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Yet more than just media bookkeeping, the death of Batgirl is also a small tragedy for the folks who worked on the movie: directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah whose career was on the rise after 2020’s early (and only) box office sleeper hit, Bad Boys for Life; Brendan Fraser whose career is on the verge of a major renaissance with all the Oscar buzz generated by his new movie The Whale, which received standing ovations at Venice and Toronto; and perhaps most especially Leslie Grace, a Latina actress who shined like a light in last year’s In the Heights and who was about to lead a superhero movie that would’ve changed her life....

Batman: Hush is the latest DC Animated Feature, and the adaptation of a mega-popular Jeph Loeb/Jim Lee comic story from almost 20 years ago. And shockingly, it’s actually…pretty good? I suppose I should start with the comic. Hush went off like a bomb in the comics community in 2002. Loeb was at the height of his popularity, coming off of his enormously well-received Batman stories, The Long Halloween and Dark Victory....

Batman Spawn, out Dec. 13, sees villainous Gotham City secret society, the Court of Owls, using Spawn as a weapon in their war against Batman. It’s safe to say this isn’t how the story was conceived when this crossover was first announced. Mostly because the Court of Owls didn’t exist yet. “Todd and I announced we were going to do this back in 2006 at San Diego Comic-Con, and it never materialized,” says Capullo, who went on to create the Court of Owls with his Batman partner Scott Snyder five years later....

Instead of trying to brute force retro games to play on modern hardware, coders develop programs that simulate the conditions provided by older platforms. These applications, colloquially known as emulators, trick game ROMs to function as normal. However, since different ROMs were designed for different hardware, there’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all emulator. If you don’t have the correct emulator, you can’t play certain ROMs. In fact, some emulators are designed with different users in mind....

Where it Rains in Color by Denise Crittendon Type: NovelPublisher: Angry RobotRelease date: December 6 Den of Geek says: Outer space royalty literally glitter in the first book to come out of Angry Robot’s 2020 Black Voices Matter open acquisition period. Publisher’s summary: Colonized by the descendants of Earth’s West African Dogon Tribe, the planet of Swazembi is a blazing, color-rich utopia and famous vacation center of the galaxy. No one is used to serious trouble in this idyllic, peace-loving world, least of all the Rare Indigo....

Better Call Saul Season 3 Episode 10 Saul Goodman isn’t here yet. At times this season, it seemed like Jimmy was hurtling toward the reprehensible persona that we met during Breaking Bad’s run, but in the Better Call Saul Season 3 finale, Jimmy’s descent took a pause. Kim’s accident open’s Jimmy’s eyes and causes him to reevaluate everything in his life. Suddenly, hustling to keep his office space, holding a grudge against his brother, and sabotaging a sweet old woman’s personal life no longer seems necessary or important....

Black Mirror Season 5 Episode 2 When real life caught up to Black Mirror, series creator Charlie Brooker promised us he’d look ahead. After moving over to Netflix for the series’ third season, he delivered reality-altering leaps in episodes like “San Junipero,” and “Playtest,” and season four’s “USS Callister.” Then he spent a year dismantling the medium as we know it and rebuilding it in the mold of the video game....

Beginning with a flashback to 1995, then mainly set between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, this is an extension of a backstory for Natasha but also a tale of resolution. It’s a chance for her to clean up her ledger and although we know that her journey won’t truly end until the events of Endgame, this is definitely her farewell, made all the more poignant with knowledge of what’s to come....

In a somewhat surprising move, developer Infinity Ward has confirmed that Warzone 2 will essentially reset all of your Warzone progress (which may include cosmetic purchases). “October 28 marks a new beginning for Call of Duty, starting with the release of Modern Warfare II,” reads a statement on the Call of Duty blog. “Soon after, a wholly new Warzone will launch as an extension of the Modern Warfare II universe....

While the latest Warzone update doesn’t feature the kind of sweeping nerfs and buffs that we’re used to seeing from earlier “season” patches, it does make some subtle changes to some of the game’s weapon classes that should impact which guns ultimately work their way to the top of the meta. It also introduces a few new weapons that are already establishing themselves as some of the absolute best in the game....

Cobra Kai has mastered the season finale cliffhanger just like Daniel-san mastered ‘wax on, wax off.’ It started with its first season finale. That ended with the startling appearance of Sensei John Kreese (Martin Kove), which took the series to a whole new level. The season 2 finale literally tossed us off that cliff with Miguel’s (Xolo Maridueña) spine-breaking fall. And in the finale of season 3, Daniel (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny (William Zabka) are forced to unite for the ultimate showdown against Cobra Kai in the arena that started it all, the All Valley Karate Tournament....

In spy movies, security operatives have a coded way of transmitting information amongst themselves. Since they are mostly transmitting information that can be used against them if it falls in the hands of their enemies, they have to make sure that those who are receiving the information are trusted parties. The same applies to those who are sending the said information. When the sender and receiver are trusted, the credibility and security of the information can be guaranteed....

Snyder’s attention at the moment clearly centers on the premiere of Netflix film Army of the Dead, which stands as his first all-new feature since 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, not counting his recently released HBO Max redux of 2017’s Justice League, the original of which saw him replaced by Joss Whedon. However, Snyder provided an intriguing update on the now-decade-old dormant topic of Sucker Punch in a recent video interview with Vanity Fair in which he breaks down notable entries on his film CV....

Yes, as surprising as it may sound, developer Teravision Games has somehow convinced Good Shepherd Entertainment to let them make a video game based on 1988’s Killer Klowns From Outer Space. Seriously, there’s a trailer for the game and everything. Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game (great name) is an asymmetrical multiplayer horror game that pits a team of seven humans against a squad of three Klowns. The Klowns have access to a vareity of circus-themed sci-fi weaponry that should give them an immediate edge in most fights....

Heavily featured in the game’s promotional material, Alvarez has quickly become one of the poster characters of Cyberpunk despite the fact that developer CD Projekt Red has shared relatively little official information about her so far. However, a quick comb through everything we currently know about Cyberpunk 2077 reveals some fascinating details about Alvarez and her role in the game. Here’s what we know about Judy Alvarez so far:...

It was pretty big news when Disney came back to San Diego Comic-Con after an absence of several years. And, to be sure, the event didn’t disappoint, with MCU boss Kevin Feige revealing the schedule for the franchise’s next two phases. Heroes from a galaxy far, far away also got attention earlier this year at Star Wars Celebration, which included the announcement of a new series from Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts and a trailer for the upcoming show Andor....

The arrival of young Skywalker happened not because the then-septuagenarian Mark Hamill reprised his role in heavy make-up, but because of deep-fake technology. This technology allows studios to create performances out of digital thin air; to capture footage from some virtual world where Hamill continued playing Luke Skywalker in the early 80s. It wasn’t the first, nor the last time Lucasfilm had done this trick for Star Wars. Rogue One featured digital recreations of the deceased Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin and a version of Carrie Fisher in her early 20s as Princess Leia, while deepfake Luke returned again for an episode of The Book of Boba Fett....

If Patrick Stewart got a quarter for every time his Charles Xavier died onscreen… well, he’d have a dollar at this point. Which is not a lot, but it still feels substantial after Chuck was gleefully introduced in Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness only to then be gleefully shepherded off this mortal coil in a highly Raimi fashion. How else would you describe Professor X having his neck snapped by Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) at her witchiest?...

In Marvel Comics, the Illuminati is a gathering of the smartest and most influential heroes on Earth. They exist to deal with galactic and multiversal threats; complex problems that demand difficult solutions. They first appeared in the pages of Brian Michael Bendis’ run on New Avengers and played a major role in the follow-up, New Avengers, written by Jonathan Hickman. These stories found the Illuminati making morally gray decisions, like when they decided to exile Bruce Banner in space to avoid any further Hulk outbursts, and plotted to destroy alternative Earths before their own was compromised in Secret Wars....

The Doctor Who season 12 finale is nigh, and we’re going back to Gallifrey! The planet where they like their snow globes like they like their collars – huge! And apparently everything you knew was a lie. Which for the Doctor is a massive, haunting revelation that will shake her very hearts, but for the rest of us has us scratching our heads and saying “What do we know about Gallifrey?...