Monthly Archives: November 2018
All the WWE Survivor Series Match Results
As the WWE's second longest-running PPV of all time - shifting over the years from "Teams of 5 Strive to Survive" to the "One Time of the Year When RAW and SmackDown Go Head-to-Head" - Survivor Series is all about scratching and clawing to stand out as the best. Oh, and a quickie two-week build because all the TV time got sucked up by - ugh - Crown Jewel.
Is PS4 the Best PlayStation?
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The Tiny Detail You Missed In Haunting of Hill House’s Ending
Full spoilers for The Haunting of Hill House continue below. Read on at your own risk.
If you've made it to the end of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House, you probably have experienced a sense of catharsis at its conclusion. While Nell, Olivia and Hugh all died at the house, thus haunting it in their afterlives, and the Dudleys also made it their final resting place, our final look at the surviving Crains seems happy: they're together, celebrating Luke's second year anniversary of his sobriety. Steve's wife Leigh is pregnant, Shirley and her husband Kevin are still together and Theo is happily dating her girlfriend Trish. But is this really the happy ending it seems to be?
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The Office Had a Mini-Reunion on SNL and It Will Make You Want a Reboot
Thanks to Steve Carell's Saturday Night Live opening monologue, fans of The Office were treated to a mock Q&A where he was asked about a potential reboot by his fellow former Office cast members.
Ellie Kemper, who played Erin Hannon and is the star of Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, was up first and told him, in regards to The Office reboot, "I need that money. Let's get that money, Steve!"
When he said it probably wouldn't be such a good idea, she promptly replied, "you're a jerk," and sat down.
Chris Pratt Eyed for Reboot of The Saint
Paramount Pictures is said to be looking at Chris Pratt to relaunch its action franchise The Saint.
As reported by Deadline, sources have "cautioned this is early days, but that the hope is to build the film around the Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World franchise star."
Based on Simon Templar, who was created by Leslie Charteris in 1928, The Saint character has been portrayed by such actors as Roger Moore of James Bond fame and, most recently, by Val Kilmer in 1997.
Not much is known about the reboot, except that Lorenzo di Bonaventura will be producing the film. Bonaventura has also been the producer for the new Transformers films, The Meg, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and many more.
Star Wars Theme Park Gets Its Own Theme From John Williams
John Williams, the legendary Star Wars composer, will be creating new and original Star Wars themes that will be used exclusively in the upcoming Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge theme park.
Announced by Bob Chapek, chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products, Williams, who suggested that Star Wars: Episode IX may be his last Star Wars film, will be a part of Galaxy's Edge for years to come through his music and, as Disney said, "Star Wars wouldn't be Star Wars without Williams' incredible, sweeping scores."
The Darkest Superhero Movies Ever
It's hard to believe, but there was a time when people didn't take superheroes very seriously. After all, we're talking about adults who dress up in costumes and beat up other adults in costumes. At its heart there is something fundamentally quirky about the concept.
But one of the most beautiful things about superhero stories is that they have the capacity to be fun, and the capacity to be dark as hell. Once writers started exploring the psychological depths of why, exactly, people like to put on costumes and get violent, we started learning things about these superhero characters... and it isn't always pleasant.
Bright and breezy superhero movies tend to make the most money at the box office, but there are still a lot of people in the world who prefer them to be dark and brooding. And sure enough, many of the best superhero movies ever made are exceptionally, even depressingly grim. Many of them star Batman, for perhaps obvious reasons. Heck, we had to change the rules a bit just to make sure Batman didn't completely dominate this list.
Opinion: How DC’s Mister Miracle Helped Me Confront Fatherhood
Warning: this article contains spoilers for all 12 issues of Mister Miracle!
When it debuted last year, Tom King and Mitch Gerads' Mister Miracle seemed to be a story about master escape artist Scott Free confronting the one trap he can't outwit: death itself. Even as Scott joined in on a massive cosmic war between the rival worlds of New Genesis and Apokolips, he faced the prospect that his very reality is a lie. At a certain point, readers are left to question if the entire series is some sort of fevered hallucination generated by the mind of a dying god.
The series reached a major turning point midway through, however. Scott abruptly learns in issue #6 that his wife Big Barda is expecting, which hit home to me: this spring, my wife very matter-of-factly informed me she was pregnant with our first child as we were driving home from the grocery store one afternoon.