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This article contains major Locke & Key Season 2 spoilers. Netflix‘s fantasy-horror series Locke & Key returned for its second season this month, and managed to genuinely take a big step up in terms of its storytelling and overall quality. There was a lot to love about Season 2, but with a Season 3 already
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This article contains massive Dune spoilers, as well as potential spoilers for Dune Part Two. House Atreides has fallen. That’s where we leave things at the end of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune (or Dune Part One as the film waits until the opening title card to reveal). Oscar Isaac’s Duke Leto lies dead, murdered by his
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Much has been said about GTA 3 in the twenty years since the open-world PS2 helped change gaming overnight, but one aspect of the title you won’t always hear people discuss are the times the game’s various myths and urban legends genuinely scared them. In the early internet age, it was easy enough to believe
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This article contains major Dune spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review here. Paul Atreides has survived the fall of his father’s house. When you get right down to it, this is very much the central conflict and core narrative arc to writer-director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, a film which waited until its opening title card to reveal
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Warning: contains details of returning aliens in Series 13. It’s no coincidence, said BBC Director of Drama Piers Wenger at the Doctor Who: Flux press launch that Series 13 launches on Halloween. “Some extraordinary monsters have been conjured up,” teased Wenger, adding the familiar instruction, “Don’t blink.” Thanks to wily set snoopers and Steven Moffat’s
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This article contains spoilers for Only Murders in the Building. Hulu comedy Only Murders in the Building didn’t even have to take its central murder mystery that seriously to begin with. As a satire of America’s true crime podcast obsession, the series could have gotten away with yada yada yada-ing the details of the murder
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With a title like Halloween Kills, maybe we shouldn’t be so surprised when the movie slays? Nevertheless, David Gordon Green’s hack and slash follow-up to 2018’s Halloween exceeded all expectations when it grossed an estimated $50.4 million this weekend. That number comes in ahead of even distributor Universal’s projections, which pegged the Michael Myers stabathon
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This article contains spoilers for You season 3. The latest installment of You follows creepy creepster Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) as he begrudgingly moves to the tony California suburb of Madre Linda with his wife, Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti). He attempts to atone for his sins and try his hand at being a good husband
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This article contains Halloween Kills spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review here. Halloween Kills is a peculiar film that ends on a peculiar note. By the end of director David Gordon Green’s movie, a mob of Haddonfield townspeople, exhausted and fed up after 40 years of trauma brought on by Michael Myers, have decided to take
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This article contains massive Halloween Kills spoilers. The second part of David Gordon Green’s rebooted Halloween trilogy, Halloween Kills, is upon us with more murder, more Myers, and much much more mayhem. This film follows on immediately from 2018’s Halloween—Michael has been left for dead in the burning basement but (surprise!) he’s not dead. Meanwhile
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Activision has finally revealed Ricochet: the long-awaited anti-cheat software that they’ll use to battle Call of Duty: Warzone‘s small army of hackers and cheaters. While millions of gamers are celebrating this announcement, many others are already raising concerns regarding the privacy and security of Richochet and the implications of its kernel-level design. You’re going to
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James Bond Will Return. It’s a promise made during the ending credits of pretty much every 007 flick, but they felt especially poignant during the final scrawl of No Time to Die. Without getting into spoilers, one might wonder about the longevity of the franchise after an ending with as much closure as Daniel Craig’s
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Back 4 Blood is the spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead in every way that matters most, but first-time players may be surprised to learn that each of the game’s playable cleaners actually come equipped with unique skills and abilities that make them so much more than interchangeable survivors. While Back 4 Blood does a
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“I can’t help feeling like I’ve missed something,” Morse told Thursday over two drained pints and a luncheon meat sandwich in the closing moments of Series 2’s ‘Trove’. He was right about that. Castle Gate’s finest may have collared the conspirators in two murder cases and recovered a cache of stolen museum treasures, but something had been
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This article contains major Lamb spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review here. Who is Ada’s father? It’s the question asked in the very first shot of Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb, as an unseen person (or animal) treks through a frigid Christmas Eve snow, looking for comfort. I doubt I was the only viewer to be suspicious about
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Daniel Craig has been wistful throughout the No Time to Die press tour. Part of this is probably because—unlike his infamous grumpiness during Spectre’s rollout—he is promoting a very good movie. The bigger element though is that he knows it really is last call with 007. After the final interview is wrapped, and the lights
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When I first saw the original Ghostbusters, I didn’t get it was a comedy. It might’ve been because I was a shade too young, being about five or so, but when Bill Murray said no human could “stack books like this,” I believed him. Of course they couldn’t. The movie’s sarcasm didn’t come through, but
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