Lucca Comics & Games is enormous, for every event you attend or place you visit, there are three alternatives that you miss. It seems you could repeat the same year several times and still not catch everything you want. The day itself was sold out, with 75,000 day passes sold with a huge number of
Month: October 2022
The Lord Of The Rings: Rings of Power star Ismael Cruz Cordova has hit back at critics as he spoke to fans at Lucca Comics and Games. At Amazon Prime’s The Rings of Power Panel today, Cordova, who describes himself as Afro Puerto Rican discussed his casting as the elf Arondir. He was joined on
When you first turn on The White Lotus, you’re going to notice that you’re watching a TV show quite unlike any other you’ve seen for one specific reason. No, we’re not talking about Murray Bartlett’s exasperated Armond taking a dump in a hyper-privileged guest’s luggage. And no, we’re not talking about the same Armond who
The Legend of Zelda is one of Nintendo’s biggest and longest running franchises. Every Nintendo console has received at least one mainline entry or spinoff, but even though The Legend of Zelda is a household name, its title has caused plenty of confusion over the years. For those who have never played a Legend of
This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 34 Episode 6 Double-dipping on the darkest of chocolate, The Simpsons season 34 presents a mixed bag of goodies for is annual Halloween offering. “Treehouse of Horror XXXIII” is the second “Treehouse of Horror” production this year, after the full-episode parody of Stephen King’s It, called
The weekend at Lucca Comics and Games gets busy – the quaint Italian city now packed to the rafters with families, fans as well as cosplayers from every aspect of anime, manga, sci-fi and pop culture. Getting around the city suddenly has gotten a lot trickier! SFN’s day started at a conference with prolific artist
SAS: Rogue Heroes is one of autumn’s most anticipated British TV dramas. Based on the bestselling book by Ben Macintyre, and created by Peaky Blinders writer Steven Knight, it tells the fascinating true story of how the famed SAS (Special Air Service) was formed during the darkest days of World War Two. SAS: Rogue Heroes
This My Hero Academia review contains spoilers. My Hero Academia Season 6 Episode 5 “The Pros that you admire so much play dirtier than guys like me.” “Don’t reject me anymore” is a sentiment that’s shared by Shigaraki in the previous episode of My Hero Academia, yet it becomes the mantra for several characters–Dabi, Fumikage,
With October comes Halloween and with Halloween comes watching lots and lots of horror and horror-adjacent movies. These iconic movies usually have many spinoffs and, for better and for worse, sometimes that means video game tie-ins, too. Over the decades, we’ve seen the events of Halloween both adapted into being chased by Michael Myers via
As the day began and the sun rose over the walled city of Lucca in Tuscany, the streets were already heaving with activity. Queues had already started forming around the multitude of exhibitions and displays scattered throughout the city. If someone is planning to come to LC&G, they need to bring some comfortable trainers for
This article contains spoilers for House of the Dragon episode 10. The first season of House of the Dragon shows us the events that lead up to the Dance of the Dragons – a bloody civil war between two Targaryen factions, The Greens and The Blacks. Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke) and her father Otto Hightower
Activision Blizzard is currently under investigation following accusations of harassment, discrimination, and fostering a hostile work environment. You can read more about the investigation here. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is finally here, and the franchise’s small army of eager fans is already diving deep into the series’ latest entry. Gamers and critics alike have
In Barbarian, a young woman traveling to Detroit for a job interview books a rental home. But when she arrives late at night, she discovers that the house is double booked, and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to spend the evening, but soon discovers that there’s a lot
“It is magic realism. It’s a story about a woman who moves back in with her dad at 40 because she’s got nowhere else to go. They have a good relationship, but it’s complicated. They all can’t quite connect or navigate what they’re all going through and so the magic element comes in, this extra
Warning: contains MAJOR spoilers for The Devil’s Hour finale. To say that The Devil’s Hour packed a lot in to its six-hour story would be an understatement. There was a serial killer thriller, a ghostly horror, a child abduction mystery, a love story, a gangland crime tale and a family drama… all wrapped up in existential Nietzschean
Activision Blizzard is currently under investigation following accusations of harassment, discrimination, and fostering a hostile work environment. You can read more about the investigation here. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has 51 weapons, and more will likely be added to the game via future updates. Just because the game has over 50 ways to kill
Master of horror Stuart Gordon on Re-Animator and why it’s so tough to get HP Lovecraft right… In 1985, a low-budget HP Lovecraft adaptation would stun audiences and critics around the world. With its outrageous use of gore and keen sense of wit, the inventive, infectious fun of Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator imbued it with instant cult-classic status
The hierarchy of power at DC Studios has changed. In the days after the release of Black Adam introduced a new juggernaut to DC’s big-screen pantheon, Warner Bros. has not only restructured its superhero movie branch with director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran to lead it but also officially brought back Henry Cavill’s Superman.
At the time that The Sims 4 was released in 2014, it was missing a ton of features that gamers loved from the previous Sims title. In the years that followed, Maxis and EA released expansion packs of every shape and size to provide new careers, clothes, and houses. You would think that eight years
Lucca Comics & Games, the biggest pop-culture festival in Europe, is back! It will run from 28th October to 1st November and will once again be held in the medieval walled city of Lucca. Lucca Comics & Games 2022 is the largest convention of its kind in Europe (and the second largest in the world
This article contains Star Trek: Lower Decks season finale spoilers. Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Episode 10 “There are over 800 episodes of Star Trek that we can use when we need something,” Star Trek: Lower Decks showrunner Mike McMahan tells us, when asked about his process of formulating the show’s countless Trek Easter
This article contains mild Moon Knight spoilers. You wouldn’t know it if you watched the Disney+ TV series, but Moon Knight is a superhero with at least one foot planted firmly in the spookier corners of the Marvel Universe. The character first appeared as an antagonist in an issue of Werewolf by Night, for one
Activision Blizzard is currently under investigation following accusations of harassment, discrimination, and fostering a hostile work environment. You can read more about the investigation here. Now that WoW Dragonflight‘s pre-patch update has finally been released, players can get their first taste of the expansion that some hope will “save World of Warcraft.” It remains to be
The 1966 animated television special It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown has become a perennial Halloween standard. Starring the Peanuts gang created by Charles M. Schulz, it is not, however, a horror classic. “It’s not even on the scale,” says film analyst and Peanuts historian Derrick Bang. “It’s too sweet and gentle. The only thing
This article contains spoilers for Star Wars: Rogue One and Andor. Aside from Andy Serkis appearing in the Star Wars universe once again, episode 8 of Andor, “Narkina 5,” features two more familiar faces: Forest Whitaker as Partisan leader Saw Gerrera and Duncan Pow as Ruescott Melshi. In the episode, Saw meets with Luthen Rael
This article contains some spoilers for The Amazing Spider-Man #12. To a certain generation of Spider-Man fans, one Goblin stands above all others. It’s not Norman Osborn. It’s not Harry Osborn. Hell, it’s not even a Green Goblin at all. It’s the Hobgoblin, the scene-stealing had captivated readers of The Amazing Spider-Man in the ‘80s
Video games have been trying to scare us since the early ’80s. While the seminal Haunted House Atari game, one of the earliest survival horror games, presented its scares through a mix of heavily-pixelated ghosts and spiders that weren’t so frightening at all, it was indicative of where the genre would one day go. With another push,
Contains spoilers for episodes 1 and 2 of Gangs of London. You might have guessed it from the title, but Gangs of London is, well, a show about gangs. This brooding, gothic, not-quite-as-we-know-it version of the UK’s capital city is teaming with them, all jostling violently for their position under the watchful gaze of the
Rumors of a live-action Metal Gear Solid movie adaptation have been floating around almost as long as the franchise itself. Every year brings with it new rumors as well as new doubts that this Moby Dick of video game adaptations will ever actually happen. Still, what is a pipe dream to some is a guarantee
This article contains House of the Dragon episode 10 spoilers. She did not want to be Queen of the Ashes. She did not wish to rule over a kingdom of ash and bone. Yet what she wants and what the world is are two different things. And in the final shot of House of the
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