What Homicide: New York Left Out About the Carnegie Deli Case

Homicide: New York episode 1 focuses on a city landmark and a sympathetic victim. The case plagues these veteran law enforcement professionals enough to revisit the evidence. The deaths seem to have weighed heavily on producer Dick Wolf too. The crime also haunted New York. Like the detectives in the show, it will be a long time before New Yorkers forget the associations. Here are some details the hour-long episode had to trim....

March 27, 2024 · 4 min · 676 words · Kelly Patel

X-Men ’97: How Konami and Pizza Hut Inspired the Animated Reboot

Exclusive: X-Men ‘97 supervising producer Jake Castorena reveals how two obscure 90s artifacts influenced the Disney+ series. This articlecontains spoilers regarding the first two episodes ofX-Men 97. Both children of Generation X and Children of the Atom have rejoiced with the early success ofX-Men 97. Among those adults is supervising producer Jake Castorena. With that resume, Castorena brought a lot to this new X-Men project. Ad content continues below Two major factors contribute to my love for the X-Men, Castorena says....

March 27, 2024 · 2 min · 307 words · James Blair

3 Body Problem: What Is a Wallfacer?

This article contains3 Body Problemspoilers. How do we keep secrets from an adversary who sees everything, who is watching us right now? asks the UN Secretary General in the3 Body Problemseason 1 finale. She then answers her own question: Humanity still has secrets. The sophons have vast power, but they are not all-powerful. They cannot read our minds. This is the basis of what we call the Wallfacer project. We shall call them Wallfacers after the ancient Buddhist name for meditators....

March 26, 2024 · 2 min · 292 words · David Medina

Constellation Fans Need to Rewind and Rewatch Episode 1

Those werent continuity errors. Warning: contains spoilers for Apple TV+ showConstellation. Apple TV+ space sci-fiConstellationis the latter. Their work, confirms series creatorPeter Harness, is not going unrewarded. If youve watched this far, youll know the score. Its not the same Alice, shes not wearing the same clothes, her hair is different. Rewatch episode ones opening scenes and its obvious. Joannas Swedish flag has jumped to the right arm of her uniform, and shes holding the iPad vertically....

March 26, 2024 · 1 min · 166 words · Joseph Oconnor

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Director Explains the Origins of New Villain Garraka

This article contains someGhostbusters: forzen empirespoilers. You know about Zuul. You know about Gozer. You know about Vigo the Carpathian. You might even know about Dr. Rowan North. You dont get many opportunities in this world to create aGhostbustersvillain. And I took on that role with relish, Kenan tellsDen of Geeks paranormal pop culture podcastTalking Strange. To defeat this threat, the Ghostbusters need more than their tools and their talent....

March 26, 2024 · 2 min · 228 words · Cody Sweeney

ITV’s Passenger Ending Explained: Pangaea, the Forest & What’s Really Going on at the Bread Factory

We need Passenger series two! And a lot of answers. Warning: binge-watchers only. It was certainly the end of Mehmet, a Chadder Vale youngster lured in to the towns deadly secret. Ad content continues below Whats Going on at the Bread Factory? In the tunnels underneath it, deadly live-action game Passenger is being operated by shady organisation The Pangaea Initiative. What Is The Pangaea Initiative Up To? If we can bring all your fears to the fore, maybe, just maybe, youll emerge stronger....

March 26, 2024 · 2 min · 287 words · Taylor Davis

Link Tank: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 20th Anniversary Giveaway!

Discover how you could win a fantastic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind collection and more in Link Tank! You think The Joker is Gothams most dark and twisted guy? Ad content continues below Read more at The A.V. What could this possibly mean? If youve played Naughty DogsTLOUPart II, then you probably know why hes allegedly wrapped so quickly. Read more at Kotaku Youve probably heard thatThe Simpsonsalways predict the future....

March 26, 2024 · 1 min · 124 words · Tiffany Bradley

Steven Moffat Says Doctor Who Is Still the Same Show It Ever Was

Hes read the new episodes. Then blows everything up at the last minute. I think youre slightly foolish to think its your job to reflect society, he continued. I dont think it really is. Indira Varma and Jonathan Groff. Ad content continues below Moffat questioned the idea that TV should be a mirror to societal issues. Tell a story, he urged screenwriters. Do you want your television just to broadcast agreement at your face?...

March 26, 2024 · 1 min · 112 words · Lance Lin

The 7 Best Samurai Movies to Watch After Shogun

Its not an inappropriate comparison. Though, it may be more apt to compare the show to Japans Chanbara or samurai films. GivenShoguns intensity and cliffhangers, waiting a week between episodes is excruciating. Digging back intoGame of Thronesor evenHouse of the Dragonmight not scratch thatShogunitch in the long days between installments. To test and assess his troops, he arranges a marathon race with a huge prize. All the while, theyre running and running and running....

March 26, 2024 · 2 min · 330 words · David Lara

The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Helped the Prequels Age Surprisingly Well

Twenty-five years later, the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy is enjoying a deserved reappraisal. Of course, it helps that everyone has moved on to yelling about the Sequel Trilogy. Jar Jar Binks makes the Ewoks look like fucking Shaft. Tim Bisley, Spaced, Change (2001). Reviews forThe Phantom Menacewere, its fair to say, mixed. Looking back on it, thats understandable. Its a mixed film. After a lot of excitement and hype for the return of the game-changing franchise, some anti-climax was inevitable....

March 26, 2024 · 2 min · 333 words · Troy Wong

The Thing: John Carpenter and Keith David on the Infamous Ending

June 1982 saw the release of not one, but two movies about aliens bonding with humans. Both of them are remembered today as early masterpieces that confirm their directors skill and vision. One, of course, isSteven SpielbergsE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which released on June 11, 1982. Two weeks later cameThe Thing, directed byJohn Carpenter. But in 1982, onlyE.T.earned praise. I thought: Oh man, I havent seen a creature do that in a movie before....

March 26, 2024 · 1 min · 178 words · Denise Moreno

Edith Marsh is 3 Body Problem’s Most Compelling Easter Egg

This article contains spoilers for3 Body Problemepisode 2 Red Coast. The early episodes ofNetflixsci-fi epic3 Body Problemare fraught with mystery. Why is science suddenly broken? What does the countdown mean? How doesthe Chinese Cultural Revolutionfactor in to all of this? But Tatianas identity, allegiance, and motivations remain a mystery. While Clarencess wife gets a red velvet cupcake on her posthumous birthday, Tatianas father gets coconut cake. But then Tatiana moves the conversation to somewhere more uncomfortable, if not outright sinister....

March 25, 2024 · 2 min · 316 words · Christopher Wood

Forget Hereditary, Ari Aster’s Short Films Are His Most Disturbing Movies

Beau should not sleep. When he returned to the door after turning back to retrieve a forgotten item, his keys were gone. But their limited run-time prevents Aster from overburdening the point, making them all the more upsetting. Take Asters second short film, TDF Really Works from 2011. What started as a lowbrow joke soon becomes a stomach-churning exercise in despair. Light falls gently on Shoosters face as hes on the verge of tears as he loses control of himself....

March 25, 2024 · 1 min · 206 words · Mason Matthews