While many Japanese role-playing games have fantastic stories, a select few are truly exceptional. These games represent the best of video game storytelling, creating characters and narratives that players will remember long after they finish playing.
HBO hasn’t officially confirmed a second season of Welcome to Derry, but it’s definitely happening. Seasons 2 and 3 will serve as prequels to the IT movies from 2017 and 2019, delving deeper into the town’s frightening past. The show won’t be based on a specific Stephen King story, but it will expand on the world established in his 1986 novel, filling in missing pieces of the history.
Certain movie plot twists are so amazing and unexpected that they become legendary. These films, which reveal surprising information or dramatically change the story’s direction, contain some of the best plot twists from the past fifty years. Be warned: this will contain spoilers for all the movies mentioned.
Everyone makes mistakes in D&D, both players and Dungeon Masters. While many errors during gameplay are easy to fix, mistakes made when creating characters can be much more difficult to resolve later on. Often, DM errors aren’t about understanding the rules themselves, but about understanding what the players are trying to do.
Think of Vile as Taylor Sheridan’s take on a suspenseful trap movie. The film centers around ten people who are kidnapped and locked in a room, where they have 22 hours to escape. To win their freedom, they must withstand intense pain. As time runs out, the situation becomes increasingly tense and the captives grow more desperate. Eventually, the film reveals who is behind the ordeal and why. While the cast is largely made up of up-and-coming actors, it also features some familiar faces, including Greg Cipes (known from Teen Titans) and Ian Bohen, who plays Ryan on Yellowstone.
2001: A Space Odyssey remains a hugely influential and important film. It’s often debated which of Stanley Kubrick’s movies is his best, but 2001 consistently stands out as having had the biggest impact on viewers, critics, and the future of filmmaking.
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It’s always surprising and enjoyable to see actors play against type. For example, Elijah Wood, best known as the kind-hearted Frodo Baggins, was fantastic as a terrifying cannibal in Sin City. Similarly, Tom Cruise, usually a classic action star, hilariously portrayed a sleazy and insecure studio executive in Tropic Thunder. And Jason Statham cleverly turned his tough-guy image on its head for comedic effect in Spy.
Predictive science fiction is often inaccurate, making it remarkable that a film from 1927, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, correctly anticipated certain realities of 2026. When it was first released, the film presented a bleak future with ideas that seemed unbelievable. However, nearly a century later, the movie’s surprisingly accurate predictions suggest it was a more insightful vision of the future than many people thought.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) has a simple premise: a host is made to watch bad movies and provides humorous commentary, aided by two robot sidekicks. The show’s format has remained largely consistent over the years, building a dedicated following. A revival was announced in February, and information about it is now widely available online.