The turn of the century was a weird time for television, filled with bizarre spin-off shows and inexplicable commercial campaigns that resemble more like hallucinations than reality. Occasionally, some intrepid media archaeologist will exhume a particularly fascinating piece of pop cultural ephemera from the digital dustbin of history for modern...
Superhero movies are better when they actually talk to comics
In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, the movie about the talking raccoon fighting the cape-swishing villain, the most comic book-y thing about it might actually be the quick introduction to Adam Warlock. That might sound strange to those who only know superheroes from the cinema. Marvel movies do this...
Sean Gunn is done playing Rocket in Guardians of the Galaxy (but Kraglin is another story)
From the beginning, the Guardians of the Galaxy movies were a personal project for James Gunn. The trilogy of films include some classic Marvel characters, but reinvent them for Gunn’s career-long theme about misfits finding their comfort zones and building found families. With Gunn moving on to co-lead DC’s movie...
Disney Plus and Hulu are getting combined into one app (sorta)
Disney’s streaming bundle that includes Hulu, Disney Plus, and ESPN Plus has long been one of the best packages in streaming, but now it’s getting a little less cumbersome to use too. On Wednesday, Disney announced that it will soon add certain Hulu programming to Disney Plus, for subscribers that...
A Trigun fan account just turned a queer 2019 sci-fi novel into an Amazon bestseller
Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s 2019 sci-fi novel This Is How You Lose the Time War unexpectedly became the sixth most popular book on the Amazon last weekend, and it’s all thanks to “Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood.” No, that isn’t the name of a lesser-known cousin of Lord of the Rings’...
No really, The Meg 2 is going to be the best movie of the summer
Few things go together better than summer movies and giant sharks, which is why we should all be thankful that megalodons are returning to theaters with The Meg 2: The Trench. The first trailer for the Jason Statham-starring action blockbuster was released on Monday and features all sorts of ridiculous...
Star Wars: Visions season 2 makes the franchise feel like it’s capable of anything
Brothers and sisters parted by the machinations of mystical warriors and galactic empires. Indigenous populations terrorized by TIE fighters before gloriously striking back. Parent and child on opposite sides of an ideological divide. The tales of Star Wars: Visions are familiar, recalling the tragedy and pulp fantasies of George Lucas’...
Everything the robot is saying in Unicorn: Warriors Eternal can be translated
Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, the new sci-fi fantasy adventure series from Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky, is packed with an eccentric cast of memorable characters. But none of them leaves quite as strong an impression as Copernicus, the top hat-touting steampunk robot responsible for reawakening the Unicorn Warriors throughout time to...
Guardians of the Galaxy 3’s credits scenes are a simple mystery
James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy may have come to a close, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe rolls on. And just like in Marvel Comics, that means the story of the Guardians hasn’t come to an end; even Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 hints at a continuation in...
All the MCU Blade news we’ve heard so far
Vampires are coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and that means its heroes need a vampire hunter to keep the night at bay. Blade is one of the MCU’s most anticipated upcoming movies, and rounds out a growing Marvel monster-verse, but it’s had a complicated production since it was announced...