Tag: sci-fi
Why We Have a Hulk
When Marvel’s The Avengers finally stormed theaters in 2012, it was met with near-universal acclaim. Everyone had their favorite characters and moments, but the one who seemed to get the most attention was the Hulk. Unlike the earlier cinematic incarnations of the not-so-gentle giant, this was a B...
Read MoreFive Things Independence Day: Resurgence Does Better Than The Force Awakens
When I saw Independence Day: Resurgence last week, I was struck by how just how competent it is. That sounds like faint praise, but this a sequel that kind of has no right existing from a creative standpoint, so it could easily have coasted on nostalgia for the original (like, say, Jurassic World), ...
Read MoreAmandla Stenberg Makes a Music Video And… Yeah…
Amandla Stenberg, the star of the new Star Wars show The Acolyte, is striking back at people who don’t like the show – or people “flooding [her] with intolerant racism.” Yesterday, in honor of Juneteenth, Stenberg released a music video online, one she says she made in 72 hours, and it was...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Acolyte – Season 1, Episode 4, “Day”
***SPOILERS*** In “Day,” Osha says goodbye to Jecki. Mae and Qimir arrive on Khofar. Vernestra finds out who Mae has targeted and discusses it with several Jedi. Vernestra tells Sol and the others not to tell the Council. Sol enlists Osha to join the Jedi as they travel to Khofar, Kelnacca’s h...
Read MoreLionsgate Will Distribute Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis
A Hollywood legend is finally getting his passion project released. Francis Ford Coppola, the director of, to name a few, The Godfather and its sequels, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, has been trying to get a sci-fi epic called Megalopolis made since 1983, and he fi...
Read MoreEntertainment Media Attacks Nerdrotic, The Critical Drinker, and Fans in General Over The Acolyte
The entertainment media is taking up defensive positions around The Acolyte, and they’re coming for anyone who doesn’t like it… which appears to be pretty much everyone outside of the entertainment media. Looper targeted Nerdrotic and the Critical Drinker in a video which has since been taken ...
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