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The following contains STar trek: discovery spoilers. Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 7 Star Trek: Discovery heads into its mid-season break with the strongest episode of Season 4 since its premiere, an hour that puts Burnham and Book at odds over foundational questions about the very things the Federation and Starfleet try to do

There was a blink, and you’ll miss it reference to Thor: Love and Thunder in Spider-Man: No Way Home. “There were so many things happening in Spider-Man: No Way Home that we probably were too overwhelmed to catch them all. From seeing Tom Holland’s Spider-Man struggle with his own life and identity to having our favorite villains

This Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett article contains spoilers. The Book of Boba Fett returns to Tatooine and a lot of familiar Star Wars sights in its premiere episode, “Stranger in a Strange Land.” As a loose spinoff of The Mandalorian, it’s possible Fett and his right-hand killer Fennec Shand will get involved

This Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett review contains spoilers. The Book of Boba Fett Episode 1 For a while now, December has been Star Wars time. With the movie slate wiped clean, this year’s holiday season premiere is the smaller scale The Book of Boba Fett, which already feels fated for a more

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but a Jeopardy! contestant is absolutely dominating the field right now.  Current champion Amy Schneider of Oakland, California is currently riding a 19-game winning streak in the venerable American quiz show. Many of those 19 victories have been absolute laughers, with Schneider leaving her opponents in the

It’s been a difficult year for the publishing industry, as global supply chain issues, as well as labor and paper shortages, have led to delays. But many wonderful and nerdy books have made it over those obstacles to make it into the world and into our eyeballs and brains. As we reflect back on 2021,

Lucasfilm had good news and bad news for Star Wars fans looking forward to new Disney+ shows this year. The bad news is that you’ll have to wait a bit longer for The Mandalorian season 3 than expected, with the new season set to film some time this fall. But like I said, there’s also

This article contains Don’t Look Up spoilers. In Don’t Look Up, the frequently searing new satire from filmmaker Adam McKay (Vice, The Big Short), astronomers Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) discover that a previously undetected comet is headed straight for Earth, with six months to go before the object slams into

Oscar-winning actor J.K. Simmons has very vivid memories of watching the classic TV sitcom I Love Lucy when he was a child. “I can’t say I remember the first time I saw it,” he recalls. “But as I’ve said before, I’m the only cast member who was born when I Love Lucy was still on

This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 6. With “Stormy Weather,” Star Trek: Discovery celebrates the Trek tradition of getting some excellent musical standards into the bold voyages in the final frontier. With Picard, it was a call back to “Blue Skies,” but now, we’ve got a new version of the

Seinfeld’s classic anti-holiday episode “The Strike” has been re-gifted so many times it is almost as annoying as the holiday itself. We’re taking a strike from Festivus, because that non-holiday was only one of the many moments Jerry and the gang destroyed festivities in ways black and white cookies could never fix. Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld),

This article contains spoilers for Hawkeye episode 6 and wider speculation about the future of the MCU. Hawkeye has finally wrapped up and it certainly ended its juggling act with a flourish. The series had so much going on that some would argue that too much was on its plate. Not only were there so

While the first full year of the Xbox Series X vs. PS5 vs. Nintendo Switch console war was impacted by delays, shortages, and other detrimental factors largely outside of anyone’s control, 2021 ended up being a surprisingly good year for games that still offered an early look at how the battle between the next-gen consoles

Warning: contains spoilers for all episodes of The Girl Before, available to stream now on BBC iPlayer. If you had to place a bet on the more likely murderer between a) a wealthy perfectionist who’s creepily obsessed with controlling women who look exactly like his dead wife, or b) some sadsack everyman who got dumped

Last September, Sony Pictures TV renewed their contract with the creators of Cobra Kai – Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg. The deal with the trio’s production imprint, Counterbalance Entertainment, runs for four years and even includes the possibility of expanding the Cobra Kai/Karate Kid universe with fresh spinoffs.  In light of that fresh

This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 10 The Simpsons are still on a roll. Season 33 episode 10 “A Made Maggie” is a Christmas football in the groin: it works on so many levels. In short, Fat Tony gets himself an invitation to be godfather to Margaret Simpson, also known

This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 4 Episode 10 The more I sit with “Ydaer Teg,” this week’s episode of Young Justice: Phantoms, the less I like it. It’s not the same unhappiness that I’ve had with the rest of this season, though that’s definitely there: I still hate the motion

Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring has several standout sequences that anyone who saw it on the big screen surely remembers. There’s the opening battle sequence; the Ringwraiths sniffing for the hobbits as they cower under a tree root; the leap across the chasm from the collapsing

George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” was released on Nov. 23, 1970, as the first single to his groundbreaking and historic solo album. The Beatles were the first band to play stadium concerts, put backwards instrumentation into songs, and the first rock band to put sitar and tamboura drones in pop rock. But Harrison’s first solo

This article contains Spider-Man: No Way Home spoilers. Who’s your favorite Spider-Man? This loaded question often says as much about the age of the person answering it as it does the actual performance they’re praising. Millennials of a certain age, as well as younger Gen-Xers, might swear on their lives it never got better than

Now that Spider-Man: No Way Home has swung its way to theaters armed with an array of revelations, it’s practically unfathomable that collaborative companies Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios envisioned anything short of its stupendous scope. However, it appears that slimmer, multiverse-deprived ideas were originally planned for the threequel during a brief period of panic

This MCU article contains MAJOR spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home. Spider-Man: No Way Home, the latest installment in the Marvel pantheon, has hit theaters, complete with an ending that is sure to reverberate across the MCU—if not because Doctor Strange has left cracks in the multiverse than in the space it will leave in

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has effectively kept its plot details covered under a magic cloak of secrecy, but the time for touting approaches, especially as its direct predecessor, Spider-Man: No Way Home, hits theaters this weekend. Consequently, a tradition for Marvel Cinematic Universe tentpole pictures has just been fulfilled with a grand

The following contains Star Trek: discovery spoilers. Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 5 After several weeks of smaller, character-based stories, Star Trek: Discovery dives right back into the apparent season-spanning question of the mysterious gravitational anomaly that is capable of destroying entire worlds. And, in doing so, it manages to – albeit briefly –

The secrets of Spider-Man: No Way Home have escaped into the ether, thanks to a plethora of advance reactions (including our own review) and even some leaks, but most moviegoers remain enthusiastically unsullied going into this weekend’s wide release. While this is arguably a testament to Sony’s ability for keeping crucial secrets, the studio originally

Your hero is only as good as your villain. That conventional bit of Hollywood wisdom has been disproved by many a superhero movie in the last decade. Nevertheless, there’s still something exciting about a comic book movie villain who does work. The kind that offers a performance as big and exciting as anything the do-gooders

While many Final Fantasy 14 players have spent most of the time since Endwalker‘s release staring at a queue screen, you will eventually get the chance to actually play this incredible expansion which means that you’re probably going to want to know a little about the best classes in the game. To be clear, Final

Anne Rice and Bram Stoker, what other writers have done more to define vampire mythology and culture? Yes, there were stories before and more to come, but Interview with the Vampire, like Dracula before it, set the template for the classic and modern immortal nocturnal narrative. Stoker’s Dracula was as much a feral creature as

One is your friendly neighborhood wall-crawler, a kid from Queens trying to juggle his life and his duty to help others. The other is the grand protector of our dimension, fighting mystical threats from throughout the multiverse. They may not sound like they complement each other on paper but, believe it or not, Spider-Man and

Even though it’s technically a sequel to 2015’s Halo 5: Guardians, Halo Infinite‘s mission was not so much to continue the story of the Reclaimer Saga and all the Cortana and Forerunner baggage that comes with it. Yes, there’s still a bit of that throughout Halo Infinite’s 10-15 hour story campaign, but the game’s main