New Mutants (opens in new tab) was our last goodbye to the X-Men as we know them. After two decades over at Fox, the Disney merger marks a farewell to this incarnation of Wolverine and the team. It’s inevitable that we’ll see the gang again one day in the Marvel …
Read More »HBO Max opens up a whole multiverse of possibilities for the DCEU
Anyone with an Internet connection is probably aware of the massive #ReleaseTheSnyderCut movement that swept social media in the wake of 2017’s Justice League. The short version of the saga is: director Zack Snyder stepped down from Justice League after a family tragedy and was replaced by Joss Whedon. The …
Read More »Is it just me, or is Vol. 2 the best Guardians of the Galaxy film?
Guardians of the Galaxy (opens in new tab) shouldn’t have worked. Back when Marvel announced their first feature for Star-Lord et al, it was met with a collective shrug from audiences: Iron Man, Hulk, Thor and Cap were established names, but hardly anyone had heard of this outlaw gang made …
Read More »Mulan: The biggest differences between the animation and the live-action movies
Disney’s latest live-action remake sees the return of Mulan (opens in new tab) to the small screen following the studio’s decision to release it on Disney Plus. The narrative backbone of this version remains the same: when Northern invaders threaten China, the Emperor calls on one man from each household …
Read More »Why now’s the right time for The Walking Dead to end
The Walking Dead is going bye-bye (opens in new tab). Unlike the walkers that populate the series, however, it’s not going to slowly shamble off into the night. Twenty-four episodes are planned for its eleventh and final season, with multiple spin-off series (opens in new tab) and even a trilogy …
Read More »From Joker to FanDome: How DC reinvented itself as a legitimate contender to Marvel
So much can change in a year. In mid-2019, Marvel was coming off the back of an unparalleled one-two-three combo of Avengers: Endgame (opens in new tab), Spider-Man: Far From Home (opens in new tab) and Kevin Feige’s wave of SDCC announcements (opens in new tab) that teased everything from …
Read More »Why a Metal Gear Solid animated TV series is the best way to recapture Kojima’s magic
With the Metal Gear franchise seemingly lying dormant on consoles, it falls to the entertainment world – and Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts – to bring Hideo Kojima’s seminal espionage series back to prominence. Vogt-Roberts is already hard at work on a Metal Gear Solid movie. He’s even gone …
Read More »The making of The Eddy: Damien Chazelle talks us through directing his new Netflix series
In a tiny club in the 13th arrondissement in Paris, all life can be found. Love affairs, family feuds, money matters… all bound up with one single musical genre: jazz. The name of the club? The Eddy. “The Eddy is a musical oasis for different kinds of people, all of …
Read More »Best Zoom backgrounds: dozens of free options from Star Wars, Marvel, Mario, and more
Looking for the best Zoom backgrounds to spruce up your virtual chat? You’re not alone. By now, you’ve probably been in more video calls than you can count. Let’s spice things up a bit. So, if you wanted to head to the Millennium Falcon while someone takes minutes, or fancied …
Read More »Is it just me, or should Sacha Baron Cohen be the next James Bond?
With No Time To Die (opens in new tab) marking Daniel Craig’s final outing as 007, a variety of candidates have been rumoured and suggested as his replacement: Richard Madden, Idris Elba, Dev Patel, James Norton… But one name has been conspicuously absent from the conversation so far – one …
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