Month: August 2019

Nintendo Switch Online is the subscription service for owners of, you guessed it, the Nintendo Switch. The portable games console’s snazzy membership club launched properly in September 2018, and, although membership isn’t essential to enjoying the Switch, it does connect you to some pretty cool stuff.  In terms of pricing, single-user membership to Nintendo Switch
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Who said anything about superhero fatigue? Amazon Prime has reported that its Garth Ennis superhero adaptation from producer Seth Rogen, The Boys, is already among its most watched original series ever. And that’s only after two weeks.  “I’m so beyond thrilled with the response to Season 1. And mainly, it’s made me get my ass
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Matthew Vaughn‘s film adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s Stardust is more than a decade old, but it hasn’t lost any of its magic. With an all-star cast that included Daredevil‘s Charlie Cox and Homeland‘s Claire Danes, a director who would go onto make X-Men: First Class and Kingsman: The Secret Service, and a story from the mind of Neil Gaiman, Stardust is a funny, clever, and heartfelt fairy
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Fans are wondering what’s going on after Death Stranding was removed from an official list of upcoming PlayStation exclusives.  As users on the ResetEra forum first noted, Death Stranding is not listed as an upcoming PlayStation exclusive on PlayStation’s Australian website. The funny thing is that it was listed as an exclusive on that website
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Children of Blood and Bone arrived in 2018 as a refreshing YA fantasy offering that eschews the genre’s obligatory array of sexy monsters and post-apocalypstic scenarios, centering itself in the arena of African mysticism, focused exclusively on African characters. With the novel’s 25-year-old Nigerian-American author, Tomi Adeyemi, already set to release a sequel novel this
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When The Expanse Season 4 launches on Amazon in December, the science fiction drama based on the bestselling series of books by James S.A. Corey will be available in the “same” place around the world for the first time ever as an Amazon Global Original.  Previously, The Expanse aired on Syfy in the United States, streamed
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Warning: This feature contains spoilers for all five seasons of iZombie, up to and including the series finale. With Game of Thrones ending its White Walker plotline a little too early for some viewers and The Walking Dead apparently set to trudge on indefinitely, leave it to iZombie to bring its zombie serial to a
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This article contains major spoilers for the Preacher comics and probably the TV series, too. It’s also completely unsuitable for younger or more sensitive readers. In the world of Preacher, horror is the eleventh commandment. TV fans are now in on what countless DC Comics and Vertigo fans have known for years, that when it
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Developers Ben Wasser and Rebecca Cordingley reveal that they’ve been receiving threats from fans over their decision to make PC game Ooblets an Epic Store exclusive.  “We don’t take ourselves too seriously and maintained that throughout our multiple communication channels. It’s been that way for as long as we’ve been around,” says Wasser in a post on Medium.
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This The 100 review contains spoilers. The 100 Season 6 Episode 13 Unlike past season finales of The 100, “The Blood of Sanctum” doesn’t come with a sense of inevitable tragedy. Yes, the Primes are dead and many others died in Sanctum, but for once it doesn’t feel like that was SpaceKru’s fault. In spite of what
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Alicia Silverstone and Mark Feuerstein have joined the cast of Netflix‘s The Baby-Sitters Club adaptation, which has already begun filming in Vancouver. Silverstone will play Kristy’s mother, Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer, while Feuerstrin will play her love interest, Watson Brewer. This is more parental focus than I ever remember from The Baby-Sitters Club books (though Elizabeth and
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Garfield is getting ready to ravenously devour lasagna and malign Mondays as part of Nickelodeon. That’s because Viacom Inc., the channel’s corporate parent, has acquired property owner Paws, Inc., making it officially part of the Nick stable. The announced acquisition of the Garfield intellectual property and its placement with Nickelodeon is part of its ongoing
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This Legion review contains spoilers. Legion Season 3 Episode 6 After giving Syd a second chance to crawl before she runs in the light-hearted, divergent “Chapter 25,” which I admittedly may have been too harsh on, Legion gets back to its bread in butter with the penultimate “Chapter 26.” This show is always at its most compelling when
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Netflix is pulling a sword from a stone in its upcoming original series, Cursed. Based on King Arthur’s Lady of the Lake, the project comes from comic book writer/artist Frank Miller (The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City) and Puss in Boots writer/producer Tom Wheeler. The 10-episode series is based on Miller and Wheeler’s upcoming illustrated
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A cryptic video released via Twitter has gotten gamers buzzing about Hotline Miami 3. However, Devolver Digital has stepped in to confirm that they are not actually developing a sequel to the revolutionary indie title.  “This is a very cool fan film (or teaser for one maybe) but rest assured there is not another Hotline
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Star Trek: Picard was one of the most-anticipated properties at San Diego Comic Con this year, with Sir Patrick Stewart himself taking the stage at Hall H to rapturous applause. For many Star Trek fans in attendance and at home, the question of where Picard will stand in relation to Star Trek: The Next Generation, the series
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Mark Russell would seem like an odd choice to write a Sinestro comic. Before he started writing the shockingly terrific Wonder Twins in the mainstream DCU; before the critical darlings that were Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles or The Flintstones; even before the too-beautiful-for-its-time Prez, Russell got his start in comics when Top Shelf picked up
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Good news! The Affair Season 5 is happening. Showtime has announced that a fifth season of its infidelity drama will be arriving eventually. Bad news! It’s the last season. “We love the intimacy, the nuance, and the emotional honesty of The Affair’s subjective examination of both infidelity and fidelity. Gary Levine, President of Programming Showtime Networks, said in a statement. ”Sarah Treem
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This article comes from Den of Geek UK. As Game Of Thrones proved, when a TV adaptation overtakes its source material, problems can follow. Invention and expansion is required, but, even with the blessing of the original creator, on-screen continuation of a story is often treated by fans as unwelcome and non-canonical. When Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale arrived in
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The Halo live-action TV series is a go at Showtime. The 10-episode series, which will begin filming in Budapest in Fall 2019, takes place during “an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant,” weaving “deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future,” according to a statement
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Shawn Hatosy plays the eldest brother, Pope, in TNT’s Animal Kingdom, which follows the Cody family’s criminal exploits and the betrayals and emotional highs and lows of their lives together, but the actor also made his directorial debut with the show last season. This Friday’s episode titled, “Julia,” marks Hatosy’s second time in the director’s
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