Daniel Whitehill

First, let’s toast to Netflix’s impeccable timing. It’s hard to imagine a better moment when the platform could have released Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos’s series Making a Murderer. Its target audience of socially conscious liberals with the kind of disposable income that can fund a Netflix subscription and the devices to use it with is, at this point, fed up with the mishandling of power by the police (generally in the form of racism, though Murderer is entirely about whites). Capping a year when Serial and The Jinx were the talk of the internet, Murderer is as familiar and definitive as every single end of year Top 10 list attempts to be.

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One of the worst environmental disasters of the decade is currently underway in a quiet community 25 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Putrid, methane-rich natural gas has been spewing into the air at an estimated rate of nearly 1,300 metric tons per day for over two months. Experts are calling it the climate version of the BP oil spill, and the leak isn’t going to be contained anytime soon.

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Netflix has released the first teaser trailer and premiere date for the Michelle Tanner-less Fuller House, and really, it should’ve just been a long shot of Kimmy Gibbler standing there with a teased ponytail on her head. It would’ve gotten at least 4 million views in minutes. But instead, Netflix decided to bring the cheese in bucketfuls by showing shots of the house and the new Comet barking at the door as everyone helps DJ Tanner move in while a Miranda Lambert song plays. Get into the cheese:

Yes, that is a Lake Superior-sized pot of fondue, but I’m still going to binge watch it like it’s my religion in February.

I seriously nearly overdosed on sappiness when Aunt Becky (or was it Kimmy Gibbler, please don’t tell me it was Kimmy) says, “Deej, you don’t need movers, you’ve got us.” What kind of psychopath says that? Only a crazy who wants to get into your house and rob you says that. Normal people aren’t happy about helping a ho move. And after all these years, they still have that small gingham couch? Don’t they know that if they rent that place out on AirBnB a few times they’ll have enough money to buy a new living room set at Raymour & Flanigan?

Tina Fey's newest film, Sisters, hits theaters this weekend, but she's got another movie coming down the pipeline. Thursday morning, Paramount Pictures released the first trailer for Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, a war comedy starring Fey as an international journalist sent to cover affairs in the Middle East.

Source: Mic/YouTubeThe film is set in Kabul, though one of the prime Afghani characters is played by white actor Alfred Molina. Rounding out the cast is Wolf of Wall Street star Margot Robbie (second-billed, indicating this may be something of a buddy comedy), Sherlock's Martin Freeman and Oscar-winner Billy Bob Thornton.

Fey plays Kim Barker, a real-life journalist who wrote the source material for the film, a book called The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Read More

They finally made a movie sequel to the original Star Wars trilogy. And the good news is? The Force Awakens easily captures the charm and excitement of the first three movies. Here’s our spoiler-free review.

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Who wants the hassle and maintenance of a real fireplace when Netflix serves up a convincing yule log you can just stream to your living room TV? Or better yet, why not just give in to all the Star Wars mania and curl up next to Anakin Skywalker’s burning corpse on a cold winter’s night.

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Love it or hate it, the most recent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was a huge hit and, next summer, the sequel is coming. It’s called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows and the first trailer is here.

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If you want to sell VR, you need the ardent early adopters to show it off and the people they show it off to to be impressed. To that end, it helps to have some dang good software support, so it makes sense that EVE: Valkyrie will be included in all Oculus Rift VR pre-orders.

The EVE: Valkyrie Bundle is "exclusive to Rift," which I suppose means other VR headset owners will be buying it separately. It's also, "premiering on the Oculus platform," which means that tentative Q1 release date could be before the Vive's April 2016 launch. Or CCP is holding EVE: Valkyrie until the Rift, which will be "at least $300." PlayStation VR is also slated for the first half of 2016 and EVE: Valkyrie was playable on it at PlayStation Experience.

I recently played EVE: Valkyrie with a "near-final" version of the Oculus Rift VR and the space dog-fighting game is pretty neat and didn't make me ill in an hour of play. It did make me sweaty and pinch the bridge of my enormous god damn nose, though.

Last August, Time took some photographs of a bird-brained, predatory beast to add a bit of color to its Person of the Year line-up. A bald eagle was also present.

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Dying Light’s The Following DLC continues to look promising. It’ll be interesting to see if the game can retain its signature flow without the verticality of the city of Harran, but those dune buggies sure do seem nifty.

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So that happened. After years of intense secrecy around Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the latest trailer went from 0 to 100 in terms of spoilers. Not only did the trailer show the reveal of Wonder Woman, but it even introduced the film’s big bad guy: Doomsday. Here’s what we learned.

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FX’s promo schedule for Ryan Murphy’s latest camp extravaganza American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson has felt as long as that white Bronco chase on the freeway. For weeks, they’ve released teaser trailers and promo pictures, and today they finally put out the official trailer and it looks like it’s going to be a beautiful disaster. It’s pretty much looks like O.J. Simpson: The Telenovela.

The trailer has John Travolta looking like a barbecued Raisinet as Robert Shapiro, Cheryl Ladd delivering a world-class eyebrow situation as Robert Shapiro’s wife, Sarah Paulson doing her signature Sarah Paulson cry with two brown mops on her head, Cuba Gooding Jr. sounding like he needs four bags of throat lozenges, Selma Blair gossiping at Nicole Brown’s funeral as Pimp Mama Kris and David Schwimmer bawling in a car as Robert Kardashian. (He’s probably bawling in the car because he realizes he’s defending a demon and is married to a demon too). And there’s also Connie Britton as the morally corrupt Faye Resnick:

That’s pretty much just Connie Britton wearing a lipstick color that only existed in the 90s, but I’ll take it.

And I wonder who is playing the pivotal role of the jury forewoman who fucked up Orenthal James Simpson’s name while reading the verdict? Every time I see the name “O.J. Simpson,” I always read it as, “Orenjal James Simpson.“

Did your Netflix stream grind to a halt as your loved one set up the Christmas decorations? According to British telecoms watchdog Ofcom, it could be the fairy lights that slow down your Wi-Fi network at this time of year.

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One of the most fondly remembered cult movies of the early '90s is Tremors, the comedy horror starring Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward. It has now been announced that the movie is to be rebooted as a TV show, with Bacon returning to the franchise for the first time.

Entertainment Weekly have reported that the Tremors show is being developed by Universal Cable Productions and Blumhouse, the production company responsible for such big screen horror hits such as The Purge and the Paranormal Activity series. The project is currently being shopped around to various networks, and EW have been told that "multiple bidders" are interested.

The original movie, which saw Bacon and Ward fighting giant sand worms in the Nevada desert, spawned four straight-to-video sequels, plus a short-lived TV series in 2003. Bacon has not appeared in any of the franchise beyond the first film, but he will return to this new series as both an actor and executive producer.

In an interview with the Metro newspaper earlier this year, Bacon stated that he would be interested in returning to the property. "I'd love to do something else with Tremors and revisit the character 25 years later," he said, via IGN. "Part of what's great about that movie is there are next to no digital effects. The monsters are done with puppetry, and it's still off, funny and scary--it's a cool accomplishment."

Developer Techland today announced that the price of Dying Light's upcoming expansion and DLC pass is going up. Previously sold for $20, the Polish studio now plans to charge $30 for the season pass. This price hike is the result of an increase in scale for the the zombie game's upcoming expansion, The Following, which, too, has gone up in price from $15 to $20.

"Over the past weeks, Dying Light: The Following has almost reached its final stage: main quests, side quests, new skills, and driving challenges are ready," the developer said. "We now are moving into the polishing period. Looking at it, it's clear how big the expansion pack has grown--it could be a standalone title, but since it would mean a launch delay, we decided against it.

"However, due to the increased scale of the project, we needed to revise the pricing that we announced back in August, and so we want to let you know that Dying Light: The Following will be priced at $20."

The Dying Light DLC pass is thus being adjusted accordingly to the new price of $30.

The price change will go into effect on December 8. People who already own the DLC pass, or those who buy it before December 8, will not be asked to pay more.

The Following is a story-based expansion in which protagonist Kyle Crane (voiced by Assassin's Creed and Batman voice actor Roger Craig Smith) travels to the outback. While there he meets "mysterious and fanatical cultists" that have information about the zombie outbreak.

The expansion also adds vehicles to the game, one of which is a dirt buggy. This is customizable, upgradable, and features its own skill tree. Techland called the dirt buggy Dying Light's "deadliest weapon yet." The expansion is slated to arrive in the January-March window of 2016.