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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a powerful, slow-building, jangling film that’s full of life. It may feel loose, but from the script to the cast, there’s not an ounce of fat on it. When the time comes, it delivers a brutal gut-punch, and then one more for the road. Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis take

CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 is arguably the the biggest video game release of 2020, transporting players to a gritty sci-fi world full of bio-augmented criminals and lowlives. True to its name, the game explores some pretty deep concepts about cyberspace and what life might be like in a futuristic transhuman society where technological advancements

Last August, the world lost Chadwick Boseman, an incredibly talented actor whose relatively short filmography already included a number of great films. His indelible work as T’Challa in the groundbreaking Black Panther and other films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — along with his transformation into a bona fide movie star — was a major

One of the more pleasant Cyberpunk 2077 surprises so far has been the game’s diverse selection of incredible weapons that can drastically change the way you play the game. While most of the guns you loot in the aftermath of Cyberpunk 2077‘s gunfights offer little more than slight statistical advantages over similar weapons, Cyberpunk 2077‘s

Polyamory is not new to the world of The Expanse. It was already established earlier in the series (and in the books) that James Holden is the child of five fathers and three mothers, each of whom contributed DNA to his genetic mix. But season 5 introduces a much stronger illustration of the future practice

The Karate Kid Part II distinguished itself from forgettable sequel contemporaries, with a radical change in locale and a focus on character development in lieu of retreading its predecessor’s plot. Consequently, Cobra Kai Season 3’s recently revealed focus on Part II—revisiting its setting of Okinawa and key characters Chozen and Kumiko—was exciting news. Now, a

Marvel Comics has officially signed off on making Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord, canonically bisexual and polyamorous. Al Ewing’s new Guardians of the Galaxy #9 story ‘I Shall Make You a Star-Lord’ reveals that Quill has survived after apparently being killed during an explosion back in issue #2, but has been catapulted into a parallel reality.

Cyberpunk 2077‘s character upgrade system includes perks, attributes, mods, and more, but you’re never going to get the most out of this game’s upgrade options if you don’t explore the wonderful, and sometimes confusing, world of Cyberware upgrades. Cyberware upgrades are a key part of the character-building experience in Cyberpunk 2077, but many players may

This Attack on Titan review contains spoilers. Attack on Titan Season 4 Episode 2 “You’ve achieved great things.” “No, not yet.” Fringe is a television series about an unstable rift between two alternate Earths where the survival of one depends on the destruction of the other. The characters on these opposing Earths both view themselves

This His Dark Materials review contains spoilers. The problem with prophecy narratives is all the time they spend in the future tense. Such-and-such will change everything. So-and-so is going to save the world. Before a story moves towards a climactic battle, there’s so much team-picking and bag-packing to be done. While avengers are assembled and characters line up to

This interview contains massive spoilers for the final episodes of Power Rangers Beast Morphers. In 2009 Power Rangers RPM ended with a shot of main villain Venjix trapped in one of the team’s morphers. It was an ominous cliffhanger to end the season on, one fans have hoped for years would get some kind of resolution.

Amazon’s new female-centric castaway series The Wilds doesn’t hold back when it comes to throwing mysteries at its characters (and the audience) and, following its first ten episodes, the two timelines we’ve been following both conclude with cliffhangers of differing kinds. One, which has been following the girls as they try to survive on a

This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. The Galactic Empire has fallen by the time of The Mandalorian, but the Imperial remnant left in its wake has plenty of fight left. Mercenary Mayfeld (Bill Burr) shed light on one of the remnant’s earliest offensives against the New Republic when he mentioned participating in Operation:

This Article Containts Spoilers For Cyberpunk 2077 In the grand tradition of Mass Effect and other RPGs, Cyberpunk 2077 does let you romance some of the notable characters you’ll meet during CD Projekt Red’s massive adventure. However, it’s entirely possible to go through the game without realizing that these romance options are available to you.

Generations of music fans know the Bee Gees — British-born, Australia-based brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb — as the musical act that created the songs for Saturday Night Fever, the 1978 movie that made John Travolta a star and catapulted what was known at the time as “disco” music to the forefront of pop

Casting news for Spider-Man 3, has been surreal and chaotic—in the best possible way. Now, in the aftermath of reports that villains from previous franchise iterations like Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock and Jamie Foxx’s Electro will return (in a manner not yet known), a strong rumor is now pointing to the addition of a displaced

They say that reality is stranger than fiction. While there’s definitely some truth to that old adage, reality is thankfully not often stranger than FX’s long-running classic comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Through 14, soon-to-be 15, seasons, the codependent Paddy’s Pub gang have engaged in some truly outrageous behavior. From staging an entire musical

Until until now, George Clooney’s efforts as a director have stayed firmly planted on Earth, with the stories that attract him being either inspired by true events (Good Night, and Good Luck) or tapped directly into the zeitgeist (The Ides of March). With The Midnight Sky, Clooney not only expands his horizons as a filmmaker,

Anyone who adapts the works of C.S. Lewis for the screen will find they have a few odd things to contend with. We have never seen a screen version of Prince Caspian, for example, in which young children Susan and Lucy go around cavorting with Bacchus, the god of wine, and his wild Bacchants, for

With filming underway right now on Sony and Marvel’s third MCU Spider-Man movie, casting news was due to start breaking any time, and today brought a doozy: Alfred Molina, whose Doctor Octopus in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 is widely regarded as the best Spidey villain ever put on film, is returning for the yet-untitled MCU

Some 12 years after 66-year-old (at the time) Harrison Ford last wore the fedora in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a fifth installment in the saga of everyone’s favorite adventurer and archaeology professor is still in the works. A new script is being penned by James Mangold (Logan), who has also

Refresh your memory of 007’s past adventures before No Time to Die. The first nineteen James Bond movies are free to stream on YouTube! “If you have a hankering for some Bond, James Bond action, YouTube is, surprisingly, suddenly an appealing place to turn. As noticed by Slash Film, the first nineteen James Bond films

This Attack on Titan review contains spoilers. Attack on Titan Season 4 Episode 1 “Isn’t war a terrible thing?” The third season of Attack on Titan ends with a lengthy jump forward in time where Eren and company are seemingly more ready than ever to realize their goal. The group has taken on some difficult

While the world is still a few weeks away from seeing Wonder Woman 1984, the first members of the press have now seen the film. While they have been sworn to secrecy until December 15th, when the embargo lifts on full-on reviews, we are getting some initial reactions to the WB sequel, and they are

This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. An Imperial Grand Admiral sits in a darkened room surrounded by his art collection. He’s plotting a massive comeback. He’s planning to rebuild the Empire and make this whole New Republic thing look like a massive joke. He’s got blue skin. Did I mention he loves art?

This article contains Warrior spoilers. Although the Bruce Lee-inspired Cinemax series Warrior is fiction, it is loosely based on historical events of San Francisco in the 1870s. Just as Nellie Davenport (Miranda Raison) is based upon on a remarkable San Franciscan heroine, Donaldina Cameron, the Season 2 Finale drops a bomb for one of the show’s

The future is here. Warner Bros. changed the movie industry, likely forever, when it announced this week that its entire film slate for the next 12 months will follow Wonder Woman 1984 to HBO Max. More than just a shot in the arm for the new streaming service, this obliterates the theatrical window as we

Looking for space opera or alternate Earths? Here are some of the science fiction books we’re most excited about and/or are currently consuming… Join the Den of Geek Book Club! Top New Science Fiction Books September 2020 Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots  Type: NovelPublisher: William MorrowRelease date: Sept. 22   Den of Geek says: This next-level

There’s no shortage of Grand Theft Auto 6 conspiracy theories on the internet, but one of the strangest in recent memory involves an increasingly popular rumor that suggests the sequel will take place in Virginia. While we’ve previously discussed rumors regarding possible Grand Theft Auto 6 locations, those rumors focused on major fictional/real cities such

“Fortnite is dead” felt like an increasingly popular sentiment in 2020. You certainly didn’t have to look too hard to find comments from gamers who felt that it was the end of an era for a game so popular that it was prominently featured in the highest-grossing movie of all-time. But in recent months, it