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The hit television seriesYellowstoneintroduced the ever-complicated history of theDutton family. Expanding the family’s tale through various spin-offs,1923follows the earlier generations of the Duttons as they struggle to make a living during the Western Expansion and the Great Depression. Thanks to Paramount Home Entertainment, fans can now travel centuries back – to 1923, exactly – as the prequel series' first season will be arriving on DVD and Blu-ray on August 8. The new release will revisit the Dutton family’s history with all-new featurettes and bonus contents....

Riverdaleis back for its seventh and final season this month, and after a whirlwind Season 6 finale, the gang finds themselves trapped in the past. 1955, to be specific. Ahead of the Season 7 premiere, The CW released the official trailer. In trueRiverdalefashion, the trailer is fraught with drama, romance, and the sneaking suspicion that something isn’t quite right with this time. When Season 6 ended, Cheryl (Madelaine Petsch) used her newly boosted powers to stop a comet from destroying Riverdale....

Over its five seasons and 53 episodes,Yellowstoneworked its way through quite a few different antagonists over the years. Everyone wanted a piece of the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch, and that brought all sorts of unseemly and violent types to Paradise Valley in hopes of carving out their own slice. But while mostYellowstonevillains were generally forgettable, able to be replaced with any other black hat in the Dutton saga,one character stood out as an especially formidable opponent....

With the hundreds and thousands of anime being released through the years, a good many gets lost in the cracks and are never heard of or talked about, let alone watched. Anime has been a booming genre for the past two decades, starting with the boom of Dragon Ball, and then the follow-up with the Big Three:One Piece,Naruto, andBleach. While these animes, in particular, deserve the recognition they received from the get-go, a good deal of anime from the early 2000s has been missed, be it due to inaccessibility or a lack of general interest due to its lack of popularity....

The late authorCormac McCarthywas one of the preeminent chroniclers of the American condition. His novels, often filled with harsh violence and bleak outcomes, left a scorched path of uncompromising works that detailed the depths of humanity and the moral compromises taken to get there.McCarthy’s books have been reveredfor their dense, often philosophical prose and unflinching content. That style bled from his novels into the cinema, as several ofMcCarthy’s most searing works were adapted into films....

Inspired by the true story of the women atNewsweekwho became the very first in media to sue for sexual discrimination, the 2016 Amazon seriesGood Girls RevoltstarredAnna Camp,Genevieve AngelsonandErin Darkeas a group of researchers for a magazine calledNews of the Week. They do all the work, but it’s their male colleagues who wind up with the bylines. While the show did debut to mostly positive reviews and amassed a mighty fanbase, Amazon still opted to cancel the series after a single season, a decision that didn’t send the best message about the streamer’s priorities, especially considering the timing....

EA’s upcoming video gameAnthemnow has two demo weekends behind it, but there are still a lot of questions from the fandom about the new, action-packed, high-flying franchise. One concern among gamers, pre- and post-demo, has been the length of the story mode and the quantity of endgame content. IfAnthemis to be a competitor to games likeDestinyand its ilk, the developers are going to need to keep that content coming in order to give players a reason to grind....

It’s been more than a decade sinceBatman Begins, the first installment inChristopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, hit theaters. And yet, even after all this time, new information about the movie is still finding its way out of the Batcave and into the light of day. For example, screenwriterDavid S. Goyerhas officially debunked a theory about a keyBatman Beginscharacter: Ra’s al Ghul (played byLiam Neeson). The attention-grabbing soundbite was buried amidst the jam-packed and thoroughly entertaining chat Goyer had withBackstory Magazineas part of the latter’s Comic-Con@Home panel, “The Art of Adaptating Comics to the Screen: David S....

Netflix has unveiled the first full-length trailer for the upcoming feature filmBright. Directed byDavid Ayer(Suicide Squad) and scripted byMax Landis(American Ultra), the film blends the realms of fantasy and cop drama and takes place in a world where humans live and work alongside orcs and elves.Will Smithplays a human cop forced to team up with an orc (Joel Edgerton), the first of his kind to join the force. The first half of this trailer plays like the most obvious metaphor about race ever as Smith’s character talks about how there are different races (orcs, humans, faeries, etc....

In advance of Marvel rolling outJoe and Anthony Russo’sCaptain America: Civil War, the comics/movie company has set their sights on helping young scientifically minded women get a step up in the world of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). With that in mind, they’ve rolled out theCaptain America: Civil War’s"Girls Reforming the Future" Challenge. Finalists of this challenge will then have the chance to win a grand prize of an internship at Marvel Studios, an experience which she can then share with girls around the world....

If you don’t know the nameChuck Jones, you almost certainly know his work. Chuck Jones has become the most famous of the directors who worked on the classic Looney Tunes shorts. The hands-off approach taken by Warner Bros. toward their cartoons let all of their directors retain a greater degree of creative control and individualism than at rival studios, and Jones was arguably the most distinctive of his group. If you know what to look for, his visual fingerprints are the most easily identified, and underwent the most apparent evolution over the course of his career....

Check out our ever-expanding review coverage of new and returning fall TVhere. It’s difficult to imagine thatEmpirecould go bigger than it already has.Lee DanielsandDanny Strong’s Fox drama exploded this past winter as “blackDynasty,” picking up more and more viewers each week, and breaking the current broadcast ratings ceiling. It woke viewers up with its “leave no plot behind” energy, music producerTimbaland’s kinetic soundtrack, and its immediate engagement as a series. It was the soapiest soap that could be, and yet, its entertainment value (and mere 12 episodes) made it appointment television....

Who isFleabag? She still doesn’t have a name, but she is “just a girl with no friends and an empty heart … by your own description,” a therapist (Fiona Shaw) repeats back to her. Fleabag (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) glances briefly at the camera, her confidant, with a purposeful look. It’s one she gives many times over the course of the new season, which picks up just over a year since we last saw the character in her time, and three years since we’ve seen her in our own....