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Apart from one or two exceptions, video game adaptations have always been losing propositions, whether it’s Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat, or Assassin’s Creed. But even successful translations like Netflix’s excellent Castlevania series haven’t had gone through the level of scrutiny from the fandom that’s currently aimed at HBO’s The Last of Us. It

Based on all known criteria, I am an adult. Doctor Who is not meant to scare me very often. It’s meant to scare children, and if it freaks anyone else out that’s a bonus. I can write about which episodes scared me when I was young but then I have to factor in that I

The trouble with announcing you’re going to be making a trilogy of movies is that, well, you have to then make a trilogy of movies. And Halloween Kills, the second part of the franchise reboot, which serves as a direct sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 classic, is a significant step down after the refreshingly respectful,

“Bond, James Bond.” It’s one of the greatest lines of dialogue in movie history—the 22nd best ever, according to the AFI—but if you say it to five people, they will likely think of five different scenes. Will it be Sean Connery who springs to mind with the original utterance, cigarette drooping from his mouth, a

This article contains spoilers for The Walking Dead season 11 episode 8. The Walking Dead and loathed cliffhangers: name a more iconic combination! The first third of The Walking Dead’s 11th and final season came to a conclusion Sunday night though calling it an “ending” is a bit generous. The closing moments of “For Blood”

This article is brought to you by Horror Channel It’s October! We can wear layers again! We can have far too heated arguments about whether pumpkin spice lattes are the downfall of civilization or are literally just a drink! Kick leaves along the pavement and then stop kicking leaves because there was something wet in

This Evil review contains spoilers. Evil Season 2 Episode 13 Take this, all of you, and eat it, for this is the flesh of one of the 60 demonic families, going back generations upon generations, and doesn’t refrigerate well. You think freezer burn is bad? It’s got nothing on the hellfire of tainted meat. The

Most years, when the season’s eighth episode of The Walking Dead airs, it would mark a midpoint. But not so for the eleventh season of the AMC zombie epic, which is due to roll out 24 episodes for the show’s final outing. With two-thirds of the show yet to air, and two-thirds completed on the

Flux. That’s the official title of the six-episode Doctor Who series 13, which starts airing on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and BBC America right at the end of this month. In the clip below, you’ll hear the Doctor warn that “The Flux is coming” and bringing with it monsters galore. (Our first thought was ‘flux’ as in

It is a nearly universal opinion that “Ozymandias”, the 14th episode of Breaking Bad’s fifth season, is not only the best episode of the show, but also possibly the best hour in modern television. And while there is no denying its greatness, there are a few extra elements that make the previous season’s finale even

Far Cry 6 continues a recent series tradition by allowing you to recruit a variety of animal companions that are more than ready to fight by your side (this time, the animals are referred to as “Amigos”). While it’s easy enough to play Far Cry 6 and find most of the available Amigos without going

This What We Do in the Shadows review contains spoilers. What We Do in the Shadows Season 3 Episode 7 What We Do in the Shadows season 3 episode 7 “The Siren,” is one of the most touching installments of the series. Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) has experienced brushes with romance before, but because it

For James Bond, or Daniel Craig’s version of him anyway, it all begins and ends with Vesper Lynd. The doomed and beloved character, so memorably portrayed by Eva Green in Casino Royale (2006), only appeared in Craig’s first outing as 007. And yet, she’s lingered on as both a tragic memory from Bond’s past, and

This American Horror Story: Double Feature review contains spoilers. American Horror Story Season 10 Episode 8: Inside As a reviewer, I find it a lot easier to talk about something I like than something I don’t. For whatever reason, I’m generally more positive about American Horror Story than most of its critics, and often a

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

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

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

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

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

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,

This Evil review contains spoilers. Evil Season 2 Episode 12 Pinocchio, your strings are showing. Creepy dolls don’t have to walk, talk, or wet themselves to capture paranoid attention. Chuckie, Annabelle, Talking Tina, and the Killer Krusty Doll from The Simpsons’ “Treehouse of Horror III” all bring solace to some, and torture to others. Eddie

It’s hard to walk in an old gangster’s shoes, even if they are patent leather, but it helps if you have the OG’s custom tailored, classic wide collar mustard-yellow coat. Front-buttoned, with wool blend material, soft inner viscose lining, long sleeves, and open hem cuffs, it is stylish and smart, though not blood resistant. Billy

In the last decade, Japanese publisher Konami has largely moved away from AAA video game publishing in order to focus its development arm on its much more profitable pachinko machines. It’s been an unfortunate pivot for fans of Konami’s games, to say the least, since the publisher happens to be sitting on some of the

Today’s young adult books bring romance, adventure and social commentary. Take a look at our best bets for what to read this September. Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson Type: Novel Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry BooksRelease date: Oct. 5 Den of Geek says: The author’s Venom comp hooked me on this one. Set in an alternate world

As anyone who has spent a minute or two on Tik Tok can tell you, songs from the Venom movie franchise have a prosperity to go viral…not entirely unlike the alien symbiote himself. A track from legendary rapper Eminem, fittingly titled “Venom,” that was featured in the 2018 Tom Hardy film has popped up all

We’re deep into the fall TV season, which means it’s time to keep the new show faucet going. With its list of new releases for October 2021, Hulu is bringing several new original series to the table. The biggest Hulu original this month is undoubtedly Dopesick. This miniseries starring Michael Keaton premieres Oct. 13, is

While Star Trek: Picard continues the character-driven story begun in Star Trek: The Next Generation, the first season of the Trek series had a very different premise than its predecessor. While TNG, like most “classic” Trek series, is a problem-of-the-week workplace drama, Picard leans into the serialized format that is much more common in modern