The Mandalorian not only explores a new medium for Star Wars — a live-action TV series — but also a new corner of the galaxy far, far away. In the first episode, we’re introduced to a post-Empire realm of scum and villainy in the Outer Rim. This is the sector of space Mando calls home. We follow the bounty hunter as he completes two jobs — one that is pretty conventional and the other that’s anything but....

The new Andor trailer begins to answer these questions, as we watch a younger, angrier Cassian infiltrating the Empire and causing havoc from within, while Mon Mothma and Stellan Skarsgard’s new Star Wars character work in secret from Coruscant. While both parties are working separately at first, Gilroy has teased that they’ll eventually converge in their fight against the Empire. There are a few other points of interest in this trailer that we’ll break down below, but first, if you’ve not watched the clip yet, check it out below: Now, that you’ve had a look, here are a few things this trailer tells us about the upcoming Disney+ series: Since Andor takes place five years before the events of Rogue One, it doesn’t look like the Partisans have yet settled on Jedha to sabotage the Imperial kyber crystal mining operation, which is why their base looks a bit different in this trailer....

Back when he still had full creative control of Star Wars, George Lucas spent a lot of time revisiting and tweaking his finished films, much to the frustration of fans who’d grown up with the theatrical releases. Using (at the time) innovative CGI, the creator retroactively added characters to scenes where they hadn’t appeared before, or completely changed how iconic moments played out (e.g. Han shot first). It began with the Star Wars Special Editions in the late ’90s, which remastered the Original Trilogy for a new generation of fans, and Lucas continued to re-cut these classic movies until right before he sold his studio to Disney....

Set 200 years before The Phantom Menace, the High Republic era was a time of relative peace for the galaxy. Wars weren’t being fought, and the Jedi weren’t limited by the Sith’s machinations. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t still some threats waiting out there in the far reaches of unexplored space. By the end of Light of the Jedi, the flagship novel by Charles Soule that kicks off Lucasfilm’s new The High Republic series of books and comics, a new conflict is just beginning, as a mysterious band of pirates known as the Nihil reveals itself as a new threat for the Republic and hyperspace itself....

Google Chrome is one of the fastest and most secure operating systems that rarely suffer any issues due to malware or viruses. Although there are a lot of VPNs across our globe, some work on Chromebooks. Choosing the best Chromebook VPN will give you greater anonymity, the ability to access websites of other countries that aren’t available in your area, and advanced security while surfing the internet. As said, Chromebook VPN will help protect your online identity and offer a secure way to access any content you want, bypassing geo-restrictions....

Even in the pre-internet age, rumors and theories about secret codes that unlocked hidden features in games were a major part of gamer culture. For example, when Street Fighter II hit home consoles, Nintendo Power made a huge deal about players being able to enter a special code to unlock the ability to choose alternate color schemes for characters and to choose the same character as your opponent. But the 1992 port gave players an even bigger white whale to chase, a hoax just believable enough to fool people....

Superman and Lois Episode 2 There was a time, long ago, when big genre TV shows would get two hour premieres. Not the kind of two hour premiere that Superman & Lois had, where an episode that was actually a full hour without commercials got stretched out over a longer time slot with additional commercial breaks and a behind-the-scenes special. I mean a genuine 90 minute pilot that sat in a two hour timeslot....

Superman and Lois Episode 3 “Morrissey’s a xenophobic has-been.” This one line, delivered with deadpan perfection by Alex Garfin’s Jordan Kent pretty much sums up why Superman & Lois episode 3 is so good. Wait, really? Yes, stay with me for a minute… I loved the first two episodes of Superman & Lois. There’s no question about that. But there was a very slight nagging feeling in the back of my mind, that maybe this show was going to be a little too serious for its own good....

However, debates about who should play Superman run the risk of obscuring the full potential of a scribe like Ta-Nehisi Coates tackling such a character on a global stage. As a writer famous for his opinion journalism, including his essays for The Atlantic and his National Book Award for Nonfiction for Between the World and Me (2015), Coates has irrefutably demonstrated a brilliant mind—the kind the Superman character has long yearned for on the big screen....

Supernatural Season 15, Episode 20 We’ve made it to the end. 15 seasons. Saving people, hunting things — the family business. For fifteen years, two brothers with a historically cursed name have traveled the country in a cherry 1967 Chevy Impala, taking down baddies and saving the innocent, all on a quest to find out where their father went on a hunting trip, or to stop the demon Azazel, or stop the Apocalypse, avoid destiny, confront the Darkness, and deny God himself....

“The only thing that interests me is giant, big, sweeping, earth-shattering consequences. And the best way to understand and feel those consequences is with deaths that are either meaningful or meaningless,” Sheridan explains. “I think that is one of the hardest things we have to come to terms with as human beings is when something like what happens to Donna Troy and Miguel Montez happens at the Academy, it feels so meaningless....

There are more options than ever before when it comes to anime streaming services. Multiple channels offer thousands of hours of content that will appeal to both the obsessive anime otaku and those who have always been curious to check out the animated medium. It can sometimes be a daunting task to sift through a whole anime collection, especially when you don’t know what you’re looking for and what’s supposed to be good, let alone legitimately scary....

From unlikely Santas to unorthodox gift-giving, we’re looking at 25 of our favorite Saturday Night Live holiday sketches. We’ll be going in chronological order here. There is a big dose of modern stuff in there, but what can I say? The show might be more miss than hit these days, but they really hit it out of the park year after year with the Christmas sketches. Santi-Wrap (1976) Very early in the show’s run, we get this classic where an adult woman (Laraine Newman) is all about sitting on Santa’s lap like when she was a little kid....

Plex is a globally available one-stop-shop streaming service offering 50,000+ free titles and 200+ free-to-stream live TV channels, from the biggest names in entertainment, including Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, Lionsgate, Legendary, AMC, A+E, Crackle, and Reuters. Plex is the only streaming service that lets users manage their personal media alongside a continuously growing library of free third-party entertainment spanning all genres, interests, and mediums including podcasts, music, and more....

Stuffed full of movies, TV shows and other geek-approved references, here are the best we could find from this year’s crop… The best geeky Christmas jumpers Star Wars Christmas jumpers Celebrate Christmas in style with these Star Wars jumpers. Inspired by the infamous Christmas Special, there’s even one featuring Leia, Luke, Han and Chewie enjoying a little sing-song. Don’t spend too much time wondering what a Wookiee singing with humans sounds like....

The world of streaming horror movies can be an overwhelming place. Here you’ll find the master list. That’s right, we’ve hand-selected only the absolute best and most terrifying horror movies available on all the major streaming services and combined them here for your streaming (or screaming) pleasure. Apostle Available on: Netflix Apostle comes from acclaimed The Raid director Gareth Evans and it’s his take on the horror genre. Spoiler alert: it’s a good one....

Surely, however, there have to be some exceptions to that rule. Like, what if a character is the spitting metaphorical image of American fascism – draped in a red, white, and blue flag, shooting lasers out of his eyes, and refusing to lift a super-powered finger to save a crashing airplane? What about then? Well, according to The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke, series star Antony Starr has no problem finding the humanity within the sociopathic Homelander....

Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings adaptations had been out driving cars, smoking fags and doing stuff to girls for a good couple of years before Andrew Adamson’s Chronicles of Narnia films showed up in the film equivalent of a Christian Youth t-shirt clutching a handful of Warhammer figurines. Try as they might, the first two Narnia movies just couldn’t live up to the fantasy expectations created by the LOTR or Potter franchises, a verdict underlined when Disney dumped the third instalment of the series in December 2008....

Well, it’s over. Phase One of Marvel’s Netflix initiative is complete with The Defenders. After five previous seasons of TV, The Defenders had a ton of work to do in order to wrap things up and set the stage for what’s coming next. And while it was plenty satisfying, it left a whole bunch of mysteries that will need to be solved in future seasons. So let’s get to work and see what’s up with Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist…...

Despite Jackson’s dismissal of his own early work, these films represent more than a curious historical footnote; they are the first steps from one of the most important blockbuster film-makers of the last two decades. When viewed from the lofty gaze of hindsight, they are not only riotously entertaining films in their own right, but a chronicle of the birth and development of Jackson’s directorial style. Before finding mainstream success with the 1994 drama Heavenly Creatures, Jackson directed three films which can be broadly grouped as splatter-comedies, or splatstick as the sub-genre is sometimes known: Bad Taste (1987), Meet The Feebles (1989), and Braindead (1991, released in the US as Dead Alive)....