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21 Oct

From BTS to Busan—How Marvel is Courting K-Culture

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If you needed any more proof that Korean entertainment is becoming globally mainstream, look no further than the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Over the weekend, rumors surfaced that “Friends,” a song written by BTS’ Jimin and performed by Jimin and V, would be on the soundtrack for Marvel’s Eternals. On Monday, the rumors were confirmed, getting many ARMY excited about the group’s inclusion in one of the world’s biggest pop culture franchises. The U.S. is not the center of the universe (contrary to some Americans’ belief), but it is the world’s largest exporter of popular culture and has been for a…

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21 Oct

Legends of Tomorrow Gets Revenge for the Red Scare

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This Legends of Tomorrow review contains spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 7 Episode 2 With about ten minutes left in last week’s Legends of Tomorrow season 7 premiere, I started shaking my head and chuckling. As soon as I realized the crew was going to become bank robbers in the 1920s, through Hoover’s death at Nate’s hands (or forehead, whatever), I both could and could not believe that this was where the show was going. That didn’t stop this week – as soon as Ava looked at the bottles of whiskey on the table, I slapped myself in amazement that…

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20 Oct

Night Teeth: Megan Fox and Sydney Sweeney Should Lead Their Own Vampire Movie

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This article contains Night Teeth spoilers. Netflix’s Night Teeth stars Lucy Fry and Debby Ryan as Zoe and Blaire, two vampire enforcers in a battle over the vampire underground in Los Angeles. They work for Victor, played by Game of Thrones’ Alfie Allen, who set the stage for a changing of the guard in one nocturnal mission. A formidable trio, yes, but Megan Fox and Sydney Sweeney pull the real coup in the film. Their vampire queens Grace and Eva only get one scene and make off with the movie. So perhaps Fox and Sweeney should bare their fangs in…

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20 Oct

Amid Spider-Man: No Way Home Rumors, Charlie Cox Teases a Rebooted Daredevil

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As if the multiverse mania confirmed for Spider-Man: No Way Home wasn’t providing enough speculative hype, the film is rumored to feature a crucial Marvel Cinematic Universe Netflix nod with the return of Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock—and potentially his costumed crime-fighting alter-ago, Daredevil. While such an appearance would seemingly canonize the events of the revered Daredevil TV series and its shared-universe cohorts, the center of said rumors, the star himself, is hinting the possibility of a different kind of manifestation. The speculated onscreen return of Daredevil, the blind lawyer vigilante, is an inevitable interview question for Cox, given the potential…

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20 Oct

New World: Gold Farming Tips For the Broken Economy

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New World‘s economy has quickly proven to be a bit of a mess, which means that nearly all of the MMOs thousands of players are currently scrambling to find ways to earn a little extra gold (or “coin” as it’s technically referred to in the game). The bad news there is that the nature of New World‘s economy means that there are few surefire ways to earn gold in this game quickly. This article does a great job of explaining the situation, but the basic problem at the moment is that the game is very stingy with currency rewards, and…

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20 Oct

Why Y: The Last Man Got Canceled

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In a crowded TV landscape of limited series, specials, and movies, it’s harder than ever to find traditional dramas with a premise compelling enough to support multiple years of storytelling. FX President John Landgraf said as much during his appearance at the summer 2021 Television Critics Association press tour. “It’s honestly not easy to find sustaining dramas that really hold up and maintain their consistency and quality and also their sort of urgency for the audience over a period of time,” Landgraf told the gathered journalists. “I can tell you we try just as hard to find them, develop them,…

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20 Oct

Link Tank: Sabrina the Teenage Witch is Headed to Riverdale

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Sabrina the Teenage Witch is officially part of the Riverdale universe, and it’s strange to say the least. “Riverdale’s original idea of crazy was that Archie Andrews was sleeping with his teacher and Jason Blossom was very dead. Five seasons and a cult, several murders, some supernatural monsters, and two teachers randomly leaping out of the same damn window, anything goes—so at this point, the fact that a new trailer heralding a long-awaited crossover is so bananas should be unsurprising. And yet, reader. And yet.” Read more at Gizmodo A new LEGO set based on Spider-Man: No Way Home might…

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20 Oct

New World: How to Transfer Your Character Between Servers

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New World‘s latest patch (update 1.0.3) includes quite a few fixes and improvements, but the big news at the moment is that the game’s long-awaited free server transfer feature is finally here. While finally having the ability to transfer your New World character to another server should help players battle the MMO’s often absurd queue times, you may not be able to rest easy quite yet. While this won’t surprise veteran genre players, it turns out that New World‘s server transfer feature requires you to consider a number of variables. With that in mind, here’s what you need to know…

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20 Oct

Dune: Do You Need to Be Familiar with the Book to Enjoy the Movie?

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Frank Herbert’s Dune is a sci-fi classic, one of the world’s best loved sci-fi novels. It’s a saga of new worlds, future tech, ancient traditions, and magic. Denis Villeneuve’s movie isn’t the first attempt to translate the book to the big screen. Alejandro Jodorowsky had a failed go in the ‘70s, and David Lynch released his version in 1984. Villeneuve’s movie is only part one of the saga (so the story is not complete by the end of his film). But what if you’ve never read the book or seen Lynch’s movie? Does it still make sense? From someone who…

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20 Oct

Ruby Rose Rips Batwoman: “Enough is Enough”

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Former Batwoman lead Ruby Rose has taken to social media to further detail her exit from The CW show, alleging dangerous working conditions on the set and specifically calling out former Warner Bros. Television Studios president Peter Roth, Batwoman producers Caroline Dries and Sarah Schechter, and Arrowverse head-producer Greg Berlanti in the posts. Rose departed Batwoman as lead actor following the first season. While they had previously given a more company-friendly explanation for their exit, citing the general demands of being a superhero lead and the back injury they suffered while doing stunts on the show, Rose paints a more detailed (and…

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20 Oct

Eternals Namedrops Superman in the MCU

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It may seem impossible now, but Marvel and DC Comics have worked together quite a few times over the past few decades. In 1996, they even published two intercompany crossover series called DC vs Marvel/Marvel vs DC. But could something like this ever work on the big screen? It seems pretty unlikely, no matter what The Suicide Squad and Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn says — at least for now. “Everybody’s open to everything but whether anything would ever happen…who knows?” Gunn said in July about his conversations with the heads of Marvel and DC about the possibility…

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20 Oct

Marvel Director Says Avengers: Infinity War Snap Was Captain America’s Fault

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This article contains spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War Last August, Candyman and Little Woods director Nia DaCosta was tapped by Marvel Studios to helm the sequel to their 2019 Brie Larson-led blockbuster Captain Marvel, becoming the youngest filmmaker to direct a Marvel film. It’s clear that the Brooklyn-born filmmaker is brimming with passion for her projects, and in a new interview with Inverse she’s been talking to writer and professor Roxane Gay about how she has approached the upcoming movie, which will add budding superheroes Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) to Carol Danvers’ ongoing saga. A…

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20 Oct

Night Teeth: Sexy Vampires Feast on Crime Movie Thrills

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Night Teeth is very entertaining, not particularly scary, and more of an action film than a straight horror movie. But at its center is a romance, and some wicked antiheroes who are sadly put in their place all too soon. Isn’t that the problem with intra-vampire spats, though? All the worst bloodsuckers bleed out, even when they’re really the most fun to watch. Yet we shouldn’t linger on the sad parts. Adam Randall’s Netflix horror film happily slashes the throats of humans of all ages, even dishing out a savory cut of niece to her veteran vampire-killing uncle. Don’t worry,…

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20 Oct

Doctor Who: Why Is It So Difficult to Replace the Showrunner?

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Doctor Who showrunner is one of the most high-profile TV jobs in the U.K. But that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily one of the most sought-after. Last month, the BBC rocked the Whoniverse when it announced that Russell T. Davies, the man who relaunched Who in 2005, would be returning as the next showrunner, with Bad Wolf Productions coming on to co-produce alongside BBC Studios. No doubt the BBC is hoping that Davies (and Bad Wolf’s Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter) will be able to capture some of the magic of their NuWho era, and get a broad audience excited about…

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20 Oct

The Forgotten Era of Internet Jump Scares

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Beware: Every video clip embedded in this article features a jump scare. It’s 2005 and you just received an email to your Hotmail account with the subject line “Bet you can’t get out of this maze.” You immediately click the link because you love a challenge and don’t fully understand the internet yet.  The first two levels of the maze game are easier than you thought and you fly through them. By the time you reach level 3, however, things get much harder. The walls begin to shrink and the turns you have to navigate are much sharper. Is this…

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20 Oct

Supergirl: Dreamer Confronts her Transphobic Sister

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This SUPERGIRL article contains spoilers for Season 6, Episode 16, “Nightmare in National City.” Supergirl Season 6 Episode 16 Nia took on Nyxly and her long-absent, transmisogynist sister while Kara juggled heads of state and her decision to unilaterally put a giant dome over half of National City. And yet, the monster that made them put the dome up managed to feel like the least important part of an episode that belongs to Dreamer. This episode doled out some fun details, including the fact that Nyxly had a crush on Myxy’s cousinwhen she was a kid. Her suit apparently includes her disembodied…

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20 Oct

Doctor Who: Jodie Whittaker Names Her Favourite Guest Star

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At the Doctor Who: Flux press launch, held just 48 hours before Jodie Whittaker completed her final day’s filming as the Doctor, Whittaker was asked to pick her favourite guest star during her time on the show. After initially protesting the question in mock horror and spreading the love by saying, “There’s too many people that have just been wonderful and a joy,” Whittaker picked a name. “I suppose the one that I felt moved about because I’m a massive fan… Stephen Fry.” When Fry joined the cast of Series 12 two-part opener Spyfall, directed by Jamie Magnus Stone and…

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20 Oct

Doctor Who: Flux Sees the Doctor Face ‘Psychologically Terrifying’ Monster

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Warning: contains details of returning aliens in Series 13. It’s no coincidence, said BBC Director of Drama Piers Wenger at the Doctor Who: Flux press launch that Series 13 launches on Halloween. “Some extraordinary monsters have been conjured up,” teased Wenger, adding the familiar instruction, “Don’t blink.” Thanks to wily set snoopers and Steven Moffat’s Instagram page, it’s been known for months that the Weeping Angels – as glimpsed in the first full Doctor Who: Flux trailer – were returning to Doctor Who for Jodie Whittaker’s final series. “The Angels are back!” announced Mandip Gill, speaking on Zoom to assembled…

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19 Oct

Link Tank: Where You Can Watch Dune (and All the Other Versions) This Week

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Do you want to watch Dune this week (not just the 2021 version)? Here’s where all the various versions are available for your viewing pleasure. “The spice must flow, and flow it will when Denis Villeneuve’s long-awaited adaptation of sci-fi grandmaster Frank Herbert’s Dune arrives in the U.S. on October 22. But Villeneuve’s movie isn’t the only Dune available to check out—there’s a cult classic movie adaptation from 1984, two well-regarded miniseries that chronicled Paul Atreides’ fight against the corrupt Baron Harkonnen, and even a documentary looking at the giant sandworms we might have seen swimming in the desert seas…

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19 Oct

Only Murders in the Building Ending Explained

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This article contains spoilers for Only Murders in the Building. Hulu comedy Only Murders in the Building didn’t even have to take its central murder mystery that seriously to begin with. As a satire of America’s true crime podcast obsession, the series could have gotten away with yada yada yada-ing the details of the murder its characters were solving. Charles Haden-Savage (Steve Martin), Oliver Putnam (Martin Short), and Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez) are all amateurs, after all, so who could reasonably expect them to actually solve a murder? It’s to the show’s (and its creators Steven Martin and John Hoffman)…

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