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Many of us are spending this extra time at home catching up on shows we’ve long been meaning to binge-watch, movies we’ve been wanting to stream, books we’ve been meaning to read, or video games we’ve been waiting to play. And with the film industry on hiatus for the foreseeable future, that means even usually busy stars now have time to catch-up on their streaming queues and reading lists.

We reached out to 1917 and Captain Fantastic actor George MacKay — whose latest movie, True History of the Kelly Gang, is now available on VOD — to see what he’s doing to keep himself entertained these days.

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What Is the Last Thing You Finished Watching?

I’ve just rewatched The Dark Knight. What a film! Masterful, so stylish, so powerful and what a performance by Heath Ledger. I remember watching it at the IMAX when it came out, and it is one of the best film experiences I’ve ever had.

What Are You Watching Right Now?

The Wire – Season 1. The Wire is one of those series I have been hearing about for years, a series that was a milestone in television, and I am very much enjoying catching up with it now.

What Is Your Go-to Comfort Watch?

The League of Gentlemen and Inside Number 9. I think Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Mark Gatiss are genius.

What Book Are You Reading? / What Is The Last Book You Read?

Light Years by James Salter. My friend put me onto James Salter a short while ago, she recommended Solo Faces; I had not heard of Salter before, and he is amazing. The way he can be so insightful with so few words is extraordinary.

What Game Are You Playing? / What Is The Last Game You Played?

Scabby Queen. This is a card game I have been frustratingly slow at learning, but I think I am getting the hang of it now.

What Is Next On Your To-Watch/Read/Play List?

Hell or High Water by David Mackenzie. I missed this when it came out in the cinemas, but have only ever heard wonderful things about it. A mate of mine who I trust recommended this very highly when we spoke the other day.

What is one thing you’d recommend that other people should watch/read/play if they’re looking for something new?

Go back through all series of Inside Number 9, and Light Years is a truly beautiful piece of work.

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True History of the Kelly Gang is now available on Amazon, GooglePlay, YouTube, Vudu, and other digital platforms. Director Justin Kurzel’s film revisits the legend of Ned Kelly (played by MacKay), Australia’s most notorious outlaw. The stellar ensemble also includes Russell Crowe, Nicholas Hoult, Essie Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, and Charlie Hunnam.

In our 8.0 review of the film, we said, “George MacKay once again impresses, making Kelly a tightly coiled, dangerous yet still emotionally accessible punk.” Our review describes the “gripping, atmospheric” film as “grungy and grand, intense yet intimate,” hailing it for “employing an off-kilter approach rather than traveling a safe and familiar route.”

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If you enjoyed this then check out the binge lists of the casts of Star Trek: Discovery and Picard, Sonic and Westworld actor James Marsden, the showrunners of Amazing Stories, the cast of The Boys, and Spiral director Darren Lynn Bousman.

And also be sure to learn how you can help, and stay safe, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The next update for the Square Enix MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV comes in the form of patch 5.3, subtitled Reflections in Crystal. It has been detailed by director/producer Naoki Yoshida and community manager Toshio Murouchi in the latest Letter From The Producer livestream, and like most FFXIV updates, it’s going to be huge. The upcoming patch includes the anticipated major overhaul for the base game A Realm Reborn, new main quests that continue the FFXIV’s story, new boss fights, and the next chapter in the Nier Automata crossover raid series YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse.

This next wave of main story quests will conclude the Shadowbringers expansion’s narrative arc and will have heavy story implications (as hinted by the revealed screenshots). A new instanced four-player dungeon, called The Heroes’ Gauntlet, will be included–it will work with the Trust system, which lets you run it alongside NPCs from the story as AI companions to fill the necessary roles. There’s going to be another trial boss fight tied to the main story as well, but it wasn’t revealed as to not spoil the surprise.

All players who have not completed the 24-player alliance raid series “The Crystal Tower” will be required to do so at some point before continuing the main story in the 5.3 update, and the game will notify players of this. Regardless, that raid series will be mandatory for those who look to finish the the base game for the first time when the patch hits since it’s directly tied to the Shadowbringers narrative arc.

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Shonen anime and manga have a tendency to feel larger than life–and not always in a good way. The biggest conventions of the genre include sweeping, near-endless stories, singular fight scenes that can last weeks or months, and rosters of characters so sprawling that learning who’s who at any given moment can feel like a monumental task. But even so, there’s a reason shonen series have maintained such a foothold in pop culture, even outside of niche anime fan communities. For as daunting and arcane as they can feel on the outside, once you’re in, you’re usually hooked for life. It’s the getting in part that can be tricky.

This is why it’s critical to find the right gateway–and thankfully, we’re here to give you just that. What if I told you there was a perfect, immediately accessible shonen masterpiece ready to be binge-read immediately with one measly little $2.99 a month subscription fee? What if I also told you that the series was complete, clocking in at a very modest (seriously, don’t panic) 686 chapters–so there’s no need to worry about loose ends never being wrapped up, hiatuses interrupting the flow, or even just maintaining a week-to-week reading schedule?

Please, look no further than Kubo Tite’s Bleach–one of the greatest and most criminally underrated shonen epics of all time.

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Back in the 1990s, long before the MCU existed, the screen rights to Marvel’s many characters were dealt out to various studios, with several movies in development at the time that never got many and several that soon eventually did (Blade, X-Men, Spider-Man). One unrealized Marvel movie from the 1990s was 20th Century Fox’s Silver Surfer, which was to have been directed by Aussie filmmaker Geoffrey Wright (1992’s Romper Stomper). Now, a storyboard artist who worked on the project has revealed some artwork from the film — and revealed the two actors who were reportedly up for the lead roles.

In a series of revealing tweets (via THR), artist Gabriel Hardman revealed storyboards for a series of movies he worked on that never got made, including 1997’s Silver Surfer. Hardman said Wright “wanted Ewan McGregor as Surfer and Steven Berkoff as Galactus.” You can see his storyboards in the tweet below.

Here are some boards from the unmade Silver Surfer (1997). I couldn’t find much. pic.twitter.com/KafXcaAHiS

— Gabriel Hardman (@gabrielhardman) April 23, 2020

In 1997, McGregor was coming off the success of indie films like Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, and Emma and was still a few years away from joining the Star Wars franchise as young Obi-Wan Kenobi. Berkoff, meanwhile, is a veteran stage and screen actor and playwright who played the villain in Octopussy, Rambo: First Blood Part II, and Beverly Hills Cop.

Back when studios still deemed comic book movies a risky prospect and visual effects were prohibitively expensive, Hardman revealed that “Surfer spent most of the movie as a human because vfx would have been too costly then.”

While the Silver Surfer movie obviously never got made, the character did make his feature film debut in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (portrayed by Doug Jones and voiced by Laurence Fishburne). McGregor, meanwhile, went on to play the villain Black Mask in this year’s Birds of Prey.

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Do you think Ewan McGregor would have made for a good Silver Surfer? Sound off in the comments!

This is an advanced spoiler-free review of the series premiere of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, titled “Santa Muerte,” which is currently available to stream for free on YouTube and SHO.com. 

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After nearly four years off the air, Showtime’s supernatural darling returns with a provocative new entry that leaves gloomy Victorian London behind for the sunny skies of Los Angeles circa 1938. But don’t let those calming warm temperatures fool you, Penny Dreadful: City of Angeles is just as harrowing as its predecessor.

Leading the supernatural charge in this new iteration is Game of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer, who plays a dark goddess called Magda. While not all of her intentions are laid bare in the premiere, it appears that she’s attempting to infiltrate various facets of Los Angeles’ political and social spheres in order to create more chaos and death. But the really cool aspect of Magda is that she has the ability to take the appearance of anyone she chooses. It appears that Dormer is having a lot of fun portraying these different versions of herself, reminiscent of Tatiana Maslany’s memorable performance in Orphan Black. And whether she’s playing a seductive goddess decked out in tight black leather or an ambitious secretary, Dormer excels every time.

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The other supernatural force to be reckoned with is Lorenza Izzo’s Santa Muerte, the Angel of Holy Death and Magda’s sister. It appears that Logan is going to challenge the cliché version of Death from a stoic and indifferent figure to a person the viewer can actually relate to. Unlike her sister, Santa Muerte doesn’t get out much unless it has to do with ferrying the dead to the afterlife, but the episode has moments where we get a sense of the emotional toll it takes on Muerte for her to do her particular job.

On the non-supernatural side of things, the series is tackling a lot of topics here: Nazi spies, the construction of a massive automotive transit system that will cause thousands of Mexican-Americans to lose their homes, and oh yeah, there’s also the gruesome ritualistic murder of a Beverly Hills family that needs solving. Collectively, each storyline receives equal attentiveness; but some characters, like Thomas Kretschmann’s Nazi-supporting Richard Goss and Michael Gladis’ racist Councilman Townsend, are closer to caricatures than fully-realized people.

While not as much of a head-turner in name or appearance as Dormer, we spend most of our time with the LAPD’s first Mexican-American detective, Tiago Vega, who makes for an effective central figure due to his connections to both the Caucasian and Mexican communities of Los Angeles. His mother is a devout believer in Santa Muerte and all other supernatural matters, while Vega’s LAPD cohorts rely on the evidence they can see with their own eyes. Vega’s struggle to cope with the spiritual history of his people and the new world he so desperately wants to fit into provides a satisfying tension that thrums underneath everything else the season premiere is tackling.

The original Penny Dreadful series made our favorite 50 TV opening credits from 2008-2018. Watch the video below to see who else made our list.

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