Warner Bros and James Gunn are continuing their partnership, this time on the small screen. Peacemaker, which is spinning out of last year’s The Suicide Squad, has premiered on the HBO Max streaming service with three raunchy, ultra-violent episodes returning John Cena to the titular role–and, surprising no one, he …
Read More »James Gunn Talks Peacemaker's Glam Rock Soundtrack (And Those Opening Credits)
Writer/director James Gunn’s hallmark style is well known for its musical stylings. Sure, the humor and the ensemble casts get plenty of love as well, but the soundtracks are guaranteed to stick out. So it’s unsurprising that his latest DC project, Peacemaker, which spun out of his 2021 film The …
Read More »TV Show Of The Year 2021 – Midnight Mass
There are certain tropes in horror that are so deeply ingrained in pop culture it becomes hard to do anything new with them–and for the most part, this is totally fine. Not every story about a zombie apocalypse or a tortured werewolf has to reinvent the wheel. But at the …
Read More »Spider-Man: No Way Home Ending And Post-Credits Scenes Explained
The MCU has had a banner 2021 with more releases across more platforms and mediums than ever before and it’s all coming to a head with Spider-Man: No Way Home, the third movie in the Spider-Man arm of the Sony/Marvel partnership and, arguably, the most highly anticipated Marvel movie of …
Read More »Showtime's Yellowjackets Is A Modern Heir To Lost
Back in the mid-’00s, before streaming services began to dominate the television landscape, households around the world would tune in week-to-week for ABC’s Lost–a survival mystery that ran for six years and dominated the pop culture landscape for most of them. It wasn’t that Lost itself was a particularly novel …
Read More »Hawkeye Has Finally Paid Off That Black Widow Post Credits Scene
Earlier this year, the intensely delayed Black Widow solo movie hit Disney+. It was set predominantly in the past, between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, for good reason, considering Black Widow’s death in Avengers: Endgame–but there was one notable exception. In the post-credits scene, we were treated …
Read More »So, Why Is Hawkeye A Christmas Show?
The MCU TV show slate on Disney+ has given Marvel Studios the opportunity to explore some of the many heroes in the shared universe who haven’t had a chance to stand in the spotlight. Thus far, shows like Wandavision, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, and Loki have taken great …
Read More »How Hawkeye Could Be Introducing The Netflix Marvel Universe To The MCU
With Hawkeye on Disney+ already hitting the half-way point and Spider-Man: No Way Home just around the corner, the MCU’s banner 2021 is gearing up to close out the year with a bang–and, as it turns out, all those theories the internet has been collectively melting down over with regard …
Read More »Netflix's Cowboy Bebop Is About Memory, Both For The Characters And The Viewers
If you grew up in the USA and are between the ages of twenty and forty, there’s a good chance the title Cowboy Bebop inspires a few key memories in your head–staying up late, tuning into Toonami’s Adult Swim block, dub voice actors like Steve Blum, Beau Billingslea, and Wendee …
Read More »Is Ed In Netflix's Cowboy Bebop Series?
One of the burning questions fans found themselves asking as the promotional material for Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop began dropping was: Where’s Ed? The orange-haired, eccentric hacker from the anime is not only a fan favorite, but a core member of the Bebop crew after having joined the bounty hunting …
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