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06 Sep

Power Rangers: The Version of In Space We Never Got

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Power Rangers in Space was a revolutionary entry in the Power Rangers franchise. The show had certainly evolved over the previous five seasons but In Space was a quantum leap forward. Airing in 1998 on Fox Kids, the series featured serialized plots, character arcs with depth, and gifts for longtime fans in the form of returning Rangers and villains. Nearly 25 years later, the series remains highly regarded, many elements of it even making their way into the current Power Rangers comics. But it all could have been so very different. Imagine a version of In Space where Astronema wasn’t…
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06 Sep

Why the PS2’s Sales Record Will Never Be Beaten

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As the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S set incredible sales paces in the midst of strange times, and the Nintendo Switch continues to exceed all sales expectations, many fans find themselves wondering whether or not any of those consoles can eventually dethrone the best-selling video game console of all-time: the PlayStation 2.  Well, as you probably guessed based on this article’s headline, my answer to that question is “No.” The PlayStation 2’s position atop the best-selling console chart isn’t an accident and it’s not a record meant to be taken lightly. It’s arguably the one video game sales record…
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03 Jun

Doctor Who: the Historical Places the Show Has Never Visited (But Should)

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All of time, all of space, at your fingertips. That’s the promise of the TARDIS.  And despite a strong predilection for London, Earth, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the Doctor has certainly gotten about a bit. But the thing about the universe is, there’s a lot of it, and there are still key historical events, massive epochs of history and places in the universe that the Doctor has never been to on screen. Some of these have made appearances in the books, comics, of Big Finish audios, but as ‘The Haunting of Villa Diodati‘ shows, Doctor Who…
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26 May

Link Tank: Wearable Tech That Never Quite Took Off

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Smart glasses. Smart gloves. Smart…shirts? These ambitious wearables never quite took hold in our culture. “While the 2010s was the first decade where wearables really took off, these devices actually have a long, storied history. They date all the way back to 17th century China, when scholars invented a tiny wearable abacus—or you know, the world’s first smart ring. Since then, there’s been a lot of trial and error in creating wearable technology that the average person would actually use. But we’re not here to talk about the successes.” Read more at Gizmodo Now that theaters are reopening, In the…
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21 May

Star Wars: Leigh Brackett and The Empire Strikes Back You Never Saw

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The Empire Strikes Back is a masterpiece of blockbuster cinema and the standard by which we measure all other big-screen space adventures. But before it became the magnum opus of the original Star Wars trilogy, the spark that would become The Empire Strikes Back floated in the nothingness of space, waiting for its big bang.  When Star Wars premiered in May 1977, the saga’s sequel could have gone either the low-budget or blockbuster route. Although we got the latter, there was already a plan in case the film wasn’t a huge hit. George Lucas hired Alan Dean Foster, who ghost-wrote…
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17 May

The Warner-Discovery Merger Proves That Big Is Never Big Enough in the Streaming World

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Back in 2018, telecom giant AT&T completed its $85 billion acquisition of entertainment conglomerate Time Warner, creating a new entity known as WarnerMedia. WarnerMedia immediately became one of the largest entertainment providers in the world, generating $30 billion in revenue per year and hosting more than 40 million subscribers on streaming service HBO Max. Now, just three years later, AT&T has apparently decided that WarnerMedia just wasn’t big enough. On Monday, executives at AT&T Inc. and Discovery, Inc. announced a deal that would combine WarnerMedia and Discovery into one entity that will be able to compete with the likes of…
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17 May

Neil Marshall on Hellboy Reboot: ‘The Script Was Never Any Good’

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For the first time since 2019’s ill-fated Hellboy reboot, director Neil Marshall returns to the horror genre with The Reckoning, in which a young woman (Charlotte Kirk) is accused of witchcraft in northern England in 1665. For Marshall, who launched his directorial career in the early 2000s with Dog Soldiers and the now classic The Descent, The Reckoning represents a return to the genre that gave him his start and to his early independent days, following 2019’s poorly received reboot of the horror-themed Hellboy franchise. Hellboy, which was not a sequel to the two films made by Guillermo del Toro…
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13 May

Those Who Wish Me Dead Review: Angelina Jolie Thriller Never Heats Up

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Based on a novel by Michael Koryta, Those Who Wish Me Dead is the second feature film directed by Taylor Sheridan, the writer and actor whose previous writing and directorial effort was Wind River with Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen. Sheridan has also penned acclaimed screenplays for both Sicario films and Hell or High Water, in addition to co-creating and writing the TV series Yellowstone. Those Who Wish Me Dead shares several common elements with all of these works, in that it is largely set in a vast rural area of the United States–in this case Montana–and it loosely follows…
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01 Apr

“We Have Just Never Listened to Women”: Patrick Ness on Chaos Walking’s Relevance Today

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Patrick Ness’ 2008 science fiction young adult novel The Knife of Never Letting Go was published the same year as Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, but while the latter launched a dystopian YA franchise, Ness’ Chaos Walking series seemed to attract more of a cult following despite tackling similar early-2000s issues through a speculative lens. While Collins struck an arrow through the heart of reality television, Ness turned his attention to information overload, manifesting it as the Noise: an ever-present broadcast of one’s most private, cringeworthy, hateful, earnest thoughts for all to hear—but only for men. On the “New World,”…
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19 Mar

Zack Snyder’s Justice League Ending Explained: The Sequels and DCEU We Never Saw

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This article contains Zack Snyder’s Justice League spoilers. Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a lot of movie. It’s four hours plus of superhero action with some heavy mythological overtones. And it’s ending isn’t even a single ending to this story…it’s multiple endings. And each of these multiple endings is meant to set up a host of spinoff movies and Justice League sequels that we will unfortunately never get to see! We’ll consider the “main” ending of the film, the one that wraps up the initial story begun in 2013’s Man of Steel, to be the defeat of Steppenwolf. But from…
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05 Mar

Why Conker’s Bad Fur Day Never Got a Sequel

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As an M-Rated game developed for the N64, 2001’s Conker’s Bad Fur Day was always going to stand out from the pack of that console’s largely family-friendly lineup of major titles. Even in the year 2021, though, it’s hard to believe that Nintendo ever allowed one of their own publishing partners to release a game so absurdly vulgar, crude, and violent on one of their consoles. That’s the thing that remains so shocking about the title some 20 years later. It’s not that Nintendo greenlit a “mature” game for the N64: it’s that the game they approved utilized the visual…
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19 Feb

Super Mario 3D World Never Promised a Revolution, But Still Stands Apart 8 Years Later

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Getting a new Mario game, even one ported from a previous generation, always feels like opening a present on Christmas morning. Nintendo obviously knows this, having gone so far as to include the never-before-seen Bowser’s Fury expansion as a bonus for players already familiar with the wonders of Super Mario 3D World. And while this new side experiment may not quite be enough to encourage returning players to undertake a second playthrough, newcomers finally have the chance to play one of the most underappreciated Super Mario gems on Nintendo Switch. It’s an apt way to cap off the plumber’s 35th…
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09 Feb

15 Super Mario Games That Never Happened

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Super Mario 3D World’s upcoming debut on Nintendo Switch is a major moment for many Mario fans who didn’t get the chance to play one of the best games in franchise history when it was released for Wii U. In some ways, it’s actually seen as a “lost” Mario game by those who never found a reason to purchase what is arguably Nintendo’s worst console ever. What you may not know, though, is that there have actually been many Super Mario games over the years that were never released for one reason or another. Why many of these projects are…
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14 Dec

The Rod Serling Christmas Movie You Never Saw

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A Christmas Carol is the definitive Christmas story. Yes, you might try and argue it’s the nativity, but the volume of movie adaptations begs to differ, and I can tell your heart’s not in it. And yes, I see those of you rushing to the comments to tell us it’s Die Hard and I think you’re very big and clever. But A Christmas Carol has everything, all the trappings of Christmas, that sliver of darkness running through the whole thing, and above all a strong seasonal message to remind us what Christmas is about. The story has been reimagined and…
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11 Dec

Why The Godfather Part IV Never Happened

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The question first came up in the 1990s, following the release of The Godfather Part III, and it has surfaced occasionally over the years: will we ever see The Godfather Part IV? The fact is that we came fairly close at one point — but a potential fourth entry in the series was ultimately stopped in its tracks. While The Godfather Part III was a modest success with both critics and audiences (it earned $136 million in 1990 money at the box office), it was not enough of a blockbuster to indicate that there was a large audience out there…
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11 Dec

How Star Wars: The Acolyte Could Explore the Sith We Never Saw in the Movies

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Leslye Headland’s long-rumored Star Wars series finally has a title. Revealed during Disney’s Investors Day presentation in December, The Acolyte is “a mystery-thriller that will take the audience into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark side powers in the final days of the High Republic era.” That synopsis doesn’t give us much, but does tease a darker show than what we’re used to from Star Wars. It could be one of the most creative, too. Since it probably takes place decades before the start of the film saga, features new characters, and explores the dark side of Force,…
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19 Nov

Project 007 Could Be the Spy Game James Bond Never Got

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Developer IO Interactive shocked the world today by releasing a teaser trailer for a new James Bond game known simply as Project 007. I highly recommend you check out the teaser trailer for this Bond origin story project if you haven’t already done so. It has been eight long years since the release of the last James Bond game. If you’re wondering why it feels like it’s been even longer than that, it’s probably because 2012’s 007 Legends was a poor attempt at not only recapturing the glory days of Bond himself (its gimmick was that you got to play…
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31 Oct

The Mystery of D.B. Cooper Adds Another Suspect to a List Which Never Landed

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On Nov. 24, 1971, night before Thanksgiving, a man identified as Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Boeing 727 flight bound for Seattle. He told the pilots to circle around a few times before he parachuted out with $200,000, never to be heard from again. A team of 40 FBI agents, criminologists, journalists, and attorneys worked the case for decades. In 1972, 15 copycat hijackings were pulled. The last D.B. Cooper wannabe hijacked a plane on July 11, 1980. He demanded $600,000, two parachutes, and the assassination of his boss. A stewardess gave him a valium and he settled for…
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