Concept artist Houston Sharp posted his planned designs for Swamp Thing that he worked on with David Masson for the version of Justice League Dark that was to be directed by Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow, The Bourne Identity). As you can see in the dramatically fire-strewn image, seen in full below, the classic character was to manifest in the ensemble film in a form that radically differs from any version we’ve seen—at least in the live-action adaptation arena....

And yet, series after series, we see contestants don the most ridiculous getup to take them through their Taskmaster journeys, including a dressing gown, a safari suit, and an Evil Knievel helmet. And series 14 is no different: three of the contestants – Munya Chawawa, Fern Brady and Dara O’Briain – are sporting particularly impressive themed jumpsuits. The question is: does a special outfit give contestants special powers? The edge over the competition, even?...

The Affair Season 3 Episode 10 “This is not the real Paris.” So here we are at the end of a somewhat controversial season of The Affair. With all of the heavy baggage now out of the way, the season is allowed to have a bit more of a methodical, laid back finale. It was exactly what I was hoping for from such an overly intense season. It’s wonderful that Noah gets to enjoy a dreamy vacation in Paris rather than us get an episode all about Noah freaking out and deconstructing the self-destructive epiphany he had last episode....

The main narrator of The Andy Warhol Diaries is Andy, but not. Along with layered readings by Bill Irwin, Andy’s words are translated by a Warhol-bot, an artificially intelligent vocal algorithm machine which inadvertently highlights how much the art celebrity would have enjoyed the current age of everyday stardom. Warhol was the man who said everyone will have their fifteen minutes of fame, and technology and reality TV conspired to make that commonplace....

It’s been nearly a decade since the release of a solo Batman movie, 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises, and as we approach the 10-year anniversary of the much-debated conclusion to Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed Dark Knight trilogy, a new standalone film about the Caped Crusader, Matt Reeves’ The Batman, is now in theaters. But meanwhile, in the interregnum between the end of Nolan’s mostly brilliant triptych and what we hope is the beginning of a new series of Batfilms under Reeves’ watch, a different variation of Gotham’s protector showed up in two (or three, or even four, depending on how you look at it) movies between 2016 and 2021....

Does your PC sound like a jet engine taking off when you put it under even mild strain? A loud computer doesn’t just hurt the ears–fans working overtime are a sign that the internals are getting too hot, and that can lead to crashes or even component failure, especially when you’re gaming. Adding more cooling, or improving the cooling solutions you already have, can make a huge difference, especially when it comes to your precious CPU....

The horror…the horror…of Raymond Reddington’s bald head in the first episode of this season’s The Blacklist. It may be just a few more passes of the razor than the tight shadow of fuzz fans have grown accustomed to over the previous eight years, but its effect is eerily similar to our first sighting of the tragic hero turned madman, Colonel Kurtz, from the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola classic: Apocalypse Now....

Producer Jason Blum recently revealed to Den of Geek that David Gordon Green was writing a sequel to the seminal 1973 horror movie which would “be like David’s Halloween sequel,” referencing the 2018 reboot that ignored all the previous Halloween follow-ups and acted as a definitive follow-up to the 1978 original. That movie has since been spun off into a full fledged trilogy, including this October’s Halloween Kills. At the time, it was an open question whether that meant Green’s The Exorcist would ignore the other Exorcist sequels and prequels released between 1977 and 2005....

The reunion of the Rocinante crew (minus one) and Avasarala’s return to power provided some measure of resolution in The Expanse season 5 finale, but even with season 6 being the final outing for the show, the story of the protomolecule is far from over. Showrunner Naren Shankar helped shed some light on those final moments, including the nature of Laconia and the status of several characters whose arcs are ongoing....

While the definitive origin for this grim tradition remains elusive, the popular myth is that these woods were the site of the “Ubasute” custom in the 19th century (where during times of war or famine, families supposedly abandoned their sick and elderly in the wilderness). It is also apparently haunted by Yurei, a most malicious type of angry spirit. Whether either bit of folklore is true, any good tourist will tell you about the suicide hotline signs that punctuate the forest like so many waterfalls....

Welcome! Everything is great. On Friday the 28th of September, the world becomes a slightly brighter place. The third series of endlessly inventive NBC sitcom The Good Place starts arriving weekly on Netflix in the UK. Mike Schur’s comedy is a masterclass in both ethics and the art of nimble plotting. The season one finale turned the entire show on its head, while the season two finale ended with another bold reinvention....

The Magicians Season 4 Episode 4 This week’s The Magicians wasn’t only a standalone episode which addressed a long-standing dangling thread from Josh’s earlier history, it also was an exercise in testing the audience’s acceptance of weird pairings now that we’ve known these characters for several seasons. But more than that, the show is doing one of the things it does best: subtly reminding its audience that although it’s not shy about reversing expectations about the power dynamics between men and women, it’s also not going to hit us over the head with social commentary....

Novelist John Wyndham’s genius lay in seeding menace among innocence. In The Day of the Triffids, the narrator drives through a bucolic country village but is unable to admire its delightful cottage gardens – partly because the world has ended, but also because the picture-postcard borders contain intruders: tall, swaying carnivorous plants with leathery green leaves and poison whips waiting to sting human flesh. Thus Wyndham turns that most pleasant and English of things, a flowerbed, into a deadly trap....

Back in the old days, paintings, carvings and engravings of Hell were used to shock sinners into mending their ways – promising them an eternity of pain and suffering, usually at the end of a red hot poker. Most world religions have their own ideas about what Hell looks like, but filmmakers have since thrown in a lot of their own ideas too – with movie villains heading everywhere from fiery torture caves and spikey chasms to bottomless voids and empty prison cells....

The growing number of films in The Conjuring shared universe have a surprisingly solid track record. The Nun is the latest piece of backstory in this complex series and it not only doesn’t diminish the overall integrity of the franchise, but it also expands the boundaries of the series’ universe in some ambitious ways. The Nun ending is key to that. The Nun’s major purpose is to shine a light on how the franchise’s big threat and Conjuring 2 baddie, Valak, comes into existence....

The Orville: New Horizons Season 3 Episode 8 When Den of Geek spoke to the creative team of The Orville: New Horizons, director Jon Cassar, and executive-producers David A. Goodman and Brannon Braga spoke of how many of the episodes in this third season felt like making small films. There is no doubt “Midnight Blue” is the ultimate example of that creative approach. This third season has far surpassed the outreach of the previous two outings of The Orville in terms of scope, scale, and more importantly: social commentary....

The Orville Season 2 Episode 3 Hardcore fans of The Orville will often cite the fact that the show holds true to the spirit of Star Trek: The Next Generation, but the reality is that most episodes feel more like a late-season Voyager episode or standalone episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise. And before Orville fans take offense to that statement, this isn’t intended as an insult. I love Enterprise, specifically the 2004 episode titled “Home,” which shares its title— and themes — with this episode of The Orville....

Since those efforts, Joe and Anthony Russo have taken a break from the MCU, if not necessarily from action movies. In fact their latest film, The Gray Man, is one of the biggest in Netflix history, a star-studded spy thriller with all the scale of a Marvel spectacle but little of a superhero’s moral certitude. And it is one of several films the Russos have in the pipeline since hanging up their Marvel capes (for now) and further building their own production company, AGBO....

The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 12 After 33 seasons, and now 12 episodes, The Simpsons is an institution in TV comedy. It was once the new brat, spray-painting its tag all over the Springfield at the heart of every American state. Now the series is the elder states-drawing. The kind on the comfortable couch, dust-busting dad-cheese from burp clouds. The long-running Sunday night cartoon family has been accused of slowing down with age, retreading old plots, and cleaning up its act while smoothing the animation....

The character of Bloodsport is, in proper Suicide Squad fashion, a very minor one in DC Comics history. He first appeared in Superman #4 in 1987, where he was created by John Byrne. This version of Bloodsport was Robert DuBois, a draft dodger who escaped serving in the Vietnam War, allowing his brother Michael to go and fight in his place. The guilt, after Michael was left severely injured in combat, was too much for Robert, and he lost his mind....