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James Badge Dale headlines the horror flick, which adapts The Empty Man comic book series from Boom! Studios (for which Fox is a stakeholder,) created by esteemed writer Cullen Bunn with art by Vanesa R. Del Rey. The film also serves as the feature directorial debut of David Prior, who worked off an adaptation screenplay he wrote, bringing nearly two decades’ worth of experience filming shorts and documentaries, notably shorts connected to director David Fincher’s 2011 version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo....

Inside the pages of Charles Forsman’s The End Of The Fing World comics, outsiders James and Alyssa will be forever where they were left – James shot by the police and Alyssa carving his name into her arm with a pin. Frozen between the gutters of Forsman’s drawings, they’ll never grow older than 17, never get jobs or go to university or get married. They won’t have to learn about responsibility or face the consequences of their bloody road-trip....

The buildup in the initial episodes is not without suspense, but it’s difficult to depict the danger presented by asteroids that are weeks away from colliding with Earth. There’s an early encounter with a science vessel looking into rogue asteroids that creates some clues to follow, but other than that there are only whispers of dark shapes passing in the void of space and holographic displays that plot the course of the weaponized rocks....

That ending was earned. Under ordinary circumstances, the un-ironic use of Coldplay’s ‘Fix You’ over a slo-mo reunion scene would result in disciplinary action from the mawkishness police, but The Handmaid’s Tale gets away with it. This drama has been feel-bad for so long, it’s saved up enough feel-good pennies to splurge on moments just like this one: June and Moira, reunited. Drink it in. The moment was staged by director Christina Choe with dialled-up emotion and zero edge....

With June out of Gilead, the premise of The Handmaid’s Tale has shifted. A drama about resistance and endurance has become a drama about recovery and survivorhood, and those new themes are being treated with characteristic complexity. Over the years, this show could be accused of lacking forward momentum, but never of oversimplifying the messiness of its characters’ emotions. That continues in ‘Testimony’, which complicates the cliché in fiction that surviving trauma either gives a character saintly quietude, or turns them into an instant villain....

The wealthy Pratt, who married Arnie’s daughter Katherine Schwarzenegger in 2019, has starred in a string of major blockbusters, including Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Endgame, Jurassic World and The Lego Movie, and has also been a perceived thorn in the internet’s backside for a while. Things really stepped up a gear last February, though, when Umbrella Academy actor Elliot Page referred to the Christian church Pratt attends as “infamously anti-LGBTQ”, a claim that Pratt refuted, saying “nothing could be further from the truth....

But there are also a few things we haven’t seen. While we’ve seen the devastation left in the wake of the Cordyceps outbreak, we haven’t actually spotted any infected. How HBO will bring the gruesome Clickers, Shamblers, and Stalkers to life remains to be seen, and it’s the type of spoiler WB will go to great measures to keep under wraps, so don’t get your hopes up. There are smaller fish that could pop up in the coming weeks, though, namely our first look at the show’s FEDRA soldiers, who are likely to be the antagonists of the early parts of the season....

“This is a title that we imagine could live on the spine of a book next to J.R.R. Tolkien’s other classics,” said showrunners J. D. Payne & Patrick McKay in a statement. “The Rings of Power unites all the major stories of Middle Earth’s Second Age: the forging of the rings, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the epic tale of Númenor, and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men....

During the Middle Ages, the clown and the performing freak were essentially one and the same. The jesters and fools who entertained in the royal courts of Europe were usually attired in flamboyant and garish costumes and makeup, and were often physically deformed in some way, which I guess only added to the “hilarity.” After that, however, the two began to tear themselves apart, with the frolicking prankster in the funny outfit and facepaint heading one way, the human oddity heading the other....

The Orville Season 2 Episode 1 The second season of the original Star Trek began with the famous episode “Amok Time,” in which Mr. Spock had to return to his home planet to have sex or die. And the second season of The Orville continues its overt to love-letter to old-school Trek with a similar premise in its second season premiere, “Ja’loja.” Bortas must return to his home planet for “the great relief,” because Moclans only urinate once a year....

Want to know something about the world of nerdy collectibles? You ask Brian Volk-Weiss, the prolific producer and creator of Netflix’s The Toys That Made Us and A Toy Story Near You, two must-watch documentary series that track the stories of the coolest, rarest, and most valuable toys and collectibles ever made and where to find them. Volk-Weiss isn’t just a documentarian, though. He’s spent years chasing collector’s items for his own personal collection, and he’s learned a few secrets and heard quite a few stories about the high-stakes world of collectibles along the way....

Margot Robbie is not only a breakout star of the DC Extended Universe, but broader Hollywood. The Australian actress moves seamlessly between the blockbuster superhero franchise world and Academy Award-nominated indies like I, Tonya, while also taking greater creative control behind the scenes through her film and TV production company LuckyChap Entertainment. As Robbie prepares for the August release of DC’s R-rated war movie epic The Suicide Squad, Den of Geek talks to the actress about working with director James Gunn, what it’s like to film with pyrotechnics, and why she’s still having fun playing charismatically chaotic antihero Harley Quinn....

The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 9 For all the good that can be achieved with scale in an action setting, there’s nothing like a down-and-dirty scrap for survival. The Walking Dead does big battle scenes well, especially given the limitations of a television budget and shooting schedule, but when the show narrows focus and attempts a more restrained combat setting, be it a one-on-one knife fight or one survivor versus a crowded stairwell of walkers, the technical prowess of the creative team and the show’s stunt team and second unit team really come through....

Laila Robins, known from recent runs on Dr. Death, The Blacklist, and The Boys—and widely remembered as the wife of Steve Martin’s character in 1987’s Planes, Trains and Automobiles—was recently revealed to have been cast as Milton for The Walking Dead season 11. Her first official photo (above) showcases clear parallels to the character’s notorious counterpart in the comic book source material. Indeed, in a surreal throwback to a world long lost to the undead, Robins’s Milton is making a speech in front of a microphone, rocking a sunny suit complemented by a bit of fall flair pinned to her lapel while brandishing the kind of disingenuous grin one would typically see plastered on posters around town during election season....

One, which has been following the girls as they try to survive on a seemingly uninhabited island, cuts out just as Rachel is attacked by a shark and Nora runs into the water to save her. The second, taking place in the present after the girls have been transferred to a facility 150 miles away, leaves the audience just as baffled as Leah with the reveal of what the Dawn of Eve may actually be up to....

Titans Episode 7 “Asylum” is the second episode of Titans that Bryan Edward Hill (who recently did terrific team-focused work reintroducing The Outsiders to the DC Universe in the pages of Detective Comics) has had a hand in writing. Maybe it’s a coincidence, and maybe it’s not, but it’s also only the second episode that actually feels like a Titans show, not just a show about Dick Grayson. Both “Asylum” and “Together” have focused more on Titans as an actual ensemble show and they’ve definitely been the ones that get those team dynamics right, and perhaps are the best indicator of the kind of show that this is going to eventually become....

She and two other survivors–Mamoudoe Athie and T.J. Miller in his likely final role before cancellation–make their way out of the devastation in a frenetic sequence. They also eventually discover Captain Lucien (Vincent Cassel), Emily (Iron Fist’s Jessica Henwick) and someone literally named Smith (John Gallagher Jr.). Except for Norah, no one seems to have a full first or last name, which is indicative of the paper-thin characterizations in Brian Duffield and Adam Cozad’s script....

For nearly a year now cinemas have remained largely dormant, and given the already shuffling 2021 film calendar, that will continue for the foreseeable future. However, studios (with one notable exception) remain mostly committed to getting new films to the theater this year, and the current 2021 film slate gives reasons to be hopeful. Indeed, 2021 promises many of the most anticipated films from last year, plus new surprises. From the superhero variety like Black Widow to the art house with Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, 2021 could be a much needed respite....

Van Helsing Episode 10 Part of the experience of Van Helsing requires the viewer to stay alert and not become lulled by show’s deliberate pace for fear of missing the significance of the small details. Tonight’s tenth episode “Stay Away” abandons restraint, and from beginning to end, assaults our senses with one startling scene after another. If we learn anything from this chapter, just like Vanessa and the crew, it’s a mistake to get too comfortable....

Never let it be said that Ragnar Lothbrok was a man without a sense of vision, but it takes the steady hand of eldest son Bjorn Ironside to take the assembled great army onward toward its destiny. Likewise, tonight’s installment of Vikings takes the slow, deliberate approach before building to a devastating crescendo as the heathen army finally makes its move to avenge the death of its slain king. But it is Michael Hirst’s decision to leave the battle to the imagination of the viewer that generates the breathtaking power of “Revenge....