Yearly Archives: 2018

We Found Ghosts Lurking in Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House

Warning: The following contains full spoilers for Season 1 of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House. You can read our spoiler-free review right here.

The first season of Netflix's Haunting of Hill House is a sumptuous, atmospheric and engrossing piece of television - but even if you found yourself terrified by its overt, purposeful jump scares and escalating tension, chances are you may have missed some of its more subtle spookiness. It's easy to spot some of the show's most memorable ghouls like the Bent Neck Lady or the Floating Man, but did you catch all the hidden ghosts lurking in the background? There are many more than you think, and according to the cast, they all have backstories and tie into the troubled history of Hill House.

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Daredevil: Season 3 Finale Review

Warning: The following contains spoilers for Daredevil Season 3, Episode 13. If you need a refresher on where we left off, check out our review of Season 3, episode 12.

"Today was the happiest day of my life."

Well this is certainly a crazed, charged blaze of glory!

Daredevil vs. Bullseye vs. Kingpin? Are you kidding me?

All while Poindexter's trying to kill Vanessa and Matt keeps stopping him? This is pure malicious magic.

And bloody magic too. In fact, funny to note, as soon as you see both Fisk and Vanessa wearing sheer white (with that trademark rose as a final touch) you can almost smell that things are going to get messy. It seemed like either Vanessa was going to get killed, spilling her blood all over Fisk while she dies in his arms, or Fisk was going to kill someone else and get that sinister splatter all over him. Hell, he could've even spilled celebratory nuptial meatballs all over himself, but somehow that garb was going to get ruined. Fisk, at his most powerful, at the happiest he's ever been, was going to face tragedy.

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How Black Ops 4 Brought Us Back to Call of Duty

BEYOND!

As part of IGN's weekly PlayStation show, Beyond, host Jonathon Dornbush discusses with Barrett Courtney, Tina Amini, and Brian Altano discuss the latest entry in Activision's long-running shooter franchise, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

Specifically, the gang discusses how Black Ops 4 standard multiplayer has offered a flood of nostalgia that has gotten Barrett back into the Call of Duty franchise. We discuss what maps, gameplay, and more have helped Barrett realize he's probably still more of a shooter fan than he knows.

If you're looking for more from IGN about Call of Duty, you can check out our three reviews for this year's entry — Black Ops 4 multiplayer, Call of Duty's battle royale Blackout mode, and Black Ops 4's Zombies mode. And you can check out the gallery below for every Call of Duty review IGN has ever done

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How Black Ops 4 Brought Us Back to Call of Duty

BEYOND!

As part of IGN's weekly PlayStation show, Beyond, host Jonathon Dornbush discusses with Barrett Courtney, Tina Amini, and Brian Altano discuss the latest entry in Activision's long-running shooter franchise, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

Specifically, the gang discusses how Black Ops 4 standard multiplayer has offered a flood of nostalgia that has gotten Barrett back into the Call of Duty franchise. We discuss what maps, gameplay, and more have helped Barrett realize he's probably still more of a shooter fan than he knows.

If you're looking for more from IGN about Call of Duty, you can check out our three reviews for this year's entry — Black Ops 4 multiplayer, Call of Duty's battle royale Blackout mode, and Black Ops 4's Zombies mode. And you can check out the gallery below for every Call of Duty review IGN has ever done

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