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Remember the  Tomb Raiderfranchise? MGM has just unearthed their plans for a sequel to the 2018 series reboot, starring Alicia Vikander as a young Lara Croft. After a few years with limited progress, they’ve found a new filmmaker to get  Tomb Raider 2 moving again. That’s Misha Green, who just wrapped showrunning the first season of  Lovecraft Country on HBO. Green will write and direct Vikander’s  Tomb Raider 2 according to Deadline. After several big projects in television, the new  Tomb Raider will be Green’s feature directorial debut. Green is the showrunner and executive p...

Illustration by Andrea Ventura. Omelas, the utopian setting of Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1973 short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” is built on deception. Le Guin introduces the city on a day of celebration, dwelling on its merry crowds, gorgeous architecture, and picturesque proximity to a bay and snow-capped mountains. As the narrator roves through this vista, describing the sights with pride and wonder, the admiration grows defensive. “Do you believe? Do you accept the festival, the city, the joy?” the narrator asks. “Then let me describe one more thing.” The deception...

The Shoggoths Arrive Lovecraft Country got off to a running start with Atticus (Jonathan Majors), Leti (Jurnee Smollett) and George (Courtney B. Vance) encountering the horrors of racism and the supernatural on their trip to Ardham, Massachusetts. But no moment in the premiere better set the stage for the series than the Shoggoths, creatures taken from H.P. Lovecraft's lore and blended with the concept of the vampire. Their arrival marked a shift for the characters' understanding of their world, forcing them to confront cops, monsters, and cops that become monsters. For showrunner Misha Green...

Lovecraft Country Wins Best Horror Series at Critics Choice Super Awards ✖ The very first Critics Choice Super Awards took place on Sunday with the new award from the Critics Choice Association recognizing genre entertainment that doesn't always get its due, including horror, action, animation, and super hero genres. And while 2020 was a year unlike any other in entertainment, horror television was still there to give viewers thrills, chills and other scares. And while there were a number of great horror series, there can be only one winner -- Lovecraft Country took home the trophy for Bes...

The Best TV Shows: 2020 + Video December 28, 2020 by: 2020 was almost the year without movies. With multiplexes closed around the world for a substantial part of the year, many of us turned to the small screen for entertainment. With a lot of time on our hands, there was also substantial programming to boot. From event series to new streaming launches, there have been so many excellent shows that aired in 2020 that we had to extend our list to include the 20 best! It was still hard to whittle down the list to just these, so if you feel we missed one of your favorite shows, let us know in th...