John Cena’s Retirement Is the Final Chapter of a Superhero Story

Since 2002, John Cena embodied a mythos usually reserved for comic book characters. Now his wrestling retirement run has felt less like a farewell and more like the final act of a saga that has spanned across different timelines. It’s a significant event that challenges everyone who has been on this journey with him to […]

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The Conjuring: Last Rites Turns the Horror Franchise into a Schmaltzy Soap Opera

This post contains full spoilers for The Conjuring: Last RiTES. It all ends with a wedding. In the final moments of The Conjuring: Last Rites, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) dance together at the wedding of their daughter Judy (Mia Tomlinson) and new son-in-law Tony (Ben Hardy), surrounded by […]

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Why Peacemaker Season 2 Does the Multiverse Right

This post contains spoilers for Peacemaker season 2 episodes 1-3. “Best. Universe. Ever.” That’s how the Peacemaker Chris Smith describes the alternate reality he visits throughout the second season of the show that bears his name. While it was a cheering crowd—complete with a child moved to tears and a woman moved to bare her […]

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Peacemaker Just Brought an Unlikely Team of Superman Villains to the DCU

This post contains spoilers for Peacemaker season 2 episode 3. By this point, we shouldn’t be surprised when James Gunn pulls an obscure DC Comics character for one of his projects, but he may have outdone himself in the latest episode of Peacemaker. While visiting the alternate reality where he’s a beloved hero, Chris Smith […]

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