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19 Sep

The Devil All the Time Ending Explained

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This article contains The Devil All the Time spoilers. You can read the review here. After so much bloodshed and tragedy, few could expect to find peace at the end of things. That includes Tom Holland’s taciturn Arvin Russell. Yet sitting in a Volkswagen next to a long-haired gentleman, one who appeared to be part of the vanguard for the next generation, the often hyper-observant Arvin is letting his guard down, and a sense of ease washes over him for the first time in probably his whole life. On the radio, President Lyndon B. Johnson is droning on about some…
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17 Sep

Who is Kang the Conqueror? Powers and Marvel Comics History Explained

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Kang the Conqueror is coming! With Jonathan Majors reportedly cast as the villainous master of time in Ant-Man 3, the MCU is picking up a fine replacement to monologuing mass murderer Thanos. But how do you top the man who killed half of all sentient beings in the universe with the snap of a finger? If Kang’s comics history is any indication, you do it with a guy whose ego crosses millennia and multiverses. Kang’s primary ability is there’s…an awful lot of him. And his omega level arrogance. Also he breaks grammar. Or will have breaking grammar. I don’t know,…
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17 Sep

Archer Season 11’s New Direction for Sterling Explained

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Any television show that has been on for 11 seasons is bound to change. Archer has gone through so many metamorphoses that it’s surprising that Franz Kafka isn’t in the writers’ room. The most recent seasons of Archer have attempted to reinvigorate the show’s formula through genre pastiches like a film noir or sci-fi space adventure. All of this has been justified by the lengthy coma that Archer has now been in for several years. The series’ efforts to distance itself from generic spy missions has been a curious experiment, but Archer season 11 brings with it the biggest changes…
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14 Sep

Strike: Lethal White Ending Explained

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Warning: contains major Strike: Lethal White spoilers. It’s fair to say that Strike: Lethal White didn’t have the most streamlined of plots. Condensing a 650-page novel with roughly the same number of characters into just four TV episodes produced a miniseries more squeezed than a carton of anti-depressant-laced orange juice. If you lost your bearings somewhere between the first ‘murder’, the multiple blackmails, the second murder, the secret affair, the valuable paintings, the inheritance scheme, the Zimbabwean war crimes scandal, and the long, tangled history between the families Chiswell, Knight and Winn, nobody could blame you. Take a look below…
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10 Sep

Star Trek: Lower Decks Episode 6 — Riker & USS Titan Easter Egg Explained

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This STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS review contains spoilers. Because Star Trek: Lower Decks happens right after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis, we know a few things about the TNG crew of the USS Enterprise at this time. For one thing, Picard is still in command of the USS Enterprise-E—at least he will be for the next few years. But, in the latest episode of Lower Decks—“Terminal Provocations”—we also got one roundabout reference to Will Riker, Deanna Troi, and the starship USS Titan. Here’s what the Titan Easter egg at the end of “Terminal Provocations” means, and why it might create yet…
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10 Sep

Marvel’s Avengers Post Credit Scene Explained

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This Marvel’s Avengers article contains spoilers. Post-credits scenes are a staple of the MCU, so it’s only natural that Marvel’s Avengers caps off it’s campaign with a teaser of its own. Following the Avengers’ epic battle with MODOK, his Adaptoid army, and his awakened Kree Sentry over the San Francisco Bay, Kamala goes home to Abu, who allows her to continue Avenging in between her schoolwork—roll credits.  Midway through the credits we’re shown Monica Rappaccini, the newly elected Scientist Supreme at AIM (a position she also holds in the comics) holding a meeting in which she lays out her plans…
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09 Sep

Marvel’s Avengers Ending Explained

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This Marvel’s Avengers article contains spoilers. Marvel’s Avengers is a two-pronged game: there’s the game’s narrative-driven campaign and its post-game, online component. Both are informed to its story, which stars none other than the stretchy, spirited Kamala Khan and mostly unfolds over the course of the main campaign. The brunt of the story is pretty standard fare if you’re a Marvel comics fan. The campaign sees Avengers superfan Kamala reassemble the team years after a disaster in San Francisco. The reunited Avengers gradually uncover what really happened on A-Day, when the Terrigen crystal fueling the Avengers’ helicarrier exploded over the…
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07 Sep

Young Wallander Ending Explained: Who Killed Hugo Lundgren?

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Warning: contains Young Wallander finale spoilers. Kurt Wallander’s first murder case left him disillusioned and questioning the point of it all. He’d solved the murder and identified the culprit, but was justice done? Was it hell.  After spending weeks discovering who was behind the murder of Malmo teenager Hugo Lundgren – time in which he was beaten up, stabbed, saw his best friend in Intensive Care, and lost his mentor – Wallander was left wondering if any of it had made a jot of difference. The killer was shielded by wealth and status and would likely slide out of his…
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07 Sep

I’m Thinking Of Ending Things Ending Explained

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Netflix chiller I’m Thinking of Ending Things has arrived to confuse and bemuse. It’s based on the novel by Iain Reid, which is also a mystery, and it’s adapted by Charlie Kaufman, a man with a history of playing around with concepts of fiction and reality in his screenplays such as Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York. I’m Thinking of Ending Things is no less oblique, no less confusing, particularly if you haven’t read the book and only want to watch the movie once. Yep it’s a movie, and a book, which really requires you…
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04 Sep

Disney’s Live-Action Mulan Ending Explained

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This Mulan article contains MAJOR spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review here. Disney just dropped its live-action adaptation of Mulan on Disney+ for “premium access.” Directed by Niki Caro and based on the Chinese legend, the film tells the story of Hua Mulan, a young woman who disguises herself as a man in order to take her aging father’s place in the army. The new, live-action version is very much not a shot-for-shot remake of the 1998 animated film, which means, even if you are a fan of the original Disney feature, you might still have some questions about how everything…
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03 Sep

Raised by Wolves: Mithraism and Sol Explained

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The following contains spoilers for Raised By Wolves. HBO Max’s new sci-fi series Raised By Wolves, created by Aaron Guzikowski and executive produced by Ridley Scott, sees humanity (and their androids) reduced to two warring religious factions; Atheists, and the “Mithraic”, who follow a religion dedicated to the sun god Sol. The Mithraic get their name from an ancient religious cult of the god Mithras. The god Mitra originally came from ancient Persia (modern Iran). At the height of the Roman Empire, he began to be worshipped as Mithras in a Roman mystery cult. The cult became very popular, especially…
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01 Sep

Link Tank: How Legend of Korra May Have Explained a Weird Avatar Mystery

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Here’s how The Legend of Korra may have explained one of the weirdest mysteries from Avatar: The Last Airbender. “Avatar: The Last Airbender is full of hybrid animals. There’s Appa, Avatar Aang’s beloved sky bison. Naga is Korra’s polar bear dog. The ancient lion turtle is another example of the unique creatures that inhabit this world to the point that Aang and his friends think it’s weird when the Earth King has a pet bear that’s not a hybrid with some other animal.” Read more at Inverse. The newest addition to Marvel movies, The New Mutants, contains some questionable scenes…
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31 Aug

Madden NFL 21 User Score Controversy Explained

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Recently, the legendary Madden NFL franchise garnered yet another historic accomplishment as Madden NFL 21 became one of the lowest-rated games in Metacritic history (based on user scores). While we understand that the Metacritic user score section is usually where you go to grind a controversial ax rather than seek out a nuanced perspective on new releases, that always lively corner of the internet isn’t the only place that fans are vocalizing their outrage. Not only are the critic reviews for Madden NFL 21 typically lower than average (our own review was arguably more inspired and passionate than the game…
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28 Aug

Tenet’s ‘Inversion’ Logic Explained

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The central conceit of Tenet is the concept of “Inversion”. Obviously with this being a major plot point we can’t go any further into explaining what “Inversion” is without warning you that this will be a spoiler for the film. Major spoilers for Tenet to follow It’s time travel, all right? “Inversion” is what Chris Nolan calls time travel. Except it’s actually not quite that, and the twists on how time travel is used in this film make for a very Chris Nolan experience. Most time travel in movies relies on one of two mechanisms. The first is some version…
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27 Aug

Star Trek: Lower Decks Haley Joel Osment Cameo Explained

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This Star Trek: Lower Decks review contains spoilers. Although the mother-daughter dynamic between Captain Freeman (Dawnn Lewis) and Ensign Mariner (Tawny Newsome) dominates much of the newest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, you may have noticed a familiar name pop-up in the credits as part of the guest cast. No, your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. That did say “Haley Joel Osment.” And, yes, he was a huge part of the episode. Here’s what’s up with O’Connell, the guy who wants to ascend to a higher plane of existence… Throughout the episode, Tend (Noël Wells) is obsessed with…
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27 Aug

Tenet Meaning Explained: Putting the Title in the Context of the Movie

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Christopher Nolan’s latest movie, Tenet, has now arrived in UK cinemas. It’s a great big spectacular espionage film turned sci-fi extravaganza which comes with a lot of questions, the most obvious of which could be ‘what does Tenet even mean?’ In the world of the movie, the word has multiple meanings. Here we break them down. Spoilers for Tenet to follow. Tenet the word Very basically, it means “a principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy”. In the film it’s less about religion as such and more about philosophy – a belief, a…
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26 Aug

Tenet Ending Explained

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Contains spoilers for Tenet from the start In some ways it feels a bit unfair that the film that is supposed to bring everybody back to the cinema is one that you have to watch twice, possibly once backwards, to understand the plot. Even more than Nolan’s other work, Tenet is a film of clockwork-plotting, non-linear storytelling and the feeling that if you blinked at some point you’ve now missed essential elements of the plot. Luckily, we’re here to talk you through the complicated bits, point out the bits you might have missed, and generally give you everything you need…
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24 Aug

Black Adam Powers and Abilities Explained

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Dwayne Johnson will portray one of the most badass villains in the DC Universe when the DCEU Black Adam movie arrives. While Black Adam has historically been known as a Shazam villain, he’ll get his own solo movie this time around (where he’ll square off with Hawkman and the Justice Society no less!). But what makes Black Adam so tough, and why is one of the biggest action stars of a generation so eager to play him? That’s because he shares that magic word of Shazam and it makes him a formidable character with a cool set of powers and…
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21 Aug

Fletch Reboot Movie’s Difficulties Explained by Former Director in Ted Lasso’s Bill Lawrence

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If the Fletch reboot movie project was an undercover prostate exam, it would have had ample time to belt out “Moon River” many times over. While such a project was recently revived by Miramax, this time starring Jon Hamm, the process has been one marred by so much difficulty, it has been referred to as a cursed endeavor. It’s a notion to which Bill Lawrence, co-creator of Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso, can attest, having once been attached as director for Fletch. The effort to revive and/or reboot Fletch, the Chevy Chase-starring 1980s comedic detective film franchise based on the…
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17 Aug

Star Trek: Lower Decks Timeline Explained

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This article contains minor spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks. Just in case you’re confused, the new animated comedy series, Star Trek: Lower Decks, is not a spoof. Although there are some meta-fictional elements (just how the hell did Mariner have dreams about Khan?) the series isn’t a comedy-spoof of Star Trek, but rather, a comedy series that is set within the Trek canon. As creator and showrunner Mike McMahan has said many times, Lower Decks is canon, meaning things that happen on this series, could, in theory, affect other shows.  But, in terms of the Lower Decks timeline, what…
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