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There can’t be any better stressbuster than playing your favorite racing game and overtaking all the competitors to earn the crown. Newcomers are probably not completely aware of EA’s one of the longest-running racing game series, Need for Speed, but this series has been running for thirty years. In this duration, EA has presented gamers with twenty-two outstanding installments, with the last one released in 2022.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted remake still have a chance to come. Image Credit: Electronic Arts.

After Need for Speed Unbound was released in 2022, Electronic Arts gave this racing series a pause for a while, with no update about any further installment. However, fans aren’t ready to sit idle, especially when the rumor of a Need for Speed: Most Wanted remake has already been in the air for a while. A renowned actor recently fueled this rumor with his statements.

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers from the entire first season of “Yellowjackets,” and also includes content some readers may find disturbing.

Showtime’s “Yellowjackets,” the newest addition to the television canon of sublime psychological thrillers, is beyond definition. It seamlessly transitions from a coming-of-age story about a high-school girls’ soccer team to a bloody tale of survival after their plane crashes in the Ongtario wilderness, then makes a full 180 to horror, with a healthy sprinkling of buddy comedy and political drama in the mix. The series deftly navigates these twists and turns, largely thanks to the subtle and striking visual effects that range from aircraft explosions to Van (Liv Hewson) getting her face torn off by a wolf.

To the untrained eye, the visual effects on “Yellowjackets” may seem inconsequential, since it doesn’t over-stuff its viewers with horrifying gore like a show such as “The Walking Dead,” and...

"We've lost so much already, I don't want to lose you, too." Lionsgate has debuted a powerful trailer for an adaptation of a bestselling novel titled The Shack, a spiritual journey story about a father who spends time at a remote shack in Oregon and "finds important truths that will transform his understanding of tragedy and change his life forever." Sam Worthington stars, along with Octavia Spencer, Radha Mitchell, Tim McGraw, Graham Greene, Ryan Robbins, Megan Charpentier, Gage Munroe, Amélie Eve, Derek Hamilton, Jordyn Ashley Olson, Emily Holmes, and Aviv Alush as Jesus (you'll see). This is actually some serious religious propaganda, with a story about Worthington getting a "mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called The Shack." This looks tailor made for American audiences. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Stuart Hazeldine's The Shack, direct from YouTube: Based on the bestselling novel, The Shack...

In a curious but acutely unpleasant way, the crass snowboarding comedy "Out Cold" is the mutant offspring of those old '60s beach movies in which a bunch of crazy kids take time out from catching a wave to save the clubhouse.

Of course, this being 40 years later, everything has to be more extreme, including the sophomoric high jinks and the limited attention spans of first-time feature directors the Malloys (brothers Brendan and Emmett), who can't seem to hang on to any thread of story lasting longer than one of their music videos.

While the presence of pro boarders doing their thing might be a selling point for enthusiasts, the predominantly lame goings-on will leave others snow-bored. Look for this Touchstone Pictures/Buena Vista Thanksgiving offering -- which is definitely not for the kiddies -- to make a swift butt-stop at the local Blockbuster.

Set in Alaska but shot outside of Vancouver, Jon Zack's slightest hint of a script concerns the exploits of a bunch of snowboarding buddies whose endless good times on Bull Mountain could be seriously curtailed by the death of town founder Papa Muntz (the late Lewis Arquette).

It seems his son Ted (Willie Garson) has up and sold the aging hangout to slick developer John Majors (Lee Majors), who intends to convert it into a shiny ski resort.

But Rick (Jason London), Luke (Zach Galifianakis), Anthony (Flex Alexander) and Pig Pen (Derek Hamilton) have other ideas -- including some that have nothing to do with flipping outhouses or having improper conduct with a Jacuzzi jet -- and manage to save the day.

There are a couple of chuckle-worthy gags, but for the most part, a collection of sports bloopers would have been funnier. Essentially the story line is simply killing time before it can cut to another snowboarding sequence or find an excuse for another lovely young woman to peel off her bra (photographed, naturally, from the back in order to preserve the integrity of that PG-13 rating).

On the plus side, the cast appears to be enjoying its winter vacation, and the budget-conscious crew gets the job done with a minimum of fussy flourishes under those impossibly blue Alaskan, er, British Columbian skies.

OUT COLD

Buena Vista

Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment

present a Donners' Co. production

a Barber/Birnbaum production

Directors: Brendan Malloy, Emmett Malloy

Screenwriter: Jon Zack

Producers: Lee R. Mayes, Michael Aguilar, Jonathan Glickman

Executive producers: Lauren Shuler Donner, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum

Director of photography: Richard Crudo

Production designer: Michael Bolton

Editor: Jeffrey Wolf

Costume designer: Carla Hetland

Music: Michael Andrews

Music supervisor: Laura Z. Wasserman

Color/stereo

Cast:

Rick Rambis: Jason London

Jack Majors: Lee Majors

Ted Muntz: Willie Garson

Luke: Zach Galifianakis

Stumpy: David Koechner

Anthony: Flex Alexander

Jenny: A.J. Cook

Papa Muntz: Lewis Arquette

Pig Pen: Derek Hamilton

Running time -- 89 minutes

MPAA rating: PG-13...

In a curious but acutely unpleasant way, the crass snowboarding comedy "Out Cold" is the mutant offspring of those old '60s beach movies in which a bunch of crazy kids take time out from catching a wave to save the clubhouse.

Of course, this being 40 years later, everything has to be more extreme, including the sophomoric high jinks and the limited attention spans of first-time feature directors the Malloys (brothers Brendan and Emmett), who can't seem to hang on to any thread of story lasting longer than one of their music videos.

While the presence of pro boarders doing their thing might be a selling point for enthusiasts, the predominantly lame goings-on will leave others snow-bored. Look for this Touchstone Pictures/Buena Vista Thanksgiving offering -- which is definitely not for the kiddies -- to make a swift butt-stop at the local Blockbuster.

Set in Alaska but shot outside of Vancouver, Jon Zack's slightest hint of a script concerns the exploits of a bunch of snowboarding buddies whose endless good times on Bull Mountain could be seriously curtailed by the death of town founder Papa Muntz (the late Lewis Arquette).

It seems his son Ted (Willie Garson) has up and sold the aging hangout to slick developer John Majors (Lee Majors), who intends to convert it into a shiny ski resort.

But Rick Jason London), Luke (Zach Galifianakis), Anthony (Flex Alexander) and Pig Pen (Derek Hamilton) have other ideas -- including some that have nothing to do with flipping outhouses or having improper conduct with a Jacuzzi jet -- and manage to save the day.

There are a couple of chuckle-worthy gags, but for the most part, a collection of sports bloopers would have been funnier. Essentially the story line is simply killing time before it can cut to another snowboarding sequence or find an excuse for another lovely young woman to peel off her bra (photographed, naturally, from the back in order to preserve the integrity of that PG-13 rating).

On the plus side, the cast appears to be enjoying its winter vacation, and the budget-conscious crew gets the job done with a minimum of fussy flourishes under those impossibly blue Alaskan, er, British Columbian skies.

OUT COLD

Buena Vista

Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment

present a Donners' Co. production

a Barber/Birnbaum production

Directors: Brendan Malloy, Emmett Malloy

Screenwriter: Jon Zack

Producers: Lee R. Mayes, Michael Aguilar, Jonathan Glickman

Executive producers: Lauren Shuler Donner, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum

Director of photography: Richard Crudo

Production designer: Michael Bolton

Editor: Jeffrey Wolf

Costume designer: Carla Hetland

Music: Michael Andrews

Music supervisor: Laura Z. Wasserman

Color/stereo

Cast:

Rick Rambis: Jason London

Jack Majors: Lee Majors

Ted Muntz: Willie Garson

Luke: Zach Galifianakis

Stumpy: David Koechner

Anthony: Flex Alexander

Jenny: A.J. Cook

Papa Muntz: Lewis Arquette

Pig Pen: Derek Hamilton

Running time -- 89 minutes

MPAA rating: PG-13...