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11 May

The Best Movies and TV Shows To Stream on Plex in May

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Temperatures are warming up in the month of May, but everyone needs something to help them unwind after a day of fun in the sun. If you’re looking for a little rest and relaxation, cozy up on the couch with Plex! Plex is the free streaming option here to keep you entertained as the day winds down. Plex offers a one-stop-shop streaming service offering 50,000+ free titles and 200+ free-to-stream live TV channels, from the biggest names in entertainment, including Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, Lionsgate, Legendary, AMC, A+E, Crackle, and Reuters. Plex is always overflowing…

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11 May

Kevin Feige’s Star Wars Movie Drops First Plot Hints

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When Disney announced a decade ago its plans to release one Star Wars film a year, starting with 2015’s The Force Awakens, the studio likely didn’t factor a three-year lull after the end of Sequel Trilogy into its plans. But almost three years since the release of 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, the state of the film franchise is up in the air. While Star Wars has continued to thrive on Disney+ during that time, it’s unclear when the saga will actually return to the big screen. Yes, Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron movie is currently slated for a Dec. 2023…

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11 May

The X-Men Need to Evolve for the MCU

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This article contains spoilers for the last two years or so of Marvel X-Men comics. “Humans of the planet Earth. While you slept, the world changed.”  The opening line of Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz’s House of X hit like a bolt of lightning, and everything it promised paid off. Hickman took over the floundering X-Men line of comics, isolated and diminished after years of corporate meddling, and reinvigorated them creatively and financially with an exciting five-year plan.  House of X and Powers of X was Hickman, Larraz, RB Silva and Marte Gracia’s overture. It started with a barrage of…

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11 May

Stephen King ’80s Movies: His Best and Worst

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The 1980s were in many ways peak Stephen King when it came to screen adaptations. For one thing, the man himself was at the height of his popularity. He has of course remained one of the world’s best-selling authors for decades, but his initial string of books that started in the mid-1970s and extended well into the ‘80s—which included classics like Carrie, ‘Salem’s Lot, The Shining, The Stand, and Different Seasons, just to name a handful—made him into a genuine publishing phenomenon like no other. At the same time, the success of Brian De Palma’s 1976 big screen adaptation of…

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11 May

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Set Photos Tease One of Marvel’s Strangest Locations

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When Guardians of the Galaxy released in 2014, it took viewers to some of the most exotic worlds from Marvel Comics, including the Nova home world Xandar and Knowhere, the city built in the severed head of a dead Celestial. If recent leaked set photos are to be believed, the franchise will continue this tradition with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. In a series of photos from Instagram user atlanta_filming, we can see various pedestrian objects such as police cars and advertising that appear to be from Earth. But if you look closer, you’ll notice that the writing on these objects belongs…

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10 May

U.S. Marshals: Robert Downey Jr.’s Forgotten Pre-Marvel Action Movie

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No one saw this coming: U.S. Marshals, the 1998 sequel/spinoff of 1993’s The Fugitive, skyrocketed on Netflix’s movie chart in 2022. It’s a strange development considering the movie’s age and how, frankly, irrelevant it’s been since it hit theaters. Yet its return to some form of cultural awareness—that is perhaps higher than when it came out two decades ago—is curious. How did this happen? The most likely needle mover here is likely Robert Downey Jr., who plays a supporting role as hot-shot secret agent John Royce, who joins U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones, reprising his Oscar-winning role from…

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10 May

The 1980s Doctor Strange Movie You Never Saw

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With Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness being a box office sensation, excitement over anything related to Marvel’s, uh, supreme wizard has reached a fever pitch. Perhaps the most mystifying thing about Strange is the movies that almost happened.  One of the most curious of these abandoned projects is a script written by Bob Gale. Fresh off of co-creating and co-writing Back to the Future with Robert Zemeckis, Gale’s script did a more than adequate job of bringing Strange to life. The problem — well one of them — was that any attempts to tell Doctor Strange’s story in…

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10 May

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: The Comics That Inspired the Movie

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This article contains Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness spoilers. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is the latest MCU entry and a lot of people have been checking it out, starting its first weekend off with $450 million internationally. While much of it feels inspired from Sam Raimi’s other work, it is a comic book movie featuring a lot of different elements. When you leave the theater, you or one of your friends might be interested in checking out the comics that inspired this movie. Even when a Marvel Cinematic Universe project is based on an existing…

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09 May

Is Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ‘Too Scary?’

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This article contains groovy Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness spoilers. Criticism of Marvel Studios movies is not a new phenomenon. Despite their pictures generally receiving solid marks from a plurality of critics almost every outing—at least as judged by the simple up/down metric of Rotten Tomatoes—there’s always a loud contingent of detractors whose grievances should be familiar by now: a visual and narrative uniformity; a lack of stylistic variation; an overreliance on blue screen and CGI; and where is the authorial voice? So seeing the inversion of that around Sam Raimi’s gleefully distinct and stylish Doctor Strange in…

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09 May

How Moon Knight Almost Tied Into Thor: Love and Thunder

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This post contains spoilers for MOON KNIGHT. Gods have always been part of the MCU. Wakandans thank Bast and Sekhmet, Captain America assured Black Widow that “There’s only one God,” and the Celestials shown in Guardians of the Galaxy and Eternals create and destroy worlds. But without question, the series most concerned with deities has been Thor. Since the first film, Thor has dealt with not only the titular god of thunder, but also the All-Father Odin, the trickster god Loki, and the goddess of death Hela. The only series to rival Thor in god content has been Moon Knight…

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09 May

Star Wars Confirms New Sith Villain to Hunt Luke Skywalker

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“I am your father.” Forty years later, those words remain one of cinema’s greatest twists. Even if you’ve seen The Empire Strikes Back hundreds of times, you can’t help but get a shiver down your spine when Luke’s greatest enemy reveals his identity, showing that good and evil remain inextricably linked. While author Adam Christopher isn’t promising a twist quite so monumental, he does have plans for a similarly shocking reveal for his upcoming novel Shadow of the Sith. Set after Return of the Jedi, Shadow of the Sith pairs Luke Skywalker with his ally Lando Calrissian when a Sith kidnaps the latter’s daughter. In addition…

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09 May

The Boys Season 3 Exclusive Cover Reveal: Meet Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy

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“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – John Dalberg-Acton. April 5, 1887. The idea of the superbeing not as an aspirational figure but a cautionary tale is one that predates even the concept of the superhero. Philip Wylie’s 1930 novel about a superhumanly strong and tough man, Gladiator—a key influence on Superman—isn’t one of high adventure and happy endings. Long before they brought the Man of Steel we all know and love to life, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s 1933 “Reign of the Superman” wasn’t about a heroic character at all, but rather a mad scientist whose…

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09 May

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Box Office More Than Doubles First Film

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By the Vapors of Vishanti, Doctor Strange has proven to be a Sorcerer Supreme when it comes to the box office machine! The exploding popularity of the character, or at least his rising prominence in the Marvel Cinematic Universe pecking order, has hit a watershed moment as the good doctor now has an opening weekend bigger than any of the Iron Man movies. Indeed, Disney is reporting Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is estimated to be conjuring a box office haul of $185 million over its first three-ish days in the U.S. That number is remarkable because it…

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09 May

How Showtime’s The Man Who Fell to Earth Compares to the Film

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Ground control to Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet: the stars are aligned, but look very different today. The Man Who Fell to Earth is a standalone sequel series, using Nicholas Roeg’s 1976 film as an alternative energy source. With Walter Tevis’ 1963 science fiction novel The Man Who Fell to Earth as a launching pad, the film starred David Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton, an overstay from a galaxy not that far away. Showtime’s new series stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as K. Faraday. He is an immigrant from that same planet, Anthea. The fusion between the two projects is clear from…

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08 May

Sheryl Crow: A Musical Life with ‘My Best Work in Front of Me’

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Sheryl Crow’s earliest musical memory begins in the backseat of a powder blue Plymouth Station Wagon. Only three years old at the time, she was being driven by her parents into the heart of her hometown’s commercial district when, fortuitously, Petula Clark’s “Downtown” came on the radio. Young Sheryl sang at the top of her lungs the whole way home. It was the beginning of a lifetime of music that’s followed Crow from those simpler Kennett, Missouri origins to the height of musical superstardom in the 1990s, 2000s, and on through to today. When Crow speaks about those formative years…

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08 May

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: What the Illuminati Mean for the MCU

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This article contains major Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness spoilers. For lovers of Marvel cameos and worldbuilding, the most exciting part of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness came about halfway through, when Strange is taken by Baron Mordo to face the Illuminati. First introduced in 2005’s New Avengers #7 (written by Brian Michael Bendis and penciled by Steve McNiven), the Illuminati consist of the biggest brains of the Marvel Universe. They exist to make difficult decisions about complex problems, such as sending the Hulk off-planet to prevent further destruction or ridding the Earth of a Skrull…

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08 May

Scarface: George Raft Brought Real Mob Ties to Original Movie

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Gangster icons aren’t always determined by top billing. Sometimes it’s decided by a flip of a coin. Director Howard Hawks’ 1932 gangster classic Scarface recently celebrated its 90th anniversary. Producer Howard Hughes was so committed to presenting a realistic depiction of mob violence that the film pushed the Motion Picture Production Code to its limit. Paul Muni puts in a gritty, animalistic performance in the title role of Antonio “Tony” Carmonte, modeled after Al Capone, but the actor with the gangland bona fides was the co-star, George Raft. Hired for his dark and menacing presence, Raft doesn’t have many lines…

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08 May

Scarlet Witch Deserves Better Than Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

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This article contains major Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness spoilers. We have a spoiler free review here. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is many things: a trippy reality-bending visual spectacle, a surprisingly grotesque horror film, and a standard superhero sequel that ticks a series of necessary boxes in aid of the larger franchise machine (all topped off by a heaping dose of cameos, callbacks, and general fanservice aimed squarely at the most hardcore of fans). What it is not, however, is the story it was advertised as.  Following the success of WandaVision, Doctor Strange in the…

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07 May

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: Best Marvel Comics and MCU Easter Eggs

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This article contains major Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness spoilers. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is finally here! And with it comes a host of answers to long-standing fan speculations, the wish-fulfillment of multiple fan-castings and favorite returns, and a even more questions about where this leaves the MCU of the future. Oh yeah, and there’s also a ton of references to Marvel Comics in here. Here are our favorite ones that we’ve found… AMERICA CHAVEZ Created by Joe Casey and Nick Dragotta, America Chavez has been kicking around Marvel Comics for over a decade now.…

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07 May

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: What Charles Xavier Means for the MCU

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This article contains Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness spoilers. If Patrick Stewart got a quarter for every time his Charles Xavier died onscreen… well, he’d have a dollar at this point. Which is not a lot, but it still feels substantial after Chuck was gleefully introduced in Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness only to then be gleefully shepherded off this mortal coil in a highly Raimi fashion. How else would you describe Professor X having his neck snapped by Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) at her witchiest? It should be noted that the Xavier who…

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