Month: July 2020

Earlier this week, Lionsgate announced the anime cyberpunk classic Ghost in the Shell is coming to 4K Blu-ray September 8 to celebrate its 25th anniversary.

The new edition includes the 4K Blu-ray, HD Blu-ray and digital edition, as well as new cover art and special features on the disc: “Accessing Section 9: 25 Years into the Future” and “Landscapes & Dreamscapes: The Art and Architecture of Ghost in the Shell.”

Here’s where you can preorder the 4K Blu-ray release of Ghost in the Shell

Ghost in the Shell 4K Preorder

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With both PS5 and Xbox Series X offering 4K Blu-ray compatible models coming up, there’s no reason why you can’t claim yourself a copy of this anime classic now if you plan on getting one of the new consoles later.

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Sometimes, video games help you to lose yourself in their worlds and stories, using the power of interactivity to bring you into the life of a character and to provide you with the opportunity to experience at least some version of their emotions. And sometimes, you get “Press F to Pay Respects.”

If you’re somehow not familiar with a video game joke that became a pretty widespread meme, the “Press F” moment came about in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Early in the story, tragedy strikes, and the protagonist character attends a friend’s funeral. As the scene plays out, Advanced Warfare throws some interactivity your way to add some gravitas, prompting you to hit a button to enable your character to express their grief. If you’re playing on PC, the default key for honoring the dead in this case is “F.”

It’s not even Call of Duty’s fault–lots of games have had very similar moments with very similar prompts, or have allowed you to do dumb video game things at the exact wrong times–but the instance in Advanced Warfare just feels particularly goofy, probably because it appears in such a high-profile game. Here you are at a digital funeral for a fictional character in what the game hopes is an emotional, poignant moment, but a passing attempt at adding some interactivity to the scene actually works to completely undermine it. “Press F to Pay Respects” does nothing but scream at you that you’re playing a video game, and that the video game is ham-fistedly trying to get you involved in something so quintessentially human as mourning, and failing at it. It’s a glaring reminder that a lot of AAA games just don’t have a good idea of how to make it feel natural to interact with the world in a way that’s not about killing stuff.

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The Hargreeves family just can’t seem to catch a break. This season saw them thrown from one apocalyptic event right into another–this time back in the 1960s. If you’re wondering exactly how they got there, you may want to check out our Season 1 refresher (don’t worry, we only covered the absolute need-to-know points, like the time travel). Hopefully if you’re here, however, you’re already up to speed on the first season and, ideally, finished with Season 2, but left wondering what any of this means.

We’re going to try and make sense of that ending cliffhanger–but first, this ought to go without saying, but there are massive spoilers from all of Umbrella Academy from here on out. Proceed with caution, because unlike Five you won’t have the ability to blink back in time to a point where you haven’t spoiled the show for yourself.

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Courteney Cox is reportedly set to return to the Scream movie universe.

Cox will reprise her role as reporter Gale Weathers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She was last seen in that role in 2011’s Scream 4. This news comes two months after it was announced that David Arquette is set to reprise his role as Sheriff Dewey Riley in the fifth Scream movie. As for what Cox’s involvement in the story will be, not much more is known. Considering that her role throughout the series has been to investigate the murders of Ghostface, it’s easy to imagine that she’ll probably be picking back up on the killer’s trail.

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The news of a fifth Scream movie came earlier this year when it was reported that Spyglass Media Group would produce the film. The movie will be directed by Ready or Not’s Matthew Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. As for what to expect, it’s still unclear if this is a soft reboot with a continuation of the previous Scream movies or a hard reboot with no connection to what’s come before.

Betinelli-Olpin, Gillette, and Chad Villela are collectively known as horror film group, Radio Silence. This trio is responsible for last year’s Ready or Not, which saw Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett direct and Villela produce. We gave Ready or Not a 7.6 out of 10 in our review.

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Lantern Entertainment acquired the rights to Scream after the company took control of film and TV Scream assets following a Weinstein Co. bankruptcy sale in 2018. Scream 5’s production will shoot in Wilmington, North Carolina and casting is currently underway, according to THR.

The first Scream — directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson — was released in 1996. It starred Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Cox, and Matthew Lillard, among others. The slasher “GhostFace” wore a mask inspired by Edvard Munch painting, The Scream, while preying on Campbell’s character. The film made over $100 million at the domestic box office and spawned a number of sequels as well as an MTV television series.

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Heads up, monster movie fans: right now you can grab a Blu-ray copy of Shin Godzilla for just $5 on Amazon. It includes a DVD and digital copy of the film as well. That’s quite a deal, but it’s unclear how long it will last. That means you should probably grab it before the price goes back up.

The movie, from the Japanese studio Toho, came out in 2016 and acts as a kind of reboot for the franchise, paying homage to the original 1954 Godzilla film along the way.

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If you’re on the fence about dropping a fiver on the film, check out our 8.5/10 Shin Godzilla review.

From the review: “Shin Godzilla provides a new origin for the legendary kaiju, establishing its own unique style while taking inspiration from the classics in all the right ways. Some fans might be disappointed by the monster’s lack of screentime or confused by the complex bureaucracies at the film’s center, but it all comes together by the end.”

Again, it’s unclear how long the deal will last, so pick up a copy before the discount goes away.

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August is almost here, and one of the first August events that Pokemon Go players have to look forward to is August’s Community Day. This month’s event takes place next Saturday, August 8, and as usual, it’ll give players everywhere a chance to catch a Shiny Pokemon, learn a special event-exclusive move, and more. To help you prepare, we’ve rounded up everything you need to know about August’s Community Day below.

August’s Featured Pokemon: Magikarp

This month’s featured Pokemon is an unexpected choice: Magikarp, the notoriously useless fish Pokemon. All throughout August’s Community Day, Magikarp will appear in the wild much more often than normal, and you’ll have a greater chance to encounter a Shiny Magikarp during the event.

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