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This Legends of Tomorrow review contains spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Episode 13 I think I’ve been a little hard on this season of Legends of Tomorrow. I’ve been fairly vocal about how Constantine was starting to fall apart for me, but both from my own perspective and from what the show is trying

This My Hero Academia review contains spoilers. My Hero Academia Season 5 Episode 20 “‘Villain’ means one who turns nonsense into action.” Perspective is everything. One of the most satisfying aspects of My Hero Academia is that it doesn’t shy away from the fine line that can differentiate heroes and villains. The anime, by nature,

It’s Friday, which means that it’s time for Netflix to release another generic action thriller into the wild. This week it’s Sweet Girl, which stars Jason Momoa as a devoted husband and father whose loss of his wife to cancer — which could have been possibly prevented had the big, bad pharma company done the

The Protégé is the story of three deadly assassins, trained killers for seemingly their entire lives, whose paths cross in unexpected ways. Maggie Q plays Anna, who was rescued as a child by Moody (Samuel L. Jackson) and raised by him to become the world’s most dangerous killer for hire. When her father figure/mentor himself

When Netflix appeared at the 2021 Television Critics Association’s summer press tour on Aug. 19, the streaming giant could have used the occasion to hype up any number of its original offerings. Game of Thrones showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff’s first Netflix drama, The Chair, was set to premiere the day after on Aug.

Despite facing several lawsuits and serious allegations of a sexist, toxic work culture where women and marginalized workers have felt unsafe and/or mistreated, Activision Blizzard has gone ahead and announced the next Call of Duty game anyway. It’s called Call of Duty: Vanguard and it releases on Nov. 5. The new installment, which is being

This RIVERDALE review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 5 Episode 12 “Now at least you can become the man you were destined to be.” Despite the evil travails of everyone from The Black Hood to the Gargoyle King, the most noteworthy of Riverdale‘s rogue’s gallery of Big Bads remains Hiram Lodge. So it isn’t much of

This Beckett article contains spoilers. You could be forgiven, going into the new Netflix thriller, Beckett, for expecting a vibe not dissimilar to John David Washington’s last big movie, Tenet. Like Tenet, Beckett is a conspiracy thriller about someone who finds themselves out of their depth, with chase scenes and gunplay aplenty, and Netflix probably

It’s time for a solo superhero movie like no other, and Marvel Studios is setting out to deliver just that with their new MCU Phase 4 entry Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which is set after the events of Avengers: Endgame. Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12) directed, with Kim’s Convenience star

Aliens is obviously widely regarded as one of the greatest sequels in cinema history. Yet, despite only adding a subtle pluralization to the title of Ridley Scott’s 1979 bellwether chiller, director James Cameron whisked Sigourney Weaver’s embattled Ellen Ripley away from the spaceship-stuck shadowy insular horror of just one loose Xenomorph into a balls-to-the-wall surface

There are some who would have you believe that Super Mario Bros, the 1993 live-action film based on the hit Nintendo franchise, is a bad movie. The late, great, Bob Hoskins, who actually starred as Mario, was one of them. “It was a fuckin’ nightmare,” Hoskins told The Guardian in 2007. “The whole experience was

Diablo 2: Resurrected‘s recent Early Access Beta (which will be open to the public starting on August 20th) gave fans another chance to dive into this highly-anticipated remaster and see whether or not this game lives up to the hype or whether we’re looking at another Warcraft 3: Reforged situation. It feels odd to invoke

This article contains major spoilers for Titans Season 3 Titans Season 2 culminated with the team defeating Deathstroke [Esai Morales], Conner/Superboy [Joshua Orpin] breaking Cadmus’ hold over him, Jason Todd/Robin [Curran Walters] leaving the fold, and Donna/Wonder Girl [Conor Leslie] dead. But, by the end of the finale, the Titans seemed more committed than ever

For a century old artform with history rooted in carnivals, vaudeville, and theater, professional wrestling is often not given the respect that it deserves. Mixing the melodrama of a soap opera with feats of strength and aggression, professional wrestling offers clear, concise storytelling escalated by death-defying stunt work and larger-than-life personalities. It’s predetermined, sure, but

This My Hero Academia review contains spoilers. My Hero Academia Season 5 Episode 19 A large portion of “More of a Hero Than Anyone” obsesses over how the weaponized monsters known as Nomu are essentially puppets that carry out the larger actions of Tomura Shigaraki and the League of Villains. The very nature of Nomus

Since it was released for the NES in 1989, Friday the 13th has found itself on many “worst” lists. GamePro once called it one of the ten worst games based on a film, EGM named it the eighth-worst console game of all-time in 1997, and even Nintendo Power (a publication that’s famous for rarely saying

Everything is better when you add Taika Waititi to it. The actor, director and writer, who has crossed to mainstream audiences in recent years with his acclaimed Thor: Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit, co-stars in the new Free Guy as Antwan, the narcissistic, greed-driven head of video game publishing company Soonami. Antwan has stolen code from

New Zealand did wonders for Lord of the Rings. It gave Peter Jackson’s film trilogy scale and beauty and dizzying helicopter shots of tiny guys running over majestic mountain ridges. So much running. So many majestic mountain ridges. But now, thanks to an approach to pandemic border control that actually borders on control, it’s apparently time for Lord of the

As you’ve likely heard by now, Venom: Let There Be Carnage will not be opening on Sept. 24. The signs were all there when the newest Venom 2 trailer announced that the movie would be opening “this fall,” as opposed to on an exact date. And while under normal circumstances, three weeks is a minor

Warning: spoilers for Ghosts Series 3. The Ghosts Christmas special contains a scene so utterly lovely that BBC One should show it every weeknight straight after the News at Ten. We could all watch it, have a little cry, then clean our teeth and go to bed, ready to wake up the next morning as better, happier

While sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage approaches its September 24 release date, star Tom Hardy is already envisioning designs for a prospective third film. Interestingly, for fans still unable to overlook the Spider-Man-less elephant in the franchise room, said designs are auspicious, since they involve a push to finally get the symbiote-joined Eddie Brock

The final seconds of Christopher Nolan’s 2010 Academy Award winning film, Inception, are perhaps its most powerful. A small totem designed to help distinguish the dream world from reality spins on the table. If natural entropy causes it to fall, then real world physics are at play, but if it continues rotating endlessly, then dream

The word “iconic” gets thrown around with unjustified ease these days, but Star Trek’s original U.S.S. Enterprise clearly lives up to that contemporary cliché, standing as one of the most revered sci-fi spaceships not just in the history of the genre, but global popular culture. Thusly, the ship’s marketability remains evergreen over half a century

There are many ways to look at the box office returns for The Suicide Squad from this past weekend. Perhaps the most rose-tinted one is to note that it earned more than any other R-rated film since the COVID-19 pandemic first shut down movie theaters in 2020. But then, there’ve been few R-rated wide releases

The Untamed, a Chinese web drama starring Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo as cultivator soulmates fighting injustices in a fantasy version of ancient China, broke through to international audiences in 2019 and remains one of the most popular shows in English-speaking transformative fandom two years later. The live-action xianxia series is based on Mo Dao

The following contains Legends of Tomorrow spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 6, Episode 11 Six seasons into its run, Legends of Tomorrow is somehow a series that still manages to surprise us. Few other shows are still taking risks in the way that this little weirdo saga of time traveling space misfits attempts, fusing bonkers

Did Lord of the Rings merchandise just join (checks phone again to make sure this is correct) the cryptocurrency game? “As if we didn’t have enough scam-ridden cryptocurrency out in the world already, on Friday a new coin based on The Lord of the Rings will enter the market. But that’s not the weirdest thing

This article contains major spoilers for The Suicide Squad. We have a spoiler free review here. The DCEU is alive and well and dividing its time between Corto Maltese and Belle Reve prison. James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad gives us the most DC characters in live action in any one movie ever assembled! OK, fine,

Leo Scott and Ting Poo’s new documentary feature, Val, is not a mortality play. It is a rehearsal for an upcoming act. During a tour of his one-man stage show, Citizen Twain, Val Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer. The actor underwent two tracheostomies, and now can only speak while covering a tube. The narration

This article contains major The Suicide Squad spoilers. We have a spoiler free review here. Five years ago, Will Smith uttered the instantly meme-able line, “So that’s it, huh, we’re the patsies, we’re some kind of Suicide Squad.” Yet by the end of that 2016 film, barely anyone in that squad was put six feet