Month: February 2020

“I knew from the moment I saw you where you were going,” a creepy rideshare driver says as he pulls up to a mansion in Los Angeles and drops Cherie (Ella Balinska) off. We don’t know what’s happened at the mansion, or why he seems almost happy to be dropping a woman off there, but we know it must not be good. Cherie is here for a date with Ethan (Pilou Asbæk), a wealthy bachelor her boss set her up with. After a few pleasantries and a drink in the giant house filled with what looks like ancient Egyptian imagery, Ethan breaks the fourth wall, looks into the camera, and signals with a smirk for it to wait outside. We remain outside for almost a minute, hearing only the screams from inside. After the door opens again, all hell breaks loose.

Shana Feste‘s Run Sweetheart Run gives the survive-the-night horror film a new twist, but there’s also a thinly-veiled metaphor at the center of a shallow plot. Before being forced to run through the streets of LA alone at night, Cherie is looking forward to her first date in a while. Being a single working mother still trying to distance herself from her volatile ex, she needed some time off for herself, especially since her boss set her up with a wealthy bachelor she hopes will be a nice guy. Oh, and to make matters worse, Cherie is on her period, and her toddler flushed her last tampon down the toilet right before she headed out on her date.

By the time she leaves Ethan’s mansion, she’s bloodied, tired, and scared, but she’ll find little comfort on the streets, as the moment she calls the cops, they arrest her for public intoxication. Somehow, Ethan convinces the cops to release her, but not before intimidating her one last time with a threatening proposition: If she can survive until dawn, she’s free to go.

Feste’s first foray into horror (she is known for indie dramas like last year’s Boundaries) is a highly entertaining and tense game of cat-and-mouse that quickly reveals its cat to be of the supernatural variety. It helps that Balinska gives a go-for-broke performance that has her switching between broken and fierce in a heartbeat, making for a protagonist you can easily root for. Asbæk, on the other hand, is having the time of his life playing the charismatic a-hole villain. Fans of Game of Thrones know that no matter how much you hate him, Asbæk will at least give you a very entertaining performance to watch, though this time he’s something more sinister more than simply an entitled rich playboy.

Though some viewers may take issue with the way the film’s mythology and message intertwine, Asbæk completely sells his villainous ways, and the film has fun playing with the idea that evil doesn’t just exist, but is enabled by those who sit idly by and do nothing. Indeed, whatever Ethan is, he and his monstrous deeds seem to be known by pretty much everyone in the film, from the Uber driver, to the cops, to random people on the streets who recognize him and the type of girl he goes after. Yet they keep enabling him through their inaction.

That message may lack subtlety, but Feste gives a deeply intimate portrayal of womanhood and the entrenched systems that often silence women, particularly women of color. There are even some similarities with an unlikely franchise: John Wick. We see a larger universe being slowly unfolded, with its own safe house version of the Continental, and even a dog companion who helps save the day. The safe house part is important, as no matter how alone Cherie seems, Run Sweetheart Run is also a celebration and homage to women who stand together and help each other in the face of adversity.

Even if the last act goes to some very predictable, in-your-face moments, the journey there is bolstered by some unexpected twists and two wonderful performances. Sure, the message is heavy-handed, but if it’s a positive one, and the movie’s entertaining, then it’s a journey worth embarking on.

Pokemon Home is now live on Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android devices. The new service lets you store Pokemon you’ve caught in various games in the cloud and bring them into the series’ latest installments, Sword and Shield. (You can even nab free Pokemon just for using the service.)

Through Pokemon Home, you can bring over Pokemon you have stored in Pokemon Bank on 3DS to the Switch, meaning it’s now possible to get a handful of non-Galar Pokemon in Sword and Shield, including other regional forms. However, the transfer process can be a little confusing, so we’ve put together this guide explaining how to move Pokemon from Bank and other games to Home.

Before we get into how to transfer your pocket monsters, it is recommended you first download Pokemon Home on your mobile device and link that to your Nintendo Account before doing the same on Switch. If you want to bring over monsters from Bank, you’ll also need to have a paid Pokemon Home subscription, as that is one of the features reserved exclusively for the premium plan. You can learn more in our Pokemon Home pricing guide.

How To Transfer From Pokemon Bank To Pokemon Home

If you have a paid Pokemon Home plan, you can use either the Switch or mobile version of the service to bring over Pokemon you have stored in Pokemon Bank. If you’re already a Pokemon Bank user, you’ll need to download the latest version of the app from the 3DS Eshop before you begin. If you’re new to the service, you can use Pokemon Bank for free for 30 days, letting you transfer your pocket monsters even if you don’t have a subscription.

Once the Pokemon Bank update is installed, a new option to Move Pokemon to Pokemon Home will appear on the menu. Choose this and you’ll be presented with a list of all your Pokemon Bank boxes. You can then select which boxes you’d like to transfer over to Home. Note that this will move the entire box; you won’t be able to individually select Pokemon within a box to transfer over.

After choosing which boxes you’d like to move, press Done on 3DS. You’ll then need to go into Pokemon Home to obtain a Moving Key and perform the actual transfer. In the mobile version, you can generate a key by selecting Move Pokemon from the Options menu; in the Switch version, you’ll need to select the 3DS icon at the bottom of the main menu. Press Begin Move and the service will generate a Moving Key, which you’ll then need to type in on 3DS. The Moving Key will only be valid for three minutes, however, so you won’t have much time to use it.

After you enter the Moving Key in Pokemon Bank, the transfer will begin. The process may take a couple of minutes, but afterward you’ll find the Pokemon you moved waiting in one of your Home boxes. Before you bring any Pokemon over, however, keep in mind that Pokemon transferred from Bank can no longer be returned to that service, so only transfer monsters if you don’t plan on using them any longer on 3DS.

How To Transfer From Sword/Shield And Let’s Go To Pokemon Home

Pokemon Home is also compatible with Let’s Go Pikachu / Eevee and Pokemon Sword / Shield, so you can store any Pokemon you’ve captured in those titles to the service. Fortunately, this process is much simpler than transferring Pokemon from Bank. In the Switch version of Home, select Pokemon on the main menu and you’ll be presented with a list of the Switch Pokemon games you own. Choose a title and you can move Pokemon from it to Home, and vice versa.

As with Bank transfers, there are a couple of caveats to keep in mind when moving your pocket monsters. Any Pokemon you transfer from Let’s Go to Home can be retrieved in their original game or in Sword and Shield (if they appear in the Galar Pokedex); however, if you bring a Pokemon from Let’s Go into one of the Gen 8 games, it can no longer be returned to its original title. Pokemon from Sword and Shield, however, can freely be moved to and from the service.

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After Parasite cleaned up at the Oscars, winning four Academy Awards including Best Picture, people appear to be pretty hyped to see the movie in the theaters. According to Deadline, advance ticket sales for the film jumped 443% on Fandango by the end of the day on Monday after the Oscars. The film distributor Neon has also decided to show the film in over 2000 locations across America, despite being out on DVD already.

The film was already doing exceptionally well at the box office, making $35.5 million in North America before the Academy Awards, but after the Oscar win, analysts project it could make as much as $50 million, which would make it the fourth highest grossing non-English film of all time.

Parasite, a thriller about people from different classes colliding in Seoul, South Korea, is the first non-English-language film in Oscar history to win best picture. The film also won Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature. It was a pretty good night for all of Parasite’s cast and crew, including director Bong Joon-ho who upon his Oscar win, said he was ready to drink “until next morning”.

The film has received stellar reviews, including GameSpot’s very own. We also named it the best film of 2019.

The live-action remake of the manga and anime classic Akira has been in various stages of development over the past decade, but it doesn’t seem to be getting any closer to happening. Most recently, Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi has been attached to write and direct the movie. But in a new interview, Waititi suggests that the movie is likely to be made without him.

Speaking to Variety, Waititi explained that delays to Akira meant that it ended up potentially clashing with work on his upcoming Marvel sequel, Thor: Love and Thunder. “The whole thing went on hold,” he said. “We had to keep pushing the dates, and it encroached on the Thor dates, which were immovable. So Akira ended up shifting two years down the track.”

Waititi went on to say that Akira was now so far off that he no longer knew if he would be still be involved. “So I’m not sure if even in two years I’d be–I don’t know what I’m doing in f***ing two days,” he said. “I think eventually it will happen. I’m just not sure if I’ll be doing it.”

Waititi was first attached to the Akira remake in September 2017, and last year, the movie was given a May 2021 release date. At the time, Waititi spoke about his intentions for it. “What I want to do is an adaptation of the books,” he said. “A lot of people are like, ‘Don’t touch that film!’ and I’m like, ‘I’m not remaking the film, I want to go back to the book.’ There are six gigantic books to go through. It’s so rich.”

If Waititi does leave Akira, he will be yet another high-profile director to exit the project. Other filmmakers who have been attached over the years have included David Sandberg (Shazam), Daniel Espinosa (the upcoming Morbius), Justin Lin (F9), George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road), and Jaume Collet-Serra (The Shallows). In 2012, the film actually reached the pre-production stage before the Vancouver productions offices were shut down by Warner.

The manga of Akira ran between 1982 and 1990 and is widely credited for popularising Japanese comic books internationally. Equally, the success of the 1989 movie version did much to introduce Western viewers to anime and is now considered one of the finest sci-fi films ever made.

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Nazi Zombies make for great video game enemies—it’s hard to feel any guilt or remorse when gunning down the hordes of reanimated versions of one of the most evil people ever. While most people associate Nazi Zombies with games like Call of Duty and Zombie Army, they have actually existed in media since the 1940s.

In the above video Dave takes a look at the Nazi zombie phenomenon, the real occult inspirations behind them, their path through cheesy American B-movies, and how they went on to inspire movies like Hellboy and The Avengers, as well as games like Call of Duty and Wolfenstein.

Disney+ has ordered a 10-episode Mighty Ducks series and, somehow, the Ducks are the bad guys in this one. “You either die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” This must have been what Harvey Dent was talking about in The Dark Knight.

Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls) and Brady Noon (Good Boys) will star in the series as a mother and son who have been wronged by everyone’s favorite hockey team. A description of the series from Disney+ reads, “In present-day Minnesota, the Mighty Ducks have evolved from scrappy underdogs to an ultra-competitive, powerhouse youth hockey team. After 12-year-old Evan (Noon) is unceremoniously cut from the Ducks, he and his mom Alex (Graham) set out to build their own ragtag team of misfits to challenge the cutthroat, win-at-all-costs culture of competitive youth sports.”

There’s no word about whether or not anyone from the original trilogy of movies will make an appearance on the show. Still, it would be exciting to know what happened to the likes of Charlie Conway (Joshua Jackson) or Coach Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez).

Revisiting the Mighty Ducks isn’t the only bit of nostalgia Disney is delving into. It’s also being reported that the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids sequel film starring Josh Gad has enlisted franchise star Rick Moranis to reprise his role as wacky scientist Wayne Szalinski.

The Mighty Ducks will begin production soon in Canada and is expected to debut later this year on Disney+.