“I have no strings on me,” Pinocchio proudly declared in 1940 while walking down the steps of a carnival show. The scene helped launch one of the most beloved songs in Walt Disney’s animated musical, and one which is still referenced to this day in things like Avengers movies. However, the line is a bit inaccurate. For generations of children the world over, and particularly in the United States, Pinocchio would always have strings on him: and they came in the shape of Disney nostalgia....

In broad strokes, the movie follows a bunch of supremely annoying twentysomethings as they run from an otherworldly evil, screaming at each other incessantly in an ear-splitting attempt to suss out what’s happening to them at any given moment. They act like complete idiots, and it’s incredibly hard to root for or relate to any of them when they’re perpetually in the throes of a screechy temper tantrum or complete emotional breakdown....

By now, this series has firmly established the rule that if you put Mrs Coulter in a scene, you’ve got yourself a scene. It almost doesn’t matter who she’s paired with. Lee Scoresby, a Magisterium toady, a mirror… So long as Ruth Wilson is there, fizzing with barely concealed rage and oozing manipulative seduction, it works. She doesn’t even need to speak, as this episode’s opening showed. Let Mrs Coulter watch a woman from our world tapping away at a laptop while rocking her baby and it’s all we need to understand the character’s fascination, frustration and regrets....

To call it David versus Goliath would be an understatement. When the mighty and ancient Vhagar, ridden by Prince Aemond (Ewan Mitchell), flew above young Prince Lucerys Velaryon (Elliot Grihault) and his mount, the baby dragon Arrax, it was like Goliath towering over a puppy. This will be over quickly. Luke and Arrax valiantly strafed and soared, zigged and zagged, but in the end it was inevitable that Lucerys would find a new home in Vhagar’s belly....

The good news is that there is an extensive system in place designed to not only help you upgrade your version of Cyberpunk 2077 to its next-gen equivalent but ensure that the game runs as well as possible on next-gen consoles when it is released on December 10. The bad news is that Cyberpunk 2077‘s next-gen upgrade system is somewhat complicated and burdened by a series of currently unanswered questions....

Where House of the Dragon does better than Game of Thrones, however, is in creating a safer environment for its actors so that they feel secure and empowered behind the scenes. In a fairly recent interview with The Sunday Times, Game of Thrones actor Sean Bean complained about the addition of intimacy coordinators to film and television sets claiming that they “spoil the spontaneity” of shooting an intimate scene and that “bringing [sex and intimacy] right down to a technical exercise” ruins the authenticity of the moment....

Not only was the first script for Men in Black wildly different, but changes were eventually made to remove a whole subplot from the final film. Watching it back, audiences would be forgiven for never noticing that anything was missing. But for those in the trenches of the production, the shape of the movie had shifted rather drastically, perhaps to the benefit of streamlining the blockbuster hit. But what was that story that fans never got to see, and was this change ultimately for the better?...

Found footage has come a long way since the early ’80s, though, and nowadays it’s unlikely anyone’s actually going to go searching in the woods for some kids who got lost, or take a bottle of holy water round to the Paranormal Activity house to help them deal with their supernatural visitors. Actually, most of us are probably pretty bored with the genre. Getting your actors to hold the cameras used to be a shortcut to realism, but as audiences, we’re sophisticated enough not to get too drawn in any more....

Composer Mark Mothersbaugh’s synthesizer chimes away as the action follows the titular infants having a particularly lively play day in a suburban living room. Tommy Pickles does a handstand. Phil and Lil DeVille chase each other around. Angelica gets covered in dust from a vacuum. While at first glance the new intro seems identical to the iconic original, there are some key updates. Grandpa Lou is not asleep on a La-Z-Boy, but up and alert, practicing yoga....

“I live out in the middle of nowhere by a graveyard,” the Irish actress told Den of Geek at NYCC. “I used to hang out in it as a kid all the time. I’ve always been into creepy stuff.” That quality time in the graveyard paid dividends for Codd when portraying the surly, sarcastic, and spooky Anya on The Midnight Club. Based on the young adult horror novels of Christopher Pike (including one of the same name), The Midnight Club is set in the early ’90s at the fictional Brightcliffe Hospice: a home for terminally ill teens looking to spend their remaining days out in reasonable comfort and with good friends....

Yet when it comes to Steven Spielberg’s seminal World War II epic losing to an amusing (if somewhat lightweight) romantic comedy, never before had there been an upset so fundamentally unexpected that it changed the way awards were won; and never before had a generally celebrated studio hit with frontrunner status run into the political machinations of Harvey Weinstein. The Oscars would never be the same. Released in July 1998, Saving Private Ryan opened during a peak of renewed interest in the generation of Americans who endured the Great Depression and then won World War II, transforming the U....

One of the most tried and true laws of the entertainment industry is: Ann Dowd makes everything better. The character actress livens up just about everything that she’s in, whether it’s as a shockingly charismatic cultist in Hereditary, a shockingly charismatic cultist in The Handmaid’s Tale, or a…shockingly charismatic cultist in The Leftovers. OK, so we might be boxing Anne in a bit here. When it came time to cast basically the exact opposite of a shockingly charismatic cultist in Search Party season 4, however, the show’s creators still knew there was but one place to look....

The fusion between the two projects is clear from the opening mission statement. Newton came to “the planet of water,” because his home planet is burning dry. Earth has the resources he needs to save it, but terrestrial forces get in the way. The new series takes place half a century after Newton built a corporate conglomerate with the wealth to build a rocket to send him back to Anthea....

However, impressive as it may have been, the execution clearly wasn’t perfect; a notion subsequently driven home by a YouTuber who created a more impressive deepfake version of the Luke scene. The folks at Lucasfilm seem to agree with that assessment, since they’ve hired the creator. The YouTuber, who goes by “Shamook,” revealed in a video comment that a mysterious recent drought of content on the channel was attributed to having been hired by the Star Wars studio, stating, “As some of you may already know, I joined ILM/Lucasfilm a few months ago and haven’t had the time to work on any new YouTube content....

Even before the internet made information about the original and prequel trilogy easy to come by, Star Wars was the most dissected franchise in motion picture (and pop culture) history. With every bit of minutiae relating to the film’s production having been analyzed to death by this point, what, if anything, is there to learn about Star Wars that we haven’t already heard a million times before? Enter Brian Volk-Weiss....

It was heartbreaking on multiple levels. Adil & Bilall had already proven themselves adept big budget filmmakers on the brilliant Bad Boys for Life while the eye-catching cast included J.K. Simmons getting another go as Commissioner Gordon, Brendan Fraser continuing the “Franaissance” as villain Firefly, and Michael Keaton donning the Batsuit for the first time in nearly two decades. Arguably the saddest aspect, however, was the fact it robbed Leslie Grace of a potentially star-making turn as Barbara Gordon, with the In the Heights actress in danger of being forever associated with the most infamous superhero movie to never see the light of day....

The popularity of the Pokémon Trading Card Game was not an accident. While some might be quick to call it an overnight sensation, that actually sells short the effort that went into the Pokémon TCG (and the games it was based on). Released in Japan in October 1996 (just 8 months after the debut of the first Pokémon games), the Pokémon TCG was one of the first major additions to what would become a vast pipeline of Pokémon merchandise....

“Find Me” introduces a new character named Leah (Lynn Collins), who played a major part in this once-unseen period in Daryl’s life before he returned to the settlements. There’s a suggestion in the episode that Leah may also play a part in Daryl’s future, perhaps even as a character in the Daryl and Carol spinoff that will premiere in 2023, but that remains to be seen. The episode also finally reveals how Daryl first met his trusty companion Dog....

Everything on one single-giant volume; it’s like a toddler’s way of storing things. Disk partition is necessary for the effective use of your hard drive. And things could go wrong at any moment. It can get corrupted, taking away all your data, installed applications, and anything stored with it. So, it’s best to partition your hard drive correctly. It becomes easy to segregate the contents, and a partitioned drive allows easy recovery if anything goes wrong....

IBM released WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 9 initially on their cloud – Bluemix. And now it’s available for you to download and install it. I hope installation procedure will remain similar to the previous version but let’s see how it goes. If you are new to WebSphere then don’t forget to a chekout little introduction about it. In this article, I’ll explain step-by-step from where to download WAS 9 and install it using IBM Installation Manager....