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io9GamesResident Evil Village‘s Moldy Lore Is Keeping the Undead Franchise Fresh
In both of Capcom’s video games Resident Evil Village and its 2017 predecessor Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, you play as Ethan Winters, a man desperately fighting through terrifying, monster-filled locales in search of his family whose lives are in danger. But the story behind both games presents an intriguing idea that the franchise could carry … Continued
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io9TelevisionWandaVision VFX Breakdown Pieces Together Vision’s Marvelous Visage
Though Marvel’s WandaVision’s first few episodes evoked the aesthetics of previous eras of TV by relying on a variety of practical effects, one of the most impressive things about the Disney+ show is how the vast majority of its shots featuring Vision required a sizable amount of modern technology you’re not meant to notice. In … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsX-Men’s Hellfire Gala Is Already a Scandal, Surprising No One
After weeks of hype-building, the X-Men’s 2021 Hellfire Gala kicked off this week in the pages of Marvel’s ongoing Hellions, Marauders, and X-Force series. Unsurprisingly, the extravagant mutant gathering is already threatening to upend the delicate balance of power keeping humanity from going to war with Krakoa. Let it be said, though, that everyone arrived … Continued
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io9MoviesMichael Keaton’s Batman Returns in a Bloody Tease From Flash Director Andy Muschietti
From the looks of things, director Andy Muschietti’s upcomingThe Flash is set to expand the DCEU in a significant way by using the titular speedster’s penchant for mucking up timelines in order to broach the larger DC multiverse, and bring another, familiar Batman back to the big screen. Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne will be joined … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsX-Men’s Brood Are What Brood X Nightmares Are Made Of
People’s longstanding fear of swarming insects like cicadas is enshrined in our pop culture. For years we’ve reimagined bugs as everything from larger-than-life creatures poised to take over the planet to hyper-intelligent mimics hellbent on supplanting humanity. Now, with millions of the United States’ Brood X cicadas digging their way out of the ground, it’s … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsBlack Panther Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates Wants Better for Creators Bringing These Stories to Life
With Black Panther #25 bringing Ta-Nehisi Coates’ run on the Marvel comic—which transformed Wakanda into a time-traveling, intergalactic empire—to a close, the writer’s moving on to tell the next chapter of another comics icon’s story, with Warner Bros.’ upcoming Superman movie about a Black Kal-El. Though Coates is shifting to a film project next, his … Continued
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io9MoviesAmazon, MGM, and the Price of Entertainment
If all goes according to Amazon and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s plans, the web service giant will soon acquire the legacy film studio in an $8.45 billion deal that will add thousands of movies and television shows to the tech company’s portfolio of content available to stream to 200 million Prime subscribers. Taken at face value, Amazon’s move … Continued
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io9MoviesCruella Is Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss in Movie Form
In Cruella, you can plainly see that while some fans might not be too keen on the idea, Disney’s confident that new films meant to drastically reframe the origins of classic villains who stalk princesses and kill dogs are a key part of the future. Much like its central character, Cruella knows exactly what it … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsBlack Lightning‘s Series Finale Had Absolutely Zero Chill and No Heat
Despite the fact that Black Lightning never really got a chance to fully benefit from the kind of interconnected, multiversal-hopping madcaps that the CW’s other comic book shows enjoy, it spent four seasons carving out a distinct space on the network where Black superheroes could stand front and center as the focus of their own … Continued
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io9MoviesArmy of The Dead‘s Most Disturbing Zombie Is Also Its Most Tragic
Though there are no in-universe connections between the worlds of Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead and the director’s Dawn of the Dead from 2004, one of the Netflix zombie movie’s more interesting plot points feels like a purposeful callback to the earlier film’s most disturbing scene. Soon after Army of the Dead’s hired guns … Continued
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io9MoviesWilly Wonka’s Origin Movie Just Cast Its Sugar Capitalist
It would have been perfectly understandable if Warner Bros. had decided not to move forward with the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel it first announced back in 2016. But the studio’s still keen on bringing the world’s second-most unsettling candy man back to the big screen with a new story. Deadline reports that Dune’s … Continued
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io9TrailersMarvel’s Eternals Trailer Introduces Earth’s Secret Super Team
Though most everything about the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date has made it seem as if all of the most pivotal moments in the fictional reality’s history have taken place relatively recently, the studio’s upcoming Eternals film is set to recontextualize everything with a story about some of Earth’s earliest, mightiest heroes. In addition to … Continued
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io9MoviesJohn Boyega on Why We Need to Keep Pushing for a More Diverse Hollywood
After his Star Wars tenure came to a somewhat disappointing conclusion, John Boyega wasted no time using his sizable platform to speak openly and candidly about the very real issues present within the multibillion dollar space opera franchise and the entertainment industry at large. In a new interview he discussed how his peers feel about … Continued
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io9TelevisionNetflix’s Halston Pulls No Punches About Joel Schumacher’s Brilliance or His Demons
Though Netflix’sHalston primarily focuses on the life of its titular fashion designer, who built an empire on minimalist silhouettes and Ultrasuede, the miniseries also spotlights a number of important figures who came into Halston’s orbit while they were on their own journeys to stardom. One of particular interest: Joel Schumacher. Halston opens with Roy Halston Frowick … Continued
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io9GamesNew Pokémon Snap Makes a Case for Giving Up Battles
As much as the Pokémon franchise goes out of its way to explicitly tell you how much most of the creatures love their trainers—who capture and conscript them into lives of battling their own kind for glory—we all understand how messed up a premise that is when you spell it out. Nintendo’s New Pokémon Snap … Continued
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