Well, well, that final scene from the mid-season finale of Star Trek: Prodigy certainly came out of nowhere. Everything seemed like it was winding down to an intriguing yet satisfying place to leave the show when, BAM. The Dauntless! Yes, our final scene of Prodigy for a while has the real life Janeway commanding the U.S.S. Dauntless NCC-80816, ready to track down the Protostar. What makes this ending such a huge twist is that this isn’t the first time we’ve heard of a ship called Dauntless....

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 7 Share your pain! After several decades, one shadowy part of Spock’s family history has once again, been thrust into the light. In the seventh episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — “The Serene Squall” — a certain renegade Vulcan has returned. But, from the perspective of the “prime” Star Trek timeline, this is actually the “first” time this character has come back into Spock’s life....

Rupert Friend (The French Dispatch) plays the cruel Grand Inquisitor, leader of an order of Jedi hunters who work for Vader and the Empire. The show’s trailer hints that it’s the Grand Inquisitor’s arrival on Tatooine that forces Obi-Wan to come out of hiding for one more fight. While we don’t know exactly how things will play out, Friend has been talking hinting at what fans should expect from the upcoming Disney+ series....

Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen star in the spinoff, which follows the further adventures of Fett and assassin Fennec Shand after their brief stint with Din Djarin and Grogu on The Mandalorian. But while The Book of Boba Fett will serve as the vehicle with which to tell Fett’s own story after the events of Return of the Jedi, it reportedly won’t be completely separate from The Mandalorian universe. According to a report from Collider, fans should think of The Book of Boba Fett as “The Mandalorian Season 2....

Obi-Wan Kenobi brings back Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen to their iconic Star Wars roles, but the show also boasts a very strong ensemble cast beyond its central stars. There’s Moses Ingram as the menacing new villain Reva and Rupert Friend as the Grand Inquisitor, as well as quite a few welcome surprises fans will be talking about far after the credits have rolled. Here are the Obi-Wan Kenobi actors you need to know and where you’ve seen them before:...

Stargirl Episode 4 Part of the reason that Stargirl feels like such a breath of fresh air in the DC television universe is that it’s telling stories we haven’t seen in this space before. Courtney Whitmore isn’t just a character who stumbles into having superpowers, she’s also a teen girl. She’s trying to navigate school, make friends and maybe flirt with that cute boy in her class (who… also happens to be the son of a supervillain, but that’s a problem for another day)....

The Injustice Society has been terrorizing the heroes of the DC Universe for over 70 years. Although they might not be as well known as their more famous counterparts, the Injustice League, and definitely aren’t as criminally insane as their predecessors, Shazam villains the Monster Society of Evil, the members of the Injustice Society have made their stamp on comics history. They’re also about to be discovered by a much wider audience as they’ve been revealed as the dangerous rogues in the new Stargirl TV series, which is airing on both DC Universe and The CW....

Dauberman made his directorial debut last year on Annabelle Comes Home, easily the best of the three Annabelle movies and a genuinely creepy exercise in its own right. Dauberman has also written the Annabelle trilogy, as well as The Nun, and also co-wrote the King-based films It and It: Chapter 2 with director Andy Muschietti, all for Warner Bros. Pictures’ New Line division. ‘Salem’s Lot was King’s second published novel, coming out in 1975....

Summer Game Fest 2022 may have lacked the kind of heavy-hitting announcements we typically expect from the biggest summer showcases, but the event still featured quite a few announcements worth celebrating. Besides, it’s hard to complain about a show that featured games like The Last of Us, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, Gotham Knights, and Cuphead when the industry is still dealing with Covid-19-related delays and hardware shortages. Enough about what we’re still missing, though....

Fortunately, the Switch, which has sold over 60 million more units than its predecessor, has allowed the company to find many of the Wii U’s best games a new home. Just look at Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, a multiplayer game we recently rated as Nintendo’s very best. Next up on the list of Wii U-to-Switch ports is the aforementioned Super Mario 3D World, which comes bundled with a new campaign called Bowser’s Fury, a mode that pits Mario and friends against a new version of the Nintendo villain....

There’s quite a lot to break down in that trailer. Not only does Bowser’s Fury look far more substantial than some were previously anticipating (the design of the DLC’s world reminds people of the more open-ended levels featured in Super Mario Odyssey) but the brief teaser offers some tantalizing glimpses at compelling gameplay sequences that make buying Super Mario 3D World for Switch even more of a no brainer than we suspected it would be....

Daisy May Cooper The co-creator and star of the BBC’s excellent rural mockumentary This Country, which concluded with series three earlier this year. Cooper is also soon to appear alongside previous Taskmaster contestant and official Task Consultant Tim Key in new BBC comedy The Witchfinder. Richard Herring Award-winning stand-up, top podcast host, tireless Scope UK fundraiser, former Fist of Fun and This Morning with Richard Not Judy star, and patient answerer of ‘when is International Men’s Day?...

I think this is the end of a beautiful friendship. Those are the (near) final words of the ever wry Neil in Tenet. Riffing on the last line of dialogue from another Warner Bros. film, Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca, it’s a wink and a nudge from Christopher Nolan toward classic Hollywood cinema. But it’s also an admission by the Robert Pattinson character that he is at least vaguely aware that he’s headed toward his death, and though he is about to die, his relationship with the Protagonist (John David Washington) has only just begun....

Featuring Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, and Luis Guzmán as family patriarch Gomez, Wednesday stars Jenna Ortega as the title character. The cast also includes Christina Ricci, the most iconic Wednesday Addams from the 1990s films directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. Touted as a supernaturally infused mystery set at the Nevermore Academy, Wednesday will get a full cinematic treatment as a series on Netflix. It’s the first major live-action television Addams series since The New Addams Family revival in the late ‘90s—and the first good one since ABC made the characters iconic in 1964....

Before The Batman, there was Zack Snyder’s DCEU take on the Caped Crusader. In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Ben Affleck’s Bat branded and killed criminals without hesitation, although he softened up a bit for Justice League. Who knows what Affleck will do in his final outing in The Flash (although set photos give us a clue). But even before the WB set out on its quest for cinematic universe glory akin to the one enjoyed by Marvel Studios, there was Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy of films....

Lupin was the subject of some two dozen books by Leblanc, who continued adding into his literary franchise until well into the 1930s. Akin to Robin Hood, Lupin stole from the rich, and often did good deeds despite his thieving capers. He was a master of deception and disguise, a lady killer who always operated with a classy panache. With a legacy spanning more than a century, there have been plenty of live-action depictions in film and TV....

Horror films are like a mischievous child with a wooden stick: they prod and probe at our subconscious, searching for the sensitive spots that make us jump or recoil in fear and disgust. Yet while the horror genre’s main purpose is to reflect our phobias and anxieties, it can also, on occasion, say something wider about society or human nature. By a strange cosmic coincidence, the 6th June saw the release of two wildly different horror films which both attempt to do something more than chill our bones: EL Katz’s blackly comic Cheap Thrills, and Ti West’s faux documentary The Sacrament....

Poetic. Justice. That’s what Serena was just served by The Handmaid’s Tale. Not to the extent of Fred being ‘salvaged’ by a group of women his regime inducted into brutality, but poetic justice all the same. Serena’s panicked face as her baby bump was being worshipped by a bible-spouting moon unit who’s bought the miracle act she’s been selling was sweetness itself. Be careful what you wish for, Serena. Make yourself an icon and you can’t control who worships you....

Season five’s tagline was “Some sins can’t be washed away”, but it could have been the words June delivered in this finale: “America wasn’t Gilead until it was, and then it was too fucking late.” That was this season’s warning, and its justification for telling a story so bleak that our hero just got chased out of the sanctuary, and away from the husband, she’d spent four seasons striving to reach....

The team, led by investigator Dave Schrader, psychic medium Cindy Kaza, equipment technician Shane Pittman and researcher Gabe Roth, investigates true hauntings from the recently discovered case files of America’s first ghost hunter, Dr. Hans Holzer. “We knew when we greenlit The Holzer Files, we had something special on our hands, but we didn’t realize just how much of a paranormal pandora’s box we’d opened until we started filming,” Travel Channel general manager Matthew Butler said in a statement....