This article contains spoilers for Batman/Deadpool #1. 1990 saw the debut of not one, but two of comics’ most notable fourth-wall breakers. In December’s The New Mutants #98, readers met Wade Wilson a.k.a. Deadpool, the Merc’ With a Mouth–then just a Deathstroke and Terminator rip-off and not the self-aware figure he’d become. A few months … Read more
“Wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothing yet!” Those words, delivered by Al Jolson in 1927’s The Jazz Singer shocked the world and changed cinema forever. Although sound had been part of movies in some form or another almost from the beginning of moving pictures, The Jazz Singer was the first feature-length film with synchronized … Read more
Professional thief Neil McCauley lives by one code: don’t get attached to anything that you’re not willing to walk away from in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner. For a while now, it’s seemed as if the man who wrote those words was having trouble following them. Director Michael Mann … Read more
In the historical text known as Terminator 2: Judgment Day, it takes a T-800, a breakout, and an assault on the home of Miles Dyson to keep the AI Skynet from coming self-aware. For James Cameron, the man who wrote and directed T2, all it really takes is a little bit of self-control. “I think … Read more
The following article contains major spoilers for Pluribus episode 6 “HDP.” In Apple TV’s Pluribus, it’s the end of the world, and nobody’s having a good time. Well, unless they’re Koumba Diabaté (Samba Schutte), one of the handful of human survivors of the mysterious “Joining” that merged almost all of humanity into a single, peace-loving … Read more
By the order of the Peaky Blinders, it looks like we’re all going to be heading to the movie theater in early 2026. Netflix has announced that the long-awaited feature film installment of its historical gangland franchise is getting a two-week limited theatrical release ahead of its streaming premiere. Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man will … Read more
It’s official! Or at least as official as these sorts of things can be before ever increasingly corporate-compliant regulators in D.C. give the next black hole of resource-consolidation its rubber stamp. Yep, Netflix is buying Warner Bros. Discovery. To put that another way, the company that started as a DVD rental mailing service has grown … Read more
Fifty years ago, theaters welcomed a movie that changed culture forever, a movie that combined multiple genres into one unique space opera, a movie that was not called “Episode IV” or “A New Hope.” That movie was called Star Wars and it’s coming back to theaters. As announced on StarWars.com, “a newly restored version of … Read more
If there is one sure thing in the movie business, it’s that studios love a known quantity. Throw in a little nostalgia, a popular IP, and maybe a familiar bankable star or two, and pretty much anything can happen. This is how we have ended up with five Toy Story movies, six Transformers films, and … Read more
Preparing for an extended medical leave was necessary as a solo business owner. It also gave me a sense of control when so many other things felt beyond it. It goes without saying that managing multiple social media platforms — whether for yourself or for a brand — can mean some serious multitasking. On any … Read more