It was a surprise when Nomi, the new and chic MI6 agent played by Lashana Lynch, surrendered her 007 codename in No Time to Die. Before that third act moment, she’d made a point of fiercely carving out the designation as her territory. She even delighted in the way everyone at MI6 called her by that title in front of old man James Bond. If handled in a different era, or by different actors, this all might’ve played as antagonistic or unlikable, but in the case of the dynamic between Lynch and Daniel Craig, and in director Cary Joji Fukunaga’s hands, it was deeply entertaining....

Noughts + Crosses Episode 1 Every generation has its Romeo and Juliet. The fifties had Tony and Maria finger-clicking around the Upper West Side, the nineties had Leo and a young Carrie from Homeland in a pair of angel wings, and the noughties had both High School Musical’s Troy and Gabriella breaking free, and Sephy and Callum, the star-cross’d lovers of Malorie Blackman’s young adult series Noughts + Crosses. Adapted from the first of Blackman’s five acclaimed novels, this six-part BBC series brings Sephy and Callum’s world to the screen for the first time....

Only Murders in the Building Episodes 1 and 2 When Only Murders in the Building first premired in September of 2021 on Hulu, there was a lot of speculation over whether the cast would fit together properly and bring new life to the murder mystery genre on television. Steve Martin and Martin Short are proven icons, but Selena Gomez was able to establish herself as a worthy missing piece to the triumvirate....

Haven’t watched it yet? Well, turn it up and enjoy the hair metal-y goodness first, then we’ll break it all down for you… OK, ready? Here’s all the important DC characters we found… Emilia Harcourt and Clemson Murn The teaser wastes no time jumping into introductions. The first characters we meet are the team who snatched Peacemaker from his doom at the end of The Suicide Squad: Clemson Murn (played by Chukwudi Iwuji), Emilia Harcourt (played by Jennifer Holland), and John Economos (Steve Agee)....

For an episode filled with clips from the past the most Power Rangers thing to happen is actually the B plot with the Rangers tracking down a diamond thief. Mostly because there are five diamond stores in Coral Harbor and they have names that all go in alphabetical order for A to E. Albert’s Gems. Bright Stones. Diamonds of Distinction. Elite Diamonds. That is so cheesy and perfectly Power Rangers....

Characters have engaging arcs. Villains have depth. The wider Power Rangers universe is regularly acknowledged and utilized. The stories are fantastic and the recent drop of the first half of the second season on Netflix is the shows strongest yet. We sat down with Dino Fury executive producer Simon Bennett to discuss the big developments of the season, how the show was finally “let off the chain,” villain fashion sense, and so much more....

“Do it now!” he bellows, taunting the hunter. “Kill me!” For most people, the above description recalls an iconic scene from Predator, the 1987 action horror classic directed by John McTiernan, but the human I’m describing is not Major Dutch Schaefer, the hulking special forces agent played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Rather it’s Royce, the decidedly lither mercenary played by Adrien Brody in the 2010 sequel Predators. Some may argue that this callback captures everything wrong with the later movie....

Fortunately, Sony and Microsoft made it a little easier to answer that question by recently releasing sales figures and earning reports that give us a better idea of how each company’s next-gen plans are going so far. The good news is that both companies are doing very well at the moment, but yes, one next-gen console does appear to be outselling the other. So brace yourself for brand loyalists pledging their allegiance to products as we take a look at the available sales figures for the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S to see who is winning the hardware race so far in 2021:...

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart reaches its epic conclusion when the iconic duo is transported back to their own version of Megalopolis. But it looks extremely different to how they left it. The joint forces of Dr. and Emperor Nefarious have led the city to swiftly descend into chaos as it suffers from various dimensional portal openings that are unsustainable, putting the whole multiverse at risk of collapsing. Ratchet, Clank, and new friend Rivet don’t have long to act, and must work together in one last heroic battle....

Even more thrilling than the introduction of Mardipoor, however, was the reveal of Baron Zemo: Dancing King. For, as the mismatched trio entered a Lowtown night club, Zemo decided to blend in and let off some steam with a little dance. Zemo’s dance took all of three seconds, but what a glorious three seconds it was! The Internet, always a font of good taste, immediately latched onto Zemo’s hesitant shimmy like a moth to a flame....

These seemingly agreed upon talking points are ironic on two fronts. First, they appear to mirror history where the press ran the gamut from skeptical to outright hostile ahead of the release of Cameron’s Titanic (1997) and, to a lesser extent, the first Avatar in 2009 (that is until press screenings triggered sudden rounds of euphoria from early critical notices). Secondly, the alleged conventional wisdom ignores fairly recent history where the first Avatar movie truly was king of the world....

Indeed, if the castings reported by Deadline are any indication, this new take on the zombie story will lean a bit closer to the source material as opposed to Anderson’s far more action-packed adaptation. The movie has cast all of its key roles: Kaya Scodelario (Maze Runner) will play Claire Redfield, Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp) is Jill Valentine, Robbie Amell (Upload) will portray Chris Redfield, Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy) is set as the villainous Albert Wesker, Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap) will play everyone’s favorite horror protagonist Leon S....

Gaming on computers is opted by most people since they don’t have to depend on any other person for their enjoyment. Gaming has also been one of the computer’s most exciting and alluring features, with people of all ages using it. The first few games launched on the computers were simple, easy, and enjoyable. They came to be known as classic or retro games and were enjoyed by a wide range of people....

“Go ahead, you’re not going to get in my head,” Reynolds’ Matt Weston protests as he seemingly holds power over Washington’s Frost character. “I’m already in your head,” Washington smiles back. “I’m going to isolate you, Matt.” And by watching both actors, you believe him. The sequence is boilerplate thriller dialogue, a generic sequence in a generic movie (at least in the 2000s and early ‘10s). But to see Reynolds play it so straight and so differently from what his star persona would later become is slightly jarring....

Appropriately, Hitch’s drawings helped lead to Jackson being cast as Nick Fury for Iron Man in 2008, taking the place of David Hasselhoff, who played the character in a 1998 tv movie. It’s even more appropriate that Jackson has taken it upon himself to develop the character’s live-action appearances. In an interview with Collider, Jackson revealed that he largely controls Fury’s lines. “I’ve been doing Nick Fury for so long, I know what he sounds like and I know how he thinks and how he feels,” Jackson insisted....

Besides, bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies and cloud adoption have further increased IT admins’ complexity and work. You are required to track and scan the entire IP resources, so the devices and users in the network could be allocated with fresh IPs while accessing your network. Not to mention, multiple devices constantly connect and disconnect from the network, which is why scanning IP resources becomes essential for the stable availability of your network....

Scanners was the fifth commercially released feature film (and seventh overall) directed by David Cronenberg, the independent Canadian auteur who initially made a name for himself as a director of visceral, provocative horror films such as Shivers, Rabid, and The Brood. Released 40 years ago on January 14, 1981, Scanners was a turning point for Cronenberg in many ways: it edged away from the sexually tinged “body horror” of his first few films and into the realms of sci-fi, action, and conspiracy thriller, while adding advanced visual effects and an overall polish to the director’s clinical esthetic....

Search Party is an unconventional series that’s followed a unique path from the start, but its fifth and final season is honestly one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen done by a comedy series. Search Party season 5 is a delirious experiment that’s as if Alejandro Jodorowsky, Charlie Brooker, and Stephen King decided to create a sitcom together, which makes it even harder to believe that this show began as a comedy on TBS about a girl’s journey to find a missing person....

Instead, the Dreamcast would fail in less than two years and crash at the feet of the PlayStation 2. Yet it remains a remarkable system. Those of us lucky to still have an operational Dreamcast care for it, select spare TVs based on compatibility with it, and enjoy a slate of some of the most advanced games the turn of the century had to offer. Let’s put some of these revolutionary classics back in the spotlight....

Shameless Season 11 Episode 8 “You can’t cancel history. It’s already happened.” Shameless is always looking to the future even as it considers its past. This reflection is typically a source of calm for the Gallaghers, but this season has been all about removing these characters’ familiar landmarks and comforting touchstones, whether it’s the dismantling of physical institutions or the metaphorical loss of old memories and a version of Chicago that no longer exists....