Friends, Delos VIP members, countrymen: I am here to tell you that Westworld Season 2 is actually extremely good, even when it tests your patience and even when the show feels more temporally mixed up than the playing cards in a round of three-card monte. As a major fan of TV shows that make me think and demand my attention, I've been a fan of the HBO sci-fi series from the jump. From devouring new episodes to poring through the (now-defunct) Delos Destinations site for clues to reading explainers on WTF I just watched, my time …
Sci-fi horror is arguably one of my favorite genres, if not definitely my absolute favorite. And the Stone Cold Steve Austin of sci-fi horror franchises is easily the Alien series. (Now that I’ve made this analogy, all I want to see is a xenomorph with a goatee driving a zamboni into Madison Square Garden while wearing a bandoleer of Natural Light.) But when you think about it, that actually isn’t saying much. I can come up with dozens of individual films in the genre that are absolute classics (The Thing, Event Horizon, Scanners, The Fly), but …
What was the attack Godzilla used to destroy Ghidorah in King of the Monsters, and has he used it before? Here's where it came from.
The United Kingdom government is confident that advancements in alternative energies have made nuclear fusion an inevitability.
Ari Aster has been praised for his brand of “arthouse horror,” delivering thoroughly unsettling films while simultaneously exploring mature emotional themes. His films are visually arresting, to be sure, and the standout shocks of his breakout hit Hereditary are the kind that stick with you for years, waiting to pop back up in your mind’s eye every time you turn out the lights. But while Aster is unquestionably a skilled director, his stories are extremely basic plots that rely on tried-and-true scary movie tropes. In fact, both Hereditary and his follow-up Midsommar are essentially remakes of …
Who among us is without an unpopular opinion on some subjective matter? No one, that’s who. Personally, I’ve got lots. Some examples: the 2000 Baltimore Ravens are the best team in the Super Bowl era (not even a fan), fall/autumn is a bad season, and Hans Zimmer is derivative of Hans Zimmer and massively overrated by young fans who’ve never heard of Elmer Bernstein. Every time a “Worst Best Picture” conversation manifests, or list emerges, the films of 1990 find their way into the fray. Not because that year’s winner is loathed, but because Martin …
Chernobylite enters early access, but its creepy atmosphere is undermined by a tame story and a lack of risks from a game design standpoint.
There are many cartoon theories out there, but the one about SpongeBob SquarePants' Bikini Bottom being a nuclear test site actually holds some truth.
It's not easy being Queen. In this past Sunday's Game of Thrones, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) continued to find politics in the North tougher than expected. Dany had some interesting, unspoken moments in the episode, like when Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) and Jon Snow (Kit Harington) both left the hall before their Queen had exited the room, when Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen) greeted the queen, but then quickly addressed Sansa asking to fight for Winterfell, and of course during Sansa and Dany's interrupted clear-the-air chat. On Wednesday, GoT co-executive producer Bryan Cogman, who wrote …
Buckle up, comrads -- a disaster of epic proportions is coming, one that HBO will be serving up in 5 harrowing segments. The miniseries Chernobyl chronicles the mistakes that led to the 1986 nuclear meltdown of the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine, which was at that time part of the Soviet Union. The meltdown released radioactive material across Europe, and has remained not just a cautionary tale, but one that showed the immense misdeeds within the U.S.S.R. As I wrote when the first images for the series were released, "executive producer and writer Craig Mazin told us during … The post ‘Chernobyl’ Teaser Trailer Sets the Stage for Nuclear Meltdown in HBO’s Miniseries appeared first on Collider.
If Chernobyl is not yet on your radar, make it so. HBO showed a trailer today at the Television Critics Association press tour, and it looks incredibly intense and haunting. And yet, executive producer and writer Craig Mazin told us during the panel that there is nothing hyped about this portrayal -- it's a realistic as can be achieved. It will shake you up! The series investigates the 1986 nuclear meltdown of the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine, which was at that time part of the Soviet Union. The meltdown released radioactive material across Europe, and has remained not just …