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Once upon a time Kevin Smith had a dream to make a Krampus movie—an anthropological horror film based around the anti-Santa Claus monster of Germanic folklore. But then Michael Dougherty went and made Krampus in 2015, so Smith had to improvise. Luckily this is the guy who made Clerks for $28,000—being creative with resources is

Antlers will mark filmmaker Scott Cooper’s first foray into the horror genre. That’s a benefit as far as producer Guillermo del Toro is concerned. Having gotten into producing films in order to “learn from [other] filmmakers,” del Toro wanted to see what Cooper’s idea of a monster movie might look like. And considering it ended

It’s hardly a surprise that the reveal of Avowed, Obsidian Entertainment’s upcoming first-person RPG based on the Pillars of Eternity universe, quickly got everyone talking about The Elder Scrolls. Not only is The Elder Scrolls the definitive name in first-person RPGs for many console gamers, but Avowed comes just as we’re all patiently waiting for

Fans of History’s Nordic drama Vikings are used to waiting patiently for the series to return for its next installment, but with Covid-19 raging globally, any news of a return for the final ten episodes is certainly welcome. And while creator, writer, and showrunner Michael Hirst didn’t reveal anything concrete about the conclusion of season

Colin Trevorrow has been looking back afresh on his nixed Star Wars trilogy-capper. The Jurassic World director originally developed Episode IX – formerly Duel of the Fates – alongside co-writer Jack Thorne, but reports indicated that their screenplay did not meet the standards of Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy. Rather than getting another shot at it,

Superhero movies have a notoriously poor track record on sincerely depicting disenfranchised or marginalized groups on the screen, LGBTQ+ or otherwise. Often every time a Hollywood studio brags about including a gay character in a major blockbuster, it turns out to be a character without a name, or a background player whose public display of

In the middle of our conversation with journalist and author Caitlin Moran, she turns around to reveal a storyboard for her next project – a utopian sci-fi described as a cross between Weird Science and The Handmaid’s Tale. Whether that sounds appealing will depend largely on whether you’ve found yourself enraptured by Moran’s unique blend

Four years after Hillary Clinton lost her final bid for the White House—even though she won the popular vote—there remains a lot of melancholic reflection about “what if” among her most dedicated supporters. Heck, there’s a lot of second-guessing, too, among some of her harshest critics with the current occupant of the Oval Office fumbling

Todd Phillips’ ‘gritty’ take on the Clown Prince of Crime inspired the most complaints to the British Board of Film Classification in 2019, it’s been revealed. More people were moved to grumble about Warner Bros and DC’s solo Joker effort than any other cinema release last year, after it received arguably unwarranted media attention from

This article contains Stargirl spoilers. Don’t read if you aren’t caught up to episode 10. Whether we want to be or not, we are all defined in some part by our parents; by their love or their lack of it, by the trauma they suffered or the compassion they were shown, and by the simple

It’s almost time to go another round with one of the most stubborn men in comics. Spawn creator and Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane is the subject of an incoming documentary called Todd McFarlane: Like Hell I Won’t, which is set to chronicle his decades-long career and abject refusal to hand over creative control, even

You better start perfecting your eggs and bacon breakfast sandwich, because Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is getting ready for its streaming close-up. Indeed, as part of an onslaught of Batman movies headed to HBO Max in August, WarnerMedia announced that the Margot Robbie led anti-superhero flick will be

This THE ALIENIST review contains spoilers. The Alienist Season 2 Episode 2 “Get in good trouble. Necessary trouble,” is a famous quote from the late civil rights leader and United States politician John Lewis. Since his passing this week, the quote has been on my mind, for a variety of reasons, and I thought about

Though many of its characters are morally gray, The Walking Dead has always been a black and white affair…at least in terms of the paper it’s printed on. Now, that’s set to change. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Walking Dead will return this October as The Walking Dead Deluxe. Creator Robert Kirkman’s studio Skybound

“Hopefully I am defining what an actual energy vampire is instead of someone on the outer edges of society,” says Mark Proksch, who plays the life force gourmand on FX’s What We Do in the Shadows. The actor who plays that Dilbert-looking guy who shares a house on Staten Island with a liquid-diet trio tells

Death Stranding is one of the most bizarre and unique games ever made, which isn’t so surprising when you consider it’s the first project from an independent Kojima Productions, where the legendary video game auteur Hideo Kojima is finally completely free to let his imagination run wild. Setting players on a grueling trek across a

Screen adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s celebrated graphic novels have been teased since the 90s, with various talent attached but none as yet managing to materialize in physical form. While a TV series for Netflix is in pre-production with Wonder Woman writer Allan Heinberg showrunning and David Goyer and Gaiman exec producing, an audio book has

Syfy has been …how to put this delicately… ‘a little more commitment-phobic’ in regards to its own series over the last handful of years, so a first teaser trailer for Child’s Play TV show Chucky gently noting that USA Network remains firmly on board is not only reassuring, but of course tremendously exciting for fans

Netflix’s Cursed will (rightly) generate a lot of buzz for the way it injects a much-needed female perspective into the traditionally male world of Arthurian legend. The series gives a voice to a largely unexplored female character by focusing on the story of Fey girl Nimue, who is destined to one day become the Lady

Australian thriller The Secrets She Keeps, currently airing on BBC One and iPlayer, takes the audience to a very dark place says Laura Carmichael. Her character Agatha, a supermarket worker who befriends a pregnant blogger, ‘does such unbelievable things, the most irresponsible things’ driven ‘by the impulse of motherhood’. Building a crime thriller around that

The following contains spoilers for Psych 2: Lassie Come Home. As fun as 2017’s Psych: The Movie was, its 2020 sequel Psych 2: Lassie Come Home will likely supplant it in Psych-Os’ hearts, because it’s got 500% more Carlton Lassiter (Timothy Omundson). But how does it stack up to its predecessor in terms of Psych

This article contains Stargirl spoilers. Stargirl continues to deliver some of the deepest cuts in DC Universe TV history to fans each week. Not only that, it does it with not a hint of irony about it, even when it’s presenting characters who, to modern eyes, might appear a little bit hokey if presented in

On July 15, Nintendo will add The Immortal to Nintendo Switch Online’s ever-growing collection of retro games. As a free game (outside of the subscription price of Nintendo Switch Online, of course) that initially appeals with its “side of the van” cover art and promises of dungeon crawler gameplay, I imagine that you may be

Ghost of Tsushima‘s developers at Sucker Punch have been very explicit about the ways the samurai films of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa have influenced their game. The PS4 exclusive even features a “Kurosawa Mode” that allows you to apply a stylish black-and-white filter to the experience, recreating the somber mood and film grain of

Atomic Blonde 2 is, in a surprise reveal, a thing that’s happening… on Netflix, no less. Charlize Theron, whose Netflix sci-fi action thriller, The Old Guard, just hit the streaming giant on July 10, has revealed plans in an interview with Total Film to field another action offering for the streaming giant. However, rather than

This NOS4A2 review contains spoilers. NOS4A2 Season 2 Episode 4 For as much skill as Bing Partridge (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) has with connecting to children, Charlie Manx (Zachary Quinto) is no slouch in that department, either. He might not be able to talk to kids on their level as well as Bing, but there’s just

The next game in Ubisoft’s hacking-focused open-world series is called Watch Dogs Legion, Ubisoft confirmed ahead of E3 2019. Watch Dogs Legion will be set in a dystopian “post-Brexit” version of London.  “Watch Dogs Legion is set in a near-future, dystopian version of London,” reads the game’s leaked description. “It’s a post-Brexit world in which society, politics, and

This article contains Palm Spring spoilers. Our spoiler-free review is here. Time loop movies are quickly becoming a genre, and we are here for it. The paterfamilias of the concept on screen is of course Harold Ramis’ existential romantic comedy, Groundhog Day, but we’ve seen the concept repeatedly riffed on ever since in everything from

Gina Prince Bythewood’s action-packed The Old Guard has officially hit Netflix and the gritty mythological Charlize Theron star vehicle–based on the comics from Greg Rucka (who also wrote the screenplay) and Leandro Fernandez–has left fans asking, “What happens next?” Although the streamer has yet to announce whether the movie will get a sequel, the final

It was Sage Francis who quoted Kurt Vonnegut who paraphrased John Greenleaf Whittier when he declared “of all the words of mice and men the saddest are ‘it might have been’” in his 2014 song “Vonnegut Busy.” Despite who originated this oft-used declaration, the truth remains that few things are sadder in life than a