Today, all at once, Hollywood's beefiest bois all perked up at once, as if they knew their time had come. The reason: Deadline reports that a Conan the Barbarian TV series is in the works at Netflix, part of a deal between the streaming service and Conan Properties International. The deal would give Netflix exclusive access to the vast literary history of the Conan character, created by Robert E. Howard, which stretches back to 1953 and encompasses more than 50 novels. Of course, most associate Conan with the aggressively wide frame of a young Arnold Schwarzenegger. Director John Milius' …

I'm not gonna lie to you: I grinned like an absolute idiot during the entirety of the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War multiplayer reveal trailer. Rendered in muscly, beautiful PlayStation 5 graphics (holy shit this system looks good), the footage is jam-packed with action, implies the moral shadiness of both sides of the Cold War, flips Duran Duran's "Notorious" to The Notorious B.I.G's "Notorious B.I.G." perfectly, and offers the intoxicating, neon lights of Miami to blast through. Plus: Zombies are back, and while we only see them for a second, …

The CW has released the first look at LaMonica Garrett as the Anti-Monitor [via EW], the Big Bad of the Arrowverse's upcoming mega-crossover, "Crisis on Infinite Earths". Here, in order they popped into my head upon first viewing, are all the things LaMonica Garrett looks like as the Anti-Monitor: The Night King's uncle who isn't invited to Thanksgiving. The guy from Apokolips who got Darkseid really into Crossfit. Apocalypse from X-Men: Apocalypse but if when he did that "learning" thing the TV was only tuned to American Gladiator re-runs. Or, you know, …