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When I first saw the original Ghostbusters, I didn’t get it was a comedy. It might’ve been because I was a shade too young, being about five or so, but when Bill Murray said no human could “stack books like this,” I believed him. Of course they couldn’t. The movie’s sarcasm didn’t come through, but

This article contains major No Time to Die spoilers. It was a surprise when Nomi, the new and chic MI6 agent played by Lashana Lynch, surrendered her 007 codename in No Time to Die. Before that third act moment, she’d made a point of fiercely carving out the designation as her territory. She even delighted

DJ Skee took the psychedelic origins of Doctor Strange to heart when eBay asked him to create a variant cover for the Marvel superhero for New York Comic Con. In a move that speaks both to the entrepreneur’s musical and artistic side, the cover evokes the magical colors worthy of the Sorcerer Supreme as well

This article contains spoilers for Squid Game, Money Heist, and Lupin. This Halloween is going to be all about masks and red hoodies. Two of this year’s hottest Netflix shows feature them prominently and the visual similarity is striking. In the South Korean breakout series Squid Game, supervisors wear bright red hooded outfits with black

This What We Do in the Shadows review contains spoilers. What We Do in the Shadows Season 3 Episode 7 What We Do in the Shadows season 3 episode 7 “The Siren,” is one of the most touching installments of the series. Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) has experienced brushes with romance before, but because it

The patch notes for New World‘s 1.0.1 update are here, and while the first major update to Amazon’s MMO isn’t necessarily the game-changer some were waiting for, it does feature quite a few bug fixes that should make the game significantly more playable than it currently is. Before we dive into some of the bug

This article contains spoilers for the Archer season 12 finale. Archer season 12 has been a fascinating year of self-reflection that’s pushed its characters to difficult, new places–both personally and professionally–while they attempt to finally deal with their baggage. Archer and its cast so effortlessly use humor as a defense mechanism that it can hit

Spooky season isn’t just about candy and trauma (although we enjoy those things as much as the next person), it’s also a perfect time to gather together for giggles. Horror and comedy go hand in hand and as well as the classics like An American Werewolf in London, Young Frankenstein and Army of Darkness the

The arrival of House of the Dragon’s long-awaited debut trailer reveals a version of Westeros in which royal House Targaryen reigns supreme with the strength of swords and the fire of dragons. Yet, while the defining symbol of said supremacy, the Iron Throne, makes an appearance, it looks dramatically different from the one coveted by

Clearly, it’s the Gentlemen from ‘Hush’. Anybody who says there’s a scarier moment in Buffy the Vampire Slayer than the Gentlemen from ‘Hush’ hovering around Sunnydale on their invisible skateboards of the damned, gesturing like jewellery models in a trade show booth, is plain wrong. At a push, you could make a case for the warthog-tusked Der

Current Jeopardy! champion Matt Amodio reached a very important milestone last week. By winning his 33rd consecutive game on Friday, the Yale Ph.D. student moved into second place all-time in consecutive wins, just ahead of James Holzhauer and 41 games behind the Jeopardy! GOAT Ken Jennings.  Amodio’s streak has been both incredibly impressive and a

For more than 35 years, Greg Nicotero has not only played in a lot of sandboxes within the horror genre, he built the toys that go inside. When he talks about the work of John Carpenter, Don Coscarelli, Sam Raimi, and George Romero, he’s not doing so only as a fan, but as a colleague.

It would seem reports of movie theaters’ demise were greatly exaggerated. That seemed obvious last month when Shang-Chi performed beyond expectations and earned $94.7 million over a four-day holiday weekend. Yet it seems even more clear now since Venom: Let There Be Carnage, the follow-up to Tom Hardy’s madcap 2018 superhero movie, blasted past the

Go beyond the blockbusters to today’s smartest, most exciting science fiction novels and novellas. Here are our top picks for October 2021: Star Wars: Ronin Type: Novel Publisher: Del ReyRelease date: Oct. 12 Den of Geek says: Candon’s debut novel brings Star Wars into a new dimension with an expansion on the short anime episode

This article contains spoilers for The Many Saints of Newark. In some of the spookiest words ever spoken on The Sopranos, the usually genial and optimistic Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri Jr. wonders aloud what being killed would be like.  “You probably don’t even hear it when it happens, right?” Bobby asks his boss Tony Soprano as

Edgar Wiggins is a Soul Plumber, and the hero of the new DC Horror title of the same name, created by The Last Podcast on the Left trio of Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks, and Henry Zebrowski. The enormously successful podcast, now available exclusively on Spotify, combines comedy and high strangeness for deep dives into the

In the last decade, Japanese publisher Konami has largely moved away from AAA video game publishing in order to focus its development arm on its much more profitable pachinko machines. It’s been an unfortunate pivot for fans of Konami’s games, to say the least, since the publisher happens to be sitting on some of the

Happy birthday to the Hargreeves family and more importantly: happy birthday to us!  October 1 is a special day for The Umbrella Academy. In the show’s continuity, that is the 1989 date in which 43 women across the world suddenly gave birth despite showing no previous signs of pregnancy. Esteemed industrialist Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feorge)