In addition to its Pixar-like visuals, explosive set pieces, and satirical humor, the Ratchet & Clank series is famous for letting players pull the trigger on some of the most creative weapons in all of gaming. It should come as no surprise to learn, then, that the same is also true for the latest entry, Rift Apart, which is out exclusive for the PS5 with a whopping 20 firearms for you to upgrade and enjoy....
Even using the word “daughters” is potentially misleading. Lady Dimitrescu refers to the characters as her daughters, but aspects of the game’s lore hinted at by circumstantial evidence suggest that they may not actually be her daughters. There’s even a hint that they could somehow be manufactured. It’s also been noted that the characters share many design similarities with the famous “brides” of Dracula who typically occupy the Count’s castle and have become a core component of the character’s mythology....
Most people know that those kinds of comparisons are rarely accurate. However, they offer a simple way of describing something new by comparing it to things that are already known and more established. More often than not, the best way to get someone to try something different is to base your description of it on something familiar. Yet, the one comparison I haven’t been able to shake whenever I think of Returnal is also the one that I don’t make lightly or just throw out there to get people interested in the game....
Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12) directed, with Kim’s Convenience star Simu Liu cast as Shang-Chi, a skilled martial artist who is trying to live a normal life in San Francisco despite being trained at a young age to be an assassin by his father Wenwu (Tony Leung). The movie examines Shang-Chi’s origins but in the present day we see him get drawn further into the clandestine Ten Rings organization, and he is ultimately forced to confront the past he thought he left behind....
Star Trek: Discovery Episode 7 Time loop narratives are a mainstay of Star Trek storytelling. The Next Generation did it to particularly memorable effect with “Cause and Effect,” directed by Jonathan Frakes (aka Riker). The key to a good time loop episode, as Frakes demonstrated admirably, is to make sure that enough stays the same for the loop to exist, while changing enough to keep the audience interested. “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad” found a good balance in its fifty minutes, showing the time loop con man Harry Mudd sent the Discovery into from various perspectives....
Star Trek: Lower Decks owes a huge debt to Rick and Morty, not least of which because its creator, Mike McMahan, was a writer on that show first. Even the visuals of Lower Decks take inspiration from Rick and Morty. At first, Lower Decks seemed to really be playing into this, featuring gross out humor, body horror, and even a Rick and Morty like dynamic between Lower Decks leads Mariner and Boimler....
Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 6 Any episode of Star Trek: Picard that features the La Sirena crew gussied up in formal wear, finds an excuse for a random musical interlude, and features Patrick Stewart giving a heartfelt pep talk to a young woman doubting her own strength is automatically going to be an instant classic in my book. Is “Two for One” a perfect hour? Nope. Does everything that happens in it even fully make sense?...
This is far from the first time Star Trek has travelled back to the present day – even if “present day” is pretty broad for the 55-year-old franchise. We have no way of knowing why the series keeps returning to this setting that doesn’t need the manufacture of any new props, sets or costumes, but it seems like a good time to look at when Star Trek has done this before and ask “Who wore it better?...
This may seem obvious, but it’s worth noting because every once in a while, in big sci-fi narratives, the opposite occurs: a comeback is a huge deal, but knowledge of anything pre-comeback is optional, or perhaps, irrelevant. It sounds nuts, but this specific kind of comeback perfectly describes Khan Noonien Singh in 1982’s The Wrath of Khan. 40 summers after Kirk screamed “Khaaaaan!!!” the true brilliance of this film is how it tricked everyone into “remembering” Khan in the first place....
But since the Sequels wrapped in 2019, Lucasfilm has been busy mining other parts of the Star Wars timeline for new tales, this time on our television sets. The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Ahsoka all take place five years after Return of the Jedi but decades before Rey’s fight against the First Order. And now there’s Obi-Wan Kenobi, the first live-action Star Wars limited series set 10 years after the Prequel Trilogy....
The game is set after Return of the Jedi at a time when what’s left of the Empire is desperately clawing at whatever systems and planets it still controls. Fortunately for the galaxy, the New Republic is fighting back with its fleet of ace pilots. Squadrons specifically focuses on the New Republic’s Vanguard Squadron and the Empire’s Titan Squadron, as they battle it out in intense dogfights for galactic supremacy....
If Din’s destiny is tied up to the final battles against the Imperial remnant, Rebels regular Hera Syndulla is the perfect character to guide Mando through that larger saga story as someone who once fought on the fringes but is now a New Republic leader. She’s also a popular character with the versatility to appear in a variety of different situations, and her voice actor is an obvious choice for her live-action portrayal....
Bringing back these elements from the Prequel and A New Hope eras of Star Wars is a no-brainer, considering the Disney+ show takes place in between the two — 10 years after Revenge of the Sith but 9 years before the Original Trilogy. Like Rebels before it, Obi-Wan Kenobi is in the unique position where it can marry the gilded age aesthetic of the Prequels with the more rusted look of the first Star Wars....
Line of Duty isn’t alone in attracting King’s online praise; when the horror author watches a TV show he loves from inside the creepy Castle Rock devil shop he calls home, he lets his 6.5 million followers know about it. Below is a list of endorsements King has made on Twitter in recent years, from the usual sci-fi and horror suspects to a few less expected titles. US MODERN CLASSICS The Americans, Game of Thrones, Homeland, Sons of Anarchy and The Shield In Stephen King’s house (inside Derry’s landmark water tower, The Standpipe) as of February 2018, only three shows were considered ‘appointment television’: FX Cold War spy drama The Americans, HBO fantasy epic Game of Thrones and Showtime spy thriller Homeland....
Stranger Things season 4 concluded with many questions lingering. Where exactly is Max? How can Vecna be defeated? And when can we expect Will to share his secret with Mike? One question that’s already been definitively answered, however, is: will we get a Stranger Things season 5? The good news is that we will absolutely see a fifth season of Stranger Things. The bad news is that it will be the show’s last....
Supergirl Season 3 Episode 1 The girl of steel is back but Kara Danvers is still on hiatus in this slow Supergirl season 3 premiere. The episode balanced out the catch-up inherent to a premiere episode with some action, but that couldn’t make up for the uneven tone. Luckily the set up for longer story arcs is promising, including a pro-capitalist villain and new cloaking technology that can hide a nuke....
Believe it or not, Supernatural is the longest-running genre series in American broadcast television history. The series is also the last remaining vestige of The WB network, which merged with UPN in 2006 to create The CW network as we know it today. Revisit the final season with our full reviews below… Supernatural Season 15 Episode Guide Click on the blue links below to read full reviews of the episodes....
Christopher Nolan has a reputation for making complicated, hard to understand movies, but in all honesty, that reputation is unearned. In Memento, the scenes filmed in color are running in reverse order, the scenes filmed in black and white are running forwards, and the film ends when they meet in the middle. Inception is a pretty straight forward heist once you get your head round the idea that the dreams are nested inside each other like Russian dolls, each running a little faster than the one inside of it....
To recap: entrepreneurs Dante (Jacob Latimore) and Melody (Sarah Yarkin) have raised enough money from investors to buy an entire abandoned town in Texas with the goal of turning it into some sort of new hipster utopia–Williamsburg South, you might say. But our protagonists didn’t cross all their t’s and dot all their i’s, leading to the eviction of one elderly homeowner and her rather large, ominous-looking companion. It’s all too much for the old woman’s heart and she has to be rushed to the hospital....
The 100 Season 5 Episode 8 This episode is all about peace at any price. Whatever the opposite of appeasement is, it seems everyone is racing toward, trading violence and death in the short term for a shot at peace in the long term. Only Monty and Harper seem to be looking for another way, peace without more death, though Kane certainly thinks that’s what he’s doing, rather than being co-opted....
