This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again seasons 2 and 3. Only those who aren’t paying attention to the absolute mountain of Disney marketing were surprised to see Jessica Jones stride onto a rooftop to meet up with Matt Murdock in season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again. And, thanks to some now-deleted posts from actor Mike Colter, only those who aren’t on social media don’t know that Luke Cage will return for Born Again‘s third season. But until then, there’s a Luke Cage-shaped hole in the lives of Jessica Jones and her daughter Danielle on Daredevil: Born Again season…

This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again season 2, episode 7 Daniel Blake wasn’t supposed to die in the penultimate episode of Daredevil: Born Again’s second season. According to showrunner Dario Scardapane and star Arty Froushan, who plays Wilson Fisk’s lethal right-hand man Buck Cashman, the scene where the Deputy Mayor gets shot to death originally played out with Buck letting him go and then lying to Fisk about his decision. “The way that it would have gone is that [Blake] stayed in the Fisk administration,” Scardapane told Variety. “He goes in to resign and the new interim mayor…

This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again season two, episode seven. No one should ever get close to Matt Murdock. This is the ultimate moral of every Daredevil story. Yes, he’s incredibly charming and incredibly handsome. Yes, he has an unshakable sense of ethics. But Matt Murdock follows those ethics so tightly, he lets his Catholic guilt so stridently drive his motivations that he ends up hurting himself, and brings everyone else down with him. The penultimate episode of Born Again‘s second season, “The Hateful Darkness,” directed by Iain B. MacDonald and written by Heather Bellson, traces the fallout…

This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 6. Early in episode six of Daredevil: Born Again‘s second season, we’re confronted with what could have been the most upsetting moment in a brutal season of television. A vehicle full of armed thugs rolls up on a suburban house, and throws a grenade through the window… which gets picked up by an adorable little girl in a fairy princess costume. What follows is delightful and unexpected. The camera stays on the little girl playing with the object of destruction while the soldiers get pummeled by some unseen force…

In one of the most powerful moments of Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained, the title character strides across a plantation to face down Big John Brittle, one of the notorious Brittle Brothers. In a shot-reverse-shot, we watch as Django pulls out his pistol and fires at the disbelieving Big John, killing him. In the type of pulpy action movie kiss off that Tarantino adores, Django sends his adversary off to the afterlife by declaring, “I like the way you die, boy.” Django, of course, does not die. But he hasn’t exactly lived on either, except on the comic book page. In…

Derry’s long history of violence and bloodshed will be explored further in the second season of Welcome to Derry, with a particular focus on the Bradley Gang. The gang were referenced in It’s historical interludes, linked to a particularly terrible massacre in the 1930s, but Steven King never really expanded upon the incident in the book. All that’s about to change, as Welcome to Derry creator Andy Muschietti has told Deadline that season 2 will jump back in time to Pennywise’s Great Depression era exploits. “We’re now working on it, and it’s so much fun,” Muschietti said. “For the ones…

“Someone close to me is about to die!” shouts Spidey on the cover of 1973’s Amazing Spider-Man #121. Even those who have never cracked open that issue know that the death in question doesn’t come for J. Jonah Jameson, Mary Jane Watson, Aunt May, or any of the other faces adorning that cover. It comes for Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker’s longtime girlfriend. Someone just as close to Spidey has also died. Writer Gerry Conway has passed away at the age of 73, leaving behind a legacy that includes co-creating the Punisher, Robin Jason Todd, Carol Danvers, and many others, as…

Even before it hit theaters, we knew Michael would be a divisive film. Not only is it about someone who was controversial by the end of his own life, but it makes a strong choice to avoid even the suggestion of allegations about its subject. Furthermore, like most musical biopics, it sacrifices basic cinematic standards in favor of delivering maximum enjoyment to fans, in the form of recognizable trivia and pop song bangers. One need look no further than the divide between the 38% critics rating and 97% fan rating on Rotten Tomatoes to see proof. Yet, Michael has found…

This article contains spoilers from the novel Fire & Blood that will likely spoil details from House of the Dragon season 3. House of the Dragon has some work to do in its third and penultimate season. Following an abbreviated second outing that concluded right before the real battles started, some viewers were left wondering if the HBO series can live up to the massive expectations set forth for the first Game of Thrones spinoff. It certainly doesn’t help HotD‘s case that one viewer in particular is very dissatisfied with the direction of the show. And that’s not even to…

In 1998, Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch introduced the Authority, a new supehero team with one goal: to build a better world. And with members like Apollo, the Doctor, and Jenny Sparks, the Authority had the ability to do it. Moreover, because they existed in the WildStorm Universe and not the DC Universe, no one could really stop them. Well, almost no one. After initially announcing The Authority as one of the projects in development for Chapter One of his and Peter Safran’s new DCU, James Gunn has confirmed on Threads that the project is no longer in development… for…

“Every mystery forms a complex web,” monologues Nicolas Cage in the newest Spider-Noir trailer. He’s not kidding. Even with the several teasers and images already released for the Prime Video and MGM+ spinoff of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, questions surround Spider-Noir. We know that Cage plays private investigator Ben Reilly instead of Peter Parker, breaking from both the usual Spidey story and from the 2009 Marvel comic Spider-Man: Noir. However, Cage’s monologue continues to say, “Pull the right strand, and it’s a straight line to the answer.” The latest trailer for Spider-Noir provides one of the answers. Among the images…

A picture is emerging of Daredevil: Born Again’s ratings, and it isn’t a particularly good one. The first season had a solid but comparatively low-key launch in Marvel terms, snagging 7.5 million views in its first five days. Previous MCU series Agatha All Along hit 9.3 million views in its first week on Disney+, so it was surprising to see Daredevil: Born Again fail to reach that level. Nielsen numbers then showed that the season had failed to chart in its Top 10s, and now it’s clear that season 2 hasn’t yet cracked these lists either, something that even She-Hulk…

It’s official: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will return for season 4 this July, and all signs point to an outing that will probably be a bit less…well, strange than last time around. The premiere date was announced as part of Paramount+’s presentation at this year’s CCXP Mexico, which also featured a first look at the teaser trailer for the new episodes. The clip features over a minute of footage from Strange New Worlds’ penultimate outing, and if it’s anything to go by, this is a Star Trek that’s going back to basics. This news will likely come as a…

In the 1960s and ’70s, kids couldn’t open a comic book or go to a toy store without seeing sea-monkeys. Sort of. While advertisements and displays promised an underwater kingdom of smiling pink creatures living lives of ease, the actual creatures were microscopic specks that were barely visible to the naked eye. Most would just forget about sea-monkeys as an odd update of the old flea circus phenomenon. But to documentarians Mark Becker and Aaron Schock, the legal battle over the creatures is the stuff of epic drama, precisely because of the woman at the center, Yolanda Signorelli, wife of…

Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur does not set out to make tourism destination films any more than he seeks to specifically tell stories of man, or woman, versus nature. It just seems to work out that way for him and the audience who watches along with a serious fear of missing out. As the filmmaker sheepishly confides to us, after his harrowing dramatization of the 1996 Mount Everest climbing disaster, Everest, came to theaters in 2015, interest in the Sagarmatha mountain spiked: “Even with all those people dying there, I actually infused the interest in Everest in the world,” the director…

This Widow’s Bay review is Spoiler-Free. Widow’s Bay is a series that defies easy description. (That’s a compliment, by the way.) Part workplace comedy, part trope-filled horror story, and part love letter to the power of community and found family, it’s a show that’s honestly quite unlike anything else that’s on TV right now. It’s ten-episode first season mixes surprisingly frightening scares with sharp, biting humor and follows a cast of colorful, quirky weirdos who are as complicated and compelling as any on Apple TV’s roster of hard-to-pin-down comedies and genre-bending dramas. (Widow’s Bay is such an Apple series, and that’s…

Oftentimes, you hear a song that is just so good it must have won some kind of award. After all, you’re hearing it everywhere, and everyone loves it, so it’s a clear deal. But you’d be surprised how many tracks, even the catchiest ones that won’t leave our head, remain unrewarded. These are the songs that, at least to our standards, deserve more recognition. No matter if you discovered them on the radio, on an online platform or via recommendation, they are part of our lives and many others. Songs that defined their eras, but aren’t recognized as such. Mr.…

Spider-Man has one of the most varied and wonderful rogues galleries in all of comic book history. Peter Parker regularly goes toe-to-toe with heavy-hitters like Green Goblin, Venom, and the Kingpin. But he also has a host of unimpressive weirdos, including the Gibbon and the Kangaroo. For the most part, they all stay in their place. Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus will always be the biggest threats, especially as Venom has become a hero and the Kingpin fights Daredevil, the rest of the Sinister Six, including Electro and Mysterio, can have an arc here and there, and then everyone else…

Most news about the Lord of the Rings franchise of late has centered on the forthcoming big screen adventure The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum and Stephen Colbert’s in-the-works Shadows of the Past project. But if current rumors are to be believed, we’ll be headed back to Middle-earth well before then, thanks to Prime Video’s blockbuster fantasy saga The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.  The series, which still ranks as the most expensive ever made, has drawn its share of criticism for the liberties it’s taken with J.R.R. Tolkien’s source material and the changes…

This article contains minor spoilers for Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 When we last left the kids of Hawkins, they weren’t kids at all. Mike, Will, Lucas, Dustin, Eleven, and Sam had all grown up and moved on from their adventures in the Upside Down, and with good reason. As punctuated by Joyce’s flashback before dismembering big bad Vecna in the series finale, these kids have lost a lot in their battle against a primordial evil—most importantly their childhood innocence. So we cannot help but smile when, after a foreboding cold open, the first episode of Stranger Things: Tales From…