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Max Schindler

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06 Jul

My Adventures With Superman’s Superboy Rewrite Introduces an Important Character

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This article contains spoilers for My Adventures With Superman season 3 episode 4. The reign of the Supermen is upon us. By the end of “Guess Who’s Slammin’ to Dinner?” both Superboy and the Cyborg Superman had entered the world of My Adventures with Superman. With John Henry Irons a.k.a. Steel introduced in previous seasons, and the Cyborg Superman also borrowing elements from the Eradicator, all four characters introduced in the 1993 DC Comics crossover Reign of the Supermen are now accounted for, setting up an epic battle that will play out in the next episode. The Cyborg Superman isn’t…
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04 Jul

5 Shows About British People Being Miserable to Celebrate the Fourth of July

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First of all, congratulations. You did it. Two-hundred and fifty years ago, you adopted the Declaration of Independence and ditched Great Britain. You put your foot down. And you were right to do it. We were toxic and we weren’t making you happy. I’d love to say we learned, healed, and grew from the experience, but honestly, we didn’t. In the interest of transparency, we were down bad for some time. Oh, we carried on bossing other countries around for a while, doing despicable things. We pottered around with our little inventions, like steam engines, the National Health Service, and…
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04 Jul

Why Star Trek’s Most Iconic Piece of Technology Isn’t Getting Invented Any Time Soon

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The Star Trek franchise’s fingerprints are all over basically every piece of contemporary science fiction. From an idea as large as an intergalactic government system to a design as commonplace as a spaceship that doesn’t just look like a saucer, Star Trek’s innovation is the foundation for tropes and machinery across the genre. But the standout piece of technological advancement, the “Transporter,” has spread across works in the genre. The Transporter, a method of transportation that dematerializes its users and sends their molecules across the galaxy to another location, is easily Star Trek’s most recognizable invention. It utilizes quantum teleportation…
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04 Jul

Resident Evil Survival Unit Teams Up with Monster Hunter

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This article is presented in partnership with JOYCITY The popular mobile game Resident Evil Survival Unit, published by Aniplex and co-developed with JOYCITY, is about to get a lot bigger thanks to a collaboration with the fan-favorite Monster Hunter property. For a limited time only, Resident Evil Survival Unit players can battle fan-favorite monsters and earn exclusive gear from the Monster Hunter franchise. We’ve got a sneak at what players can expect when this collaboration launches in Resident Evil Survival Unit on July 2 for iOS and Android devices. Through the familiar gameplay mechanics of Resident Evil Survival Unit, players…
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03 Jul

America 250 vs. How Hollywood Addressed the Country’s Last Landmark Birthday

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Apollo Creed has a problem. In his first proper scene during the seminal 1976 sports classic, Rocky, Sylvester Stallone’s budding antagonist is introduced not as a villain or, necessarily, a fair-minded athletic rival. He’s a businessman sweating bullets because his upcoming New Year’s Day fight on the year of America’s bicentennial just imploded. The man he was supposed to fight has an injury, and there’s no time left to field a credible challenger. So he comes up with an idea; an innovation; a fine example of American entrepreneurship. “This is the land of opportunity, right?” Apollo, a Black man living…
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03 Jul

10 Independence Day Weekend Movie Releases That Became Classics

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Independence Day weekend can be a huge opportunity for movie studios and theaters. If they’ve got a genuinely good movie lined up, butts can easily start filling seats when people have more free time during the holiday. Tentpole movies can also win big, and it stands to reason that if a studio has spent a lot of money on a project, they’ll want the best possible chance of recouping it, even if all they’re offering is just another underwhelming sequel fresh off a CGI assembly line. Yet some Independence Day weekend releases have become genuine classics over the years, and…
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03 Jul

Danny McBride Drew Inspiration for His GI Joe Movie From a Cartoon Deep Cut

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You wouldn’t think it would take too much to make a good G.I. Joe movie, right? The concept’s pretty simple: you’ve got the Joes, an American military unit filled with people who each have their own gimmick fighting a terrorist organization also filled with people who each have their own unique, and also a legion of faceless soldiers and/or robots. Just make them fight! And yet, even though directors The Mummy‘s Stephen Sommers and Wicked‘s Jon M. Chu squeezed plenty of that goofiness into their films, no G.I. Joe flick has managed to connect with the public. Paramount is hoping…
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03 Jul

Stepping Out of Sherlock’s Shadow: Why Enola Holmes Works as a Detective Hero 

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Sherlock Holmes is a name that has dominated the mystery genre since the late 1880s, taking on many new incarnations and seeing many canon changes in the past 140 years. One notable recent change to the Sherlock universe has been the introduction of the rest of the Holmes family. American author Nancy Springer joined in on this Holmes expansion in 2006, with the creation of the book series The Enola Holmes Adventures. Enola, the rambunctious younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, was raised by their mother Eudoria Holmes in a progressive household that valued independence and intelligence, a rare…
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02 Jul

15 Movies That Don’t Answer Their Own Questions

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Movies don’t necessarily need to answer every single question they pose, since what we can imagine can often fill the gaps. These mysteries stay with us far longer than any definitive answer can, letting fans discuss the film for decades rather than just having an opinion on the solution. We do admit that, sometimes, that can be frustrating. Some mystery is fine, but when you don’t have anything to hold on to form a theory, you’re just shooting in the dark. These following movies present questions without clear answers, although if they do it well or not, that’s up to…
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02 Jul

Minions & Monsters Easter Eggs and Hollywood History Explained by the Director

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This article contains some Minions & Monsters spoilers.  Minions & Monsters is the third Illumination film to bear the title of the devious, banana-shaped critters who were first dreamed up by filmmaker Pierre Coffin and collaborators Chris Renaud and Eric Guillon. It is also the seventh film to showcase these animated hybrids between Oompa-Loompas and the Keystone Cops. Yet while devising a new film about the little guys, writer-director Coffin wasn’t so much thinking about their future as he was their past. Plus his own. It’s a fact that becomes obvious before the finished film even starts. When families and…
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02 Jul

15 Movie Heroes Who Only Made Their Own Lives Harder

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A hero or protagonist of a film is often the one that solves the problems being thrown at them by the plot, and seeing how they can triumph at the end tends to be the point of the story. Some tales, however, involve heroes that, through their very own actions, made their lives so much harder than needed. The way they act is oftentimes why their tales are so successful, but it doesn’t stop us from feeling frustrated at how their lives could’ve been much easier. An easy life doesn’t make for good content, but we like these characters enough…
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02 Jul

Absolute Wonder Woman Team Is Adapting One of the Best Genre Films Ever

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Writer Kelly Thompson and artist Mattia De Iulis, who gained recent success in DC’s Absolute Universe with Absolute Wonder Woman, are transitioning from stories inspired by twisted Greek mythology to a story from dark film mythology. Thompson and De Iulis will be taking their talents to a new adaptation of the Bride of Frankenstein story as a part of the Universal Monsters comic anthology series based on the Universal Monsters franchise. Universal Monsters: Bride of Frankenstein joins Skybound and Image Comics’ pantheon of adaptations centering on classic Hollywood movie monsters, including Dracula, The Mummy, and Frankenstein’s Monster himself, hitting comics…
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02 Jul

PlayStation Is Abandoning Physical Media, to the Detriment of Consumers

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Sony announced Wednesday that it will stop making discs for its PlayStation games beginning in 2028, in the name of “consumer preferences.” Instead of finding their releases in retailers, PlayStation fans will have to purchase games in the PlayStation store on their consoles. This announcement came right after Rockstar Games informed fans that GTA 6, the biggest incoming release of the year, will not have a physical release and instead will only be available digitally (though they will sell game boxes with codes inside for those who want a box). By doing this, PlayStation is not only betraying the tradition…
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02 Jul

X-Men ’97 Finally Gives Jubilee the Gambit Treatment

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This article contains spoilers for X-Men ’97 season 2 episode 2. X-Men ’97 isn’t just concerned with adapting comic book stories from the ’90s or telling stories about the X-Men in 1997. The animated series also gives attention to characters who reached their peak in the 1990s, characters who embodied the edgy attitude that defined the era, guys like Gambit, Bishop, and Cable. As popular as these characters were in their heyday, they were divisive, drawing just as many haters, who resented characters like Bishop and Cable for drawing attention from their favorites in New Mutants and Uncanny X-Men. The…
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02 Jul

The Odyssey Final Trailer Just Spells Out the Plot For Non-Classics Majors to Enjoy Too

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Look, you’re going to see The Odyssey. Universal knows it, you and I know it, and Christopher Nolan knows it. Nolan’s first movie after the triumph of Oppenheimer? A big, old-school epic with gods and monsters and warriors and big ships? Up-and-coming movie stars like Zendaya and Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson, alongside established greats such as Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway? Also, John Leguizamo, returning to his Romeo + Juliet roots to once again adapt a work of classic literature?!? But here’s the thing: does anyone know what The Odyssey is actually about? Is there a modern version of…
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02 Jul

Netflix Facing Wonka Reality Show Backlash After Using AI to Recreate Gene Wilder’s Voice

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A new Wonka-themed reality competition series has used AI to recreate Gene Wilder’s voice. The Golden Ticket, a nine-part Netflix series premiering September 23, debuted its first trailer this week, unveiling an AI-generated Wilder narration that promises a “life-changing prize” for the show’s winner. Netflix partnered with AI audio company ElevenLabs for the project, according to Deadline, and Wilder’s estate has given its consent to the controversial move. ElevenLabs also recently made headlines in a deal with the Stan Lee Universe, resurrecting the voice and likeness of the Marvel Comics legend for a series of audiobooks and more. “More than…
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01 Jul

A24 Has Confirmed its Interesting Re-Release Strategy for Backrooms

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A24 has confirmed it is re-releasing its popular horror movie Backrooms to theaters this Friday, July 3, with 15 minutes of “brand new footage from director Kane Parsons.”  Backrooms flooded the box office with horror fans at the end of May, sparking discussions online over the various laid “easter eggs” and the possibility of sequel material. Now A24 is attempting to rally fans back to the theaters to uncover further footage from the backrooms and fresh easter eggs. The indie studio confirmed in an Instagram caption that the footage is brand new, likely meaning that the extended version doesn’t merely shoehorn…
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01 Jul

Movie Sets Are Workplaces, Please Do Not Bother the Employees

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This article contains spoilers for The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3. Back in May, Prime Video TV series The Summer I Turned Pretty ran into issues with some fans filming the set and mobbing the streets during filming of the highly-anticipated movie spinoff following the series finale.  Now The Sun reports that the set has become a “horror story for the cast and crew,” with an unnamed source claiming that the actors are “repeatedly interrupted” when filming scenes by crowds of fans and photographers. The franchise pleaded to fans earlier in May on its social media pages, ”We love…
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30 Jun

14 Movies That Barely Left the Studio Parking Lot

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Movies where most everything is set, not on location. These productions were designed and built inside controlled studio environments, where entire worlds were constructed from scratch rather than found in real places. Instead of relying on natural landscapes or real city streets, filmmakers used soundstages, practical set design, miniatures, and digital extensions to create fully controlled cinematic spaces. This approach allows for total visual precision, from lighting to camera movement, and often results in highly stylized or completely artificial worlds that still feel believable on screen. These films are some of the clearest examples of how far studio filmmaking can…
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30 Jun

14 Movies Where They Could Have Just Called the Police

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Movies thrive on conflict, and sometimes that means characters ignore the most obvious solution available. Instead of picking up the phone and calling the authorities, they launch their own investigations, confront dangerous criminals alone, or let misunderstandings spiral completely out of control. Of course, if everyone made sensible decisions, many beloved films would be over before the opening credits finished rolling. These movies are entertaining precisely because their characters take matters into their own hands, even when a quick call to the police could have saved everyone a lot of time, danger, and unnecessary drama. IMDb Home Alone Kevin spends…
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