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41 Years Later, Star Wars Is About To Reboot Its Best Vehicle

— Lucasfilm It’s hard to remember that speeder bikes didn’t even exist in Star Wars until the last installment of the trilogy, 1983’s Return of the Jedi. Yes, while it’s true you can see a swoop bike in Mos Eisley in A New Hope, that was created for the 1997 special edition re-release and was […]

‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’s Release Date Has Finally Been Revealed

— Lucasfilm Star Wars television has always been an event. From the time Disney+ launched with the premiere of The Mandalorian all the way back in 2019, every series and episode of this new era of Star Wars has fueled fan discourse and a fair amount of online arguments. In 2024, however, Star Wars has […]

The Next Avengers Movie is Making One Deadly Mistake

— Jesse Grant/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images For better or worse, Marvel’s Cinematic Universe finally has a focus point again. Though Kang the Conqueror was once the future of the franchise, he’s just been usurped by the King of Latveria. Marvel’s Multiverse Saga is barreling toward a confrontation between the new Avengers (whoever they may be) […]

7 Years Later, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Makes a Huge Mistake That Sets the MCU Up to Fail

— Marvel Studios The superhero genre frequently fails to take death seriously. In a way, that’s the nature of its episodic format: if a story never really ends, then no one can ever really be gone. There have, of course, been exceptions, and some great comic arcs that give iconic heroes and villains an equally-iconic […]

The Russo Brothers Return! ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ and ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’ Get an Official Director — and Robert Downey Jr. Returns!

— Variety/Penske Media/Getty Images It seemed like a natural fit when The Hollywood Reporter named Anthony and Joe Russo as the potential directors of Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. The duo already have two Avengers films under their collective belt, and together have made Marvel Studios over a billion dollars. With the franchise in […]

Sidewinder: Giancarlo Esposito’s ‘Captain America 4’ Villain Has Finally Been Revealed

— Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images Marvel surprised a lot of fans when it introduced a brand new, mysterious villain to Captain America: Brave New World. Said character came late in the game, during the film’s second round of reshoots — but the prospect of Giancarlo Esposito joining Marvel’s Cinematic Universe was enough to quell […]

Anchor Beings? How ‘Deadpool 3’ Changes MCU Canon and Sets Up ‘Avengers 6’

— Marvel Studios The first (and only) Marvel movie of the year has finally arrived — and it really is , with one in particular, Molecule Man, acting as a catalyst for the entire event. Molecule Man is the rare being that exists in every universe. When he dies in one, that timeline is effectively […]

12 Years Ago, A Forgotten Sith Revealed the Fate of ‘The Acolyte’s Greatest Villain

— Lucasfilm Darth Plagueis’ appearance in The Acolyte was a shock to everyone except those who remembered Palpatine’s wise words from Revenge of the Sith: “Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?” But that story only tells the end of Plagueis’ story. The beginning contains a secret Sith battle that bears […]

Apple TV Just Quietly Released the Most Compelling Mystery Thriller of the Year

— Apple TV+ Lady in the Lake may make history as Natalie Portman’s foray into television, but it may just be the star vehicle that Moses Ingram (Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Queen’s Gambit) has long deserved. Even Portman’s protagonist, Madeleine Schwartz, is obsessed with Ingram’s doomed character, if only because she died under eerie circumstances. The […]

‘The Acolyte’ Director: We “Really Had to Fight For” That Big Yoda Cameo

— Lucasfilm Each episode of The Acolyte introduced one surprise after the next, but its shocking season finale nearly ended on the most shocking act of all: a kiss. The Acolyte Episode 8 picks up where Episode 6, “Teach/Corrupt,” left off, with the Sith warrior known as Qimir, aka the Stranger (Manny Jacinto), literally trying […]