Entertainment Tech

Review: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier aims high, but falls a bit short

Sam Wilson/Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) engage in a staring contest. [credit: YouTube/Marvel ] Confession: I wanted to like The Falcon and the Winter Soldier more than I ultimately did. The various trailers seemed so promising, giving off vibes of a “buddy cop” action flick, with a bit more room to […]

Entertainment Tech

Review: Our fave gunslinger expels her inner demons in Wynonna Earp finale

Waverly Earp (Dominique Provost-Chalkley) is trapped in a twisted version of the Garden of Eden. [credit: SyFy ] Demons are defeated, a long-running feud finally comes to an end, personal rifts are healed, and a hotly anticipated wedding finally takes place in the decidedly upbeat series finale of Wynonna Earp, SyFy’s supernatural Western/horror series. SyFy […]

Entertainment Tech

Review: Sean Bean gives Snowpiercer a charismatic villain to stir the pot

Snowpiercer was overtaken by the supply train Big Alice in the S1 finale. [credit: YouTube/TNT ] The unexpected arrival of the presumed-dead Mr. Wilford throws a wrench into the revolutionaries’ plans to reform governance aboard the train, in the second season of Snowpiercer, TNT’s TV adaptation of the 2013 film of the same name, directed […]

Entertainment Tech

Rick and Morty fans won’t have long to wait for S5 as Adult Swim drops trailer

Rick and Morty S5 premieres on Adult Swim on June 20, 2021. Rick and Morty fans won’t have to wait much longer for a fifth season of the irreverent, Emmy-winning animated comedy. Adult Swim just dropped the official S5 trailer, showcasing a new round of wacky interdimensional adventures for our favorite belching mad scientist and […]

Entertainment Tech

HBO drops full trailer for new sci-fi period drama The Nevers

Laura Donnelly stars as Amalia True and Ann Skelly stars as Penance Adair, two Victorian women who mentor gifted orphans in HBO’s new original series, The Nevers. An inexplicable event confers supernatural powers on a select group of people in Victorian London, who must battle prejudice and those who would exploit their abilities in The […]

Sport

$110 billion (with a B) NFL TV deal includes Amazon and lots of new quirks

The NFL has a new media deal starting in 2023, worth $110 billion, that will bring some changes and some new options to the way we consume our national football obsession. With a new media deal comes new money, which will make the talent department of your favorite franchises happy – more money means an […]

Sport

The NCAA doesn’t know what it’s doing; also, see Connor McDavid’s insane no-look pass

As the NCAA begins the process of sorting out their tribute-to-Hoosiers championship tournament, it’s becoming pretty obvious that they’re making it up as they go. Which we already knew, but it’s always a little jarring to see a multi-billion dollar “non-profit” give the shrug emoji to genuine questions. Read more…

Entertainment Tech

Review: The Stand starts out strong and then whiffs the landing

Enlarge / James Marsden, Alexander Skarsgård, Whoopi Goldberg, and Amber Heard are among the ensemble cast of a new miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s sprawling 1978 novel, The Stand. (credit: CBS All Access) A deadly virus wipes out most of the human population, and the survivors find themselves caught in an apocalyptic battle between good […]

Sport

Is the Rangers’ 2020 No. 1 overall pick, Alexis Lafreniere, butt?

Even with the delayed start to the season, and the much-discussed weirdness of it with no fans and only intra-division play, this was supposed to be a pretty exciting season for the New York Rangers. While the playoffs even in a normal set-up would have been something of a stretch, though they were only two […]