The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 2 Review: The Perfect Storm

This review contains spoilers forThe Last of Usseason 2 episode 2. The Last of Usis no stranger to throwing emotional gut-punches. Jackson faces the perfect storm of threats in this episode. The town is preparing for a potential infected attack that ends up coming to pass in a massive way. Jesse tells her that unfortunately Joel already left with Dina (Isabela Merced). But their victory isnt without loss, both within the town and outside of it....

April 21, 2025 · 1 min · 205 words · Evelyn Stone

David Bowie’s Best Performance Came in a Jesus Movie

Martin Scorsese used David Bowie as a distant and almost sympathetic Roman to tell a unique story about Jesus. The Man Who Fell to Earth.Labyrinth.The Prestige. Even when playing real-world scientist Nikola Tesla inThe Prestige, each of these performances captured Bowies ethereal public persona. The Last Temptationcertainly takes liberties with the usual Passion Play reading. In Scorseses telling, when this Pilate even meets Christ, it is inside of the Roman governors stables....

April 19, 2025 · 2 min · 337 words · Cassandra Hayden

Doctor Who Series 15 Episode 2 Review: Lux

Warning: contains spoilers forDoctor Whoepisode Lux. Dont make me laugh! These similarities are obviously deliberate, and they make sense. Sutekh is the outlier there, but Lux, the Toymaker and Maestro all operate along broadly similar lines. Unlike Maestro, Lux isnt dragged kicking and screaming into the Doctors terrible trap. Its strange, poetic and slightly unsettling, and feels consistent with the fantastical nature of the Pantheon. The episode is also clearly having a ball playing with the possibilities of its premise....

April 19, 2025 · 2 min · 218 words · Julie Carter

Sinners: Ryan Coogler Reveals the Devil’s Bargain of America

This article containsSinners spoilers. But that was their party and their fleeting moment of escape. Its an American tragedy. Its a lot of feelings associated with our history. We go there, showing these people in their full… humanity. Cooglerrefers to the generation on the screen at the juke joint as his grandparents era. That is demonstrable in the sequence where the guitar and voice of Miles Catons Sammie conjures ghosts....

April 19, 2025 · 2 min · 254 words · Sarah Avila

The Best Opening Matches in WWE WrestleMania History

These are the WWE matches that got WrestleMania started on the right foot. With a wrestling show, the opening match can be nearly as important as the main event. Get the blood pumping and jumpstart all the energy to carry the next few hours. Here are the openers that truly started the show off right. The two put on an excellent show full of amazing ringwork and reversals. That it ended with Owen cleanly getting an upset win was the icing on the cake....

April 19, 2025 · 2 min · 342 words · Cheryl Castillo

Daredevil and Punisher Have a Much More Complicated History Than You Think

The Daredevil and Punisher rivalry goes way back before the MCU and into the pages of Marvel Comics. This article contains spoilers forDaredevil: Born Again. However, because the heroes are Matt Murdock a.k.a. Daredevil (Charlie Cox) and Frank Castle a.k.a. thePunisher(Jon Bernthal), even the team-up is pretty messy. As the two get up and brush themselves off, Daredevil gets in one last shot. Youre an asshole, Frank. Ad content continues below...

April 18, 2025 · 2 min · 312 words · Alexandria Perkins

Fantastic Four: First Steps Feels a Lot Like the Incredibles and That’s a Good Thing

Four heroes, each with amazing powers. Because, more than superheroes, these four are family. However, it also describesDisneys first superhero family, as seen in thePixarfilmThe Incredibles. First Family? Voiced by Craig T. Nelson, Mr. Incredible introduced himself to the world in a teaser released in 2003. Incredible suiting up, proudly pulling on his gloves and mask. That short clip identifies the central emotional spine of the finished movie. Written and directed byBrad Bird,The Incrediblesfinds Bob Parr in the midst of a midlife crisis....

April 18, 2025 · 1 min · 209 words · Michael Cameron

Indiana Jones on PS5: Could Microsoft Be Going the Way of Sega?

To stay viable, Microsoft needs to lean into its strengths and right now thats in software.

April 18, 2025 · 1 min · 16 words · Heather Park

New Superman Footage Features One of DC’s Weirdest Heroes

A new behind the scenes peak lets us see Metamorpho in full, and boy does he look weird. After all,The Suicide Squadpitted Z-Listers like Javelin and Bloodsport against Starro the Conqueror. MeanwhilePeacemakerreferenced Matter-Eater Lad ofthe Legion of Super-Heroes. So yes,Supermanhas some surprising pulls, includingNathan FillionasGreen LanternGuy Gardner. Of course Metamorpho was made to be weird. Thus Metamorpho was born. It seems likely, then, that Mr. Terrific, but supported in some way by Simon Stagg....

April 18, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words · Rachel Jones

Ramy Youssef Crafts an Unlikely 9/11 Era Period Piece With #1 Happy Family USA

When I started first grade I had on this thing that fit me like a dress. My parents whole plan was Michael Jordan will be great forever, and this will fit you forever.' It must be said that the Youssefs had a point. Michael Jordan was indeed great forever and it seems as though the jersey will fit forever. What specific time, exactly? Now to just head over to Wikipedia and check the date The Blueprint was relea…oh....

April 18, 2025 · 2 min · 255 words · Kathryn Knox

The Push is On for the Summer of Superman

With James GunnsSupermanhitting theaters this summer, DC is ramping up for a big few months for Big Blue. But today, on the big Supermanniversary, DC is really going over the top. Its widely regarded as one of the best Superman comics of all time Sales art is phenomenal, especially. This story was the foundation of the Loeb-producedSmallvilleshow, and apparently its an influence on the new movie. All-Star Supermanis arguably the greatest Superman story ever told....

April 18, 2025 · 1 min · 92 words · Lori May

Why Ben-Hur Is Still the Best Jesus Christ Movie Ever Made

What makes a good Jesus movie? In between those two sequences, Christ is a figure felt throughout the film but never quite seen. Through luck (or providence), he is then spared from a shipwreck and watery grave. Meanwhile, constantly in the margins of his life, there is a strange carpenter with an ethereal draw. Only after tasting life again does Ben-Hur look up and recognize something in this man. This is a full-blown Jesus movie that makes mountains out of a mount....

April 18, 2025 · 1 min · 151 words · Kristin Williams

WWE WrestleMania’s 15 Most Shocking Moments

WWE saves its biggest surprises for its biggest event. These are the WrestleMania moments that stopped the show. Surprises in wrestling can be hard to pull off. They occasionally need to throw in something out of left field to get people talking. Something unexpected to show how volatile this fictional battleground truly is. Here are some incidents in the decades ofWrestleManiathat genuinely felt surprising when they happened. That led to Tito Santana going solo for a while until his buddy could get healthy enough to return....

April 18, 2025 · 5 min · 970 words · Joseph Roberson