Marvel Studios is going back to the spy genre for an upcoming series. Its codename hints at a new take on the espionage corner of the MCU. Spycraft and Marvel have gone hand in hand for over 60 years. Capitalizing on the spy boom of the 1960s, World War II’s Sgt. Fury became Nick Fury, […]
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While It Follows might not have made a huge splash immediately upon its release, its consistent following in the years since has cemented it as a cult classic. David Robert Mitchell’s 2014 horror movie stars Maika Monroe as Jay, a young woman who learns that she is being stalked by a supernatural entity whose attention […]
The 1990s were a great decade for movies, with many memorable titles released in the final years of the 20th century. The media of the era is often described as being unnecessarily edgy, with too much focus on trying to establish how cool any given movie or TV show should be considered. This is particularly […]
Stephen Amell rose to prominence among comic book fans with his starring role in Arrow, where he played the titular Emerald Archer, Green Arrow. Not only did Amell’s performance bring the playboy vigilante to life in a whole new way on the small screen, but it surprisingly cemented him as one of DC’s most viable […]
Forty years ago, television audiences met one of the most unique sitcom characters ever to invade primetime. On September 22, 1986, ALF premiered on NBC, introducing viewers to a wisecracking alien who crash-landed into the Tanner family’s garage and promptly made himself at home. He was furry, sarcastic, obsessed with food, and had an unfortunate […]
Albeit a cultural juggernaut now — George and Mandy’s First Marriage is set to air its third season in October and Stuart Fails to Save the Universe is currently a streaming hit on HBO — the Big Bang Theory was originally met with mixed reviews, earning only a 59% on Rotten Tomatoes for its first […]
Coraline arrived on February 6, 2009 as the first feature Laika ever made, and it has spent the years since becoming the film people name when they are asked about stop-motion. Henry Selick directed it and wrote the screenplay himself, adapting the 2002 novella by Neil Gaiman, a book that won the Hugo and the […]
On September 21, 1937, a relatively unassuming fantasy novel appeared in British bookstores. The first printing consisted of just 1,500 copies, and it was marketed as a children’s book. The author? An Oxford academic who had spent years letting friends and family read the manuscript. There was no cinematic universe waiting in the wings. No […]
A twelve-year-old Christopher Nolan film is currently climbing the charts on Amazon and may knock its own epic sci-fi hit from the top slot. The Netflix effect is a phenomenon where an older movie or show gets a second life because millions of viewers are exposed to it through their streaming feed. As far back […]
The modern era of cinema is the golden age for superhero movies. There is just no real argument against it, as films like The Incredibles, The Dark Knight, and the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe helped set the stage for this to become the popular genre it is today. Superhero projects were once often viewed as […]