Before Universal Pictures’ classic 1931 film, Dracula was most famous in English speaking countries as the repellent vampire created by author Bram Stoker in a minor publishing novelty from 1897. Gruesome but not significant. Now, of course, he casts the largest shadow in horror, and it grows with every swing of his cape. Historical Roots of Dracula’s Name Stoker only took the name of “Dracula” from Vlad Dracul III, the original caped crusader....

It’s not easy for a franchise to maintain a passionate audience for nearly four decades, and yet there’s no end in sight for Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball. There are hundreds of hours of entertainment between the many Dragon Ball anime, manga, video games and more, but the series’ feature film installments frequently tell stories that are too big to contain in the standard anime. Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero picks up after the events of 2018’s Dragon Ball Super: Broly, but turns to the original series’ roots when it comes to this new source of conflict....

Well, the very good news is that Dying Light 2 developer and publisher Techland has put out quite a bit of information regarding when you’ll finally be able to start playing the game depending on which part of the world you’re in and which device you’re playing on. The very bad news is that making sense of the game’s surprisingly complicated release schedule can get very confusing very fast. To help simplify the Dying Light 2 release schedule as much as possible, here’s a look at when you’ll be able to start playing Dying Light 2 based on which device you pre-ordered the digital copy of the game for or intend to purchase it for soon....

Take Blunt’s latest reaction to fan casting rumors when the prospect of playing Marvel Studios’ version of Sue Storm was brought up on The Howard Stern Show. Blunt has commented before on the rumors—she told Den of Geek just last year that “it’s all hypothetical” and “until it’s real, I don’t even think about it”—but in 2021 she is even firmer on the fact that she hasn’t heard anything from Marvel, and at the moment she has little interest in the superhero genre....

That said, there’s something kind of pure about how ruthlessly he strips his movies to the bone. Take Resident Evil: Retribution, for example, the fifth entry in the movie franchise. It’s got arguably the best setpieces, the most creative production design and an assortment of pretty people firing machine guns, but it’s virtually plot-free and calling the characters one note would suggest they had a note to start with. If you surrender to his cinematic sensory overloads you’ll (usually) have a good time; if you stop and question anything that happens, you probably won’t....

The Final Fantasy franchise has grown and changed quite a bit over the years, but no matter what direction the series goes in, it almost always offers a story that is worth the dozens (or, in some cases, hundreds) of hours that these epics typically demand. Of course, there are just some Final Fantasy stories that are ultimately better than others. Before we dive into our rankings, though, please note that while we’re only covering the “mainline” Final Fantasy games for this particular list (meaning no sequels, spin-offs, or remakes), I have removed Final Fantasy 11 from the list (it’s an early attempt at a Final Fantasy MMO story that is…odd and kind of hard to fairly rank alongside everything else) and replaced it with Final Fantasy Tactics....

It’s moments like this where the cleverness of Reichardt’s time warp to the past feels particularly sharp. It is also the kind of scene that makes up for the film’s overindulgent shortcomings. Because while First Cow offers a deceptively warm depiction of camaraderie and American ingenuity in its starkest terms, what should be a lean 90-minute story is burdened by a two-hour running time that spends far too many frames basking in its historic authenticity and painterly atmosphere....

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Godzilla is no stranger to reinvention. There have been no fewer than five distinct Godzilla continuities (six, I guess, if we’re going to generously consider Roland Emmerich’s 1998 monstrosity an actual Godzilla movie…which it isn’t) through dozens of films, with two different live action franchises running (one kicked off in the west with Gareth Edwards’ 2014 Godzilla and the other with Japan’s 2016 Shin Godzilla). Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, the Godzilla anime that just arrived on Netflix makes that three distinct current continuities for the King of the Monsters, and it’s the one that owes the least debt to any of its predecessors....

Some might say that’s because one movie isn’t big enough for the both of them. After all, there’s a reason why each has coasted to the top of our Movie Monster March Madness bracket, right? But we disagree with the idea that you can’t choose. There should be a clear cut winner in Godzilla vs. Kong, and Den of Geek editors David Crow and Alec Bojalad are ready to go to the mat over who that should be....

The Green Lantern greenlight, as reported by Variety, cements the previously touted television project with an order for 10 one-hour-long episodes. The project last made headlines back in January when HBO Max hyped its presence on the developmental docket during the winter TCAs. The now-confirmed order for the series—set as an ensemble following the Green Lantern Corps—comes with the reveal of Seth Grahame-Smith as showrunner and writer, joined in the latter capacity by a perennial presence in the writer’s rooms of DC shows, Marc Guggenheim, with both set as executive producers....

Actually, it really looks like GTA 6 will allow us to explore a reportedly cut part of Vice City that GTA fans have been clamoring to see for about 20 years now. See, the original version of Vice City (the one featured in 2002’s GTA: Vice City) was clearly based on Miami and its surrounding areas. While many fans immediately fell in love with Vice City’s neon lights and Scarface vibes, even gamers at that time knew that Vice City couldn’t offer anything close to a proper recreation of the Miami area....

In superhero storytelling there’s usually only one path for any given franchise to take. And that’s to go bigger. Marvel Studios has understood that better than anyone and has revolutionized the depiction of superheroes onscreen by making sure its universe grows and grows and grows. The philosophy of “BIG” is baked into the MCU’s very core. From the moment that Iron Man premiered in 2008, Marvel’s goal was to create an interconnected world of IP-controlled heroes, culminating in the first true team up film with 2012’s The Avengers....

Two Best Picture nominees roll out on HBO Max on March 2: Steven Spielberg’s epic musical adaptation West Side Story and Japanese drama Drive My Car. Those two contenders will be followed by Dune on March 10 and King Richard on March 24. HBO Max is not neglecting its original responsibilities this month either. March 3 sees the arrival of pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death. That will be followed by Adam McKay-produced Lakers drama Winning Time on March 6, comic book adaptation DMZ on March 17, and … Twitter account adaptation One Perfect Shot on March 24....

It’s hard to have a more vibrant TV acting career than Henry Winkler. First introduced as the jukebox-slapping, shark-jumping, thumb-extending Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli on classic sitcom Happy Days, Winkler would go on to have a prolific second act as a comedy character actor in projects like Scream, The Waterboy, Arrested Development, and much more. Everybody knows Winkler from something, and perhaps even has their own personal favorite performance. For the man himself, however, nothing tops his current project: Barry....

Chris Columbus, who helmed the original Home Alone, definitely has some though. “Nobody got in touch with me about it, and it’s a waste of time as far as I’m concerned,” he told Insider. “What’s the point? I’m a firm believer that you don’t remake films that have had the longevity of Home Alone. You’re not going to create lightning in a bottle again. It’s just not going to happen....

This story is a prequel that picks up roughly 200 years before the events of the epic HBO series. The Targaryen dynasty is on its fifth king of the Seven Kingdoms. They’ve got all the dragons they could want and things are going great in Westeros. Surely, no petty family squabble over succession could possibly ruin such a great thing! Unfortunately for the Targaryen family, George R.R. Martin kind of lives for this shit....

House of the Dragon episode seven left Rhaenys and Corlys Velaryon without a son, Prince Aemond without an eye, and Rhaenyra and Alicent’s respective court factions the Blacks and the Greens without any doubt that they were at war – the “ugly game” for control of the Seven Kingdoms had begun. Despite King Viserys I’s weak pleas for togetherness, the blood of his family runs far too hot for forgiveness....

House of the Dragon Episode 9 Episode 9s have a long, storied history on Game of Thrones. The ninth and penultimate installments of House of the Dragon’s progenitor include climactic hours like “Baelor,” a.k.a. The One Where Ned Stark Dies; “The Rains of Castamere,” a.k.a. The One with the Red Wedding; and “Battle of the Bastards” a.k.a. The One with the….Battle of the Bastards. House of the Dragon’s first stab at a penultimate ninth episode arrives with this week’s “The Green Council,” and the surprisingly subdued way it approaches this season’s ostensible climax highlights the fundamental differences between these two series thus far....

The Game of Thrones TV show is set in the years 298 – 305 AC (After Conquest, referring to Aegon the Conqueror’s conquest of Westeros, unification of the Seven Kingdoms, and the establishment of the Targaryen dynasty on the Iron Throne). New prequel House of the Dragon starts almost 200 years prior to that, in the year 101 AC, and then quickly jumps to nine years into the reign of King Viserys I....