The following contains spoilers for Mindhunter season 2. There are a handful of moments scattered throughout Netflix’s excellent Mindhunter season 2, in which lead characters Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff), Bill Tench (Holt McCallany), and Dr. Wendy Carr are asked the most common question in the American lexicon: what do you do for a living? The question comes
In an interview with Game Informer, members of the Call of Duty team recalled their time working on 2007’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Specifically, they remember how the game’s design direction was influenced by the success of Halo. “All my friends were playing Halo, and I couldn’t convince them to give CoD 2
After Moonlight surprised Oscar audiences in 2017 (in more ways than one,) after nabbing the Best Motion Picture of the Year prize, the entertainment industry became the proverbial oyster of its writer/director, Barry Jenkins. Indeed, after following up this past Christmas with drama If Beale Street Could Talk, Jenkins will continue to parlay his momentum
Many modern video game movies suffer from the delusion that they must be “good.” Mortal Kombat didn’t have that problem. Released in 1995, Mortal Kombat followed what some call the unholy trinity of early ‘90s video game adaptations: Super Mario Bros., Double Dragon, and Street Fighter. The legacy of those films are forever entangled, but it’s not
The most unlikely superhero story of the last two years may very well be how Krypton defied the usual tedious prequel expectations and became a compelling standalone sci-fi story of its own. The series, which aired on Syfy, told the story of Seg-El, Superman’s grandfather, and how he got mixed up in time traveling, reality
We loved what Marie Lu did with Batman canon in her young adult book Batman: Nightwalker, and we can’t wait to see what she comes up with for Rebel, the next installment in her bestselling Legend series. read more: An Interview with Marie Lu Rebel, which comes out on October 1st, plunges readers back into
In one of the more surprising and welcome moments of Xbox’s E3 2019 presentation, Microsoft confirmed that they are working on a new Microsoft Flight Simulator game. Simply titled Microsoft Flight Simulator, we’d call this a reboot of the franchise, but it’s not like there were any complex plot threads tying the series to its roots.
National City’s Girl of Steel will return for Supergirl season 5, undoubtedly facing off against a new alien menace seeking to conquer the planet. The news was confirmed by The CW earlier this year. One of the biggest narratives going into this season is that Supergirl will have a new costume. Find out more about
Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp’s The Green Lantern wraps up in October with issue 12, and DC just announced what’s coming next: the destruction of the entire Green Lantern Corps. No, scratch that: the complete erasure of the Green Lantern Corps from existence. Following up on the events of The Green Lantern #12, Morrison and
Writer/designer Sam Barlow and Annapurna Interactive are teaming up to bring us a spiritual successor to the revolutionary indie game, Her Story. Called Telling Lies, this title is described as a “spiritual successor to Her Story.” It deals with the process of how governments can collect feeds from various personal cameras across the world. Specifically, it
This Killjoys review contains spoilers. Killljoys Season 5 Episode 5 “Get behind me; I’m hunting asshole.” Though “love conquers all” admittedly comes across as a trite sentiment, the most basic of all human emotions finds itself front and center as Killjoys reaches the midpoint of its final season. “A Bout, A Girl” features the welcome
Brian Michael Bendis and DC Comics are about to bring back the Legion of Super-Heroes in the pages of Superman, before launching them back to where they belong, headlining their own monthly book. It’s been a minute since the Legion has graced the pages of DC Comics, but Bendis and artist Ryan Sook are ready
Mortal Kombat was the fighting game franchise that distinguished itself as the ostentatiously ultraviolent Chinese grindhouse-inspired alternative to the cartoony quarter-munching of the Street Fighter franchise, notably with its over-the-top characters. However, its de facto main character has been, for the most part, the ascetic and honorable chopsocky Shaolin monk warrior, Liu Kang. Consequently, it’s
Riverdale Season 4 is happening! This is great news for fans of quirky, unpredictable, and always entertaining TV. Perhaps more so than any other show on TV, Riverdale is very comfortable in its own skin; season three was a weird and wonderful experience, with episodes like “The Midnight Club” flashback installment and the noir experiment pushing
Raising Dion is another superhero series that’s joining Netflix’s original content; a lineup recently stemmed after an across-the-board cancellations of its Marvel shows. However, this 10-episode serial genre offering (bearing a uniquely heartfelt family twist,) has a major ace up its sleeve with a co-star who’s one today’s hottest box office draws, Michael B. Jordan.
Halo Infinite Creative Director Tim Longo has left developer 343 Industries. This information comes from Kotaku who first heard rumors that Longo had left the studio. When they reached out to Microsoft, the company confirmed Longo’s departure. “We have recently had two changes to the Halo Infinite development team,” reads a statement from Microsoft. ”Our Executive
Lost in Space Season 2 has officially been confirmed by Netflix. Lost in Space Season 1’s promising, cliffhanger conclusion indicates that the producers are confident there will be a Lost in Space Season 2. Series co-creators Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama confirmed to IndieWire that they are working on season two and have some “wild’ ideas. further
Picking up where The Batman Who Laughs left off, Batman/Superman kicks off at the end of August promising to infect heroes from around the DC Universe with dark multiverse Joker venom. But the identities of the infected have been mostly hidden, until now. We already knew that the first one to catch giggles would be
Ben Irving, the Lead Producer on Anthem, has shockingly decided to leave BioWare. “After 8 amazing years at BioWare I have made the decision to move on and have accepted an exciting opportunity at another gaming company,” says Irving via Twitter post. “Since the first time I played Baldurs Gate many many years ago, BioWare
Romantic comedies got a lot of much-deserved love and attention in 2018; one of the less-talked-about contributions to that glorious rom-com resurgence was the Greg Berlanti-directed Love, Simon, an adaptation of Becky Albertalli’s queer young adult book Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. Love, Simon was a critical and box office success, making $66 million on
Mr. Mercedes Season 3 is officially set for Audience Network. The renewal of Mr. Mercedes Season 3 arrived shortly after the late-summer-launched Season 2 wrapped its run on October 24, 2018, and has a late 2019 release date. Stephen King has called it the show’s best so far… The series will continue its process of adapting Stephen
If you just can’t wait to see Henry Cavill play Geralt in Netflix’s adaptation of The Witcher, there’s a PC mod for The Witcher 3 out there that may just give you a slight sneak peek of what to expect from the former Superman. A modder named Adnan has posted his creation over on Nexus
This Krypton review contains spoilers. Krypton Season 2, Episode 10 After that season finale, I think we can officially retire the phrase “prequel series” in relation to Krypton. If you haven’t already, that is. But “The Alpha and the Omega” is nothing short of a stellar episode that brings a satisfying conclusion to the General
Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, RB Silva, Marte Gracia, and the rest of the team are now two issues into House of X and Powers of X, the intertwining X-Men event comics meant to reset the marvelous mutants, and in four issues over one month, they’ve managed to change everything we know about the X-Men. This
Need For Speed Heat has been revealed as the next game in the massively popular racing franchise, with the game’s first trailer drifting onto the web today. “We’re delivering more options than ever before for players to be unique and make themselves known,” promises creative director Riley Cooper from Ghost Games. Cooper continues: “Our fans have
Star Wars Resistance season 2 is set for liftoff, according to Disney. The show was renewed midway through the first season, which sees Kazuda Xiono, a young pilot turned Resistance spy, investigate a station called the Colossus and its connections to the First Order. Along the way, he makes a few friends and participates in high-stakes
Dark Nights: Metal did more for DC’s cosmology than any event they’ve had since Crisis on Infinite Earths. And as the gift that keeps on giving (alternate timelines), DC is capitalizing by pushing out evil versions of major crossovers. The latest two: Blackest Night and Infinite Crisis. These stories join previously announced alternate takes on Batman: Knightfall
While the highlight of the new Apex Legends Ice Crown event should be the addition of a limited time solo mode to the team-based game, all most players can seem to talk about are the absurdly expensive cosmetics that may just rank among the most outrageous microtransactions we’ve seen in recent years. Apex Legends‘ new
Coming off the success of Netflix’s original documentary series The Toys That Made Us, series creator Brian Volk-Weiss announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2019 a spinoff series titled The Movies That Made Us. Each episode will chronicle the production of “generational” films and look at the impact these iconic films had on popular culture. You
Early last year, DC introduced a series of Walmart exclusive comics featuring new stories by some of comics’ top creators. One of those featured a Batman tale written by Brian Michael Bendis with art by Nick Derington. These stories were kind of difficult for many fans to find on a consistent basis, so DC’s faithful