There have been a lot of amazing characters recently released in Honkai: Star Rail, from the powerful Firefly to the version of March 7th following The Hunt path. That being said, few stand out the way that Sparkle does. She might be a devious trickster in the story, but she’s an invaluable ally during battles. Let us…
About a year and a half ago, Netflix announced they had given a series order to The Boroughs, a supernatural mystery show that’s executive produced by Stranger Things creators the Duffer Brothers. Now they’ve revealed the impressive cast that has been assembled for the series: Alfred Molina (Spider-Man: No Way Home) plays Sam, Geena Davis (Blink Twice) plays Renee, Alfre Woodard (Salem’s Lot) plays Judy, Denis O’Hare (American Horror Story) plays Wally, Clarke Peters (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) plays Art, and Bill Pullman (Independence Day) plays Jack.
Created by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance), who also serve as showrunners, The Boroughs has the following logline: In a seemingly picturesque retirement community in the New Mexico desert, a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have… time.
Hilary Leavitt, who works at the Duffers’ production company Upside Down Pictures, is also an executive producer on this series. Ben Taylor (Sex Education) is on board to executive produce and will be directing multiple episodes, including the pilot. The first season will consist of eight episodes.
The Duffer Brothers had this to say about The Boroughs: “We’ve been fans of Jeff and Will’s writing for a long time, and when they pitched us their idea for The Boroughs, we immediately knew they had something very special on their hands. While the heroes in The Boroughs have a few more years on them than the kids from Stranger Things, they are a similarly lovable bunch of misfits, and we can’t wait for you to join them on an adventure that is at turns scary, funny, and deeply touching.“
Addiss and Matthews added: “We’re thrilled to be back at Netflix. Working alongside the Duffer Brothers (who are pretty good at making shows) and their team has been a dream come true. They bring the perfect balance of heart and horror to our story. We can’t wait for audiences around the world to unlock the dark mystery buried beneath the sunny facade of The Boroughs.“
Does The Boroughs sound interesting to you? What do you think of the cast that has been assembled for the show? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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Gaming tags on Steam are used with wild abandon, to the degree that they’re fairly useless. “Point-and-click” has been reduced to any game with a cursor, and “action” appears to mean any game where you move. In general, rather than draw you toward a game, their main use is to warn you off one. And generally, when I…
Gaming tags on Steam are used with wild abandon, to the degree that they’re fairly useless. “Point-and-click” has been reduced to any game with a cursor, and “action” appears to mean any game where you move. In general, rather than draw you toward a game, their main use is to warn you off one. And generally, when I…
Warner Bros. has been keeping director Gary Dauberman‘s adaptation of the Stephen King novel Salem’s Lot (buy a copy of the novel HERE) on the shelf for a long time – but they won’t be for much longer. The movie, which was supposed to be given a theatrical release back in September of 2022, is now set to be released through the Max streaming service this October (we’ll have to wait a while longer to hear the specific date), and with spooky season swiftly approaching, a two minute clip from the film has arrived online to give us a glimpse of a sequence where characters have gone on a vampire hunt. You can check it out in the embed above.
This is the third adaptation of Salem’s Lot. The previous two were both mini-series, which aired in 1979 and 2004. This new take on the concept is said to be set in 1975, the same year King’s novel was first published. Here’s the synopsis: Haunted by an incident from his childhood, author Ben Mears returns to his hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book, only to discover the town is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire and his loyal servant.
The film stars Lewis Pullman as author Ben Mears; Makenzie Leigh as Ben’s love interest Susan Norton; Spencer Treat Clark as Mike Ryerson, “one of the town’s simple folk”; Bill Camp as Matthew Burke, “a former high school English teacher who knows about the Marsten House’s evil past and helps out Ben”; Alfre Woodard as Dr. Cody; Pilou Asbæk as the vampire’s familiar Richard Straker, whose style this time around includes a purple cloak, feathered Homburg hat, and push broom mustache; Nicholas Crovetti and Cade Woodward as Danny and Ralphie Glick; Jordan Preston Carter as horror fanatic Mark Petrie; William Sadler as Constable Parkins Gillespie; and John Benjamin Hickey as Father Callahan. Alexander Ward (American Horror Story) might be playing the vampire Kurt Barlow.
Are you looking forward to this new version of Salem’s Lot, and are you glad it’s finally about to be released? Check out the clip, then let us know by leaving a comment below.
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After strong daily outings and major buzz, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice expectedly took the #1 spot this weekend, pulling in $110 million and marking not only the third-best opening weekend of the year but one of Tim Burton’s biggest box office openings ever, trailing only Alice in Wonderland. For the record, 1988’s Beetlejuice took in $8 million on its opening weekend. Even when adjusted for inflation, the sequel pulled in more than five times that over the course of just one weekend.
While that’s quite the earning for a 36-year-old sequel, movie theaters showcasing the film would attempt to profit extra from the film by offering auxiliary items. While this year saw movie-themed popcorn buckets go viral for their designs, AMC theaters, which offer alcoholic drinks for their age-appropriate audiences, attempted to sell a Beetlejuice Beetlejuice-themed drink called the Sandworm Slayer. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that the drink is going viral, but for an unappealing reason — the regular-sized drink that comes in a disposable plastic cup is priced at $31.
Per THR, the concoction is a 24-ounce cocktail made with blue and black raspberry juice and “premium vodka.” And the “sandworm” aspect comes from the drink getting topped off with gummy worms. The drink went viral after a posting on social media from an attendee reported on his drink’s total. The post included the caption, “I bought the AMC BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE themed drink. It cost $31 dollars…” An annoyed commenter would humorously reply, “Naw Beetlejuice would’ve had to show up and bring me my drink for that price. You could have bought 6 shares of AMC Theatres stock with that $31, not sure which one would have been worth the price.”
This particular AMC location was revealed to have been in California. According to AMC’s internal research department, the regular price at 92% of AMC’s locations is $21 plus tax. This particular location would apparently include some unique liquor pricing laws, which would bump the pricing up to $28.25. AMC would claim that the drink “like so many of our movie-tie-in drinks, is wildly popular across the AMC circuit and sold very well during the weekend.”
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PLOT: A burnt-out FBI agent (Jude Law) tries to shut down a right-wing militia run by a white supremacist (Nicholas Hoult) who’s planning an armed insurrection.
REVIEW: The Order is a slickly made, true-crime thriller that tells a pretty compelling story; in the mid-eighties, a group calling themselves The Order pulled off a series of violent robberies and also bombed synagogues and porn theatres, all of which was inspired by a book called “The Turner Diaries”, which was written by the leader of the National Alliance, which was one of the most powerful Neo Nazi organizations in the United States.
In The Order, Nicholas Hoult, in a role that casts him way against type, plays Robert Jay Mathews, who put together a violent, heavily armed militia that began carrying out a series of brutal assassinations and robberies. In the film, this puts them in the crosshairs of Jude Law’s Agent Husk, who has experience taking down chapters of the KKK and the Cosa Nostra but is badly burnt out, and an alcoholic chain-smoker recovering from a heart attack who’s been put out to pasture in a quiet field office. His investigation of The Order teams him with a young deputy played by Tye Sheridan, who grew up with many of the members and is the only one in his department who views them as a credible threat.
The film marks a change of pace for Justin Kurzel in that it’s a relatively commercial thriller done in the vein of a solid nineties flick, which seems primed to find him a much wider audience than his last few (good) movies, The True History of the Kelly Gang and Nitram. Jude Law has a strong contemporary role and seems to relish playing a hard-boiled cop, with him nailing the driven and obsessive Husk. A seen-it-all veteran with many skeletons in his closet, he’s well paired with Sheridan, whose wide-eyed deputy still believes in humanity and thinks he can make a difference.
While this may sound like it’s comprised wholly of cop movie cliches, Kurzel’s craft is impeccable, with his staging of several impressive action sequences. At the same time, his brother Jed Kurzel contributes an atmospheric score that is being singled out in many of the movie’s reviews (for good reason). The performances are great, with Hoult chilling in that the movie portrays his cult leader-style antagonist as charismatic and intelligent. He expertly exploits the resentments his members feel to build a deadly, lawless organization whose violent legacy can be felt to this day.
In addition to Law, Hoult, and Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett also impresses as a field agent colleague of Husk’s, whose own rage against the racism of The Order memorably gets the better of her in one sequence. Plus, there’s Marc Maron in a small but memorable role as a Jewish radio DJ named Alan Berg, whose eagerness to confront racists put a target on his back.
The Order is set to come out via Vertical Releasing at some point, and hopefully, it gets a decent theatrical push, as Kurzel made a pretty slick thriller that would play well in theatres. It’s lean and mean enough that, in another era, it would have been a big-budget studio film. Thrillers like this used to be a lot more common, so it’s refreshing to see a throwback like this, which reminds me (in the best ways) of the kinds of studio-made thrillers I loved watching growing up in the nineties.
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Production on the third and final season of Good Omens has been underway in Scotland, but Deadline reports that it’s been put on pause. Uh oh. The reason for the pause isn’t clear, but Deadline has heard that there are “discussions about possible production changes.” It’s speculated that this pause is related to the sexual assault allegations made against Good Omens co-creator Neil Gaiman by several women earlier this summer.
The allegations were made in a podcast series released by Tortoise Media titled Master: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman. Some of the allegations go back decades, with the woman accusing Gaiman of “rough, degrading” sex that was not always consensual. Gaiman has denied the allegations, saying he was “disturbed” by them. Disney also paused a feature film adaptation of Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book earlier this week.
It remains to be seen how long this “pause” will last, but hopefully, Good Omens season 3 will be back on track after whatever changes need to be made. Gaiman is more involved in the new season than ever before, especially after the exit of Douglas Mackinnon, who served as executive producer, director, and co-showrunner of the first two seasons. “I’m not involved with this show anymore,” Mackinnon said last year. In response to being asked about Mackinnon’s exit, Gaiman merely said, “Douglas has moved on to other projects.“
Based on the novel of the same name by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens follows the demon Crowley (David Tennant) and the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen), longtime acquaintances who have “grown accustomed to each other’s company, and to a pleasant life on Earth as representatives of Heaven and Hell, and who have agreed not to let the conflict between their sides prevent their friendship.“
“I’m so happy finally to be able to finish the story Terry and I plotted in 1989 and in 2006,” Gaiman said in a statement when the series was renewed for a third season. “Terry was determined that if we made Good Omens for television, we could take the story all the way to the end. Season one was all about averting Armageddon, dangerous prophecies and the End of the World. Season two was sweet and gentle, although it may have ended less joyfully than a certain Angel and Demon might have hoped. Now in season three, we will deal once more with the end of the world. The plans for Armageddon are going wrong. Only Crowley [David Tennant] and Aziraphale [Martin Sheen] working together can hope to put it right. And they aren’t talking.“
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Astro Bot is a very good video game. Sony’s new platformer is filled with amazing levels and loads of fun moments. And Astro Bot’s only going to get bigger thanks to a free DLC update that might add some characters only mentioned in the game’s credits, too.
Astro Bot is a very good video game. Sony’s new platformer is filled with amazing levels and loads of fun moments. And Astro Bot’s only going to get bigger thanks to a free DLC update that might add some characters only mentioned in the game’s credits, too.