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Inside No. 9 Series 5 Episode 5 If Inside No. 9 was a takeaway pizza company, it’d go bust inside a week; what’s on the menu is so rarely what’s delivered. Take the opening to this episode. A sentimental piano score follows an old man to a front door. Surrounded by hearts, we watch him awkwardly record an online dating video that shows him to be unreconstructed and rough around the edges but – as the musical prompts tell us – endearingly so....

Into The Badlands Season 2 Episode 9 I’m upset. It’s not a bad kind of upset, mind you. It’s a very good sort of upset, the kind you get when you’re floored by a twist you never saw coming in a piece of fictional media. But still: I’m upset. Shocked, even. Maybe a little bit heartbroken on top of that. If you haven’t seen this episode yet and you’re just scrolling through this review to see what I thought before you stream it or watch it on your DVR when you have more time this week, STOP NOW....

Into the Badlands Season 3 Episode 12 Oh, Into the Badlands. I’m going to miss you a lot more than I thought I would. And this episode made me realize that. I’ll miss the way you make sure every scene counts; I’ll miss how every interaction you show on screen pushes the plot forward explicitly; and I’ll miss how you don’t waste the audience’s time, do you? That’s because you’re determined....

Ever since Australian model George Lazenby stepped in for “the other fella” Sean Connery in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, James Bond casting has been one of the hottest debate topics in the movie world. Anticipation has only doubled after Daniel Craig left the series, and not just because his five-film run is considered by many to be among the franchise’s best. More tellingly, his movies told a complete story, beginning with his promotion to double-o status in Casino Royale and ending with his death in No Time to Die....

Gunn, never one to shy away from direct interaction with fan comments, started a Twitter conversation promoting The Suicide Squad’s upcoming photo-debuting Empire cover story by asking fans which two characters are likely to survive. However, one critical response pointed to the “franchise armor” that would protect some characters—specifically those for whom DC and Warner Bros. has future plans. Indeed, the purportedly protected class of characters includes Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn (who makes her third DCEU appearance), Viola Davis’s returning team overseer, Amanda Waller, and the big-screen-debuting iconic DC villain, King Shark, played here by Steve Agee....

Killing Eve Season 1, Episode 5 There’s a certain amount of tension in any cat-and-mouse drama that changes when the cat and mouse properly meet. It says a lot about the diverse strengths of Killing Eve that, even after Eve and Villanelle properly face off at the beginning of “I Have a Thing About Bathrooms”—and, again, later in the episode—this show is still firing on all cylinders. This isn’t the first time our two protagonists have come face to face....

Chances are if you have spent your evening putting on an elegant yet austere bespoke suit, or perhaps making sure that you always select Oxfords over Brogues when choosing the finest footwear, then you headed out and saw Kingsman: The Golden Circle! How’s that for a slice of Americana? Indeed, the new spy-on-spy action-comedy is bigger, crazier, and even sillier than 2015’s first spook adventure, which, like The Golden Circle, reveled in 1960s Bondmania and all of its assorted ilk....

It’s not as if nobody noticed the vibe between lead characters Sarah and Jareth at the time, or in repeated viewings since. Like Bowie’s codpiece, it stares you in the face all the way through the film. Jareth’s a 300-year-old Goblin King (played by a 38-year-old pop star) who wants to live within 15-year-old Sarah. Jareth spies on Sarah, comes into her bedroom, drugs her, dances with her, and promises to be her slave if she’ll love him, fear him and do as he says....

Web3 is the future of the internet and is one of the most popular terms in tech right now. Web3 Market focuses on technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, etc. We have mentioned a few Web3 resources in the article to help you get started. What is Web3? Web3 is the third generation of the World Wide Web. It focuses on giving users more control over the data through its decentralized and evolved version....

If you’re left with niggling doubts and unchecked hunches after reading our weekly episode review, we can help. Consider the below a communal evidence wall on which to pin mugshots of potentially bent coppers connected by red string and Post-Its scribbled with question marks. Join us as we delve into this week’s Line of Duty theories and questions… Jargon of the Week: Reg 15 Stands for a Regulation 15 Notice, or Yellow Notice....

“MTV Entertainment Studios has unveiled an expansive, $900 million deal with South Park co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, which includes extending the adult animated series on Comedy Central through its 30th season. Not to mention, Paramount+ will receive a whopping 14 South Park movies, with the first two out this fall. Boy, do these animators have their work cut out for them.” Read more at The A.V. Club The master behind the score for Loki explains some subtle foreshadowing we totally missed....

“Along with thinking, organized zombies, Zack Snyder’s living mercenaries in the upcoming Army of the Dead will have to deal with at least one undead white tiger as they venture into the overrun ruins of Las Vegas in search of $200 million dollars stashed in an abandoned casino. The idea of an army of zombies having an inexhaustible tiger among their ranks is alarming enough, but according to director Snyder, at one point he decided to go a bit bigger....

“Key issues of the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and the X-Men franchises sold for over $100,000 each in a Heritage auction in August 2022. Three Silver Age Marvel comics that are graded by Certified Guaranty Company® (CGC®) sold for six figures each in Heritage Auctions’ Key Comics Showcase Auction on August 4, 2022.” Read more here The Tomb Raider franchise is in flux once again, and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright thinks Aubrey Plaza of Parks and Recreation fame should take over the mantle of Lara Croft....

“For CinemaCon 2022, Disney offered a number of exciting updates and looks including the official title of the upcoming Avatar sequel — Avatar: The Way of Water, the opening 20 minutes of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and the first footage from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Following the record-breaking debut of Black Panther in 2018, Marvel Studios immediately worked with director Ryan Coogler to begin developing the sequel....

“The MCU is definitely king when it comes to cinematic universes, but Legendary’s Monsterverse isn’t doing too shabby. Between 2014’s Godzilla, 2017’s Kong: Skull Island, 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong, the franchise has raked in almost $2 billion globally. And now it’s expanding with a streaming series on Apple TV+.” Read more at Mental Floss The Microsoft purchase of Activision Blizzard is certainly a huge deal, but will they ever be able to surpass the success of Nintendo’s peak?...

“According to reports, Manny Montana has joined the cast comprised of Anthony Ramos, Lyric Ross and Dominique Thorne, the latter of whom will play Riri Williams, a genius inventor and notorious for creating the most advanced suit of armor since Iron Man. The roles of the other three, however, have been kept confidential as of now. Sam Bailey and Angela Barnes are set to direct Ironheart while Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Brad Winderbaum and Zoie Nagelhout will serve as executive producers on the show alongside head writer Chinaka Hodge, Zinzi Coogler and Sev Ohanian....

“New visions of the ending of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker have finally been revealed. Concept art has become a huge part of the Star Wars conversation during the sequel trilogy thanks in large part to the gorgeous books by Phil Szostak.” Read more at Gizmodo. From the Caterpillar Club to The Sons of Lee Marvin, here are some unusual clubs that exist (for some reason). Read more at Mental Floss....

“Disney Animation Studios has released a new trailer for Encanto, the 60th animated movie from the studio and their first to be set entirely in Colombia. The trailer expands on the magical-filled story and the songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Encanto is currently slated for release on November 24 with a 30-day exclusive window of theatrical release before coming to Disney+ on Christmas Eve.” Read more at Collider Hold up… why does Boba Fett’s armor look banged up again in the first poster for The Book of Boba Fett?...

“Patty Jenkins is still very unhappy about how the release of Wonder Woman 1984 played out. Her second Wonder Woman movie came out in theaters and HBO Max simultaneously as part of Warner Bros.’ pandemic release deal with the streaming platform, and it failed to get as much attention as the first flick. We previously reported that the director had referred to the hybrid rollout as ‘heartbreaking’ and ‘the best choice of a bunch of very bad choices’ at CinemaCon....

Though Marvel fans were excited to find out if Loki’s Mobius M. Mobius would ride a jet ski off into the sunset during the season finale earlier this month, it did not come to pass. But news of a Season 2 in the works during the end credits left the possibility open of Owen Wilson’s character finally living out his dream, and it seems that there were originally plans to include more of a backstory for Mobius in Season 1 that could now be explored in the next batch of episodes....