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Image via HBO House of the Dragon was a great watch throughout, at least when we could actually see what was happening on the screen. As season one ends with an epic finale that metaphorically and literally unleashes the storm that has been gathering over the Seven Kingdoms for a while, the show harkens a terrible realization in the fandom: They’ve once again grown to love Game of Thrones and now they have to wait two whole years for it to come back. While we all have an excruciating wait ahead of us until the…

Double S is back with his first solo drop of the year, “Flow Motion”.The North London MC has been relatively quiet on the release front these past couple of years, but after collaborating with pop-R&B riser ABISHA on the garage-tinged “Everything Falls Into Place”, he’s back in a big way. Definitely one built for the raves, “Flow Motion” is a burst of energy from the get-go and never eases up. Producer CIN has whipped up a juiced-up 4x4 garage instrumental for him to shell over and he hits it with full force,…

via Lucasfilm One of the action genre’s best tropes is to open with a grandstanding action sequence, one that immediately hooks the audience’s attention – showcasing that they’re in for two hours of nonstop thrills. Plenty of classic movies have opened with a rousing set piece, and a few duds have even gotten away with it, too, but have any of them ever bettered Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? It’s not just the stunts, either, but the entire scene as a whole. Doubling as a mini-prequel, origin story, and…

Halloween Ends … with a whimper of franchise brain death. The plug has finally been pulled on the series (until such future time as it is considered expedient to reconnect the life-support machine). It is directed by David Gordon Green, who began his career with Malickian drama and then transitioned to comedy before being assigned the final three-movie tranche of branded Halloween content with co-writer Danny McBride. And it is the most uninspired final episode imaginable. There are one or two lively moments, and the…

The maker of Bang energy drinks filed for bankruptcy protection after a federal jury ordered it last month to pay Monster Beverage Corp. nearly $293 million for interfering with its rival’s dealings with retailers and falsely advertising the mental and physical benefits of Bang drinks. The chapter 11 filing on Monday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., immediately halts Monster’s lawsuit against Vital Pharmaceuticals Inc., or VPX, as well as costly litigation with other companies that has been a…

With New York Comic Con underway this weekend, Paramount shared a new trailer for the final season of Star Trek: Picard. After the previous teasers mostly played up the nostalgia of the returning to the franchise, the new trailer finally offers a look at season three’s story. And judging from the clip, Picard will end with a bang. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo2V1cSVj-w The trailer opens with Starfleet facing an entirely new threat in the form of an alien vessel called the Shrike. What follows is a fun series of…

Image: Rebellion PublishingIf you’re interested in cyberware, sci-fi trans-humanism, and an incredible amount of sassy characters, then you’re going to want to sit down for this book. From Rebellion Publishing, Aubrey Wood’s debut novel Bang Bang Bodhisattva gets an exclusive cover reveal and excerpt on io9. Bang Bang Bodhisattva follows a trans woman hacker-for-hire who, in an attempt to make rent, teams up with a luddite P.I. to solve a murder she’s been falsely accused of. A unique hard-boiled detective / science…

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Image via Dimension Films There are few things more satisfying than a movie wasting no time in grabbing audiences by the horns, and this is especially true in the realm of horror; you can’t help but respect a film that not only wants to give you a fair share of screams and cold sweats, but also lets you know that it means business right out of the gate. Today, r/horror is celebrating the best of the genre’s openers, the most iconic first five minutes, the outsets that tingled the most spines, and the most…

Kimchi, the fermented pickle, led the way, establishing a taste for colourful Korean food in Britain. It was followed by a youth wave of K-pop music hysteria. Then came those two international screen hits, Bong Joon-ho’s shocking 2020 Oscar winner Parasite and last year’s brutal television series Squid Game.Now the influence of South Korea is spreading just as quickly across highbrow culture, with the launch of a season of K-music and visual art in London and a major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum about to…