A Critical Eye on the Art We Love
Star Wars seems to have found a sure-fire formula for telling incredibly well-crafted stories set in this universe, exploring the origin stories of supporting characters that no one knew they …
MAUL – SHADOW LORD: Sam Witwer & Wagner Moura Shine in a Mature, Character-Driven Star Wars Showcase Read More
Matka King is Prime Video’s newest original Bollywood series. The show sees the evolution of a basic card-draw game that pioneers the concept of legal gambling and lotteries in India. …
MATKA KING Is Amazon Prime’s Bad Bollywood Bet That Fails to Deliver High-Stakes Drama Read More
The following contains spoilers from The Rookie Season 8, Episode 12, “Spy Games” which debuted on ABC March 23, 2026, and is now streaming on Hulu. After two episodes centered …
The Rookie Plays Spy Games and Returns to Form With a Classic Over-the-Top Episode Read More
Note: This was originally written and published on a now-defunct site for the tenth anniversary of the Avengers release. Some years ago, when I was revisiting the Marvel Studios films …
Avengers After 10 Years Review – The Legacy of the Movie that Codified the MCU Read More
The hype leading up to the first MCU team-up film was nowhere near the level the hype leading up to Endgame has reached. Still, at the time, The Avengers was …
Assembling the Avengers Was An Impossible Task, But Marvel Studios Did It Perfectly – Retro Review Read More
In 2011, the modern superhero genre turned a decade-old, and it had been 33 years since Christopher Reeve donned the tights and cape to play Superman. By this point in …
Captain America: The First Avenger Is Part War Movie, Part Homage, and an Underappreciated Superhero Classi Read More
Every Phase 1 Marvel film represents a huge gamble by the studio, but if they were ever going to fall flat on their faces, it would have been with the …
The Thor Film Was Marvel’s Make-It or Break-It Moment That Leaned On Shakespearean Street Cred Read More
After the first two films in the newly-minted Marvel Cinematic Universe, moviegoers had to wait a full two years for the next installment. By 2010, the Avengers film (preceded by …
Iron Man 2 Gets a Lot of Hate, But It Does Everything It Needs To Do and More Read More
People love to rank movies in lists from “best” to “worst,” but those labels aren’t really very constructive. Yet, any such list of the 22 movies in the Marvel Cinematic …
The Incredible Hulk Isn’t “Bad,” It Just Sacrificed Its Characters Stories for Runtime Read More
Shortly before Star Trek: The Original Series ended, animation studio Filmation pitched NBC for a cartoon series set in the show’s universe featuring younger characters serving on the USS Enterprise. …
Starfleet Academy Is Star Trek That’s Worth Your Time (and Has Room to Grow) Read More