Mason Downey

James Gunn On Making Vigilante So Horrifying In Peacemaker

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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