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Max Schindler

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19 Jun

Spider-Man: BND Trailer Is the Clearest Confirmation of an X-Men Crossover Yet

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This article contains possible spoilers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. To me, my Spider-Man! Okay, that’s not how the line goes. But for months now, fans have been speculating that at least one of Marvel’s Mighty Mutants would be making their MCU debut in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Sadie Sink has long been rumored to play Jean Grey, the mutant telepath who serves as a founding member of the X-Men. Notice the word “rumored,” because thus far, the identity of Sink’s character has not been revealed. However, Sink does appear for a few seconds in the latest trailer for Brand…
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19 Jun

Tribeca 2026: Everything We Saw

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New York City is often a town of extremes. It can be too hot; it can be too cold. It can be too loud; and it can be painfully quiet on occasion. Yet there are times where it is absolutely perfect, and this June was no exception. With the Tribeca Film Festival in its 25th year, Robert De Niro’s pride and joy has added a lot of character to Lower Manhattan, especially in recent iterations during one of the city’s most glorious months. June is still springtime in the big city, and between sunny weather, Pride parades, and overdue New…
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19 Jun

The Best Shows to Watch After Widow’s Bay

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There isn’t a show around that’s exactly like Widow’s Bay. Katie Dippold’s new Apple TV original has definitely struck a chord with audiences in 2026, maintaining a delicate balance between scares and chuckles and introducing us to instantly iconic characters like Tom, Wyck, Patricia, Rosemary, and Bechir. But there are shows out there that manage to do spooky small-town horror or silly supernatural shenanigans well enough to devote your time to as you wait for a second season of Widow’s Bay. We’re going to assume you’ve already seen (or passed on) some of the bigger shows that Widow’s Bay’s humor…
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18 Jun

The Best Underrated Slashers of the 1980s

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You know Michael and Jason and Chucky and Freddy. But the 1980s weren’t just about these major franchises. After Halloween and Friday the 13th proved that studios could make a ton of money with a simple premise, and with the home video boom upping the demand for more and more content, the Greed Decade was filled with movies about groups of people getting picked off in increasingly absurd ways. And with a tried-and-true premise to work from, even the worst slasher movies end up being pretty watchable. So if you want to see eccentric weirdos use everyday objects to off…
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18 Jun

Everyone’s a Big Fan of the Spider-Man: Brand New Day Trailer’s Web Tornado

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It was a busy day for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man on the World Wide… internet. After the official “Spider-Man Movie” social accounts sprung to life with some conspiracy corkboarding from Ned Leeds, we knew that news was soon to arrive. And arrive that news did with an announcement that pre-sale tickets for the latest Spider-Man film were now available along with the release of several new posters. Missing from the initial round of excitement, however, was a new trailer. That struck some as odd given that the last bit of footage released from Spider-Man: Brand New Day was more than…
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18 Jun

How Minions Went From Facebook Slop to Hollywood’s Box Office Heroes

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The newest addition to the Despicable Me cinematic universe, Minions and Monsters, is set to open a record-breaking Annecy Film Festival on Sunday. More than 18,000 festival attendees will have the opportunity to begin their week-long film screening spree with some of big-screen animation’s most recognizable characters: the Minions. Minions, the bright yellow pill-shaped comedic relief sidekicks who made their on-screen debut in 2010’s Despicable Me, are now the heart of a seemingly never-ending multimillion dollar franchise. So how did Illumination’s poster children make it to the top spot? The answer is far more nuanced than the Minions’ crowd-pleasing antics…
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18 Jun

Antoni Porowski On Why Food Is the Ultimate Human Connection

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I’m an Englishman in New York, and last month I slipped across New York Harbor to Governors Island, less focused on its strategic position as a command post but more interested in cocktail making, award-winning pizza, and meeting Antoni Porowski to discuss his new series, National Geographic’s Best of the World with Antoni Porowski. For Antoni, the best meal in the world isn’t necessarily served at a Michelin-starred restaurant — it might come from a grandmother’s kitchen, a tiny London pub, or a chef preserving generations of tradition. That philosophy drives the new National Geographic series blending celebrity travel, food…
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18 Jun

Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis Takes a “No Laras Left Behind” Approach

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There hasn’t been a new Tomb Raider game since 2018’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider, closing out the action-adventure franchise’s Survivor Trilogy, providing the iconic protagonist Lara Croft with a more hardened origin story. The wait is finally over early next year with Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, a reimagining of the 1996 original game albeit completely revamped for modern gaming platforms and audiences. At Summer Game Fest 2026, we not only got the chance to play an early build of Legacy of Atlantis but talk to the creative team and Alix Wilton Regan, who stars as the new Lara…
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18 Jun

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival Is Real and It’s Fantastic

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If you’re a fan of horror games, you’ve probably seen targeted ads for Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival since its official announcement in July 2025. The first video game adapting the Hellraiser horror movie series, not counting the franchise’s guest appearance in Dead by Daylight, Revival has kept its cards close to the chest since the project was publicly confirmed. Fortunately, we are happy to confirm that not only does the game exist but that we got to play an early build of it for ourselves at Summer Game Fest 2026. This nightmarish vision of Clive Barker’s visceral horror story is…
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17 Jun

Stranger Things’ Duffer Brothers Have a Mysterious New Movie in the Works with Paramount

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With the series finale of Stranger Things and the endless fan conspiracies of an alternate ending now passed, the Duffer Brothers (Matt and Ross) have wasted no time working on everything but Stranger Things in their new deal with Paramount, a notable change of platform following the brothers’ production company Upside Down Pictures’ long relationship with Netflix. The pair signed an exclusive four-year deal with Paramount that they announced last August, expressing (via Variety) that a theatrical release is very important to them and that an original film is what they “wanted to do next.” Their deal with Paramount also…
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17 Jun

Only Murders in the Building Season 6’s Cast Is Now Overwhelmingly Huge

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This article contains spoilers for Only Murders in the Building season 5. Only Murders in the Building announced multiple additions to its season 6 cast on Instagram this week in a series of three posts. Among the new names are: David Tennant (Doctor Who), Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton), Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who), Jim Broadbent (Bridget Jones’s Diary), Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd), Adrian Lukis (Pride and Prejudice), and Kathryn Hunter (Poor Things). View this post on Instagram Only Murders in The Building is projected to have another successful season following main characters Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena…
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17 Jun

Weird DC Fans Rejoice As James Gunn Confirms Gorilla Co-Star for Jimmy Olsen Show

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For most fans of DC Comics and its various media spinoffs, it’s just about superheroes being cool. They want watch Batman skulk from the shadows, Wonder Woman deflect bullets with her bracelets, and Superman lift planets. But there are other DC Comics fans; fans who thrill to the musings of Brother Power the Geek, fans who have a favorite member of the Metal Men, fans who think no Doom Patrol story is complete without Danny the Street. These fans don’t care about the Justice League fighting Darkseid. They just want to see a cub reporter match wits with a telepathic…
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17 Jun

Toy Story 5 Review: Jessie Rides Again in Classic Pixar Adventure

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Making a sequel to a classic is a bit like gambling. You’re taking the capital created by reputation and goodwill, not to mention years of hard work, and betting you can creatively do it again without harming your legacy–or at least get in the ballpark of what came before. If that’s the case, then Pixar might be on the hottest winning streak in Hollywood history. For more than 30 years, the Bay Area company has bet the house and doubled down again by making one Toy Story movie after another, roughly every seven to 10 years, and more often than…
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17 Jun

Strange New Worlds Season 4 Trailer Calls Back to Classic Star Trek Tradition

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Star Trek is one of the peaks of Paramount‘s mountain of properties. Just look at the dazzling visuals in the first trailer for season 4 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, full of cutting-edge CGI and incredible costumes. The trailer promises high tension as it heads toward its fifth and final season, including more exploration, the resolution of Captain Pike’s arc, and, of course, more bonding between future shipmates/slash fiction originators, Kirk and Spock. Yet, for old school Trek fans, the most incongruous moments in the trailer invoke the most nostalgia. Shots of a T-Rex bearing down on the crew,…
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16 Jun

Every Game Release Is Avoiding GTA 6 Except Two Pop Culture Giants

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Grand Theft Auto VI has the presence of one of those cliché high school bullies that, when they walk down the hall, you quickly get out of their way in fear of being shoved into a locker.  As hyperbolic as that may seem, it’s clear game studios have felt the looming presence of Rockstar Games’ GTA 6. Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy producer, Eric Chort, even went as far to say “GTA is like the ogre, it’s the biggest one” in an interview with Eurogamer. According to Chort, that presence has led “all the studios in the world” to adjust…
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16 Jun

Jason Momoa Has One Non-Negotiable Demand for a Lobo Movie

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The big-screen debut of Lobo in DC Studios’ upcoming Supergirl is one that has been long-awaited (seriously it’s about fragging time). But this version sees the cigar-smoking alien space-biker in a more tempered state than usual. Fortunately for fans, Jason Momoa has promised that any solo movie for The Main Man himself will be strictly rated R.  In a Collider interview, Momoa confirmed he had discussed a possible spinoff with DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran saying, “It’s all I want, and I promise—I’m just going to put this out there right now—I do not have any interest…
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16 Jun

Doctor Who Will Survive its Return to the Wilderness (And Be Better For It)

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The death of Doctor Who has been greatly exaggerated. Yes, the show’s been put on a hiatus of indeterminate length, showrunner Russell T. Davies and his production company Bad Wolf have been removed (or stepped down, depending on how descriptively kind you’re feeling), and we have no idea when it will return. The previously promised Christmas special has been canceled — and may have never existed in the first place? — and it feels increasingly unlikely we’ll ever find out the answer to that Billie Piper cliffhanger that closed season 15. Things definitely aren’t great right now, and it’s fair…
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16 Jun

Spielberg and Ford Fought George Lucas on the Worst Indiana Jones Sequel (and Lost)

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It’s no secret that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull faced resistance from star Harrison Ford and director Steven Spielberg on the long road to its 2008 release, and that George Lucas’ insistence that aliens could be a viable plot device in the movie was a big part of that resistance. Lucas had been pitching Indy vs aliens since the 1990s, and after various writers had worked on scripts for the belated fourquel, David Koepp’s screenplay about Indy reuniting with Marion Ravenwood from Raiders of the Lost Ark and discovering he has a son while searching for…
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16 Jun

Gladiator Is a Movie for Women, Argues Russell Crowe

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If you’ve ever watched Letterboxd’s Four Favorites video series on social media, you’ll be more than aware that a lot of men really love Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, which remains understandable in a decade where “my Roman Empire” has been trending. Scott’s crowd-pleasing, awards-hogging, fist-pumping action-adventure flick explores themes of honor, courage, loyalty, and brotherhood, and its central character, Maximus Decimus Meridius (portrayed by Russell Crowe), remains true to his principles and fights for something greater than himself until he becomes a true “soldier of Rome” in death. The 2000 epic also has a really strong fan base among women, and…
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15 Jun

My Adventures With Superman and the Anti-Cannonical Fun of Supergirl

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This article contains light spoilers for My Adventures With Superman season three, episode one. As its name suggests, My Adventures With Superman isn’t just about the titular hero. Each episode gives just as much time to his pal Jimmy Olsen and to his girlfriend Lois Lane, a place of honor illustrated by the end of the opening credits. Right before the episode proper begins, we see Jimmy and Lois steel themselves against some upcoming threat, standing on either side of Clark as he removes his glasses to become Superman. Season three adds a fourth person to the circle of friends,…
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