So why has it been so hard to get it right? Toho, the studio that brought the kaiju genre to mass public consciousness, has had more than its share of clunkers over the course of the 65 years it’s been producing Godzilla movies, but generally speaking, if you do anything for more than six decades, you’re not going to do it well every time out. But America, and Hollywood to be specific, has rarely gotten it right relative to its output....

1917 and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood were the big winners of the night, each being crowned Best Picture, and the former’s Sam Mendes picking up Best Director while Quentin Tarantino earned his third Golden Globe award in the screenplay category. Even in the acting category, Marriage Story came up relatively short when it won a Globe for Best Supporting Actress—a deserving Laura Dern—but lost in the Best Actor – Drama and Best Actress – Drama categories to a classic movie star anti-hero turn from Joaquin Phoenix in Joker and Renee Zellweger playing another movie star in Judy....

We’ll have a lot to say about Gotham Knights in the coming days, but the quality of the game’s cast really is one of the game’s greatest assets. This is a slightly deeper dive into the Batman roster than we’re used to seeing in games, which means that the game gives us the chance to spend some time with some faces we’re not always used to seeing. Of course, it’s the voices of those characters as much as their faces that really sell how much they belong to be the stars of an unlikely Gotham adventure....

Sophia Lillis (Stephen King’s It movies) stars as Gretel, who is charged with protecting her younger brother Hansel (Sammy Leakey) after the siblings are sent away by their desperate mother during a time of famine and disease. Making their way through the forbidding, dangerous and vast forest, they stumble upon the house of an elderly woman (Alice Krige, Star Trek: First Contact), who at first seems to have the children’s best interests at heart....

Halloween Kills is a peculiar film that ends on a peculiar note. By the end of director David Gordon Green’s movie, a mob of Haddonfield townspeople, exhausted and fed up after 40 years of trauma brought on by Michael Myers, have decided to take matters into their own hands. Yet Michael outwits them again and again—even when he’s not directly involved. First, the mob goes into full rage mode when another escaped asylum inmate is mistaken (somewhat unbelievably) for Michael, leading not just to the inmate’s death but even the deaths and injury of some of the townspeople as they trample and beat each other....

The report cites “multiple people familiar with the development efforts behind 343” who help outline how Halo Infinite‘s development troubles seemingly date back to the earliest days of the project. While some suspected that Halo Infinite may be in some trouble when it was announced that the game’s original creative director, Tim Longo, left the company last year, this report suggests that Long’s decision to leave was really just the result of various issues that had been happening behind the scenes for quite some time before that....

Season 2 of Halo Infinite, dubbed “Lone Wolves,” will launch May 3rd at 11 AM PST. That means that anyone who lives on the East coast can join at 2 PM, UK gamers can start at 7 PM, and so on. Once the new season starts, players will experience quite a few new additions and can earn cool rewards. Here’s an expanded look at the current release schedule for those who need it: Arguably the most important Season 2 additions are the new maps and game modes....

Harley Quinn Episode 2 Harley Quinn got off to a flying and f*ck-filled start with the highly entertaining first episode that set up the core-conflict for DC Universe’s first adult animation series. Episode 2 “A High Bar” finds Harley (Kaley Cuoco) freed from the grasp of the Joker, rocking her Amanda Conner designed New 52 costume, and generally ready to party so she does just that. accidentally crashing a Bar Mitzvah in an attempt to prove that she won the very messy breakup with the Clown Prince of Crime....

Gamers have been going back and forth about whether CD Projekt RED would (or even should) revisit the Witcher world ever since The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt wrapped up in such a satisfying way. The studio dropped several hints throughout the years that they were interested in continuing the series but generally refrained from committing to anything concrete. With this latest announcement, though, CD Projekt RED not only confirmed they’re working on a major new Witcher game but that the project will use be built using Unreal Engine 5 instead of their trademark REDengine and will likely star someone other than Geralt of Rivia....

For context, Blizzard recently announced that the release of Hearthstone‘s upcoming expansion will also mark the release of a new “Classic” format that lets you play the game roughly as it was when it officially launched in 2014. While that may not seem like a big deal for a game where nearly every card ever made is readily available for crafting and play, you have to remember that quite a few balance changes have been implemented since Hearthstone launched....

Hellbound, Netflix‘s new supernatural horror series, is as unpredictable as it is unsettling. At the end of six, high-intensity episodes, the Korean drama races towards its unpredictable, snowy conclusion in the backstreets of Seoul, leaving fans with both a satisfying (and surprisingly hopeful) ending to the first season as well as so many lingering questions about what might happen in a potential second season. Here’s everything that went down in the Hellbound season finale…...

“I refuse to die. I won’t lose to a world like this.” There’s nothing quite like a good, heightened mystery, especially if it’s working in tandem with something like the horror genre. Audiences have become increasingly savvy towards and desensitized by even the most extreme examples of each genre, which pushes entertainment to go even further. This isn’t always the right approach, but it can sometimes be just the right kind of crazy and High-Rise Invasion succeeds in finding that balance....

In our world, it’s been almost a year since Lyra and Pan stepped through the hole Lord Asriel tore in the sky. And what a year. If ever the prospect of turning your back on one reality and escaping to another were attractive, it’s now. In lieu of Asriel’s scientific equipment and what might be termed broad-minded attitude towards the moral taboo of child murder, this is our hole in the sky: courtesy of the BBC and HBO, a seven-episode trip out of here....

It’s unkind to revel in someone else’s failure, but what a gift that this is The Amber Spyglass adaptation we got. It’s hard to imagine New Line Cinema’s defunct film trilogy getting anywhere near so much so right. The Mulefa, the Land of the Dead, Marisa Coulter’s transformation… all of Philip Pullman’s weirdest and most beautiful ideas have been cradled on their way to the screen by this extraordinary creative team and cast....

With Hold the Dark, the Green Room and Blue Ruin auteur enters his first Netflix foray, where he displays enough cinematic charisma in every frame to again disprove the cynical notion that Netflix originals are not genuine experiences. This is a picture about the lingering dread of the unknown, and wallowing in a time and place as remote as the Alaskan wilderness wherein the most dangerous animals are not the wolves who roam the landscape....

“In Charlie Hall’s world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic preferences—but also to increase power and influence. You can alter someone’s feelings—and memories—but manipulating shadows has a cost, with the potential to take hours or days from your life. Your shadow holds all the parts of you that you want to keep hidden—a second self, standing just to your left, walking behind you into lit rooms. And sometimes, it has a life of its own....

Dragons in the world of Game of Thrones have a sacred bond with their riders, as we’ve seen throughout Game of Thrones and in House of the Dragon’s sixth episode, “The Princess and the Queen.” Targaryens are synonymous with the legendary beasts, but there’s also more to learn about House Velaryon’s history as dragonriders, of which Princess Laena was the most recent and beloved. Her dragon Vhagar has an even greater history in A Song of Ice and Fire....

There have been many death scenes from Game of Thrones lore depicted onscreen. But none like this. Aemma Targaryen (Sian Brooke), the queen and wife of Viserys Targaryen (Paddy Considine), is in her seventh labor. The king’s consort has already provided the monarch with a healthy and happy daughter named Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock), who is more than ready to rule. However, Viserys is determined to have a son, even after numerous miscarriages and stillbirths have left his wife’s health on a precarious edge....

Since we all clearly can’t help but snoop, HBO has decided just to go ahead and release high quality photos of said actors in costume. The first three official photos of House of the Dragon today and they highlight five brand new (or technically old in this prequel’s case) characters…perhaps even a new setting as well. Take a look below! Corlys Velayron This striking gentleman is Corlys Velaryon a.k.a. The Sea Snake, played by Steve Toussaint....

Everyone feels pressure when following up a hit movie, especially one that so defined culture like the original Black Panther. But director Ryan Coogler and his cast faced a unique challenge with the untimely and shocking death of star Chadwick Boseman. Not only did the death rob us of one of our most exciting actors, but it also left a giant hole for the other performers to fill. How can you make a Black Panther sequel without Black Panther?...