Who murdered Transformers: The Last Knight? The fifth movie in the series opened last weekend to numbers that weren't simply lower than expected—they amounted to the worst opening weekend haul of the entire franchise. Apparently, four visually nonsensical films about giant robots hitting each other had been plenty for moviegoers. This being a blame-loving industry, […]
I've been hiding in the bathroom for the past five minutes now, an eternity in game time. I might look like I'm camping, crouched in the corner with my shotgun pointed at the door, but this isn't about taking advantage of unsuspecting prey—it's about survival. My eyes wander, tracing the cracks in the tiled walls, […]
Has Netflix’s sizeable investment in original science-fiction movies been a bust? By one popular metric, Rotten Tomatoes, the answer would seem to be: Categorically. Since 2017’s Okja, a feisty ecological fairy tale by Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, Netflix has put out seven back-to-back stinkers, their average “freshness” score rounding up to 30 percent. You can […]
The best moment in any Call of Duty game might be in the franchise's very first title. It's set, like all those early installments, during World War II; in the sequence, your character is a Russian recruit, sent across the Volga River to attack the Germans during the Battle of Stalingrad. Due to a supply […]
You’ve already burned through Handmaid's Tale, Dear White People, and GLOW. The new season of Game of Thrones is still weeks away. Here you are, two days into a four-day weekend, and you’ve run out of premium streaming content to binge-watch. Maybe you’ve even run out of sub-premium streaming content to binge-watch. That leaves you […]
Rejoice, Aqua Teen Hunger Force fans: That caustic early-'00s Adult Swim sensibility you loved is on its way to Hulu. This time, though, it'll have feathers. Yesterday Marvel revealed it will be bringing four new shows to the streaming service—all animated, all aimed at adults, all from well-known creators, and all starring comic-book characters who […]
I used to be a huge Assassin's Creed fan. I played every yearly release, usually as soon as it came out. Each game casts you as a vengeful, acrobatic assassin in a lush historical location: the first took players to the Crusades; the second, to the Renaissance. The third game in the core series (this […]
Early in the Season 2 premiere of Insecure, Issa Rae’s HBO comedy about black thirtysomethings who live and love recklessly in Los Angeles, Molly (Yvonne Orji) discovers a co-worker has been getting paid more than her. Upon first seeing the check, she radiates with a smile that cuts from cheek to cheek, but soon realizes […]
In Black Panther, the titular hero is played by Chadwick Boseman, but it might be his cinematic adversary who knows more about his character. When we sat down with the cast of the new Marvel movie and started asking questions about the Wakandan king T’Challa, it was Michael B. Jordan, who plays villain Erik Killmonger, […]
In one scene from the penultimate episode of Ball In The Family, parents LaVar and Tina relish in each other’s company during a family trip to Honolulu (their three sons are off cage diving with sharks). Months before, Tina suffered a stroke that left her partially paralyzed and without the ability to communicate, but LaVar […]