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“Somehow, Palpatine returned,” Oscar Isaac’s Poe Dameron famously declared in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. What Damreon didn’t say was how exactly he and the resistance learned that the Emperor had come back. Because all of that happened in 2019’s Star Wars X Fortnite, a four-week series within the massively popular Battle Royale game. […]
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Read MoreBy this point, no one in Hollywood would bet against James Cameron. For decades, Cameron has raised eyebrows by racking up enormous budgets for weird ideas like “a gigantic sequel to a grimy movie about a killer robot from the future” or “Fern Gully but in 3D.” And each and every time, Cameron is proven […]
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Read MoreNoah Hawley might be the weirdest fan in show business. He makes shows about well-established and beloved properties, tackling the X-Men in Legion, the Coen Brothers’ filmography in Fargo, and xenomorphs in Alien: Earth. And while he fills those shows with the sort of attention to detail that usually marks fan-centric works—see the pseudo-Nostromo in […]
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Read MoreAfter dispatching Vernita Green a.k.a. Copperhead (Vivica A. Fox) early in the first Kill Bill, the Bride Beatrix Kiddo (Uma Thurman) comes face-to-face with her enemy’s young daughter Nikkia (Ambrosia Kelley). “You can take my word for it, your mother had it coming,” Beatrix tells the girl. “When you grow up, if you still feel […]
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Read MoreThis article contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 5. Who is the big bad of Stranger Things? The answer most would give is “Vecna,” but who is Vecna? Sure, he’s the ruler of the Upside Down who kidnapped Will Byers way back in season 1 and who ends 5’s first volume of episodes with an […]
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Read MoreAs much as we all love ’90s Star Trek, there is one thing that’s hard to defend. Each of the four series produced in the era features one female cast member who wears a skin-tight cat suit instead of the uniform: Troi on The Next Generation, Major Kira on Deep Space Nine, T’Pol in Enterprise, […]
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Read MoreIn just a few weeks, James Cameron will once again make us all care about weird-looking blue people as Avatar: Fire and Ash hits theaters. Even by Cameron’s standards, a guy who often seems to embark on crazy and expensive projects only to turn out blockbuster hits, the Avatar films seemed like a risk, thanks […]
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Read MoreThis article contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 5 and Stranger Things: The First Shadow. Early in “Sorcerer,” the fourth episode of Stranger Things‘ fifth season, viewers get a familiar sight: Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink), digitally de-aged to look like she did when she nearly died fighting Vecna at the end of season four. As […]
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Read MoreThis article contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 5. At the end of Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 sci-fi fantasy novel A Wrinkle in Time, the witch/interdimensional being called Mrs. Whatsit compares human life to a sonnet, the poetic form defined by its strict 14-line structure. The correlation annoys Calvin, a teen from a troubled family who […]
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Read MoreFinn Wolfhard. Maya Hawke. Sadie Sink. Joe Keery. Stranger Things has provided a treasure trove of new young talent, introducing the world to the next generation of stars. But the most interesting breakout may not be one of the kids we first met in Hawkins, Indiana. Rather, it’s a guy who was in his 40s […]
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Read MoreThirty-five years ago, Kevin McCallister made his family disappear. Then, two years later, he made his family disappear again. But now, in 2025, Kevin’s ready to make his family reappear. At least, that’s what star Macaulay Culkin has in mind. As part of his Nostalgia Night with Macaulay Culkin tour (via Variety), the former child […]
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Read MoreNo one can lie to Matt Murdock. Thanks to the enhanced senses he developed to make up for the sight he lost during an accident he experienced as a child, Murdock has hearing so refined that he can listen to someone’s heartbeat across a room. Murdock usually employs those skills as Daredevil, the diabolically-themed vigilante […]
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Read MoreHonestly, it’s hard not to talk about the appearances of the Stranger Things cast. Even though just a few years have passed between the show’s season one premiere and the fifth season, nearly a full decade has passed in the real world, and the kids who make up the main characters certainly wear every one […]
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Read MoreTrevor Slattery knows how fickle fame can be. Fans cheered when they initially saw him in the first trailer for Iron Man 3, and that excitement continued throughout the front half of that movie. But midway through Iron Man 3, fans turned on Trevor, routinely citing him as one of the most disappointing characters in […]
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Read MoreIn the canon of DC Comics, the multiverse includes worlds in which talking animals are superheroes and multiple realities ruled by evil Superman. But we’re just getting to know the multiverse of the DCU, which makes its first appearance in season two of the series Peacemaker. How do you visualize dimensions beyond the superhero-filled reality […]
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Read MoreThanks to the release of Wicked: For Good, thousands of moviegoers are learning what Broadway fans have long known and book readers have known even longer: Wicked is an incredibly dark take on The Wizard of Oz. Starting with Gregory Maguire’s 1995 revisionist novel, continuing through the smash hit musical with music and lyrics by […]
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Read MoreOn paper, it sounds like the upcoming Exorcist film is going in the right direction. Instead of following the initial plan to let David Gordon Green make two more sequels to The Exorcist: Believer, Blumhouse hired Mike Flanagan to write and direct a new take. Moreover, Flanagan has already secured an A-list star in Scarlett […]
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Read MoreReed Richards a.k.a. Mister Fantastic is generally accepted to be the smartest person in the Marvel Universe. But he’s hardly the only super-genius or powerful person of that world, just one of many who gather in a group called the Illuminati. Joined by Tony Stark, Doctor Strange, and others, the Illuminati deal with problems the […]
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Read MoreWho you gonna call? Long before everyone in the world knew the answer to that question was “Ghostbusters,” Dan Aykroyd and Ivan Reitman called Eddie Murphy. And Murphy said no. Along with fellow Saturday Night Live alumni John Belushi, Murphy was one of Akroyd’s first picks to star with him as a team of paranormal […]
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Read MoreHugh Jackman is the best at what he does. And what he does is apparently play Wolverine until the day he dies. At least, that’s what we have to think after the Australian actor talked about donning Logan’s adamantium claws again while visiting the Graham Norton Show. When Norton pointed out that the actor has […]
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