“We wanted to make something really epic,” director Cate Shortland (pictured above, centre) tells us when we speak about her and Natasha Romanoff’s latest movie, Black Widow. As an intricate member of The Avengers, it’s been widely speculated for years why she’s the only member of the super gang not to have her own solo
Month: October 2021
It all made too much sense not to happen. After borrowing Shirley Jackson’s source material for 2018 series adaptation The Haunting of Hill House and Henry James’s (again: we must insist you call him “Hank Jim”) for 2020’s The Haunting of Bly Manor, there was only one classic horror author for filmmaker Mike Flanagan to
Joker first disturbed widespread audiences on October 4, 2019—over two years ago already! Not only was it a dramatically groundbreaking outlier of a comic book movie, but it was the last major genre offering to hit the big screen before the pandemic upended the theater industry. Moreover, despite its homicidal barrage of bleakness, the film
Battlefield 2042‘s ongoing open beta (which is currently available to those who pre-ordered the game but will be available to everyone starting on October 8) certainly showcases the game’s potential, but it’s easy to imagine that most fans’ biggest takeaway from the playable preview may just be this game’s technical shortcomings and how they strongly
Roger and the militia run into the Brown’s who want one person: Morton. The Brown’s believe Morton dishonored their daughter, Alicia, preventing her from marrying Ford. Roger makes the decision to give them Morton which pisses off Jamie when he arrives with Claire and the baby. Brianna can’t find Jemmy. After searching for him in
We think this cover belongs in a frame! Out next year, Under Her Skin features the best in never-before-published dark verse and lyrical prose from the voices of Women in Horror and we’re revealing its amazing cover by horror artist Lynne Hansen above. This book of poems and prose poetry was written by women (cis
Scheduled for release for Nintendo Switch on October 8th, the highly anticipated Metroid Dread is being touted as the final chapter in the Metroid story that began nearly 35 years ago. This isn’t necessarily the last time we’ll see Samus in action (Metroid Prime 4 will finally be released one day), but it will likely
This review contains spoilers for Marvel’s What If…? episode 9 In the season finale of Marvel’s What If…?, ‘What if… The Watcher Broke His Oath?’, we discover what happens when The Watcher finally intervenes in the MCU’s escalating multiversal madness. As some of you may have assumed, the Guardians of the Multiverse do indeed assemble
This article contains spoilers for Marvel’s What If…? Episode 9. Marvel’s What If…? finished its first season with its ninth episode, bringing everything together for one, big climactic finale. To defeat a multiversal threat in Infinity Ultron, our narrator Uatu the Watcher put together heroes from previous episodes to form the ultimate team. This team-up
The Frasers must come to terms with all that has changed in the aftermath of the Battle of Alamance Creek; Brianna tries to help Roger overcome the trauma he has endured; an unexpected visitor arrives at the Ridge. Be sure to check out the After Show hosted by: Leigh Broadway, Adrian Snow, Rachel Goodman, Angele
Picking up shortly after the explosive finale of Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge (read our review here), Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms, finds our team of heroes besieged by the enemy forces of Shao Kahn – forcing Raiden and his group of warriors into a deal to compete in a final Mortal Kombat
It’s been far too long since TV viewers got to spend time in Westeros. Thankfully, we will all be returning soon. Today HBO Max revealed an official teaser for House of the Dragon, the first of many planned Game of Thrones spinoffs. Check it out below. This story is a prequel that picks up roughly
The 1960s TV sitcom The Addams Family was brilliant, but could only go so far because of the sensitivities of the times. Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1991 creature feature comedy classic The Addams Family, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this month, is marvelous, but Raul Julia is far too handsome to capture the repugnance of Chas Addams
The arrival of House of the Dragon’s long-awaited debut trailer reveals a version of Westeros in which royal House Targaryen reigns supreme with the strength of swords and the fire of dragons. Yet, while the defining symbol of said supremacy, the Iron Throne, makes an appearance, it looks dramatically different from the one coveted by
The BFI London Film Festival (LFF) always brings us a great array of movies and events to look forward to and now it its 65th year, LFF 2021 looks to be no different! Moreover than that, its genre content looks as stellar as ever, ranging from mysterious time travel thrillers, to found-footage horror, to top
Current Jeopardy! champion Matt Amodio reached a very important milestone last week. By winning his 33rd consecutive game on Friday, the Yale Ph.D. student moved into second place all-time in consecutive wins, just ahead of James Holzhauer and 41 games behind the Jeopardy! GOAT Ken Jennings. Amodio’s streak has been both incredibly impressive and a
It’s the briefest of pauses—the moment where Noomi Rapace’s Maria becomes totally besotted with the sheep-human hybrid at the heart of Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb. In the dark of night, and at the tail end of a new crop of sheep being born, Maria and her husband Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason) have welcomed into this world
Some days, it’s hard to be a Ryan Murphy fan. The minute American Horror Story comes up, people have a knee-jerk reaction. It’s either love or hate, no in-between. And that’s been going on for a decade now. But there must be some grotesque alchemy behind this lifespan. Many horror TV series have never quite
Set in the near future in a Zone colony of state-of-the-art humanoid robots, Zone 414 follows private investigator David Carmichael (Guy Pearce) who is hired to find the Zone creator’s daughter, who has gone missing. To do so, David teams up with Jane (Matilda Lutz), a highly advanced and self-aware A.I. Together they must move
Our panel covers what happens to Althea and June after the storm. A reunion with Morgan is bittersweet as we are introduced to the newest villain who uses walkers as weapons. We’ve got some awesome news and gossip about some old characters and some new characters that we discuss. Plus some intriguing predictions. Hosted Timothy
The Old Gods and the New Gods are back as Season Three of American Gods lands on Blu-ray and DVD this October and to celebrate we have a Blu-ray box set to give away! Ricky Whittle returns as ex-con Shadow Moon, a man pulled into the service of the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, played by Ian
It’s hardly a secret at this point: The Flash movie will see the return of not just one Batman but two. The first is Michael Keaton, who makes a shocking comeback as the original big-screen Dark Knight, this time to mentor Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen during the speedster’s adventure through the DC multiverse. It’s unexpected,
This article contains major spoilers for The Guilty. You can read our spoiler-free review here. In Antoine Fuqua’s new Netflix film, The Guilty, Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Joe Baylor, a police officer forced to work in a Los Angeles Emergency Call Center due to an ongoing investigation into misconduct that occurred while Baylor was on
This article contains big Venom: Let There Be Carnage spoilers. If you’ve scrolled around the internet in the last day or two, you might’ve seen folks talking about a little movie called Venom: Let There Be Carnage. With the superhero sequel breaking box office records over the weekend, and ending on a cliffhanger that seems
Hosts Timothy Michael and Krista Flentje discuss the mid-season premiere of Fear The Walking Dead. From the storm headed toward our favorite characters to the overall hopelessness of their situation, their inevitable separation and what is to come for them. RSS Feed: http://www.afterbuzztv.com/aftershows/fear-the-walking-dead-afterbuzz-tv-aftershow/feed/ ABOUT FEAR THE WALKING DEAD: Fear the Walking Dead is an American television
Revisit George A. Romero’s 1968 horror classic in Night of the Animated Dead, an animated adaptation of the 1968 horror classic which includes never-before-seen, exclusive animated scenes not found in the original live-action film. In Night of the Animated Dead, siblings Barbara and Johnny visit their father’s grave in a remote cemetery in Pennsylvania when they are suddenly set
Bruce Campbell has partnered with filmmaker Sam Raimi for years. At the beginning of their careers, they worked together on The Evil Dead straight out of college. Much later in Raimi’s blockbuster entertainments, be it the Spider-Man trilogy or Oz the Great and Powerful, Campbell still cameoed. Which makes it strange when the actor grows
It’s hard to believe that it’s been six years since the release of the last James Bond movie. The gap even ties the near fatal six-year distance between Licence to Kill and GoldenEye. But it’s true, Spectre came out in 2015. And as we stand on the cusp of its follow-up, No Time to Die,
Magic and adventure await in the hottest fantasy book releases in October 2021 … with some spooky horror flavor. Tis the season. Flowers for the Sea by Zin Rocklyn Type: NovellaPublisher: TordotcomRelease date: Oct. 19 Den of Geek says: This hotly anticipated horror-fantasy has created both discomfort and wonder in early reviewers. We’re enjoying the
How far will Claire go to preserve her oath of “Do No Harm”? This week, Claire and Jamie find themselves coming to terms with this as they once again have to help an injured man. This time, his name is Mr. Beardsley–a cruel man who may have killed multiple women wedded to him after “they”