Deux saisons, deux fins du monde à contrecarrer: les aventures des enfants Hargreeves, superhéros dysfonctionnels, se poursuivent dans une deuxième mouture de la télésérie Umbrella Academy, une adaptation des bandes dessinées pour Netflix, sous la gouverne de Steve Blackman.
Le temps est venu de boucler la boucle. Avec une septième et dernière saison, sortie sept ans après la première « fin » de la série, l’oeuvre d’animation Clone Wars se termine avec 12 épisodes très largement à la hauteur des attentes… d’autant plus que la « commande » des amateurs était importante. Et que dire de celle de Disney, la maison-mère?
À l’aube de la deuxième guerre d’Irak, Katharine Gun, une analyste du GCHQ, l’agence de surveillance du Royaume-Uni, a transmis une note de la NSA américaine demandant que l’allié britannique serve à faire pression sur les autres membres du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies pour obtenir une résolution favorable à l’invasion réclamée par Washington. Le récit de ce geste et des conséquences qui en découlèrent se retrouve dans Official Secrets, un docudrame sorti l’an dernier.
Ils ont beau aller complètement à l’encontre de la physique, difficile de ne pas afficher un grand sourire lorsque l’on dévale une pente douce aux commandes d’un gigantesque Mech, un robot de combat, en faisant feu de tous ses canons. Et après une longue pause dans la célèbre franchise, voilà que MechWarrior 5, un jeu particulièrement réussi, débarque sur PC.
Avengers: Endgame is not for just anybody. This movie is for the souls who watched every movie on opening night, and for those who rewatched them again before every major event. Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame is the movie event of the year. It’s a love letter to the diehard fans of the past decade, and it works. It’s the perfect ending to an anthology of wonderful stories.
Expectations are fickle fiends. Especially for movies. It gets even harder when a remake is brought on after a successful first iteration. Oscar-winning visionary director Guillermo Del Toro made two delightfully fun Hellboy movies, starring the charming Ron Perlman. The character didn’t really need a reboot, but the world got one anyway. The new Hellboy (2019), directed by Neil Marshall and starring David Harbour, is not as terrible as everyone says.
Shazam! is the newest entry in the DC Movie Universe. After a series of bad to mediocre movies, DC realized that the biggest criticism they faced was the level of grittiness that caked the sides of their films: coated of broodiness, globbed with self-doubt, and void of smiles and lightheartedness.
Movies based on real events have a difficult task ahead of them: they need to keep the integrity of the event, but still tell a compelling story. If done poorly, it’s either a boring movie, or full of lies. Stockholm, a film by Canadian director, Robert Budreau, tells the story of the Norrmalmstrog robbery; this movie is a complete fictionalized version of the event that took place. Though Ethan Hawke’s performance is captivating, Stockholm is an ultimately flawed movie about relationships, and survival.
Who said that 4X games were dead? Seven years after supervising the finishing touches to Civilization V as the lead designer for , Jon Shafer is back into the fray with his own game, At the Gates, a title that both respects and transforms the codes of the 4X genre.
There are some characters out there who are perfect candidates for their own series. They’re developed enough to have more than one layer, and have potential for new threats and ways to grow. Iron Man, Daredevil, and potentially Captain Marvel are great examples. There are others who work better as a supporting character and have difficulty making it on their own. It’s the reason the Hulk won’t have a solo move anytime soon. The Punisher falls in this category, as the first part of his second season can show.
