Month: October 2019

Back at San Diego Comic Con 2019, the team behind The CW’s DC shows revealed quite a bit about next season’s big crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earths. Among the news: Tom Cavanagh (who plays the various Harrison Wellses of the multiverse) will be playing Pariah from the comics. That’s…a pretty deep cut. They could have
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This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 31 Episode 3 The Simpsons, season 31, episode 3, “The Fat Blue Line,” is a supporting character-led episode, focusing on Chief Clancy Wiggum, the worst cop the state attorney’s investigating officer ever had the pleasure of humiliating in front of his men. While stories focusing on secondary character stories
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While I love a good epic fantasy read where an unassuming, usually male, usually white farmboy learns of his great destiny to save the world, there are so many fantasy stories that exist outside of that framework.  One of my favorite ways to see fantasy genre tropes subverted is by taking the usual feudal European-like
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The end of Breaking Bad felt like the end of an era. The Golden Age of Television, marked by writer/creator-driven dramas focused on male anti-hero protagonists, arguably kicked off when Tony Soprano carried out a hit while on a college visit with his daughter, and ended when chemistry teacher turned meth kingpin Walter White took
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There’s never a bad season of the year for reading. Whether it’s winter, summer, spring, or fall, there’s a reading habit that goes oh-so-well with the season. But there’s something about fall—when the leaves are changing (at least in some parts of the world) and the nights are getting longer—that makes me want to curl up
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Being the oldest of the three major current console platforms, you’d think Nintendo would pay the most respect to its long legacy of much-beloved games and franchises. After all, the company has been trading for well over 130 years now, having entered the electronic era in the early 1970s before quite literally changing the game
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This Charmed review contains spoilers. Charmed Season 2, Episode 1 The first season of Charmed introduced us to Mel and Maggie, and their half-sister Macy who they only learned about after their mother’s death in the premier. It established who they were as individuals and how they fit together as a part of a powerful
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Fortnite‘s next update will seemingly be the start of a new era for the game.  This information comes from an apparent leak on the Italian iOS app store which showcases a screenshot of Fortnite that includes the words “Capitolo 2.” That translates to Chapter 2, which is s pretty bold phrase to use in relation
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The Secret Spiral of Swamp Kid, DC’s latest middle school graphic novel, is a perfect read for the Halloween season. The Secret Spiral of Swamp Kid has earned rave reviews from literary outlets such as Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and Booklist who herald it as “a comedic win”, “an excellent and inviting foray into
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Cinema’s premiere Count Dracula will be donning his opera cape again. Bela Lugosi had a love-hate relationship with the bloodsucking role that made him an icon. He occasionally felt straitjacketed by the horrific typecasting, but he loved the cape so much he wore it in several films including Plan 9 from Outer Space, and was
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While watching your favorite horror movies, you may have missed one of the gaming industry’s favorite pastimes: adapting great scary films into games. From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween to Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street, all of these franchises have been adapted into video games at one or another. Many
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At New York Comic Con 2019, among other huge Star Trek announcements, CBS also launched the new mini-season of the anthology series: Short Treks. Though there were only four mini-episodes last time around, this time there will be six, and the first of those began streaming last Saturday. And, if you were distracted by the huge revelations
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Doom 64, an infamous part of the Doom legacy, is coming to the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PS4, and PC.  Following the releases of Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3 on Nintendo’s hybrid platform, id has confirmed that they are also bringing Doom 64 to the Nintendo Switch. If you’re suddenly wondering why they are
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This All American review contains spoilers. All American Season 2, Episode 1 All American Season 2 “Hussle and Motivate” starts off with a moment between Spencer and Coop standing in front of a beautifully-crafted mural of the late Nipsey Hussle, whom the title of the premiere references (“Hussle & Motivate” was one of Nipsey’s songs). 
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