“Among Us, once regarded as a simplistic take on the Mafia and Werewolf party games, is finally expanding on the basic Crewmates vs. Impostors format. In an update released today, Among Us players will be able to take on the role of Scientist, Engineer, Shapeshifter, or Guardian Angel, all of which come with their own unique sets of skills.” Read more at Kotaku Can we please stop trying to leak everything from Spider-Man: No Way Home less than two months before it’s released?...

“Archer is back—in both a literal sense, with season 11 currently underway, and in a thematic sense. The main character, whose fanciful coma dreams guided seasons eight through 10, is finally in the real world, still recovering but also being the best, most obnoxious secret agent ever. Like we said: Archer is back.” Read more at Gizmodo. In the month of October, check out these fun facts about some of our favorite classic horror movies....

“Just as EA and Respawn Entertainment announced Jedi: Fallen Order‘s sequel Jedi: Survivor, a new rumor has now surfaced suggesting that the Star Wars character Cal Kestis will also be getting his own live-action show over on Disney+. According to YouTube’s Kristian Harloff, a trusted source has revealed that the fan-favorite hero from Jedi: Fallen Order will be making his television debut with a new series centered around him over on the streaming platform, and the video game character’s original actor Cameron Monaghan is also said to be reprising his role....

“Ask any dancer: Ten years in the backbreaking world of ballet can be a lifetime, and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan is certainly starting to show its age. To some, it’s a time capsule from an ancient age in dance history, when misogyny and sexual exploitation went unchecked. But beneath its theatrics and fever dream of a third act, Black Swan still presents a mirror those dancers would rather bash and shatter…” Read more at Thrillist....

“Actor Sung Kang revealed to Screen Rant his mysterious character in the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series carries his own lightsaber, lending credence to previous rumors that the Fasts and Furious actor would play a member of the Imperial Inqusitiorius.” Read more at Gizmodo In honor of his 40th birthday, here are the greatest Donkey Kong games ever made. Read more at Inverse It’s true, Roy from Ted Lasso enjoys swearing at children in real life as well....

“No worries, it seems as if Matt Murdock is coming back to our lives in Marvel’s new Daredevil series for Disney+! According to Variety, Matt Corman and Chris Ord are poised to write the series and that’s, pretty much, all that’s known.” Read more at The Mary Sue We finally have some plot details about the upcoming Hawkeye spinoff series Echo, now confirmed for a 2023 release on Disney+. Still, there was no mention of Kingpin or Daredevil appearing in the show....

“The return of Miles Morales is going to be just a little bit longer. Sony just announced that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will now be released on June 2, 2023, moved back eight months from its most recent October 7 release date. Which sucks. But, we now know when the second part is coming too. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Part II will be released on March 29, 2024.” Read more at Gizmodo The Flash star Ezra Miller was arrested in Hawaii (again), and fans are asking for a recast of the speedster....

“In Kim’s visualizations for the movie’s underground cage matches, both Deadpool and Proxima Midnight (one of Thanos’ Black Order goons) are seen duking it out. The final version of the film had Wong (Benedict Wong) fight Abomination instead, but Kim’s concept art presents a compelling alternative scenario. You can see Andrew Kim’s pieces for Shang-Chi, including the piece with Deadpool, on his official website.” Read more at Inverse It’s Florence Pugh’s world, and we’re just living in it....

“Cast your mind back to the ancient dystopian days of 2016, reader, and you may recall that at one point, Sony planned to have its hilarious Jump Street reboot series cross over with Men in Black. Flash forward 6 years, and the film MIB 23, which would’ve also effectively served as 23 Jump Street, has sadly not happened. So what was the deal with that?” Read more at Gizmodo On what planet is Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Academy located, you may ask?...

“Michael Curtiz’s 1942 film Casablanca is considered one of the greatest romance films of the classic Hollywood era. But as I rewatched it last night, I connected with its themes of resistance and hard anti-fascist take.” Read more at The Mary Sue. There was a time when beloved children’s show Sesame Street was controversial. Let’s take a look at these early questionable episodes. Read more at Mental Floss. In a win for renewable energy, San Francisco just became the second largest city to ban natural gas in new buildings....

Vogt-Roberts revealed in an Entertainment Weekly interview that the film won’t just be drawing from one series but instead, “may be an amalgamation of several of these different things, different timelines and what not.” This is a startling revelation since many assumed it would be the safe choice for the live-action film to adapt an existing story. Vogt-Roberts compared what he was doing with Gundam to what J.J. Abrams did with the 2009 Star Trek film....

As the item’s name suggests, the Power Pass is a rare consumable that, once used, ferries a character through an abridged retelling of the story that ends with them reaching level 50. The Power Pass is ideal for players who want to fill their character roster with max-level alts without wading through the same areas and cutscenes more than once. However, the Power Pass isn’t simply a skip button that bypasses all the work; it just makes the process a whole lot easier....

Lost in Space Episode 8 Being a film and TV critic is a wonderful pursuit because you get to indulge every flighty, fickle instinct you have and there are no Nielsen ratings to stop you. In the review of Lost in Space Season 1 Episode 7, I bemoaned the show’s over-reliance on problem-solving in lieu of plot. Now, just one episode later I’m the Tyrone Biggums meme. “Y’all got any more of them problems to solve?...

“I was probably the one person who was let down,” Blum tells Den of Geek. “I love the Civil War story, but I was like ‘Yes, finally, the Serpent Society! Number one Serpent Society fan over here.’” Blum comes across his Marvel fandom honestly. The writer’s father learned English from reading Marvel comics to a young Jordan in his crib. There are pictures of Blum as a child in a high chair holding his first Captain America comic issues....

In this year’s M.R. James adaptation, Jason Watkins plays Wraxhall, a man digging into his distant ancestors from Sweden. His curiosity leads him to the final resting place of Count Magnus, a 16th-century noble who died mysteriously after a trip abroad. He receives multiple warnings that the crypt is haunted but he insists on opening up the tomb. Den Of Geek spoke to screenwriter, director and actor Mark Gatiss to get the inside scoop on why he picked Jason Watkins to play the lead role in Count Mangus, his views on the supernatural, and the original script that was ruined by the pandemic....

But a new Justice League #59 variant cover from DC Comics, with art by none other than Jim Lee, seems to have given us our first full look at what J’onn J’onnz, the Martian Manhunter, will look like in the movie. Director Zack Snyder has long confirmed that Martian Manhunter was always intended to appear in his Justice League movie, and that the character had technically already made an appearance....

When we talk about surprising video games, we typically talk about indie titles that come out of nowhere and blow us all away. Well, Guardians of the Galaxy may be the opposite of that type of game in so many ways, but in terms of expectations vs. results, it has to be considered one of the most shocking video game experiences in quite some time. What is it about Square Enix’s latest Marvel game that makes it such a deviation from our pre-release expectations?...

The Loki season finale (and thanks to the mid-credits scene we know it’s a “season finale” not a “series finale,” thank Odin) is here, and it’s got bigger ramifications for the Marvel Cinematic Universe than we ever could have imagined. Loki episode 6 may be light on Marvel Comics Easter eggs (and after last week’s egg-fest, don’t get greedy!), but it’s BIG on characters and concepts that we’ll be dealing with and talking about for years to come....

Largely unknown to non-comics readers, Wonder Man is one of Marvel’s most interesting characters; a guy with a convoluted history, even by superhero standards. There are many different types of stories that creators can tell with Wondie, but the recent news that Ben Kingsley will be reprising his role as Trevor Slattery gives us a pretty good idea about the type of show Wonder Man seeks to be. Who Is Wonder Man?...

The return of Marvel comes on the heels of what might be a decisive point for the pop cultural juggernaut. Their latest movie, Thor: Love and Thunder, released to mixed reviews and lower box office receipts (by Marvel standards, at any rate). The MCU series at Disney+ are also proving to be diminishing returns, to the point that even the well-received Ms. Marvel had low viewership. When added to the general lack of enthusiasm after Avengers: Endgame, some observers fear that superhero fatigue has truly set in this time....