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In today’s retro movie review, our friends at io9 look back at 1993’s Super Mario Bros. movie and how its a weird homage to New York City. “One of the interesting things about living in New York City during the coronavirus pandemic has been discovering ways to experience the area vicariously through different forms of

It’s been a long, dry spell for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After Spider-Man: Far From Home, all we had was the finale of Agents of SHIELD, and that barely even counts anymore in terms of the larger MCU. We were supposed to have Black Widow back in May, but that’s been delayed until at least

This article is presented by Gigabyte. If you open up any pro gamer’s desktop PC, you’ll likely find one or two components labeled “Gigabyte.” For over three decades, the Taiwanese tech company has been making some of the best motherboards and graphics cards you can buy, so it’s no wonder PC builders tend to favor

On Sept. 28, 1985 the world got a glimpse of what could have been a very different Batman animated series. The fourth episode of that year’s incarnation of Hanna-Barbera’s long running Super Friends animated series (Super Powers: Galactic Guardians) is “The Fear.” Unlike previous episodes, it wasn’t focused on the Justice League and their ongoing

As The Mandalorian season 2 approaches, Mando is chasing clues that might help him discover Baby Yoda’s origin. And of course, the Child is along for the ride in the cockpit of the Razor Crest, pressing buttons he’s not supposed to. The trailer for the second season teases that the search for Baby Yoda’s home

Close Encounters of the Third Kind should be considered one of Steven Spielberg’s best films, but it rarely makes top five lists. “Many people would agree that Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a straight-up masterpiece. That’s not some wild stretch. And yet, ask those same people what the best Steven Spielberg movies are

Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? We’re about to find out in the new horror movie, The Wolf of Snow Hollow. As the latest feature from SXSW darling Jim Cummings, the horror movie is set in a small town where diminished expectations comes face to face with growing clumps of fur, not to mention

This is almost certainly an exercise in cruelty. Fans of Channel 4’s conspiracy thriller Utopia have already gone through the pain of its premature cancellation. To hope for more at this late stage is surely just setting ourselves up for more hurt? And yet… Speaking to Den of Geek about new experimental mystery thriller The

This THE 100 review contains spoilers The 100 Season 7 Episode 14 Traditionally on television, a character dies as a surprise at the end of one episode, and is memorialized in the following one. The 100 doesn’t have that kind of time. Bellamy gets a few minutes in the beginning and some scattered moments throughout the rest

Hitting like tennis icons Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal on a real court may be close to impossible. World Tour Tennis 2 will give fans the chance to at least hit like some of their favorite pros on the virtual court. The new game from NACON and Big Ant Studios will feature 38 professional players,

We’re hosting another Sci-Fi Explosion in conjunction with the Warner Archive Collection, here’s the details! Far beyond the usual sci-fi space stories there lies a strange galactic outpost where inexplicable Star Wars-themed music videos rub shoulders with cosmic cartoons, weird robot PSAs and other forgotten orphans of genre insanity. This is the domain of Sci-Fi

In July of this year, which could have been a few months ago or ten years in the future because time has lost all meaning, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo launched his Mask Up America campaign – which included TV spots featuring the likes of Robert De Niro, Kaitlyn Dever, Jamie Foxx, Morgan Freeman, John

Ava DuVernay is one of the most accomplished and visible filmmakers of her generation. As the director of Selma, she is often celebrated for offering a poignant dramatization of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the SNCC organization’s fight for the Voting Rights Act—a fact that remains a demerit for the Academy Awards which nominated

This spoiler-free review is based on the first two episodes. There’s a Woody the Woodpecker cartoon where Woody starts to fall from a height, then double takes, flaps his wings and soars into the sky saying, ‘Hey! I forgot I was a bird!’ Every so often, TV pulls the same trick. It goes along, airing detective shows

This Lovecraft Country review contains spoilers. Lovecraft Country Episode 5 A white woman (Jamie Neumann) wakes up in an unfamiliar place and doesn’t recognize herself in the mirror. She runs away looking for help, and in her distress, bumps into a Black boy. Black folks on the street look on in horror as cops threaten

As part of DC’s Fandome, Publisher Jim Lee answered a number of fan questions in prerecorded videos from his home studio. One of those answers gave some pretty definitive information about DC’s upcoming publishing schedule. “There won’t be a project called 5G or a big reboot or whatever,” Lee told the remote audience. Lee was

As part of DC’s second day of wildly successful pandemic comic con replacement, Fandome, the cast of Young Justice got together for a live read of a radio episode and an exclusive reveal. Young Justice: Phantoms is the title of Young Justice season 4. Producers Greg Weisman and Brandon Vietti confirmed the title at the

This The 100 articles contains MAJOR spoilers for “Blood Giant.” Do not read if you have not yet watched the episode. The final season of The 100 may be going out with a bang, but it’s certainly not the kind of plot-twisting its fans had hoped for. Given that this is a show that has

Just when you thought it was safe to check out Netflix tonight, the streamer has dumped a sequel to its 2017 hit The Babysitter into its endless river of algorithm-calibrated goo. But while some critics apparently found the first movie charming–and appreciated the presence of rising horror-comedy star Samara Weaving (Ready or Not)–The Babysitter: Killer

This article contains spoilers for The Boys Season 2 episode 4. It’s been a while since we last saw Dan Darin-Zanco’s Doppelganger pop up in Amazon’s relentlessly brutal comic book smash hit series, The Boys, but he was back in Season 2’s fourth episode, ‘Nothing Like It In the World’ and hoo boy, there was

Let’s hope Sidney Prescott has been keeping up with the glut of excellent horror movies in the last decade, because it looks like she’s about to be grilled once more on what’s her favorite scary movie. That’s right, Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott is officially back for Scream 5. Campbell confirmed the news herself on

This article contains spoilers for the first three episodes of The Boys Season 2 One of the major lingering questions when it comes to The Boys’ main offenders is the true role of Vought International CEO Stan Edgar. So far, the character has been played calmly and deliberately by Giancarlo Esposito, who is still best

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: You’ll have to wait a little longer for the next season of Atlanta. The Emmy-winning series was initially pegged to return for a third season in January 2021. That date is now in flux due to production delays stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.  During a press call

This article contains spoilers for the first three episodes of The Boys Season 2 Aya Cash is a familiar face to many TV junkies, but whether you know her as Gretchen Cutler from You’re the Worst, Sherri in Easy or Joan Simon in Fosse/Verdon, nothing can prepare you for her disturbing role as Stormfront in

The reveal of the Xbox Series S is about so much more than the console itself. As the first next-gen console with a confirmed price point and release date, the Xbox Series S’ has provided a practical idea of the costs of next-gen gaming as well as a definitive date for when we can expect

It’s fair to say that Chris Mark didn’t have a whole lot to do in The Boys’ Season 2 as Blindspot! At least, it doesn’t look like we’ll see him pop up again any time soon. Mark is a prolific and respected stunt performer and fight choreographer, who you’ve probably already seen in a bunch

Netflix chiller I’m Thinking of Ending Things has arrived to confuse and bemuse. It’s based on the novel by Iain Reid, which is also a mystery, and it’s adapted by Charlie Kaufman, a man with a history of playing around with concepts of fiction and reality in his screenplays such as Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of

Warning: contains Young Wallander finale spoilers. Kurt Wallander’s first murder case left him disillusioned and questioning the point of it all. He’d solved the murder and identified the culprit, but was justice done? Was it hell.  After spending weeks discovering who was behind the murder of Malmo teenager Hugo Lundgren – time in which he

Since Disney began rolling out live-action adaptations of its animated classics in 2015, the past five years have seen roughly one new release per year, each one confronting the question of whether or not to attempt the musical numbers—arguably the most emblematic element—without the aid of animation and trained singers. In the case of movies

Disney’s new live-action adaptation of Mulan might not be a movie musical, but that doesn’t mean it is without music. The Niki Caro-directed film, which dropped on Disney+ for “premium access” this weekend, has a score composed and conducted by Harry Gregson-Williams that makes up most of the official Mulan soundtrack. However, the film soundtrack