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04 Dec

Is Young Justice Setting Up a Superboy and Mordru Battle?

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This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 4 Episode 9 “Ondu!” thankfully pivots Young Justice: Phantoms away from the tedium of the Tigress arc and into one starring Zatanna. This change of pace freshens up the show significantly – it’s Young Justice’s first significant exploration of the magical side of the DCU, and it mayyyyyybe hints at some big story points moving forward.  We start with a brief introduction and history of the Lords of Chaos and Order, the primal conflict between chaos and order that sprang from the creation of a disordered universe. It’s a universal…

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04 Dec

Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous Season 4 Ending Explained

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This article contains spoilers for Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous season 4. When Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous brought a PG cartoon into the PG-13 live action franchise, it was unclear whether the eight-episode first season would continue into a second. But the six kids trying to get off Isla Nublar during the events of Jurassic World have now earned themselves a fourth—extra long—season, with eleven episodes of action, that end on a big reveal, indicating that there’s more fun to come. Will the campers—Darius, Brooklynn, Kenji, Sammy, Yaz, and Ben—ever get home? In this season they finally leave Isla Nublar behind,…

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04 Dec

Final Fantasy: Every Story Ranked Worst to Best

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While there is no single aspect of the Final Fantasy franchise that has made it one of the most beloved and successful series in gaming history, it has to be said that few JRPG franchises can compete with Final Fantasy when it comes to consistently incredible storytelling. The Final Fantasy franchise has grown and changed quite a bit over the years, but no matter what direction the series goes in, it almost always offers a story that is worth the dozens (or, in some cases, hundreds) of hours that these epics typically demand. Of course, there are just some Final…

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04 Dec

MCU Spider-Man Watch Order: Peter Parker’s Journey to No Way Home

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With so many Marvel Cinematic Universe movies to watch and so many yet to be released, it’s easy to lose track of where your favorite Avenger is, or how they got there! If you haven’t been keeping up with Tom Holland’s MCU journey as Peter Parker as much as you wanted to, or even if you’re just getting started with his MCU antics, we’ve got a handy guide to your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man that will help you watch all his incredible adventures to date in the right order. Let’s start at the beginning… Captain America: Civil War Though Peter Parker’s…

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03 Dec

The Book of Boba Fett Could Finally Answer a Big Star Wars Question

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Boba Fett’s return last season on The Mandalorian finally confirmed an idea that was long-reflected across decades of Star Wars comics and novels, that being his escape from an alleged millennium of digestion within the belly of the dreaded Sarlacc. While clues were visible on Boba’s face, a full explanation about how he eluded that Return of the Jedi-dealt fate was not provided. Fortunately, it appears that imminent spinoff series The Book of Boba Fett is bringing the answers. Temuera Morrison’s manifestation as Boba Fett fulfils a franchise destiny, with the actor having played the cloned character’s genetic template father,…

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03 Dec

Link Tank: Should These Holiday-Set Flicks Count as Christmas Movies?

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Die Hard (of course), Lethal Weapon, Batman Returns, Gremlins, and more are all set around the holidays, but should they count as Christmas movies? “While action addicts love to extol the Christmas themes of 1988’s Die Hard every time December rolls around, the Bruce Willis-led blockbuster has plenty of company in the no man’s land between ‘Definitely a Christmas movie; and ‘Definitely not a Christmas movie.’ From romantic comedies to rip-roaring thrillers, here are some other Hollywood hits that you can definitely justify adding to an upcoming holiday movie marathon (whether your guests like it or not).” Read more at Mental Floss On…

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03 Dec

Lost in Space Season 3: All Your Robot Questions Answered

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This article contains spoilers for Lost in Space season 3. There’s nothing a human being loves to see on screen more than a robot.  Maybe it’s because the idea of a robot forces us to reckon with the act of creation and ultimately empathize with whatever created us having to watch helplessly as we stumble from one existential crisis to another. Or maybe it’s just because robots are cute and say “beep beep boop boop.” Whatever the reason, no sci-fi franchise understands humanity’s fascination with robots better than Lost in Space. The 1965 TV series established one of the all-time…

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03 Dec

Star Wars: How Boba Fett Defined a Generation of Lucasfilm Characters

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On Dec. 29, Star Wars fans will finally get something they could only fantasize about in 1983: the further on-screen adventures of Boba Fett. It’s a Disney+ show almost 40 years in the making, and not just because the pre-Disney canon had already established Boba survived the sarlacc pit, but because the villain always seemed destined for something bigger than his six-ish minutes of screen time and four lines of dialogue in the Original Trilogy. Boba is a great example of the kind of zeitgeist-grabbing myth-making that has made Lucasfilm such a successful movie studio over the last 50 years.…

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03 Dec

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 3 Easter Eggs and References

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This article contains Star Trek: Discovery spoilers. Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 3 For fans who feel like Star Trek: Discovery is the Deep Space Nine of the 21st century, the latest episode — “Choose To Live” — will only make that case stronger. Yes, although the Romulans warrior nuns from Star Trek: Picard take center stage in this episode, the vast majority of Easter eggs and callbacks will make Niners very happy. Here’s every Easter egg and reference we caught in Star Trek: Discovery Season 4, Episode 3, “Choose to Live.” “Choose To Live” The title of the…

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03 Dec

How Xbox Was Finally Proven Right in 2021

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While I don’t think 2021 is going to be remembered as one of the all-time great years in gaming history, I am convinced that this will ultimately be remembered as the year that the Xbox team finally turned the corner and showed everyone that they’ve been right about quite a few things. The problem with praising any video game manufacturer over another (or any brand/product over its competition) is that it tends to trigger this consumerism defense mechanism that forces people to tell you why you’re wrong because their preferred product or brand is better. What I find truly remarkable…

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03 Dec

Spider-Man: Kirsten Dunst Would Play Mary Jane Again in the MCU

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Many of Kirsten Dunst’s most famous roles have been getting remade in the last few years. And Dunst is now commenting on this trend in a new interview. There was Florence Pugh playing Amy March in the Greta Gerwig remake of Little Women (a role which earned Dunst raves), and there is the impending television redo on AMC of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, which will certainly include a new iteration of Claudia, Dunst’s star-making role in 1994. And then there’s Mary Jane Watson. The girl next door in Spider-Man. While the character of Mary Jane hasn’t technically been…

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03 Dec

The Beatles: Get Back – George Harrison’s Photographer Problems

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George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle, and sometimes also wanted to be invisible. “Beatle George Harrison, above, is due in court here today to answer assault charges,” John Lennon reads from a newspaper in a scene in Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back. “Harrison is accused of assaulting a photographer last May as he and Beatle Ringo Starr left a nightclub.”  The accused looks fairly bewildered, as did much of the audience. The story intermittently creeps back into the documentary, making its presence known while Harrison largely ignores it and moves on. In The Beatles: Get Back, Jackson…

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03 Dec

Ant-Man 3: First Look at Kang the Conqueror

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We’ve known for quite some time that Jonathan Majors would be playing the villainous Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the third film in Peyton Reed’s trilogy about Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), and their crew of MCU misfits. This film is particularly notable because it’s the first to feature one of Marvel’s most legendary villains, the ever-confusing time traveler, Kang the Conqueror. As with so many first looks at new characters and designs from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this one has hit social media as a photo of a shirt worn by…

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03 Dec

The Matrix Resurrections Finally Reveals the New Merovingian

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The Matrix Resurrections has revealed most of its returning cast in the lead up to the film’s long-awaited release later this month. We’ve seen Keanu Reeves back as a more grungy Neo, Carrie-Anne Moss as a leather jacket-wearing grease monkey version of Trinity, and even Daniel Bernhardt has suited up once again as Agent Johnson. But there are still a few other returners we haven’t seen, such as Jada Pinkett Smith’s Niobe, the ship captain who played a vital role in the two Matrix sequels. Then there’s Lambert Wilson’s elusive Merovingian, the grimy information broker and crime boss who was…

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03 Dec

Lost in Space Season 3 Ending Explained

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This article contains spoilers for the ending of Netflix’s Lost in Space. After three thrilling seasons, everybody finally made it to Alpha Centauri! But, as Lost in Space season 3 reveals, just because you make it home, doesn’t mean everything is okay. The final moments of Lost in Space season 3 resolved several plot points at once, and up-ended a lot of assumptions you might have had about the alien robots up until this point. Here’s exactly how Lost in Space season 3 ended, and what it means. Hastings has the key to the defensive shield  Read more TV Lost…

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03 Dec

Batman: Danny DeVito Open to Penguin Return

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Danny DeVito’s role as The Penguin in 1992’s Batman Returns remains one of the most visually-haunting, brilliantly over-the-top villain performances in the history of the comic book movie genre, which was still in its infancy. Yet, in a sign of the genre’s current universe-entangled state, the idea of the actor reprising the role 30 years later at the tender age of 77—even as Colin Farrell prepares to debut his version of the character—is actually feasible. Indeed, DeVito has let it be known that he’d absolutely fan the flippers on the big screen once again. For DeVito, the character of Oswald…

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02 Dec

West Side Story: Steven Spielberg Makes Musical a Turf War for America’s Soul

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The fight is over before it begins. Steven Spielberg makes that much obvious in the opening shot of his West Side Story. From the picture’s first frame, the Upper West Side occupied by the sound and fury of the Sharks and Jets has been lost. How can it not be when audiences are immediately introduced to a collapsed and dilapidated building? Fire traps and abandoned slums which would look at home in one of Spielberg’s World War II movies are the spoils of gang warfare in this soulful reimagining of the Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim musical. The neighborhood’s a corpse…

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02 Dec

Titanfall 3: Is It Time to Abandon Hope For This Sequel?

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Respawn has revealed that they are removing the original Titanfall from digital storefronts and streaming services, and the decision has divided franchise fans who no longer know whether they should keep holding on to hope for Titanfall 3. For those of you who missed it, Respawn recently revealed via Twitter that they have decided to discontinue sales of 2014’s Titanfall starting…err…yesterday. They will also be removing Titanfall from subscription services starting on March 1, 2022. While Titanfall‘s servers will be kept alive for the foreseeable future, this decision essentially means that Titanfall‘s seven-year run is over. There’s a lot to…

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02 Dec

Link Tank: The Book of Boba Fett Has Star Wars: Battlefront Connections

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A new short trailer for The Book of Boba Fett reveals a connection to Star Wars: Battlefront, bringing a specific location to life in live-action. “Eagle-eyed Redditor u/yunggravyintern noticed a huge reveal within the grounds of Jabba’s palace. The palace itself isn’t new. We know from The Mandalorian that Boba and Fennec take over Jabba’s entire operation. But Jabba’s hangar, the star of a map in the seminal Star Wars game Star Wars: Battlefront, is faithfully recreated in the teaser.” Read more at Inverse Agatha actress Kathryn Hahn learned about the title of her own Marvel spinoff series, Agatha: House…

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02 Dec

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 3 Review: Choose to Live

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The following contains STAR TREK: DISCOVERY spoilers Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 3  Star Trek: Discovery tries to serve multiple masters in Season 4 episode “Choose to Live” and the end results are predictably muddled. Perhaps it was always going to be difficult to balance Michael’s mission to track down a rogue Qowat Milat -who killed a Starfleet officer while stealing dilithium with Commander Stamets’s trip to Ni’var to collaborate with the Vulcan-run Science Institute. And that’s without throwing Book’s evolving grief, the attempt to move Gray’s consciousness to a synthetic body, and Tilly’s new self-improvement journey in there too. But…

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