Helluva Boss, which makes up the shared canon known as the Hellaverse alongside its sister show Hazbin Hotel, is a raunchy, gratuitously violent cartoon series set in Hell, about three imps, a hellhound and (as of Season 2’s finale) a disgraced Goetia demon all working together as part of a startup-style business that— under the […]
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Few sci-fi horror movies have had the lasting impact of Alien, which has become a classic and a franchise with seven movies (a new one already in development) and a TV series. So naturally, you’d expect it to inspire new projects sooner or later. And ever since the first film came out in 1979, Hollywood […]
In the ‘80s, Marvel Comics was hitting its stride with some of its most memorable animated shows. The year it all began was 1981 specifically. Cadence Industries was Marvel Comics’ parent company, and they acquired the animation studio DePatie–Freleng Enterprises. This particular company had been producing The Pink Panther cartoons years earlier. The result was […]
By the early 1990s, River Phoenix was well on his way to being an entertainment icon. After starting his acting career in commercials as a kid, he made his way to the big screen in films like Explorers in 1985 and Stand by Me in 1986 where he soon became a major star for his […]
ALF sits in front of a couch. Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2026, the popular science-fiction sitcom ALF premiered on NBC on September 22, 1986. It followed the life and misadventures of Gordon Shumway, an extraterrestrial from the planet Melmac who is normally just called ALF in the series, an acronym for Alien Life Form. […]
Image courtesy of Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment Growing up in the 1980s ensured kids of the decade had plenty of action figures to choose from with franchises like He-Man, Thundercats, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and more all filling toy shelves across the years. With hundreds of different figures available, all costing parents a sizeable amount to […]
Nintendo is a pop culture icon that has loomed large for decades. In the 90s, Nintendo established itself as a power player in the home console business. The company competed aggressively with Sega and Sony for ultimate market supremacy. The Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 were household names during their respective generations. Then, the turn […]
Image Courtesy of Marvel The Marvel Cinematic Universe was rolling along with a ton of momentum heading into Avengers: Endgame in 2019. The main storyline to that point was wrapping up and although Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Scarlett Johansson were pretty much finished with the franchise, the future looked bright. Characters like T’Challa, […]
Star Wars is still the ultimate sci-fi epic for a lot of people. All it took was one movie to make an impact, and then more followed until it became a big, timeless franchise. And if there’s one thing you can’t deny, it’s really the epic scale, because when the saga began back in 1977, […]
Image Courtesy of A24 Backrooms was a surprising success this year, dominating the box office and beating out even bigger blockbuster movies along the way. Based on a YouTube series by Kane Parsons that itself was based on liminal-space creepypasta photographs, the movie takes a man and his therapist into a labyrinth of yellow-colored rooms […]