There are two Skeletors living along the backroads of our pop culture landscape. The first is the original Saturday morning cartoon villain that many Gen-Xers and some elder Millennials remember fondly. He sneers, schemes, and otherwise slinks his way through one 30-minute Masters of the Universe adventure after another wherein, invariably, He-Man kicks his ass. The other is an internet creation spawned by those same viewers decades later. This guy is funnier, more acerbic, and basically a chaos agent snarking about whatever daily indignity his creator wants to complain about. He’s both supervillain and meme. The modest joys and bigger…

Hollywood usually acts like it owns everything when it comes to movies, but every once in a while, a film from another country changes the conversation. Some introduced styles that American studios try to copy, while others showed mainstream audiences genres they had never seen before. They became the kind of movies audiences keep recommending years later because they still feel unique every single time. IMDb City of God (2002) Its explosive energy, raw performances, and kinetic camerawork immediately grabbed the attention of American directors and studios. IMDb Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Its graceful martial arts sequences introduced many…

The following The Vampire Lestat review is spoiler free. AMC’s Interview with the Vampire is, hands down, one of the best adaptations in television history, a series that manages to honor the luxurious, emotionally decadent spirit of its source material even as it makes major changes to the events depicted in Anne Rice’s original novel. Full of decadent, often gleeful violence, thorny moral questions about truth and memory, and a central relationship that’s as frequently toxic as it is desperately romantic, the series’s first two seasons are an utter delight, and a powerful reminder of the great things that genre…

Despite being really good, it’s hard for television series to sustain attention across every episode. Certain shows demand patience, even for dedicated audiences. This list looks at series that often get paused, abandoned, or revisited in fragments despite their reputation or quality. IMDb Peaky Blinders (2013) A stylized crime saga with dense plotting and evolving conflicts that require steady focus to follow fully. IMDb Sons of Anarchy (2008) A long running crime drama with escalating stakes and complex relationships that build across many episodes. IMDb The Crown (2016) A historical drama that spans decades with detailed political and personal arcs…

As a child growing up in the ‘80s, Travis Knight felt different from the kids around him. Sensitive and thoughtful, he often wondered where he fit in. That is until he discovered He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Well, really Prince Adam, the childlike alter-ego of the iconic techno barbarian hero. Adam’s emotional, vulnerable, and curious approach to heroics spoke to Knight and set him on the path to Cinema Con 2026 in Las Vegas, where he recently shared 25 minutes of the film with a select group of journalists, explaining his deep personal connection to the beloved ‘80s…

In the latest trailer for an upcoming summer blockbuster, swelling music sets a fantastical scene. Regular people find themselves whisked out of their regular lives, on an adventure they never imagined. In a striking shot, we see their awe-filled faces as they look in wonder and terror at dinosaurs, somehow brought back to modern times. Ewan McGregor, my dear Anne Hathaway… Welcome to suburbia? As much as Jurassic Park has become synonymous with dinosaur movies, thunder lizards aren’t actually intellectual IP owned by Universal and Amblin. In fact, not only can anyone make a dinosaur movie, but you can do…

After years of Call of Duty leaning into wild crossover skins, pop-culture nods, and increasingly meme-driven cosmetics, developers at Activision and Infinity Ward have finally assured fans that this trend will be no more with the upcoming installment, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4.  The promise to stay “grounded and transparent” arrived in the form of a tweet posted to X on May 28 following the game’s release date confirmation. Seeing that, for years, fans have begged and pleaded for the franchise to move away from sillier skins and collaborations that detract from the serious and gritty aspects of the game,…

May 29 marked the comic debut of the formidable DC supervillain Brainiac, and, as always, DC Studios co-head and Superman director James Gunn took the opportunity to geek out a bit on X and share some comic history.  In his tweet highlighting Brainiac’s first appearance in the 1958 Action Comics #242 issue, Gunn describes the Collector of Worlds as the physical manifestation of when “intelligence loses ALL connection to humanity,” highlighting the core idea that has made Brainiac such a compelling antagonist for so many years.  This is especially true when the villain is pitted against Superman, who Gunn asserts…

When Marcia Lucas died at the age of 80 last week, she left behind a host of incredible achievements. Most famous among them, her Best Editing Academy Award for 1977’s Star Wars, a vaunted accolade that still doesn’t fully capture the extent of her work on that film. Famously, it was Marcia’s skills that transformed the stuffy and plodding film directed by her then-husband George Lucas into a generational adventure movie. However, even that addition still fails to capture the breadth of Lucas’s contributions to cinema. Her work in the New Hollywood era continues to influence today’s cinematic landscape. Born…

Although not a one-to-one adaptation, Spider-Man: No Way Home borrowed several elements from the 2007 Marvel Comics storyline One More Day. In both stories, Peter seeks help from a magic-user in the hopes that it will improve the lives of his loved ones, even if it means that he loses his connection to them. Almost two decades later, One More Day remains one of Marvel’s most hated storylines. Now the newest Spider-Man movie Brand New Day might be adapting one of that’s story’s follow-ups, a tale somehow even more hated than One More Day. After having Doctor Strange wipe away…

This article contains spoilers for Backrooms. Early in the new A24 horror film Backrooms, furniture salesman Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) stops his exploration of the space attached to the basement of his store because he thinks he hears a monster coming toward him. Clark desperately crawls up an incline on one side of the room, to a tiny brown door adorned with three door knobs. To his dismay, Clark discovers that two of the knobs do nothing, and only one opens the door, finally allowing him to crawl through. Clark needn’t have run from the noise, and not just because—as we…

In the very first shot of the latest trailer for House of the Dragon season 3, the camera pans over a field of dead bodies, ending with Daemon (Matt Smith) battering some schmuck in the mud. We’re then treated to images of people being stabbed, squished, and torched alive by dragons. Yep, this is a Game of Thrones show alright. House of the Dragon continues the HBO franchise’s central theme, one straight from the George R. R. Martin books: the fight to rule tends to decimate those who would be ruled. But with its focus on best-friends turned rivals Rhaenyra…

It should be the easiest question in the world to answer. When does Friday the 13th take place? On Friday. The thirteenth day of the month. It’s right there in the title. But the Friday the 13th franchise can’t do anything the easy way, so if you thought that a series that took two and a half movies to establish its iconic killer would keep things simple, you thought wrong. The latest Friday the 13th entry, the A24-produced television series Crystal Lake on Peacock, is a prequel, and prequels always want to straighten things out, providing explanations for things that…

Taste is subjective, and all in all, that’s what makes us unique. Things that everyone likes we might loath, while stuff we adore can be despised by the general public. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with that, although there is a subset of movies that are, if this were possible, objectively bad. And people still love them. It’s not that they are secret masterpieces, or that the people that enjoy these movies don’t see the mistakes; they see them, celebrate them, and love these films for them. If asked, the people that enjoy these movies will tell you that yes,…

In the premiere episode of the best superhero series on Prime Video, a spaceship falls on a father, crushing him in front of his young son. Out of the ship stumbles the members of the Earth’s greatest superhero team, their eyes bleeding because of weaponized syphilis. Before the heroes can recover, the supervillain arrives to shoot them in the head—well, only two get shot; the youngest simply has his hands crushed. The heroes murdered, the villain mocks the little boy before flying off, leaving him forever traumatized. Fans of The Boys might be scratching their heads after reading that description.…

The nemesis of Oxford Yard’s resident detective is getting his own series. James Moriarty will receive his own modern retelling at the behest of Fremantle, producers of Poor Things, and Archery Productions, who produced Operation Mincemeat. The series is set to be written by Chris Cornwell, known for the show A Discovery of Witches, and Oliver Lansley, Where’s Wanda?.  According to Deadline, this iteration of Moriarty will be a professor at Durham University, leading a double life as a mastermind behind the series of intricate criminal activities plaguing Northern England. Moriarty joins the police as a consultant to take down…

IO Interactive has rewound time to give fans the origins of the most iconic figure in espionage, James Bond. The Hitman studio’s new game 007 First Light depicts a young, reckless, and developing Bond during his time in the MI6’s training program as the former naval air crewman trains to confront a global conspiracy. The game explores how the spy became who he is, developed a moral code, and became the magnetic figure known as Agent 007.  The game stars Irish actor Patrick Gibson (who previously played young serial killer Dexter Morgan in the Showtime series Dexter: Original Sin) as…

This article contains potential spoilers for X-Men ’97 season 2. The first trailer for X-Men ’97 season 2 was full of treats for fans. But for fans of the Ragin’ Cajun Gambit, the trailer was nothing but sadness. We get to see a little of Rogue mourning her beloved, but nothing indicating that he’ll do what the X-Men do best: come back to life. X-Men ’97 writers and producers Eric and Julia Lewald aren’t ready to say that Gambit will return. But they are willing to offer some hope that Remy LeBeau will be back. Season 1 ended with a…

This article contains light spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again season 3 based on set photos. Daredevil: Born Again hasn’t just been about the rebirth of Matt Murdock, the blind lawyer who spends his evening defending the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil. It’s also been about the rebirth of the Netflix Marvel series that first introduced Charlie Cox as Daredevil and Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk. Season 2 brought back Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones and, in the final minutes, Mike Colter as Luke Cage. Set leak photos have already confirmed that the fourth member of the Defenders would also…

I never liked fluorescent lighting. Often aggressively bright, the hum of the once ubiquitous mercury-vapor tube always felt like threatened cheerfulness. It’s a forced smile stretched across a pained face. Wunderkind YouTuber and now bonafide big-screen director Kane Parsons would seem to agree. For his feature-film debut at A24, Backrooms, the 20-year-old content creator returns to a late 20th century setting and variety of corporate luminescence that he’s probably too young to remember firsthand. And it is undeniably eerie, if intermittently so. The labyrinthine hell of Backrooms’ title exists in a liminal space of endless corridors and winding atriums which…