Fandoms are funny things. For every group of people who love a particular movie or TV series and can’t wait to see more of it, there’s usually a large sub-section who just want it to be left alone. But in the entertainment industry, expanding or revisiting successful IP has become a relentless, cash-hunting task for all the major studios so, more often than not, it’s the part of the fandom who are nostalgic for further adventures starring their favorite characters who will end up being sated....

Ms. Marvel Episode 1 Kamala Khan has arrived in the MCU with her own Disney+ show introducing us to Ms. Marvel, Jersey City’s newest hero. As a canonical fangirl, there are more Easter eggs than usual in this first episode alone, with a special emphasis on Ms. Marvel’s connection to Captain Marvel. In a world where Marvel characters are on the news and there’s an Avengers fan convention for the irl heroes, there are so many references we probably won’t ever find them all, but we’re doing our best....

Throughout the myriad of instructional pages in MultiVersus, players will find references to something called “Toast.” An icon for that same item greets gamers who visit the Collection tab, and, after each match, players are even offered the option to give their opponents and allies a piece of the collectible carb. That’s nice and all, but it seems that many MultiVersus players still have a lot of questions about that strange item....

My Hero Academia Season 5 Episode 20 “‘Villain’ means one who turns nonsense into action.” Perspective is everything. One of the most satisfying aspects of My Hero Academia is that it doesn’t shy away from the fine line that can differentiate heroes and villains. The anime, by nature, makes Midoriya and the other burgeoning heroes at U.A. High its priority, but the powerful individuals within the League of Villains have also been present from the very start....

Brutal historical TV drama is a holiday from our small lives. Olden-days mud and guts are an antidote to hours spent worrying about whether we offended Justin in accounts with that .gif, or if our dog is eating a sufficiently iron-rich diet. To the modern person, the life of a warrior has an attractive simplicity: Fight. Drink. Orgy. Usurp Enemy’s Throne. Drink. Fight. Die on your feet, in the rain, screaming in slow-motion....

June will see the return of 13 Reasons Why for its fourth and final season, Queer Eye will be back for another a cathartic cryfest, a new season of F Is For Family also awaits, as do further blocks of Ryan Murphy’s The Politician and German time-bending sci-fi series, Dark. Elsewhere, Spike Lee brings a stacked cast back to Vietnam in search of lost treasure in Da 5 Bloods, while Eurovision gets the Hollywood treatment thanks to Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams, who are playing Iceland’s hopeful favourites in Netflix’s original comedy film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga....

Then the eggs happened. In season two, fans learned about Grogu’s unique appetite for cruelty. Not only did he steal a kid’s cookies and eat them in front of him, he also wasted no time feasting on the precious eggs needed to continue Frog Lady’s family line. Even after Mando told him it was wrong, Grogu continued to sneak into Frog Lady’s tank and slurp up the eggs, swallowing them whole like an insatiable predator....

The New Mutants, now available to watch on streaming, is the final outing in Fox’s eclectic X-Men film franchise. While Marvel Studios’ finally confirmed Deadpool 3 is a wild card in how it connects to anything, that’s in Disney’s hands now. Otherwise, we have 13 movies in 20 years celebrating superpowers as a metaphor for real-life prejudice. But only in the end, did the X-Men franchise really start to open up to a universe where mutants aren’t the explanation to everything outlandish....

The bad news there is that the nature of New World‘s economy means that there are few surefire ways to earn gold in this game quickly. This article does a great job of explaining the situation, but the basic problem at the moment is that the game is very stingy with currency rewards, and open-market ways to earn gold are proving to be remarkably inconsistent. While you can get around New World‘s “gold shortage” through bartering and trade, there are just certain things you’re going to need gold for at some point....

Of course, the long gap between such presentations is understandable given that the COVID-19 pandemic delayed production schedules across the industry and impacted everyone’s ability to share substantial updates about their upcoming releases. As a result, 2020 Nintendo Direct presentations were highlighted by a celebration of Super Mario‘s 35th anniversary, indie showcases, and various Super Smash Bros. updates. At least Switch owners had Animal Crossing to keep them occupied. Even still, the long wait for another Nintendo Direct presentation has sent the always wild speculation that comes with these showcases into overdrive....

The Godfather is a great movie, possibly the best ever made. Its sequel, The Godfather, Part II, often follows it in the pantheon of classic cinema, some critics even believe it is the better film. Robert Evans, head of production at Paramount in the early 1970s, wanted The Godfather to be directed by an Italian American. Francis Ford Coppola was very much a last resort. The studio’s first choice was Sergio Leone, but he was getting ready to make his own gangster epic, Once Upon a Time in America....

Wendy Byrde may sound like the name of a cutesy cartoon character, but don’t let that fool you. Inside Laura Linney’s Ozark character beats the heart of an ambitious schemer with a taste for chaos. In seasons one and two, Marty’s wife Wendy was a reluctant passenger on the Byrde family journey into money laundering for a Mexican drug cartel, but in season three, she took the wheel. It was always in her....

On the surface, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet provide everything fans expect from the franchise. Around 400 monsters to catch, train, and lead into battle? Check. The large, open-world players have been begging for? Check. Catchy music? It wouldn’t be a Pokémon game without earworms. Yet, all is not well in the world of Pokémon. Scarlet and Violet are undeniably fun games, but they suffer from quite a few flaws that can easily be attributed to the game’s open world and uninspired technical ambitions....

Prison Break Season 5 Episode 2 “I wanna order a pizza.” You know, I was ready to be much harsher on this episode than I was on the premiere but how can I hate anything with that line? Alright, so this episode slowed things down a bit. That’s understandable. The premiere had to get a lot of pieces in place so now we get to explore it all. Problem is… about half of it isn’t exactly all that engaging....

To answer that question as thoroughly as possible without diving into Psychonauts 2 spoilers, it’s going to take you about 10-12 hours to beat the game on standard settings and closer to 25 hours to 100% the game. I’ve heard people stretch those runtimes to 15 hours and 30+ hours respectively, but I’d say that it’s safer to lean towards the shorter side of the estimates if you’re trying to figure out how much time you’ll be spending with this one....

“Alex,” Rutter said. “But we can’t do it, unfortunately. That’s one of the terrible things about it. I can’t even really imagine what it’s going to be like.” Alex Trebek was about as irreplaceable as a TV personality can be. As the host and quiz master of Jeopardy! for 37 years, the Canadian entertainer was the perfect combination of studious, professional, and playful. Following Trebek’s death from pancreatic cancer in November 2020, Jeopardy!...

In short, it was a pretty cool event, and it was made even better when Congresswoman Omar took to Twitter to share a photo of her gaming PC: We’ll dive into the specifics of the build in a minute, but we should first point out that Omar’s PC is legitimately impressive. That’s not the kind of rig you keep around unless you’re planning on playing and streaming high-end PC games and ensuring that they run about as optimally as possible....

Most of the time, Resident Alien is a science fiction show that doesn’t lean all that hard into the sci-fi angle of its story. Sure, its main character is secretly an alien and the premise of the series involves him hiding that fact from those around him, but, for the most part, the stories the series choose to tell are distinctly human ones, about friendship, grief, love, and regret. And, at first at least, season 2’s “The Alien Within” seems as though it will be no different, an hour that wrestles with everything from the effects of corporatization on small-town America and the need for environmental justice to the failures of a police department that wrongly accused a widow of her husband’s murder....

The new film, which will be directed by Sebastián Lelo, reimagines the story of the Bride’s creation as less the attempt to build a “Monster’s Mate”—as she is credited in the 1935 Bride of Frankenstein movie—and more a parable about a woman finding a sense of self-realization in the modern world. It’s so modern in fact that her creator will be a wealthy tech CEO who has fastened a lady out of raw materials exclusively for himself....

It turns out that Connery, who, of course, co-starred in The Rock alongside Nicolas Cage, played an instrumental role behind the scenes during a particularly difficult time in the film’s production, as Bay reveals in his tribute to the late legend on THR. While Bay describes his own initial nervousness as a young upstart tasked with directing the no-nonsense Scottish icon, he reveals that Connery became a key ally during his well-publicized tensions with executives of Walt Disney Studios (which distributed via its Buena Vista Pictures banner), as the film’s production was running late and the coffers were dwindling....