Jai Courtney plays German Capt. Stefan Brandt, sent to the Netherlands to act as a bodyguard for the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II (Christopher Plummer) and his wife (Janet McTeer). Moving to the Kaiser’s mansion in the country, Brandt begins a romance with their pretty maid Mieke (Lily James), who Brandt later learns is Jewish. It also happens that she’s the British spy Brandt’s been instructed to find, so once their romance gets serious, he’s forced to make the tough decision....

“We are finally seeing Drummer in a love relationship, and it happens to be a polyamorous, beautiful, queer family,” Cara Gee told us about her character in The Expanse season 5. “And I could not be more thrilled to represent that. The phenomenal actors who bring all those roles to life — I’m just so excited for the world to meet them. They are so beautiful, and we had truly a phenomenal time....

While there are still a number of tantalizing missing credits at the end of Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 2, including a placeholder for Emily VanCamp’s Sharon Carter, we do get to meet (and in one instance, hear about) some familiar characters from Marvel Comics who make their MCU debut in episode 2 of the Disney+ series. If you’re not overly familiar with their comics-based origins, though, you might not be too sure about the backstory of our new The Falcon and the Winter Soldier players, or what impact their introduction may have on the Marvel Cinematic Universe going forward....

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 3 might end up being remembered as the turning point of the series. A slow burn first episode led to some bigger revelations in the second one, but the third episode of the Marvel series is a bona fide sequel to one of the biggest MCU movies of all time in Captain America: Civil War. With a truly triumphant return for Sharon Carter and the re-introduction of Baron Helmut Zemo in a form that should feel much more recognizable to fans of the comics, there’s plenty of Marvel action to be had in “Power Broker....

But The Flash eventually found its footing, with It director Andy Muschietti behind the camera and an apparently top notch script by Christina Hodson (the brilliant but underappreciated Bumblebee, and the even more embattled Batgirl movie). Not only that, the movie promised a virtual feast for DC fans, apparently taking cues from the Flashpoint storyline in the comics, and with a multiverse-spanning element that allows for Michael Keaton to return as Batman, not to mention the introduction of Supergirl to the DCEU....

The Flash Season 4 Episode 11 Disclaimer: my local CW affiliate was having some ridiculous audio issues tonight, where chunks of the episode sounded like they were being broadcast from a very small and very busted AM radio in 1973. If I missed any details, this is why. Anyway… I…really don’t know what to make of “The Elongated Knight Rises.” I wasn’t a fan of “The Trial of the Flash” and as long as Barry remains in prison, I feel like everything is a little bit tainted by the laziness of that particular episode....

Per Deadline, Hulu today announced that it had commissioned a full-season, 10-episode order for a sequel to the hit CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother. To switch things up a bit, this iteration will be called How I Met Your Father and will star Hilary Duff (Lizzie McGuire) as Sophie, a woman in the future who is telling her son the story of how she met his father. The new series comes from This Is Us showrunners and Love, Victor creators Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger....

It’s a haunting final image, and one that gnaws at anyone who studied Greek myth. Robert Pattinson’s Ephraim Winslow/Thomas Howard/whatever he calls himself lies on his back, delighted by the unimaginable secrets he gleaned by staring into the lighthouse’s beacon. But that rapture was moments ago—perhaps even a lifetime. Now he is sprawled out along a barren seashore as seagulls and other birds of prey peck at his stomach, feasting on the entrails within....

The film is an unabashed throwback with the visual and narrative cues of the films mentioned above, and others along those lines, like Manhunter and Kyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure, liberally baked into its DNA. With its rich sense of atmosphere, period details–it’s perfectly set in 1990–and formally traditional style, The Little Things (which Hancock says he wrote a first draft for in 1993) is the type of movie that we haven’t seen in a while....

The most expensive television series of all time is finally about to premiere – but was it worth all that money? Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power certainly looks the part. The series is visually stunning, from the set design to the costumes to the very high quality special effects. One of the biggest advantages of this no-expense-spared approach is that it makes the series feel like it genuinely belongs in the same world as the big-budget Peter Jackson movies based on The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings....

Blonde will, after all, be seen primarily by people at home via Netflix, and the movie’s grim and gorgeously-shot story is shaping up to be a critical lightning rod, bringing it all sorts of added attention. But will it bring more prestige to the NC-17 rating’s long and controversial legacy? Below is a small collection of the most infamous—and therefore must-see—NC-17 movies. Henry & June (1991) It’s fitting that the first film to receive the NC-17 rating was, technically like the largely fictionalized Blonde, a biopic....

And on a location shoot for a Robert Eggers movie, Skarsgård doesn’t have to try too hard to live in that moment. After all, he and all the other actors on that vessel are riding a genuine bow-to-stern recreation of the iconic Viking longship. Even the nails hammered in to keep the boards together are true to archaic Norsemen custom. Again, this is a Robert Eggers movie. “His attention to detail is extraordinary,” Skarsgård muses when we catch up with him ahead of The Northman’s release, “to the point where not only the longship but a smaller vessel that was used for transporting goods that you’d see deep in the background, way out to sea [was also authentic]....

The first official case for young Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) starts with a missing girl: factory worker named Sarah Chapman (Hannah Dodd). But as Enola tugs at all the loose threads, she discovers mounting evidence—a missing page from the factory books, a suspicious surge of typhus, a scandalous romance—that draws the attention of the factory’s owners, Scotland Yard, and even her brother Sherlock (Henry Cavill). It all culminates in Sarah, her sister Bessie (Serrana Su-Ling Bliss), and the other factory girls going on strike—a real-life event which grounded the movie’s events in a sense of historical context....

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power wraps up its first season with a barn-burner of a finale, an episode packed with action, magical jewelry, high emotional stakes, and frequently unbearable tension. And while “Alloyed” doesn’t manage to close the book on every outstanding plot thread from the series’ first season, the hour does give us a ton of answers to many of season 1’s biggest questions, while leaving us plenty of new plot twists to ruminate over during the wait for season 2....

The Shannara Chronicles Season 2 Episodes 5 & 6 The following paragraph is a public service announcement brought to you by the National Committee To Let Everyone Know Why The Shannara Chronicles Is Getting Double Episode Airings Every Week On Spike TV Now. Hello out there in TV land! It’s me, the a**hole who covers The Shannara Chronicles for Den of Geek. You may remember me from such scathing reviews as “Wraith”, or as being that one guy who calls it Sha-nay-nay and thinks he’s being clever....

The annual Halloween specials draw their inspiration from many sources. Some are ripped from the pages of great books of literature, others are ripoffs of classic films. The long-running series also ventures deep into other dimensions of sound, sight, and mind, of shadow and substance, things and ideas. The Simpsons are cultural and their “Treehouse of Horror” segments are cannibalistic. So, grab an empty sack, here are some instances where the series fed on the culture they feed....

The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 15 The Simpsons season 33 episode 15, “Bart the Cool Kid” takes on schoolyard peer pressure and conspicuous consumption, best exemplified by footwear fads. Everyone can identify with the public humiliation of walking hallways in shitty sneakers. “You can’t record me, I’m recording you.” This is the second week in row The Simpsons has plumbed viral videos for content. Ralphie, who first sets the standard for the style, comes to school in genuine, “SLIPREME” sneakers....

The Simpsons Season 34 Episode 9 When The Simpsons brings back old characters for new scenarios, the series commits. “When Nelson Met Lisa” is a future episode which hits all the beats of When Harry Met Sally while capably translating it to the recognizable world of the characters of Lisa and Nelson. It also dips deep for a secondary character to highlight. Hubert Wong (Simu Liu) was introduced in a “Treehouse of Horrors” episode, has been fairly quiet when not being falsely accused of cheating, and now comes back to haunt the future episodes....

The Simpsons Season 34 Episode 10 The Simpsons plays to all its strengths in “Game Done Changed.” The episode acts on the title to expand their visual representation while presenting two fully-realized, original storylines set firmly in the now. The Simpson family unit turns in a magical cautionary tale, and Bart shows Principal Skinner how to throw caution to the wind. The rest of us get an education on the finer uses of desktop computers....

The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 2 Wow, how The Simpsons have fallen. It seems like only season 8’s “Lisa’s Date with Density” since Homer practically invented robocall scams, and now that Grandpa gets the episodic titular call “Bart’s in Jail!” they want us to feel bad about it. The Simpsons family is partially to blame, and they don’t get off so easily. The last time they pulled something like this, Homer had to call everyone he harmed, personally, and apologize....