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Good Omens‘ Aziraphale and Crowley Have a Very Nice and Queer Thing Going On
“Hard Times,” the third episode of Amazon’s adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens, is unique among the miniseries’ six, tightly-packed episodes because it slows down for a breath to take a look back at Aziraphale and Crowley’s curiously long-lived friendship. It’s one that dates back to their early days as two of … Continued
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A Jurassic World Animated Series From Dreamworks Is Stomping Its Way to Netflix [Updated]
In the Jurassic Park franchise, humans have never had the common sense to learn from their past mistakes and stop trying to genetically engineer dinosaurs. That’s why, whenever something goes wrong at the park, people end up getting killed. But a little loss of life has never been enough to stop the capitalist machine, and … Continued
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Exclusive: The Global Forecast Calls for Zombie Mayhem in This DCeased Preview
In DC Comics’ DCeased—from writer Tom Taylor and a cavalcade of artists including Trevor Hairsine, Stefano Gaudiano, Rain Beredo, and Saida Temofonte—the world’s villains and heroes alike are taken by surprise when an Apokolips-borne techno-organic virus makes its way to Earth and quickly begins transforming people into rage-filled zombies. Because the virus is able to … Continued
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Doctor Manhattan Just Redefined Superman in Doomsday Clock
Geoff Johns’ Doomsday Clock opus has been quietly ticking along at its own pace independent of the rest of DC’s other comics, but a revelation Doctor Manhattan makes in this week’s issue #10 has a significant impact on virtually each and every other character that exists within the publisher’s comics multiverse. As far as plot … Continued
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It Looks Like a Big Dark Phoenix Surprise Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight
Remember when it was common for big-budget action films to be marketed with the help of strategically-produced songs and music videos that featured footage from the movie itself? Dark Phoenix remembers. In the days leading up to Dark Phoenix’s release next Friday, what remains of 20th Century Fox has been churning out a surprisingly large … Continued
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Drogon Knew
The miraculous births of Daenerys’ dragons changed Game of Thrones’ balance of power and brought true magic back to the lands of Westeros and beyond. With the trio of mythical creatures by her side, Daenerys was all but certain that she would be able to claim the Iron Throne and revolutionize the Seven Kingdoms. And … Continued
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Brandon Sanderson Likens Amazon’s Wheel Of Time Series to Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings
After years of languishing in development hell, a live-action series based on Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time novels is finally coming to the small screen courtesy of Amazon Studios and showrunner Rafe Judkins (Agents of SHIELD). But according to Brandon Sanderson, who finished the final three books in the series following Jordan’s death, Amazon’s take … Continued
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Watch In Fabric‘s First Dizzying Trailer, Where Serving Looks Kills
Everyone’s had that chance moment when you’re out and about minding your own business when, suddenly, you come across an article of clothing in a shop that calls to you with a sense of urgency. In director Peter Strickland’s new horror/comedy In Fabric, said piece of clothing is a simple, classic red dress that, coincidentally, … Continued
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Doom Patrol‘s White Space Is a Brilliant Spin on Comic Book Storytelling
Doom Patrol’s Mr. Nobody is the kind of supervillain who enjoys taking his time as he hatches convoluted schemes designed to drive his enemies insane. And he does it all from the relative comfort of a blindingly-white pocket dimension that he seemed to be the only person capable of accessing for most of the first … Continued
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The New Swamp Thing Trailer Spotlights Hero Abby Arcane
Though DC Universe’s Swamp Thing will tell the story of how Alec Holland (Andy Bean) becomes forever transformed into the series’ titular monster hero (Derek Mears), it’s also set to follow CDC researcher Abby Arcane (Crystal Reed), as she discovers that the biological world contains secrets far more complicated and dangerous than anything she’s ever … Continued
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Before Chris Hemsworth Fought to Keep Thor Fat in Avengers: Endgame, He Almost Played Gambit
Avengers: Endgame takes Thor to an emotional low point so dark that he sinks into an existential, alcohol-fueled depression. It causes the thunder god to go through a drastic physical transformation we don’t see until halfway through the film. When we first see Thor’s new form, it’s initially played for laughs, but as Endgame unfolds, … Continued
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A New Jessica Jones Teaser Introduces the Final Season’s Premiere Date and Villain
Jessica Jones is the last of Marvel’s Defenders to make her exit from Netflix’s corner of the MCU, but before she leaves, there’s one last case she’s got to solve. And it’s going to push the hard-drinking hero to her limits at a time when she’s already stretched thin. In a new, brief teaser trailer … Continued
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Neil Gaiman Wishes Good Omens Didn’t Feel Quite So Close to Our Reality
In Amazon’s new adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens, the actual impending Armageddon kind of takes a back seat to other elements of the apocalyptic story, in part because of the show’s understanding that we’ve all grown rather weary of the genre at a time when the world often feels as if … Continued
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Doom Patrol‘s First Season Finale Gave Everyone What They Deserved
Even if you’ve read the handy caption, you’re probably still thinking to yourself, “What the hell is going on in that gif up there?” The answer: Doom Patrol. Which is to say, “a lot.” It’s a winding, intricate puzzle box of a story involving drag queens, the apocalypse, and Chumbawamba that Doom Patrol manages to … Continued
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The Scary Thing About DC Universe’s Swamp Thing Is How Good It Is
Much like an actual tract of wetlands teeming with different forms of organic life, DC Universe’s Swamp Thing is a complex, interconnected system of a story. And it’s best understood when you make an effort to appreciate it from the big picture and zoomed-in perspective simultaneously. On its face, Swamp Thing is DC’s latest live-action … Continued
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Report: Tom King Is Leaving Batman 15 Issues Early
Though Batman writer Tom King was speaking about his plans for the future of his epic, 100-issue run on the series as recently as last week, it seems as if he’s going to be parting ways with the Dark Knight sooner than anticipated. But he’ll still be writing for DC Comics. CBR reports that King’s … Continued
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The X-Men’s Quicksilver Speeds Into Space in This Surprisingly Cool Dark Phoenix Clip
Evan Peters’ Quicksilver in Fox’s most recent X-Men films has been one of the franchise’s most interesting characters, in part because of the innovative way filmmakers have taken to visualizing his super speed. Dark Phoenix wouldn’t be a proper X-Men sendoff without the silver-haired speed demon, and in a new clip from the film, he … Continued
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Exclusive: Captain Marvel Becomes a Bodega Avenger in a New Series from IDW
Now that Captain Marvel’s made her long-awaited debut on the big screen in her own solo film and helped defeat Thanos in Avengers: Endgame, she’s one of Marvel’s most high-profile heroes taking up space in audience’s minds. So it’s none too surprising that she’s the centerpiece of an all-new comic from writer Sam Maggs, artist … Continued
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The Marvel Approach Won’t Work for Star Wars, According to Kathleen Kennedy
The similarities between Star Wars: The Force Awakens and A New Hope are as plentiful as they are obvious, because even though the newest trilogy introduces a whole slew of new characters, the story being told about bringing balance to the Force is the same. Respecting the original Star Wars films was always an important … Continued
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This New Dark Phoenix Clip Seems Awfully Familiar
Curiously, Dark Phoenix appears to borrow a certain degree of aesthetic inspiration from Brett Ratner’s unfortunate X-Men: The Last Stand, a film that really only paid lip service to the classic Dark Phoenix saga. Fox now has a second chance to tell Jean Grey’s iconic story, but a new Dark Phoenix clip makes it seem … Continued