One of the reasons Assassin’s Creed has remained one of Ubisoft’s biggest franchises for nearly two decades is its ability to transport players to fascinating periods of history and bring them to life. Whether climbing Renaissance rooftops, exploring Revolutionary America, sailing across the Caribbean, or wandering feudal Japan, each setting becomes just as important as […]
When John Wick arrived in theaters in 2014 on a budget of just $20 million, Keanu Reeves’ precision-driven gun-fu and sustained-take choreography revolutionized action filmmaking almost overnight. Word of mouth turned that modest budget into an $86 million worldwide gross, and the franchise has since crossed $1 billion at the global box office, a staggering […]
Star Wars has officially revealed one of the very first wave of Sith, who lived 5,000 years before the Skywalker saga. We still know surprisingly little about the history of the Sith in canon. According to established lore, the Sith began as a dark side faction of the Jedi who split off from the main […]
Amazing Fantasy is one of the most seminal comics of all time. It’s the series that introduced the world to Spider-Man, who would go on to be Marvel’s biggest hero to this very day. Funnily enough, despite how iconic we see it as today, Amazing Fantasy (1962) only existed for a single issue. Before that, […]
Marvel’s Wolverine is poised to be a big hit later this year, building on the success of Marvel’s Spider-Man and expanding Insomniac’s version of the Marvel Universe. Confirmed to be set in the same universe as the Spider-Man games, Marvel’s Wolverine is a drastic reimagining of the X-Men corner of the universe, taking place in […]
Since its inception as a TV series on HBO 15 years ago, the Game of Thrones franchise has become as iconic as it gets. The series has produced some of pop culture’s favorite characters in history, from Daenerys Targaryen to Jon Snow and Tyrion Lannister, to smaller favorites like Davos Seaworth, Olenna Tyrell, Jorah Mormont, […]
When it comes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, despite being a massive franchise with an ever-growing catalog of movies and television shows and character stories there is one thing that it doesn’t do especially well and that’s tie up loose ends. That isn’t to say that the MCU doesn’t complete stories; we’ve had multiple “phases” […]
More than a decade after Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit the big screen, the Star Wars sequel trilogy continues to get hate. In fact, even after all this time, and the addition of The Mandalorian and Grogu to the franchise, which was also generally considered a flop, the sequels are still seen by many […]
X-Men ’97 Season 2 continues rolling, and it is delivering some epic episodes of X-Men lore to modern Marvel Cinematic Universe fans. However, while most of the Season 2 storyline has been dedicated to the larger story arc of the X-Men battling the evil mutant warlord Apocalypse across different epochs of time, there was one […]
Disney has a long history of trying to turn its theme park rides into movies, usually to mixed results. The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has often been lauded as the exception to the rule, with five successful films, a long-rumored sixth entry, and a spin-off that’s been in development hell for years. But where […]