This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. When The Mandalorian namedropped Tython last week, Star Wars fans who grew up reading the old Legends Expanded Universe of novels and comics likely gasped. Despite the planet’s history as the likely birthplace of the Jedi, Tython had never appeared in a Star Wars movie or TV
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This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. An Imperial Grand Admiral sits in a darkened room surrounded by his art collection. He’s plotting a massive comeback. He’s planning to rebuild the Empire and make this whole New Republic thing look like a massive joke. He’s got blue skin. Did I mention he loves art?
This POWER RANGERS BEAST MORPHERS review contains spoilers. This episode was a huge gamble for Power Rangers Beast Morphers. As I wrote about last week, invoking a plotline from Power Rangers RPM could have blown up in their faces. The cliffhanger with Venjix in the morpher has gone unresolved for over a decade and fan expecations for
This article contains Mank spoilers. You can read our review here. It’s like the climax of a Western. Two men stare across from each other in a showdown of ego and calculation. And Gary Oldman’s Herman J. Mankiewicz (or “Mank”) has just told Orson Welles (Tom Burke) he wants writing credit for the Citizen Kane
This article contains Warrior spoilers. Although the Bruce Lee-inspired Cinemax series Warrior is fiction, it is loosely based on historical events of San Francisco in the 1870s. Just as Nellie Davenport (Miranda Raison) is based upon on a remarkable San Franciscan heroine, Donaldina Cameron, the Season 2 Finale drops a bomb for one of the show’s
Is this the end of Warrior? It certainly seems that way as far as Cinemax is concerned. It’s a shame because the Bruce Lee inspired martial arts series continued to pick up steam throughout its second season. Like with any period fantasy, the first season of Warrior was devoted to quite a lot of world
Certificate: 18 Director: Paul Verhoeven Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell Running Time: 113 mins The year is 1990. It had been three long years since audiences were beguiled and horrified by Paul Verhoeven’s sci-fi police horror, Robocop, but they were about plunged into a similarly disturbing (and vastly bigger) world
Avengers: Endgame who? A Kid in King Arthur’s Court is the best movie about time-traveling on Disney+. “A Kid in King Arthur’s Court, currently streaming on Disney+, is a hidden gem that whimsically merges sci-fi with fantasy. With a logline of ‘Joust do it,’ the film eagerly embraces its over-the-top absurdity. Borrowing liberally from Mark
The future is here. Warner Bros. changed the movie industry, likely forever, when it announced this week that its entire film slate for the next 12 months will follow Wonder Woman 1984 to HBO Max. More than just a shot in the arm for the new streaming service, this obliterates the theatrical window as we
This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. The assassin introduced in The Mandalorian season 1 episode “The Gunslinger” seemed like an exciting new character to add to the show’s noteworthy lineup of rogues…until she was unceremoniously killed off. Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) was a masterful sharpshooter, known for her skills with a sniper rifle
Written and directed by Alejandro Fadel, Murder Me, Monster (or Muere, Monstruo, Muere) follows rural police officer Cruz (Victor Lopez), who is investigating the bizarre case of a headless woman found in a remote area by the Andes mountains. Pretty soon, David (Esteban Bigliardi), the husband of Cruz’s lover, Francisca (Tania Casciani), becomes the prime
Classic rock staple singer-songwriter Yusuf/Cat Stevens is commemorating the 50th anniversary of his two 1970 albums, Mona Bone Jakon and Tea for the Tillerman, with super deluxe box sets. One of the bonuses included is an unearthed music video for his song “Lady D’Arbanville.” Produced for the Mona Bone Jakon release, the music video is
Looking for space opera or alternate Earths? Here are some of the science fiction books we’re most excited about and/or are currently consuming… Join the Den of Geek Book Club! Top New Science Fiction Books September 2020 Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots Type: NovelPublisher: William MorrowRelease date: Sept. 22 Den of Geek says: This next-level
The lead up to the release of the long-awaited sci-fi RPG epic Cyberpunk 2077 has been anything but smooth sailing. Originally announced all the way back in 2012, CD Projekt Red’s follow-up to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has suffered several delays, and not all of them due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Most recently, reports
The conflict ignites in a brand-new trailer for Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War,” hitting theaters May 6! ► Subscribe to Marvel: http://bit.ly/WeO3YJ Follow Marvel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/marvel Like Marvel on FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/Marvel For even more news, stay tuned to: Tumblr: http://marvelentertainment.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/marvel Google+: https://plus.google.com/+marvel/ Pintrest: http://pinterest.com/marvelofficial/
Twins are back, Gemini curse is revealed and lizzie shows her vulnerable side. Watch as hosts @cleverlyclad & @madam_mozell break down episode 10 “ There’s a world where your dreams come true” Mystic Falls is popping up again as the new generation makes it’s appearance! Join the LEGACIES AFTERBUZZ TV AFTER SHOW every week for
In 1995, the image of Japanese animation in Britain was very different from what it is now. It was before Pikachu and Naruto, before Death Note and Cowboy Bebop. Studio Ghibli was around in Japan, but only hardcore anime fans knew about it in Britain. The national media called Japanese animation ‘manga movies’, ignoring fans’
Telling the story of Martin (Andy Nyman, pictured above), The Glass Man delves into the life and mind of a man whose perfect life, with the perfect wife (Neve Campbell) is shattered when a loan shark, Pecco (James Cosmo), calls at their home in the dead of night to collect what he’s owed. Pecco offers
The open nature of animation as a genre and the seeming limitlessness of Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland’s imaginations means that their Adult Swim creation Rick and Morty occupies a big universe … or universes more accurately This creates for an undeniably exciting viewing experience. It feels like anything can happen in a multiverse-spanning episode
There’s no shortage of Grand Theft Auto 6 conspiracy theories on the internet, but one of the strangest in recent memory involves an increasingly popular rumor that suggests the sequel will take place in Virginia. While we’ve previously discussed rumors regarding possible Grand Theft Auto 6 locations, those rumors focused on major fictional/real cities such
This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for “The Sanctuary.” After the hugely nostalgic trip to Ni’Var in “Unification III,” you’d think that Discovery might be briefly done with a ton of callbacks to previous eras of Trek. With Episode 8, “Sanctuary,” that guess is partially correct. When Burnham and Book hit-up Book’s home planet
Today, Marvel tells the hair-raising story of Spider-Verse. This, friends, is a story about embracing one’s destiny… or multiple destinies… from multiple universes. Follow ALL the Spider characters as they team-up to save destiny itself! ► Subscribe to Marvel: http://bit.ly/WeO3YJ Watch more from Marvel TL;DR: https://youtu.be/BhUzzuRKhcI About Marvel TL;DR: “Marvel’s TL;DR” is for the Marvel
Star Wars Sequel Trilogy 2017 middle act The Last Jedi may have a share of detractors for numerous reasons, but the 2019 release of J.J. Abrams’s closing follow-up, The Rise of Skywalker, and three whole years of hindsight have put it into perspective, generating a unique appreciation for director Rian Johnson’s renegade franchise offering. However,
“Fortnite is dead” felt like an increasingly popular sentiment in 2020. You certainly didn’t have to look too hard to find comments from gamers who felt that it was the end of an era for a game so popular that it was prominently featured in the highest-grossing movie of all-time. But in recent months, it
Afterbuzz hosts Tehran Von Ghasri @IAmTehran – Chauncey K Robinson – @MsChaunceyK – Jeff Williams Jr @JeffWillJr discuss DC’s TITANS – SEASON 2 – EPISODE 9 – ATONEMENT. Discussions include Dick Grayson coming clean, the team breaking up, and Connor waking up. Talks also include Gar left in charge, Starfire vs. Blackfire, Hawk and Dove’s
DuckTales has been cancelled after three seasons. It’s a major gut punch to any fan of the astounding reboot of the classic 80’s series. Even three seasons in it felt like the show was only beginning to rev up. It was slowly building a new version of the Disney Afternoon universe, more and more characters
To be abundantly clear: the first Doctor Who Christmas Special was ‘The Christmas Invasion‘ in 2005. However, the first time the show was broadcast on Christmas Day was in 1965, the seventh episode of ‘The Dalek Master Plan’. The previous two years also had also seen Dalek stories at Christmas, with the first ever Dalek
Jurassic World: Dominion star Jeff Goldblum has revealed that there are post-production changes afoot for the movie’s plot which are being deliberately designed to make it more meaningful in a post-pandemic era. Goldblum, who has reprised his role as Dr. Ian Malcolm for the upcoming dino sequel alongside Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Neill
AFTERBUZZ TV — The Originals edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of CW’s The Originals. In this episode, hosts Tiona Hobson, Roxy Striar, and Sam Davidson discuss episode 2. ABOUT THE ORIGINALS: The Originals is a spin-off from The Vampire Diaries which centers around the Mikaelson siblings, Klaus (Joseph Morgan), Elijah (Daniel Gillies),
This article contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 2 It’s entirely possible that those blue macarons Baby Yoda flagrantly stole and porked his way through in The Mandalorian Season 2’s New Hope-y fourth episode tasted better coming out than they did going in, as showrunner Jon Favreau has revealed that they actually “didn’t