The Fantastic Four will finally come to the MCU in the next few years, with a feature film directed by Jon Watts. While we don’t expect the FF to make their Marvel Cinematic Universe debut until roughly 2023 or so (although 2024 might be more appropriate), there’s nothing stopping Kevin Feige and company from laying the groundwork for the MCU Fantastic Four with their current projects. And specifically, we think WandaVision episode 4 might be the first real indication of plans for Marvel’s First Family....

We were supposed to have Black Widow back in May, but that’s been delayed until at least November thanks to COVID. Similarly, we’re waiting for Marvel stuff to start packing into Disney+. Luckily, as we angrily pound the floor and wonder when we’re going to get to the fireworks factory, Marvel has released a brand new trailer for WandaVision. Here it is in all of its Twilight Zone of the Superheroes goodness....

Halloween episodes are now a spooky season staple on both sides of the pond, but while the US has been producing Halloween hits like It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and The Flintstones’ ‘A Haunted House is Not A Home’ since the early 1960s, the American tradition didn’t properly catch on in the UK until the 1970s. Dig through the archives, and – while a couple of spooky stories were read out on Jackanory in the late 1960s, including Doctor Who’s own Jon Pertwee’s memorable reading of Ghoulies, Ghosties and Long Legged Beasties – this 1974 Steptoe and Son episode might be the first proper Halloween edition of a British TV show: Cleverly titled ‘Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard’ as a riff on Richard Attenborough’s horror movie Seance on a Wet Afternoon, the episode was first shown in October 1974, and features an early TV appearance for comedy legend Patricia Routledge (Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances)....

Life is never easy when you’re a teenager, and in Netflix’s Wednesday, the titular character is learning this the hard way. Without her creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky family on hand, Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) has been let loose on her own. Soon she’s playing detective around the small town of Jericho as she tries to find a serial killing monster in between navigating boys and finishing her studies. You know, normal teenage stuff....

Episode 8 of Marvel’s What If…?, entitled ‘What if… Ultron Won?’, housed some of the best animated sequences of the series so far. We’ve seen some great stuff from the show’s animation team to date, but they really had a chance to flaunt some incredible visuals in this one by keeping the central story fairly simple and the cast of characters small. Here, we got to find out what would have happened if Ultron had snagged the vibranium body he had made for him in Avengers: Age of Ultron instead of losing it to the creation of Vision, and it turns out that the Avengers saved more than this world when they successfully completed that mission back in the day....

The reason for this is clear: if you think Hollywood craved proven IP (that’s intellectual property to us plebs) before the pandemic, the major studios are even more desperate to scarf up and regurgitate as much of it now as possible in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic nearly killing the theatrical movie business altogether and still leaving it on shaky ground. But familiarity, as the saying goes, can breed contempt just as much as it can breed box office dollars....

The hero finds himself in the middle of a war between the sinister Roxxon Energy corporation and a terrorist group known as the Underground, which is led by the villainous Tinkerer, the game’s central antagonist. If you’ve read the Marvel comics that inspired Spider-Man: Miles Morales, you know that the Tinkerer is a formidable foe for a Spider-Man who’s still a bit green. Saving Harlem and taking down both the Tinkerer and Roxxon will keep Miles busy for the duration of the approximately 15-hour story campaign....

But what makes Black Adam so tough, and why is one of the biggest action stars of a generation so eager to play him? That’s because he shares that magic word of Shazam and it makes him a formidable character with a cool set of powers and abilities. Black Adam Powers and Abilities: The Shazam Connection The traditional Shazam acronym stands for a group of gods and heroes (mostly) stemming from the Greco-Roman tradition....

Eevee’s is a 15-pound, foot-tall creature with brown fur, long ears, a flat face, a fluffy tail, and no readily apparent fantasy traits that allude to elemental affinities. Essentially, Eevee’s design combines the features of dogs, foxes, and cats. It’s not necessarily the most realistic Pokémon from a sheer visual standpoint (Talonflame would arguably win that award since it looks like an orange peregrine falcon), but Eevee’s verisimilitude proves to be more than skin deep thanks to the gimmick at the core of the creature’s design....

Among these announcements also came the reveal that the long-awaited MCU Fantastic Four movie releasing Nov. 28, 2024 will mark the beginning of Phase 6. Which seems like a perfect way to transition into the culmination of the newly-christened Multiverse Saga. It’s already clear to see that Phase 5 will flesh out the story of a more dystopian MCU, with an Avenger-less world torn apart with mistrust after the Skrull attack in Secret Invasion....

According to Schreier, GTA 6 is currently code-named “Project Americas.” It will likely take place in a fictionalized version of the Miami area, though there doesn’t seem to be any word about what time period it is set in. It’s described as an especially detailed game that will likely be expanded over time through various updates. Furthermore, it sounds like the game will co-star a Latina female protagonist who is seemingly part of a criminal couple that was creatively “influenced by the bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde....

Good horror anthologies can speak for themselves. But it’s still never a bad idea to have a host hype them up anyway. That’s something that the classics understood like The Twilight Zone with its provocative opening monologues from creator Rod Serling and Alfred Hitchcock Presents with the horror maestro’s equally enigmatic intros. It’s also something that the latest entry into the horror anthology canon, Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, understands as well....

The phenomenon of bad foreign-language acting is not specific to Squid Game, nor is specific to Korea. It’s logical to assume that any country’s entertainment industry would have a harder time casting good actors in a language that is not native to that country, especially when you think about how that pool is further diminished by work visa requirements. Unlike the United States or some other countries, Korea is a highly homogenous country, which means a majority of the people who live there are of Korean ethnicity....

We all know the story by now. There are a handful of shows that were once extremely popular, but took a sharp turn for the worse towards the end. True Blood, Lost, How I Met Your Mother, Dexter … all left viewers with a distinct feeling of “huh. Was that it?” following their finales. For the most part, fans of the above will probably be happy to rewatch some of the earlier seasons, but stop before the end....

While the movie is ostensibly about two kids stuck in a fairy tale being spun by a cruel witch (played with relish by Krysten Ritter), Nightbooks cuts much deeper than that, delivering some truly bone-chilling set pieces as protagonists Alex (Winslow Fegley) and Yazmin (Lidya Jewett) try to escape their terrifying surroundings (and a very mean cat). Tackling themes of child abuse, bullying, and identity, Nightbooks might be best for tweens about to turn the page to their teen years, although every kid is different, of course....

The Empire has been established and has plans to replace the Republic’s clone army with a new military force made up of obedient human acolytes. This leaves the members of Clone Force 99 in an uncertain place. Should they fall in line with the new galactic order, even as it slaughters citizens and Jedi in order to assert its dominance over the galaxy, or should they run and carve out their own path away from war?...

As the longest American live-action fantasy series, Supernatural lasted a whopping 15 seasons before it finally came to a dramatic close in 2020. But, in the 15 years it was running, it failed to successfully spawn any spinoffs. Two backdoor pilots were filmed, one in season nine entitled Bloodlines with the intention of beginning a Chicago set series revolving around a Mafia-like war between powerful supernatural families. But with no established characters appearing, a dramatically different vibe and, well, a terrible script, the pilot fell flat and the episode often appears in lists of the worst Supernatural episodes ever aired....

“Her name was Pam, and [I swore] you’re going to say it before you die.” And so Clay did in his final moments after John drove the secretary’s vehicle off a D.C. bridge and into the cold waters below, drowning the old man and making it look like a suicide. It’s a relatively downbeat climax to a movie that’s featured high octane shootouts, fisticuffs, and one gnarly torture sequence in a burning car....

Young Justice Season 4 Episode 17 This week’s episode wraps up Aquaman’s arc, and while we get a pretty startling resolution to “Arion’s” story and the unrest in Atlantis, the episode also does a remarkable job of centering Kaldur’s journey over the four seasons (and decade-plus in real world time) of Young Justice’s life. “A big question for this arc is, ‘When is enough enough?’” Young Justice Executive Producer Greg Weisman tells us in an interview....

Young Justice Outsiders Episode 14 After dropping a pretty crappy episode on us before the break, Young Justice: Outsiders returns with the same efficient, elegant storytelling that makes the show so great with its first episode in six months. The second half of the season starts out by reminding us of everything we love about the show: a totally integrated, effective mythology; solid, developed, distinct characters that are all actually growing and changing; and comic references flying through awesome fight scenes....