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Directed by Jake Schreier, Thunderbolts* sees one hell of a mishmash MCU team…wait for it…assemble (every time). The lineup of shadow operatives and contract killers here is huge: Black Widow‘s Red Guardian (David Harbour), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), and Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier‘s Bucky Barnes …

On February 11, 2024, over 123 million viewers tuned in to Super Bowl LVIII. The team at New Rockstars, a YouTube channel that analyzes and dissects geek culture, were among those glued to their TVs. Their attention was not on the football game, or even on Taylor Swift’s highly publicized …

It’s been a long time since Comic-Con International attendees have encountered the convention they once knew. The excitement. The lines. The smell (IYKYK). In 2020 the event was canceled because of Covid-19. The following year there were some special virtual events, but no throngs of fans in cosplay delighted to …

On its surface, Marvel’s new “immersive story” What If…?, available to Apple Vision Pro users starting Thursday, seems like a win-win. Marvel gets to mess around with how to combine storytelling and spatial computing, and Apple gets a big-name experience to appease everyone who ponied up $3,500 for their new …

Forty-seven years ago today, everything changed. True believers might already know what it was: On May 25, 1977, Star Wars hit movie theaters and irrevocably altered nearly everything pertaining to the act of moviegoing. Lines around the block, overly excited nerds, an appetite for action figures. Star Wars taught Hollywood …

There is a distinct moment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe when Black Widow became a hero for the everyfan. It happens early in 2012’s The Avengers: She’s tied to a chair. Agent Coulson calls. A nondescript military leader who has been interrogating her hands her the phone. Coulson explains that …

“Netflix” was always a bit of a misnomer. In a well-worn piece of Silicon Valley lore, cofounder Reed Hastings once said, “There’s a reason we didn’t call the company DVD-by-Mail.com,” noting that the service was always meant to evolve into a streaming platform. In choosing that moniker—rather than, say, Netshowz—the …

Repression was survival for Jane Schoenbrun. In their tidy, suburban enclave of Ardsley, New York, television was where they went to escape from the margins of reality. It was the 1990s, a golden age of TV. Supernatural dramas Twin Peaks and The X-Files were appointment viewing, and Schoenbrun was obsessed …

Lanny Smoot builds lightsabers for a living. No, not like the ones kids used to create with flashlights and plastic tubes—realistic extendable ones, with penumbral edges and laser-blocking abilities. Like an actual Jedi. He’s whipped up giant electromagnetic eyes, too, as well as an omnidirectional HoloTile floor, which adapts to …

As with most movie commercials that dropped during Super Bowl 2024, the new trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine was only advertised with a teaser. Makes sense considering trailers are usually a couple minutes and Big Game ads are decidedly 30-second spots. But there was a different reason it was only …