Happy Captain Picard Day, everyone! Paramount+ has just released a new teaser-trailer for Picard Season 2, and, among the many twists and reveals, the most interesting and canon-changing might just be what happens to Seven of Nine at the very end of the trailer… After Q (John de Lancie) visits Jean-Luc Picard in his Château in the teaser trailer above, we rapidly learn that this season is going to be all about a “broken” timeline that has resulted in some fairly big changes for the crew of the La Sirena and, seemingly, the galaxy at large....

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 2 The second installment of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is as delightfully entertaining as the series premiere, highlighting the fabulous chemistry of this cast in various group permutations and fulfilling the franchise’s promise to the letter: Seeking out new life and new civilizations and maybe giving them an unseen helping hand along the way. The beats of this episode are pretty basic: The U....

In documentary series The Center Seat: Celebrating 55 Years of Star Trek, now available in the UK on IMDb TV, director Brian Volk-Weiss looks at how the show commented on issues such as the Cold War, Vietnam, Civil Rights, and the issue of euthanasia, among others. But as Volk-Weiss points out, there is one issue that has loomed over the Star Trek universe since its inception. “We talk about this in Center Seat a little bit, all Trekkies know the foundation of Star Trek, in canon, the Federation and Starfleet, everybody’s known since the original series the foundation of those organisations is World War III,” Volk-Weiss says....

But all that is about to change. In a conversation with Vanity Fair, Obi-Wan Kenobi composer Natalie Holt revealed that Williams specifically requested to write a theme for the Jedi Master. “Obi-Wan is a legacy character that John hadn’t written a theme for because he died quite early on in A New Hope,” Holt explained. When word of the new series reached Williams, the legendary composer contacted Kathleen Kennedy and said (in Holt’s words), “I just want to write Benny a theme....

A game I consider to be among the best LucasArts had to offer in its later years, Republic Commando arrived at an interesting time in the company’s history. As I mentioned in a previous article about The Force Unleashed, 2004 was the beginning of the end: corporate restructuring led to big cuts in staffing and budgets at LucasArts by a chain of command, which, it would be fair to say, understood dollars and marketing much better than video games....

Set to appear in IDW’s The High Republic Adventures comic series by Daniel Jose Older, Yoda is 700 years old during the High Republic era, slightly younger than in the movies, but he still looks pretty much the same but with slightly less wrinkles. “It’s especially exciting to be able to introduce him in the era of the High Republic,” Older said in an interview on StarWars.com. “The High Republic Yoda is a journeyman out in the galaxy....

Star Wars: The Mandalorian Episode 1 The Mandalorian executive producer and “Chapter 1” director Dave Filoni drew from myriad inspirations for The Clone Wars, and his first live-action Star Wars foray is clearly no different. A flashback sequence is so energetic and the use of color so deft that it feels like it could have come from the animated series. Sweeping shots and marching music evoke the Westerns that also influenced George Lucas....

Former Imperial pilot Yrica Quell has switched sides several times. Now she’s undercover with her former Imperial squad, and so deep under that her New Republic teammates think she’s betrayed them. Her old mentor Soran Keize has become even more bloodthirsty than the rest of the Imperial remnant in his effort to continue the Emperor’s Operation Cinder — planetary destruction, but make it slower and messier than a Death Star laser....

Here’s the official synopsis for the new episode of Superman & Lois, which is appropriately titled “The Eradicator.” “Lois (Elizabeth Tulloch) is worried about Jordan (Alex Garfin) as he and Sarah (Inde Navarrette) continue to grow closer. Meanwhile, Clark (Tyler Hoechlin) pays Lana (Emmanuelle Chriqui) a visit. Lastly, Jonathan (Jordan Elsass) has been spending more and more time with John Henry (Wole Parks). Erik Valdez, Dylan Walsh and Adam Rayner also star....

Nothing means more than blood. That summarizes the entire daunting labyrinth they call The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series in more than one way. Birthed in all its juicy glory as barely more than a student film in 1974, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise has morphed, restarted and fed upon itself until there should be nothing left but a gooey heap. Yet, blood is the bond that binds and Leatherface and his large cannibalistic family are always ready to spill more of it, thus bringing us to its newest incarnation....

Like the first movie, The ABCs of Death 2 features a mix of horror vets and lesser known names. Among the filmmakers this time around are Vincenzo Natali (Splice), E.L. Katz (Cheap Thrills), Alejandro Brugues (Juan of the Dead), Larry Fessenden (The Last Winter), Rodney Ascher (Room 237), Jen and Sylvia Soska (American Mary), Julien Maury and Alexander Bustillo (Inside) and many others, their countries of origin ranging from the U....

With his intensely disfigured facial scars and green hair he stands a long way from either Joaquin Phoenix’s Oscar winning Mistah J or the one portrayed by Jared Leto in Suicide Squad. He even has little in common with the last Joker to have a major appearance in a Batman movie, the unforgettable Heath Ledger. But that is unmistakably the Joker who consoles Paul Dano’s Riddler about his plan going sideways, just as it’s unmistakably Barry Keoghan giving a very Barry Keoghan-like spin on the character....

It feels important to remind fans of that fact given some seem agitated on social media that The Batman failed to do Spidey numbers. But while that total might indicate a disparity between the current popularity of the Bat and Spider, The Batman is nevertheless only the second movie to open north of $100 million since the COVID-19 pandemic first crippled cinemas back in March 2020, and it is also the biggest tentpole theater owners have seen in the first quarter of 2022....

What would’ve made the gaming year ever better? Big-name video game companies could have done more to eliminate development crunch and be more transparent about their business practices with customers and the press. And we definitely could have all been nicer to each other. But video games also helped keep us connected when we couldn’t see our friends and loved ones in person. They helped us travel to new and interesting places when we couldn’t leave our homes....

Temuera Morrison’s manifestation as Boba Fett fulfils a franchise destiny, with the actor having played the cloned character’s genetic template father, Jango Fett, in 2002 Star Wars Prequel Trilogy middle act Attack of the Clones, in which Daniel Logan played a child Boba. Poetically, Boba’s adult arc on The Mandalorian Season 2 saw the bounty hunter building himself back to form from his horrific, anti-climactic, identity-stripping tumble into the Sarlacc’s massive maw....

Although the show certainly has moments where it feels like little more than a parody of our current superhero obsessed culture, The Boys is smart and insightful as a whole, tackling complicated and messy issues like the rise of extremism in America, the perils of celebrity culture, the risks of unchecked capitalism and more. So, it probably shouldn’t come as such a shock when it’s the series’ women who actually turn out to be its best characters....

Deviating from the Marvel formula a bit, the ending of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier isn’t designed to leave viewers with many questions. There is only one, quite brief, post-credit scene that falls well short of the Nick Fury “Avengers Initiative” watermark. Before that, Sam Wilson a.k.a. Falcon a.k.a. Captain America basically articulates all of the series’ themes in great detail with an extended monologue to the world at large like he was Stan Marsh at the end of an early season South Park episode....

The Flash Season 4 Episode 14 It’s one step forward and two steps back for Team Flash this week, where the gang figures out a piece of the Devoe puzzle, but at great cost. It’s also a time for the supporting characters to shine, with Ralph, Harry, and Cecile stepping into the spotlight for a while. It’s no real surprise that Captain Singh put Barry on indefinite leave, but considering Barry is one of the few heroes who is as passionate about his day job as he is about his off-hours gig, it’s heartbreaking nonetheless....

The Flash Season 8 Episode 11 There are many things we all know to be true about The Flash. Barry Allen is the fastest man alive. Eobard Thawne will never really die. The rules of time travel are whatever the show needs them to be in any given episode. And Caitlin Snow will get her heart broken in every possible way imaginable. This poor girl simply cannot catch a break in any season or reality, so it probably shouldn’t surprise us that the hinted return of her dead husband would end in the worst way possible for her....

Whether it’s Antoine Fuqua and Disney’s questionable choice to produce a King Arthur movie without any of the actual magic or fantasy that made those legends enduring, or Guy Ritchie’s bizarre attempt to turn Arthurian archetypes into another boys-will-be-boys gangster movie—but now with medieval chainmail!—Hollywood has lately tried a little too hard to reinvent the wheel. That’s why The Green Knight trailer is so refreshingly weird. Yet that doesn’t make it unfaithful to the source material....