One word provides the comfort of continuity to James Bond fans, and perhaps elicits confusion or a chuckle from anyone else watching: Broccoli. I think he did this because he wanted a challenge, and he sure pulled it off. Broccoli’s father, Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, didn’t invent James Bond — that was British writer Ian Fleming. […]
Without the money to enroll in a school for the Deaf, Maya was forced to develop her ability to lipread in order to interact with the hearing world that wouldn’t accommodate her. Echo first appeared in the pages of Daredevil, created by David Mack and Joe Quesada , as an antagonist. Maya was orphaned when […]
A whole host of Netflix favorites return for new seasons, including but not limited to The Witcher, Cobra Kai, Emily in Paris, Queer Eye, and Aggretsuko. From Netflix: With her first hour-long Netflix comedy special, Nicole Byer’s Big Beautiful Weirdo is sexy, fun and honest. From Netflix: Anxious People is a drama comedy about a […]
So of course the new take that circulated in the wake of the latest installment in the series is that 2021’s No Time to Die is the Bond movies’ equivalent of Avengers: Endgame. That claim does feel completely correct, in that No Time To Die closes out an era, as the final movie where longtime […]
Fans of Japan’s Studio Ghibli and its co-founder Hayao Miyazaki will remember this plotline from his first official Ghibli movie, 1986’s Castle in the Sky: A dark-haired boy stumbles across a mysterious pigtailed girl who seemingly materialized from thin air. But the most fervent Ghibli fans will know that Miyazaki used the exact same premise […]
Just like He-Man’s Power Sword in the Masters of the Universe sequel show Revelation, the series itself was split in half, with the first half airing in July 2021, and the second held for November release. At the same time, it keeps providing the goofy thrills expected from a series based on a line of […]
League of Legends’ animated series Arcane is coming back for a season 2 on Netflix. Based on the teaser, it seems that Vi and Caitlyn will both return for the next season and their story will center around the pair hunting down Jinx. While there’s no official confirmation just yet, it also seems like that […]
Post-credits scenes used to be a rare fun bonus for the cinematic faithful who stuck out the entirety of the credits, but Marvel Cinematic Universe movies have made them into almost an obligation for fandom-friendly movies. That’s exactly what director Jason Reitman does with Ghostbusters: Afterlife, his direct sequel to 1989’s Ghostbusters II, and his […]
However, the added danger that comes with traveling through the Ring makes it more difficult for those in Sol system to interfere with whatever Admiral Duarte has planned now that he has obtained the protomolecule sample. Corey’s series, Babylon’s Ashes, as well as the novella Strange Dogs, which follows a young Laconian girl who comes […]
So I almost feel like you leave us no choice!,” Hwang told the Associated Press on Tuesday. Along with this announcement, Hwang confirmed that Seong Gi-hun, the protagonist of the first season of Squid Game played by Lee Jung-jae, would make a return in season two of the series. The Korean survival drama Squid Game […]
Even more so than Space Jam: A New Legacy, David Lowery’s film The Green Knight runs on game logic. Sure, the film is chock-full of meaning, symbolism, and allusion, but its medieval, Arthurian storyline is also the perfect launching point for a game. The interactivity of gaming is hard to beat, and RPGs take that […]
Sex and pleasure are vital parts of human nature, and creating life is an essential rhythm of the natural world, but humanity constantly struggles against nature, trying to master it and sometimes corrupting it. Lowery places sex and human desire front and center in his bold adaptation of a medieval epic. More than anything, Gawain […]
And for audiences today, inhabiting a world where the lines between right and wrong in the pursuit of success and fame are greying every single day, the parable reminds us that sometimes mere goodness is enough in place of achieving greatness. It’s a simple story: An otherworldly beast known as the Green Knight, called up […]
While the rest of the word lined up for the new-fangled WEB Slingers Spider-Man ride in Avengers Campus, I revisited The Amazing Spider-Man ride in Islands of Adventure out of morbid curiosity. A little background for those unfamiliar with the complicated world of Marvel theme parks: The reason a Marvel Super Hero Island exists in […]
After a year delay, The Green Knight, David Lowery and A24’s retelling of the classic King Arthur legend, will complete its journey to theaters. The Green Knight is a retelling of the poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” famously translated from Middle English by J.R.R. In the trailer we see Gawain’s initial meeting with […]
Green Hell, a survival video game available on Steam and Nintendo Switch, is being turned into a board game. In the video game Green Hell, players take on the role of Jake Higgins, a white man lost in the Amazon rainforest. You’ll roll dice with puzzle pieces on each face, and only by combining partial […]