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31 Aug

Better Call Saul Confronts Its Legacy in Season 6

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As Better Call Saul heads into its sixth and final season, the AMC hit has found a way to carve out its own path beyond the enormous shadow of its big brother, Breaking Bad. The series combines incredible cinematography, outstanding acting, and intelligent storytelling in a peerless fashion.  As we continue to anticipate the show’s final episodes, we were lucky enough to get the chance to talk with executive producer Thomas Schnauz about how much the drama has already accomplished, how instrumental actors like Rhea Seehorn and Tony Dalton have been to the program’s success, and what the show’s lasting…
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30 Aug

Better Call Saul: How Bob Odenkirk Became a TV Icon

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Fans from all over the world waited with baited breath when they heard that Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk had collapsed on set of the show’s sixth season back in July.  People took to social media in droves to sing the actor’s praises, and when news broke that Odenkirk had suffered a small heart attack but was in stable condition, everyone breathed a collective sigh of relief. The star took to Twitter to thank everyone for their outpouring of love and support days after the scare. Hi.  It's Bob.Thank you.To my family and friends who have surrounded me this…
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18 May

Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous Season 3 Review: The Camp Fam is Better Than Ever

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This Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous season 3 review contains no spoilers. When we last saw the campers of Camp Cretaceous at the end of season 2, these teens were done waiting for help to come rescue them from Isla Nublar. Indeed, after building their own shelter and surviving for months on their own, the campers are probably the best suited humans to survive on a dinosaur-populated island.  If you missed the first two seasons of Camp Cretaceous but are familiar with the larger Jurassic World franchise, it helps to know that the series takes place between the events of Jurassic…
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24 Apr

Mortal Kombat (2021) vs. Mortal Kombat (1995): Which is Better?

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This article contains Mortal Kombat (2021) spoilers. “Test your might.” These are the words of a minigame in the original Mortal Kombat arcade fighter from 1992. They were meant to signal an interlude between the simple pleasures of digitized sprites spilling buckets of blood. Yet they’ve also become synonymous with a franchise that’s arguably the most popular video game fighter of all-time. The phrase is also a pretty apt description for the various filmmakers who’ve attempted the challenge of taming this crazy dragon on screen. More than any other video game series, Mortal Kombat has seen a plethora of live-action…
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24 Apr

Sharon Carter Deserves Better Than the Falcon and the Winter Soldier Finale

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This article contains The Falcon and the Winter Soldier spoilers. The Marvel Cinematic Universe giveth and the Marvel Cinematic Universe taketh away. The MCU proper’s first foray into scripted television resulted in the magical, near-perfect WandaVision, a thoughtful exploration of grief and trauma that finally elevated one of the franchise’s most oft-neglected characters. Its second is The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, a sadly ham-fisted origin story for Sam Wilson’s much-deserved turn as Captain America that stumbles over everything from its politics to the specifics of its basic character arcs. As a whole, the series suffers from dreadfully uneven pacing,…
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19 Mar

Zack Snyder’s Justice League: Why It’s Better Than the Joss Whedon Cut

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This article contains spoilers for zack snyder’s justice league. The long-awaited Snyder Cut is here at last. After nearly four years of rumors, innuendos, hints, allegations, online harassment, and everything else that’s good and bad about fandom, Zack Snyder’s Justice League has been willed into existence by the filmmaker and his legions of fans. Four hours long–one for each year you’ve had to endure the clamor of Snyder acolytes demanding the filmmaker’s vision be restored–Zack Snyder’s Justice League is the ultimate version of the movie that Snyder never completed in 2017. Instead the version of the film that reached theaters…
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16 Mar

Psycho Goreman: Steve Kostanski on Building a Better Monster

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It’s rare that a horror-comedy film gets the attention it deserves. At least, not around the time that it’s released. Even the great ones tend to be labeled a “cult classic” later on, but mastering the genre can regularly lead to bigger things. We see that happen as often as we do because horror and comedy are deceptively hard to balance, and it stands to reason that if you could pull off that balancing act once, you might be able do it again combining other genres. Steve Kostanski has been in the movie business for the better part of two…
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27 Feb

Better Call Saul: Bob Odenkirk Wants a Happy Ending for Jimmy McGill

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Vince Gilligan’s Albuquerque in Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad is a dangerous place. High school chemistry teachers make meth. International drug lords run local chicken restaurants. And even the lawyers can’t be trusted. The lawyers for goodness’ sake! One occupant of the Albuquerque-verse, however, is determined to end off better than he arrived. In a new interview with Collider, Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk teased a bit of the show’s sixth and final season, and shared his hopes for the character he’s played for nine seasons of television now.  Of Jimmy McGill, Saul Goodman, Gene Takovic, or whatever…
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25 Feb

The Da Vinci Code: A Better, Smarter Blockbuster Than You Remember

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I didn’t get it. When Ron Howard’s The Da Vinci Code took the world by storm in 2006, I was far from being a professional critic, but I could still be highly critical of something like this. It was an adaptation of the biggest literary phenomenon of the decade not starring Harry Potter, and it was arriving in cinemas with the kind of media frenzy usually reserved for Star Wars. All the while, its rollout suggested it had aspirations to be an awards contender. How could something that high-handed live up to that kind of hype? As a splashy Hollywood…
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14 Feb

WandaVision Empathizes With its Characters Better Than Any Other MCU Project

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This article contains WandaVision spoilers. As much as we love it, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has never been great about telling complex emotional stories. Perhaps that’s understandable, as the franchise’s various Avengers must regularly wrestle with potentially world-ending stakes and still somehow save the day, all within a two-and-a-half-hour theatrical runtime. These aren’t stories that generally time to be but so concerned with things like the psychological trauma that inevitably resulted from these life-or-death events or how our heroes are meant to heal from them, provided they manage to do so at all. Thankfully, WandaVision seems determined to change that,…
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10 Feb

The Most Intense Better Call Saul Moments

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At the beginning of the month, Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk picked up his fourth Golden Globe nomination for his lead role in the Breaking Bad spinoff series. In the midst of preparing for the sixth and final season of the AMC drama, Odenkirk found out about his nomination while walking his dog, and let slip to Deadline that filming for the new season will begin in March. That’s not the only nugget of info that Odenkirk gave Deadline in regard to Better Call Saul season 6. In a phone interview, Odenkirk told fans to expect a combustible final…
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09 Feb

Link Tank: Framing Britney Spears Shows Why the Pop Icon Deserves Better

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Framing Britney Spears on FX and Hulu is an insightful look into the stories around the #FreeBritney movement, and why Britney Spears deserves better. “The New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears aired Friday night on FX and Hulu, delivering an insightful and reflection on the career of Britney Spears and the current legal issues surrounding her conservatorship. Among all the things the documentary touched on, the most important thing we all have to reckon with is the sexist and ableist environment that festered around her.” Read more at The Mary Sue. For those of you who miss Girl Scout…
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04 Feb

The Little Things is Better Than a Seven Copycat

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This article contains spoilers for The Little Things and Seven. Critics have not been kind to The Little Things, the new Warner Bros./HBO Max psychological thriller starring Denzel Washington and Rami Malek as two Los Angeles cops obsessed with catching a vicious serial killer. Although the film is apparently doing very decent business–especially on the streaming end–it sits at a mediocre 48 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, with many comparing it to the 1995 classic Seven. In that juxtaposition, The Little Things is coming up short. On the surface, there are a number of similarities between writer-director John Lee Hancock’s new…
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02 Feb

Is It Better to Reinvent Fantasy Tropes or Pay Homage to Them?

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In August, we brought you the first part of this roundtable conversation between three of speculative fiction’s most exciting up-and-coming authors: Emily Tesh (Silver in the Wood and its sequel Drowned Country), A.K. Larkwood (The Unspoken Name), and Everina Maxwell. In honor of today’s publication of Maxwell’s queer space opera Winter’s Orbit, we’re publishing the second part of their conversation. In it, the writers and IRL friends have a funny and insightful conversation about elves and the value of a homage, the difficulties of writing sequels, and how to name a book. Q: EVERINA MAXWELL: Fantasy as a genre is…
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14 Dec

How EVE Online Is Changing Players’ Lives for the Better

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This article is presented by CCP. Video games change lives.  20 years ago, people would have scoffed at, perhaps even ridiculed, the idea that a game could have a profound effect on its players. But nowadays, it would be very difficult to find a gamer who disagrees. Since its inception, gaming has been an engrossing hobby that helps build relationships, offers stress relief, and can even serve to impart lasting life skills. As games themselves have evolved and pursued more ambitious endeavors, this has only become more true.  One game that exemplifies this is EVE Online, a massively multiplayer online…
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11 Nov

The Outsider is Better as a One-Season Wonder

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Here’s a fun little look behind the curtain. Back when HBO announced the release date of Richard Price’s atmospheric Stephen King adaptation, The Outsider, Den of Geek ran the news as an article, as one does.  Shortly after the article went live, representatives from HBO reached out to clarify that they weren’t categorizing the project as a “miniseries” as many outlets (and none other than Wikipedia itself) had reported but rather a traditional series. It seemed clear then that HBO had at least the possibility of multiple seasons in mind when it greenlit the show. After all, why wouldn’t they?…
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21 Oct

Rep. Ilhan Omar vs. Henry Cavill: Who Has the Better Gaming PC?

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As we previously reported, U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took over Twitch recently when she decided to stream Among Us via the platform as part of her campaign to encourage people to get out and vote. Joining her were streamers Pokimane, DrLupo, Myth, Maia, Jacksepticeye, MoistCr1TiKaL, Hasanabi, and Disguised Toast as well as fellow U.S Representative Ilhan Omar. It was a pretty cool event made that much better when Congresswoman Omar took to Twitter to share a photo of her gaming PC: When you’re winning: pic.twitter.com/Fu7CMyCQDA— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) October 21, 2020 We’ll dive into the specifics of that build here…
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05 Oct

Clarke Griffin Deserved Better Than The 100’s Final Season

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This THE 100 article contains MAJOR spoilers for the ending of the series. For The 100 fans, our fight is finally over. The series wrapped up its seven-season run with an hour that saw Lexa return (sort of), Octavia save the day (sort of), and most of humanity choose to completely abandon corporeal existence entirely rather than continue to suffer through life on the ground (again…sort of). Long story short: If you can’t entirely explain what really happened at the end of this show, you’re probably not alone. As a proper ending, The 100 series finale hedges its bets in multiple directions,…
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19 Sep

Antebellum Review: Janelle Monáe Deserves Better

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Antebellum is the debut feature-length film by writer/director duo Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz. In the film, they aim to explore what happens when the past, present, and future collide in a time where activism against injustice is prevalent. And it comes from one of the producers of the successful thriller, Get Out, which seems to be a regular announcement made among horror and thriller films these days. When you see those words pop up on the screen, expect a movie with a strong social message. It’s like woke cinema is its own genre now.  But a film that focuses…
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