As HBO’s The Last of Us goes on, the show is starting to deviate from its source material in some pretty significant ways. Much has been said (and will continue to be said) about those changes, but it’s important to note that the show also raises new questions about the lore of the games. That’s
Month: January 2023
Author: Jonathan Carroll Publisher: Melville House Price: £20 (hardback) ‘Mr Breakfast’ is the name of the photo that made Graham Patterson famous as a world-renowned photographer. Except this Graham Patterson doesn’t remember taking this photo. In fact, this Graham isn’t even a photographer, he’s a comedian, so whose life is he living? As Graham reaches
This article contains spoilers for The Last of Us episode 3. We were warned that the third episode of HBO’s The Last of Us would be a real tear-jerker, but in a series that’s already waved goodbye to Sarah (Nico Parker) and Tess (Anna Torv), showrunner Craig Mazin isn’t letting up on the need to
Worlds will live, worlds will die. And the DC Universe will never be the same. But that’s no crisis. It’s just what happens when a massive media conglomerate like Warner Bros. Discovery puts two new executives at the top of a studio and tells them to take a different approach. So while the DC Extended
This article contains spoilers for The Last of Us Part I and Part II Ellie’s immunity to the Cordyceps infection is an important part of The Last of Us game lore. In both the HBO series and the video games it’s based on, Ellie is the only person we know of who doesn’t become infected
Everybody does it – sits glazed in front of the TV, wearing the remote button thin with endless scrolling. That’s meant to be good, isn’t it? Didn’t we like that other thing he was in? With the horse. No, I’m thinking of a different guy. Oh, just put The Office on. Every click of the
This Quantum Leap review contains spoilers. Quantum Leap Episode 11 After a two-week hiatus, Quantum Leap returned on Jan. 30 with a bang. More than one, in fact. After the last episode’s setting in a hospital, where Dr. Ben Song (Raymond Lee) was a fish out of water, our quantum leaper lands in a facility
This Last of Us review contains spoilers. Whatever your expectations were going into HBO’s The Last of Us, they were likely far exceeded, if not completely blown away, by episode 3, titled “Long Long Time.” Simply put, this is one of the best episodes of television in recent memory and acts as irrevocable proof that
This Last of Us article contains spoilers. For many longtime fans of the video game series, the third episode of The Last of Us will be a surprising shock to the system. Stepping away from Joel and Ellie’s journey, “Long Long Time” instead follows 20 years in the life of Nick Offerman’s Bill, a paranoid
This article contains The Last of Us spoilers. The third episode of HBO’s The Last of Us was arguably the series’ best episode yet and, for fans of the games, certainly its most intriguing episode yet. After all, this was the episode that made some major changes to Bill and Frank’s story that may very
The surprisingly excellent Dead Space remake makes some notable changes to the original game, but it’s pretty faithful in the areas that matter most. Both are scary as hell, both are cinematically excellent, and both are filled with unlockables and secrets. While the remake actually expands upon that last offering, even casual players will want
In the original Dead Space, players could upgrade Isaac Clarke’s RIG (his engineering spacesuit) to improve their odds of survival, as well as purchase some DLC suits that look unique and provide flat buffs. What would a Dead Space remake be without these collectible RIGs? Throughout the Dead Space remake, players can equip several suits,
This article contains MCU spoilers Some superhero stories truly glide on the idea of a hero’s redemption. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we have seen characters like Tony Stark, Stephen Strange, Natasha Romanoff, and Gamora make up for their past sins via heroism. A viewer’s love for a great redemption story occasionally mixes itself with
If there’s any show that took a heavy dose of inspiration from Power Rangers back in the ‘90s and still brings back fond(ish) memories, it’s without question Big Bad Beetleborgs. Premiering in 1996 on Fox Kids and running two seasons, the show was another hybrid of stock Japanese action footage and original American shot scenes.
When Nintendo introduced gamers to the Switch, early commercials painted the system as a highly mobile gaming platform as well as a home console. That is mostly true, but reality rarely measures up to the idealism of commercials. If you’re looking to maximize the Switch’s potential, you’ll need to make the most out of the
Junji Ito is undoubtedly a mastermind of the macabre. Merging his own monsters with Japanese folklore and tentacles of Lovecraftian inspiration, Ito’s graphic novels, such as Gyo and Uzumaki, have gripped horror fans worldwide with claws of fear. The things that creep in the darkest alleys of his imagination will easily take up residence in
Many horror games reward players who try to brave their terrors multiple times on different difficulty modes. Each entry in the Dead Space franchise, for instance, features a new, even harder challenge that is unlocked whenever someone completes the game on Hard mode. The Dead Space remake is no different. Like the original Dead Space,
Unfortunately, HBO Max is adding a couple more DC shows to its ever-growing list of casualties. Titans and Doom Patrol have officially been canceled by Warner Bros. Discovery. Both shows still have another half of a season to air on HBO Max at a yet-to-be-determined date, but these season 4 episodes will serve as their
Last year was a frustrating time to be an Xbox Series X owner. Here you have this beautiful, powerful, and impressive piece of hardware, but hardly anything was released for it that could demonstrate its true potential. Thank heavens that third-party titles like Modern Warfare II, A Plague Tale: Requiem, and a little indie game
“Everybody else passed,” Sarah Michelle Gellar laughs when speaking about how she came on board for Wolf Pack, a brand new teen genre series launching on Paramount+ this January. She’s joking of course (who would pass on SMG?!) – in fact, what really comes across about Gellar when we see her at a launch event
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