Please be advised that in the interests of maintaining contemporaneous consistency I will be referring to WWE as WWF throughout this article. This clarification should prevent you from imagining giant men in spandex fighting pandas for money.  On August the 29th 1992 the WWF came to Wembley Stadium for its annual SummerSlam. It was the
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Warning: contains spoilers for The Capture Series 1. The most effective horror films are the ones that make menace out of everyday things – the TV in Poltergeist, the shower in Psycho, little girls with long, wet hair in… everything. Surveillance thriller The Capture does the same by turning the simple act of walking down a city street into
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This article contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy season 3. With the conclusion of The Umbrella Academy’s third season, the show finds itself in some uncharted territory. Not only is the Hargreeves family once again lost in parts unknown, trying to find their way in a new-ish reality without their powers, but so too is
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While film and television remakes still enjoy a mixed reputation (at best), many video game remakes have historically succeeded in the one area other remakes have failed: making a great original even better. Granted, some great video game remakes are actually great games with improved graphics. Indeed, part of the reason more video game remakes
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On the surface, the Saints Row franchise might come across as a Grand Theft Auto clone, but the series typically sets itself apart with an irreverent sense of humor that has historically shined brightest in the series’ minigames. Of course, few of the franchise’s various side activities are more entertaining than the franchise’s famous Insurance
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Super Mario Kart didn’t invent racing games, but the changes it made to the usual genre formula (like adding Nintendo’s most popular characters, weapons that could be used to slow down opponents, and the multiplayer battle mode) made it feel like a revolution. There’s a reason why so many other developers have tried their hands
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Executive produced by Rick and Morty and Community‘s Dan Harmon, the new FXX animated comedy series Little Demon blends elements of Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen, Dogma and Family Guy into an engaging and hilarious stew of sacrilegious silliness. The story chronicles the relationship between Satan (Danny DeVito), the Earthly woman he impregnated, single mother Laura
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The Gamescom 2022 opening night ceremony featured a surprising number of fascinating new game trailers. However, the show was arguably stolen by the surprising reveal of a multiplayer horror game based on an eternally underrated ’80s horror movie. Yes, as surprising as it may sound, developer Teravision Games has somehow convinced Good Shepherd Entertainment to
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Better Call Saul is a literary show. An article of clothing is not just something to wear. A cinnamon roll is not just the dessert that Gene Takovic (Bob Odenkirk) makes while hiding in Nebraska. When we see these objects pop up throughout the story at important times, or they recur constantly, it’s safe to
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The Saints Row games have primarily been single-player experiences. After all, the franchise started during the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 era, when developers hadn’t quite gotten the hang of drop-in/drop-out co-op much less open-world online multiplayer. Now that the Saints Row reboot is giving the series a fresh start, players can join their comrades
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George R.R. Martin’s The Winds of Winter understandably gets the most attention as pop culture’s preeminent lollygagger, but over on streaming television, Amazon Prime Video’s Jack Ryan season 3 is starting to reach Westeros-levels of wait times. Prime Video doled out an advance order for Jack Ryan Season 3 back in February 2019, before season 2
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This article contains spoilers for all of Better Call Saul. Many shows have pre-credits scenes that are valuable to the greater story of the season. Others don’t care at all about the cold opening, opting to go right into the title card and then to the action. Better Call Saul, like its predecessor before it,
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The following contains spoilers for Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, and El Camino. The nice thing about Vince Gilligan’s Albuquerque universe in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul is how neat and orderly it all is. Gilligan and his Bad and Saul writers (including Saul showrunner Peter Gould) take an engineer’s approach to crafting their
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