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'The Witcher' (Photo Credit: Katalin Vermes / Netflix)
TGIF. While you’re planning for the long weekend ahead, we’ve rounded up the top movie and TV trailers that you may have missed during the week.
The Mandalorian teases a dangerous bounty hunting adventure, while The Grudge shows the chilling return of a supernatural curse. From Netflix’s The Witcherto Lionsgate Movies’ Knives Out, here are the top movies and TV shows to keep on your radar.
The Mandalorian
Challenging times are ahead for bounty hunters in Disney+’s The Mandalorian, which is set in the Star Wars universe. Beyond the borders of the New Republic, evil awaits. Catch this new series on Disney+ starting Nov. 12.
Knives Out
A detective and a trooper attempt to solve the mystery of a family patriarch in the comedy Knives Out. When the quirky relatives are questioned, they realize that foul play is to blame. But, who actually killed him? This movie, which stars Daniel Craig and Chris Evans, hits theaters Thanksgiving weekend.
The Witcher
Henry Cavill stars as monster slayer Geralt of Rivia in the fantasy Netflix series The Witcher. When a young princess poses as a threat, Geralt of Rivia must protect her from unleashing a greater evil. The Witcher hits Netflix on Dec. 20.
The Grudge
When a realtor walks into a deserted house, a bathtub filled with dark water lures him inside. The Grudge, a creepy movie about a supernatural spirit that kills people who encounter it, will haunt your dreams. The reboot film is coming to theaters Jan. 3.
The End of the F***ing World
The End of the F***ing World is coming back for Season 2. Based on the comic book series by Charles Forsman, it follows two teen outcasts who go on a violent journey to escape their troubled lives. The dark show returns to Netflix on Nov. 5.
Jumanji: The Next Level
The game is glitched, but the squad returns in Jumanji: The Next Level. When the players accidentally change bodies and face other challenges, they will have to make it out alive or die. The movie, which stars Karen Gillan, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, and Jack Black, hits theaters Dec. 13.
Hunters
Hunters, a new series about hunting Nazis, is coming to Amazon Prime Video soon. It’s executive produced by Jordan Peele and stars Al Pacino, and those are all the details we know so far.
Here are all the top gaming and tech deals to keep on your radar for Black Friday 2019. (Photo Credit: Norbert Levajsics / Unsplash)
The holiday season is upon us, which means it is time to get ready for awesome Black Friday deals.
With only a few weeks to go, preparing for the massive shopping holiday and Cyber Monday can be challenging. There are many promotions to keep track of and it can be hard to stick to a budget and find something for everyone on your list.
However, there is no need to worry: We are covering all the basics below. From now until Nov. 29, we will be updating this page with general tips and the best gaming and tech deals so far for Black Friday 2019.
When Is Black Friday?
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Black Friday will take place on Nov. 29 this year, but you don’t have to wait until the day after Thanksgiving to score the best deals. Some retailers are slashing prices all month long, so if you don’t enjoy getting up early to go to crowded stores or dealing with slow websites, you can spread your shopping out over the next few weeks.
On the other hand, if you do like the Black Friday shopping experience, you’ll want to get an early start: Some stores are open on Thanksgiving, while others open between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. local time on Black Friday. Check this guide for Thanksgiving and Black Friday store hours, so you can be prepared ahead of time.
Need a smart home gadget? Black Friday may be the best time to buy one. Best Buy, Walmart, and Amazon are known to slash prices on Google Nest Hubs, Echos, Amazon Fire TV Sticks, and other virtual assistant devices.
What Are the Top Gaming and Black Friday Tech Deals So Far?
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Some retailers, including Kohl’s, have already shared their Black Friday ads. Here is a break down of all the promotions to keep on your radar.
It’s November 1st. Halloween is technically over. Everyone’s scary Twitter names are slowly going back to normal, and you’re already running out of time to get great deals on costumes at your local Spirit store. But we can still be spooky if we want. Chris Christie delayed Halloween in New Jersey over a weather emergency. So we get to extend it, too, to talk about two recent games that together offer horror for all ages on Nintendo Switch: Luigi’s Mansion 3 and Vampyr.
Let me get this out of the way. I’m not one of these weirdly passionate stans for the first Luigi’s Mansion. It was a cool tech demo for the GameCube launch, and the abstract nature of its visuals compared to sequels do make it scarier in a way, but I don’t understand the hate for these sequels as some deviation for the pure original. That game was parody Resident Evil by way of Ghostbusters covered in family-friendly Nintendo polish. Luigi’s Mansion 3 is absolutely a continuation of that same bizarre mashup.
As in the first game, you explore a single haunted house, in this case is a towering hotel. However, the mission-based design of Dark Moon influences the segmented nature of the building. Exploring a self-contained floor rewards you with a missing elevator button to go explore another largely self-contained floor. Luigi’s Mansion is about poking your way through little areas rather than figuring out a massive puzzle box dungeon. Heck, the online co-op multiplayer randomizes room layouts and yet never feels inconsistent as a result.
That focus on micro dioramas (not unlike Link’s Awakening) to solve allow the developers to pack each room with detail as lovingly rendered as Luigi’s endless scaredy-cat animations. In aggregate, they wind up giving the hotel the fearsome scaled implied by the title screen. It helps that this time you can mess with almost every object with your vacuum, once you figure out what exactly the game wants you to do. Sometimes you can just suck or blow. Other times you need to blow with a burst jump or suck after attaching a plunger for extra strength. Work together with your gross clone Gooigi to reach tricky spots or just use the power of two vacuums at once. And switching between different beam types, your normal flashlight and spectral dark light, give the game almost third-person shooter qualities, again continuing the Resident Evil comparison.
However, also like certain Resident Evil games, the shooting can’t always keep up when the pacing moves from methodical terror to action-packed horror. I experimented with all different types of control schemes, from motion controls to separating moving direction and aiming direction to using the triggers for different shots, and never quite found one that felt as responsive as I wanted. Other folks have decried the slam move as being an overpowered way to defeat ghosts, but frankly I preferred it to what would’ve been an infinitely more awkward exercise of capturing ghosts in a more intricate way. It’s a shame, too, because my frustrations with the shooting especially came into play during what were otherwise spectacularly creative boss fights against TV cop ghosts or musician ghosts that possess their own pianos.
Much like how Luigi is the lesser Mario brother, Luigi’s Mansion is kind of a B Nintendo series. But without the expectations of a flagship release, B games can do cooler and weirder things without fear of screwing them up. In that vein, Vampyr is also very much a B game. Just know that Dontnod’s blood-sucking adventure is very much not for kids.
Being a vampire, an immortal superpowered mesmerizing creature of the night who can turn into a bat, is a power fantasy that’s almost too powerful to be represented accurately in a video game. What are they going to do? Give all the villagers garlic guns and cross shields? As fun as that would be, Vampyr instead uses a very compelling story conceit to both balance out the gameplay and get you invested in the suffering characters of its blighted Victorian England world. You play as a doctor ice-skating uphill as he tries to help patients and unravel the conspiracy behind his affliction while denying his own vicious bloodlust.
That means you spend a lot of time in this RPG just talking to people, making sure areas don’t get too sick, and brewing new remedies in your lab. When you want to find a quest giver, their name doesn’t just magically appear over their head. You need to talk to strangers you think fit the description. It’s surprisingly sociable, a nice contrast to the isolating vampire experience. Your connections to these humans is supposed to make it that much more agonizing if you then choose to suck their sweet animal blood for experience points.
Unleash your frustration over the murders you commit during the game’s frequent combat encounters. These scraps against future vampire victims are pretty straightforward. Players found earlier versions of the game too difficult in a way the fights didn’t really deserve. But in easier modes you can get by with regular attacks and guard breaks. What kept it entertaining to me is how schlocky your custom vampire powers get as you progress. You turn into mist as a quick dodge. Staggering enemies exposes their soft necks for biting. And you have a blood meter for powering sharp claws or projectile spheres made of the sticky red stuff. There’s nothing gameplay-wise holding you back from being a complete monster, just the reluctant nature of the character.
Well that’s not entirely true. Vampyr is held back by a small open-world that takes too long to get around, layers of management systems confusing and optional enough that I ignored them, and performance strain you’d expect from a big Unreal Engine 4 game running on Switch. But its thoughtful B-game vampire sim charms win out in the end.
It’s finally the weekend, which means it’s time to binge-watch some documentaries, TV shows, and films on Netflix. With so many good options available, deciding what to stream can be tough. To help you get started, we’ve picked the top six flicks to see on Netflix from November 1 to November 3. Ruthless kings, gravity-defying humans, and secret agents will keep you glued to your screen from today to Sunday.
Atypical
There is no such thing as “normal,” and Atypical aims to show that for all walks of life. The show, which follows the Gardner family, addresses growing up, infidelity, and social anxiety. Season 3 highlights Sam’s transition in college and his personal journey to independence.
Kengan Ashura: Part II is coming to Netflix today: Ohma Tokita is still fighting in a hidden world where corporate troubles are settled in gladiator fights. Tokita is not in it for the money though, he just wants to prove his strength to fellow contenders.
Watch Timothée Chalamet and Robert Pattinson go to war in The King, Netflix’s new movie based on King Henry V’s life. After the young monarch (Chalamet) takes over the English throne, court politics and a grueling war will challenge the crown’s interests.
When a thief teams up with a street racer for an upcoming heist, they realize that the odds are against them in the thriller Drive. The duo find out that they’ll have to outsmart authorities, who have their own sketchy interests in mind.
What if you were born with the ability to float? The Man Without Gravity, a sci-fi drama, follows a man who can’t stay on the ground and becomes a celebrity overnight for his incredible gift. Amid the fame though, all he wants is human connection, something he hasn’t had for years.
A computer hacker (Keanu Reeves) questions his reality in The Matrix, a sci-fi movie about machines simulating human environments. In order to break free, he will have to join two individuals and stop the technology from corrupting their minds.
'Into the Dark: Pilgrim' (Photo by: Patrick Wymore / Hulu)
Hulu has a lot to offer, however, deciding what to watch on the platform isn’t always easy. If you need help putting together your binge-watching lineup, you’ve come to the right place: We’ve picked the top documentaries, TV series, and movies to stream on Hulu from November 1 to November 3. Startup companies, deadly dinners, and zombie armies will probably sabotage your weekend plans, because you’ll want to stream Hulu all day and night.
Silicon Valley
Season 6 of Silicon Valley is here and it’s going to be a bittersweet goodbye to the startup life. AI, cryptocurrency, and coding could be a blessing or a curse for the entrepreneurs as they near the end.
Terminator: Dark Fate hits theaters today and to celebrate, you can watch the movie that started the famous franchise: The Terminator. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton play lead roles in this sci-fi movie, which follows a cyborg assassin’s mission to kill a human.
Halloween is over, but Hulu’s horror anthology show is not: Into the Dark: Pilgrim is a twisted take on Turkey Day. When reenactment pilgrims are invited to a family’s Thanksgiving dinner, their autumn gathering turns into a dark celebration “set in the old days.”
It’s World War II and American paratroopers uncover a sinister secret in France in Overlord. After entering a compound, they find themselves battling Nazis and science experiment zombies. Once the undead army rises, the men find themselves in an all-out war with flesh-eaters.
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride is a cute and creepy animated film about a young Victorian man who accidentally marries a woman beyond the grave. When he enters the underworld, he discovers that love can mean many different things, even if you have skeletons in the closet.
Four individuals get the superhero treatment in the movie Fantastic Four. Jessica Alba and Chris Evans star in this action movie, which follows the quad’s quest to take down an enemy and protect humans from his evil scheme.
'Terminator: Dark Fate' (Photo Credit: Paramount Pictures)
Like a never-ending time loop, another Terminator movie is here. So what separates Terminator: Dark Fate from its fellow Arnold Schwarzenegger murder robot sci-fi movies? Well it’s finally rated-R again. Plus James Cameron, the man who started it all, took a break from his infinite Avatar sequels to help produce and write the story.
But before you see if this is the T2 sequel your whole future has been building toward, watch these movies before Terminator: Dark Fate.
Deadpool
James Cameron may have a credit, but Terminator: Dark Fate was directed by Tim Miller, a director who forced his way onto the A-list by willing the live-action Deadpool movie out of purgatory. After the internet fell in love with the leaked pre-viz trailer, Miller proved that his VFX background could deliver an inventively action-packed R-rated romp. Terminator may not require that same sense of humor, but everything else is right in Miller’s wheelhouse.
Halt and Catch Fire
Dark Fate’s time-travelling protector of humanity is a cyborg Mackenzie Davis. If you want to watch Davis in a different story about technology, well you should watch Black Mirror’s “San Junipero.” But after that you should check out Halt and Catch Fire, where Davis plays a passionate prodigy during the dawn of personal computing.
Agents of Shield Season 4
The gimmick for Dark Fate’s Terminator, the Rev-9, is its ability to split into a robot endoskeleton and T2 goo human skin exoskeleton. Gabriel Luna plays that human skin. And if you want to see him as another hellish pursuer, check out Marvel’s Agents of Shield’s fourth season where he plays the Robbie Reyes version of Ghost Rider. Too bad this flaming skull’s Hulu spin-off got cancelled.
The Terminator
Judgment Day gets all the love but the first Terminator is straight-up better. Sorry. The time loop is contained. There’s no dumb kid. A future human versus a future robot is a way cleaner conflict than a future robot versus a reprogrammed future robot. It’s the only time Arnold gets to be actually threatening. And the tone is darker and more violent compared to the more Hollywood blockbuster sequel.
Terminator Genisys
On the flipside, the stupid, obnoxious, convoluted Terminator: Genisys is by far the worst movie in the franchise. Watch this to see just how bad things can get. Dark Fate could only look better in comparison.
The Matrix
People like to talk about all the anime and religious influence in The Matrix, but the sci-fi masterpiece that brought us into the new millennium also owes a huge debt to The Terminator in its conflict between man and machine. Can you believe we’re getting a Matrix 4?
Beauty and the Beast
Dark Fate brings Sarah Connor herself, Linda Hamilton, back into the franchise. Her action heroine chops are even more compelling combined with her age and world-weariness that movies don’t typically allow women to have. But if you want to see her hang out with a big hairy Ron Perlman check out the bizarre 1980s CBS drama Beauty and the Beast.
A herd of goats helped save the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from the Easy Fire on Oct. 30. (Photo Credit: Mario Tama / Getty Images)
Five hundred goats helped save the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from the California wildfires.
Earlier this year, the library hired the animals to help clear flammable brush surrounding the property, BBC reported. Once the goats grazed on the scrub, they were able to create a fire break that slowed blazes and enabled firefighters to quell flames on Wednesday.
“We were told by one of the firefighters that they believe that fire break made their job easier,” spokesperson Melissa Giller told Reuters. “The brush only went so far, it didn’t reach the library, because the goats ate it all.”
The library, which is located outside of Los Angeles, was one of many structures threatened by the recent Easy Fire. On Wednesday, gale-force winds brought the Easy Fire closer to the library and it came less than 50 feet from a plane hangar on the site.
Thankfully, the goats’ cleared path helped prevent damage from the incident. According to 805 Goats owner Scott Morris, the herd, which includes goats Vincent Van Goat and Selena Goatmez, like to nosh on noxious weeds that could make wildfires worse.
By Wednesday evening, the Easy Fire forced roughly 30,000 people to evacuate their homes and burned over 1,650 acres, according to officials.
“All the flames are gone, all we see are charred hillsides,” Giller added. “We feel the worst is over and the Reagan library is safe.”
