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Lucifer Season 5 Episode 15 Review: Is This Really How It’s Going to End?!

This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 15 “He’s not trying to win an election; he’s trying to win a war.” Lucifer does heartwarming and heart wrenching as well as any television series when the story requires it, but nothing adequately prepares us for the devastating news of Detective Daniel Espinoza’s death at the hands of mercenaries hired by Lucifer’s brother Michael. However, it’s the powerful, multi-layered narrative in the season’s penultimate episode that vaults “Is This Really How It’s Going To End?!” into rarified critical air leaving an impossibly high benchmark for others to aspire to. And,…
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WandaVision: What is Going on With the Beekeeper?

This article contains WandaVision episode 2 spoilers. We have a spoiler-free review here. There’s a disturbing moment in Marvel’s WandaVision episode 2 that breaks up the otherwise note-perfect rhythm of sitcom life. Wanda, out on the street in front of her house in the evening, spots a manhole cover being pushed aside…and a man in a beekeeper suit climbs out. He doesn’t seem too pleased that she spots him, either. It’s a moment that we first saw in one of the recent trailers, but it didn’t make it any less unsettling when it happened onscreen in this episode. So who…
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Is Spider-Man: Miles Morales Going to Be on PS4 and PC?

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales is being touted as an amazing follow-up to Marvel’s Spider-Man as well as one of the PlayStation 5’s best launch games by Sony, as we head into the next generation of console gaming. It’s certainly true that a blockbuster first-party exclusive like Miles Morales could help Sony’s next-gen console beat out the powerful Xbox Series X this holiday. While Miles Morales isn’t a “full” sequel to Marvel’s Spider-Man but more of a next-gen expansion starring the fan-favorite Spidey in training, everything that we’ve seen of the game thus far suggests it feature the same brilliant open-world…
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Robert De Niro Talks Going to Battle Again with Christopher Walken in The War with Grandpa

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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Buff Monster And The Melty Misfits Are Going Jumbo

Presented by: The Melty Misfits, creations of artist, painter, and street artist Buff Monster, exist in a brightly colored universe where whimsy and the macabre intermingle. The creations’ strangely cute, typically cyclopic, buck-toothed faces are set inside an ice-cream-based anatomy and, like the tasty treat from whence they evolved, they are always in a state of melting — which means, like life itself, their existence is fleeting.  The ephemeral nature of The Melty Misfits is especially appropriate considering, since 2012, they have made appearances on highly collectible, vintage-style, wax-pack sticker trading cards. Initially introduced as an homage to the Garbage…
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Xbox Series X Pre-orders Are Going as Poorly as PS5

When Microsoft hinted last week that pre-ordering the Xbox Series X and Series S would be a much smoother process than the PS5 pre-order debacle, it probably should have checked with retailers first. So far, Xbox pre-orders are an absolute mess. Minutes after Xbox pre-orders went live at 11 am ET today, several retailers came crashing down, including the Microsoft Store itself, which seemed to collapse pretty much immediately. Target was taking pre-orders but refused to let some customers actually add a console to their carts. Best Buy and Amazon showed up late to the party, but listings either took…
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Movie Theater Owners: ‘We’re Not Going to Be There’ in a Year

The delay of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet this week was dire news for movie theater owners around the world. While Warner Bros. and Nolan remain committed to getting that movie out to international movie theaters, potentially as soon as the end of August, its indefinite delay in the U.S. has triggered a new wave of similar pushbacks, including Mulan’s indefinite delay and Paramount Pictures’ A Quiet Place Part II and Top Gun: Maverick abandoning September and December, respectively. On the one hand, when looking at the grim new data emerging from a surging coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., this seems unavoidable,…
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Spike Lee Says He’s Not Going to Movie Theaters Until Vaccine

Spike Lee is a filmmaker who likes to speak his mind very clearly and forcefully. You probably knew that if you saw one of his movies, which on the big screen can be downright exhilarating. But these days, Lee has no plans of going to a movie theater or any other major public gathering until there is a vaccine to deal with the current coronavirus pandemic. “They ain’t doing a thing,” Lee told Vanity Fair while discussing COVID-19’s effect on the movie industry and movie theaters. “I know I’m not going to a movie theater. I know I’m not going…
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