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The Umbrella Academy‘s Season 2 Time Jump Into the Past Is Also a Major Step Forward
At first glance, the plot of Umbrella Academy’s upcoming second season might seem as if it were torn right out of the pages of Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s second volume of the Dark Horse comic. After narrowly avoiding an apocalypse, the Hargreeves siblings all become entangled in a series of events leading up to … Continued
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A Wishbone Movie Will Bring the Literary Pup’s Historical Adventures to the Big Screen
Not all kids are interested in history and classic literature, but most kids are very interested in adorable dogs. The 1990s PBS series Wishbone cleverly melded the two, offering both an educational experience and a chance to see a Jack Russell terrier embrace each episode’s theme in full costume. It’s a winning formula, and it’ll … Continued
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The Visually Stunning Green Knight Movie Has Been Turned Into a Throwback RPG
Back in February, when we all still thought movies might be coming out, we were dazzled by our first look at David Lowery’s The Green Knight, which cast Dev Patel in a dark Arthurian fantasy. We have no idea when we’ll get to see the film—but the studio’s letting us explore a little part of … Continued
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In The Rain’s Season 3 Trailer, Humanity Will Either Survive or Become the Virus
Talk about an untested vaccine. In the debut trailer for the third and final season of Netflix’s The Rain, the man who controls the most deadly virus in history plans to infect the rest of the world so they can all be like him. But is succumbing to the disease actually a cure, or does … Continued
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Watchmen‘s Rorschach Lives in a New DC Black Label Series from Tom King and Jorge Fornés
With HBO’s Watchmen and DC Comics’Doomsday Clock event both wrapped up, the world of stories set in a universe that was once devastated by a telepathic squid has gone quiet as of late, but that’s all about to change in a new Rorschach comics series penned by Tom King with illustrations from Jorge Fornés and Clayton … Continued
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Updates From Loki’s Disney+ Series, Stargirl, and More
The increasingly ill-advised coronavirus thriller produced by Michael Bay continues to add to its cast. Tenet gets a runtime for whenever it actually shows up in theaters. Plus, HBO Max gives us a brief glimpse of Raised By Wolves, Lovecraft Country, and His Dark Materials season two, and Kelly Marie Tran returns to genre with … Continued
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The 22 Can’t-Miss Panels of Comic-Con 2020 (at Home)
If you’re looking for a positive spin to the horror show that is 2020 here’s one: Everyone is going to San Diego Comic-Con. That’s because, of course, actual San Diego Comic-Con was canceled due to the covid-19 pandemic. In its place is Comic-Con @ Home, a wholly virtual recreation of the convention, its panels, events, … Continued
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The Adventure Zone TV Show May Feature a New Voice Cast
The novel coronavirus pandemic may have slowed down television production across the world, but animation is one area where things are still happening. The McElroy brothers are hard at work on the pilot for Peacock’s The Adventure Zone animated series—a show that may come with a few surprises, including a potential new voice cast. The … Continued
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Marvel’s Helstrom Sure Looks Like a Show That Exists
At one point Hulu seemed like it was going to be bursting at the seams with Marvel shows. Ghost Rider, Howard the Duck, you name it. But in the end, after all those shows were hack and slashed with Wolverine-like rage, only a select few remained. One is Helstrom and its first photos are now … Continued
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Spider-Man 2 Is a Perfect Sequel
So many follow-ups to successful movies stumble as they chase spectacle at the cost of forgetting what really made their predecessor work in the first place. Sam Raimi’s sophomore Spider-Man movie aimed much higher and bigger than his first movie ever could, in part because of just how keenly it understood Marvel’s mightiest hero. In … Continued
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Author Colin Dickey on Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, and Other Strange Realms of The Unidentified
Colin Dickey, author of Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places, is back with another excellent non-fiction exploration of the unusual. The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained is a fascinating read, so we called up the author to talk more about it. Cheryl Eddy, io9: Your previous book, Ghostland, … Continued
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The Power Rangers Comics Are Relaunching With a Mysterious New Green Ranger
Boom Studio’s myriad Power Rangers comics have spent the past few years giving us a radically expanded take on the life and times of the original—and arguably most beloved—ranger team. But later this year, everything’s going to change for our Mighty Morphin’ heroes… while their foes are surprisingly familiar. Boom Studios has announced that its … Continued
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How the Frozen 2 Documentary Shows Us More Disney Drama Than We’re Used To
Nothing bad ever happens at Disney. Or, at least, that’s the message the family-friendly company leads people to believe. You very rarely see or read raw, behind-the-scenes coverage from the mega-corporation because everything there is so carefully packaged. And that’s precisely why the new Disney+ show, Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II, comes as such … Continued
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The Sexist Legacy in Star Trek’s Progressive Universe
In the fourth episode of Star Trek: Picard, a familiar face storms onto the scene. With plenty of legacy characters, this might just be another day at the (space) office. But this is Seven of Nine, beloved, iconic, even more badass than she was during her time on Voyager—and she was always pretty badass. “You … Continued
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Gina Prince-Bythewood Says Her Work on Silver & Black Helped Her Ace The Old Guard
Sony may have passed on Silver & Black, one of several planned Spider-Man spinoffs, but director and co-writer Gina Prince-Bythewood said the information she got from working on that since-canceled project was invaluable. It helped her land Netflix’s The Old Guard, which has catapulted her career and possibly launched a new comic book movie franchise. … Continued
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Sean Bean’s Snowpiercer Identity Has Been Revealed
Somehow there are still Stephen King stories left to adapt. Netflix wants to bring Atomic Blonde 2 to life. Hanna’s back for season three at Amazon. The Michael Bay-produced coronavirus thriller adds a Riverdale star. Plus, potential good news for Space Force, and what’s to come on NOS4A2. Spoilers, go! Songbird THR reports Riverdale’s KJ … Continued
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Lego’s Buildable Nintendo Entertainment System Is a Perfect Storm of Childhood Nostalgia
To coincide with Lego’s playable Super Mario sets arriving on August 1, the company has expanded its partnership with Nintendo to create what appears to be a near perfect brick-built replica of the original NES console, complete with a controller, a loadable game cartridge, and an old school tube TV with Super Mario Bros. playing … Continued
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Everyone Agrees: Velma Is Gay
The reports have come back, and it’s official. Velma is gay. Studio meddling may have watered it down or kept things “vague” to avoid angry emails. But everyone, including Scooby Doo movie writer James Gunn, is here to say that Velma likes women and also she has really cool clothes. Gunn revealed on Twitter that Velma … Continued
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The Old Guard Turns Immortality Into Something Worth Living For
Director Gina Prince Bythewood’s adaptation of Image Comics’The Old Guard is a movie that asks you to really reflect on what it is about superheroes and their stories that keeps us coming back. Rather than fully trying to reinvent the comic book movie, The Old Guard instead takes hallmarks of the genre and uses them … Continued