Longtime Star Trek fans may remember that Admiral Janeway’s promotion was first revealed on the big screen, just a year after Voyager aired its final episode on UPN. In 2002, the fan-favorite character finally made the jump to theaters with a surprise cameo in Star Trek: Nemesis, the final movie starring the cast of The Next Generation. In fact, it’s Admiral Janeway sending Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise on that fateful diplomatic mission to the Romulan Empire that truly kicks off the events of the divisive film....

In the novel, it’s the Jedi who are affiliated with Imperial lords and the Sith who have rebelled against them. Forget lore about Darth Bane or the Old Republic — or rather, set Ronin aside as its own alternate universe. Without anything so literal as Marvel’s multiverse, Ronin opens up a new well of creativity in terms of how Star Wars stories can be told. Speaking to Den of Geek, Candon says the novel is heavily influenced by Japanese art, culture, and folklore....

Stargirl Season 2 Episode 3 Ever since that pink pen showed up back in Stargirl’s third episode last year, we’ve all pretty much been waiting to see who would claim Johnny Thunder’s infamous genie-summoning accessory. In “Summer School: Chapter Three” we find out – though likely not the way that most of us expected. Perhaps we should have guessed that Courtney’s stepbrother Mike was destined to find some way to be part of the Justice Society of America....

The Stranger Things expanded universe, which is comprised of several standalone novels and comics, has some understandable inconsistencies that arise from having disconnected writers working in different media. Most of these are minor or at least can be written off as inconsequential if the television show is given canon precedence. But Eleven’s flashbacks in season 4 completely upend many ideas that prequel readers had about the activities of Dr. Brenner and the subjects of his experiments — in particular, the role of the one known as Six....

If you open up any pro gamer’s desktop PC, you’ll likely find one or two components labeled “Gigabyte.” For over three decades, the Taiwanese tech company has been making some of the best motherboards and graphics cards you can buy, so it’s no wonder PC builders tend to favor Gigabyte components for their gaming rigs. But if you want something a bit more portable, then you can cut straight to the source: Gigabyte’s top-tier gaming brand AORUS makes laptops that cater to every type of gamer, from casual Fortnite players to esports pros who demand the fastest and most powerful PCs....

One thing’s for sure as we watch Chris Redfield (Robbie Amell), Jill Valentine (Hannah John-Kamen), Claire Redfield (Kaya Scodelario), Leon S. Kennedy (Avan Jogia), and Albert Wesker (Tom Hopper) shooting their way through the zombie hordes plaguing their idyllic midwestern city: director Johannes Roberts has left the Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich era behind. Far from the CGI-heavy, action extravaganzas (with emphasis on EXTRA) of the Anderson era, Welcome to Raccoon City is teasing something a bit more horror-focused, undoubtedly all leading to an explosive third act as is the tradition with the games as well....

WandaVision withdrawal is widespread as we reach the first Friday without a new episode of the acclaimed Disney+ series to ravenously consume and pick apart. True to any broadly celebrated television event, the series complemented an action-packed climax with an array of unanswered questions, especially regarding where it left Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff—now uber-powerful and fully-realized as the Scarlet Witch—for her imminent big screen return in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness....

That’s right, Hulu’s biggest original title for November 2022 is Welcome to Chippendales on Nov. 22. This limited series stars Kumail Nanjiani (Eternals) as Somen “Steve” Banerjee, the real life founder of the original Chippendales club of exotic male dancers. After hits like The Dropout and Pam & Tommy, Hulu likely has high hopes for this one. The other big original series of note this month is FX’s Fleishman is in Trouble on Nov....

It Chapter Two sets up the final battle between the adult Losers’ Club and the evil Pennywise, who has spent two whole feature-length movies tormenting these poor characters and the town of Derry, Maine as a whole. It’s no wonder Bill, Bev, Ben, Mike, Eddie, and Richie plan to “kill this fucking clown” once and for all. Fans of King’s massive novel will leave the theater a bit surprised by how much director Andy Muschietti and screenwriter Gary Dauberman changed the story’s ending....

A proposed slate of interconnected films featuring Javier Bardem as Frankenstein’s monster, Johnny Depp as The Invisible Man, Russell Crowe as Dr. Jekyll (not originally a Universal property, but whatever) and even Angelina Jolie as the Bride of Frankenstein was quietly entombed in the studio’s development crypt after The Mummy unraveled like a…you get the idea. Flash forward to 2020 and Universal took a tentative step back into the monster pool this past February with Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, a modern take on the venerable tale that kept some of its key narrative and thematic aspects while smartly updating it for a post-#MeToo world — and making the idea of an invisible man thoroughly creepy again....

“We’re also busy preparing scripts for the next two installments of our John Wick action franchise,” Feltheimer said, “with John Wick 4 slated to hit theaters Memorial Day weekend 2022. We hope to shoot both John Wick 4 and 5 back to back when Keanu becomes available next year.” The news, while unsurprising, adds just more texture to the ever growing shared universe that is John Wick’s life. Indeed, while we can expect two more movies in the coming years, Starz also has a television series named The Continental in the works....

Joker may be unlike other comic book movies, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t possibly packed with comic book references! Yes, while Joker pays plenty of homage to iconic pieces of 1970s cinema like Taxi Driver, Network, and The King of Comedy, and may not be as open with its DC Comics roots as most superhero movies are, if you know where to look, there’s still plenty of Gotham City and Batman lore to be found....

Early on in Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah, Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya) meets with a Chicago gang called the Crowns–they’re an amalgamation of several community action groups who rose from the turf battles of the street to become protectors in their neighborhoods. In that pivotal scene, a man named Steel (Khris Davis), an obviously charismatic leader of the South Side’s urban militia, says Hampton is “the great orator of the West Side....

In less than a decade since her acting debut on a 2012 episode of the CW’s Gossip Girl, Elena Kampouris has shifted effortlessly from the small screen to the Broadway stage and on movie screens. She appeared in nine episodes of the television show American Odyssey and was a regular on Sacred Lies. She is heading to her biggest project to date in the form of Netflix’s Jupiter’s Legacy, playing the super-powered Chloe Sampson, daughter to The Union’s lead couple, The Utopian and Lady Liberty....

Legends of Tomorrow Season 6 Episode 13 I think I’ve been a little hard on this season of Legends of Tomorrow. I’ve been fairly vocal about how Constantine was starting to fall apart for me, but both from my own perspective and from what the show is trying to do, that turned around with “Silence of the Sonograms.” All it took was John getting the absolute piss beat out of him....

The new record is called Letter to You, and Springsteen’s weathered-through-rain-heat-and-gloom-of-night delivery consistently implies a range of additional tonic possibilities. And he’s got the band to back it up. His 20th studio LP is the first to feature The E Street Band since High Hopes in 2014 and is the first time they’ve performed together since The River 2016 tour. The album came out the same day as director Thom Zimny’s Apple TV+ documentary, Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You, and we see it was recorded in Springsteen’s home studio....

“‘Avengers, assemble!’ CGC Trading Cards is ready to grade your Marvel card collection. Collectors have been eagerly anticipating the day when CGC Trading Cards™ would start accepting Marvel cards, and that day is here. CGC Trading Cards is thrilled to announce that Marvel cards are now eligible for grading! The lucky first Marvel card to be graded is the legendary and elusive Spider-Man Redemption autograph card from the 1998 Marvel Creator’s Collection set....

“Across Mad Men’s seven seasons, Jon Hamm took us inside the mind of Donald Draper, the himbo über-mensch whose furrowed ‘that’s what the money’s for’ brow taught us about how to succeed in business by stealing someone’s identity. Draper’s journey through the 1960s showed viewers a transitional moment for a nation only beginning a love affair with advertising, a business that requires no product. According to the show, advertising only requires a few stiff drinks, a couple of naps, and a phrase like ‘Well done....

“Halo Infinite picks up after the events of Halo 5 and sees Master Chief trying to figure out why Cortana, his longtime AI partner, went rogue and tried to destroy humanity. He’s seeking another AI, code-named ‘The Weapon,’ who was allegedly designed as a countermeasure to Cortana. The Banished—a splinter faction of Chief’s enemies-turned-allies the Covenant—is in his way.” Read more at Kotaku No, this isn’t a live-action Toy Story remake, but Ryan Gosling is in talks to play Ken in the upcoming Barbie movie....

“Deadline shared yesterday that Euphoria actress Sydney Sweeney would be joining Dakota Johnson in Sony Pictures’ Madame Web, but there’s no word yet as to which character in the Spider-Man universe she will be. In the comics, Madame Web has been depicted as an elderly woman named Cassandra Webb, with clairvoyant and precognitive mutant abilities that she uses to ‘help’ Spider-Man. I put help in quotes because she’s a sassy lady and sometimes painfully vague....