“Fans of the Fast and Furious on ‘Fast Fridays’ can watch all eight films leading up to the summer release of F9 for free! Starting Friday, April 30, 2021, and every subsequent until June 18, theaters will show the Fast and Furious movies in chronological order. Movie chains like AMC, Regal, and Cinemark are participating along with 500 theaters across the country.” Read more at Gizmodo. From Stephen King’s Rage to the Encyclopædia Britannica, here are five books that are unlikely to be printed again....

“As first reported by Rotten Tomatoes Awards Editor Jacqueline Coley, the Judas and the Black Messiah Oscar winner confirmed he is not reprising the role of W’Kabi in Marvel’s Black Panther follow-up, the first Marvel film featuring the titular superhero without the late Chadwick Boseman.” Read more at IndieWire Despite some controversy surrounding the last time he worked on a Disney property, Alden Ehrenreich has joined the cast of the upcoming Marvel TV series Ironheart....

“Paramount Pictures just dropped enough news to fill a whole year’s worth of Hall H Comic-Con panels. Transformers, Star Trek, Sonic, Ninja Turtles, Halo, Quiet Place, and more all had significant news revealed during a company investors’ call Tuesday, and here’s how it broke down.” Read more at Gizmodo Two lucky winners will receive (2) Tickets for The Ocean at the End of the Lane! (MUST BE IN THE U....

This is the first of several listening events being hosted by In The Dark Radio this weekend; technically, it’s a trial run, with members of the press serving as guinea pigs before the event opens to the public. It’s cold in the crypt, and there’s a nervousness in the air as we wait for the drama to begin. At first, as the play starts, I’m staring at the dim silhouettes of the strangers sitting opposite me, but after a few minutes, I decide it’s pointless and close my eyes....

Marvel’s Loki episode 2, “The Variant” is all about exactly what you think it is: uncovering the mystery of who the murderous Loki variant the TVA is tracking. And the ending of Loki episode 2 does exactly that…or does it? While we’re certainly meant to believe on first glance that the mysterious and magical woman under the hood is simply a female variant of Loki, and there is plenty of precedent for Loki’s genderfluid nature in the comics, there’s just enough ambiguity (and even a little bit of evidence) to point to the fact that “Lady Loki” might not be “Lady Loki” at all....

Now that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has gotten all timey-wimey, it’s not so simple to keep track of this massive franchise’s order of events. With Loki, the latest Marvel TV show to premiere on Disney+, Phase Four is delving even further into time travel, a narrative concept first properly introduced to the MCU in Avengers: Endgame when our titular heroes traveled back into their own timelines to collect the Infinity Stones needed to defeat Thanos....

Lucifer Season 6 Episode 9 “Where’s a goddamn celestial when you need one.” In its series’ penultimate episode, “Goodbye, Lucifer,” Lucifer presents a powerful examination of the fate vs free will debate as Lucifer does his best to avoid abandoning Chloe and their unborn daughter Rory. Time travel, time loops, body jumping, end-of-the-world apocalypse – it’s all here as the series eschews its traditional witty one-liners for some resolute reflection in a moment of existential crisis....

Still, every now and then Marvel and a creator just aren’t able to make it work. Those creative differences reared their ugly head with auteur Edgar Wright and 2015’s Ant-Man (which was eventually directed by Peyton Reed). Guardians of the Galaxy shepherd James Gunn was axed after a bad faith internet campaign to get him canceled, but cooler heads prevailed and Gunn is returning to helm Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

For the chat, McCartney sits down with Rick Rubin in the most familiar of settings: a recording studio, with easy access to the songs being discussed. The six-episode series explores McCartney’s work with The Beatles, Wings, and solo releases. Directed by Zachary Heinzerling, the interview is relaxed, although Paul is often very animated. He fiddles with console buttons, pops up for quick runs at a piano or guitar, and air drums throughout....

The vampiric anti-hero first appeared in 1971’s Amazing Spider-Man #101, in a story written by Gil Kane and penciled by Gil Kane. Dr. Michael Morbius is a brilliant scientist whose attempts to cure his rare blood disease result in his developing vampire-like qualities. Dubbed “the living vampire” to avoid censure from the Comics Code Authority, Morbius uses his enhanced strength, echolocation abilities, and hypnotism to quench his thirst for blood....

The Mortal Kombat movie may be one of the first true blockbusters of 2021, but for millions of fans of the games, it’s also another chance to “get it right.” Sure, 1995’s is a somewhat underrated live-action adaptation of a video game, but its irredeemable sequel, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, left many fans doubting that we’d ever see another big-budget live-action Mortal Kombat movie much less one that comes close to capturing what makes the games special....

My Hero Academia Season 6 Episode 5 “The Pros that you admire so much play dirtier than guys like me.” “Don’t reject me anymore” is a sentiment that’s shared by Shigaraki in the previous episode of My Hero Academia, yet it becomes the mantra for several characters–Dabi, Fumikage, Dr. Garaki, even the many Nomu–in “Thrill of Destruction.” The Shigaraki-centric installment features the character’s highly anticipated rebirth, but it’s also full of characters who prove that they belong and are beyond rejection before they’re pushed to dangerous, new places....

“It’s a national treasure, innit,” Oasis’ Liam Gallagher says in If These Walls Could Sing. The documentary was directed by Mary McCartney, no stranger to such company. She was one of the very few photographers to capture the late Queen Elizabeth II in a 2015 special sitting celebrating the “longest-reigning British monarch in more than 1,000 years.” Mary is also the daughter of rock and roll royalty. Her mother, the late Linda McCartney, took some of the most iconic photographs of the rock era before joining Mary’s father, Paul McCartney, in matrimony, harmony vocals, assorted instruments, compositions, and animal-friendly activism....

However, these spinoffs do so in close proximity to the Prequel and Original Trilogies, fleshing out the lives of characters before or after the events of their respective big-screen adventures. It’s an approach which has led Disney+ to carve out its own post-Return of the Jedi shared universe on the small screen, with The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and upcoming shows Ahsoka and Skeleton Crew exploring what’s going on in the galaxy five years after the fall of the Empire on Endor....

Only Murders in the Building Season 2 Episode 9 The sheer amount of storylines this season on Only Murders in the Building has made it somewhat difficult to follow along and tie everything together. Each week there seems to be something new to focus on, a different character thrown into the spotlight, or a cliffhanger that is ignored for several episodes. This forces the audience to not only be patient, but think closely about every single plot line that is shown....

However, it’s not exactly known for its high-performance capabilities, especially when it comes to highly concurrent systems. And that’s the reason that for such specialized use cases, languages such as Node (yes, I know, it’s not a language), Go and Elixir are taking over. That said, there’s a LOT you can do to improve the PHP performance on your server. This article focuses on the php-fpm side of things, which is the natural way to configure on your server if you’re using Nginx....

Nevertheless, and despite hand-wringing from this time last year about whether there would even be anything worthy of nomination in 2020, we’ve just come through a resilient and even hopeful period for quality cinema. Movie theaters remain largely closed throughout the U.S. and Europe, yet filmmakers have found a way to get their passion projects out via streaming, video-on-demand, and for a precious few in limited capacity movie theaters. Through it all, the industry endured and quality work found an eager audience anxious for the catharsis of shared art—or at least a good Borat joke....

Currently, there are eight main published works in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series with more on the way. They are as follows: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, and Written in My Own Heart’s Blood. A ninth book has already been announced; it is titled Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, which I personally think is a beautiful title....

Directed by Mikael Håfström (whose most recent work includes episodes of the Netflix series Bloodline as well as the 2013 action film Escape Plan), Outside the Wire is set in 2036 as a violent civil war is raging in Eastern Europe, specifically in and around Ukraine. A series of title cards indicates that U.S. forces, acting as peacekeepers in the region, employ robotic soldiers known as “gumps” while the lawless zone is coming increasingly under the reign of a warlord named Viktor Koval....

As Bridesmaids finally arrives in the UK, we caught up with Paul Feig to ask him a few questions… I’ve followed lots of your stuff over the years, and I think it’s fair to say that you’ve never had anything that’s come close to doing $136m at the US box office? No, definitely not! I’m not used to it at all! It’s definitely a nice feeling, because it’s been very hard for me to get things made....