Do you remember the first time you watched The Matrix? I was 12 or 13, and it was probably on VHS. I loved it, but it scared me. I remember I would have nightmares about the small machine going into my belly button and my mouth stitching up. The imagery is so iconic and striking, and it really did stay with me. Even though I probably didn’t watch it again for another five or six years after that, I could have told you scene for scene what happened....

While fans might have hoped that Kent continue in the genre (and she most likely will at some point — more on that later), she has pivoted to a different kind of horror with her second feature, The Nightingale. Set in the early 1800s in what is now Tasmania, during a long and vicious struggle between British colonists and Aboriginals in what was called the Black War, The Nightingale tells the story of Clare (Aisling Franciosi), a young Irish convict, wife and mother who is the victim of horrendous atrocities at the hands of her jailer, Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Clafin)....

Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit dramatizes the unprecedented rise of (fictional) chess prodigy Elizabeth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) through the grandmaster ranks of chess champions in the 1950s and ‘60s. But as with other prestige television series, there is a dark side to this savant’s talents: While she possesses a natural affinity for complex and creative chess moves, Beth is also constrained by her growing drug addiction, which she believes allows her to prevail in so many harrowing chess matches....

When Sophie writes to the SGE begging for enrollment, she and Agatha are transported there… but then Sophie gets dropped into the School for Evil, while Agatha wakes up at the School for Good. With the School Master Rhian (Laurence Fishburne) staunchly claiming that there are no mistakes at his school, each girl must try to conform to an unfamiliar and uncomfortable environment (Aggie taming her hair and practicing smiles, Sophie shrieking at putrid boils and fearsome familiars)....

“For one of our two Halloween episodes this year, we’re holding a Simpsons Halloween Fan Art Contest to get some great homemade drawings of scary Krusty,” The Simpsons‘ showrunner Matt Selman tells Den of Geek. “We’ll put the winners under the end credits of ‘Not It,’ our parody of… well, you know.” Viewers are encouraged to send Krusty the Clown fan art for a chance to have their work aired during the end credits of “Treehouse of Horror Presents: Not It....

Series 12 is set to start on Thursday the 23rd of September at 9pm on Channel 4. Also arriving in 2021 is the show’s second Champion of Champions special miniseries. That one is set to welcome back the overall winners from series six to ten: Ed Gamble, Lou Sanders, Kerry Godliman, Liza Tarbuck and Richard Herring. If Taskmaster keeps going until series 25 (and if there’s any justice in the world, it will, and beyond) then presumably they’ll be able to stage a Champion of Champions of Champions, where the prize will Greg Davies himself....

Wix is an established UK comic actor, with credits across the board, starting with cult hit Time Trumpet and going mainstream as witless, lovable Daisy in BBC mega-sitcom Not Going Out. She’s currently part of Channel 4’s Stath Lets Flats, the hottest comedy around, fresh from multiple Bafta wins. She plays Fergie in royal satire The Windsors, and was among the comedian-contestants in series nine of Taskmaster. In BBC One sitcom Ghosts, Wix plays Mary, a 17th century yokel burned as a witch and now part of the motley group haunting a modern-day stately home....

From Safe to The Five, The Stranger, and soon, Stay Close, here’s what makes the English-language Harlan Coben adaptations addictive yet undemanding viewing. They’re all essentially the same 20 years ago: a Thing! Today: that Thing has returned to haunt someone living in a well-appointed six-bed with double garage and curb appeal. Over the course of eight-10 episodes, a long-buried secret will worm its way to the surface, threatening to leave muddy footprints all over the protagonist’s Land Rover Discovery and De’Longhi coffee machine....

AMC announced today that it has ordered a new series set in The Walking Dead universe, with Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan reprising their TWD roles of Maggie and Negan. The series, titled Isle of the Dead, will be set in a crumbling post-apocalyptic Manhattan. Long cut off from the mainland, the Big Apple is now occupied by only the dead and a handful of denizens trying to survive....

The forces of Alexandria, Hilltop, Kingdom, and Oceanside put an end to Beta and the Whisperer threat in “A Certain Doom” but that doesn’t mean that The Walking Dead season 10 is over. AMC has extended the season, adding six more episodes that will explore new mysteries set up in the original finale. The extra episodes will also bridge the gap between season 10 and 11, a two-year 24-episode season that will be the show’s last....

The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 22 One of the better things about the final season of The Walking Dead is that once again it feels like a show where all bets are off. Aside from the few people who have spin-off shows in the works, we’re back to what Joe Bob Briggs always called the number one rule of a good drive-in movie: anybody can die at any moment. Granted, that hasn’t actually happened on screen yet, but throughout “Faith” the viewer is never allowed a chance to rest easy, particularly where the prisoner portion of the show is concerned....

“That’s a wrap on Thor Love and Thunder,” Hemsworth wrote on Instagram. “It’s also national don’t flex day so I thought this super relaxed photo was appropriate. The film is gonna be batshit crazy off the wall funny and might also pull a heart string or two. Lots of love, lots of thunder! Thank you to all the cast and crew who made this another incredible Marvel journey. Buckle in, get ready and see ya in cinemas!...

Titans Season 2 Episode 12 This week’s Titans, titled “Faux-Hawk,” involves a teenage impostor who briefly picks up the mantle left behind by strung-out Hank — but it’s the show itself that fakes us out by stringing along the reveal of the Nightwing costume. Still, this episode is overall an enjoyable, if drawn out, tale while our team is slowly regrouping. As Dick’s jailbird graffiti confirmed last week, Jericho is indeed alive — but stuck inside Slade’s head....

Titans Season 2 Episode 6 With nary a mention of him since his tease at the end of season one, Conner Kent swoops into Titans with a great episode that’s charming, sweet, and exciting for what it sets up for the series. Oh, and Krypto! Picking up after the stinger scene from last season’s finale, “Conner” has a bare-assed Lex Luthor/Superman clone busting himself, and Krypto the Super-Dog out of Luthor’s Cadmus Labs....

What does a man like Tom Cruise’s Lt. Pete Mitchell, aka ace Navy pilot “Maverick,” look like in his old age? What would it be like for such a man to retire? That is a question that would seemingly be posed by the prospect of a legacy sequel released 36 years after the original and iconic Top Gun. And yet, the answer remains elusive in the final, and joyously satisfying, Top Gun: Maverick....

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo Type: NovelPublisher: TordotcomRelease date: June 1 Den of Geek says: One of the buzziest fantasy releases of the month is an alternate universe adaptation of The Great Gatsby, keeping the dazzle of the 1920s while adding the challenges of being a queer Vietnamese adoptee. Plus, ghosts both metaphorical and perhaps literal. Publisher’s summary: Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society―she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age....

For most folks who are “extremely online,” you either grew up with Cage’s movies or you grew up with the actor as an internet fascination. Tom Gormican, the writer and director of the upcoming Cage film, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, isn’t sure why all the Cage supercuts and meme treatments started. He suggests Cage’s inherently polite and professional demeanor on set, his up-and-down relationship with critics, and his penchant for dipping into “expressionist” acting all as possibilities, but one thing is for certain: “Weirdly, there’s this groundswell of goodwill behind Nicholas Cage....

Mere weeks after it debuted in theaters, the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe entry Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness hit Disney+ on June 22. Great news for fans of superheroes, but there’s always a catch! Multiverse of Madness is the 28th feature film in the franchise, and that’s not counting numerous one-shots and television specials. So while the movie is explicitly a sequel to 2016’s Doctor Strange, which traced Dr....

Cloud Computing has revolutionized the world of DevOps. It is not just a buzzword anymore; it is here and it is here to change the way we develop and maintain our applications. While there are countless reasons why you should use cloud computing for all scales of businesses there is a slight limitation, you have to provision your infrastructure manually. You have to go to the consoles of your cloud providers and tell them exactly what you want....

Eastwood has pretty much stayed true to that, even as Unforgiven stands nearly 30 years later as a masterpiece in its own right and arguably one of the greatest Westerns of all time. Much as Cry Macho attempts to strip away modern myths about what it means to be a man or “macho,” Unforgiven tears down the longstanding mythology built around the American Old West and propagated through scores of Westerns that Hollywood pumped out for decades....