The Walking Dead: How AMC Harnessed the Power of Fandom

On Sept. 14, AMC launchedThe Walking DeadFan Rewards Club. This is a novel, intriguing concept. Its also not one were used to seeing on television. What AMC has done withThe Walking Deadis finally bridge the gap between corporate speak and geek speak. Words like fan and consumer often mean the same thing. IfLostrepresents the time thatfandom culture went mainstream,The Walking Deadrepresents the time that fandom culture went corporate. I understand there is a rough connotation that comes along with the phrase corporate....

December 10, 2017 · 4 min · 680 words · Patrick Hayden

The Walking Dead Season 8: A Spoiler-Filled Guide to All Out War & the Midseason Finale

What might happen in The Walking Dead midseason finale? We take a spoiler-filled dive into the comics to see what might happen in season 8! ThisWalking Deadarticle containsMAJOR SPOILERSfor the show and comics. I put my money on Sheriff Rick. If you want to pick up the complete arc in trades, thats Vol. 20 and 21 or issues #115-126. The All Out War arc really is what it says on the cover....

December 9, 2017 · 3 min · 488 words · Robert Flores

The Game Awards 2017 Winners

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was the big winner of the night. Here are all the winners at The Game Awards 2017! The Game Awards 2017 were spectacular! The winners are inRED!

December 8, 2017 · 1 min · 35 words · Jennifer Richards

Why Annihilation going straight to Netflix matters

Alex Garlands next movie, Annihilation, will bypass cinemas altogether in the UK. And finally, just look at the cast: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Oscar Isaac. It has the hallmarks of a smart, potentially great genre film. Ad content continues below Besides, Netflix is now a patron of interesting films from respected directors. So beyond our little tantrum about Annihilations venue, why does the announcement even matter? But for this writer at least, there are one or two down-sides to all this....

December 8, 2017 · 1 min · 97 words · Joseph Lopez

Riverdale Season 2 Episode 8 Review: Chapter 21: House of the Devil

gets out of jail and Betty takes a walk on the wild side in an uneven outing of Riverdale. Which brings us to tonights installment, perhaps the most uneven episode to date. In previous reviews, Ive trotted out the old adage thatRiverdalewants to have its cake and eat it too. But what message are the writers delivering here? But there I go, havingandeating my cake. Lets tackle these from most interesting to least, shall we?...

December 7, 2017 · 2 min · 356 words · Kelly Shelton

Armchair Detectives: brilliant new daytime TV murder mystery

BBC One’s play-along murder mystery show Armchair Detectives is brilliant fun. One every weekday, to be precise. All occurring at approximately 2:15pm in the Scottish coastal town of Mortcliff. ), its arguably the one that most successfully nails the format. I got way too deep into it, she admits. After binging on the original series, as well as the spin-offsUndisclosedandTruth & Justice, inspiration struck. So I thought there was something in this....

December 6, 2017 · 3 min · 484 words · Paul Ayers

Dennis Muren interview: Terminator 2’s VFX

He headed up the groundbreaking VFX on James Camerons T2: Judgment Day. Its worth sticking around to hear what he thinks about the future of CGI in movies, too… It was very hard. But thats what it took to get Jims vision on the screen, and just confirm that it happened. Oh yeah, thats right, thats right. Thats what was successful. And it took us a long time to do we spent months and months on that show....

December 6, 2017 · 5 min · 928 words · Adrienne Bailey

The Mick Season 2 Episode 9: Writers’ Room Recap

The Mick creators on Biological Parentage and that BOMBSHELL Ending. This part of the walkthrough looks at the ninth episode fromThe Mickssecond season. Previous installments can be foundhere. Meanwhile, Mickey and Jimmy re-examine their relationship. Whats exciting about taking Chip down this path and introducing a new father figure for him? So it was really exciting to take that away from him this year. Chip issoquick to immediately turn on his old dad....

December 6, 2017 · 3 min · 534 words · Jason Schmidt

Why Cave Story Is a Timeless Indie Classic

Its freely available on the web, yet indie platformer Cave Story remains a must-purchase on consoles. This articles comes fromDen of Geek UK. As the Joker himself once observed, If youre good at something, never do it for free. The gameplay was informed by the classics from Amayas childhood likeMetroid,Mega Man, andCastlevania. Right now, though, the Nintendo Switch version might be its definitive release. Its controls are tight yet the floatiness of its jumping physics are initially disconcerting....

December 6, 2017 · 1 min · 213 words · Michael Thompson

Brad Fiedel interview: composing Terminator 2’s iconic score

I guess when it really first started to resurface was pretty much when social media started. Hopefully the music supported the film, you know? Well, there were two elements. You know, necessitys the mother of invention. Because, you know, its action and things have to fit exactly. I was really able to develop the full library, at that point, of sounds. So I was cutting edge with the music technology the same way Jim was with the CGI technology....

December 5, 2017 · 4 min · 770 words · Robert Adams

Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 9 Episode 10 Review: Fatwa!

Curb Your Enthusiasms potential series finale justifies its long running time with some Larry David on Lin-Manuel Miranda violence. No episode ofCurb Your Enthusiasmshould be 51 minutes long. Ad content continues below Fatwa! suffers from many of the same pitfalls that have plagued season 9 as a whole. Even at 51 minutes, Fatwa! crams a lot into its running time. Theres the escalating feud between Lin and Larry that culminates in the most incredibly Hamilton/Burr way possible....

December 4, 2017 · 3 min · 445 words · Emily Bates

Happy! Season 1 Review (Spoiler-Free)

What are comics if not for storyboards for an eventual TV series or movie? Happy!is put in every position to succeed. Thats…a lot. And it reads refreshingly weird and appealing on the page. Happy!is curiously dated and not in the timeless dicks-and-dames way it intends to be. The bad guys are Italian underworld greaseballs (though one family in particular is hilariously named the Scaramuccis). Cops are shockingly uninterested in missing childrens cases around Christmastime....

December 4, 2017 · 2 min · 249 words · Emily Campbell

Shameless Season 8 Episode 5 Review: The (Mis)Education of Liam Fergus Beircheart Gallagher

Shameless puts two Gallaghers on a collision course while asking some big South Side questions. This Shameless review contains spoilers. But So find another fucking church had exactly that effect on the fifth episode of this yearsShameless. Gentrification versus community outreach, property values versus decency. And is either being really that selfless of an advocate? Its a curious conundrum that divided the episode into a slow-motion wreck. But, you know, in a good way....

December 4, 2017 · 2 min · 410 words · Chad Franklin