Indiana Jones and the Dial of Diminishing Returns?
James Wortman Indiana Jones came out of retirement for one last adventure on June 30 for James Mangold’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, a film rife with nostalgia in Disney’s…
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The DCEU Goes Across the Bat-Verse with ‘The Flash’
Nostalgia is a powerful tool in the era of the “Legacy Sequel.” From Star Wars to Spider-Man to Jurassic World to Ghostbusters, franchises are banking on millennials’ intense desire to…
Why ‘Spider-Verse’ Might Become One of Our Greatest Trilogies
I have a confession to make: I wasn’t all that excited about 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in the lead-up to its release. At the time, Marvel fans were still…
‘Mandalorian’ Musings: Was the Season 3 Finale Underwhelming?
Remember how I said that Gorian Shard was “The New Gigachad of the Star Wars Universe”? Well, seeing as how he suffered a terrible case of getting blown the f***…
‘Mandalorian’ Musings: I’m Obsessed with Gorian Shard, and I Don’t Care Who Knows It
This might surprise none of you, but I love a good Star Wars alien. As a kid I would spend way too much time rewatching Return of the Jedi’s Jabba’s…
‘The Last of Us’ and the Deceptively Long Sequel
Just like everybody else on the planet with an HBO Max account, I’m absolutely captivated by HBO’s The Last of Us, a stirring TV adaptation of Naughty Dog’s exceptional 2013…
No, I Didn’t Buy the $30 Ant-Man Popcorn Helmet
While strolling into my local AMC Theatre bright and early on a Saturday morning (10:30 a.m.) to take in an IMAX screening of Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania, I turned…
Can ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ Cure Marvel Fatigue?
I’ll preface everything I’m about to write with the fact that I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Marvel Comics fan. I hoarded the trading cards in the early ‘90s, I pretty much quit…
New Trials Await Cal Kestis in ‘Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’
I’m not ashamed to admit it: I have played through Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order no less than four times. Perhaps it’s because it was the first significant single-player Star…
‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Season 2 Trailer Features Plenty of Action, Giant Crabs
Yes, the new trailer for Star Wars: The Bad Batch has plenty going for it – quipping, explosions, cool vehicles, and Wanda Sykes – but the fact that it began…