Today we continue our look at each of the founding MCU Avengers and how their stories have led them to their final confrontation with Thanos. Next up is Hawkeye and his journey to Avengers: Endgame.
Across the entire Infinity Saga of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, every member of the Avengers has endured personal consequences because of Thanos’ machinations. The events set in motion by the Mad Titan’s alliance with Loki is directly responsible for the team forming in the first place, placing the heroes on a path hurtling straight for Thanos, even if they didn’t know it at the time. Yet while most of the team are exceptional individuals suited for battles of cosmic importance, one founding member stands out by being the most “normal” Avenger on the roster: Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye, who has become a symbol of the effects Thanos’ quest for the Infinity Stones has had on regular people across the universe.
The official “Last Call” list for Netflix in May is here – to simultaneously let you know what’s leaving the site next month and also what’s actually on the site right now that you probably didn’t even know about!
The first three Jaws films are expiring as well as notable movies like Dances with Wolves, From Dusk Till Dawn, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Birdcage, The Notebook, 8 Mile, and Watchmen.
As usual, a bunch of James Bond flicks are leaving (they’re always coming and going), and with them a few Disney stragglers, as Disney+ preps for launch in the fall.
It’s almost May, and that means Netflix is about to drop new content to its streaming service. The upcoming month has plenty of offerings from movies, to TV shows, to a ton of Netflix original programming you may want to check out.
Beginning on May 1, there are a few movies you may have seen before that you’ll want to watch again. The classic ’80s movie Gremlins comes to Netflix that day, and the horror/comedy still holds up as a fantastic flick. Speaking of classic ’80s movies, the unintentionally horrifying Frank Oz and Jim Henson movie The Dark Crystal arrives. The film follows Jen, who was taken in by the Mystics, and his duty is to heal a cracked magical crystal and keep it from the evil Skeksis. Back in 2017, Netflix announced a prequel series titled The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, so hopefully, the new Netflix original will arrive soon.
As far as original series go, there is plenty to keep your eye on, and this includes returning series. Originally a Fox series–based on a DC comic book–Lucifer heads to Netflix for its fourth season on May 8. The show follows the devil, living on Earth, and helping a local detective solve crimes. It’s actually a lot better than it sounds. Also returning is The Rain for a second season on May 3. The Danish science-fiction show follows a group of survivors after rain carrying a deadly virus kills almost everyone in Scandinavia.
Coming on May 6 is the Netflix original Abyss. The Korean fantasy drama follows two people brought back from the dead through a marble called “Abyss.” However, the revived people find themselves in completely different bodies. For those who are fans of the true crime genre, which Netflix does a lot of, on May 31, Killer Ratings arrives. The documentary follows a Brazilian TV host who literally killed people for better ratings, and used his crime TV series to cover it up.
Below, you’ll find everything coming to and leaving Netflix in May. If you’re interested in more arrivals at streaming services, check out what is arriving at Hulu and Amazon Prime Video for the upcoming month.
Coming To Netflix In May
May 1
Knock Down The House — NETFLIX FILM
Munafik 2 — NETFLIX FILM
Angels & Demons
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Casper
Chasing Liberty
Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion Part 1 & 2
Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat
Dumb and Dumber
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Godsford Park
Gremlins
Hairspray (1988)
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Her Only Choice
Hoosiers
Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer: Season 2
John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
Just Friends
Revolutionary Road
Roswell, New Mexico: Season 1
Scarface
Scream
Snowpiercer
Taking Lives
The Da Vinci Code
The Dark Crystal (1982)
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
To Rome With Love
Wedding Crashers
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Zombieland
May 2
Colony: Season 3
Olympus Has Fallen
May 3
A Pesar De Todo — NETFLIX FILM
All In My Family — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Alles ist gut — NETFLIX FILM
Cupcake & Dino – General Services: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Dead to Me — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile — NETFLIX FILM
Flinch — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage — NETFLIX FILM
The Last Summer — NETFLIX FILM
Mr. Mom
Supernatural: Season 14
True and the Rainbow Kingdom: Mushroom Town — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Tuca & Bertie — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Undercover — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
May 4
Like Arrows
May 6
Abyss — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
May 7
The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution
Queen of the South: Season 3
May 8
Lucifer: Season 4 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
May 9
Bathtubs Over Broadway
Insidious
May 10
Dry Martina — NETFLIX FILM
Easy: Season 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Gente que viene y bah — NETFLIX FILM
Harvey Girls Forever!: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Jailbirds — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Pose: Season 1
ReMastered: The Lion’s Share — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Shéhérazade — NETFLIX FILM
The Society — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Wine Country — NETFLIX FILM
May 12
Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj: Volume 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
May 13
Malibu Rescue — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
May 14
revisions — NETFLIX ANIME
Still LAUGH-IN: The Stars Celebrate — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Weed the People
May 15
Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed!
May 16
Good Sam — NETFLIX FILM
Take Me Home Tonight
May 17
1994: Limited Series — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Chip & Potato — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
It’s Bruno — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Maria — NETFLIX FILM
Morir para contar — NETFLIX FILM
Nailed It!: Season 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
See You Yesterday — NETFLIX FILM
The Rain: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Well Intended Love — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
White Gold: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
May 18
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
May 20
Prince of Peoria: Part 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Rosario Tijeras (Mexico Version): Season 2
May 21
Arrow: Season 7
Moonlight
Wanda Sykes: Not Normal — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
May 22
A Tale of Two Kitchens — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
One Night in Spring — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Flash: Season 5
May 23
Riverdale: Season 3
Slasher: Solstice — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
May 24
After Maria — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Alta Mar — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Joy — NETFLIX FILM
Rim of the World — NETFLIX FILM
She’s Gotta Have It: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Perfection — NETFLIX FILM
WHAT / IF — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
May 27
Historical Roasts — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Outlander: Seasons 1-2
May 28
Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
May 30
Chopsticks — NETFLIX FILM
My Week with Marilyn
Svaha: The Sixth Finger — NETFLIX FILM
The One I Love
May 31
Always Be My Maybe — NETFLIX FILM
Bad Blood: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Black Spot: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
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Board games are on everyone’s minds these days, it seems. Just yesterday, Bloodborne: The Board Game hit its Kickstarter goal only 20 minutes after the campaign went live. A Stranger Things-themed D&D starter set came out earlier this month (and it’s on sale today), and people all over are enthusiastically embracing the epicness of modern tabletop gaming.
If you want to join the tabletop revolution, Amazon has tons of board game deals going on today as its Deal of the Day. It’s almost overwhelming how many boardgames are on sale. Check them out below to help facilitate the process of picking up and enjoying a game (or two, or three).
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The Viotek GFT27DB (See it at Amazon)is a 27-inch monitor that features a 1440p resolution, 144Hz refresh rate and a 1ms response time. It uses a TN panel to achieve its fast response time for buttery smooth gameplay, and it offers FreeSync technology to prevent tearing from a mismatch between your monitor’s refresh rate and your GPU’s output. While it is not among the few monitors stamped with Nvidia’s seal of approval for G-Sync compatibility, I can confirm that it does indeed play nice with G-Sync when manually enabled.
Fortnite has been slowly doling out teasers for an apparent Avengers: Endgame crossover event coming to its battle royale mode on April 25. The first two images showcased equipment from Captain America and Thor, so obviously, the third teaser to drop today had to feature the last remaining in the trio of lead Avengers, Iron Man.
The tweet is just like the others, in that it quotes the Endgame tagline “Whatever it takes” and uses a #FortniteXAvengers hashtag. This one shows a Fortnite character with Iron Man’s repulsor gloves, which he uses in the films and comics for both propulsion and offense. The previous teases showed Cap’s shield and Thor’s axe, Stormbreaker.
All of these teasers suggest that the battle royale event will let players equip iconic Avengers weapons, most likely in a limited-time mode. Alongside Avengers: Infinity War, Epic introduced a special crossover that let players equip Thanos’ devastating Infinity Gauntlet. It was nerfed almost immediately so that more players would be able to defeat the “Thanos” player and don the gauntlet themselves. So far Epic hasn’t detailed this crossover event, or if the Infinity Gauntlet mode will be returning in some form. These limited-time modes are all separate from the usual battle pass goodies.
Fortnite regularly rotates in special events and limited-time modes, along with rotating seasons on a fixed schedule. In fact it has begun teasing its next season already, with roaming runes that appear to be slotting into a vault in Loot Lake. But these frequent updates have apparently come at a cost, as developers have complained of crunch culture on a continuous loop.
Avengers: Endgame concludes the story arc of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe to this point, and reviews have started to release online in advance of its debut. We also now know that for the first time in the MCU, this movie doesn’t have a mid- or post-credits scene–a way of bookending this as the end of a story arc. It is still three hours long, though, so if you need to take a bathroom break, we have you covered with when it’s safe to pee.
“But most of all Endgame is a love letter to the entire MCU–the whole thing,” Michael Rougeau wrote in GameSpot’s review. “It’s messy and confusing, and there’s going to be a lot of discussion about whether the ending even makes sense–it basically breaks the rules set up throughout the entire movie leading up to it. But holy hell is it an emotional, fulfilling ride. I have no doubt we’re going to spend the coming weeks picking and pulling it apart until we’ve over-analyzed every single aspect imaginable. But right now, in the aftermath, Avengers Endgame feels like a win.”
The next James Bond film, known at present only as Bond 25, is to be revealed very soon. The official 007 Twitter account confirmed the movie will be revealed in a livestream starting on April 25 at 5:10 AM PDT / 10:10 AM EDT / 1:10 PM BST / 10:10 PM AET.
Little else is known about Bond 25 at present, and the aforementioned tweet didn’t give much else away. The reveal is taking place “from an iconic 007 location,” it said, and fans will have the opportunity to ask the cast questions.
The Bond actor himself, Daniel Craig, appeared reluctant to return for Bond 25. After wrapping Spectre, the previous film in the series, he said he’d rather slash his wrists than play the character again. He also said if he were to play Bond again, it would “only be for the money.” A year later, a report claimed that Craig was offered $150 million to star in the next two 007 movies, before the actor confirmed his return in August 2017.
More recently, it has been reported that Bond 25’s producers want Bohemian Rhapsody star Rami Malek to play the villain. While he’s yet to be confirmed, if he were to appear he would join a star-studded cast that currently contains Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, and Lea Seydoux, who are all confirmed to reprise their roles.
Hindsight 20/20 is an upcoming action adventure game developed by Triple I, an independent studio composed of former BioWare, ArenaNet, and Sucker Punch veterans. We played through a Hindsight 20/20 demo with Triple I creative director Hemanshu Chhabra, who previously worked on BioWare’s MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic. Prior to playing the demo, Chhabra pointed to both Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask as inspirations for Hindsight 20/20’s gameplay loop and combat, before adding The Wind Waker as an influence for the game’s art style.
In Hindsight 20/20, you play as Jehan, an orphan who lives in a city that prides itself on being nonviolent. Despite this, Jehan’s father is killed–for reasons unknown–by Aurthur, a headstrong man whose influence in the city grows by the day. Jehan seeks vengeance for his father’s death, as well as answers in regards to a mysterious virus that is infecting the populace and transforming them into seemingly monstrous creatures called Raakshasas. We faced off against Aurthur in Hindsight 20/20’s demo, which can be seen in the video below.
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Hindsight 20/20 Switch Gameplay: Being A Hero Who Shows Mercy
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Combat is relatively simple; you utilize dodges, melee attacks, and special abilities to manage groups of enemies. While fighting, both you and enemies have two meters: one for health and the other for morale. Non-lethal attacks wound someone’s morale, while lethal ones chip away at a person’s health. Your enemies, or you, are defeated when either of those meters is reduced to zero.
Jehan is armed with a stun baton that damages morale and a sword that damages health. The former gives him a more defensive playstyle that pushes enemies away and allows him to send out bolts of lightning to zap foes into submission. Wielding the latter gives Jehan a far more aggressive fighting style, one that allows him to utilize the sword as a deadly boomerang or summon a field of blades that impale everyone around him. You can switch between either one at any point in the game, and boss enemies will respond differently depending on whether you’ve shown yourself to be a peaceful fellow or a murderer.
However, combat choices didn’t create major changes in how enemies fought–Aurthur being the one exception. There weren’t enough enemy types to warrant the use of one of Jehan’s weapons over the other, so the choice of weapon felt arbitrary, at least during the demo. Simply picking whichever matches the type of run you’re going for dialogue-wise seems like the only real decision you need to make. Chhabra said there are several other enemy types, introduced later in the game, but whether these enemies push you to weigh the moral ramifications against any benefit either weapon might provide remains to be seen.
As is, combat isn’t all that engaging. Every encounter is reduced to waiting for an enemy to attack so they expose themselves for a counter. That style of gameplay has worked in games before, such as older entries in The Legend of Zelda, but Hindsight 20/20 seemingly lacks a wide enough variety of unique enemy types to make its combat stand out.
The best parts of the demo were the tense conversations with the main NPCs, knowing that one wrong word could change the outcome of Jehan’s story in several different ways–ranging from whether friendships were maintained to who would survive by a mission’s end. I can see those moments having a butterfly effect on the story that a player would want to correct.
As an example, we played through the Hindsight 20/20 demo a second and third time, making different choices in each one–deciding to be selfish in the second run and a merciless killer in the third. As seen in the video below, these choices lead to very different outcomes in comparison to the merciful run shown above. Some of the changes are minor (NPCs and enemies condemn Jehan for his behavior) while others have much larger, more story-driven effects (saving Jehan’s friend, Andrew, from committing suicide).
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Hindsight 20/20 Switch Extended Gameplay: Becoming Ruthless To Save A Friend
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The concept of choice is at the center of every part of Hindsight 20/20, a game aptly named for the expression, “Hindsight is 20/20.” Chhabra said that the game has seven different endings, and the campaign is about six hours long. The game tracks every major choice you make, ranging from who you killed and spared, to how you responded in certain conversations. At the end of the campaign, Jehan is born again at the beginning of the story with this record in hand, and you can use what you’ve learned from every previous life to fix your mistakes in the next one.
“There’s no ideal ending,” Chhabra clarified. He continued by saying three of the endings have some overlap but the other four are all “very different, very distinct.” It’s impossible to save everyone and get a completely good ending–you’ll just have to replay the game until you get the conclusion that you think is best for Jehan.
It’s an intriguing concept–utilizing the replayability of an RPG as an in-game feature–but it’s certainly one that feels more prominent when it comes to dialogue. I’m not wholly convinced the combat side of the game matches that level of intricacy. At the very least, there definitely needs to be some more variety when it comes to the kinds of enemies you fight in order to challenge how you think about approaching combat.
Hindsight 20/20 is scheduled to release on Xbox One, PS4, Switch, and PC in Q2 2020.
