By this point, everyone knows that in addition to Big Blue, the Man of Steel, and the Last Son of Krypton, one of Superman’s nicknames is the Man of Tomorrow, thanks to the title James Gunn has chosen for his Superman sequel. Even though the appellation could also refer to co-lead Lex Luthor, the term usually applies to Clark Kent, thanks to the sci-fi elements of his origin story, with its exploding planets and babies in rockets. But with some modifications, the term can also be applied to his cousin Kara Zor-El, especially in the new DCU. Variety has revealed…

As Lucasfilm rolls out its first Star Wars movie for seven years, The Mandalorian and Grogu, all eyes are on the struggling Disney franchise to see if this new outing from a galaxy far, far away can make a splash at the box office. Various Star Wars movies have been in the works since the release of The Rise of Skywalker back in 2019, but most have lingered in development hell before being nixed. Only the aforementioned theatrical debut of the franchise’s live-action TV series and a forthcoming Ryan Gosling movie called Starfighter have entered production to date, and the…

This article contains spoilers for The Boys season 5 finale The Boys has finally come to an end. The series finale is now streaming on Prime Video, and no matter how you feel about the journey the show has taken us on, it’s certainly been one hell of a ride. In the last ever episode of Eric Kripke’s violent, irreverent superhero satire, Butcher and the gang stormed the Oval Office and took down Homelander while he was in the middle of threatening America as the country’s new god. Unfortunately, killing Homelander wasn’t quite enough resolution for Butcher, who had never…

In the very first scene of The Mandalorian, a silent stranger follows a homing beacon into some remote saloon. He goes straight to the bar, ignoring the chattering and boasting of the toughs around him. Finally, the stranger reaches a breaking point, dispatching the heretofore intimidating customers with relative ease before revealing the purpose of his visit. He’s come for a sniveling blue guy and to collect the bounty on the criminal’s head. When the blue guy tries to barter his way out of it, the stranger speaks his first lines. “I can bring you in warm,” he declares, pulling…

Gamers love difficult video games, that isn’t something new. But something being satisfyingly difficult instead of unfairly punishing is hard to pull off, with many games being remembered for the wrong reasons. Some players still love to be punished like that, sure, but for general audiences, it can get to be too much. As such, we have games in infamy instead of fame. These games might not be bad, but they are punishing enough that many players have stopped engaging with them. If you’re looking for a fun time when gaming, avoid these titles. IMDb Pathologic Pathologic constantly drains the…

For an actor, every day is like Halloween. But few have embraced the spirit of the holiday better than Natalie Alyn Lind, star of the latest Yellowstone spinoff Dutton Ranch. Lind plays Oreana Lynn Jackson, the strong-willed daughter of local tough Rob-Will Jackson (Jai Courtney). But before joining Taylor Sheridan’s massive TV franchise, Lind also appeared in Gotham, The Gifted, and The Goldbergs. And one Halloween, she even played Art the Clown, the murderous mime from the Terrifier series. All of those parts required some training, especially getting ready to be part of the rough and tumble world of Dutton…

The summer season is upon us and as fun as it can be to go and catch some rays at the beach, there’s sometimes nothing more satisfying than beating the heat with a new anime and cranking the volume and air conditioning all the way up. More than half of Netflix subscribers are watching anime and the streamer has made sure that fans have their bases covered this summer.  Netflix’s diverse summer anime slate includes high-stakes sports showdowns, the Straw Hat Pirates’ intensifying chaos on Whole Cake Island, and the conclusion of an extraterrestrial assassination shonen epic. It’s always the…

Even if you’ve never read a Spider-Man comic, you probably know the eighth page of Amazing Spider-Man #50. That splash page features a trash can in the foreground with the Spider-Man costume stuffed on top. In the background, Peter Parker sulks away in his civilian clothes. The page, recreated in all manner of media, including 2004’s Spider-Man 2, pays off the promise of the story’s title: “Spider-Man, no more!” The new series Spider-Noir takes place in a different universe than that of Amazing Spider-Man #50, a 1930s New York populated by gangsters and super-people. And instead of Peter Parker, the…

Movie sequels usually have lower expectations, because audiences have seen too many rushed, unnecessary, or feeble attempts to match an original. Every once in a while however, a sequel surprises everyone by improving the story, expanding the characters, or becoming far more entertaining than expected. Instead of feeling like cash grabs, these sequels earned genuine praise from audiences and critics alike. In several cases, they even became more beloved than the original movies that introduced the franchise. IMDb Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) The sequel unexpectedly turned into a tense political thriller rather than another routine superhero movie. IMDb…

I don’t know how much screen time in Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu is actually Pedro Pascal in the shiny chromatic suit, but I hope not much for a couple of reasons. First of all, Brendan Wayne is credited as the “Mandalorian Suit Performer” right under Pascal in the final ending credits scroll, which means Wayne deserves his fair due. But secondly, and in spite of how spiffy that costume looks (and it’s real spiffy!), there’s little here of the enigmatic presence and physicality that Pascal brings to so many other roles, be it the lasciviously limber Red Viper…

Keanu Reeves has done a lot of things over the course of his career. He’s been an action hero, a bullet-dodging computer hacker, an air-headed high schooler, and (arguably most importantly) he’s been his sweet self.  Now, the actor is set to voice the main character in the ambitious stop-motion epic, Hidari, announced yesterday at the Cannes Film Market. If Reeves’ track record with animation is anything to go by, he probably didn’t need much convincing.  The action-packed feature comes from the mind of Masashi Kawamura who was inspired by real accounts of the life of the legendary Edo era…

This summer, an idiosyncratic filmmaker from overseas who got his start make unique crime movies releases his latest movie, an adaptation of a classic Greek myth. No, I’m not talking about The Odyssey. I’m referring to Her Private Hell, the latest from Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn. The first trailer for Her Private Hell lacks anything you’d expect from a Greek myth: no gods wearing laurels, no heroes in togas, not a single transformation from human to animal. Instead, it looks a lot like Refn’s other Hollywood films, all attractive young people, glowing lights, and strange music. Yet, the voiceover…

Ten years ago, one of Studio Bones’ crown jewels, battle shōnen anime Mob Psycho 100, premiered. And to mark the milestone, a wave of anniversary projects have been announced for fans who have stuck around since the beginning.  Mob Psycho 100 is based on the manga by ONE, who is also known for One-Punch Man. The series follows middle schooler Shigeo Kageyama, nicknamed Mob, who possesses extraordinary psychic abilities but has a complicated relationship with them; when his emotions hit ‘100’ his powers erupt. As Mob navigates general teen angst, a lack of social skills, and working his daily job…

To be a member of the intergalactic police force known as the Green Lantern Corps, you must be without fear. Green Lantern fans, however, have been quite a bit more fearful, especially with most of the marketing of the HBO series Lanterns. Many of the promos and interviews leading into the show have been strangely reluctant to embrace the franchise’s sci-fi roots, describing the show as a grounded mystery in the vein of True Detective and even stripping the color green from the series’ title and marketing. The latest trailer for Lanterns tries to correct course, giving us glimpses of…

Last month, we heard that Prime Video would not be moving forward with a third season of Gen V, which naturally upset those who had been following the show’s story alongside The Boys on the streamer. Now, we’re hearing more thoughts about Gen V’s cancellation from The Boys creator Eric Kripke, who seems as sad about the spinoff’s demise as its fans. Saying he’s “bummed” about it, Kripke also warned Gen V fans that The Boys finale won’t be wrapping up the spinoff’s story this week, but will instead find the Godolkin kids going off to have “more adventures”. “I’m…

Fan-favorite gunslinging “Jackpot-”saying half-demon mercenary Dante Sparda is back for season 2 of Netflix’s Devil May Cry, joined by his equally powerful, more stoic and demonically-leaning twin brother. Dante (Johnny Yong) returns to TV with a renewed purpose: to defeat the king of the demons, Mundus (Ray Chase), and get his brother, Vergil Sparda (Robbie Daymond), back on the right side. However, Vergil is not the same little boy that Dante believed had died in the attack that killed their mother. Instead, he is now one of Mundus’ top soldiers.  In the ending of season 1, Dante was betrayed by…

The hunt for James Bond is on. Even though it has been years since Daniel Craig ended his run with a bang in No Time to Die, a year since Amazon bought the rights from Eon Productions, and months since Denis Villeneuve was announced as the next director, apparently the search for the next 007 has just now begun in earnest. Amazon MGM has named Nina Gold as the casting director. In a statement released through Variety, the studio said, “While we don’t plan to comment on specific details during the casting process, we’re excited to share more news with…

At the end of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, after all of the heroes have perished on their mission, Darth Vader arrives to absolutely wreck a bunch of rebels. The 60-second sequence shows Vader slashing dudes with his lightsaber, crushing enemies with the Force, and deflecting every laser blast. Yet, even within that bravura moment, Darth Vader will never be as frightening as Admiral Motti, the little snot played by Richard LeParmentier in the first Star Wars. Even if you don’t know Motti’s name, you certainly know one of his lines: “This station is now the ultimate power in…

The following contains spoilers for the first three episodes of Rivals season 2. Rivals is back for a second season, and it’s bigger, bolder, and more complicated than ever before. But while the show has garnered plenty of buzz for its copious amounts of sex, hedonistic attitude, and gleeful depiction of some of the worst excesses of life among the British elite in the 1980s, at its heart, Rivals is a romance. From Declan (Aidan Turner) and Maud O’Hara’s (Victoria Smurfit) fractious marriage to the sweet but definitely forbidden attraction between Lizzie Vereker (Katherine Parkinson) and Freddie Jones (Danny Dyer)…

The blaring sirens of a space station’s decontamination room are set to hit gaming consoles once again with the sequel to Creative Assembly’s survival horror game Alien: Isolation.  In the teaser for the sequel, a 25-second clip titled A False Sense of Security, we are introduced to the familiar intense atmosphere of a deserted ship, only for the door to open to a desolate planet, then the image of a payphone reading “Emergency,” introducing the idea of a storyline taking place on the surface of a planet, a drastically different scenario than the first game.  Released in 2014, Alien: Isolation…