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Review: Batman Realm of Shadows
Batman is kinda the hog in Bruce Wayne’s life. We tend to see a lot more of the bat than we do Bruce. What lies under the mask of Bruce Wayne? What makes him tick? Does he like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches? What are his political beliefs? Well, Telltale Games latest, “Batman: Real of Shadows” answers some of those questions by putting you in shoes of Bruce Wayne as much as it does the cowl of the caped crusader.
This is the first episode of five. Like other TellTale Games it is built on choices and quicktime events. This time around you are Batman and Bruce Wayne. As the Bat you go around doing Batman things. Thwarting villainy, using bat tech gadgets and being an all around badass. As Bruce Wayne you are attempting to shift power to a Harvey Dent campaign to keep Gotham safe.
The game begins with a brawl with Catwoman, before shifting into a political fundraiser at Wayne Mansion. Bruce is backing Harvey Dent and schmoozing with Gothamites in order to secure Dent a spot in the election. This part has you selecting dialogue to have voters side with your friend, Dent. When mobster, Carmine Falcone makes an appearance at the event both Dent and Wayne are tied to rumors that they are working with the mob.
This entry does a good job at revitalizing the world of Batman. Character models are tweaked and some backstories are shifted in order to give you a fresh look at the characters and story that we are used to.
Fights are a series of quicktime events that are rarely as satisfying as controlling Batman in the Arkham series but they are still fun enough. These are interactive movies for the most part and that is a cool way to merge the two formats together. Dialogue choices again form the world mold the world around you and choices you make impact the story later on.
” This entry does a good job
at revitalizing the world of Batman “
A new option of group play is available this time around. For, example if you and some friends are sitting around watching you play, they can vote for dialogue choices from their smartphones in order to assist in choices, making this a cool party game for fans of Batsy.
If you are a fan of Telltale Games and Batman you will be a fan of this. While this isn’t a strong episode, it does a good job of setting up the set-pieces, characters and ,of course, a cliffhanger. The story is promising and I’m looking forward to see what is next for Batman and alter ego Bruce Wayne.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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