The films of 2018, and various debates surrounding them, have been increasingly making me wonder about the difference between genre tropes, homage, and just uninspired laziness. I definitely think there’s a defined difference, and I think this past year, in particular, we’ve gotten a lot of the ...
Read MoreIn 2006, Joe Flanigan, who played main character John Shepherd on Stargate: Atlantis, would often refer to his costar Jason Momoa as the Chewie of the group. Yet anyone who has followed Momoa through the years knows that he is anything but. Don’t get me wrong; Flanigan was fantastic. But it was M...
Read MoreToday’s Nintendo Direct got right down to business by revealing the final characters for this December’s big release, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Ken (Street Fighter) joins as an “echo fighter” to fellow series fighter Ryu. Based primarily on his Street Fighter II: Turbo incarnation, Ken is ...
Read MoreFollowing the revelation that there’s a man out there hunting down and murdering metahumans, Team Flash realizes in “The Death of Vibe” that they’re in major need of a hand to track down this deranged serial killer. Nora explains how when she was a young girl in her time, and wanting...
Read MorePrepare for another battle of wits between everyone’s favorite mutant frenemies as Instagram account Mariopower has posted pictures from the set of X-Men: Dark Phoenix. The photos were taken in Montreal during reshoots for the new – and, one assumes, final – installment in Fox’s X-Men franch...
Read MoreWhen one looks at the astronomical success of big-screen superhero movies and television series, it stands to reason that flocks of young boys and girls across the country having a growing interest in looking into the source material for their favorite caped (or not caped) crusaders would be concomi...
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