Spectacle

If the goal of the modern awards show is to make “moments,” then The Game Awards 2022 certainly rose to the occasion – and then some. The Geoff Keighley-produced ceremony was among the show’s best overall efforts yet, packing in an excellent slate of reveals, some genuine surprises, and enough “WTF” moments to make headlines even at mainstream publications that don’t normally pay attention to the world of gaming. While it may have been a particularly exciting show for fans and casual viewers, it was an…

The best moments in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, come when the movie lets the characters and the audience grieve together. Through ceremony, dialogue, or even callbacks to earlier films, Wakanda Forever is as much a eulogy for the late Chadwick Boseman as it is another entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, for better and worse. It was inevitable that the film would have to address the awful, untimely death of Boseman, who had helmed the franchise as King T’Challa since the character’s introduction in 2018.…

There are no hit markers in the Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 campaign. In Infinity Ward‘s gritty and tactical shooter, you won’t need any: if just a single bullet from your gun finds a target, a quick burst of scarlet mist will let you know it landed. READ MORE: Modern Warfare 2 release date, platforms and everything we know so far This is a lesson that’s taught from the get-go. In the campaign’s opening mission, your spec-ops team is tasked with capturing a high-priority target – but…

Hulu Director David Bruckner is set to raise a bit of hell in two days’ time, adding on to 2022’s arguably historic horror slate with Hellraiser, a reboot of Clive Barker’s legendary franchise, seeking to put the series back on its feet after most of all the follow-ups to the original film fell flat. In the film, actress Odessa A’zion portrays Riley McKendry, a young woman fighting addiction who happens upon a puzzle box. Little does she know that solving it will result in summoning the Cenobites, demonic beings…

Some filmmakers have trouble obtaining just the right amount of money to bring their cinematic vision to life, and then there are the filmmakers who have no issue accessing funds. James Cameron falls into the latter camp, as evidenced by how he spent $200 million to make 1997’s Titanic, followed by the roughly $237 million he poured into Avatar. Cameron’s work will next be on display in the upcoming movie Avatar: The Way of Water, and when it comes to these bid budget spectacles, the director has admitted he isn’t shy…

Baz Luhrmann is nothing if not an original, a filmmaker oft hailed for his brash showmanship and flirty eye-candy. “Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” the exuberant Broadway homage to his iconic 2001 movie, likewise seduces the viewer with its sheer unadulterated spectacle. The lavish Tony-winning tuner struts around San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre through Nov. 6. In the eye-popping opening tableau, the viewer is seduced by a windmill at one end of the glittering stage and an elephant at the other as the music slides from “Lady…

Fantasy met reality — unless it was the other way around — when the Weeknd brought his latest road show to SoFi Stadium on Friday night.The first of two sold-out dates at Inglewood’s vast NFL palace, Friday’s concert came near the end of the so-called After Hours Til Dawn Tour behind the Weeknd’s most recent albums: 2020’s long-teased “After Hours” and “Dawn FM,” which dropped in January with just a few days’ notice. (From Los Angeles, where the Canadian singer born Abel Tesfaye has lived part time for years, he’ll head…

“You’re never quite sure when you go home how people are going to receive you,” says Chris Martin from Wembley’s stage. It’s the kind of thing that hugely successful rock stars say to get a cheer from a home town crowd, but perhaps there is a hint of disquiet in Coldplay’s world in 2022. What is, presumably, the most environmentally friendly tour in rock history – energy generated by stationary bikes and a kinentic dancefloor in the audience, a backstage generator that runs on cooking oil, and souvenir T-shirts priced at…

Geoff Keighley has revealed a little more about what people can expect from Gamescom Opening Night Live, promising a “big spectacle”. Gamescom runs August 24 to 28 but will begin with a two hour live presentation on August 23, hosted by Geoff Keighley. During a Twitter Spaces chat yesterday (August 11), Keighley told fans what to expect from the showcase. “We’re going to have a great show. two hours, more than 30 games, it’s going to be a big spectacle,” he promised. “We’ve got some very cool guests that’ll be coming to…

Top Gun: Maverick: Quentin Tarantino Thought The Tom Cruise Starrer ‘Was Fantastic’, Reveals Discussing The Film With The Actor (Photo Credit – Quentin Tarantino / Wikimedia; Poster from Top Gun: Maverick) Maverick filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has shared his experience of watching the Tom Cruise-starrer ‘Top Gun: Maverick’. Speaking on CinemaBlend’s ReelBlend podcast, he said: “Normally I don’t talk about new movies that much because I’m only forced to say only good things, but in this case I f***ing…