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This article contains SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME spoilers. “Peter, I promise you, I won’t turn into a supervillain and try to kill you.” That Spider-Man: No Way Home line by Peter Parker’s pal, Ned Leeds, was a red flag waved to comic-savvy moviegoers about the character’s potentially villainous future as the Hobgoblin. However, it bolsters

I Love Lucy remains the single most influential series in television history; there is perhaps not a single sitcom in the medium’s long existence that doesn’t owe some stylistic debt to the program, and its creation and development were groundbreaking in ways that we are still trying to catch up with in 2021. Yet the

Ever wonder how late-night gaming sessions impact adult sleep patterns? Renowned sleep doctor Dr. Michael Breus put together five things adults need to know about the effects of video games on sleep. “Gaming late at night and/or close to bedtime is likely to be mentally and physically stimulating and counterproductive to sleep. Keep games out

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

It appears reports of the COVID pandemic dampening audiences’ appetites for going to the cinema were greatly exaggerated. At least they were if your movie stars Spider-Man and a collection of his greatest on-screen rogues. Indeed, one imagines Sony executives are pinching themselves this weekend as the choice to do a live-action Spider-Verse movie has

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 major spoilers for The Witcher season 2. Far from resolving its many conflicts, The Witcher season 2 finale merely focused more intensely on the mystery of Ciri’s power and brought powers together to either find her or protect her. Instead of a traditional victorious ending, the final moments saw the banishment of

While we’re looking forward to celebrating the very best games of 2021 in the near future, it’s tough to paint an accurate picture of this year without also spending a little time talking about some of 2021’s biggest controversies. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that this has been an especially noteworthy year

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

In the latest edition of its Heat Vision newsletter, the Hollywood Reporter dropped a little news item saying that Warner Bros. Pictures recently test-screened two different versions of director Matt Reeves’ The Batman — one featuring a particular actor, and one without him. Although the Reporter would not say who the actor was, or what

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,

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

This article contains mild spoilers for The King’s Man. It doesn’t matter what you thought of the previous Kingsman movies directed by Matthew Vaughn. Nor is it particularly important what you think of the new film’s trailers and overall concept about a goofy spy adventure set during World War I. Believe it or not, the

For months now, the hype surrounding Spider-Man: No Way Home has been inescapable. Ever since the massive cliffhanger ending of 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, in which the MCU version of J. Jonah Jameson both framed Spider-Man for the death of Mysterio and simultaneously revealed his secret identity, fans have been wondering how Peter Parker

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

This Dexter review contains spoilers. Dexter New Blood Episode 6 Dexter Morgan and Kurt Caldwell are on a collision course. It’s not just that Iron Lake is too small for two serial killers, it’s also the fact that both men seem to be fighting for the soul of Harrison. Obviously, Dexter is conflicted with whether