ArchiveApr 18, 2025The Fantastic Four: First Steps' retro New York City is a wonder to my eyes as a New YorkerNetflix doesn't seem too worried about Trump's tariffs... and according to their Q1 numbers, they might not have to beMargot Kidder, cinema's finest Lois Lane, explains how to make the character work on the big screen (Hint: she's not only Superman's girlfriend)Our charming prince Hugh Dancy dishes on Hannibal, Ella Enchanted, Downton Abbey, and moreChristopher Reeve almost had one final Superman movie, and it would have given closure to Clark/Lois romanticsThe way Star Wars portrays clones and stormtroopers shows a more subtle bit of storytelling than we ever gave George Lucas credit forLook for the Get Out of Niamos card as Star Wars and Monopoly Go cross over this summerExpect "Easter Eggs" about DC Comics' future and a realignment of DC's past in New History of the DCU, according to Mark WaidSuperman Unlimited's Kryptonite revival reverses a 54-year trend on DC's deadly green alien elementStranger Things: The First Shadow is built on the Vecna backstory that didn't make it into season 4Amongst Superman's many accomplishments: creating the comic book miniseriesIs Lex Luthor Donald Trump? Only partly, says the comic book creator who gave Luthor a businessman makeover in the 1980sDC has dropped a big tease about how it’s going to bring the Legion of Super-Heroes back (and it doesn’t include Darkseid)Popverse Jump: Star Wars: Visions has convinced me that we don't need a new trilogy - we just need to let the galaxy be weirdStar Wars’ John Boyega reveals his own con fandom: Pokémon conventionsCowboy legend James Brolin kept his Ransom Canyon co-stars on their toes, says Jack Schumacher Andor before Andor: How George Lucas' unrealized Star Wars TV series would've been "Deadwood in space"Star Wars: The Phantom Menace's villain returns yet again in Maul: Shadow Lord animated seriesThe Star Wars: Mandalorian & Grogu movie is the Disney+ show with the time taken to get it perfect, teases creator Jon FavreauStar Wars' mysterious Knights of Ren have a new female leader. Meet Tava RenStar Wars brings its real-life Galaxy's Edge theme park droids into fiction with The Mandalorian & GroguFrom Alien to X-Wing: Sigourney Weaver will be an X-Wing pilot and Rebel leader in Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, teases Dave FiloniDisney & Lucasfilm are quietly planning a 50th anniversary Star Wars movie that's focused on all-new charactersLongtime Star Wars fan Ryan Gosling sees 2027 Starfighter movie as a chance to "shine a light" into a part of the Star Wars Universe we haven't seen beforeI never realized how much I wanted to see Star Wars' Thrawn in a shoujo-style manga until nowCal Kestis is back as Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is getting its own comicLucasfilm launches its first-ever Kickstarter to revive Star Wars: The MangaThe Star Wars: Starfighter movie will be the first Star Wars movie since 1977 that's not a sequel, a prequel to anything before - and Shawn Levy & Ryan Gosling are keying into thatHow do you write a show like Star Wars' The Mandalorian? First, you need a lot of action figures says Jon Favreau & Dave FiloniStar Wars' Pedro Pascal knew that audiences would love The Mandalorian even before shooting started - here's whyScrew CGI! Lucasfilm has built a life-size Walker for Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu so it looks cooler in IMAXRyan Gosling to reveal the future of Star Wars past Episode 9 with Starfighter (and we have a release date!)Apr 17, 2025Marvel's commitment to a retro Fantastic Four movie goes further than fans can seeStephen King's The Life of Chuck movie adaptation is one of the first "uncynical" projects writer/director Mike Flanagan has ever doneDune: Awakening is a What If story that acts a love letter to every previous incarnation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi classicHow to write DC superheroes like Superman, The Flash, and more, according to Mark WaidFinal Fantasy XVI's adorable dog Torgal gets his own Magic: The Gathering card at MagicCon 2025John Cusack & Joan Cusack were in the original Breakfast Club cast - and Molly Ringwald explains why John Hughes changed it all upMarvel's The Thing has teeth in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and I have a lot of feelings about itThe MCU resurrects Marvel Comics' original name & company in The Fantastic Four: First Steps Easter EggThe Critical Role cast tease body piercing, edging, and more for their darkest campaign yet: Age of UmbraWe finally meet MCU's Silver Surfer, and she brings a new attitude with latest The Fantastic Four: First Steps trailerThe Lord of the Rings cast reveal a marathon 3-day crying scene cursed with costume errors & accidental film destruction (and Sean Astin accepts PART of the blame)The best movie and TV Westerns, according to Ransom Canyon's Jack Schumacher Apr 16, 2025After Captain America 4, Anthony Mackie promises Avengers: Doomsday will "give the audience that old Marvel feeling"Lore Corner: The Daredevil: Born Again season 1 finale sets up John Bernthal's Punisher for a special that's straight out of Marvel ComicsThe hottest trading cards in Japan's Fukuoka Prefecture are of real-life old menThe creepiest SFX from Ryan Coogler's Sinners blinded the vampire actors (temporarily)The original Starship Troopers movie cast are worried Neill Blomkamp's upcoming reboot will cut the satire that made it great, with Michael Ironside expecting it to be "very right-wing"DC Comics loses its long-time publicity manager Michael ShellingFor Your Consideration: Sherlock & Daughter isn’t enough Holmes for us, so here are three more TV twists on Sherlock loreThe gentleman villain Mads Mikkelsen tells us how he balances being charming and despicable in our favorite movies & TV seriesOnce Upon a Time's Lana Parilla and Rebecca Mader want to do a villains-only spinoff series, and have a few ideas of who would join themJohn Hughes made a four-hour raw cut of The Breakfast Club, and the cast have seen it (but Emilio Estevez calls it “unreleaseable”)Apr 15, 2025Critical Role's Ashley Johnson enjoyed making a fake porno for the show, but that doesn't mean it was a successJavier Rodriguez's art style for DC's Absolute Martian Manhunter is as alien as its lead. And that's a great thing to beholdPopverse Picks: Best underdog characters like Cassian Andor in Star WarsMarvel Matters: What to read ahead of (and after) Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts*Broadway's new Betty Boop musical homages the color & the chaos of New York Comic Con in the Javits CenterHow to watch Bakugan, Baku Tech, and Battle Planet in release and chronological orderC2E2 is the cure for the common comic con pains of diminishing comics presence, with the largest Artist Alley in North America and the charm of Midwest comics fansFinally, Gollum vs Samwise Gamgee go head-to-head: watch Andy Serkis body slam Sean Astin to the stage at C2E2Apr 14, 2025Marvel's Kevin Feige talked to John Boyega about who he'd play in the MCU, but "there ain't no room for me," says the Star Wars starOnce Upon A Time's cast want to change the past and reverse death itself - but to be fair, someone askedHarry Potter's TV cast starts to take shape, as HBO names names and weighs potential Percy Jackson-level success against JK Rowling's bigotryHow The Breakfast Club gave Bart Simpson one of his iconic catchphrases, years before he even existedStarship Troopers' anti-war satire was missed by American audiences upon release... and some of the cast during filming, tooTJ Klune shares the most influential queer literature in his life (and one surprising non-queer influence)The Lord of The Rings trilogy drove Sean Astin to a panic attack: "my thought was, what if I can’t do this?"Sorry, webheads: Tom Hardy says we weren't as close to that Spidey/Venom movie as was reportedCritical Role’s Marisha Ray thinks the show should do a Spider-Verse style crossover with Fantasy High and other adventuring partiesA Minecraft Movie is so successful, its second weekend in theaters outperformed almost every other 2025 movie's openingChildren of Blood and Bone's movie adaptation is so intense, author Tomi Adeyemi almost Hulked Out during filmingFans are buying more comics as sales jump 20% year-on-year for the second year in a rowApr 13, 2025Star Wars star John Boyega wants to star in HBO’s The Last of Us – but only if he can play Pedro Pascal’s role (temporarily)Superman's dog will break your heart in the upcoming Krypto comic book series, but don't look for continuity clues, says editorThe Breakfast Club cast pay tribute to John Hughes: "I didn’t know how rare it was going to be for a director to like actors"Game of Thrones could never match ABC's fairytale soap Once Upon a Time in one key area, says the show's Evil QueenCould Lord of the Rings’s Merry and Pippin survive on the island from Lost? Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd have some thoughtsRoboCop's Peter Weller sums up the classic sci-fi crime movie's resonance in just one wordBaldur's Gate 3 cast didn't realize how big the game really was until fans let them know at conventions, says Neil NewbonRockstar Games should make a Mario Kart style game for Red Dead Redemption, says RDR voice actor Superman's true Dragon Ball Z counterpart isn't Goku, says DC artist Dan Mora - it's GohanWhy Emilio Estevez held off on doing any Breakfast Club reunions – until nowLord of the Rings left its cast scarred, disfigured, and near freezing: "I thought there would be compensation!"And the winners of the 2025 Cosplay Central Crown Championships Regionals, Nationals, and Global Finals at C2E2 2025 are...Robocop actor Peter Weller shares emotional reaction to rewatching the movie, decades laterBreakfast Club's Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson talk 1980s movie poster shots we didn't see - including ones featuring writer/director John HughesApr 12, 2025What makes an X-Man break bad? The need to keep characters fresh, argues the creator behind Marvel's recent Mystique seriesLord of the Rings star Elijah Wood finally changes his stance on wigs after 20 years (IYKYK)Children of Blood and Bone author Tomi Adeyemi wrote 300 pages of Naruto fanfiction as a child - including a romance with SasukeBatman, Robin and Nightwing go full tokusatsu in DC's new Power Rangers-inspired miniseries Immortal Legend Batman, from Radiant Black creatorsThe difference between regular Superman and Absolute Superman? Absolute anger, says writer Jason AaronHaving killed Marvel's Spider-Man, writer Dan Slott is making Earth deadly for Superman as Kryptonite becomes a "natural resource" in DC's new Superman Unlimited seriesStar Wars and Attack the Block star John Boyega was at C2E2 2025 for The Force of Talent Spotlight panel, and you can watch the whole thing right nowTJ Klune's next book is his "most painful," the author teases (or should that be warns?)There's a new owner for what was once comics' monolithic distribution giant as Maryland court approves Diamond sale to Alliance EntertainmentLord of the Rings director Peter Jackson laughed the first time I played Gollum on set, says Andy SerkisDC's Lanterns is buddy space cops and aliens, as seen by the Coen Brothers, apparentlyApr 11, 2025TJ Klune's House in the Cerulean Sea may continue… as graphic novels