No matter who is writing or drawing his adventures, there are a few immutable facts of Spider-Man. He always embodies the lines that closed his very first appearance by Stan…
Read more Reboot It All You Want, the Spider-Man Universe Is Doomed to FailConceived as a darkly bloody satire of the derivative world of slasher franchises, Scream is now itself one of the longest running slasher franchises in history. To date, it’s produced seven…
Read more The Unmade ‘Scream’ Sequels We Never Got to SeeIt is one of the most famous scenes in the history of cinema. Luke Skywalker arrives in Cloud City to confront Darth Vader. A lengthy lightsaber battle ensues. Vader gains the…
Read more The Strange George Lucas Stage Show That Combined Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and WillowEvery theme park fan has a favorite ride. If they’re lucky, maybe they get to ride it twice in a single visit. If they live near Disneyland or Universal Studios, they…
Read more A Man Rode Disneyland’s ‘Cars’ Ride 15,000 TimesMost fictional genres date back centuries, if not millennia. Actors performed comedies back in ancient Greece. Audiences flocked to musicals in the 1890s, and as soon as movies gained the…
Read more The 50 Best Superhero Movies of the Last 50 YearsMarvel kicked off their year-long marketing push for Avengers: Doomsday, the company’s most anticipated blockbuster in half a decade, with a clock. Their YouTube channel now includes a video titled…
Read more Hollywood, Please Bring Back Making-Of DocumentariesFor those of us Olds who remember life in the 20th century (or even life in [shudder] the 1980s) the fact that the 21st century is already 25…
Read more The 21 Best Films of the 21st Century So FarIt doesn’t feel like a long time ago. But it’s now been ten years since Star Wars: The Force Awakens debuted in theaters. I’ll remember that date — December 18,…
Read more ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Came Out 10 Years Ago Today – How’s It Hold Up?I still consider myself a film critic by trade. But more and more I eat movies and TV shows for a living. A slight exaggeration, perhaps. But consuming a bunch…
Read more The Worst Food I Ate in 2025 Inspired By Movies and TVI don’t have a lot of memories from my childhood birthdays. But I vividly remember my 14th birthday party. My parents took me and a dozen or so of…
Read more The Old ‘Street Fighter’ Doesn’t Need a Remake Because It’s Already GoodThe creators of Stranger Things are finally setting the record straight on a persistent theory about the series’ villain that has plagued die-hard fans since Season 4. Ever…
Read more The Duffer Brothers Finally Squash Creepy ‘Stranger Things’ Vecna Fan TheoryThe Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise is set in a haunted pizzeria and arcade, where the sins of the past return in the form of creepy animatronics possessed by the spirits…
Read more I Ate Everything on Popeyes’ ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ MenuI had just turned 10 when The Mummy came out in May of 1999, and I remember cowering, wide-eyed, behind my giant bag of popcorn topped with Sno-Caps…
Read more 5 Things We Want to See in the New ‘Mummy’ SequelThere are surely better superhero movies than 2000’s X-Men, but there may not be a more important comic book movie in the history of Hollywood. Yes, studios had attempted to…
Read more This 1999 Magazine About Comic Book Movies Is Like a Portal to an Alternate DimensionThe following post contains SPOILERS for One Battle After Another. Do you find that to be be true? With a 95 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and awards prognosticators calling it a…
Read more The River of Hills: ‘One Battle After Another’ and the Best Ending of 2025Some movies become more than movies. They leave indelible marks on the psyches of millions of fans, and become touchstones in people’s lives. Sometimes, they seep their way into other…
Read more 20 Forgotten TV Shows Based on Famous MoviesHere is a fear that I have. People who want to watch old movies take their cues from Google — and Google increasingly seems to recommend a smaller and…
Read more Overlooked ’90s Movies That Should Have Been BiggerThe fifth and final season of Netflix’s mega-hit Stranger Things will see the heroes of Hawkins, Indiana fend off a full-scale invasion from the supernatural forces of the Upside Down.…
Read more I Ate ‘Stranger Things’ DoritosTheme park rides can take guests into outer space or the center of the Earth. They feature mind-boggling sights ranging from gigantic serpents to Vin Diesel in a tight T-shirt. Their subject…
Read more Why Does Every Theme Park Ride Have the Exact Same Premise?It wasn’t long after the history of cinema began at the dawn of the 20th century that horror movies started to appear on the screen. Like many early…
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