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CNET
3 days ago
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- CNET
10 Great Horror Movies to Watch on Prime Video Right Now
Coherence is a huge favorite here at CNET and it's a terrifying watch. Not necessarily in the traditional, gory, horrific sense but more in terms of the concepts. It's a multiverse movie released before multiverses were cool and is not what you expect. Coherence is the kind of movie you'll finish and immediately rewatch to try to rewire your brain. It's a fantastic achievement and a must watch.
Geek Girl Authority
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
STAR TREK: 5 Alternate Lives
The Star Trek Franchise follows the crews of Starfleet ships in the future as they boldly explore the galaxy. But what if our heroes lived a different kind of life? For this week's Trek Tuesday, we're remembering five Star Trek episodes that show our heroes living a different life. Did we include your favorite? Be sure and let us know in the comment section or over on social media. 'The Inner Light' Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5's 'The Inner Light' is widely regarded as one of the show's best episodes. In this episode, the U.S.S. Enterprise-D encounters a strange probe floating in space. But when the probe zaps Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), he is inexplicably transported into a new existence. RELATED: Star Trek: Guest Star Spotlight on Majel Barrett Roddenberry Picard is unable to contact the Enterprise-D or determine how he might return to his former reality. So eventually, Picard settles into life as 'Kamin' on the planet Kataan. Thus, he lives out a recreation of the final decades of the doomed planet from whence the probe originated. Meanwhile, only twenty minutes pass on the Enterprise-D . However, he does get to keep a flute to remember the experience. We see that he still displays this flute on his desk decades later in Star Trek: Picard Season 3. 'Hard Time' On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Miles O'Brien (Colm Meaney) had a reputation for being something of a whipping boy. But in Deep Space Nine Season 4's 'Hard Time,' that reputation seems particularly well-earned. The episode sees O'Brien falsely convicted of espionage on the planet Argratha. On this planet, those who are convicted are placed into a virtual simulation. This simulation distorts the prisoner's perception of time. So, O'Brien has served his sentence before Starfleet learns he's been incarcerated. But from O'Brien's perspective, that process took twenty years, not a matter of days. In the wake of his experience, he struggles to readjust as he returns to his normal life about Deep Space 9. 'Far Beyond the Stars' Speaking of popular episodes, there are few Star Trek episodes more universally lauded than Deep Space Nine Season 6's 'Far Beyond the Stars.' In this episode, Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) finds himself inhabiting the life of Benny Russell, a Black author living on Earth in the 1950s. RELATED: Star Trek : Answering Your Questions About Caitians Russell writes the story of Sisko, the Black captain of a space station in the future (sound familiar?). But unfortunately, he faces discrimination and oppression as he attempts to get the story published. In this episode, Sisko is both the dreamer and the dream. 'Workforce' In the Star Trek: Voyager Season 7 two-part episode 'Workforce,' the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager are captured and are brainwashed into believing they are different people. As such, they accept that they have spent their lives living and working on an industrial workforce. While there are some echoes of their previous lives, the crew is unable to remember the true nature of their existence. So, it's up to Neelix (Ethan Phillips) and Chakotay (Robert Beltran), who weren't affected by the mind-warp, to restore the rest of the crews' memories. 'The Elysian Kingdom' Photo Cr: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ ©2022 ViacomCBS. All Rights Reserved. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1's 'The Elysian Kingdom' saw the U.S.S. Enterprise crew experiencing a whole new reality after they encounter an enigmatic nebula in space. This is thanks to the fact that the nebula bonds with the daughter of Doctor M'Benga (Babs Olusanmokun), Rukiya (Sage Arrindell/Makambe Simamba). As a result, the Enterprise and her crew are transformed into fantasy analogues of themselves. RELATED: Star Trek: The Animated Series : 5 Characters and Species Introduced by the Show The fantasy analogues are taking from the children's picture book The Elysian Kingdom, which M'Benga reads to Rukiya. Interestingly, this book was written by the aforementioned Benny Russell. At the conclusion of the episode, reality is restored. However, M'Benga must accept that his daughter has chosen to remain with the nebula rather than continue waiting in the transporter buffer for M'Benga to cure the ailment with which she is afflicted. These Star Trek episodes are currently available for streaming on Paramount+. STAR TREK: Tracing the Holodeck's History Avery Kaplan is the author of several books and the Features Editor at Comics Beat. She was honored to serve as a judge for the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize Award and the 2021 Prism Awards. She lives in the mountains of Southern California with her partner and a pile of cats, and her favorite place to visit is the cemetery. You can also find her writing on Comics Bookcase, NeoText, Shelfdust, the Mary Sue, in many issues of PanelxPanel, and in the margins of the books in her personal library.
Geek Tyrant
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
RICK AND MORTY Season 8 Showrunner on How the Series Is Shaped by Pure Creative Chaos — GeekTyrant
That balance between completely awesome absurdity and deeper narrative threads in Adult Swims Rick and Morty is part of the show's design philosophy. And according to showrunner Scott Marder, it often starts with one undeniable spark… an idea too good to ignore. Marder, who's been steering the animated sci-fi juggernaut alongside co-creator Dan Harmon, recently shared some insight into how the sausage gets made over at Rick and Morty HQ. While they try to shape each season with both episodic standalones and serialized arcs in mind, sometimes a single pitch kicks the door down and demands its place. Marder says: 'There's just no ignoring that we could be starting off a day trying to tackle something, and then someone will throw out an idea that is so inescapable, and it'll excite Dan [Harmon], and it'll excite me so much that we don't even need to articulate that we're moving on to this for now, because it is sparking so much joy.' That spontaneous, chaotic energy is something the Rick and Morty writers' room embraces and they should. Some ideas simply hijack the day—and ultimately shape where the show goes. Marder continued: 'You didn't come in on a Tuesday expecting to hear it, and you can't unhear it once you've heard it, and suddenly that's episode eight. 'They all just sort of assemble, and then we find a method to the madness and a shape to a season that makes it feel like we broke it in the order that you're seeing it in, but it's really just finding the things that we find most attractive and most compelling and get the most sort of excitement going in a room on any given moment.' It's that mix of instinct and improvisation that keeps Rick and Morty feeling fresh even as it heads into its eighth season, which premieres Sunday, May 25, 2025. Fans can expect the usual mix of high-concept weirdness and character-driven chaos.
BBC News
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Nigerian Doctor Who fan thrilled show is 'finally' coming to Lagos
"Whatever I was doing - maybe cleaning up or doing homework - when I heard the 'oooh-oooh-oooooh'," Adesoji Kukoyi says, mimicking the iconic Doctor Who theme tune, "I dropped everything and ran straight to the television."As a child growing up in 1980s Nigeria, Mr Kukoyi was infatuated with sci-fi sensation Doctor Who. British shows like Allo Allo and Fawlty Towers aired regularly as a cultural hangover from the colonial era, but none captured Mr Kukoyi's imagination like the time-travelling Doctor did."He always spoke to me," 44-year-old Mr Kukoyi, who currently has a vintage Doctor Who theme as the ringtone on his phone, tells the BBC. "Like there's somebody watching out for us... yes, we make mistakes, but we do our best, especially if we have a teacher that will lead us on the right path."Mr Kukoyi has been watching Doctor Who for decades, so when he heard that on Saturday an episode will, for the very first time, be set in Nigeria, he was elated."I was watching last week's episode with my wife and the preview [for the following week] said: 'Welcome to Lagos, Nigeria'. I screamed like a little girl!" Mr Kukoyi says. The setting is momentous not just for Mr Kukoyi - a native of Nigeria's biggest and liveliest city Lagos - but for the show too. Saturday's adventure will be the first primarily set in is fitting that the producers chose Nigeria for this milestone - in 2013, fans worldwide were delighted when nine lost Doctor Who episodes from the 1960s were unearthed in a Nigerian TV facility. Ariyon Bakare, who in the upcoming episode plays the mysterious Barber, says fans can expect "a time-bending cultural ancestral collision" and "hair, lots of hair".The preview also teases a vibrant barber shop, a brimming Lagos market and a towering, monstrous-looking spider. Fans speculate that this creature is Anansi, a legendary character in West African and Caribbean folktales, but scriptwriter Inua Ellams is keeping specifics under for why the show has enjoyed such popularity in Nigeria, he says: "There's something Nigerian about the Doctor. Nigerians are sort of loud, gregarious people... the Doctor is mysterious, boisterous, sort of over-confident but somehow manages to save the day."Ellams, who moved from Nigeria to the UK as a child, also considers why in 62 years, a character known to traverse the universe has barely spent any time in could be that no writer has felt confident enough to produce an authentic African story, he says, or it might be down to the Doctor's need to "blend into his environment and be inconspicuous"."Ncuti Gatwa [who plays the Doctor] being an actor of African descent means that we can tell new stories with the Doctor and negotiate in different spaces because of his appearance. "And this is the brilliance of the show - every Doctor creates new opportunities to tell new stories in different ways," Ellams tells the BBC. But these fresh Doctor Who stories have a smaller reach than the old ones did, as the show is no longer broadcast on Nigerian public TV. If you are in the country and want to catch up on the Doctor's exploits, you would have to subscribe to streaming service Disney Mr Kukoyi insists that a dedicated troop of Nigerian Doctor Who lovers will be sitting transfixed on their sofas on Saturday evening, bearing witness to the Tardis materialising in Lagos."I'm waiting with baited breath," he says. "Finally, he is coming!"Mr Kukoyi - whose first experience of the Doctor was one played by a stripy scarf-wearing Tom Baker - says his young daughters are not so taken with his beloved is "trying to get them onboard", he says. Perhaps seeing the Doctor wearing traditional Nigerian clothing, squeezing his way through a quintessential Lagos market and getting caught up in local folklore will help them fall in love with the show the way their father once did. You may also be interested in: Nuzo Onoh - the Queen of African horror who is terrified of ghostsThe Nigerian teenagers who became sci-fi sensationsWhy black science fiction 'can't be ignored' Go to for more news from the African us on Twitter @BBCAfrica, on Facebook at BBC Africa or on Instagram at bbcafrica
