The Conjuring 2 depicts the demon Valak as some horrific rendition of Cheech and Chong’s Sister Mary Elephant. But this Grand President of Hell is more cherub than dragon in the demonic hierarchy. As the 62nd spirit in a 72-demon roster, Valak is no delinquent, although he’s been blamed for the two 1212 Children’s Crusades
Lorraine Warren has seen true evil at the start of The Conjuring 2 and wants to call it quits — at least for a while — but when the Hodgson family finds itself under siege by a terrible haunting, the paranormal investigators have no choice but to help. Set in the late ’70s in the
Vince Gilligan’s Albuquerque in Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad is a dangerous place. High school chemistry teachers make meth. International drug lords run local chicken restaurants. And even the lawyers can’t be trusted. The lawyers for goodness’ sake! One occupant of the Albuquerque-verse, however, is determined to end off better than he arrived. In
Adapted from the graphic novel ‘Une Nuit de Pleine Lune’ from legendary creators Hermann and Yves H, The Owners is set during one night in Nineties rural England, when a retired couple (Sylvester McCoy, Doctor Who and Rita Tushingham, Doctor Zhivago) find their isolated house besieged by a gang of young criminals. The thieves think
Written and directed by long-time Hellraiser collaborator Gary John Tunnicliffe, the latest installment in the franchise is Hellraiser: Judgment, which finds two tough detectives, brothers Sean and David Carter, on the hunt for a gruesome serial killer terrorising their city with a series of murders based on the Ten Commandments. Joining forces with detective Christine
March’s collection of free PlayStation Plus games lives up to the hype thanks to a high-profile headliner and a few underrated gems that belong in more PlayStation libraries. Anyone who missed out on the brilliant Final Fantasy 7 Remake will have the chance to experience one of the best games of 2020 and one of
Most people rarely think about upgrading their PSU until they notice their PCs are becoming unstable due to the lack of power. But this year is a little different. With the arrival of next-gen graphics cards that demand a bit more power than their predecessors, PC builders will want to make sure their PSUs are
Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia ended on a hell of a note. Here’s what the ending could mean for the show’s future. “You can almost imagine the pitch meeting for Ginny & Georgia: ‘What if we do Gilmore Girls, only with more sex and Lorelai’s a criminal mastermind?’ By the end of the 10-episode first season
Anthem‘s rise and fall is one of those stories that will almost certainly be told countless times in the coming years as we all try to wrap our heads around how a project that had so much going for it fell so hard and fast with hardly a chance to pick itself up. In some
One day the streaming wars will slow down, but alas that day is not here yet. On Feb. 24, ViacomCBS confirmed all the details of its upcoming all-encompassing streaming service: Paramount+. This new streaming service will replace ViacomCBS’s existing option, CBS All Access, and is designed to keep the major media conglomerate competitive with its
This Clarice review contains spoilers. Clarice Episode 3 Clarice, episode 3, “Are You Alright?,” almost allows Agent Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds) to overcome the typecasting of her role in the events in the film The Silence of the Lambs. The federal cop practically changes the venue by sheer force of will, as if she could
Somewhere out there in the multiverse, there’s a world in which Fringe won the audience it deserved. In our version of reality, however, those of us who cherished this mesmerising, mind-bending show – a link in the chain of unforgettable science-fiction offerings that connects The Twilight Zone to Kolchak: The Night Stalker and The X-Files
Animal Crossing‘s long-awaited 1.8.0 update is finally here. More importantly, a collection of new Super Mario-themed items is finally here, which means that we’re this much closer to one day being able to turn our islands into the ultimate museum for everything Nintendo. Well…kind of. It turns out that Nintendo decided to release the base
GameStop (GME) stock surged once again this week, shocking many newbie investors who had all but given up on hitting it big on Wall Street. The price of GME, which opened at $44.70 and closed at $91.71 on Wednesday, more than doubled in a single day. And it shows no sign of slowing down. GME
The Signal, one of the best alien abduction movies out there, is available to stream on Netflix. “How do you tell a new alien story? You can’t approach it from a horror movie perspective, that’s been done to death. A story where the aliens from classic sci-fi stories are real? That’s been done too. It’s
Bruce Willis is tasked with stopping an intergalactic war in Cosmic Sin and to celebrate the sci-fi action’s release on 1 March we have two copies to give away! Check out the trailer for Cosmic Sin below… [embedded content] Five hundred years after the human race began colonising Mars and other outer planets, a mining
We’ve already written more generally about how director and writer Chloé Zhao used documentary techniques to blur real life and fiction in her neo-western drama Nomadland, which is now available to stream on Hulu. One of the chief filmmaking choices Zhao made was to utilize non-actors to play fictionalized versions of themselves. Characters like Linda
Zack Snyder‘s career comes full circle with the upcoming Netflix zombie extravaganza Army of the Dead, a film almost two decades in the making. The filmmaker best known for Justice League and Watchmen first cut his teeth on a feature-length project with Dawn of the Dead, Universal Picture’s high-octane remake of the George A. Romero
This Nancy drew review contains spoilers. Nancy Drew Season 2, Episode 6 In case you were anxious that Nancy Drew’s second season would slow down now that the gang has finally defeated the Aglaeca for good, “The Riddle of the Broken Doll” is here to prove that we have nothing to worry about in that
Running from 24 February -7 March 2021 the Glasgow Film Festival has gone digital this year and offers a plethora of amazing films and documentaries for a wide range of audiences. For us genre fans, GFF has plenty of thrills, chills and straight-up bonkers films for us to enjoy! See our run-down of genre films
Gene Wolfe’s classic science fantasy novel The Book Of The New Sun has become a staple of the genre, only becoming more and more popular with age. Told over four stories and set in the distant future when the sun has dimmed and Earth is cooler, this legendary fantasy epic tells the story of Severian,
Woman In Motion, now available on Apple+, is a tribute to Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek‘s enormous influence on NASA. “During a roughly four-month period in early 1977, Nichelle Nichols worked to recruit astronauts for NASA’s then-new Space Shuttle program. Her goal was simple and self-fashioned: Get as many women and non-whites to apply as
Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan, a new historical documentary series on Netflix, is being billed as a “real-life Game of Thrones” but it’s much more than that. This is actual history, which is far more compelling than fantasy because it really transpired. “It is like something out of a movie,” says showrunner Matt Booi.
Most early photographs look haunted. Perhaps it’s because we view these images with the knowledge that the people inside them are already ghosts. In some early photos the subject had actually already expired at the time of their capture. Photography was expensive and the first and best occasion for many families to pay for a
This Ships of the Northern Fleet article contains spoilers. Ships of the Northern Fleet, the steampunk sky pirate TV show from the naughts, has seen a recent fandom resurgence on social media platform TikTok and in other corners of the internet. Adapted from a book series of the same name, SotNF ran for six seasons
Hollywood has spent the last three decades trying to reinvent Superman. After the Christopher Reeve franchise fizzled with 1983’s awkward Superman III and 1987’s truly dreadful Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, there seemed to be a prevailing impression that the character was broken, and that audiences just wouldn’t respond to a traditional interpretation of
This article contains Superman & Lois episode 1 spoilers. We have a spoiler free review here. Superman & Lois episode 1 does it all! Callbacks to the comics that go all the way back to 1938! A visual reference to the character’s very first onscreen appearance! Random and obscure nods to comics from the ’90s!
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Tonight on The Flash after show, join hosts Jaimi, Chauncey and Carlina as they discuss the come back of the OG Team Flash dynamic! Was Cisco being too harsh? Did Cecile get her mojo back? Will Icicle return?! So many questions….we’ve got some answers. Flash is based upon characters published by DC Comics where through
This Black Lightning review contains spoilers. Black Lightning Season 4, Episode 3 Jefferson said in the season premiere, “Black Lightning’s dead.” In this episode, Jeff relinquishes his suit to Gambi, putting another nail in the coffin of his vigilante alter-ego. It’s one thing to have the suit and not wear it, and something else entirely