Loki’s Time Travel Rules Don’t Matter

In Marvel’s Loki, the MCU’s time travel rules have become a real headache. Does it really matter? In arecent episodeofLokiseason 2, Ravonna Renslayer and Miss Minutes travel to 1863 Chicago. This, of course, raises a question. Who really started the TVA? But nowLokishows that Victor/HWR got the idea for the TVA from OBs book. How can He Who Remains be both the inspiration and be inspired? The answer, of course, is time travel....

October 28, 2023 · 3 min · 430 words · Jamie Mckenzie

Alan Wake 2 and Spider-Man 2 Show Why We Still Need Shorter Games

Alan Wake 2 and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 raise tough questions about how much your time is actually worth. Years ago, the $1 = 1 hour of gameplay formula began to spread online. To be clear, that formula most likely began asat least a half-joke. As is typically the case with the internet, though, the joke became twisted over time. Mind you, that debate started when the average price of a game was $60....

October 27, 2023 · 2 min · 231 words · Ronald Fowler

Fallout’s Creator Solves One Of The Franchise’s Biggest Mysteries

TheFalloutseries is full of unsolved mysteries. Why are aliens visiting? Where did the obelisk under the Dunwich Building come from? What happened to the rest of the world? Recently,Falloutaficionado and lore houndTKs-Mantisinterviewed one of the brains behindFallout, Tim Cain. They had a lovely 90-minute chat and got to know each other better. This inquiry opened a floodgate of information. But no matter what, the games would always have balanced the humor with the dark....

October 27, 2023 · 1 min · 168 words · Richard Esparza

Gen V: What That Big Victoria Neuman Power Reveal Means for The Boys

Marie Moreau and Victoria Neuman have a very important conversation in Gen V season 1’s penultimate episode. This article contains spoilers forGen Vepisode 7. As Shetty is seemingly out of the picture, Marie could do with another parental figure in her life. Who better than the woman who shares her rare powers? Then again, neither is Bloody Marie. TheGen Vseason 1 finale premieres Friday, Nov. 3 on Prime Video.

October 27, 2023 · 1 min · 69 words · Brian Larsen

Halloween Movies Ranked From the Absolute Worst to the Undisputed Best

Do you believe in the boogeyman? If youve ever watched one of the goodHalloweenmovies, the answer is an unqualifiedyes! The boogeyman is real and he has a name and a shape: Michael Myers. And for the last 45 years, hes been cutting a bloody path of carnage across multiplexes everywhere. Only this time, they brought that kind of terror home to the suburbs. Yet at the end of the day, what really matters is which of them are good?...

October 27, 2023 · 4 min · 681 words · Cynthia Thompson

How Five Nights at Freddy’s Earned Its Cult Following

Five Night’s at Freddy’s has long been one of gaming’s strangest success stories. How did it become so popular? The success of theSuper Mario Bros. Moviein 2023 is a hell of a thing. BothThe Banana Splits MovieandWillys Wonderlandwere extremely blatant attempts to eat Chicas lunch before the real deal could hit theaters. How did we get to this point? Why is this game series such a phenomenon? People razzed him for the visuals, talking about how outright creepy the characters appeared....

October 27, 2023 · 3 min · 572 words · Amy Carpenter

How Netflix’s Life on Our Planet Created the Music of Evolution

Composer Lorne Balfe delves into the process of scoring life itself in Netflix’s Life on Our Planet. Evolution has a sound. Its theme is a universal harmonic, but the passing tones are dissonant. The musical veteran found new ground withLife on Our Planet. Ive never done anything in this genre, Balfe tells us. I always tried different things. Life on Our Planetis not set in paradise, although some landscapes fleetingly pass for Eden on the surface....

October 27, 2023 · 5 min · 915 words · Benjamin Summers

How Scary Is Alan Wake 2?

While it feels silly to point out thatAlan Wake 2is a horror game (duh, right? That topic even came up duringour recent interviewwithAlan Wake 2directors Sam Lake and Kyle Rowley. So how scary isAlan Wake 2? To get to the point,Alan Wake 2is significantly scarier than the first game. However, thats largely due to the differences in pacing and tone between the two titles. It was essentially a slightly scarier version of the monster closet concept seen in titles likeDoom....

October 27, 2023 · 1 min · 207 words · Kenneth Blair

Lessons in Chemistry Leaves Six-Thirty Fans in the Doghouse

Lessons in Chemistry can’t commit to the bit when it comes to the very good boy Six-Thirty. This article contains spoilers forLessons in Chemistrythrough episode 4. It was always going to be a challenge to translate such a conceit from page to screen. It felt like he was destined for something big. Okay, I thought, theyre going to go the silent route with the dog. Its a bummer, but okay....

October 27, 2023 · 2 min · 399 words · Tiffany Lee

Link Tank: The Best of The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival

Brooklyns biggest horror film festival was back for another year of terrifying horror features from across the globe. A strong mix of feature films, horror shorts, and revered genre classics were shown to sold-out audiences. In my little family, we love a good seasonal watchbut some we abandon. And just like that, a seven-year tradition of ours ended. This October, I watched it yet again to see how well my assertion has held....

October 27, 2023 · 1 min · 143 words · Kevin White

Link Tank: The Next Hocus Pocus Sequel Will Expand the ‘Pocusverse’

Read more at The A.V. Read more at Collider Looking for some family-friendly Halloween flicks to watch this weekend? It should come as no surprise that Disney+ has a few offerings that might fit the bill. When you think about where to head for Halloween favorites, Disney+ probably doesnt immediately spring to mind. But just because Disney+ is free from blood-and-gore extravaganzas doesnt mean it cant scratch your spooky itch....

October 27, 2023 · 1 min · 107 words · Sheryl Bartlett

Loki Season 2 Episode 4 Ending Explained: Did the MCU Just Reset Its Own Timeline?

The loom has become overloaded with branching timelines since the TVA stopped pruning variants beyond the sacred one. What Did Miss Minutes Tell Ravonna? Ad content continues below Who Pruned Loki? It turns out thatmost fans were correctin guessing that Loki pruned himself. Is Miss Minutes Actually Dead? Ravonna and Miss Minutes capture Timely to further delay the Loom upgrade, but O.B. finds a loophole that will boot Miss Minutes out of the system....

October 27, 2023 · 1 min · 168 words · Allison Holder

Loki Season 2 Episode 4 Review: The Confusing Heart of the TVA

Our recap… ThisLokireview contains spoilers. Loki Season 2 Episode 4 I promise you this will make sense. Loki says those words to Sylvie, who just watched him prune another Loki in front of her. But Tom Hiddleston delivers the lines directly at the camera, as if speaking directly to the viewers. Even beforeVictor Timelymoves toward the temporal loom and promptly explodes (Time to recast Kang? The MCU has long followed the Joss Whedon method of quippy one-liners in the face of existential obliteration....

October 27, 2023 · 1 min · 103 words · Evan Mccoy