Tag: Dungeons & Dragons
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The Steven Spielberg Movie That Inspired ‘Stranger Things’
Netflix has had plenty of hits during its tenure, but one stands out above the pack: Stranger Things. The sci-fi drama from Matt and Ross Duffer has barreled into pop culture like a freight train, inspiring everything from haunted houses to a crossover with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (That is not a joke. That…
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Stranger Things’ Joseph Quinn Has A Plan In Mind For Eddie’s Possible Season 5 Return
This post contains spoilers for “Stranger Things” season 4.”Stranger Things” fans know the drill by now. Whenever a quirky newcomer ingratiates them among the show’s main group of characters, odds are it’s only a matter of time before they’re snuffed out in heartbreaking fashion. Bob Newby (Sean Astin)? The adorkable RadioShack man gets mauled to…
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Inside This Year’s Quiet, but Still Mighty, San Diego Comic-Con: Comic Book Sales Spike, Epic Activation Lines, Groundbreaking Panels
Late Saturday afternoon at San Diego Comic-Con, thousands of fans, packed inside a cavernous ballroom, roared to life as the cast for one of the biggest shows to appear at this year’s annual fan convention stepped onto the stage. It was, in fact, one of the only times a cast of actors appeared at Sdcc…
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‘The Legend of Vox Machina’ Season 3: Everything We Know So Far
The Legend of Vox Machina began as a result of a Kickstarter campaign by a couple of enthusiastic Dungeons & Dragons lovers and is one of the very few examples of a game adaptation being done right. The animated series is based on the first campaign of the fan-favorite web series Critical Role from 2015,…
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Tom Hanks’s First Lead Role Was In A Movie About How Dungeons & Dragons Will Destroy Your Children
Stirring parents up into a paranoid mob is an American tradition, and it’s one of our lousiest. The poorly-researched anti-comic book tome “Seduction of the Innocent” led to a public comic book burning in the 1950s and decades of oppressive self-censorship within the publishing world. Violent video games like “Mortal Kombat” were accused of corrupting…
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‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ Review: Chaotic Fantasy Adventure Rolls a Hit
For years, the concept of adapting the vast and immersive canon of Dungeons & Dragons into a successful feature film seemed insurmountable — but there’s no denying that the tabletop role-playing game has been given a new resurgence lately, thanks to various campaigns being played out on streaming. Even celebrities like Joe Manganiello are proud…
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Review: Game Night Directors Roll A 20 With Hilarious Adventure [SXSW 2023]
Dungeons & Dragons is, by its very nature, undefinable. The world’s most popular tabletop roleplaying game is a sandbox built on a never-ending pile of options, an opportunity for creative gamers to immerse themselves in fantasy fiction and tell a story together. There is no defined tone, no set-in-stone canon, no rules beyond the mechanics…
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Regé-Jean Page Makes Women Swoon at ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ SXSW Premiere
The SXSW Film Festival began Friday with a thirst-trap premiere at Austin’s Paramount Theater. “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” the Paramount Pictures title that served as the opening night film, has a lot of things going for it: owl-bears, fat dragons, Hugh Grant. It also has Regé-Jean Page, who attended the filmmakers’ post-screening Q&a.A…
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‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ Review: The Role-Playing Fantasy Game Becomes an Irresistible Mash-Up of Everything It Inspired
Introducing “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” the lavish hyperkinetic popcorn fairy tale that kicked off SXSW this evening, the film’s co-directors, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, told the audience that they had designed the movie to appeal to hardcore D&d players — and also to those who know absolutely nothing about the game.…