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02 Feb

The Little Things and the Mystery of Denzel Washington’s Character Explained

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This article contains spoilers for Denzel Washington’s The Little Things. Read our spoiler-free review here. The opening of John Lee Hancock’s The Little Things is pure adrenaline. A young woman minding her own business and rightfully bopping to the B-52’s “Roam”—and also making a nice homage to Buffalo Bill’s final victim in The Silence of the Lambs—is targeted by a mysterious driver who tries to run her off the road. Once cornered at a nearby gas station, the would-be victim is only able to escape by the skin of her teeth. It’s all terrifying, partially because it likely has real…

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22 Jan

Resident Evil Village Merchant: Is it the Same Character From Resident Evil 4?

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One of the most fascinating moments in the Resident Evil Village gameplay footage reveal happens around the 3:15 mark of this video when we are formally introduced to the game’s merchant. Naturally, any discussion of merchants and Resident Evil is going to make fans fondly remember the merchant from Resident Evil 4 and how his cry of “got something that might interest you” preceded what could very well be the only welcome trench coat flash in human history.  In this instance, though, the mere mention of a merchant in a Resident Evil game isn’t triggering flashbacks to Resident Evil 4’s…

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21 Jan

How Resident Evil Village’s Vampire Lady Dimitrescu Became the Game’s Most Interesting Character

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When Resident Evil Village releases later this year, it’ll have the tough job of following up one of the best survival horror games released in the last decade: Resident Evil 7. While clearly inspired by innovative classics that came before like Amnesia, Outlast, and Hideo Kojima’s P.T. demo, Capcom did its own thing with its first-person horror thriller, introducing fans to a gruesome new bioweapon and new protagonist Ethan, a character very unlike the gun-toting STARS and Umbrella agents from the franchise’s past. The result was a hell of a ride full of scares, dismemberments, and more than a few…

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21 Jan

How Search Party Season 4 Revels in Character Specificity

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This article contains spoilers for Search Party season 4 episodes 4 through 6. One of the most tried and true laws of the entertainment industry is: Ann Dowd makes everything better. The character actress livens up just about everything that she’s in, whether it’s as a shockingly charismatic cultist in Hereditary, a shockingly charismatic cultist in The Handmaid’s Tale, or a…shockingly charismatic cultist in The Leftovers. OK, so we might be boxing Anne in a bit here. When it came time to cast basically the exact opposite of a shockingly charismatic cultist in Search Party season 4, however, the show’s…

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15 Jan

How the Mortal Kombat Movie’s Main Character Renews the Franchise

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The grandiose, auspiciously R-rated new movie take on classic ultraviolent video game franchise Mortal Kombat is arriving sooner than you might think. Moreover, thanks to studio Warner Bros’ recent move of setting up its entire 2021 slate of films for day-and-date streaming debuts on HBO Max, the crimson-spilling cinematic scenery will be witnessed by audiences from home this April. However, in a potentially odd divergence from the game’s mythos, it has been revealed that, amongst an ensemble of classic Kombatants, the film’s star, Lewis Tan (Deadpool 2, Wu Assassins), will play a completely original character. Warner’s Mortal Kombat reboot movie,…

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04 Jan

The Watch: Why Did the Discworld Adaptation Do THAT to a Major Character?

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MAJOR SPOILER WARNING KLAXON! Do not read until watching The Watch episode 2. Also contains major spoilers for the Discworld novels Men At Arms and Night Watch. Now that the spoiler warning is out of the way: why did The Watch kill off one of its main characters, Sergeant Detritus, at the start of episode two? Sergeant Detritus the troll is one of the main characters in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. He started out as a bouncer and security guard and had a brief career in the Disc’s even briefer dalliance with moving pictures, but…

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16 Dec

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Kiernan Shipka On Her Character’s Future

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Viewers of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina were heartbroken to learn that Netflix was cancelling the Archie Comics-based series following its fourth season, which debuts in the streaming service on December 31st. But before we say goodbye to Greendale, we still have one final batch of adventures to get through…and the stakes have never been higher. We talked to Chilling Adventures of Sabrina stars Kiernan Shipka and Gavin Leatherwood to discuss what’s next for Nick and Sabrina in the show’s fourth and final season, why their relationship is a fan favorite, and whether or not there is a future for Shipka…

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11 Dec

Owen Wilson’s Loki Character is Based on a Beloved Marvel Writer

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Among this overwhelming tidal wave of Disney project news that consumed us all Thursday night, we got to see the new trailer for Loki, which will be hitting Disney+ this coming May. As shown, this Loki isn’t the one who got choked to death in the opening moments of Avengers: Infinity War, but the Loki appearing during the Time Heist in Avengers: Endgame. After the events of the first Avengers went awry, that version of Loki was able to sneak away with the Tesseract and create a tangent universe. And now…he’s stuck running suicide missions with the Time Variance Authority.…

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03 Dec

Rick and Morty Character Guide Delves Into the Multiverse

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The open nature of animation as a genre and the seeming limitlessness of Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland’s imaginations means that their Adult Swim creation Rick and Morty occupies a big universe … or universes more accurately  This creates for an undeniably exciting viewing experience. It feels like anything can happen in a multiverse-spanning episode of Rick and Morty – because just about anything probably can. But that enormous universe also means an equally enormous stable of characters, which can be hard to keep up with. We gave it our best shot over here, but now the real professionals are…

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19 Nov

How The Big Sky Pilot Fulfills ABC’s “Lost” Promise With Ryan Phillippe’s Character

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This article contains spoilers for Big Sky episode 1. The David E. Kelley-produced crime drama Big Sky premiered its first episode Tuesday night on ABC. Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, it’s thus far the first and only new pilot from ABC this fall season. And as you may have heard by now, it concludes with one hell of a bang. The series is set in “big sky” country in Montana and finds two young teenage girls, Grace and Danielle being abducted by a creepy trucker. That puts Danielle’s boyfriends estranged parents, Jenny Hoyt (Katherine Winnick) and Cody Hoyt (Ryan…

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13 Oct

Baldur’s Gate 3 Character Creator Test Reveals Generic Player Creations

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In a post on the game’s Steam page, Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios revealed that many players don’t seem to be taking full advantage of the game’s extensive character creation options. It seems that the team at Larian combed over the character creator analytics in order to create a new character based on the most popular selections for individual categories. This was what they ended up with when the process was finished: “Congratulations, you’ve basically made the default Vault Dweller,” Larian notes in regards to the results of this experiment. “What the hell guys. We gave you demon eyes,…

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05 Oct

Free Guy Trailer: Ryan Reynolds is a Video Game Character Trying to Save His World

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Free Guy, a comedy that centers itself in a socially-distant video game virtual landscape, ironically finds itself as one of the most prominent stragglers in the dwindling group of major movies still on schedule for a theatrical release in 2020. Indeed, the December-scheduled film continues to tout its plans to hit theaters with the release of a new trailer. Shawn Levy (Stranger Things, Real Steel) directed the film off a script by Matt Lieberman (Scoob!, The Addams Family) and Zak Penn (Ready Player One, X-Men: The Last Stand). Ryan Reynolds stars as the eponymous Guy, a suddenly self-aware NPC (non-playable…

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01 Oct

The 100 Series Finale Brought Back a Major Character

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The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the The 100 series finale. There are several surprising moments during The 100 Season 7 finale, from Emori’s death to Octavia’s last-minute pep talk that stops humanity from killing itself, to the judgment that Clarke Griffin is be doomed to spend the rest of her days alone because she killed the monster who rendered her daughter unable to move or speak. (Eye-roll forever.) However, the final hour’s most shocking revelation has to be the long-awaited return of fan favorite Alycia Debnam-Carey as Lexa. Well, sort of. Before you get your hopes up, fandom, the…

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30 Sep

Mortal Kombat 11 Leak May Reveal Rambo as New DLC Character

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Mortal Kombat 11 is sadly reaching the end of its life cycle. But although NetherRealm has already released the secondary story mode Aftermath, various DLC characters, and few other new features, we’re still due one more DLC pack before the studio moves on to a new game. While fans wait anxiously for the big announcement, series co-creator Ed Boon has been throwing around hints on Twitter. Normally, I’d be going full-on Beautiful Mind with those hints, covering my walls with Ed Boon tweets and newspaper clippings, but Boon isn’t the kind of guy you should trust at times like this.…

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29 Sep

Tekken 7: Kunimitsu Returns as DLC Character in Season 4

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One of the most interesting parts of a fighting game storyline is when someone disappears between installments. Yes, these are narratives based entirely on violent heroes and villains kicking the crap out of each other for the fate of the world, so it’s easy to assume that neglected characters have simply met their ends. But sometimes things can be a little more complicated than that. For instance, Adon was in the prequel Street Fighter Alpha, but wasn’t in Street Fighter II or Street Fighter III. Street Fighter Alpha’s ending suggested that in-between games, he died at M. Bison’s hand. Then,…

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10 Sep

Why Dune Changed the Gender Of One Key Character

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One of the notable differences between book and novel in director Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming film version of Frank Herbert’s Dune — for those who have read the 1965 sci-fi classic — is that the character of Dr. Liet-Kynes is a man in the novel but a woman in the movie, where she is played by British actress Sharon Duncan Brewster. Dr. Kynes, in the story, is an inhabitant of the world known as Arrakis and its official Imperial Planetologist, with the goal of studying the arid, harsh planet and possibly one day terraforming it for a more temperate climate. Kynes…

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04 Sep

Amazon’s Jack Reacher TV Series Casts Title Character

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With Jack Ryan still awaiting its third season, Amazon’s supply of action heroes named Jack R. was running perilously low. Thankfully, the streamer announced today that it has cast the titular hero in its upcoming Jack Reacher TV series.  Alan Ritchson (Titans) will play the enormous lead in Amazon’s upcoming show based on Lee Child’s bestselling series of books.  We  say “enormous lead” because, in addition to being an ex-Army major in the military police, Jack Reacher’s whole deal is being an absolute unit. Child’s beefy creation is said to be 6’5 and top the scales around 250 pounds. A…

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01 Sep

Marvel’s Avengers Reveals Kate Bishop as DLC Character

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Square Enix is adding another character to Marvel’s Avengers‘ lineup of playable heroes. Kate Bishop has been revealed as a post-launch DLC character for the game that pits Earth’s Mightiest Heroes against Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM), the evil tech corporation that’s taken over the world. As her announcement trailer teases, Kate, the third Hawkeye in the comics, is working with SHIELD and is on a mission to find Clint Barton, the first Hawkeye, who has been captured by AIM. Check out the reveal trailer below: In case you’re not caught up on the comics, Kate was first introduced in Young…

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26 Aug

Octavia Blake’s Character Arc Remains The 100’s Greatest Strength

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No matter how much we wish this weren’t the case – the final season of The 100 has some issues. Season 7 has largely shoved its primary protagonists, Clarke Griffin and Bellamy Blake, to the sidelines of its main narrative. It’s thrown itself into telling lore-heavy stories involving time dilation and teleportation stones, rather than wrapping up seven years’ worth of existing character arcs. It’s added a random dark commander as a new Big Bad for the gang to battle, but given him little reason to exist beyond the simple fact that he appears to enjoy killing and violence. (Been…

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10 Aug

Cyberpunk Trailers Reveal New Weapons and Character Lifepaths

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During today’s Night City Wire presentation, the Cyberpunk 2077 team revealed new information about the game’s lifepaths and weapon choices. Let’s start with the Lifepaths. As the name suggests, lifepaths are basically the origin story you assign for your created character. While you’ll ultimately define your character through choices you make in the game, these lifepaths will establish a foundation for your creation which helps cover some of the events that are presumed to have taken place before the game. The three Lifepaths that CD Projekt Red hilighted are Street Kid Nomad, and Corpo. Steet Kids are character who grew…

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