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Widely considered one of the greatest films ever made, and once again appearing on Sight & Sound's recent Greatest Films of All Time list, the 1942 romantic drama continues to stand the test of time. If you aren't a fan of the romance genre, from the outside looking in it could appear that this was just another stuffy old black-and-white film from Hollywood's golden age.
Nearly 10 years after its initial release back in 2013, fans of have looked for any scrap that they could find when it comes to information about the game's cordyceps infection.
As HBO readies for the release of The Last of Us television series, one can't help but think about the sorry state of video game adaptations throughout the years. Though the tide has slowly begun to change thanks to the likes of and Castlevania, the idea behind a critically acclaimed live-action adaptation that doesn't incorporate some type of animated element ( Sonic The Hedgehog), is still largely unproven.
Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for The Last of Us Episode 1.With the first episode of HBO's adaptation of the popular video game franchise The Last of Us finally released, the inevitable comparisons to the source material from both fans and critics alike are no doubt already swirling around on the internet.
There's been much made about the motto "never bet against James Cameron" following the latest success of Avatar: The Way of Water . This motto has left many doubters trying to wrap their heads around how a sequel to a film 13 years later, which supposedly had no staying power, could release and still have the amount of success that it has ended up generating.
Few movie scores of the past 20+ years have seen their soundtrack mesh as well with their on-screen visual counterpart as the work . Initially, seemed like a run-of-the-mill entry in a long-dormant series, one with the potential to rejuvenate the franchise with audiences after essentially a 28-year absence.
As the holidays wrap up and we move into the new year, many film fans who partake in the collection of physical media no doubt probably find themselves with a handful of Blu-rays to unwrap. For fans of the media format, it's been interesting to watch the industry evolve over time, while also carrying over many mainstays of previous generations of electronics.
In the fall of 2001, the PlayStation 2 had what could be considered one of the single best launch day for games on September 24, 2001. It was on that day that two high watermarks of their specific genres, Silent Hill 2 and Ico , were released.
For fans of television, it often feels like the weekly release format is on the way out. For a period of time, "water cooler" shows (shows that draw in a large audience at once so people the next day discuss the events around the water cooler in their office) were a hot commodity, but within the last decade and a half or so, there's only been a handful that really captured the zeitgeist of event television, those primarily being , , and .
For years now it seems like the death knell has continued to ring for certain areas of physical media. Many people have even claimed that 4K will most likely be the last physical video format. As streaming services continue to gain more subscribers, for fans of physical media, it can begin to look increasingly bleak.
