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Titans Season 3 Episode 5 Ah, Titans. Ever since they cast the perfectly angsty Curran Walters to play Jason Todd we all knew it was coming to this. Titans Season 3 began with Jason being brutally murdered by the Joker in a near direct recreation of his controversial–and fan chosen–death from 1988’s A Death in the Family. While it was quickly revealed that just like in the comics Jason had actually somehow survived and taken on the mantle of the Red Hood, we had been unsure of what led him to the fairground on that fateful night....

“When I first started playing the character, I did a lot of research,” Hiddleston tells Den of Geek. “And the thing I realized at that time was the character has so much range and contains all these different characteristics sometimes which contradict each other. I loved what Marvel Studios had invented as a context for exploring and externalizing some of these things that he’s always contained.” In Loki, an earlier version of the character than the one we have seen in recent years manages to escape the custody of the Avengers in 2012 with the help of an errant Infinity Stone....

Web scraping is being used as a means for gathering & analyzing data across the web. To support this process, there have been numerous frameworks that have come up to satisfy different requirements for various use-cases. Let’s take a look at some of the popular web scraping frameworks. Scrapy Scrapy is a collaborative framework based on Python. It provides a complete suite of libraries. A fully-asynchronous that can accept requests and process them, faster....

True Detective Season 3 Episode 5 Detectives Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) and Roland West (Stephen Dorff) arrived on the scene last week just in time to see a local vigilante group trip a claymore in a cliffhanger ending. True Detective season 3 episode 5, doesn’t offer a quick landing. “If You Have Ghosts” opens with the Purcell Task Force in 1990 dealing with the fallout from a nationally televised Donahue appearance by the state prosecutor....

Uncharted isn’t just a somewhat surprisingly fun movie that tries to capture the spirit of classic adventure films gone by, it’s a video game adaptation that generously cites its source material through a variety of easter eggs. Thos movie seriously pays tribute to the blockbuster PlayStation games (as well as a variety of other genre staples). While some video game adaptations are more than happy to ignore their source material entirely or just nod at it once in a while, Uncharted wears its heart on its sleeve when it comes to referencing the best-selling and award-winning franchise that obviously inspired it....

Complaints about media violence are nothing new. But Slaski’s charges may carry greater weight precisely because of who he is. The attack comes not from a religious organization or a parents group looking to protect the innocence of youngsters, but rather from an actual kid. The video circulated by the Found Footage Fest Twitter account finds Slaski sharing his review on the talk show A Closer Look. “Everything that kids love was used against them,” Slaski says of the Tim Burton-directed sequel to 1989’s blockbuster Batman....

There are two familiar—perhaps overly familiar—plot threads happening in Voyagers. On one hand, the story is set on a generation ship, a well-worn genre device in which a group of people board a spacecraft for a vast interstellar journey, knowing that they won’t reach their destination but that their descendants will. In this case, the passengers are a crew of some 30 young people who have been literally bred in a lab for intelligence, loyalty, and dedication to their mission....

It’s been two years since the first season of Netflix’s Warrior Nun premiered and a lot has changed in the streaming landscape since then. A plethora of promising programs from The Midnight Club to First Kill have come and gone on the platform after just a single season, and it’s harder than ever for a show to break through the noise and find an audience. (Particularly when the streamer seems all too eager to cut promotional budgets....

In the modern world, most web applications are getting converted to a PWA (Progressive Web App) because it provides features like offline support, push notification, background sync. PWA features make our web application more like a native app and give a rich user experience. What is a PWA? PWA is your same Web App(HTML+CSS+JS). It works the same as your Web App on all browsers as it previously did. But it can have native features when your website loads on a modern browser....

Westworld Season 2 Episode 5 The sales pitch of Westworld, and thus by extension all of the parks in the Delos network, is that it provides a “new world” where you can be whatever you want. This is of course a lie. You cannot be whoever you want to be as a tourist. You’re playing a part, a role dictated just as much by your awkward unfamiliarity as your fantasies. Even the narratives you play in are concocted by men potentially as weasely and frustrated as yourself....

Westworld Season 4 Episode 7 After watching “Metanoia,” I sat down in the living room with my wife and attempted to explain to her just why Westworld is so much fun for me, and specifically why Ed Harris is such a joy to watch. I spoke about his obvious acting prowess; you don’t get nominated or win as many awards as he has without having chops. I talked a little bit about the character he’s introduced playing, the Man In Black, and how he relates to the fearsome Yul Brynner Gunslinger character from the 1973 film....

Those were the final words written by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman in a letter following the conclusion of the comic’s 193rd and final issue. It was a cheeky missive to fans clamoring for confirmation that their favorite character made it through the series unscathed. It was also an acknowledgement from Kirkman that, try as he might, he just can’t seem to quit The Walking Dead’s big bad. Negan could have died at the conclusion of the comic’s major “All Out War” arc, but he didn’t....

It is no small thing when a king goes hunting. As author George R.R. Martin is no doubt relieved to see—after previously suggesting the depiction of a king’s hunt in Game of Thrones was one of his great regrets—King Viserys’ chase during last night’s House of the Dragon was quite the spectacle. When a stag finally fell beneath the gaze of Viserys (Paddy Considine), there were horses and hounds, broad pavilion tents and bards to sing in them....

Over the years, Smith has been connected to superhero properties in one way or another, whether it’s writing a script for the ill-fated Superman Lives (leading to this legendary story about Jon Peters) or writing Daredevil, Green Arrow, and Batman comics. More recently, Smith has directed a few superheroes, filming several episodes of The Flash and Supergirl. Does that mean Smith’s ready to make the jump to the MCU or Star Wars universes?...

Almost since he became a best-selling author, Stephen King has seen his work adapted for the movies and television. Just two years after his first novel, 1974’s Carrie, was published, a film version directed by Brian De Palma was a massive hit, earning Oscar nominations for stars Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. The floodgates opened after that, with a TV miniseries based on his second novel, ‘Salem’s Lot (1979), Stanley Kubrick’s high-profile film of The Shining (1980), Creepshow (1982), Cujo (1983), The Dead Zone (1983), Christine (1983), Children of the Corn (1984), Firestarter (1984), Silver Bullet (1985), and many more coming quickly during the next few years....

The titular ranch allegedly experiences paranormal activity regularly from UFOs and cattle mutilations to incarnate voices and poltergeists…and sometimes several at the same time. Strange occurrences on the ranch have been the focus of several scientific investigations, including from a secretive program housed in the Pentagon. What is not as well known is that some investigators claim the paranormal phenomena follow them home. Brandon Fugal, the elusive owner of Skinwalker Ranch, spoke with Den of Geek about how what happens at Skinwalker Ranch doesn’t always stay there....

“To me, it’s like an eight minute musical number,” director Bill Condon told Vulture in 2012 of the film’s wild climax, adding that he had particular fun deciding who would be killed in the “dream” sequence. (For those keeping track at home, it was: Carlisle, Jasper, Jane Caius, Marcus, and Aro.) “When I got involved, it was just a sentence, ‘There’s a battle.’ But then it was fun to actually come up with it....

“It’s been 10 years in the making,” Dillon said during the show’s appearance at the 2021 Television Critics Association press tour. “(Co-creator Taylor Sheridan and I) were two broke actors in LA and he was my acting coach. We had this concept and created this world and these characters. We’re so lucky to have everything go our way.” Sheridan and Dillon have previously worked together on the Paramount Network smash hit Yellowstone, with Sheridan creating the series and Dillon appearing as Sheriff Donnie Haskell....

Boba Fett, Fennec Shand, and Din Djarin finally faced down the Pyke Syndicate and ruthless bounty hunter Cad Bane in The Book of Boba Fett finale. What began with very brief negotiations soon broke out into a full-blown battle in the streets of Mos Espa. There were Mandalorians zipping through the air with jetpacks, giant killer droids, a duel to the death, chase sequences, and even Grogu putting a rancor to sleep....

The Alien franchise is another example of this quirk. Alien is a movie and multimedia franchise named after the titular “Alien.” We remember it as humanity’s first encounter with alien life, and that alien life wanting to either kill or lay its eggs in us—which will then kill us later. The popular imagination of the Alien universe is a sparse one: It is occupied by the Alien, the dead Space Jockeys it was found with, and if you’re feeling generous to lesser installments, then potentially some Predators....