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Kevin Feige Says Doctor Strange‘s Whitewashing Was the Wrong Move

Better almost five years late than never. While Marvel’s Doctor Strange was mostly meant to bring proper magic to the MCU ahead of the Avengers’ confrontation with Thanos, the movie also brought renewed attention to some disappointing, racist truths about Silver Age comic characters like Stephen Strange who were products of their time. When Marvel … Continued

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My Adventures With Superman Series Flying to HBO Max and Cartoon Network

Superman’s animated adventures have a special place in many people’s hearts, and even though the modern Man of Steel’s been having quite the live-action moment on the big and small screens, Warner Bros.’ next plan for its most iconic hero is decidedly two-dimensional. Not to be outdone by the Batman: Caped Crusader news, Warner Bros … Continued

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Netflix’s Fear Street Trailer Promises a Gruesome Summer Movie Experience

For people who grew up loving R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books, the author’s Fear Street series was an excellent way of transitioning to darker, more terrifying stories about teenagers dealing with rather Goosebumps-like, but markedly more dangerous situations in the fictional town of Shadyside. In the wake of the Goosebumps movies’ surprising success, Netflix is bringing … Continued

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A Black Lady Sketch Show‘s Fairy Auntmother Reveals an Inevitable Truth

Once people born in the early-to-mid ‘80s started having fits on TikTok over literal children telling them their hairstyles were dated, it was only a matter of time before the internet coalesced around the term “geriatric millennial” as part of our larger conversation about the current generation of 25-to-35-year-olds. The devastating thing about midlife crises … Continued

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John Ridley Will Pick Up the Black Panther Torch After Ta-Nehisi Coates

While Ta-Nehisi Coates’ run on Marvel’sBlack Panther solo comic may be coming to an end just as the writer turns his sights to the future of DC’s Superman, the Wakandan King’s story is anything but over. As is the case with all iconic superheroes whose comic books gave rise to multimillion-dollar film cinematic franchises, T’Challa’s … Continued

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Ragnarok’s Season 2 Trailer Screams Loudly and Carries a Small Hammer

Though the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s take on Norwegian gods like Loki has shaped the way many people think of them, the first season of Netflix’sRagnarok brought its own spins on the deities to the small screen meant to put more emphasis on the original myths and legends that first brought them to life. The season two … Continued

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The Muppets Didn’t Deserve This

When Kermit the Frog was revealed to be one of The Masked Singer’s contestants this past season, it was meant to be a delightful surprise twist in an already ridiculous show in which well-known celebrities dress up as unlicensed mascots. But instead, Kermit’s unmasking only underscored how far the Muppets have fallen from their former glory, … Continued

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Attack the Block 2 With John Boyega and Joe Cornish Is Finally a Go

It should go without saying that when given the opportunity, people will sit down to watch movies in which John Boyega plays characters who somehow end up fighting aliens hellbent on colonizing vulnerable planets. While the actor’s Star Wars run may have come to an end, there’s always been another franchise audiences have hoped he … Continued

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Loki Scoffs at the Idea of Space Lizards in a New Clip From His Marvel Series

In Marvel’s upcoming Loki series, the Asgardian god of mischief who appeared to peace right on out of the timestream in Avengers: Endgame somehow ends up being apprehended by the Time Variance Authority, an extradimensional organization in charge of maintaining the ordered flow of time. In a new clip from his very own Disney+ show, … Continued

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Katy Perry’s Pokémon Music Video Is a Subtle Nod to a Badass Gym Leader

To celebrate the Pokémon franchise’s 25th anniversary, the Pokémon Company’s been releasing special, limited-edition merchandise and partnering with artists like Mac Miller and Katy Perry to put out Pokémon-themed music meant to tug at your heartstrings. Perry’s new song, “Electric,” is the first track from the upcoming Pokémon 25, and while it’s a perfectly pleasant … Continued

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Them! Has Become Relevant Again… the Way It Does Every 17 Years or So

Though Gordon Douglas’ 1954 monster movie Them! tells a far more quiet, intimate story than its modern descendants, one of the first ways it clues you in to the danger its human heroes are in is a haunting, piercing noise that calls out from the wilderness. When sergeant Ben Peterson (James Whitmore) and army soldier … Continued

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Target to Halt Pokémon Card Sales ‘Out of an Abundance of Caution’

Though Target’s physical stores have been one of the few places that people could somewhat reliably secure Pokémon cards during the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, collectors will soon have to look elsewhere to get their hands on the in-demand merch. For the past few months, Pokémon cards have been in short supply throughout the United States … Continued

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Open Channel: Which Monster Movie Bug Should Inherit the Earth?

Over the course of the next few weeks, billions of cicadas will emerge from the ground to swarm across chunks of the eastern U.S. to eat, mate, sing, and remind everyone what a powerful force insects can be en masse. Though there’s a certain majesty to cicada swarms whenever they burst out of the earth, … Continued

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Army of the Dead Turns-Pandemic Era Fears and Greed Into Bloodthirsty Monsters

At this late stage into the zombie movie/tv/book game, the question that comes to mind whenever a new project in the genre debuts is what it has to add to the larger canon of zombie lore that’s given us an entire taxonomy of fictional flesh-eating ghouls. Familiar as Army of the Dead’s constituent parts will … Continued

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Zack Snyder Owns Up to Provoking His Fans for Clicks and Charity

Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a perfectly passable, unquestionably long comic book movie whose existence can be attributed to a number of factors beyond its director’s firm belief in his vision of what DC’s superheroes should look and act like on the silver screen. Following the initial release of Justice League’s theatrical cut—a bit of … Continued

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We Are Exhausted, We Are the ’90s X-Men Cartoon’s Jean Grey

Beloved as Marvel’s animated X-Men cartoon from the 1990s continues to be, we’ve long since looked back on the classic series and recognized how, in the grand scheme of things, traditionally powerful characters like Storm, Rogue, and Jean Grey were done few favors in terms of depicting them at the top of their games. Jean, … Continued

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Venom: Let There Be Carnage May Have a Wild Spider-Man Scoop

Venom: Let There Be Carnage’s first trailer was mainly about reintroducing the world to Woody Harrelson’s Cletus Kasady, a sociopathic serial killer destined to bond with an alien symbiote of his own. But it also might have dropped in a surprising tease about the future of the SPUMC, Sony’s awkwardly-named cinematic universe featuring Marvel characters. … Continued

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Venom: Let There Be Carnage‘s First Trailer Sets Its Lethal Villain Free

Though Sony’s first Venom movie turned Eddie Brock and his unsuspecting symbiote partner into heroes by having them face yet another symbiote threat, the movie also established that there was at least one other significant threat on the West Coast that would eventually need seeing to in the future. Aside from reminding everyone how ridiculous … Continued

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Doctor Who’s Noel Clarke Faces New Harassment Allegations From Sci-Fi Set

Two weeks before Doctor Who star Noel Clarke was set to receive a BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema, the organization received multiple anonymous tips from women alleging to have been sexually harassed and assaulted by him in a variety of different ways in professional settings. Allegations have only continued to come out since … Continued

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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Foretold WandaVision‘s Plot in Song

Before the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) moved to Westview, New Jersey in hopes of starting a new life with the person she loved, there was Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom). She’s an over-stressed lawyer who, like Wanda, confidently believed that she could will a new life for herself into existence simply … Continued