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The following contains spoilers for the first four episodes of Rivals season 2. The first season of Rivals rightfully generated a lot of buzz for its scandalous sensibilities — the series opens with a couple joining the Mile High Club in an airplane toilet as a champagne bottle overflows outside and pretty much just proceeds from there. It was full of attractive male leads, most of whom all took their shirts off at various points during its run. It unabashedly embraced the idea that televisio

The disappointing fifth and final season of The Boys suffered from a myriad of problems. According to creator Eric Kripke, one issue was that the series was just too darn timely. How could he have guessed that the absolutely absurd moment when Homelander has a gaudy vision that convinces him he is God would be trumped by the President sharing an AI image of himself as the divine? The first trailer for The Boys prequel series Vought Rising seems to promise a series devoid of such issues. The s

This article contains minor spoilers for The Mandalorian and Grogu. At the climax of The Mandalorian and Grogu‘s first act, the odds stack up against Din Djarin. A horde of monsters floods into the gladiatorial arena to which he’s been sent, forcing Mando and Rotta the Hutt, the shockingly ripped son of Jabba the Hutt, to fight against a giant lizard in a leather vest, some unsettling worm thing, a gloopy dude with giant eyes, and other beasties. At first, the fight scene just

Supermassive Games’ Dark Pictures Anthology series takes on heavy themes about the darker aspects of humanity, free will, and morality. Players learn to make decisions for survival on the fly and deal with the outcomes of those decisions, sometimes impacted by choices of characters centuries before them.  The first game of the franchise, Man of Medan, was released in 2019, and the world has since expanded across five games of pure terror, with fan-favorite narrator, The Curator, walking playe

This article contains spoilers for The Boys season 5. The future of The Boys is in the past. Now that the show is over, we can look forward to a prequel series called Vought Rising that will explore the adventures of Soldier Boy, Bombsight, Liberty, and a host of other new characters in the 1950s, but until then, we can also look back at The Boys itself, as season 5 has marked the end of the mothership show on Prime Video. cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "106e33

Actors, like any other person, need to work to pay the bills. Sure, a lot of them have a lot more money than the average person, but that isn’t true for all performers, much less at the start of their careers. And yet, there are a few actors that, once they gained some renown, decided to be more picky on the films they starred in. Not all of the films they chose were instant classics, but that’s not why they chose them. These are actors clearly working their craft to the best of their ability

Entertainment products having deep lore is always a good thing, since there is a lot for audiences to enjoy. The problem comes when these pieces of media become so big, so convoluted, that you need long study sessions just to understand the basics. This isn’t limited to any piece of media: movies, TV shows and even Video Games do this, with their narratives expanded to unexpected lengths. Here, we have just a few of the most egregious examples, so prepare yourself if you want to get into any

Movies become instant classics by covering deep themes, being incredibly entertaining, or having quotable lines. That last batch of movies have a tendency of becoming memes, catchphrases and joke enders, to the point that the quote is far more memorable than the film itself. This has the unfortunate effect of audiences quoting movies they’ve never seen, with the phrases exploding in popularity through other media. There are people that don’t even know the quote is from a movie, since the quot

Depending on the decade, the entertainment industry tends to use the same actors across plenty of films, mainly due to their popularity. This is something we’re used to, but the characters behind the big leads also get reused often, something we tend to overlook since, well, they’re in the background. Still, their performances have merit, since someone needs to play all those roles. Once you see them, though, you can’t unsee them, so be prepared to recognize them everywhere. It’s incredible h

Watching movies is meant to be a joyful experience, even if you’re watching a tense thriller. The point is to have a good time, hence why films are part of the entertainment business. But what happens when a movie isn’t something enjoyable, but something you have to endure? This is the topic for today: movies that are so hard to get through, people have walked out of cinemas out of sheer frustration. And not because they’re controversial; they’re just plain bad. If you’re planning a movie nig

Fan-favorite gunslinging “Jackpot-”saying half-demon mercenary Dante Sparda is back for season 2 of Netflix’s Devil May Cry, joined by his equally powerful, more stoic and demonically-leaning twin brother. Dante (Johnny Yong) returns to TV with a renewed purpose: to defeat the king of the demons, Mundus (Ray Chase), and get his brother, Vergil Sparda (Robbie Daymond), back on the right side. However, Vergil is not the same little boy that Dante believed had died in the attack that killed their m

The hunt for James Bond is on. Even though it has been years since Daniel Craig ended his run with a bang in No Time to Die, a year since Amazon bought the rights from Eon Productions, and months since Denis Villeneuve was announced as the next director, apparently the search for the next 007 has just now begun in earnest. Amazon MGM has named Nina Gold as the casting director. In a statement released through Variety, the studio said, “While we don’t plan to comment on specific details dur

At the end of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, after all of the heroes have perished on their mission, Darth Vader arrives to absolutely wreck a bunch of rebels. The 60-second sequence shows Vader slashing dudes with his lightsaber, crushing enemies with the Force, and deflecting every laser blast. Yet, even within that bravura moment, Darth Vader will never be as frightening as Admiral Motti, the little snot played by Richard LeParmentier in the first Star Wars. Even if you don’t know Mot

The following contains spoilers for the first three episodes of Rivals season 2. Rivals is back for a second season, and it’s bigger, bolder, and more complicated than ever before. But while the show has garnered plenty of buzz for its copious amounts of sex, hedonistic attitude, and gleeful depiction of some of the worst excesses of life among the British elite in the 1980s, at its heart, Rivals is a romance. From Declan (Aidan Turner) and Maud O’Hara’s (Victoria Smurfit) fractious mar

The blaring sirens of a space station’s decontamination room are set to hit gaming consoles once again with the sequel to Creative Assembly’s survival horror game Alien: Isolation.  In the teaser for the sequel, a 25-second clip titled A False Sense of Security, we are introduced to the familiar intense atmosphere of a deserted ship, only for the door to open to a desolate planet, then the image of a payphone reading “Emergency,” introducing the idea of a storyline taking place on the su

TV Shows often become a huge commitment, not only of your time, but of your emotional investment to the characters. As years go on, trying to keep that momentum going is difficult, not to mention that certain stories shouldn’t be several seasons long. But if something has the proper rating, the show must go on, even if it doesn’t make sense. These are the shows that, unless you’re a serious fan, it’s hard to imagine anyone watching them all the way through. And as a new viewer today, it is ev

A character in a movie isn’t just made by the actor; the director, writer, and many other creatives are deeply involved in what makes a scene work. But the one putting their face on the line is, of course, the actor, and it can happen that they don’t fully agree (or commit) to the creative vision of the film. Actors clashing with creative decisions likely happens more often than we know, but the cases covered here are with veterans of the industry. These are the cases where the actor isn’t an

When we think of video games, we often think of titles that start and end, not unlike a show or a movie. But live-service games offer a different kind of experience, one that tries to go on forever. Fortnite and Marvel Rivals know how to capitalize such an ecosystem, and even if they ever shut down, they would still be considered successful. That isn’t the fate of all live-service games, since players might have the money, but they don’t have the time to play every game in existence. Without

Relationships are about commitment, respect and companionship more than they are about love. As such, even when couples seem fine from the outside, there might be problems brewing on the inside. And that’s quite evident with celebrity couples, where we don’t truly know what happens behind closed doors. Many of these entries are based on rumors, but it is a reality that these celebrities were once together, and their paths are now set apart. From public breakdowns to quiet separations, these a

On long-running TV shows, characters tend to die quite often; it’s what keeps a show interesting after all. But certain characters, those that become loathsome for whatever reason, become the target of the audience’s ire, and we wished they left the show earlier than they did. Not all of these characters are villains, some are just side characters that we don’t want to see anymore. Conflict is an important part of storytelling, but considering how hard it was to watch these characters on the