Marvel’s Most Underrated Hero Could Finally Be Getting His Due
— Marvel Studios The early 2020s were rough for Marvel Studios, and the franchise seems determined to sweep the era’s films under the rug forever. Sure, Black Widow gave us Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) and the Red Guardian (David Harbour), but other attempts to expand the MCU fell flat. Plans to continue the Eternals’ storyline […]
‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Reveals an Uplifting Truth About the MCU
— Marvel Studios Daredevil is the Schrödinger’s cat of the MCU. The series began on Netflix, but now lives on Disney+. Its canonical status is questionable, but while Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist now rest in the dustbin of streaming archives, Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock appeared in Spider-Man: No Way Home, She-Hulk: Attorney […]
The Highest-Rated Star Wars Show Fan Finally Do Justice To an Underused Character
— Lucasfilm As a prequel to Rogue One — and by extension, Star Wars’ original trilogy — Andor is qualified to answer questions that have been decades in the making. How exactly did the Galactic Rebellion come to be? Who were its founders, and how did they find the strength to stand against the empire? […]
29 Years Later, Marvel is Borrowing a Trick From One of the Greatest Crime Epics
— Netflix Of all of the TV projects that Marvel Studios has in the works right now, few are as highly anticipated or under as much constant scrutiny as . Across its 170 minutes, that film maps the philosophical and mental conflict between Pacino’s Vincent and Robert De Niro’s Neil onto the city of Los […]
Marvel’s Most Experimental New Show is Borrowing ‘WandaVision’s Weirdest Trick — With a Catch
— Marvel Studios When the MCU ventured into TV with Disney+ originals in early 2021, a lot was riding on the first series. It had to show that these projects weren’t just Marvel movies chopped into chapters, but stories that could only be told through the medium of television. WandaVision couldn’t be more suited to […]
One Shocking Star Wars Canon Twist Changes The Galaxy Forever
— Lucasfilm Star Wars is a rich space opera full of unique planets, galactic intrigue, and mysterious forces. But despite having more than 10 movies and multiple TV shows dedicated to this world, we don’t know much about how the ordinary citizen of the Star Wars universe lives. There may be a lot of worldbuilding, […]
‘Andor’ Season 2 Teases Major Growing Pains for the Rebellion: “The Stakes are Higher”
It’s been a long wait for a second season of Andor, and it hasn’t exactly been easy. The Star Wars series was originally slated to return for Season 2 in 2024, but a handful of setbacks forced Lucasfilm to delay Andor indefinitely. Fortunately, that pivot hasn’t done much to discourage fans of the series: Andor […]
The Most Important New Star Wars Movie Could Fix the Franchise’s Worst Habit
— Lucasfilm It’s been almost a decade since Star Wars: The Force Awakens brought the Skywalker Saga into its near-future… but most can agree that nothing really felt new about the film or its sequels. The central players changed, but the story remained the same, culminating in a trilogy that just felt like an exercise […]
Marvel’s Wildest Cameo of the Year Is Setting Fans Up for Disappointment
— Marvel Studios Is 2024 the year of Gambit? The Ragin’ Cajun has been popping up a lot this year, from a show-stopping role in the animated . The filmmaker clearly remembered Tatum when he and Reynolds began to brainstorm for Deadpool & Wolverine. “When we decided to have Gambit in this movie, we knew […]
The Most Overlooked Sci-Fi Show Might Be Making a Comeback
— FOX/FOX Image Collection/Getty Images In the world of sci-fi television, few shows are like doesn’t. The best thing The Orville has going for it now is its own inherent Orville-ness, a show that can somehow exist outside of the shadow of Star Trek despite fashioning itself as a Star Trek show. Its audience is […]