Introduction Six years after The Rise of Skywalker, Star Wars storytelling is still filling gaps between the sequel films. That is usually good for the galaxy: more context, richer character arcs, and the thrill of seeing threads tied together. Marvel’s Legacy of Vader 8 attempts exactly that by explaining what the Knights of Ren were …
Introduction A new Texas law intended to crack down on obscene material is having ripple effects far beyond the targets many people imagine. Senate Bill 20, often referred to as SB20, includes language that touches everything from artificial intelligence imagery to sexual content in books. That breadth is now prompting retailers to second guess what …
Introduction Star Trek has always been comfortable borrowing the language of wonder from its science fiction cousins. Doctor Who, with its timey-wimey bravado and unabashed love of cosmic mystery, is an especially natural neighbor. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 leans into that kinship more openly than ever. Its finale: “New Life and New …
Introduction There is a special sort of thrill that comes from a good suburban noir: a quiet neighborhood hiding a rotting secret, a family forced to reckon with the past, and the creeping realization that nothing is as it seems. Alex Winter’s Adulthood sets out to capture that feeling while wrapping it in the looser …
Introduction Psychological horror is supposed to pull you into the protagonist’s head and then make you question your own. The best entries do two things at once: they keep the heart rate up with moment-to-moment tension and they smuggle in ideas that linger long after the credits. Exit 8, a Japanese psychological horror adapted from …
Introduction For millions who rode the highs and heartbreaks of Game of Thrones, the news that multiple stars from the series will share the screen again in a new Netflix crime thriller feels like a reunion with old friends. The original show ended years ago on a divisive note, yet its footprint on television remains …
Introduction Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is approaching its own final frontier. With season 3’s finale landing on Thursday, September 11, season 4 already wrapped before that premiere, and the fifth and final season now in production, fans are looking past the next cliffhanger to the bigger question: how does this dazzling prequel stick the …
Introduction Every few years, the same tantalizing rumor resurfaces: Taylor Swift was supposed to play a vampire on The Vampire Diaries. Fans trade theories, social posts recycle the same claims, and someone inevitably insists that she nearly became Lexi Branson, Stefan Salvatore’s beloved friend who meets a tragic end in the show’s first season. It …
Introduction “E & E” is the kind of midseason pivot that reminds you why The Terminal List universe has staying power. Escape and evasion are not just tactics in episode 5. They are a philosophy. Characters slip across borders, allegiances fracture under pressure, and the show’s recurring question sharpens again: what does loyalty look like …
Introduction Every awards season brings a film that seems engineered to rewrite a star’s narrative. For Dwayne Johnson, that mantle is The Smashing Machine, a prestige sports biopic shaped to shed his blockbuster armor and reveal something raw. On paper it reads like a winning parlay: a revered independent studio, an ambitious filmmaker in Benny …