Din Djarin and his new crew infiltrate an Imperial processing facility in “The Believer.” The mission is simple: get the coordinates to Moff Gideon’s ship so that the team can break in and rescue Grogu from the Empire. Boba Fett, Fennec Shand, Cara Dune, and ex-Imperial turned mercenary Mayfeld (Bill Burr) help The Mandalorian execute the plan, which, as one might expect, goes rather wrong before the end. The result is lots of blasting and a few explosions inside an Imperial holdout on a new planet....

Star Wars Rebels Season 4 Episode 1 By now, you’ve probably heard the sad news: that Star Wars Rebels season 4 will be the final hurrah for the franchise’s sophomore animated series. It’s devastating indeed, especially since we’ve watched all of the show’s heroes grow and evolve over the last four years, but it’s also great news that showrunner Dave Filoni will have the space and time to close out their stories....

Stargirl has been one of the few good things about 2020. Smart, impressively crafted, and full of heart, the newest addition to The CW superhero roster has been bringing us some much needed joy. Sadly, the season has ended, but it finished on a high note with an action-packed and emotional episode that tied up some loose ends, had a few shocking surprises, and opened up a lot of potential for the already announced second season that will air exclusively on The CW....

Superman & Lois Episode 9 Another week, another unexpected twist coming in the final moments of Superman & Lois. This is definitely becoming a theme with this show, ain’t it? But this week the big revelation is about Morgan Edge, the guy who you’d probably be forgiven for thinking was the secondary baddie of the series back when we all had the name “Captain Luthor” on our lips. But no, Morgan Edge is clearly the true big bad of the season, and there’s even more to him than we initially suspected....

What is Transcendence? After spending most of its final season on the concept of Transcendence, we’re still not entirely sure. Ostensibly, it means that an entire species casts off their physical form and joins with the consciousness of an alien race, who are considered a higher form of beings, as well as any other species that have been deemed worthy before them. They cannot die and feel no pain. There are some rules, of course....

In noir, the hero knows (or eventually learns) he can never win, and the world is a worse place than he can accept. It’s a bleak perspective that no Batman movie has directly embraced. Until now. Director and co-writer Matt Reeves has long suggested his The Batman would differentiate itself from previous Caped Crusader movies by being a murder mystery. But there’s more than just a sense of the mysterious to Reeves’ rain soaked epic....

There’s no better example of the latter than Steven Spielberg’s masterful Jaws, but we decided to look back at 20 movies — from A-list to Z-list — that put us in the animals’ sights (if you’re looking for a new variation on this theme, you might want to try Into the Grizzly Maze, a recent Alaska-set thriller out now on VOD in which James Marsden, Thomas Jane, Scott Glenn and Billy Bob Thornton are served up for a rampaging bear)....

All year, Eric Kripke and the producers of The Boys have been hyping up “Herogasm” as the most shocking episode of season three, a bold claim given the season premiere. “Herogasm” takes its title from a six-issue miniseries spinoff from The Boys comic, one that followed a Vought-sponsored orgy filled with even more nastiness than found in the mainline series. But for many fans, the real standout of the episode was not the depraved sex-capades or even a few gory kills....

Season Five of The Crown is arguably the most sordid season of this historical drama so far, focusing heavily on the royal family’s messy marital breakdowns. Unsurprisingly, this involves a detailed depiction of Princess Diana’s infamous Martin Bashir interview on Panorama in November 1995, but this has led to the show skipping over a truly bonkers royal moment that is well worth revisiting. In October 1995, Her Majesty the Queen fell victim to a hoax phone call by a Canadian radio DJ, who was posing as Canada’s then Prime Minister, Jean Chretien....

Fraud: so hot right now. We’ll leave it to the sociologists to determine exactly why, but stories about big time liars are huge right now. The recent trend arguably got started this year with the Netflix series Inventing Anna, which covered one woman’s successful attempts to convince New York society she was a German heiress. Coming up later in March is WeCrashed on Apple TV+, which will follow the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of joint workspace company WeWork....

The film’s journey actually started in the 90s, when Wesley Snipes first attempted to get a Black Panther adaptation off the ground. The film was in the pre-development phase up until Snipes’ imprisonment for tax evasion in 2010, and was ultimately unsuccessful due to its inability to find the right script or director. Eventually, a concrete plan for a Marvel Studios Black Panther project was created, and in 2014 it was announced that Ryan Coogler would serve as the director while Chadwick Boseman would star as T’Challa, the Black Panther....

Midway through The Falcon and The Winter Soldier’s third episode, “Power Broker,” Helmut Zemo (now fully recognized as a Baron) demonstrates some impressive quick thinking. Alongside an undercover Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes, Zemo is in the Lowtown underworld of Madripoor trying to score a meeting with the Power Broker. When things are going poorly and the trio is forced to defend themselves, Zemo decides to pretend that Bucky is still the brainwashed Winter Soldier who can be controlled through some helpful Hydra keywords like “Winter Soldier....

The Flash Season 4 Episode 23 There’s a moment that comes about halfway through The Flash season 4 finale that got to me in a very weird, very specific way. When Barry encounters Ralph in DeVoe’s mindscape, the bizarre, dreamlike world where most of the episode takes place and where Team Flash must make their stand against the Thinker, the two exchange pleasantries and information. And then the unreality of it all sets in, and they ask each other “wait, how are you here?...

The Gilded Age‘s two-part premiere episode is 90 minutes of epic period drama world-building. In the new HBO series, creator Julian Fellowes melds many of the storytelling tropes and elements that made Downton Abbey a worldwide hit with a less explored decade in American history into a story that delivers on the social drama and historical recreation. Let’s talk about “Never the New, Parts 1 & 2.” The Gilded Age Setting The Gilded Age‘s setting is 1882 New York City, a city of rapid changes in both society and industry....

The Gilded Age Episode 3 not only raises the stakes but also sees a noticeable tonal shift between this series and Julian Fellowes’ earlier series, Downton Abbey. In “Face the Music,” the nouveau riche’s war against the old money elites has turned deadly by the end of the episode. The actors across the board have risen to the challenge of more complex and dark scenes. The episode begins with a nice history Easter Egg....

If you’re going to direct your first TV episode, why not do it like that. Elisabeth Moss – whose 30-year acting career has given her ample time to figure out what and what not to do behind the camera – did not go small in her debut. ‘The Crossing’ stood apart from the normal run of things by using almost no existing locations or sets. Largely set in a monumental prison facility where June was subjected to a series of brutal interrogation methods, it was horror through and through....

Burnistoun writer and performer Robert Florence’s debut feature The House Of Him aims to tackle this head on. Sophie and Anna are invited into a photographers house for a shoot. However when he dons his mask, things take a murderous turn. Anna is left trapped inside the house at his mercy but the skeletons in his closet start rattling and soon the hunter is the hunted. Opening on familiar territory, masked killer murders attractive woman, the bread and butter of slasher movies, so far so ho-hum....

Den of Geek consulted Dr. Hermann Bayer, an expert authority on Okinawan Karate and the author of the upcoming book Analysis of Genuine Karate―Misconceptions, Origin, Development, and True Purpose. Dr. Bayer remembers firsthand how The Karate Kid stimulated the Karate boom in the mid-eighties because he was a practicing Karateka then. But as a martial scholar, he’s pragmatic about his opinions. “First and foremost, we have to bear in mind that we are talking about a movie, not about a documentation or a piece of research,” says Bayer....

The Magicians Season 2 Episode 3 How did The Magicians manage to pack this many different types of stories into one episode? The morbid humor stemming from the cursed throne assassination attempts received as much attention as the frighteningly dangerous attempts to entrap Reynard and Martin, but by the end, “Divine Elimination” sent chills down everyone’s spines and broke a few hearts, capping off a nearly perfectly constructed narrative. First, let’s talk about that episode title....

As the special look trailer released by Disney during Monday Night Football yesterday confirmed, Mando will turn to old friends Greef Karga (Carl Weathers) and Cara Dune (Gina Carano) for help at some point in season 2. At the very least, it looks like the trio will tangle with the Empire on Nevarro, the volcanic planet where Mando last faced the villainous Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito). While most of this “special look” video features scenes previously revealed in the season’s first trailer, there’s one line that seems significant....