“Ensemble crews are one of the quickest and most powerful ways to forge a found family. A foundational example for me was Blake’s 7,” says Paul Cornell, who has written stories for the Star Trek: Year Five comic series among his many speculative fiction credits. “They haven’t been recruited, they have relative degrees of distance from the cause, they’ve been flung together. The most important thing is that they’re all very different people....

“Peter, I promise you, I won’t turn into a supervillain and try to kill you.” That Spider-Man: No Way Home line by Peter Parker’s pal, Ned Leeds, was a red flag waved to comic-savvy moviegoers about the character’s potentially villainous future as the Hobgoblin. However, it bolsters an idea that has become comics’ equivalent of the Mandela Effect, falsely implying that Ned Leeds was the real Hobgoblin. Yet, the character’s complicated comic history seems destined to inspire consequential connections for Ned in Spider-Man 4, which is already confirmed to be the first of a new movie trilogy for Tom Holland’s Wall-Crawler....

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Episode 8 “To me, a Star Trek movie is one where you’re telling a story so big that it can only be on the big screen,” Star Trek: Lower Decks showrunner McMahan tells us.. “But it doesn’t have to be self-important. It doesn’t have to broadcast all the things that proclaim what Star Trek has to be at all times. I think Star Trek can carry its own legendary status and that’s when you get a Star Trek movie that maybe thinks it’s all-important when all it had to be was just Star Trek....

Even so, there are elements in the second Back to the Future that still play like gangbusters today, particularly in the sequences set during 2015. To be sure, part of the charm now is what those wild guesses about the future got wrong—such as the idea we’d all be driving around in flying cars, or even simply own cheap cars that didn’t run on fossil fuels. There were no real hover boards in 2015 (or 2021 for that matter), nor even automated Texaco pumps....

Santa doesn’t get special treatment in the first episode of season 1, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire,” which was titled onscreen as “The Simpsons Christmas Special.” The episode premiered on Dec. 17, 1989, when the world still treated Father Christmas with respectful kid’s gloves. “There’s only one fat guy that brings us presents and his name ain’t Santa,” says Bart, who never wears mittens, not even in winter. Little did he know, but his father would live up to that bit of foreshadowing in ways no one, except for writer Mimi Pond, could have seen coming....

And the star obliged them recently when he donned Logan’s fabled adamantium claws on a Broadway stage. So to speak. In a moment that went viral over the weekend, especially after Jackman shared it, a fan at the curtain call of The Music Man in the Winter Garden Theatre had good enough seats to catch Jackman’s eye when he brought along a foam set of Wolverine’s claws. Ever an actor who knows how to work a crowd—Jackman’s first Tony came from the semi-improvisational role of Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz—Jackman had those claws brought up on stage and happily put them on....

Sketch comedy has gone through endless permutations that have ultimately turned the medium into one of our most subversive and digestible forms of humor. Sketch comedy can placate the mainstream or go so far in the opposite direction it makes anti-comedy blush. Sketch comedy can embrace its inherent lack of a larger narrative or push the form to break boundaries with other sketch series that thrive on structure and connective tissue....

A viewer could be forgiven then, for approaching a drama about a cohort of graduate interns at a top London investment bank in a spirit of mean-hearted glee. What knobbers has the show lined up for us to loathe? Will it be all burning £50 notes in front of homeless people, doing bumps off the face of a Philippe Patek and high-fiving over sex workers’ backs, or just mostly that?...

“This product cannot be shipped to the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, or Washington due to power consumption regulations adopted by those states. Any orders placed that are bound for those states will be canceled.” In this statement released to The Register, Dell confirmed that these shipment restrictions were enacted in response to power consumption laws imposed by California and other states: “Yes, this was driven by the California Energy Commission (CEC) Tier 2 implementation that defined a mandatory energy efficiency standard for PCs – including desktops, AIOs, and mobile gaming systems....

Reeves isn’t proactively campaigning for an MCU role, but the idea of potentially tackling one has created quite a conversation. The actor sat down for Esquire on the cusp of a lengthy published interview piece on his illustrious career and the imminent release of The Matrix revival, the fourth feature film of a franchise that has been dormant since 2003’s The Matrix Revolutions wrapped its initial trilogy. Yet, Reeves seems more than amenable to the idea of heading to the MCU, especially as his backlog of ongoing John Wick sequels could see that franchise run its course....

Riverdale Season 6 Episode 8 “Thus began the battle for Riverdale’s soul…” With Hiram Lodge well and truly dead (for now at least), Riverdale‘s search for a new Big Bad has yielded the arrival of Percival Pickens (Chris O’Shea), a mysterious stranger who has family ties to one of the town’s darkest periods. After initially showing up two weeks ago looking to buy the Andrews house — an offer which Archie refused with a stern “no way, bro” — Percival has been sniffing around town, trying to figure out the interpersonal relationships of the townspeople and pretty much figuring out right away all the shady shit that goes on in this supposedly ideal community....

It Chapter Two is the culmination of the most ambitious Stephen King adaptation to date. Director Andy Muschietti brings the Losers’ grand adventure to a close 27 years after their first confrontation with Pennywise the Clown, the monster who has brought down unimaginable horrors upon the town of Derry, Maine. In the second installment, the grown-up Losers’ Club must revisit their pasts, relive traumas they’d hidden away, and come face to face with King’s most terrifying villain for the last time....

Despite what internet memes have been saying for years, it turns out Pennywise the Dancing Clown was not an ally or supporter of LGBTQ causes. This should not come as a shock, yet for many, the level of bruality the child-eating space clown reserved for a gay character in It Chapter Two’s opening was nothing short of horrifying. As the introduction to a sprawling finale of Stephen King’s ode to childhood joys and traumas, and the adults who repress both, this amount of cruelty is glaringly uncomfortable, even for those who had been prepared by a novel that’s even more steeped than the movies in the agony of hate and the suffering it ferments....

Not only does The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special give us an entertaining forty-four minutes of Guardians holiday hijinx, it also gives valuable insight into what the squad has been up to after Thor (Chris Hemsworth) left them at the beginning of Thor: Love and Thunder. Groot (Vin Diesel) is now a young adult, Kraglin (Sean Gunn) still doesn’t know how to use the arrow Yondu (Michael Rooker) left him, and Mantis (Pom Klemintiff) is Peter’s (Chris Pratt) sister....

One of the biggest differences is the return of Jared Leto as the Joker for Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Leto played the Joker in just one film, 2016’s Suicide Squad. It was a controversial portrayal, primarily because of the visual choices that were made with the character, bringing audiences an unexpectedly tattooed and grilled Clown Prince of Crime. But Leto recently returned to film new footage as the Joker for “The Snyder Cut,” and while it’s still not clear just how large his role in the movie will be (probably not very), we might be getting something a little different this time....

Directed from a screenplay Carpenter co-wrote with Debra Hill and Russell, Escape from L.A. concludes with Snake Plissken pressing the button on the biggest remote control ever made. Every screen, all communications, and total power is cut. It is one of the biggest cliffhangers because, after an apparent off-screen debacle in Cleveland and two urban prison breaks, Snake hits the reset button on humanity, and there seems to be nowhere left to go....

Superheroes have a long history. After flying onto the scene more than eight decades ago, led by Superman, along with fellow octogenarians Batman, Wonder Woman, and Captain America, the pantheon of capes-and-tights characters has expanded to include countless more. And as legendary creators made their mark across decades, the origins and powers of these icons transformed almost as frequently as their costumes. Meanwhile, the superhero team The Union, from the comic book saga Jupiter’s Legacy, have 90 years of consistent fictional history, with a singular overarching story, envisioned by one man: Mark Millar....

Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment have officially pushed back the release date of the third film in the Jurassic World Trilogy to June 10, 2022, moving it from the previously set release date of June 11, 2021. The move occurs the same week in which fellow studio giant Warner Bros. made a 2022 shift of its own for DC movie reboot The Batman, and took its December 2021-slated Black Adam off the schedule, presumably destined for 2022 as well....

Heralded as the “epic conclusion of the Jurassic era,” the trailer nonetheless appears to tease a whole new era for this franchise that’s ready to begin as soon as we meet everyone’s favorite velociraptor: Blue. The carnivorous dinosaur won hearts and minds for a species of predators that was the essential villain in the 1993 classic movie which started it all. But the determined pluck and loyalty of Blue, the biggest raptor raised from birth by gamesman Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), won folks over—especially after she teamed up with Owen and no less than a T....

The Justice League movie certainly leaves the DC Extended Universe in a different place than it found it. Aside from doing its best to restore a sense of hope and optimism to the DCEU, and the obvious implications of Superman’s return, it hints at a landscape that should feel more familiar to DC Comics fans overall. Granted, that’s all a little out there. But there are more concrete indications that we’re getting a different kind of DCEU from now on....