There was once something called the Video Game Adaptation Virus that is almost immediately contracted by any material as soon as it’s developed into adapting a video game into a film or the big screen. This horrific sickness is usually attributed to symptoms such as abysmal writing, campy scenes, wasting the cast’s potential, and overall…
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The nine-episode first season of the HBO Original drama series The Last of Us debuts Monday, January 16 on HBO GO. The Last of Us takes place 20 years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts…
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Watchmen is one of those comics that are viewed as the genre’s sacred texts. For a huge chunk of its life, it was considered unadaptable, because writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons designed it to be that way. They utilized the format to its fullest. Watchmen is a sprawling tome that needs multiple readings,…
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Dropping into Netflix right after V-Day, Umbrella Academy joins shows like Runaways, Deadly Class, Doom Patrol, Young Justice, Titans, Legends of Tomorrow, and The Gifted that are still currently running in 2019 with the band of misfits save the world trope. Ever since the Marvel Cinematic Universe changed how the typical audience consumes superhero media,…
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When you’ve got a show like Young Justice coming back as Young Justice: Outsiders after a cancellation, you know writers want the show to reach its full potential. Fans who stayed with the series since its 2010 launch know showrunners are onto something with the concept, and this felt unfulfilled with such a short run.…
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As the famous vine went: “Lookit! It’s frickin bats! I love Halloween.” This Halloween, Luke Pearson gifted us with Hilda – an animated series about an adventurous teal-haired girl and her deerfox, Twig. It sounds weird, it gets weirder, and that’s what makes so charming and entertaining. Netflix’s Hilda: The Basics Wait, we’re talking cartoons…
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