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Star Wars KOTOR: The PS5 Exclusive Sony Needed

We heard rumors that Sony’s PlayStation Showcase was going to be a big event, but we never imagined that they would kick off the show by confirming that the long-awaited Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake from developer Aspyr will be a timed PS5 exclusive. Yes, in case you haven’t heard, Aspyr is not only taking on the tall task of remaking BioWare’s beloved 2003 RPG (and the greatest Star Wars game ever made) Knights of the Old Republic, but Lead Producer Ryan Treadwell has since confirmed that the game will be a “console exclusive on PlayStation 5…
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Why Star Trek: Discovery Needed to Write Out Its Klingons

The third season of Star Trek: Discovery was many things, including a trip into an uncharted future that released the series from concerns about pesky things like existing franchise canon and a soft reboot that allowed a show that had often struggled to determine its identity to find its voice at last. It was also the first Discovery season that didn’t feature one particular Star Trek staple: The Klingon race. Are those things connected to one another? Signs definitely point to yes. To be fair, few fans were probably that surprised by this particular narrative. The Klingons are essentially Discovery’s…
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Superintelligence Review: Melissa McCarthy Movie Needed to Upload More Laughs

Superintelligence is a strange experiment of a film. Maybe that’s by design since the crux of the movie pivots on a sentient artificial intelligence studying Melissa McCarthy for three days, using her “averageness” as a barometer to determine if humanity is worth saving. But the real test of the film appears to be if you cast an entire troupe of charming actors, with McCarthy as the lead, and not include one laugh… will audiences still think they’re watching a comedy? To be sure there are plenty of pleasant actors doing pleasant enough work in Superintelligence, from McCarthy as everywoman Carol…
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Why Dune Needed To Be Two Movies

Frank Herbert’s Dune is a massive novel — somewhere between 400 and 500 pages depending on your edition — but more than just the page count, it’s an incredibly dense book. Herbert created a distant future in which humankind has spread far and wide across the galaxy, although his far-flung empire was a unique mix of feudalism, mysticism and high technology. Instead of democracies and free societies, Herbert’s empire was ruled by an oligarchic cluster of powerful families for which political infighting was a normal way of life and for whom control of melange, also known as “the spice,” was…
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