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Netflix’s Umbrella Academy Lacks the Batshit Whimsy of Its Source Material

While you could always see flashes of the X-Men and other comics that inspired writer Gerard Way and artist Gabriel Bá in their Eisner award-winning limited series The Umbrella Academy, the book always felt like its own unique animal. It drew on classic cape tropes to tell a fresh story about the struggles that’d come … Continued

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Ben Affleck on Why He Hung Up Batman’s Cowl: ‘Couldn’t Crack It’

Rumors of Ben Affleck’s exit from Warner Bros.’ DCEU have been swirling for years, but were finally confirmed to be true last month when the actor announced that while Matt Reeves The Batman is now scheduled to hit theaters in 2021, he won’t be the one wearing the cowl. Reactions to the news have been … Continued

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A New Transformers Series Is Coming to Netflix

With Bumblebee behind it and generally seen as being more successful than its cinematic predecessors, the Transformers franchise is enjoying something of a renaissance, and it’s about to spread to a smaller screen near you very, very soon. Deadline reports that Netflix and Rooster Teeth are partnering to produce Transformers: War for Cybertron, a multi-part, … Continued

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Agents of SHIELD‘s Next Season Might Take Place a Year Into the Future

The specific timeline of events in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe was always been murky at best even before Infinity War made it so that the studio had to begin at least trying to obfuscate specific details about future films that would “spoil” whether certain major characters would return from the dead. Well, the latest report about … Continued

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The First Trailer for Octavia Spencer’s Horror Thriller Ma Is an Important PSA for Teens

One of the first important life lessons parents teach their children is that, while most adults mean them no harm, there are people in the world who might want to hurt them, and it’s in their best interest not to wander off with strangers lest they end up on the back of a milk carton. … Continued

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Report: Jared Leto’s Time as the Joker May Soon Be Over

Good afternoon, dear connoisseurs of fine cinema! Time for a pop quiz. Without looking up the answer, how many Joker-centric spinoff films were Warner Bros. and DC planning to release in the near future, and how many of them were set to star consummate professional Jared Leto? The answer was always perplexing, but according to … Continued

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Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Is Finally Getting a Modern TV Adaptation

Hollywood’s been trying to get a new live-action adaptation of Aldous Huxley’sBrave New World off the ground for years, and it’s finally about to happen thanks to the USA Network, surprisingly. Today, The Hollywood Reporter says the network announced that Fear the Walking Dead producer David Wiener has signed on to write and showrun the … Continued

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Legendary Producer Lauren Donner Fought for a Movie About the X-Women at Fox

Executive producer Lauren Donner has had a hand in bringing each and every single one of Fox’s blockbuster X-Men films to fruition and she takes pride in the work she’s put in at the studio. With the franchise’s future somewhat up in the air because of Marvel’s impending acquisition of 21st Century Fox, Donner recently … Continued

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SpongeBob SquarePants Is the Star of Yet Another Movie

It’s been 20 years since SpongeBob first invited us to dive deep and get to know the residents of Bikini Bottom, but the Porifera burger-slinger is still around and coming to theaters once again. In addition to SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout, a televised special that kickstarts Nickelodeon’s “Best Year Ever” celebration, SpongeBob is set to … Continued

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DC Universe’s Doom Patrol Is One for the Weirdos

DC Universe’s Doom Patrol isn’t a show that hates itself—it hates the very concept of idyllic superheroes. A hero’s seeming perfection, good looks, and general amiability are all just distractions, Doom Patrol posits, from what really matters: the fact that being exceptional and extraordinary means that the world is never really going to love or … Continued

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Howard the Duck, M.O.D.O.K., Hit-Monkey, and Tigra & Dazzler Are Getting Their Own Series—Yes, You Read That Right

Never say never, right? Marvel surprised everyone at today’s Television Critics Association with the announcement of four new animated shows, all featuring characters one wouldn’t necessarily envision as heroes championing their own series. In the very near future, Howard the Duck, M.O.D.O.K., Hit-Monkey, Dazzler, and Tigra will all live on Hulu as action heroes who, … Continued

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Captain Marvel‘s Official Website Is Basically a Geocities Fansite

Carol Danvers has a Geocities webpage and it’s exactly as loud and wonderfully tacky as you think it is. While Carol Danvers might be the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain Marvel takes place in the 1990s, which is quickly becoming a period of time we can refer to as the distant past. If … Continued

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This Week’s Best New Comics Are All About Uncovering Dark Truths

There’s a certain kind of power that comes with knowing the deep truths about things, whether they be individual people, discrete situations, or events that have yet to occur. This week’s best new comics all feature characters who know this to be true, but for each of them, learning the actual nature of the way … Continued

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The Wicked Movie Is Finally Happening

After years of being stuck in development limbo (not quite hell), Universal’s live-action adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked is finally coming to the big screen. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Stephen Daldry—previously in talks to direct the Obi-Wan Kenobi solo film—is attached to direct the film that follows the lives of Elphaba (who goes … Continued

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Hear Carol Danvers’ Primal War Cry in This New Captain Marvel TV Spot

Though she’s destined to become the galaxy’s mightiest hero, Captain Marvel’s Carol Danvers will always be a warrior at heart, thanks to unique Kree conditioning that left her physically empowered and mentally conditioned to be a lethal fighter. The latest TV spot for the film just gives us a small taste of what that means. … Continued

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New American Gods Season 2 Clip Finds the New Deities Scared and Searching for Media

In the finale of American Gods’ first season, Mr. Wednesday finally let the new gods of globalization, media, and modern technology know that while the old gods’ powers may be waning, they’ve still got enough spiritual weight to do some serious damage in the coming war of the deities. By killing a number of Technical … Continued

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Russian Doll Deftly Navigates Existential Dread and Depression

When you first meet Nadia, the gruff but glamorous heroine of Netflix’s Russian Doll, the off-ness of the strange predicament she’s found herself in is immediately apparent, but difficult to put your finger on, especially if you go into the series unfamiliar with its premise. But as Nadia pulls apart Russian Doll’s mysteries piece by … Continued

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A New Pet Sematary Trailer Reveals the Remake Will Scare You in a Slightly Different Way

The strongest argument against letting a young person ever have a pet is that, eventually, they’re likely to become emotionally attached to it, which’ll almost invariably become a problem once the pet in question decides to die. Everyone knows that there’s a certain amount of risk involving emotional trauma whenever kids are given the chance … Continued

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C.H.E.R.Y./L. the Robot Is Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt‘s Unsung Hero

Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has come to an end, and it’s time to celebrate its underappreciated hero. Way back in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s first season, Titus Andromedon (Titus Burgess) and Jacqueline White (Jane Krakowski) first met one another at a dinner party that ended up turning into the scene of a murder. The victim? Yuko … Continued

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The New Dumbo Trailer Revels in the Spectacle of a Circus with a Flying Elephant

Many of Disney’s more recent live-action adaptations of its classic movies like The Jungle Book and Beauty and the Beast have been so heavy on the CGI that you kind of have to get used to things not looking “real” before you can properly lose yourself in the stories. Given how Dumbo’s cast is mostly regular … Continued