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08 Sep

Barbarians Season 2: Questions the German Netflix Series Needs to Answer

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Warning: contains spoilers for Barbarians season one. While historians may have other items on their wish list (including more a more accurate representation of 9 AD, judging by some responses), what most viewers want from a second season of Barbarians is escapist action. We want hefty sword fights, ferocious armies, blood-daubed faces screaming for revenge, shocking deaths, betrayals, and naked hook-ups in the dye shed. All that is hopefully in the pipeline now that filming on season two is underway. As reported by Deadline, the second season of Germany’s most successful Netflix production went into production in and around the…
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26 May

The Flash Really Needs to Fight Some Bad Guys Again

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The following contains THE FLASH spoilers through Season 7, Episode 11. Good news, The Flash fans: Our long national nightmare that was the Forces of Nature storyline is finally over. Granted, “Family Matters, Part 2” has many of the same problems as last week’s installment – the nonsensical sibling connection between the various Forces of Nature, the show’s insistence on calling them godlike beings even while treating them like Barry and Iris’s literal children, the general creepiness of Speed Force Nora’s existence, the cringe-y dialogue and awkwardly forced emotion. Let’s not even try to figure out how Barry and friends…
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19 May

Link Tank: Why The Martian Fans Needs to Read Project Hail Mary

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Project Hail Mary sees sci-fi author Andy Weir going back to what made The Martian so successful. “Project Hail Mary, the third book by Andy Weir, finds the author going back to what made him famous in the first place. Weir rose to fame with The Martian, a book (and eventually a movie) about a man stranded on Mars who uses complicated, compelling science to get himself home. While Weir’s second book, Artemis, deviated from that formula, his latest harkens back to The Martian’s formula, just with bigger stakes and one major addition.” Read more at Gizmodo. John Boyega is…
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15 Apr

Who Needs Megazords When You Have Armored Saurus?

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Do you like giant robots? Do you like dinosaurs? Do you like Power Rangers? If you answered any of those questions you’re aware of the Megazords in Power Rangers (adapted from Super Sentai.) Those giant robots that combine to make a big robot. They’re pretty cool, right? Yeah, of course they are. But what if they were even better? “How?” you must be asking. How could giant robot dinosaurs be any cooler? We’ll tell you. Giant dinosaurs who wear armor, effectively wearing a Mecha suit, and fighting other giant robots. These are the incredible creatures of a new series premiering…
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15 Apr

Why Star Trek Needs More Characters Like Captain Lorca

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When Star Trek: Discovery first began, the show was remarkable in that, for the first time in franchise history, its primary protagonist wasn’t a starship captain. Your mileage may vary when it comes to how you feel the show has handled Michael Burnham’s journey over the course of its three seasons to date, but there’s no question that she, rather than the person at the eponymous ship’s helm, was always meant to be Discovery’s lead. As a result, the show had a unique opportunity in its first season to explore a very different kind of captain with a very different…
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07 Apr

Voyagers Review: Horny Sci-Fi Movie Needs a Time-Out

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Writer-director Neil Burger has dipped into science fiction both for adults and the YA audience a couple of times throughout his career. First with his 2011 film Limitless, in which Bradley Cooper becomes a mental powerhouse thanks to a mysterious drug; in 2014, he helmed Divergent, one of the last gasps of the dystopian young adult subgenre; and with the new film Voyagers —which features the filmmaker’s first original screenplay since 2008’s The Lucky Ones—Burger plunges full-on into sci-fi with a space-based thriller that takes some familiar material, and… doesn’t do much with it. There are two familiar—perhaps overly familiar—plot…
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06 Apr

E3 2021 Needs to Find a Way to Stay Relevant in Changing Times

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The ESA has revealed that E3 2021 will run from June 12 to June 15 as an “all-virtual video game showcase that will be 100 percent free for attendees.” So far, the ESA is touting “early commitments from Nintendo, Xbox, Capcom, Konami, Ubisoft, Take-Two Interactive, Warner Bros. Games, and Koch Media” with more possible presenters to come.  Considering that the fate of E3 2021 was very much in doubt after last year’s event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and companies everywhere hosted their own digital events as the ESA failed to organize the same, this announcement may be…
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02 Apr

Christopher Eccleston on Why Doctor Who Canon Needs Exploding

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Without the acerbic wit of the Ninth Doctor in 2005, the 21st-century geek landscape would look a whole lot different. If we were to borrow the TARDIS from Doctor Who, and pop back to the debut of “Rose” on March 26, 2005, we’d know we were standing on the edge of a moment when everything changed. Before Doctor Who, Christopher Eccleston had been known for hard-edged, gritty roles like the game-changing horror flick 28 Days Later or Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave. After Doctor Who, Eccleston was known for…well…even more hard-edged roles; from the baddie Malekith in Thor: The Dark World…
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30 Mar

Attack on Titan Season 4: Questions Part 2 Needs to Answer

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This article contains spoilers for Attack on Titan season 4 part 1. But not for season 4 part 2, or the manga (that we know of). Many anime come along and leave an undeniable mark on the industry, yet every season of Attack on Titan manages to dramatically increase in quality as well as deepen the series’ scope and themes. Attack on Titan season 4, dubbed as Attack on Titan: The Final Season has pushed these limits more than ever before and the anime’s latest collection of episodes brilliantly play with the audiences’ perception of who they should root for…
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11 Mar

Meyers Leonard’s Call of Duty Twitch Slur Proves Voice Chat Still Needs to Grow Up

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While streaming Call of Duty on Twitch earlier this week, NBA player Meyers Leonard used an anti-Semitic slur to deride an opponent. Despite his apparent attempt to delete the video, the internet discovered what happened and quickly spread footage of the moment. The response to Leonard’s use of the slur has been swift. The following day, the Miami Heat announced that Leonard will be “away from the team indefinitely” and that the team will “cooperate with the NBA while it conducts its investigation.” Furthermore, two of Leonard’s sponsorers (Origin and SCUF) announced that they have “ceased” their “working relationship” with…
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04 Mar

Coming 2 America Review: Eddie Murphy’s Zamunda Needs New Blood

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Before watching Coming 2 America, try to think of some successful comedy sequels. If the best you can conjure up is Wayne’s World 2 or 22 Jump Street then that really speaks for itself, doesn’t it? More difficult than the traditional comedy sequel is the many-years-too-late variety of retread. Just ask Zoolander 2 or Dumb and Dumber To. Rehashing the same jokes and running them into the ground, reusing the old beloved catchphrases, and hitting the same story beats typically set comedy sequels up for failure, no matter how nostalgic audiences may be for the original. For every Borat 2,…
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16 Dec

Why The Wilds Needs a Season 2

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This The Wilds feature includes MAJOR spoilers for the end of Season 1. Those who have already worked their way through the ten episodes of The Wilds’ first season on Amazon Prime, which dropped on December 11th, will have been left with one overwhelming question: will there be a season two? It’s natural to want more episodes of something you enjoy, of course, but The Wilds adds more fuel to that particular desire with its unsolved mysteries, budding relationships and largely unfinished character journeys. When the final episode cuts to black, we’ve just witnessed Leah making a break for it…
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10 Nov

WWE Raw vs. Smackdown Brand Supremacy is Boring and Needs to End

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Every year, it’s the same thing. WWE will air its annual Survivor Series pay-per-view in a few weeks, and “the battle for brand supremacy” will again be a thing, where Team RAW will take on Team SmackDown in an elimination match. And once again, the story WWE is telling with this match continues to be the same thing year after year. You won’t believe it! But, RAW members are bickering over who is going to be the team captain! Crazy, huh?  Not to mention, four of the five wrestlers on the RAW team were on SmackDown until three weeks ago, when WWE ran its draft and shook up the rosters. That’s right.…
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05 Nov

The Power Rangers “Reboot Universe” Is Exactly What The Franchise Needs

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In the early 1990s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers burst onto the scene and quickly became one of the hottest kids shows on the planet. Millions of toys were sold, ratings went through the roof, multiple copycats were created, and a big budget movie was put into production. Power Rangers’ place in pop culture was cemented and secured a long future for the franchise. However, as the years went on and Power Rangers continued on television its fame slowly evaporated. It fell into the background; successive seasons of the TV show were enjoyed by new generations of kids and hardcore fans…
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03 Nov

5 Things The Elder Scrolls 6 and Starfield Engine Needs to Improve

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At the Develop: Brighton keynote session, Bethesda’s Todd Howard stated that the studio is developing overhauls to their controversial Creation Engine which could represent the biggest leap in technology that we’ve seen from Bethesda since the transition from the Xbox generation to the Xbox 360 era. “It’s taken us longer than we would have liked, but it’s going to power what we’re doing with Starfield and Elder Scrolls 6, and when people see the result, they’ll hopefully be as happy as we are with what’s on the screen, but also in how we can go about making our games,” Howard…
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23 Oct

A New Dexter Finale Needs to Reckon With Dexter Morgan’s Sins

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Like it or not, the Bay Harbor Butcher, Dexter Morgan, is returning to Showtime. The network announced that a new 10-episode limited revival of Dexter is coming in 2021. According to returning showrunner Clyde Phillips, who was in charge of the earlier seasons of the Miami-set crime drama before it jumped the bloody shark, the revival aims to deliver a more fitting ending for the series. After fans and critics alike despised the disappointing season 8 finale, which saw Michael C. Hall’s serial killer retiring to the Pacific Northwest to become a lumberjack, Phillips, Hall and Showtime are returning to…
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26 Aug

Keanu Reeves Needs You to Accept That Bill and Ted Aren’t Stoners

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Just as long-awaited comedy threequel Bill & Ted Face the Music is about to be unleashed onto the world, Keanu Reeves has something to say about its iconic central characters, Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted Theodore Logan: they are categorically not stoners. Sure, some people might have enjoyed watching Reeves and longtime pal Alex Winter in the Bill and Ted movies over the decades while high as all fuck and may have also projected that onto the beloved pair of time-traveling dudes, but that doesn’t mean the characters were ever anything other than lovable goofballs who just wanted you…
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12 Aug

The Quentin Tarantino Star Trek Movie is Just What the Franchise Needs

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In perhaps the funniest episode of Star Trek: The Original Series (sorry “Trouble With Tribbles”!) Captain Kirk boldly strides on a pool table, decked out in a blue pinstripe suit, and says, in a tortured faux Al Capone-accent, “the Federation is taking over the whole ball of wax.” He’s talking about the planet Sigma Iotia II, better known to Trekkies as “the mobster planet.” “A Piece of the Action” imagines a planet entirely run by ‘20s and ‘30s style mobsters, and now, it seems this slightly obscure Trek concept is about to make a big comeback. According to Deadline, the…
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13 Jul

Star Trek: The Original Series Needs A Real Origin Story

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When Star Trek: Strange New Worlds eventually debuts on CBS All Access and gives us the further adventures of Captain Pike, Spock, and Number One aboard the USS Enterprise NCC-1701, another gap in the Star Trek timeline will be fully explored. And yet, this gap isn’t the weirdest missing piece of Trek history. Other than one episode of The Original Series, we have almost zero on-screen canonical record of adventures that may have occurred for some — or all — of the year 2265, the first year of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy’s five year mission on the Enterprise. In essence,…
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01 Jul

15 Baby-Sitters Club Books the Netflix Show Needs to Adapt

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For readers of a certain age, at one point in our youth, there was absolutely nothing better than Ann M. Martin’s The Baby-Sitters Club. The books followed the story of a group of preteen girls who start a babysitting business together and while there are plenty of tales of unruly kids and overbearing parents, at its heart, this is a series about the bonds of female friendship. The BSC is comprised of girls from a variety of backgrounds who all bring unique points-of-view to the group, but who support and uplift each other whenever possible. (It’s basically shine theory, before…
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