Rick and Morty Season 5 Episode 5 It’s not like I ask for a lot out of my favorite sci-fi sitcom. I just want there to be some sci-fi as well as some sitcom and a problem that pops up often in Rick and Morty these days is it forgets about the sitcom part. Sometimes an episode gets lost wayyyy up inside its butthole, Morty (as yammered about in the opening of last week’s review), with a sci-fi puzzle box premise that gets so convoluted it feels like you’re in the writers’ room, listening to them work out the machinations of their plot....

Riverdale Season 2 Episode 3 Bottom line: This was an excellent episode that had character development aplenty and some genuinely unsettling moments. Let’s get my only issue with the installment out of the way up front: I was not a fan of how quickly the attack on Moose and Midge was rolled back. Last week’s ending was shocking, and a call to arms that told viewers that anything could, and probably would, happen on this show....

This RIVERDALE review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 5 Episode 7 “Something very strange happened in Riverdale last night.” It’s increasingly difficult to review Riverdale because this remains a show that has transcended criticism. We’re not even ten episodes into the series’ fifth season yet and the sheer volume of things happening right now is whiplash inducing. This latest episode featured, ahem, UFOs, serial killers, art forgery, irresponsible firefighting, ham-fisted commentary on contemporary issues ranging from fiscal crises to veterans suffering from PTSD, and a dance off....

The Scottish actor’s career spanned five-decades in which he played a wide range of unforgettable characters, many of them iconic on their own. But he will always be known as the first, best and most recognizable actor to play the British Spy with the license to kill, James Bond. He played Agent 007 in seven movies, beginning with the first James Bond movie Dr. No in 1962. But Connery was no mere espionage agent, and he certainly wasn’t secret....

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But, of course, Bond is a figure of fantasy, not a real person, and real people rarely overcome such unlikely odds. At least, that was the case for director Sam Mendes, who faced a difficult situation while shooting the follow-up to the critically-praised Skyfall. Talking to The Hollywood Reporter about the 10th anniversary of Skyfall, Mendes explained that his first Bond movie had the public opinion stacked against it, in part because of the poorly-received predecessor Quantum of Solace and because of MGM Studios’ financial troubles....

Spiderhead, the new Netflix movie from Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski, stars Miles Teller as Jeff, a young man who is serving time for a drunk driving incident in which at least one person was tragically killed. Jeff has agreed to serve his time in what is actually a quite comfortable facility run by Steve Abnesti (Chris Hemsworth), who is using the inmates as subjects to test out a range of drugs that can control and alter one’s behavior and emotions....

Squid Game Season 2 is confirmed: “So, there’s been so much pressure, so much demand, and so much love for a second season. So I almost feel like you leave us no choice,” Hwang told AP News at a red carpet event in LA. “But, I will say there will indeed be a second season.” Squid Game Season 2 Potential Release Date Of course, official confirmation doesn’t mean it’s right around the corner....

“I got wind of the open submission policy at Star Trek, which was to encourage writers to bring in ideas because it was syndicated and nothing had to connect, so there were a lot of standalone episodes and they were searching for people outside of their writing departments,” he told Post Mortem with Mick Garris. Fuller had already attended a couple of Star Trek conventions as a fan, but during one particular con he was able to take a class from established Trek writers Ronald D....

Some of the cliches about Star Trek are totally true. When haters try to say that the most common Star Trek episodes are all about space diplomacy or long-drawn-out debates about science fiction ethics, true believers know that’s actually a huge compliment. And in this way, the seventh episode of Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 — “…But to Connect” — is one of the best examples of a Star Trek episode, ever....

Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 5 Up until now, much of Star Trek: Picard Season 2 has felt a lot like an extended experiment in table setting, as the series has put various pieces into place for the larger story this season is telling. (A lot of which we already knew was coming, thanks to the initial Season 2 promotional trailers.) John de Lancie’s Q had to show up. The timeline as we know it had to be drastically altered to include space Nazis and casual genocide....

The new trailer for Picard Season 2 finally reveals that Whoopi Goldberg has returned to the Trek pantheon as the timeless and perpetually wise Guinan. Instead of tending bar on the USS Enterprise-D, she’s now set up on shop on an alternate version of Earth. And, from the looks of this trailer, it’s Guinan who encourages Picard and the crew of the La Sirena to head back to Los Angeles, Earth in the year 2024....

According to a surprise announcement from Paramount+, actor Paul Welsey will join the Season 2 cast of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as James T. Kirk. The press release stops short of calling him Captain Kirk, although the promotional photo certainly makes it looks like this version of Kirk is rocking the captain’s stripes on his uniform sleeve. So, is Paul Wesley taking over for Anson Mount in Strange New Worlds season 2?...

Last fall, airing just a few weeks apart, both Star Trek and Star Wars debuted season premieres of new streaming TV episodes in which the heroes of each show had to fight a giant, legless worm-monster. In Star Trek: Discovery’s “That Hope Is You Part 1,” it was the deadly Tranceworm, while The Mandalorian’s “Chapter 9: The Marshall” had the murderous Krayt Dragon. The differences between the Final Frontier and the Faraway Galaxy could not have been made clearer by these dueling beasts: in Mando, the plot involved killing the monster by blowing up its guts from the inside, while in Disco, Book taught Michael Burnham how to make friends with it....

By the end of the trilogy, Snoke is revealed to have been a bio-engineered villain all along, Force-puppeted tool Emperor Palpatine used to regain his grip on the galaxy while hiding his weakened physical form on the Sith planet of Exegol. His triumphs no longer truly his own, Snoke’s ultimate legacy is the rise of Kylo Ren as well as legendary motion capture actor Andy Serkis’ performance. As we look back at Snoke’s short tenure as the big bad of Star Wars, here are some facts you might not know about Supreme Leader Snoke: 1....

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Episode 13 “Infested,” directed by Saul Ruiz and written by Amanda Rose Muñoz, explores the Bad Batch’s criminal underworld home base in an inconsequential but competent episode. Cid (Rhea Perlman) gets a well-deserved stint as a main character in an adventure that feels like a side plot, with choppy bursts of classic Star Wars action not really adding much to the story of the clones as clones....

The Mando is back on Nevarro for the penultimate episode of the season, gathering friends for a final confrontation with the Client. The fight doesn’t go the way even its double-crossing participants expected. By the end of “The Reckoning,” the Empire has arrived, and with them comes a new villain who will challenge our heroes in the season finale. At his command is an entire platoon of familiar Imperial units hailing from different corners of the Star Wars universe, plus there are a few other callbacks you might have missed while watching the episode....

eCommerce is on a bull run. It’s comfortable and returns-friendly, making it a fan favorite among everyday folks. While there are many options to build your first online store, few can compete with Shopify. It’s layperson-compatible, has some customizations, and is quick to launch. But it suffers from high transaction fees (unless you use Shopify payments) and has expensive addons. Besides, it’s tough to migrate from Shopify to any other solution....

After heir apparent Kendall Roy was treated like a kicked dog and forced into subservience, season 2 ended with Kendall throwing his father under the bus for Waystar Royco’s cruise line scandals. Now the family is splintered, jockeying for control of their empire while the Senate, FBI, SEC, class action lawsuits, and equity vultures Stewy Hosseini and Sandy Furness threaten to take the Roy family out of the picture for good....

In this article, we will review these useful tools that enhance rapid and efficient local development. Every time I start to work on an exciting project, I write down on paper or Notion a list of the tools and resources I’ll need to bring an idea into reality. First of all, I make a quick mock-up of the idea I’ll try to build. Then I choose the programming language, framework, or library I’ll use....