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The Princess Bride Scribe William Goldman Has Died at 87

For the past few months, the family of Oscar-winning author and screenwriter William Goldman has been by his side as he battled colon cancer, and, more recently, pneumonia. Today, though, his family announced that the writer passed away in his New York City home. The notoriously anti-Hollywood writer first came to fame with his work … Continued

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Marvel’s Spider-Man Would Like to Remind You That Peter Parker Is Hot

One of the best aspects of Insomniac’s most recent Spider-Man game is the dozens of alternate costumes from Marvel’s Spider-Man comics that you can equip in order to gain special abilities and give Peter Parker a new look. You’ve got your Spider-Punk, and your vintage comics Spidey, but let’s be honest here. The most impressive … Continued

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American Horror Story: Apocalypse Turned the End Times Into a Fabulous Season of Television

From the very first episode, American Horror Story: Apocalypse has felt like a return to rare form for the series—in large part because this season incorporates a number of characters from previous seasons, but also because this story has always had a singular focus. The apocalypse is coming (or is already here), and it’s something … Continued

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We Bare Bears‘ Tribute to the X-Men’s Greatest Villain Is Amazing

Cartoon Network’s We Bare Bears is a show about a trio of talking bear brothers trying to live their best lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. And the series never shies away from the opportunity to infuse its characters’ lives with bursts of the fantastical—if only to remind us just how fantastically wild its … Continued

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Nintendo Needs to Stop Putting Digimon in Pokémon

Now that we’ve all seen the trailer for the first live-action Pokémon movie, it feels like it’s time to voice some…concerns about some of the newer pocketable monsters Nintendo’s been stealthily incorporating into its games for the past few years. To put it simply: Nintendo’s been trying to pass off Digimon as Pokémon and it’s time … Continued

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Buzz Lightyear Is the Butt of the Joke in the Latest Toy Story 4 Teaser

The sentient playthings of Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story franchise lead rich inner lives hidden away from the human eyes and, like most intelligent forms of life, they spend a fair amount of time bonding with one another about whatever happens to be on their minds at the moment. The latest Toy Story 4 teaser … Continued

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DC Universe’s Titans Finally Came Together as a Team and It Felt So Good

As surprisingly fantastic as DC Universe’s live-action Titans series is, it hasn’t really had a chance to spend much time with its titular team as a team, given that they’ve all been gradually finding their ways into one another’s orbits…all while trying to survive the apocalypse. This week, though, that all changed, and it was … Continued

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The First Detective Pikachu Movie Trailer Is as Creepy as It Is Fun

Wildly unbelievable though it may be, the Detective Pikachu movie is definitely a real thing that is coming to theaters. “What proof do you have?”, you might ask. Well. Here’s the first trailer. What stands out most about this glimpse at the first live-action Pokémon movie is how…realistically the actual Pocket Monsters are rendered. It’s … Continued

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The First Toy Story 4 Teaser Is a Delightful Mess

It’s been a hot second since we last caught up with Andy’s sentient toys, who over the years have become just as much a part of nearly everyone else’s childhoods during their wild adventures. You might not have been thinking about them recently, however—but guess what? Toy Story 4 is right around the corner. You … Continued

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In This Week’s Best New Comics, If the Space Ghosts Don’t Kill You, the Talking Rabbits Will

As a great agent of vengeance once said (or at least felt, it’s difficult to remember), rabbits are the devil. Sure, they’re cute when they’re hopping about, munching on plant life, and blissfully luxuriating the way prey animals do. But make no mistake—they are dangerous. Also, kind of rude. This week’s best new comics run … Continued

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Celebrate Hedy Lamarr’s Birthday With This Gorgeous Graphic Novelization of Her Life

Though many of the fans of her time knew her primarily as a glamorous, provocative actress who exuded a striking energy on screen, Hedy Lamarr was so much more than that. Not only was she marked presence in the performing sense, she was also a brilliant inventor whose innovative ideas would, in time, come to … Continued

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American Horror Story: Apocalypse Made a Mass Shooting Part of Its Story at an Impossible Time

Last night around 11:20 p.m. PST, 28-year-old former Marine David Long walked into the the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California an opened fire with a handgun, killing 12 people and injuring 25 more before taking his own life. Just hours before the murders, this week’s penultimate episode of American Horror Story featured … Continued

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Report: Jeremy Irons to Play Ozymandias in HBO’s Watchmen Series

We’ve known for some time now that Jeremy Irons had joined the cast of HBO’s upcoming, live-action Watchmen series from Damon Lindelof, but it remained a mystery who the actor was set to play…until now. SlashFilm is reporting that Irons will portray an older, though nonetheless still nefarious version of Adrian Veidt, the brilliant megalomanic … Continued

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The Latest Trailer for Andy Serkis’ Mowgli Proves It’s Time to Start Taking Mo-Cap Acting Seriously

Were it not for the fact that audiences still had the gamey aftertaste of Disney’s most recent adaptation of The Jungle Book in their mouths, chances are likely that there’d be much more buzz about Andy Serkis’ upcoming adaptation of the Ruyard Kipling book soon to hit Netflix. While the basic plot elements of the … Continued

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse‘s Newest Trailer Introduces Miles Morales’ Coolest Superpower

Even though both Peter Parker and Miles Morales are both technically “Spider-Man,” there are a number of differences in their power sets that make their overall fighting styles somewhat different. In the newest trailer for Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the pair come to realize that there’s a lot they don’t know about one another. … Continued

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The Ultimate Weapon of X-Men: Red‘s Greatest Villain Is All Too Real

Tom Taylor, Rogê Antônio, and Rain Beredo’s X-Men: Red has been telling the story of how Jean Grey’s newest team of handpicked X-Men are fighting to establish better mutant international relations while also battling the literal embodiment of racism that’s born out of viral hate speech generated online. As tends to be the case with X-Men … Continued

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The Gifted‘s Latest Twist on X-Men History Is Delightfully Low-Budget

Watching each episode of The Gifted is like receiving an X-Men-themed Secret Santa gift that you enjoy a surprising amount despite the fact that it’s, well, kinda cheap and not at all something you would have picked out for yourself. It’s the thought and heart that counts, after all. Continuing in The Gifted’s habit of … Continued

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DC Universe’s Swamp Thing Will Be Played by Two Different Actors

You can’t exactly make a Swamp Thing television show without casting someone to actually play Swamp Thing. DC Universe has seemingly taken that truth to heart and then some by casting not one, but two actors to portray the titular avatar of the Green. Deadline is reporting that actor and stunt performer Derek Mears (who … Continued

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A New Clip From The Gifted Teases the Tragic Origins of the Stepford Cuckoos

When Fox’s The Gifted isn’t spending its time getting around the X-Men by reimagining significant parts of their mythos, it actually gets pretty damned close to name-checking heavy-hitters like Magneto by focusing on the characters’ children instead. It’ll probably be a cold day in the Hellfire Club before we ever see Emma Frost step foot … Continued

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Is Sony’s Chance to Finally Define Who Miles Morales Is

If you’re reading this blog then you know who Miles Morales, the lead hero of Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, is. But take a moment to really stop and consider just how much you know about Miles. What are his hopes and dreams? What are the things that define his personality? Who is he? … Continued