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Audiences are preoccupied by how much of HBO’s Chernobyl really happened. Here’s how the drama approached accuracy… What the mini-series gets right Separating fact from fiction, and so on. How can a series that talks so much about truth and lies take so many liberties with truth? Why are there so many apparent inaccuracies and what is inaccurate about it? Well, truth is a complicated thing and it doesnt always fit in to a five part television series....

This article originally appeared onDen of Geek UK. This is the one whereJames Bonddoes Blaxploitation. Its Roger Moores debut. The One with All the Voodoo.Live And Let Dieis memorable for numerous reasons. Switch off after BondsCrocodile Dundeemoment, just before the looooooooong boat chase. Ad content continues below In other respects, Kananga is a fairly typical villain. He repeatedly and unsuccessfully tries to feed Bond to various unpleasant creatures. He has an unrequited crush on the Bond girl, and an exceptional array of henchman....

Space horror in The Black Hole. Animated death in The Black Cauldron. The ’70s and ’80s were a unique period in Disney’s filmmaking history. This is a Disney movie, Lucas said at the time. All Disney movies make $16 million, so this movie is going to make $16 million. Ad content continues below Turning downStar Warsmust have provoked more than a little soul searching at Walt Disney Productions. For much of the 70s, its movie-making division seemed stuck in the doldrums....

Sixty-five million years in the making. Dinosaursmakethat Steven Spielbergs dinosaurswere coming to the big screen inJurassic Park. Of course, this masterclass of summer entertainment did not take 65 million years to create. But in many respects, it was the culmination of nearly a hundred years of filmmaking advancement. The 21st century had arrived in Hollywood seven years early. Indeed,Terminator 2: Judgment Daybeat the Michael Crichton adaptation to the screen by two years....

Need a memory jog about what happened at the end of Stranger Things season 2? All your questions answered. This article comes fromDen of Geek UK. 12-year-old Will Byers vanished on the way home from a Dungeons & Dragons campaign, prompting a local search. She was being sought by government agents after escaping from the lab and killing two guards with her powers. Eleven used her powers to destroy the creature and then disappeared....

You love Blade Runner because it’s a hot mess. It overcame problems, oddities, and a difficult production to become a masterpiece. If you thinkBlade Runneris a masterpiece, youre right. When science fiction is considered good, its often because its messages are contrary to the status quo. Stillcall it brilliance or call it testinessDick had a hard time dealing with screenwriters. Instead, they believed there was a marketable and even mainstream film hiding in its pages....

The following contains spoilers forThe Thing. Critically mauled on release and largely overlooked in cinemas, John CarpentersThe Thinghas only grown in stature since 1982. Who sabotaged the fridge full of blood samples? Were MacReady and Childs still human at the end? Behind the scenes, the story of howThe Thingwas made is a fascinating one all by itself. As Lancaster writes: Bleary-eyed, MacReady is in the process of blowing up some strange inflatable object....

Mysterio is set to make his big-screen debut next week, but he might have appeared earlier. Mysterio(played by Jake Gyllenhaal) to the big screen. Sam Raimis Tobey Maguire-starringSpider-Manseries wasnt always intended to finish where it did. But when has the fact that a film doesnt exist ever stopped us geeks from talking about it? Our curiosity is always too strong, andSpider-Man 4 one of the biggest what could have been?...

Lifeforce was a sci-fi horror movie from the guys behind Alien and Poltergeist featuring space vampires. See where studying comets gets you? This article comes fromDen of Geek UK. Our ancestors probably would have thought we were completely mad. Or in league with the devil for creating such advanced machinery in the first place. Its fair to say thatLifeforcedidnt have quite the mainstream impact of Hoopers supernatural thriller. For one thing, there are the special effects, which range from the not-bad-for-the-time to the extremely good....

Without the notorious Batman & Robin we might not have gotten the better superhero movies that followed. A superhero movierelic frozen in 1990s Hollywood excess. Itsvery name is still a hushed whisper of doom on internet comment sections. …But is it reallythat bad? To answer this gnawing question I dared to revisit this Day-Glo gem. Yes, it is that awful. Freeze whose weapon was designed by toy companies. Without the iconic aberration that isBatman & Robin, there would be noThe Dark Knight....

Warning: This Veronica Mars article contains spoilers for the first three seasons of the show. Its a shame, really, that the show debuted at the same time as zeitgeist-capturing shows likeLostandDesperate Housewives. What was all the fuss about? Not exactly rainbows and puppies. Kristin Bell was magnificent in the role. Some were more important than others, obviously, chief among them Weevil, Wallace, and Mac. It never really went away, but Weevil and Veronicas relationship couldnt really be described as functional....

Doom Eternal is the next installment in the action-packed first-person shooter series. To blow up Mars core, a catastrophic event that will likely be the end of Earth, too. The soldiers scrambling in a space station above the doomed planet are in a panic. All seems lost… until the Doom Slayer puts on his helmet and grabs a gun. Thankfully, the faceless, bloodthirsty hero of this saga has some new tricks and toys to play with....

At the same time, the demo didnt inspire complete confidence in games presentation and combat system. This was never going to be a true next-gen graphical update of the series. Little moments like these are what makeShenmuespecial. Weighing the demos time constraints, you might want to jump straight into battle and forego the dojo training. The original games combat felt snappy and fluid and was heavily inspired by the mechanics of SegasVirtua Fighterseries....