betrayal

Or rather, Betrayal! is the name of Si Spurrier and Mike Deodato's upcoming run on The Flash, launching later this year from DC Comics.Or rather, Betrayal! is the name of Si Spurrier and Mike Deodato's upcoming run on The Flash, launching later this year from DC Comics as part of Dawn Of DC. DC Comics previously described the upcoming run as a cosmic horror, saying "Wally West has never been quicker, more fulfilled, more heroic. His loving family is around him. And yet something is off. Very off. His evolving…

“We’re not going to tell anyone that he died.” “Stop calling the AI him, and why the fuck would anyone say something about this?” I tried to drown out the other’s bickering voices, Milo's blood-soaked ear bumping into my leg rhythmically as me and my three shipmates carried him down the USS Harbinger's narrow hallway. I tried not to look down at him either. He was the first of this new model, the harbinger of doom for our $37.43 an-hour job, one of the last remaining livable waged jobs.Read All “We’re not going to tell…

Grant Morrison loves a good tease, and they’ve just begun to tease the impending arrival of their latest project with Liam Sharp, Eden’s End. The title, coming sometime in Spring 2023, will be released under the ‘Xanaduum Presents’ banner, named after Morrison’s Substack newsletter. Morrison described Eden’s End as “a massive, primordial tale of inhuman science, subhuman horror, and superhuman savagery – a story of War, Betrayal, Rise and Fall, Blood and Bullshit!” It’s unclear whether the story will be posted solely…

via EDKO Films Thanks to Disney’s increased stake in Hulu and acquisition of 20th Century Fox, the Mouse House’s streaming service is becoming a hotbed of R-rated content from Hollywood’s past and present, but it’s Chinese fantasy epic True Legend that’s become the latest unexpected breakout success on the most family-friendly platform of them all. As per FlixPatrol, legendary stunt coordinator and filmmaker Yuen Woo-ping’s extravagant martial arts fantasy has been going down a storm with subscribers, having…

Biting the forbidden fruit: The effect of flirting with a virtual agent on attraction to real alternative and existing partners. Credit: Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.cresp.2022.100084 Many people enter into a monogamous romantic relationship hoping to remain faithful to their partner and enjoy all the benefits such a relationship can offer, including a sense of security, belonging…

Charisma is one of my favorite skills to level up in RPGs and RPG-adjacent games. Maybe it's because of my own social ineptitude, but I feel empowered by the fantasy of being able to smooth talk, flirt, or simply make eye contact with a vendor. For decades now, games like Fallout and Mass Effect have sated me with the ability to bend people to my will using a mere stat point and live vicariously through whatever sweet-talking sycophant I wound up creating. However, it turns out that those games and many…

Popular TV formats come and go like buses, and we’ve seen numerous ones over the years in the reality genre; from contestants suffering in the wilderness, to forced dating shows on romantic islands and more cooking shows than you can shake a baguette at.   Now, it seems we’re on to another gripping variant that has taken inspiration from one of lockdown’s biggest obsessions. Two shows of this nature have taken social media by storm – one on a global scale, and one for the UK nation. I’m of course talking about…

For Carlisle Martin, a dance-obsessed girl growing up with her mother in Ohio, an annual fortnight with her father and his boyfriend in their Greenwich Village home exuded impossible glamour. Stepping through Robert and James’s front door was her “favourite entrance to perform”, and life within – full of art, beauty and flatteringly age-inappropriate conversation – felt like a ballet. Then, one summer in her early 20s, Carlisle found herself banished from their world.She hasn’t seen either man in almost two decades, and…

Taylor Russell stars in Bones and All as Maren, a soft-spoken girl who seems to be a loner by choice. As her classmates try to welcome her into the fold, she brushes them off due to her overprotective father’s orders. Here, the trope of popular girls welcoming an outcast into the fold as a cruel prank is flipped on its head. The sleepover, a warm, cozy haze of pastels and glitter, comes to an instant halt when Maren lets her guard down for a moment and opens herself up to intimacy. As the girls give each other manicures,…

It will soon be the season for holiday movie lovers to reignite the annual debate over whether “Love Actually,” the Christmas-themed romantic comedy with the ensemble cast of mostly British stars, is actually any good. Everyone on both sides of the debate agrees that Emma Thompson’s performance as Karen, the betrayed wife of Alan Rickman’s Harry, is a global treasure, one of the most devastating portrayals of hurt and grief in recent cinematic history. Emma Thompson crying in Love Actually gets me every time😭. Every time…