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Doctor Who: Flux Episode 2, “War of the Sontarans,” features Mary Seacole (Sara Powell), Britain’s first Black nurse, in the middle of a Sontaran invasion of Earth in 1855. Aliens meddling in human history is a classic Doctor Who trope, and the long-running series often grounds the sci-fi adventure in real-life history. So what was

This Dexter: New Blood review contains spoilers. Dexter: New Blood Episode 1 While first-person writing is often avoided in my reviews, I can’t resist it when talking about Dexter. I started writing for Den of Geek as a college student in 2012. Dexter was the first show that I was assigned to review. This sounds

With its divisive reception among critics and even diehard fans, tongues are definitely wagging over Marvel Studios’ 26th theatrical release, Eternals. But despite low marks across the board from review aggregates and audience polls, the film is still doing (barely) adequate business by Marvel standards. Indeed, Disney now estimates Chloé Zhao’s unique entry in the

This article contains Eternals spoilers and potential spoilers for the future of the MCU. You know nothing…about the Black Knight. Get it? Because the Black Knight is played by Kit Harington? You know, the dude that played Jon Snow on Game of Thrones? So like, “you know nothing…” Ah, forget it. Ahem. Ad – content

This article contains Marvel’s Eternals spoilers. I did not love Chloé Zhao’s Eternals. This isn’t a controversial statement to make for the first Marvel Studios film to receive a negative “Rotten” score on the aggregate movie review site, Rotten Tomatoes. Despite its expansive pacing—which, believe it or not, is two minutes longer than Denis Villeneuve’s

This article contains Eternals spoilers. Eternals is a big movie for Marvel…in every sense of the word.  The film’s immense runtime (2 hours and 37 minutes) makes it the second longest Marvel outing after Avengers: Endgame. The cast is huge, with the titular Eternals amounting to 10 super-powered characters, give or take a Kit Harrington,

Is the most pivotal detail in Star Trek’s history actually about Bones getting a haircut? Perhaps not, but a new documentary about Star Trek — The Center Seat — might get you wondering about an alternate dimension where Bones didn’t look as hot. For super hardcore Star Trek fans—those of us who have read every

This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 4 Episode 5 I’m a little bit concerned by how much the newest season of Young Justice is dragging. We’re about a fifth of the way through and it’s still not at all clear what this season’s story is, and while we’ve had some nice

Call of Duty: Vanguard, the latest installment in the long-running shooter series, launches this week, with a new story campaign, multiplayer, and Zombies mode, but you won’t have to wait until the release date to experience part of one of these components. The first hours of Vanguard‘s campaign have already leaked on YouTube, as discovered

This Legends of Tomorrow review contains spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 7 Episode 4 Once a season, Legends of Tomorrow runs an episode where they try and change the past. It’s inevitable on a time travel show: the characters all have histories, and the consequences of changing the past are sufficiently dire to keep dipping

It’s hard to underplay just how instrumental Marvel casting director Sarah Halley Finn has been in crafting the MCU and, for the most part, it’s hard to imagine actors other than the ones who have been cast in the MCU bringing these superheroes to life. This is perhaps especially true for the earliest actors to be

Developer Niantic (the studio behind Pokémon Go) has announced that they intend to shut down AR mobile game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite starting on January 31, 2022. “We launched Harry Potter: Wizards Unite more than two years ago, bringing together a community of witches and wizards from all over the globe in an epic quest

The series finale of Showtime serial killer drama Dexter is, let’s say, not particularly well-liked.  After eight seasons of the monstrous Dexter Morgan murdering other monsters, the show’s season 8 finale let him off the hook in unsatisfying fashion. The former Miami-Dade P.D. blood splatter analyst left everything behind for a fresh start in Oregon

In The Book of Boba Fett, the bounty hunter is taking full advantage of his new lease on life. No longer content to work for greedy crime bosses like Jabba the Hutt, Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) is starting his own crime syndicate with assassin Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) on Tatooine. But that won’t be so

Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham headlines new cast members for Hocus Pocus 2, heading to Disney+ next fall. “Now, this is the kind of Halloween news we love to see: Hannah Waddingham is joining the cast of Hocus Pocus 2! The Emmy winner, best known for playing Rebecca on the smash-hit series Ted Lasso, will

Doctor Who Series 13 Episode 1 Review Warning: this Doctor Who review contains spoilers. From the outset, Doctor Who: Flux has an uphill climb. Quite apart from the significant hurdles of filming anything during a global pandemic, recent announcements concerning the programme’s future – Russell’s coming back! We’re getting a new Doctor! – have firmly

Sifting decades of horror television down to just a devil’s dozen requires discipline and ruthlessness. There can be no mercy. If a horror TV show once reigned supreme from a throne of grisly guts but now feels about as desirable an experience as a colonoscopy, it didn’t make this list. If another show spooked us

Like a needle on a record, Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho drops a sharp stylus into a deep groove and lets her spin. Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) is a modern fashion design student in the film—modern in the sense that she is a 21st century woman living in contemporary England. But in her dreams she

This article contains Last Night in Soho spoilers. Our spoiler-free review is here. It takes less than a minute to realize just how much Thomasin McKenzie’s Eloise adores the ‘60s in Last Night in Soho. Strutting into her childhood bedroom as Peter and Gordon’s “A World Without Love” plays (on vinyl, of course), the star

This article contains Last Night in Soho spoilers. Thomasin McKenzie’s Eloise Turner is a young woman who’s always been haunted by ghosts. That was true at the beginning of Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho and it proves just as accurate by the end when she smiles at a blonde haired specter in the mirror.

While previous production photos from the set of HBO’s The Last of Us series have focused on the show’s main characters, the latest set of leaked shots offers a much better look at the show’s version of this franchise’s Cordyceps fungus ravaged post-apocalyptic world. For those who don’t know, the inciting incident that triggers the

Recent figures suggest that New World is currently peaking at around 300,000 to 400,000 concurrent players, which represents a significant percentage drop from the game’s all-time concurrent player count peak of over 900,000 players. On top of that, a recent report reveals that only 8% of New World‘s players have reached the game’s level cap.

The creator of Squid Game doesn’t think Los Angeles Lakers star Lebron James should be criticizing artist pieces. “Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-Hyuk has had his profile raised to an almost unimaginable degree over the last month or so. A 50-year-old writer and director who spent years trying to get his hyper-violent satire of capitalism

This Legends of Tomorrow review contains spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 7 Episode 3 What DC’s Legends of Tomorrow just pulled off should be impossible. Usually milestone episodes are treacly retrospectives, bordering on clip shows, that are self-congratulatory throwaways. They’re not supposed to be high points of the entire series. But that’s exactly what Legends

This Star Wars article contains spoilers. The morality of the Jedi is an oft-debated part of Star Wars lore. Are they divinely appointed arbiters or inept police officers? What is the nature of the Force, and why does it have a light side and a dark side? The new novel Star Wars: Ronin answers these

Nintendo finally launched the Expansion Pack upgrade option for Nintendo Switch Online (which includes access to a small collection of Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis games as well as the upcoming Happy Home Paradise DLC for New Horizons), and the service’s initial struggles remind us why emulators remain an important (if controversial) part of the

Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead universe is expanding, and not in all the ways you expect. The first movie, which involved time loops, robots, aliens, and even copulating zombies, unsurprisingly left viewers with lots of questions, but don’t expect this universe’s sophomore outing to deliver any of the answers you’re looking for. Instead, Army

This article contains Dune spoilers. At a glance it feels like we’ve seen this song and dance before. An army of white-armored soldiers stand in perfect square formations beneath the comings and goings of Offworld spaceships. They’re soldiers; the supposed elite; the Emperor’s very own Sardaukar hit squad. But to anyone who’s watched a Star

When Carnival Films adapted Death of Kings (the sixth book in Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Stories series) they – probably wisely – left out a scene in which Uhtred of Bebbanburg is drugged in a witch’s cave and sexually assaulted by a goddess of the earth. Season three had plenty going on without that little adventure.

This Fear the Walking Dead review contains spoilers.  Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 2 Oh boy, where to even begin with this one? After setting up Strand as this season’s big bad in last week’s premiere, “The Beacon,” Fear the Walking Dead now shines the spotlight on its would-be saviors, namely Morgan and Grace. (And I say