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The average Dungeons & Dragons campaign is set in a world that is based on medieval Europe, with a smattering of other cultures thrown in for flavor. These worlds tend to be filled with the most popular creatures from mythology, with leprechauns, vampires, and medusas often sharing the same living space. The creators of Dungeons & Dragons never put much thought into how the fantastical elements would change the world in comparison to our own....

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has revealed its movie, TV show, and limited series nominations for the 2019 Golden Globes ceremony. The nominees were announced by Terry Crews, Danai Gurira, Leslie Mann, and Christian Slater on Thursday morning, December 6. While there’s still a ways to go until next year’s Academy Awards ceremony, several films have already emerged as front-runners in this year’s awards season derby. Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born and Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite are among the movies near the front of the pack, as are critical darlings like Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, Peter Farrelly’s Green Book, and Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk....

He’s literally one of the biggest comic book heroes (and complicated villains) of all time. The Incredible Hulk may have largely sat in the backseat during Avengers: Infinity War but he hasn’t stopped fueling fan ides for incredibly creative and sometimes disturbing redesigns. In fact, seeing scared-Hulk (or resentful-Hulk, whichever camp you subscribe to) may have only fanned the flames of creation for the many fans of the Hulk. While we expect to hear, “Hulk smash!...

A flagship program for the FX network, Sons of Anarchy roared its way onto the televisions of millions of viewers for the first time in 2008. Since then, it’s received a massive following from a dedicated fan base thanks to Kurt Sutter’s unique blend of gun-running violence and thoughtful poignancy. Using the fictional Southern California city of Charming as his playground, he molded a family drama from a world of gang violence, shedding light on the biker culture with his writing....

Stories discussed in this episode: iPhone SE 3 reviews: Impressive camera, 5G and performance upgrades packed in a dated design First iPhone 14 Pro CAD renders show few design changes iPad Air 5 reviews: Closing the iPad Pro gap with powerful M1 performance, 5G, and more Apple Watch firmware can now be restored from an iPhone Follow Chance: Twitter: @ChanceHMiller Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Overcast RSS Stitcher TuneIn Google Play Don’t miss out on our other daily podcasts:...

Aaron Sorkin has been praised as one of the best screenwriters working in Hollywood today. Though he has received much acclaim for his work on television with shows like The West Wing and The Newsroom, his movies are another great example of how skilled and compelling a writer he really is. Sorkin has the ability to craft interesting characters we can root for even when we don’t agree with them. His dialogue has a signature pattern that is a joy to listen to whenever it is spoken on screen....

The Fast & Furious franchise has been going strong since 2001, evolving and elaborating to no end. And with the Hobbs & Shaw spin-off release just around the corner, there’s no signs of slowing any time soon. The movies have transformed into general action movies now, rather than existing as mere car shows. It’s hard to believe the series started off about thieves. The upcoming spin-off is about a cybernetic villain and the fate of all humanity....

The DC Extended Universe – or, as Warner Bros. are now trying to brand it, Worlds of DC – has a lucrative opportunity to set a distinctive tone and bring the dense, enrapturing DC Comics universe to life on the big screen. Unfortunately, this opportunity has been mostly squandered so far, especially in the villain department. They’ve already screwed up DC’s two most famous and iconic villains: Lex Luthor, who Jesse Eisenberg played as a rip-off of Heath Ledger’s Joker, and the Joker himself, who Jared Leto played as an entitled, tattoo-covered millennial....

There’s almost too many new Netflix shows coming out to keep track of. No other streaming service is quite as popular or creates quite as much highly-anticipated content. Many of their original shows and films have launched actors to stardom. Their ever expanding library is giving more and more actors their chance at fame, or give established actors new and exciting roles to play. The casts of these shows all seem like they get along so well, but it’s not always what it seems....

While there’s no debating that superhero movies are currently at their absolute best, there was a time where films about masked heroes were more likely to be found in the bargain bin than the blockbuster lists. From the ’60s to the ’90s, most super-offerings were campy, low-budget disasters, often only loosely based on the source material. While there have been one or two since then that are scraping the bottom of the barrel, the movies in this list tend to make Green Lantern look like Oscar material....

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was filled to the brim with symbolism and foreshadowing. So, naturally, the show’s devoted fans couldn’t help but dig in search of new and exciting fan theories every week. Some of these theories have been immortalized in decades-old forum posts thanks to the show’s huge influence on the growing online community at the time. These days, when a fan theory gains enough traction, it’s not uncommon for the actors or showrunners to go on social media and clear the air....

A high percentage of the world’s population has parent issues on some level, and these hang-ups are only magnified when mom and dad happen to be superheroes, deities, or cosmic villains with universe-domination ambitions. That’s often the reality of being a famous comic book character, and it comes as little surprise that many of them have come to blows with their legal guardians, occasionally with the fate of all existence at stake....

It should come as no surprise that Superman has a pretty extensive list of victories to his name over his long career. As one of the most powerful comic book characters out there, it’s tough to find opponents who can give him a challenge. But occasionally he does find a challenge, whether it’s from the villains, or even another hero. Yes, even the boy scout of superheroes can’t avoid getting into squabbles with his friends....

2018 was a great year to be a gamer. From God of War to Red Dead Redemption 2, those twelve months produced no shortage of amazing games that will go down as some of the greatest ever made. However, we can only sink so many hundreds of hours into these installments before we start looking for the next great title to put our time into. With the new year upon us, it’s time to look ahead at some of the most anticipated game sequels of 2019....

Every now and then, a television show comes along that’s so different, unique, and full of heart that it captures the imaginations of TV viewers for decades to come. For many, that show was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The cast was phenomenal, often handing out both heartbreakingly emotional performances along with hilariously endearing ones– sometimes at the same time. Along with hard-hitting social commentary, fantasy stories with real-world allegories, and long-lasting arcs that could resonate for seasons at a time, the show was truly one of a kind....

In a world where mad wizards have taken owls and bears and united them into one hilariously deadly beast, which adventurer expects the world to follow any rules? Dungeons & Dragons has had many decades, many editions, and many spin-offs like Pathfinder to accrue all manner of loveable quirks. Loveable, exploitable quirks. Players and DMs everywhere have added to this mix with homebrewed content often as unstable as an alchemist’s workshop....

It’s safe to say that when it comes to making movies, DC has a lot of catching up to do. When Marvel first released Iron Man in 2007, DC was still working on the Dark Knight Trilogy. Although the Christian Bale-led Batman movies were incredibly successful, they lacked the cohesive universe that Marvel had been building. Looking to change course with the release of 2013’s Man of Steel, the DCEU was all set to take over the world of cinema....

Stories discussed in this episode: These are Apple’s strict requirements for states supporting IDs in the Wallet app Apple agrees to pay workers $30 million to settle lawsuit over bag check policy Snap hit with lawsuit for downplaying the impact of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature Follow Chance: Twitter: @ChanceHMiller Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Overcast RSS Stitcher TuneIn Google Play Share your thoughts! Drop us a line at happyhour@9to5mac.com. You can also rate us in Apple Podcasts or recommend us in Overcast to help more people discover the show!...

One of the headline features of this year’s 12.9-inch iPad Pro was the miniLED backlighting – or what Apple calls the Liquid Retina HDR display. A pair of new photos posted on Weibo provides a very close look at this tech … Background Apple’s description is a little misleading, as what was new was not the display itself, but instead the method of lighting it, as we described when it was launched....

After partnering with Apple TV+ on content like The Morning Show and My Kind of Country, Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine media company was reportedly being eyed by Apple for an acquisition. As it happens, that didn’t pan out, but a firm backed by Blackstone will end up picking up Witherspoon’s company for just shy of a billion dollars. Witherspoon founded Hello Sunshine back in 2016 with the media company behind 18 Emmy nominations for its work on The Morning Show, Truth Be Told, and My Kind of Country on Apple TV+ as well as the HBO hit Big Little Lies, and more....