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Looking for what’s new (and good) onAmazon Prime Videothis month? Wonderful news, because we’ve got you covered with a rundown of the best new movies hitting Amazon’s streaming service in October 2020, from some old favorites to the newest releases everyone’s going to be talking about. In the latter category, of course, the big-ticket item in Amazon’s October releases isBorat Subsequent Moviefilm,Sacha Baron Cohen’s return as Borat Sagdiyev in the surprise sequel to his 2006 comedy sensation....

Netflix has already seen smashing success with its solo superhero seriesDaredevil,Jessica Jones,Luke Cage, and presumablyIron Fistwhen it premieres this March 17th, but fans of these series have been anticipating the team-up ofThe Defendersfor quite some time. That time is almost upon us.Charlie Cox(Matt Murdock, a.k.a. Daredevil),Krysten Ritter(Jessica Jones),Mike Colter(Luke Cage), andFinn Jones(Danny Rand, a.k.a. Iron Fist) recently united to film their first scene for the Marvel mash-up due out later this year....

When it comes to bringing a show likeAvatar: The Last Airbenderto life, there is nothing more important than making sure the casting is perfect. With such a large cast of young characters, the actors portraying these characters are under a lot of pressure to portray beloved characters while also putting their own spin on that role.The Netflix live-action seriesisbased on the animated series of the same name, and it is set in a mythological world where some people are born with the power to manipulate a natural element like fire, water, air, and earth,which is called “bending....

For all you American presidential history nerds out there, I’m sure you have some awareness ofthe Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidences. Ranging from the number of letters in their names to the details of their assassinations, the laundry list of coincidental similarities between the personal and political histories ofAbraham LincolnandJohn F. Kennedyis one of the strangestMatrix glitchesin history, and it somehow extended into Hollywood. In 1951, before John F. Kennedy was even a notable politician, a thriller calledThe Tall Targetdared to ask,“what if Abraham Lincoln was saved from assassination by a guy named… John Kennedy?...

Back in 1986, filmmakerJohn Hugheswas already burning up the scene, having made his directorial debut withSixteen Candles, which was soon followed byThe Breakfast Club. Having penned the scripts for classics likeNational Lampoon’s VacationandMr. Mom, he quickly found his voice in Hollywood and was now finding his way visually. For his third movie, he would team up with quickly rising young star,Matthew Broderick, in a movie about a teenager who plays hooky just to hang out with his friends in the city for the day....

While Netflix’s live-action reimagining ofAvatar: The Last Airbenderwon’t come out until the end of February,the series has already found itself at the center of some social media controversy.It all started with a simple interview with the show’s young cast members, conducted byEntertainment Weekly. Talking about their characters, brother and sister duo Sokka and Katara,Ian OusleyandKiawentiiowent over some of the changes that new showrunnerAlbert Kimmade to the source material created byMichael Dante DiMartinoandBryan Konietzko....

Based on the popular and award-winning Dark Horse Comics graphic novels created byGerard Way(My Chemical Romance) and illustrated byGabriel Bá, the Netflix seriesThe Umbrella Academyfollows the “children” of Sir Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore), a billionaire industrialist who adopts seven of the 43 infants inexplicably born on the same day in 1989 to random women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before. While they’ve been prepared to save the world, things are never that easy, and now that the impending apocalypse is very real, Luther (Tom Hopper), Diego (David Castañeda), Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman), Klaus (Robert Sheehan), Vanya (Ellen Page) and Number Five (Aidan Gallagher) must get over their own family drama, if they have any chance of stopping global destruction....

“It’s all a construct. None of it is real, and we’re not here so where the fuck are we?” So says a character somewhere along the way in the first four episodes ofWestworldseason 3. The fact that I’m wary to even tell you who says it, let alone the context, just goes to show how much that statement is an accurate summation of the entireWestworldexperience. Returning this month,Westworldis back in its singularly confounding form with creatorsJonathan‌ NolanandLisa Joyremaining committed to creating complex narrative architectures....

Editor’s note: The below contains major spoilers for the Season 1 finale of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire. AMC’s adaptation ofAnne Rice’sInterview with the Vampirehas rightfully been lauded since its debut this past month. The TV series by creatorRolin Jonesfeatures the relationship between two vampires Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Lestat (Sam Reid) in New Orleans. There’s muchthat’s been saidabout the show already; however, the final episode of Season 1 adds an interesting new wrinkle to this adaptation by revealing the true identity of Rashid (Assad Zaman)....

One of the best things about HBO’sWatchmenwas how it balanced legacy characters with new ones. They were able to bring in folks like Laurie Blake, Adrian Veidt, and Doctor Manhattan, but never to the point where it felt like they couldn’t trust new characters like Angela Abar, Will Reeves, and Wade Tillman. However, the absence of some characters was duly noted, specifically Nite Owl II, Dan Dreiberg. While we see remnants of Dan’s work, specifically his airship Archie, the character makes no appearance and is only mentioned briefly in passing....

Rob Rauschis possibly the most divisive character to ever enter theLove Island USAvilla. At first, when he and fellow islanderLeah Katebhad an instant attraction, the viewers were enamored with the snake wrangler’s charms. However, seeing his eccentric behavior after he decided to move from Leah to bombshellAndrea Carmona, like inexplicably jumping into the pool and hiding beneath the pool deck away from cameras, and his gas-lighting techniques that were on full-display when Leah confronted him, many viewers lost faith in the lover-boy image he had been building over time....

On March 3rd, 2017,Hugh Jackmanwill be delivering his swan song as the scrappy Canadian mutant who is “the best there is at what he does”. Fox’s currently untitledWolverine 3promises to be the final outing for Jackman’s portrayal of Logan, though the possibility of a recast down the line is always in the cards. Little has been revealed about the plot of the film itself, as Jackman and directorJames Mangold(The Wolverine) are keeping things under wraps this time around, though one of its villains has finally come to light....

If you can’t get enough ofWorld of Warcraft, you’ll be excited to know that Blizzard is now accepting pre-orders for theWorld of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - A Pandemic System Board Game!It’s a collaborative effort between Blizzard and Z-man games to bring the fun of one of the most famous MMORPGs of all time to a table near you. The name of the game is quite a mouthful; to be fair, though, players are getting a lot in return....