It was the shot heard around the internet: Scarlett Johansson, the star of eight Marvel Studios movies and the face of Disney’s biggest summer release, Black Widow, filed suit against Disney over an alleged breach in her contract. The immediate firestorm in the media—and more tellingly on social media—was intense. Some have likened Johansson’s lawsuit
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Amber Heard has weathered the storm of hate and is here to stay as she begins filming for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. “Few actresses have endured relentless online bullying and smear campaigns like Amber Heard. These attacks from a vocal group of staunch Johnny Depp stans have led to a petition (with nearly 2
Magic and adventure await in this month’s new fantasy book releases … Wildwood Whispers by Willa Reece Type: NovelPublisher: RedhookRelease date: Aug. 17 Den of Geek says: We’re big fans of stories about the magic of nature or magic that’s connected, whether scientifically or in a more arcane manner, to the world around it. This
From space opera to near-future speculation, science fiction brings us futures beautiful and frightening. Take a look at our top picks for the best new science fiction books to read in August 2021 … Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky Type: NovelPublisher: OrbitRelease date: Aug. 3 Den of Geek says: Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time garnered
The summer movie season may be winding down but Amazon Prime still has a hit or two up its sleeve in August 2021. Amazon’s list new arrivals this month is highlighted by EVANGELION:3.0+1.01 THRICE UPON A TIME. That may be a mouthful of a name but it’s a big deal in the anime world. The
So, we’ve gone a little longer than we like to without a Legends of Tomorrow episode. Which of course raises the question of: when is the new episode of Legends of Tomorrow finally gonna get here? Good news, folks, we don’t have to wait much longer. The next episode of Legends of Tomorrow is called
We’re deep into the dog days of summer, but Netflix’s list of new releases for August 2021 feels like fall. That is to say that Netflix has some really good library TV titles this month that harken back to the glory days of the fall TV network calendar. August 1 sees the arrival of two
As quickly as the summer movie season of 2021 seemed to come upon us, it’s already about to begin its long, languid slide through the dog days of August into fall. That’s not to say that theaters won’t still have plenty of interesting fare to encounter, with films like The Suicide Squad, Free Guy, Respect,
We’ve been blessed with a surprising number of great superhero video games over the years. From Batman for the NES to The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction and Marvel’s Spider-Man, developers have often shown superheroes the love it took them years to consistently receive in other mediums. Yet, I understand why it’s so easy to focus
This article contains The Green Knight spoilers. A man who would be king lies crouched, cowering on his hands and knees. It is the day he’s feared all year and, seemingly, the hour of his death. And yet, within this moment, after he’s seen his life flash before his eyes, Dev Patel’s Gawain has never
HBO Max’s Batgirl movie has finally started to take shape with last week’s casting of Leslie Grace as its central debutante vigilante, Barbara Gordon. Moreover, the other crucial element in the film’s dynamic was recently revealed by THR, which reports that J.K. Simmons will play the character’s father/foil, Commissioner James Gordon, reprising his role from
This article contains spoilers for Ted Lasso season 2 episode 2. Ted Lasso’s Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) and Keeley Jones (Juno Temple) are a special kind of TV couple. Like other character pairings on Bill Lawrence-produced shows before them (Turk and Carla on Scrubs, Jules and Grayson on Cougar Town), Roy and Keeley reject the
Out next March, Oliver K Langmead’s Gliteratti is said to be ‘A Clockwork Orange and RuPaul’s Drag Race meet Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind‘ in this dystopian fable about fashion, family and feckless billionaires. Simone is one of the Glitterati, the elite living lives of luxury and leisure. Slave to the ever-changing tides – and brutal judgements – of
We finally got our first look at Ben Affleck’s Batman in The Flash movie, thanks to photos taken the film’s Glasgow, Scotland set, where the Dark Knight could be seen zooming through George Square and the surrounding streets on a brand new set of wheels. The scene in question, which actually featured stunt double Rick
James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is on everybody’s lips at the moment. How could it not be? A brand new DCEU movie is always cause for plenty of internet chatter, if not outright celebration, and in the case of The Suicide Squad, it comes from one of the only directors who has managed to put
While the endpoint of The Walking Dead’s decade-plus television run has been visible on the far horizon for some time now, its arrival feels a lot closer with the latest reveal, a full look at the show’s final major villain, Pamela Milton. The controlling governor of the post-apocalyptic Midwest-located nation-state known as The Commonwealth, Milton
As recently as September 2020 David Tennant topped a Radio Times poll of favourite Doctors. He beat Tom Baker in a 2006 Doctor Who Magazine poll, and was voted the best TV character of the 21st Century by the readers of Digital Spy. He was the Doctor during one of Doctor Who‘s critical and commercial
This article contains spoilers for Masters of the Universe: Revelation. Bo Burnham’s Netflix comedy special Inside is just under two months old now and yet it already seems to be a disturbingly prescient bit of art about the internet era. Consider, for a moment, the line: “The backlash to the backlash to the thing that’s
As a logline, it almost sounds like a comedy—the type of gonzo horror-laugh hybrid Troma would’ve made back in the day. Yet by all accounts, co-writer and director Valdimar Jóhannsson is as serious as a heart attack in his creepy new folk horror tale, Lamb, which now has a trailer to back up its premise
This article spoilers for Old. M. Night Shyalaman’s latest, Old, sees a group of families at a luxury resort taken to a special beach which makes them age incredibly rapidly, to the point that their lives play out in entirety over hardly more than a day. It’s a fascinating and bleak premise inspired by the
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