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03 Sep

The Real Martial Arts Behind Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

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This article contains some minor spoilers for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. In the pages of Marvel Comics, Shang-Chi is known as the “Master of Kung Fu.” So when Marvel Studios announced the character to help usher in MCU Phase 4, the one thought on every fan’s mind was that whoever gets cast in the lead role better really know Kung Fu.  In the wake of Netflix’s Iron Fist, Marvel’s other Kung Fu master, there was a lot of skepticism. Marvel had scored with the previous Netflix series Daredevil, which delivered some of the best small screen…
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03 May

New Pokémon Snap: How to Get Behind the Waterfall in Founja Jungle

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One of the most frustrating things in a video game is clearly being able to see that there’s a secret area you can access but not knowing exactly how you’re supposed to get there. While New Pokémon Snap is filled with such instances, few of the game’s secret areas have proven to be as elusive and tantalizing as the waterfall in Founja Jungle. As a waterfall in a video game, you just know that there has to be something good behind it. Of course, New Pokémon Snap makes this area that much more appealing by clearly showing that there’s a…
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30 Apr

Yasuke: The Real History Behind Japan’s Black Samurai

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Yasuke is a groundbreaking new anime that fuses fact and fiction. The six-episode original series streaming on Netflix now is the brainchild of comic artist and animation director LeSean Thomas (Cannon Busters, The Boondocks). The titular role in Yasuke is voiced by Oscar-nominated LaKeith Stanfield (Sorry To Bother You, Knives Out) who is also one of the producers. Yasuke comes from Japan’s animation house MAPPA (Maruyama Animation Produce Project Association) who also produced noteworthy animes like Attack on Titan, Rage of Baphomet, and Punch Line. Grammy-nominated artist Flying Lotus (a.k.a. FlyLo) provides the soundtrack and is also another producer. Yasuke…
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13 Apr

Marvel’s Moon Knight: Oscar Isaac Wails on Some Dudes in Behind the Scenes Footage

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Oscar Isaac has been posting some pretty cool behind the scenes Moon Knight clips online since late March, which has been a treat for everyone following his production company, Mad Gene Media, over on Instagram. While Marvel has kept much of its prep for the forthcoming Disney+ series under wraps, Isaac hasn’t been shy about sharing his gruelling fight training for the role of The One You See Coming. Training for a very physical part that includes all the Marvel bells and whistles can be tough, but the 42-year-old Star Wars and X-Men actor makes it look like a walk…
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29 Mar

Link Tank: The Story Behind Resident Evil’s Worst Soundtrack

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Resident Evil Director’s Cut: DualShock Edition is best remembered for its abysmal soundtrack, but the story behind how it came about is worse. “The story behind this curious misstep is even stranger, and the 25th anniversary of the original Resident Evil is a fine time to revisit one of the oddest chapters in the series’ history. Here’s how Mamoru Samuragochi, the disgraced composer once known as Japan’s Beethoven, left his mark on the iconic survival horror franchise.” Read more at Inverse. Let’s take a moment today to remember actor/singer Andy Hallett and his lovable Angel character, the green horned demon…
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20 Feb

Behind Her Eyes: the Book Detail Too Nasty for the Netflix Show

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Warning: contains spoilers for Behind Her Eyes book and TV series. There’s a cheekily knowing moment in the finale of Behind Her Eyes, a new Netflix thriller with a monumental twist you won’t want spoiled, so look away now if you’ve not seen it. Marianne (played by The Last Kingdom’s Eva Birthistle) is narrating a flashback to the events that forced Adele and David (Eve Hewson and Tom Bateman) to leave Brighton and relocate to Islington. The owner of a café close to David’s psychiatry practise, Marianne had platonically befriended David and, recognising his sadness, encouraged him to make a change and leave his…
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18 Feb

Behind Her Eyes: the Dubious Messages Behind its Finale Twist

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Warning: contains major spoilers for the Behind Her Eyes finale Behind Her Eyes is the perfect duplicity-hinting title for a series that conceals what it is until the very end. The name works both for the psychological adultery thriller that this Netflix adaptation presents as, and for the supernatural story it’s really telling.  Because what’s behind her eyes, in this instance, is him. She is beautiful, wealthy Scottish heiress Adele, played by The Luminaries’ Eve Hewson. He is working class, Glaswegian heroin addict Rob, played by Game of Thrones’ Robert Aramayo. They meet as teenagers at rehab after the death of Adele’s parents, and realise that they…
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17 Feb

Netflix’s Behind Her Eyes Ending Explained

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Warning: contains major plot spoilers for the Behind Her Eyes finale When a novel is marketed with the hashtag: #WTFthatending, you know it’s going to pull a big move. Sarah Pinborough’s 2017 thriller Behind Her Eyes pulls a move so big that Keyser Söze himself would salute the audacity. Not only does the novel swap genres halfway through, shifting from psychological thriller to supernatural fantasy, it swaps lead characters. Literally.  Steve Lightfoot and Angela LaManna’s six-part Netflix adaptation follows suit, with a final episode that prompts viewers to revisit everything we’ve seen until that point. What first appeared to be the slippery story of…
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17 Feb

Netflix’s Behind Her Eyes Cast: Where Have You Seen Tom Bateman and Eve Hewson Before?

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Netflix psychological thriller Behind Her Eyes, adapted from Sarah Pinborough’s hit novel of the same name, sets its cast an unenviably tough task (and not just because almost everyone’s having to do a regional accent). Through subtleties and shifts in their performances, Eve Hewson, Tom Bateman, Simona Brown and Robert Aramayo need to keep the audience invested while keeping us guessing. What is it we’re watching? Is this six-part series the tale of Adele and David’s brittle marriage and the secrets that bind them? Or the story of single-mother Louise (Simona Brown) getting in over her head with this glamorous…
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16 Feb

Superman & Lois: Behind the Scenes of The New DC TV Show

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When you think of Superman, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Is it the cape? The tights? The ability to “leap tall buildings in a single bound?” Whatever Superman’s most recognizable trait, it’s probably the way the character makes you feel that stays with you. The premise that someone so powerful would choose to use that power solely for good is an optimistic one. Despite being one of the most powerful figures in the DC Universe, it’s Superman’s capacity to inspire hope that is his defining characteristic.  “Part of why I find the character of Superman appealing as…
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02 Feb

Star Trek: Bryan Fuller on the Snobbery Behind the Scenes

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Like many aspiring screenwriters in the 1990s, Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller eventually became aware of Star Trek’s remarkable open submission policy and pursued an opportunity to write for the popular franchise, but after seeing the way things played out in the writer’s rooms on both of Trek’s beloved series at the time, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, things didn’t go quite the way he’d hoped. “I got wind of the open submission policy at Star Trek, which was to encourage writers to bring in ideas because it was syndicated and nothing had to connect, so there were a lot of…
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25 Jan

Link Tank: Behind-the-Scenes Facts About Netflix’s Bridgerton

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Bridgerton on Netflix is one of the streaming giant’s most watched series of all time. Check out some behind-the-scene facts about it. “Though it only premiered on Christmas Day 2020, Bridgerton is already proving to be one of Netflix’s most popular series of all time. The lavish period drama, which is set in Regency-era England, is based on Julia Quinn’s eight-book series.” Read more at Mental Floss. Krystina Arielle’s role as host of Star Wars: The High Republic Show prompted a wave of attacks from racist Star Wars fans—and then a counter wave from fans supporting her. “This should have…
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15 Jan

WandaVision: Behind the Scenes Of Marvel’s First Sitcom With Kathryn Hahn

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After a year away due to the pandemic, Marvel Studios is finally kicking off Phase 4 of its ongoing, expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe with…a sitcom. WandaVision, which premieres Friday (Jan. 15) on Disney+, stars Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany as the supernaturally powerful Wanda Maximoff and the equally enhanced synthezoid Vision, with the newly married couple navigating life in suburban Westview, a black and white setting right out of classic half-hour comedies like The Dick van Dyke Show or Bewitched, complete with live audience. But since Vision was killed by Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War and Wanda was not just…
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08 Jan

Beautiful Something Left Behind

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At Good Grief groups, children meet to understand the passing of a parent or a sibling through play, giving in to rage in 'the volcano room' and saying goodbye to a dying teddy bear patient in 'the hospital room'. Over the course of a year, we follow the weekly meetings and get close to Kimmy, Nicky, Peter, Nora, Nolan and Mikayla and their close companion: grief. It is sometimes heartbreaking, but also humorous, to experience the questions about life and death through their open and curious minds. Grief is high and heavy as a mountain, but it helps you understand…
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29 Dec

The Real History Behind Bridgerton

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This Bridgerton feature contains spoilers for the series. Although Netflix’s Bridgerton has actively resisted the label of historical accuracy in favor of a fantasy approach to the era, it is still worth uncovering which scenes, events, and references represent a more creative interpretation to history and which are references to real events.  Dr. Hannah Greig, the historical advisor to the series, describes Bridgerton as “a combination of a historical truth – which is to say that the past is more diverse than we tend to see on screen, and we tend to accept in our popular imagination. But it’s also…
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17 Nov

Pinky and the Brain: The Touching Story Behind the Strangest Animaniacs Episode

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Orson Welles is remembered for many things. His narration of War of the Worlds on the radio is legendary. He gave the world the groundbreaking film Citizen Kane. He schemed to the tunes of zither in the Third Man. He died voicing the planet-eating robot Unicron in Transformers: The Movie. One of the more obscure episodes in his life was when he was hired to record voiceover ads for Findus and their frozen food products. Yes, it’s one of those things that’s just too weird to exist. Once upon a time, Welles was tasked with recording lines for a peas…
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