Gaming has given us more than legendary boss fights and unforgettable storylines. It has also produced some of the internet’s most enduring memes. From chaotic multiplayer moments to awkward NPC dialogue and dramatic mission screens, certain lines and clips escaped their original games and took on lives of their own. These memes are a cultural … Read more
The year 2026 has already brought heartbreaking losses. From beloved actors and musicians to influential public figures, several well-known names have passed away far too soon. In each case their absence leaves a noticeable gap in entertainment, politics, and public life. As the year unfolds, we pause to remember the lives, careers, and legacies of … Read more
Board games are supposed to bring people together. In reality, they feel carefully disguised as stress tests for friendships and family bonds. From stolen property to brutal betrayal, it’s no wonder Sunday game night can degrade into heated argument. The most competitive titles reward risk tolerance and those who take things way too personally. Whether … Read more
Before hyper-realistic graphics and online multiplayer, there was Pong. Released in the early 1970s, the simple table tennis simulation became one of the first true arcade sensations. With its minimalist black-and-white screen, two paddles, and a bouncing square ball, Pong proved that video games were a medium of the future, with their only trajectory being … Read more
In Man of Tomorrow, the upcoming sequel to Superman, German actor Lars Eidinger will play Brainiac. An intergalactic collector from the planet Colu, Brainiac’s cold, computer brain strips him of all emotion. He simply travels from planet to planet, shrinking cities he finds interesting and bringing them into his ship, with no regard of the … Read more
X-Men: The Last Stand deserves almost no praise. Not only did it replace the franchise’s gross first director with an equally gross new director, but it utterly fumbled the Dark Phoenix Saga, one of the greatest X-Men stories of all time. Moreover, it filled the screen with all manner of deep-cut characters from the comics, … Read more
The explosive first season of Daredevil: Born Again has a lot in common with the Marvel Comics story Devil’s Reign. In both tales, Wilson Fisk becomes mayor of New York City and wages war against his enemies, especially Daredevil. At the end of the comic story, Luke Cage becomes the new mayor, which has raised … Read more
We live in a period of not-so-great media literacy. Bruce Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine fans decry their one-time favorites for criticizing Trump. People go to message boards to complain that Star Trek is woke, decades after Kirk reprimanded Stiles for his bigotry. Marvel readers boycott Captain America for being mean to Nazis, despite … Read more
Scrubs is technically a sitcom. It certainly has enough goofy storylines, fantasy sequences, and gags to be classified as a sitcom, anyway. But fans of the show know that it also delivers serious emotional punches, band-for-band. For every upbeat bit of nonsense, Scrubs consistently used its hospital setting to explore themes of grief and death … Read more
Stranger Things has had to serve a lot of masters in its final season, balancing what often feels like a dozen competing plot threads and steadily expanding mysteries. But its most satisfying decision has been to finally put Will Byers back at the center of the action. The boy whose original disappearance started this whole … Read more