Netflix New Releases: May 2024

From Bridgerton season 3 to a dancing TikTok cult, here’s everything coming to Netflix this May. Of course, Netflix is also rolling out a suite of true crime docs and docuseries as well. Chief among those options isAshley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandalon May 15. Its the movie side of things where Netflix is feeling particularly lively though. May 3 sees the arrival of Jerry Seinfeld Pop Tart comedyUnfrosted. Ad content continues below...

May 1, 2024 · 1 min · 104 words · Michael Shelton

Shardlake Review: Sinister and Satisfying Tudor-Set Murder Mystery

Hughes and Boyle make a good double act that feels vibrant and alive, not dusty and far away. Thats his conscience as a good, truth-seeking man in a cut-throat world. Its 1536, mid-Reformation and two years after the Act of Supremacy broke England from Rome. For him, that justification must also be the truth. For Cromwell, the truth is immaterial as long as the monastery falls. Neither has this sinister, satisfying adaptation wasted any of the novels screen potential....

May 1, 2024 · 1 min · 95 words · Joseph Cook

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Series Finale Ending Explained

The Star Wars: The Bad Batch series finale leaves some big questions out there for fans to ponder. Here’s how it all goes down. This article contains spoilers forStar Wars: The Bad Batchseason 3 episode 15. It doesnt set them up for their own spinoff, but we can imagine a more matureYoung Jedi Adventures. Hunter, Wrecker, and Crosshair are detained by Hemlock, who prepares the Bad Batch for reconditioning. Instead, Hunter easily dispatches CX-2 with a spear to the chest....

May 1, 2024 · 1 min · 183 words · Sean Carlson

Tudor Crime Show Creator Wants You “to Fall in Love With Shardlake”

New four-part historical crime drama Shardlake is about a conscience-led hero in a dangerous world. I dont think Im projecting at all! When the kings man is killed at a monastery, Thomas Cromwell sends lawyer Matthew Shardlake to investigate. The way Sean plays it is just lovely, says Butchard. The smiles, the arm on the shoulder… theres a weight there. Its dont let me down, and youre terrified! Beans Cromwell is a manipulator, says Butchard, with a hint of charming monster....

May 1, 2024 · 2 min · 425 words · Alan Sellers

X-Men ’97 Episode 8 Just Proved Why Magneto Was Right

This post contains spoilers forX-Men 97episode 8. The extreme intolerance of humans likeBastionshattered Xaviers dream, suggesting that humans and mutants could never, ever co-exist. The humans just wont let the mutants be. Before that statement occurred to Val Cooper, it appeared as a T-shirt. In its original usage, the phrase singaled the mutants shift to pop-culture icons. The shirt mimics the design of Che Guevara shirts popular in the early 2000s....

May 1, 2024 · 1 min · 163 words · Sara Proctor

Chris Hemsworth Calls His Thor in Love and Thunder a Parody

Chris Hemsworth feels a bit of shame about his unworthy sequel Thor: Love and Thunder. According to the origin of MarvelsThor, the All-Father Odin sends his son to Earth to learn humility. It sounds like Thor actorChris Hemsworthhas had to do the same thing. I didnt stick the landing. Its easy to see why Hemsworth leaned so far into Waititis style forLove and Thunder. Sometimes I felt like a security guard for the team, Hemsworth said of the first twoAvengersmovies....

April 30, 2024 · 1 min · 206 words · Craig Fowler

Deathclaws: The Horrifying Origins of Fallout’s Scariest Creatures

The only thing more terrifying than Fallout’s Deathclaws is the true meaning of their origin story. Deathclaws have long been some of the scariest and most dangerous monsters to roam the Wasteland. They are incredibly difficult to kill, though their ferocity in combat sometimes feels like a superfluous factoid. Who Created The Deathclaws? Then again, we dont even know how Deathclaws would have performed on the battlefields they were designed for....

April 30, 2024 · 2 min · 376 words · Mitchell Martinez

Francis Ford Coppola Reveals the Sci-Fi Story That Inspired Megalopolis

Audiences have waited a long time for Megalopolis. Francis Ford Coppolahas made some of the most defining American films of all time, includingThe Godfathertrilogy andApocalypse Now. The seeds forMegalopoliswere planted when as a kid I saw H.G. WellsThings to Come, Coppola wrote in a statement toVanity Fair. The elderly Cabal arrives to announce the work of a group of inventors called Wings Over the World. Under Cabals guidance, Wings Over the World ushers in a new era of progress and abundance....

April 30, 2024 · 1 min · 151 words · Yvette Key

Shogun Returned to What Was So Great About Early Game of Thrones

FXs Shogun seems to be scratching an itch left by the ending of Game of Thrones. This article includes spoilers forShogun(andGame of Thronestoo). It is a spectacular sight. The slaughter which is to commence against him will be immense. … Or so were told. Its a vision of the future gifted from one man to another who is already dead. Because that is not the point of the final episode of the miniseries....

April 30, 2024 · 3 min · 507 words · Dean Mercado

Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi Almost Had an Even Darker Opening

Now, thats a name I havent heard in a long time… A long time. While the Disney+ seriesObi-Wan Kenobigave fans an answer, it could have been so much worse. The first episode used to start with me as a waiter in a bar. Hes really lost his way, Obi-Wan, he explained. Hes drinking too much. I got beaten up. People are kicking me, and Im just taking it, then stalking out into the night....

April 30, 2024 · 1 min · 153 words · Adam Velazquez

The Shakespeare Play That Makes Anyone But You Such a Charmer

Anyone But You is a throwback to when rom-coms wore their Shakespearean influences on their sleeves. And even when some jokes donotland, the structure ofAnyone But Yous story is sound. Yes, this is another sneakyWilliam Shakespeareremake. These dont need to be Netflix or streaming service shovel content.

April 30, 2024 · 1 min · 47 words · Cynthia Shepard

The X-Men ’97 Finale’s Dark TAS Connection Hints at a Sad Team Twist

This X-Men 97 article contains spoilers. But the more compelling plot points occur in the pair of two-parters mentioned by De Mayo. In other words, these storylines bode poorly for the X-Men. The chaos on Earth has reached Xavier, certainly driving him back to Earth. Moreover, all of this comes after the most shocking rebuke to Professor Xs dream of mutant/human peaceful cohabitation. In the comics, events such of these have driven the X-Men apart....

April 30, 2024 · 1 min · 82 words · Keith Williams

The Xenomorph Isn’t the Scariest Monster in Alien

Instead, they just think that they have been handed another task in their usual job. At first glance, this conversation seems like little more than world building. But the structure of the conversation highlights the entire crews position in the galaxy. They all operate according to contracts, a predetermined set of rules that determines their interactions with one another. To be clear, thats not entirely a bad thing. However, the resolution to that conflict illustrates the limits of the contractual approach....

April 30, 2024 · 2 min · 305 words · Alice Bailey