s The Deer Hunter. In that earlier movie, they played young men who eagerly went off to war, but now they’re in a different kind of conflict here. They’re in the midst of The War with Grandpa’s biggest battle. The scene in question occurs at the…
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09 Sep

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Features Cross-Generation Warzone and Battle Pass Progress

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A post on the Activision blog confirms that Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will feature shared progression between generations and platforms as well as additional cross-gen and cross-generation multiplayer support features. “For the first time in franchise history, all fans will experience the next generation of global combat as one community, regardless of the platform or console generation on which they play Black Ops Cold War,” says Activision. “With Black Ops Cold War, an entire Multiplayer party could be comprised of up to five players who are playing the game across the available five platforms, including next and…
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04 Sep

Can Super Mario Bros. 35 Battle Royale Capture the Thrill of Competitive Speedruns?

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When I was young, my brother used to insist he was better than me at Super Mario Bros. I remember challenging him by noting that Super Mario Bros. was not a competitive game and that neither of us had even been able to finish it. He then asserted he was bigger than me and could beat me up. It wasn’t exactly the Lincoln-Douglas debates, but it was the format that defined disagreements in our early years. So while younger siblings everywhere may be looking forward to the recently revealed Super Mario Bros. 35 simply for the chance to settle these…
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03 Sep

Super Mario 35 Battle Royale Game Lets You Play the Nintendo Classic Like Never Before

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Nintendo is celebrating the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. in a very big way this year. Not only is the Big N releasing a collection that brings Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy to the Switch but also a brand new game that that is unlike any Mario game before it. Super Mario Bros. 35 is a new battle royale title that pits 35 little plumbers against each other until there’s only one Mario standing. Check out some gameplay footage for Super Mario Bros. 35 below (starts at 3:35): No, this isn’t the type of…
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31 Aug

The Stand Trailer Teases Battle Between Randall Flagg and Mother Abagail

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The first teaser for CBS’s new adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand has arrived. The 30-second teaser is a very small slice of footage but there are two pretty big reveals in it: our first looks at Whoopi Goldberg’s post-apocalyptic prophet Mother Abagail and Alexander Skarsgard’s Randall Flag, the Walking Dude himself. Check out the teaser below: The Stand, which is considered by many Constant Readers to be King’s absolute masterpiece, is the story of two groups of survivors living in a post-apocalyptic United States after a superflu known as Captain Trips has completely decimated 99 percent of the world’s…
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10 Feb

Alita: Battle Angel

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Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita (Rosa Salazar) is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens she has no memory of who she is, nor does she have any recognition of the world she finds herself in. Everything is new to Alita, every experience a first. As she learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield Alita from her mysterious past while her street-smart new friend, Hugo (Keean Johnson),…
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18 Sep

Battle of the Sexes

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The electrifying 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) was billed as The Battle of the Sexes and became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time. The match caught the zeitgeist and sparked a global conversation on gender equality, spurring on the feminist movement. Trapped in the media glare, King and Riggs were on opposite sides of a binary argument, but off-court each was fighting more personal and complex battles. With a supportive husband urging her to fight the Establishment for equal…
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