Game of Thrones Documentary to Air on HBO After Series Finale

Emotions will be running high following the series finale ofGame of Thronesthis coming May, but HBO is offering a way to decompress a week later: a look back at the show as a whole. It was announced today that HBO will be airing feature-lengthGame of Thronesdocumentary on May 26th, one week after the series finale of the show. The doc, which is titledGame of Thrones: The Last Watch, was quietly commissioned by the pay cable network and was directed byJeanie Finlay(Seahorse), with showrunnersDavid BenioffandD....

June 21, 2025 · 2 min · 297 words · Miss Ashley Cox

Gotham Season 4 Episode 6 Trailer: Professor Pyg Arrives

If you haven’t been keeping up with Fox’sGotham, we don’t really blame you; it’s not great. But it is completely insane in a weirdly entertaining way and our ownVinnie Mancuso’sepisode recapsare a big bat-shaped cherry on top of that madness each and every week. One highlight of the Batman prequel series, this season especially, has been the willingness to includefringe villainsalongside the usual rogues gallery. So even when they’re not done quite right or differ drastically from their comic book counterparts, it’s the closest thing that Bat-fans will get to seeing these characters in the flesh, characters like Solomon Grundy … and Professor Pyg....

June 21, 2025 · 3 min · 546 words · Mary Haynes

Green Book Trailer: Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen Hit the Road

Participant Media and Dreamworks Pictures released the first trailer forGreen Book, the based-on-a-true-story drama directed byPeter Farrelly, the filmmaker’s first project outside the bounds of comedy. The film, which will premiere at TIFF 2018, is top-lined by a magnetic pair of leading men,Viggo Mortensenand recent Oscar-winnerMahershala Ali. It’s hard to know exactly what to expect from a racially charged period piece from the director of bothDumb and DumberandDumb and Dumber To, but early word is that the film is fantastic....

June 21, 2025 · 2 min · 313 words · Kyle Caldwell

Hayao Miyazaki Movies Are Stronger Because of Their Vague Romances

FromSpirited AwayandKiki’s Delivery ServicetoHowl’s Moving CastleandPrincess Mononoke, the films of legendary animatorHayao Miyazakirun the gambit of wholesome slice-of-life portraits to full-fledged historical epics, all of which are infused with fantastical elements peppered throughout.One storytelling element that is prevalent throughout more than a few of his works is romance, or rather, the casual allusion to or near omission of it.Miyazaki’s work is famous for being highly romanticized and lovingly sentimental, but traditional romance itself is not the driving force of the narrative, despite being a clear and present element in the likability of some of his most popular stories....

June 21, 2025 · 4 min · 661 words · Janice Holland

Hereditary Spoiler Review: Stunning Horror Cinema You Can't Shake

In case you missed the headline, this is aspoilerreview for Hereditary, so if you haven’t seen it, scram! Seriously, get out of here, what are you doing, it’s so good. Hereditarywill fuck you up. Possibly for a very long time. First-time feature filmmakerAri Asterdelivers a directorial debut that will go down in the books as one of the most outright menacing cinematic experiences in the history of horror. It’s hard to quantify something like fear – it’s too personal, too subjective – but you don’t have to look far to see that this one is affecting the majority people on a profound level and sending them out the door with a pit of evil in their stomach....

June 21, 2025 · 9 min · 1777 words · Christopher Garcia

How Jacob’s Ladder Uses Isolation to Address the Horrors of PTSD

Isolation is one of the most essential elements of horror. Every horror story contains it to some extent, although some take a looser definition than others. The clearest example is the simplest – a group of characters are trapped in a single location and can’t leave, be it the Antarctic inThe Thing, a spaceship inAlien, or a remote island off the coast of Scotland inThe Wicker Man– but isolation can be conveyed in a variety of ways....

June 21, 2025 · 8 min · 1613 words · Bryan Stokes

How to Modify Vibration Settings & Patterns on iPhone

Adjusting the vibration settings on an iPhone is easy and can make a big difference for users who rely on tactile feedback for notifications and alerts. If you’re finding that your iPhone’s vibrations are too weak and you’re missing them—or if you just prefer a different sensation—changing the vibration patterns can help ensure you don’t miss important calls or messages when your device isn’t in sight. The iPhone’s built-in settings offer various options to modify the vibration patterns to suit your personal preferences....

June 21, 2025 · 6 min · 1102 words · Jamie Berry

Jenna Ortega Gave Us One of the Scream Franchise's Best Cold Opens

Jenna Ortegais now ahousehold name in the horror genre,known for her roles inTi West’sX,Wednesday Addams inNetflix’sWednesday,and most recently, Astrid Deetz inBeetlejuice, Beetlejuice. It’s hard to remember that when she took on the role of Tara Carpenter in the 2022 reboot ofScream, she was relatively unknown. In fact, most of the marketing material implied she wouldn’t even survive the opening credits. However,Ortega ended up giving us the best cold open since Drew Barrymore as Casey Beckerin the 1996 original, andJada Pinkett-Smithdying in the theater at the start ofScream 2....

June 21, 2025 · 4 min · 725 words · Paul Brock

Jumanji 2’s Robin Williams Connection, Explained

It’s been a little over three years sinceRobin Williamspassed away, and it still stings. He was so talented and widely beloved, and especially for my generation, where Williams did a string of family films includingAladdin,Mrs. Doubtfire,Hook, andJumanji, the loss hit particularly hard.Jumanjioffered Williams a role he rarely got, which was to play the adventure hero, and he perfectly walked the line between a mild-mannered kid who had to grow up a wild man in the jungles of Jumanji....

June 21, 2025 · 2 min · 305 words · Gregory Mathews

Laura Lee's 'Yellowjackets' Death Still Haunts the Season 2 Survivors

Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for Season 1 of Yellowjackets.On a show where brutal deaths and frightening twists and turns occur, one death onYellowjacketsappears to have had a lasting impact on the trajectory of the survivors. Following the crash of Flight 2525, there wasn’t much to be optimistic about for the ones who made it alive. Any remaining hope was squashed when Misty (Sammi Hanratty) destroyed the plane’s black box that could have helped locate them....

June 21, 2025 · 4 min · 810 words · Nicole Green

Like It or Not, We Needed To See [SPOILER] in 'The Last of Us' Season 2

Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 2. Pedro Pascalhas died on screen before, and some of those deaths were just as violent and gruesome as in this week’s episode ofThe Last of UsSeason 2, “Through the Valley.” (RememberGame of Thrones? Some viewers may have thoughtit was too much, but, unfortunately, the depiction of Joel’s death is a necessary plot point of this adaptation ofThe Last of Us, and it isn’t about gratuitous violence and gore....

June 21, 2025 · 5 min · 1051 words · Tiffany Mack

Marvel’s New Black Widow Posters Show Off Supporting Cast and Taskmaster

As we’re slowly inching along to the long-awaited release ofBlack Widow,Marvel Studios just released new character posters ahead of the film’s summer premiere. We’ve already been graced with a couple of trailers, but these posters allow us to really dig into the characters and their costuming. We also get a great look at Taskmaster, although we still have no idea who is playing the formidable adversary. Black Widowwill follow the titular avenger as she explores a dangerous conspiracy that is tied to her past....

June 21, 2025 · 2 min · 403 words · Susan Keith

Mike Flanagan's Before I Wake Finally Gets a Release Date

Mike Flanaganhas been on a role with Netflix over the past couple years, first with his spin on home invasion horrorHushand again this year with his triumphantStephen KingadaptationGerald’s Game, so it’s fitting that the streaming network has stepped in to save his long-languished filmBefore I Wake. You may remember the first trailer dropping back in 2015, or perhaps thesecond one the year after, which landed with a shiny new release date that never came to pass....

June 21, 2025 · 3 min · 508 words · Janet Davies MD