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Just when you think the Dark Universe is finally dead, it rises from the grave in search of more audiences to disappoint and annoy. Or at least, that's what I'm taking away from Max Landis' hint on Reddit that he's currently developing a remake of the 1954 classic, Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Teen Titans and its successor Teen Titans GO! are perhaps the most fun, lighthearted and enjoyable superhero cartoons on TV, so it's always seemed a little peculiar to me that the show's fanbase is one of the most aggressively vicious and potentially violent out there. Pretty much all of this anger arises from the original Teen Titans, which was lighthearted but essentially in the same vein as the Diniverse animated shows.
This unmade James Bond screenplay about atomic robot sharks attacking Manhattan feels as if it's made of pure cocaine - and it's written by Sean Connery!
I really thought we were done with Supreme Leader Snoke after Kylo Ren bisected him in one of the most unexpected Star Wars moments in a very long time. But now we're hearing that he might return by appearing in flashbacks to his younger days. This latest report to fall off the rumor mill also comes alongside word of concept art for Star Wars: Episode IX being shown that seems to depict a young, uninjured Snoke with thinning blonde hair.
With only the minor hurdle of regulatory hearings to go, Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox looks like a done deal. The decisions being made today at the Mouse House and within Lucasfilm and Marvel Studios are going to impact upon their blockbuster movies and pop culture in general for (at minimum) the next decade, so let's take a closer look what exactly will change hands and what Disney might do with their new IP.
The first sequence of John Carpenter's original Halloween is one of the best openings in horror movie history. Shot in an impressive single take, we see a teenage couple through the eyes of a predator as he stalks around a suburban house, breaks in through a back door, creeps upstairs and commits his first murders. The sting in the tale is the reveal that this whole sequence has been from the point-of-view of a 10-year-old boy, who stares into the camera in traumatised disbelief.
I've always liked that there's a clear evolution between Luke Skywalker's costumes over the Original Trilogy. A New Hope has him in white, The Empire Strikes Back finds him in grey and Return of the Jedi allowed him to complete his monochromatic journey in black. Now, it seems that Rey's set to undergo a similar costume-based transformation in Star Wars: Episode IX, with insiders promising that it'll be like nothing we've seen in the franchise before and that it'll surprise fans.
The comic book movie community has been talking about little else these last few days than the rumors that Fox is on the verge of cancelling their two upcoming X-Men films: The New Mutants and Dark Phoenix. The source - an anonymous poster on the SuperHeroHype forums - claims that both productions are spiraling into disaster and that the studio's looking to cut their losses and just cancel the projects. Their decision to do this will no doubt be made a little easier by the almost certitude of Disney acquiring 21st Century Fox and with it the X-Men IP.
Every time Jon Favreau turns up as Happy Hogan in the MCU, I get a warm fuzzy feeling deep inside. So when I realized that, once the New York-based scenes were finished in Avengers: Infinity War we were very unlikely to see Happy pop up on Titan or taking part in the battle of Wakanda, I was a little let down. Surely if there's time for so many other heroes in such an expansive movie, we can also find a little time for Tony Stark's frustrated yet affably normal bodyguard and friend, right?