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At first glance, this seems like it should be a really short article. Question: What works of JRR Tolkien does Amazon have the rights to use for its upcoming series The Rings of Power? Answer: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, including its Appendices, but nothing else. End of article. But. Between an

Warning: contains spoilers for Harlan Coben’s The Woods on Netflix. Though Harlan Coben thrillers generally take place in the same recognisably middle class world of Range Rovers, gated communities and marble kitchen islands, they’re not set in a shared fictional universe. The plots are standalone and the characters, as a rule, don’t cross over from

Crunchyroll just added the English-dubbed versions of about 170 classic and modern anime series to their service and there are some real goodies to check out! The titles come from Funimation’s extensive library thanks to Funimation’s recent $1.1 billion acquisition of Crunchyroll. While they paid over a thousand million dollars to bring the two libraries

This article contains spoilers for Ozark season 4. Throughout the entirety of Ozark, Marty and Wendy Byrde (Jason Bateman and Laura Linney) have repeatedly found themselves in unfathomable danger, only to escape it by throwing someone else under the bus. Their indirect death count is impossibly high, with most of the people who oppose them

This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 19 Lisa gets bumped up from first chair saxophone to high school second banana, and still is the smartest little girl in grade number two. The Simpsons’ “Girls Just Shauna Have Fun” is sweet, surprisingly sobering, and keeps its wit about. The episode opens

This review contains Outlander finale spoilers. Outlander Season 6’s final episode had a tall order in terms of fan expectations, as well as translating book events to the screen. Unfortunately, the question of both who killed Malva, as well as how Claire and Jamie are going to prove their innocence, was left unresolved. Book readers,

As the undisputed king of streaming (for now at least), Netflix has enjoyed the presence of some major blockbusters. Now, with its list of new releases for May 2022, Netflix is bringing back one of its biggest ever hits. Stranger Things season 4 “volume one” is set to premiere on May 27. It’s been a

This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers Young Justice Season 4 Episode 20 For a show that took a 10 year break between seasons, Young Justice has done an admirable job of keeping up with plots going through its entire run. The theme of grief and the cost of superheroics has been there from the

In an unfortunate Friday afternoon news dump, the word is out that Batwoman has been canceled after three seasons and 51 episodes. The news came from Batwoman showrunner Caroline Dries on Twitter in a message to fans. “Just got the sad news that Batwoman will not be seeing a S4,” Dries wrote. “I am bummed,

As the credits roll on the final episode of HBO Max’s Tokyo Vice, we know that Jake (Ansel Elgort) and Katagiri’s (Ken Watanabe) quest to take down ruthless Yakuza leader Shinzo Tozawa (Ayumi Tanida) is far from over. Whether HBO actually green lights a second season of this excellent, neon-tinged crime drama is another question,

This Halo review contains spoilers. Halo Episode 6 After some fun action last week, a talky Halo episode puts more weight on its thin characterizations than they can handle.  The UNSC is on the hunt for the second alien artifact. It could lead them to the Halo ring, but no one is entirely sure what

The end of The Walking Dead is just the beginning. With the series finale of AMC’s flagship zombie drama set to drop sometime this fall, the TWD universe isn’t so much concluding as expanding further. From the ashes of this finale will rise at least three new spinoff series, joining original companion show Fear the

After months of speculation, Lucasfilm seems to have accidentally confirmed the existence of Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi ahead of its impending official announcement at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim in May. The seemingly Jedi-centric show will be a collection of “animated anthology shorts.” The details seem to have leaked when the Celebration website published

This article contains spoilers for the Ghosts season 1 finale Ghosts season 1 ended on a cliffhanger that has already generated numerous lines of fan speculation. Although season 2 is currently in production and release date details are still being worked out, Den of Geek managed to get a few nuggets of inside information from

The following contains spoilers for Superman & Lois. Superman & Lois Season 2 Episode 10 Superman & Lois returns from its month-long hiatus with what is, pardon the pun, one of its most bizarre episodes to date, an hour that takes us through the proverbial looking glass (or portal, as the case may be), to

UK crime drama The Missing ran for two seasons in 2014 and 2016 on BBC One, where it was a hit by anybody’s standards. The logical next step would have been a third and possibly fourth, fifth and sixth season, but none arrived. Instead, the show’s creators Harry and Jack Williams changed direction and created

This article contains major spoilers for Better Call Saul season 6 episode 3. NO, REALLY. PAY ATTENTION TO THE BIG YELLOW SPOILER ALERT ABOVE YOU! I’ll even add a couple of blank paragraphs just to be safe. Those who have not yet seen Better Call Saul season 6 episode 3 have been duly warned! …

This RIVERDALE review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 6 Episode 11 “Pop’s has endured for a reason, it’s Riverdale’s anchor.” Every now and again a moment of television comes along that is so transcendent that it immediately embeds itself into the fabric of our pop culture consciousness: Walter White running around in his tighty whities in

This article contains spoilers for Barry season 3 episode 1. It’s been a long time since TV fans got a dose of Barry.  Like many other series, the excellent HBO dark comedy about a Midwestern hitman who moves to L.A. and catches the acting bug experienced delays due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to star

This review contains Outlander spoilers. Outlander Season 6 returns from its Easter/Spring Break hiatus with some answers for fans regarding Malva’s tragic murder. Even though our assessment of possible suspects for Malva’s murder ranked Claire very low on the scale, the residents of the Ridge are completely convinced Claire had the motive, means, and opportunity.

Despite being the third actor to play the role inside of six years, it’s no small thing to portray the Clown Prince of Crime. Indeed, as soon as The Batman opened in theaters last month, almost the entire internet chatter was about that cameo where out of seemingly nowhere, Barry Keoghan showed up under heavy

This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 4 Episode 19 Who would have guessed that Young Justice: Phantoms would continue the story of another beloved, canceled-too-soon, decade old DC animated series? Nobody, and yet here we are, finally getting a follow up to Green Lantern: The Animated Series. For those of you

Holy revolving door, Batman! The Caped Crusader has been portrayed by more actors on the big screen than any other superhero in history. Most of the have lasted for just one film. But after The Dark Knight Rises, Christian Bale became the first man to have played Bruce Wayne and his alter-ego more than twice on

This article contains spoilers for Ghosts season 1. The entire season of Ghosts leading up to the finale rests on a foundation of carefully adapting a successful BBC sitcom for American audiences. For readers who haven’t been able to see the UK series on HBO Max, the basic premise is the same: a city dwelling

This article contains spoilers for the Ghosts season 1 finale. Ghosts on CBS began this September with one of the riskiest and most experimental premises on US broadcast television this season.  The series is an American adaptation of the BBC UK sitcom of the same name. Many previous US remakes of UK sitcoms and dramas

The following contains Star Trek: Picard spoilers Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 8 At this point, it seems like we all need to just admit that the pacing of Star Trek: Picard Season 2 is a problem. Its primary story has progressed in the barest of fits and starts over the course of the

This article contains spoilers for Marvel’s Moon Knight episode 4. Hmm, we thought we had it all figured out! We thought Moon Knight had settled into its groove as a globe-trotting adventure series in the vein of Indiana Jones or The Mummy. Sure, the show certainly had more mysteries to unravel, including Marc’s connection to