With Tatooine and Boba’s soul on the line, the finale of The Book of Boba Fett had a lot to do. Not only did “In the Name of Honor” need to settle the score between Boba Fett, the Pyke Syndicate, and Cad Bane but it also had a bit of The Mandalorian baggage to carry. Would Grogu choose to stay with Luke Skywalker and complete his Jedi training or would he reunite with Din Djarin and follow the path of the Mandalorians?...
Rumors and speculation abound regarding what might go down in the final chapter of this book. Which characters will cameo in the final battle? What’s next for Grogu? Is Cobb Vanth safe, is he alright? Here are our theories and predictions for how it will all play out in the end: Who Will Cameo in the Finale? Today’s big franchises love finale cameos, from Marvel stingers to Maul showing up as a crime lord in Solo: A Star Wars Story....
Most male monsters in fiction are made by women. Or, at least, it’s women who tend to get the disproportionate share of the blame when their creations turn out to be significantly less than civilized (perhaps because, historically, most of them were written by men). The most famous examples of murderer-moulding mothers are probably Norma Bates, Cersei Lannister, Olivia Soprano and, of course, Mrs. McAllister (momma raised a real little trap-setting psycho there)....
One role Connery never got to play was Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes. But he did come close, playing a character who was based at least in part on Holmes, in the 1986 movie The Name of the Rose. Based on the best-selling 1980 novel by Italian historian, philosopher and author Umberto Eco, the book and the film are set in 1327, as a Franciscan monk named William of Baskerville (Connery) and his young novice Adso of Melk (Christian Slater) travel to a remote abbey in northern Italy that’s home to an order of Benedictine monks, ostensibly for a high-stakes debate between the Franciscan order and emissaries of the Vatican over the poverty of Christ....
But this is not so so for Justin and Aaron (co-directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead), two brothers who fled “a crazy UFO death cult” 10 years ago and don’t have much to show for it in the meantime. They eke out a living cleaning empty apartments for incoming tenants, munching on ramen in vacated kitchens they’ll never actually inhabit. Weekly reprogramming sessions also aren’t doing much for Aaron, the younger of the two, whose indistinct memories of the cult are definitely rose-tinted....
After four years off air, The Eric Andre Show returns to Adult Swim on Oct. 26 with a complete 180. The new set is bright, colorful, and ritzy. “I wanted the set to be Liberace inspired,” Andre told Den of Geek ahead of the season 5 premiere. “I just wanted to do everything the opposite.” The changes to the show are not only cosmetic. Andre’s longtime sidekick Hannibal Buress quits the show after the first episode, and is replaced by a clone....
The Expanse Season 2 Episode 6: “Paradigm Shift” “That’s the wonderful and terrible thing about technology. It changes everything.” — Solomon Epstein Sometimes when reviewers talk about “pivotal episodes,” they’re referring to a level of importance for events that viewers absolutely must not miss, and this week’s The Expanse was certainly that — what episode isn’t, honestly? But when a series actually pivots, zooming in on a major event like Eros crashing into Venus and then turning to look back at its effect on Earth, Mars, and the Belt, it can be problematic to keep viewer interest if the picture doesn’t exactly line up....
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 5 When we last left our patriotic heroes, Captain America’s replacement, John Walker, had just publicly chopped a man to death with his shield. Between this and the way Mysterio edited footage to make Spider-Man look like a mass murderer, it’s a really bad time for Avengers replacements. There’s probably footage of Valkyrie biting someone’s face off to fulfill the trifecta. Recently, Marvel released a trailer to hype up the last two episodes, and the long-awaited fight between our titular protagonists and the unhinged Walker came off as some kind of climactic final battle....
To be fair, it feels like The Flash has been teasing Cisco’s departure forever by now. Cisco took a hiatus from the team last season to go investigate post-Crisis on Infinite Earths anomalies and to visit Atlantis. The show has been trying out potential new Team Flash members in the form of Brandon McKnight’s generally delightful Chester P. Runk and Kayla Compton’s Allegra Garcia. But recent developments have seen the prospect of Cisco’s permanent departure become increasingly real in recent weeks....
Benoit Blanc is not a man to be confused or befuddled. And to be sure, he is not by the final reel of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the second Blanc adventure from writer-director Rian Johnson and star Daniel Craig. However, the hero is frustrated—infuriated even. Midway through the classic expository reveal where the detective puts all the pieces of the puzzle together during the climax, our fair Benoit slumps his shoulders and places his hands in his pockets....
The Good Lord Bird Episode 2 During several moments of tonight’s The Good Lord Bird, my mind was whisked back to thoughts of My Fair Lady—or at least George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. In those texts, two confirmed old bachelors in Edwardian England think it is their privilege, if not duty, to remake a poor flower girl into their perfect image. It’s a tale of possessive manipulation and outright obliviousness. And it’s given a distinctly American flavor in the first few hours of Ethan Hawke’s Good Lord Bird....
All I could think was: Wouldn’t this rise to the level of an international incident? Yet for the film’s main character, played stoically by Ryan Gosling, and the person helping him, played with as much verve as can be mustered by Ana de Armas, it’s just an excuse to dust themselves off and head to the next set piece. That’s how generic and hermetically sealed a movie The Gray Man is....
In Antoine Fuqua’s new Netflix film, The Guilty, Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Joe Baylor, a police officer forced to work in a Los Angeles Emergency Call Center due to an ongoing investigation into misconduct that occurred while Baylor was on the job. The film gives us scarce details about what went down, with Joe’s ex-partner Rick and his former sergeant alluding to a court date, as well as a reporter from the Los Angeles Times repeatedly calling Joe for comment, but no one spells out exactly what Joe did to get the punishment of working the phones....
There are some specific fears being played upon here, like home invasion, the dark, and threatened masculinity. We’re with Clare and Adam (Bojana Novakovic and Game Of Thrones’ Joseph Mawle), new arrivals in a rural Irish community, and we’re not quite sure if we like them or not. He’s a conservationist, here to inspect the forest and sentence a few sickly trees to death (“That’ll have to go,” he says, spraying an ‘X’ on one): his is a dispassionate fascination with nature, not a love for it....
It doesn’t matter what you thought of the previous Kingsman movies directed by Matthew Vaughn. Nor is it particularly important what you think of the new film’s trailers and overall concept about a goofy spy adventure set during World War I. Believe it or not, the one crucial thing you need to understand about The King’s Man is it has the most delightfully batshit fight scene you’ll see at the cinema this year....
If you ask me, though, Link’s first name has always been more interesting than his last name. After all, why did Nintendo decided to name Link…well…Link in the first place? What’s makes that question even more fascinating is that the origins of most other major Nintendo characters’ names are pretty well-known. For instance, Mario was named after an old Nintendo of America landlord, and Donkey Kong’s name is really just a way to tell American audiences that he’s a “stubborn ape....
Baby Yoda has a big adventure ahead of him. In Chapter 13 of The Mandalorian, “The Jedi,” the audience and Din Djarin both learn two important pieces of information. First, the kid’s name is Grogu. Perhaps it’ll catch on as well as Baby Yoda did? Second, Ahsoka Tano tells Din to take the Force-sensitive toddler to the old Jedi Temple on the planet Tython, where he’ll be able to reach out to other Jedi across the galaxy....
After a year of speculation, Chapter 13 of The Mandalorian, suitably titled “The Jedi,” has finally given fans some of the answers they’ve been searching for. Not only does the episode reveal what fan-favorite hero Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) has been up to since the end of the Rebels animated series but it also gives Baby Yoda/The Child a proper name. Meet Grogu! The straightforward way “The Jedi” answers so many of our questions is actually a bit shocking....
It feels like there’s no stopping the might of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and as we look to Phase 5 (and beyond), the ever-expanding slate grows by the day. Unlike the tumultuous times over at the DC Extended Universe, it’s hard to see the MCU pulling the plug on any of its projects these days. Still, there have been plenty of Marvel movies lost to the Quantum Realm over the years....
The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 13 The Celtic bagpipes which open The Simpsons Season 33 episode 13, “Boyz N the Highlands,” are jarring and misleading, much like Groundskeeper Willie. This is by design, because the journey the installment takes is one long sidetrack. The main story concerns Springfield’s Troubled Truants: Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Dolph Shapiro, and Martin Prince, who claims he volunteered the 18-hour detention trek for extra credit. Each of the young thugs are introduced by their case files....
