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Based on the trailer for The Rings of Power episode 8 released at New York Comic Con, rumors of Sauron’s reappearance have not been greatly exaggerated. After weeks of theories about which character is actually Sauron in disguise, it seems as though his true identity (identities?) will finally be revealed in the season finale. But the Sauron reveal isn’t the only hint in the finale trailer. A brief glimpse of a molten forge indicates that we may also finally get to witness the creation of the titular rings....

Understandably for a show called The Sandman, much of Netflix‘s series adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s comic is concerned with the journey of Lord of Dreams, himself. And yet, both Gaiman’s comic and Netflix’s show still have six other members of “The Endless” to portray. Among the most interesting of The Sandman’s “siblings” is Desire, played by Mason Alexander Park. Desire is the third youngest of The Endless and the twin of Despair (naturally)....

A lot of people have been looking at Shannara, turning up their noses (prematurely) and saying, “Gross! It’s a Game of Thrones rip-off! Somebody step on it!” Settle down. It’s okay. The Shannara Chronicles isn’t a blatant rip-off of Game of Thrones; it’s just marketed that way. And despite having superficial things in common, like visual cues and the scope of its storytelling, both shows are not made from the same cloth....

The Simpsons Season 34 Episode 5 Pennywise doesn’t do kids’ parties, so The Simpsons called on a local clown so desperate for laughs he’ll play any house. Krusto the Clown only gets bookings every 27 years. That’s just a slightly better average than Krusty the Clown, who was lucky to get cast by “Treehouse of Horror” for its tag team production of Stephen King’s It. “Not It,” the title claims, but there are no backsies....

The trailer dropped this morning at the end of a 30-minute digital NYCC panel. The Josh Boone-helmed, nine-part series looks — from the scenes we saw — pretty damn faithful to Stephen King’s epic novel, which was originally published in 1978 and filmed once before as a four-part ABC miniseries back in 1994. Take a look: The book begins with the escape of a biological weapon — a virulent form of plague — from a government lab and its destructive path across the United States and the world....

“Who doesn’t want to see a fish eat a lot of people that somehow people think is inexplicably cute?” Gunn laughs after we mention the character. When we sit down with the filmmaker, he’s almost finished with post-production on The Suicide Squad, a skewed and darkly humorous reimagining of the supervillain team, and he’s more than happy to explain that it’s the kind of flick where audiences can see a shark tear somebody in half....

Superhero psychologist with early on-set Parkinson’s publicly saves the life of a teenager, meets a detective while hanging out with sex workers down the pub, is immediately hired as a consultant on a murder case and then becomes the prime suspect. Oh and he’s played by Poldark (aka Aidan Turner). ITV latest glossy thriller The Suspect, based on the debut novel of Michael Robotham, is a semi-ridiculous, tropey but nonetheless twisty-turny ball of fun told over five episodes broadcast weekly....

James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano comes to mind. Arnold Schwarzenneger as the Terminator. Al Pacino as Michael Corleone. Maybe another actor could have pulled off a decent imitation, but it would have likely ended up looking like a phony doppelganger. Steve Carell’s iconic performance as Michael Scott in The Office certainly belongs among the comedic Mount Rushmore of lead roles in TV sitcom history. His sardonic wit paired with a heart of gold and more than a little naivete served to capture all of the unique qualities of an office boss who loves his workers whether they love him back....

Hilarie Burton, whose role as Lucille was announced this past November, brings invaluable experience for her portrayal as Morgan’s onscreen wife, seeing as she’s married to him in real life. Her casting also made it clear that The Walking Dead Season 10 will devote time to adapting parts of Kirkman’s limited series, Here’s Negan, an origin story originally released in 2016 as 16 four-page issues. Seeing as the topic has been touched upon by Negan himself on the series, it would hardly be a spoiler to point out that Lucille—the name Negan eventually bestows in morbid fashion to his signature, head-bashing barbed-wire baseball bat—died of pancreatic cancer, leaving him to regret his woefully unfaithful ways during their marriage....

Nothing is as it seems as The Walking Dead season 11 heads into its final episodes. Our heroes have discovered something rotten at the heart of the initially benevolent Commonwealth, which has sparked several conflicts that won’t be solved with a pile of paperwork. War is about to erupt once again for Daryl, Maggie, Carol, and the rest of the survivors. Expect quite a few deaths before the show reaches its conclusion....

Still, spinoffs or no, this is a fairly big moment in genre TV history. First premiering on Halloween night 2010, The Walking Dead was an instant ratings success for AMC and remained as such for much of its 11 seasons. It helped usher in a new era of fandom-friendly television for its network (which was coming off big prestige hits like Mad Men and Breaking Bad) and helped bring zombies back into the mainstream....

Titans Episode 9 You know how Titans keeps taking these detours into other corners of the DC Universe that, while very cool, are still keeping us away from the main story? Well, get ready folks, because you’ve heard me sing at least some of this song before. Titans episode 9, “Hank and Dawn” is a good episode, even a compelling one at times, if it was a chapter of a Hawk and Dove TV series....

Saphic sanguinarians started staking their claim in Joseph Sheridan le Fanu’s novella Carmilla (1872). From Gloria Holden’s magnetic eyes in Dracula’s Daughter (1936) through Ingrid Pitt’s sultry invitation in The Vampire Lovers (1970) to the revivalist Lesbian Vampire Killers, the irresistible sirens have held an almost fetishistic fascination over moviegoers. Charles Busch lightly spoofed them in the downtown stage play Vampire Lesbians of Sodom. Jesús Franco exploited them in the 1971 West German-Spanish horror film Vampyros Lesbos, starring Soledad Miranda as the Countess Nadine Carody....

However, as this list shows, there’s more than one way to skin a cat, and movie beheadings have proved endlessly inventive, a fact that explains why something as mundane and straightforward as a guillotine has no place in this top 10. This list is an attempt to celebrate the most shocking, amusing, horrific or just plain silly decapitations in film and in doing so, address an aspect of cinematic history that has been criminally overlooked until now....

Application security has always been a hot topic that has only gotten hotter with time. Even with a horde of defensive tools and practice at our disposal (firewalls, SSL, asymmetric cryptography, etc.), no web-based application can claim that it’s secure beyond the reach of hackers. Why is that? The simple reason is that building software remains a very complex and brittle process. There are still bugs (known and unknown) inside the foundation developers use, and new ones are being created with the launch of new software and libraries....

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Unfriended might change that, though. Borrowing techniques from found footage movies like Paranormal Activity, the focus here never shifts from a computer screen. It’s been a year since Laura (Heather Sossaman) killed herself because a cruel video of her passed out at a party went viral, and her former BFF Blaire (Shelley Hennig) is video chatting with her friends on Skype. But something’s wrong with the program, because an extra person no-one knows keeps being added to their conversations....

So when fellow British actor Tom Hardy called Serkis a few years ago about getting into the same kind of shenanigans, Serkis was intrigued. “Tom and I have known each other for years and years, and wanted to work with each other, both as actors and as an actor-director relationship,” Serkis tells us. “In fact, just before the first Venom movie, he reached out and said, ‘Andy, look. I’m going to be playing a sort of CG character, I think....

As it turns out, Steven Spielberg almost did the same in last year’s enchanting big screen reimagining of West Side Story starring Rachel Zegler, Ansel Elgort, and an Oscar-nominated Ariana DeBose. And if it were not for the efforts of screenwriter and playwright Tony Kushner, one of the more bittersweet moments in the movie—where Zegler’s Maria frolics in Gimbels Department Store, blissfully unaware of what horror is about to befall her—would have been lost....

With all that time on the Bat-books, it’s a little surprising to see the deluge of ideas still pouring out of the writer now that he’s got the flagship title all to himself. Tynion took over after Tom King’s 85-issue mega run, and proceeded to pit Batman against an entire city of clowns in “Joker War” after stripping the Dark Knight of his greatest superpower: his money. Tynion returns to the Dark Knight for the Infinite Frontier era, the post-Dark Nights: Death Metal status quo that has an energy to match Tynion’s voluminous idea output....