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‘Madame Web’ Review: Sony’s Half-Baked ‘Doctor Strange’ Parody

February 13, 2024 Uday Kataria Comicbook Films & Shows, Doctor Strange, Madame Web, Marvel, Sony, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman 5 min read

Sony’s ever-expanding Spider-Man Universe continues with Madame Web, the franchise’s first female-led film and the first to feature actual spider-people

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Interview: Composer Stefan L. Smith on the Sound of Superhero Adventures

February 12, 2024 Ayla Ruby Batman, Comicbook Films & Shows, DC, DC Animation, Family Films & Shows, Music, PBS, Soundtrack, Warner Bros 18 min read

Stefan L. Smith is a talented composer who lent his talents to the animated Batman film Batman: The Doom that Came

Loki: Journey into Mystery by Kieron Gillen

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Book Review: ‘Loki: Journey into Mystery’ by Katherine Locke

February 12, 2024 Luna Gauthier Comics, Fantasy Novels, Loki, Marvel, Marvel Books, Recommended Reading, Thor, Young Avengers 5 min read

Katherine Locke’s new book Loki: Journey into Mystery is based on the popular graphic novel of the same name by

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‘Not Dead Yet’ Returns For it’s Season 2 Premiere!

February 9, 2024 Brian Kitson ABC, Comedy Films & Shows, Not Dead Yet 8 min read

Sometimes life doesn’t quite go the way we’ve planned. I think this is a sentiment that we can all relate

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Review: Gothic Romance and Dark Comedy Dominate ‘Lisa Frankenstein’

February 8, 2024 James Preston Poole Comedy Films & Shows, Focus Features, Horror Films & Shows 5 min read

Diablo Cody has been in the screenwriting game a long time. Her debut, Juno, won her the Academy Award for Best

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Humanity’s Survival and Prehistoric Horrors in ‘Out of Darkness’

February 7, 2024 Josh Thayer Bleecker Street Films, Fantastic Fest, Horror Films & Shows 6 min read

One of the coolest compliments I ever heard the late, great Roger Ebert express about a movie was that, while

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‘She is Conann’ Review: A Banksy-inspired Vision of Conan the Barbarian

February 7, 2024 John Dotson Fantastic Fest, Fantasy Films & Shows, Film Festivals, Horror Films & Shows, LGBTQ+ 5 min read

She is Conann is not a Conan film. The characters are mostly here, including the addition of Red Sonja. But the acid

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Fantastic Four Reading Guide: 1998-2024

February 7, 2024 Vin Ant-man, Comics, Doctor Doom, Fantastic Four, Galactus, Marvel, MCU, Namor, Reading Guides, Secret Wars, She-Hulk, Spider-Man 20 min read

Hello explorers, and welcome back to the modern Fantastic Four comics reading guide! This is our second guide to Marvel’s

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Read ‘Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up’ by Alexandra Potter Before ‘Not Dead Yet’ Returns!

February 6, 2024 Luna Gauthier Fiction, Funny Books, HarperCollins, Not Dead Yet, Recommended Reading, Social Commentary 6 min read

Ever felt like you don’t know what you’re doing? Did life not exactly live up to the plans your thirteen-year-old

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The Marvel Multiverse and Black Holes

February 6, 2024 Alex Perez Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Avengers: Secret Wars, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Kang, Loki, Marvel, MCU, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Spider-Verse, The Marvels, The Multiverse Saga, TVA 11 min read

Often depicted as a prism of endless possibilities, the multiverse has one constant across all possible variations or interpretations: it

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Review: ‘Love Me’ Is An Inventive Short Film In A Feature’s Body

February 5, 2024 James Preston Poole Film Festivals, Romance Films & Shows, Sci-Fi Films & Shows, Sundance Film Festival 6 min read

‘Love Me’ has an inspired concept and two great performances, but neither are enough to save its inherent messiness.

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Review: ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ Season 1 Finale

February 4, 2024 Wiktor Reinfuss Book Adaptations, Disney+, Fantasy Films & Shows, Mythology & Folklore, Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan 8 min read

Have you ever wondered if the book you liked would ever get a fantastic live-action adaptation that will honor its

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