Courtesy of Disney+ Avengers: Endgame Encore is now playing in theatres, getting fans stoked up for this December’s Avengers: Doomsday by bringing the biggest superhero movie of all time back to the big screen. As the movie claims the number one spot at the box office, its release has also resulted in a huge resurgence […]
Image Courtesy of Netflix Ask anyone to name the best stop-motion film ever made and you will hear the same title back. Coraline came out in February 2009, and it has spent the seventeen years since becoming the default answer to a question most people have never actually sat down and worked through. The reputation […]
Handcrafted films are having a moment. Stop-motion and traditional puppetry techniques are no longer taking a back seat to CGI. The UK studio Aardman continues to push traditional clay-based stop-motion animation forward with its latest release, Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom. Laika’s Wildwood is coming to theaters in October, continuing that studio’s […]
Image Courtesy of DC Comics The Justice League includes some of the mightiest superheroes in the DC Universe, some of whom can destroy entire universes. Many team members have gone on to start large families. Naturally, their children often look up to their superhero parents and want to be just like them. And oftentimes, these […]
Crossovers are funny things. Fans can spend years wondering what would happen if two of their favorite characters finally met. And after it actually happens, they can spend the next several years explaining why the meeting was a disaster. The dream is simple enough. Take two fan-favorite shows, then put the characters together. Let the […]
Image Courtesy of DC Comics It was 15 years ago that DC Comics finished its rollout of the New 52 premiere issues, and in the final week of the rollout, it brought back a Golden Age hero who had become a joke over the last few decades. That issue did several things to try to […]
It’s kind of a weird truth about entertainment that some of the best movies don’t necessarily rock the box office. Think about it: how frequently do we people talk about movies being underrated gems or find themselves discovering a how good a movie really is once it hits streaming despite it not performing well financially […]
It had already been more than 20 years by the time this legendary science-fiction series returned to television. That might have been enough time for most shows to become a footnote, but this one was different. Its name had stuck around from the original run, and there were plenty of stories that were still remembered. […]
If you grew up in the ’80s, you were one of the chosen few who were exposed to superhero movies before the big MCU boom. Sure, the movies might not have been inflated with continuity and grand storylines, but there was still something pure about the simplicity of a classic, straight-up story about a hero […]
There are TV records, and then there are achievements that are more like monuments. A huge premiere can be beaten. An awards haul can eventually be surpassed. Even ratings records, once considered untouchable, have a nasty habit of meeting their match. Television is always moving. Someone is always coming along to make yesterday’s impossible number […]