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Star Trek’s Enterprise Has A New Captain, Here Are The Most Likely Candidates

With the Enterprise-F on its way to Star Trek: Picard, we make our guesses on who might be sitting in the Captain’s chair.

2 years ago

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Liv Tyler’s Captain America Return Is More Bad News For The Hulk

Liv Tyler’s return to the MCU as Betty Ross is part of a pattern of Marvel cannibalizing Hulk’s source material for other properties.

2 years ago

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Dungeons & Dragons Will Never Make A Good Movie, Here’s Why

Dungeons & Dragons will never make a good movie because the change in medium removes the player interaction that makes the property unique.

2 years ago

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Rabbit Hole Series Premiere Review: Great Mystery Burdened With Slow Pace And Brainless Marketing

Rabbit Hole’s two episode premiere delivers an intriguing mystery, but one that feels artificially slowed and whose biggest surprises are ruined by the promotional lead-up.

2 years ago

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Henry Cavill Should Be Furious At The Rock For Killing Any Chance At A Superman Return

Dwayne Johnson’s meddling killed chances for Henry Cavill to play Superman, and the Man of Steel star should be furious.

2 years ago

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Star Trek: Legacy Is The Franchise’s Only Way To Move Forward

Star Trek: Legacy – a series proposed by Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas – is exactly what the franchise’s increasingly polarized fandom needs.

2 years ago

Angel Did One Thing Better Than Buffy The Vampire Slayer 

The one thing that Angel did better than Buffy the Vampire Slayer was create a better development arc for its characters.

2 years ago

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Shrinking Season 1 Finale Review: Harrison Ford Saves A Disappointing Finale

“Closure” – Shrinking’s Season 1 finale – ties up everything it should and plants seeds for more, but should it?

2 years ago

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Super Mario Bros. Is As Bad As You Remember

Super Mario Bros was the first video game movie, and in how it abandoned the entire setting of the games, it’s also one of the worst movies of all time.

2 years ago

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Nicolas Cage Is The Only Actor Crazy Enough To Bring Back Our Greatest Monsters

Nicolas Cage should not stop at Dracula, but play all the Universal Monsters.

2 years ago

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Captain Kirk Returns To Star Trek In The Worst Way

“Bounty,” the latest episode of Star Trek: Picard, reveals that for some unknown reason Section 31 has been storing James T. Kirk’s corpse for decades.

2 years ago

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Star Trek’s Changelings Are Becoming Borg?

We have a theory that Jack Crusher inherited his father’s connection to the Borg, and that the Changelings are hunting him to use his his genetic code to recreate a new version of The Great Link.

2 years ago

Marvel Will Always Be Better Than DC In One Area: Video Games

Marvel’s video games, from X-Men the Arcade Game to Spider-Man 2, are better than DC’s versions that, with one exception, fail to capture the characters properly.

2 years ago

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Marvel’s Most Useless Upcoming Series Needs To Be Canceled

Marvel Zombies, the spin-off of What If…? about a universe filled with flesh-eating monsters, has no actual reason to be made.

2 years ago

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The Best Mandalorian Hero Needs To Do One Thing To Save The Series

Opinion Editor Michileen Martin argues that in order for The Mandalorian to continue to grow, Grogu has to finally speak.

2 years ago

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Mr. Freeze Deserves To Finally Be In A Great Batman Movie

Mr. Freeze is Batman’s most nuanced and tragic villain, but has never gotten a great feature film portrayal.

2 years ago

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The Mandalorian Preparing To Replace Pedro Pascal?

Opinion editor Michileen Martin theorizes The Mandalorian’s third season may be preparing us for Katee Sackhoff to replace Pedro Pascal as the primary protagonist of the series.

2 years ago

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Quentin Tarantino Directed CSI’s Best Episodes

Quentin Tarantino directed the CSI Season 5 two-parter, “Grave Danger,” the best episodes in the history of the series and they have his fingerprints all over them.

2 years ago

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There Hasn’t Been A Truly Great Vampire Movie Since What We Do In The Shadows

With Renfield on the way, we look at what was previously the best vampire flick of the last ten years – What We Do in the Shadows.

2 years ago

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Star Trek Should Learn One Important Lesson From Disney’s Star Wars

Star Trek should adopt Star Wars’ strategy of cross-pollination of its media.

2 years ago

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Yellowjackets Needs To Learn From The X-Files’ Biggest Mistakes

Yellowjackets needs to avoid the mistake The X-Files made by alienating viewers with constantly delayed answers.

2 years ago

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Bill Paxton Was Every Sci-Fi Franchise’s Secret Weapon

Bill Paxton’s ability to play clowns in serious science fiction made those movies feel somehow more real.

2 years ago

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The Dennis Quaid Sci-Fi Drama That Needs Another Shot

The 1987 sci-fi drama Enemy Mine deserves a second look for a lot of reasons, but chiefly because of something that’s become much more relevant since it was released – the fluidity of gender.

2 years ago

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James Gunn Isn’t The Obvious Choice For Superman Director, But He’s The Right One

James Gunn can turn Superman into a human figure, rather than a distant, potentially terrifying god.

2 years ago

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This Predator Movie Is One Of The Greatest Films Of All Time, For One Huge Reason

Opinion Editor and animal lover Michileen Martin argues one of the many reasons Prey is a magnificent film is that, against all odds, the dog lives.

2 years ago

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Willow Needs A Season 2 Because More People Should Be Watching It

Opinion Editor Michileen Martin argues that Willow needs to get another season so more fans get the chance to hop on board.

2 years ago

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DC Should Finally Release Batgirl, Here’s Why

Our writer argues there is no good reason for DC to keep the Batgirl movie under wraps.

2 years ago

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Star Trek Could Have Just Fixed Deep Space Nine’s Biggest Mistake

Our Opinion Editor presents a theory that the revelation in the most recent episode of Star Trek: Picard that the Changelings are now part-solid could fix the Deep Space Nine story in which the late Rene Auburjonois’ Odo becomes solid.

2 years ago

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Star Trek Should Bring Us To The Post-Nemesis Time Period

Of all the times Star Trek could return to in a future project, our writer argues the period immediately following 2002’s Star Trek: Nemesis would be ideal.

2 years ago

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Netflix Needs To Release Seasons One Episode Per Week

Netflix’s season release plan, splitting seasons into two bing-able halves, results in shows being discussed and enjoyed for less time while making it hard for fans to avoid spoilers.

2 years ago