Before Pirates of the Caribbean became a multi-billion-dollar film franchise, it was nothing more than a boat ride. Disneyland opened the attraction in 1967, sending guests past animatronic pirates ransacking a Caribbean village, with no characters, no dialogue, and no plot beyond the scene passing by the boat. That blank slate gave Disney’s screenwriters room […]
It has been 22 years since a psychological thriller hit theaters with an excellent cast, but it ended up polarizing fans thanks to its controversial twist ending. M. Night Shyamalan built his career on twist endings. This all started with his third movie, his breakout hit The Sixth Sense, a film with one of the […]
When Marvel announced that Ryan Gosling was going to play Ghost Rider in his own solo Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, it caused a lot of excitement in the fan base. The excitement came both from the signing of Gosling in the lead role and from the fact that the MCU is finally roaring forward with […]
The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 eras were dominated by multiplayer gaming. I know I spent my fair share of time online playing Halo: Reach and Battlefield 3, and many others did too, as military shooters dominated sales charts. Online competition became increasingly serious, and many developers chased realism over creativity. Yet, hidden among these […]
Besides some clear performance and server issues on various platforms, Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls has shown to be an excellent fighting game in its open beta. Unique characters and stylish presentation lend to a robust 4v4 game unlike other tag team fighters in the genre, but systems are far from perfect. Player feedback has raised […]
The X-Men have come a long way from their Silver Age beginnings. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the team tapped into the civil rights struggles of the ’60s, introducing the concept of “mutants” to the Marvel Universe. Today, mutants are one of the most important parts of the House of Ideas; in fact, […]
The X-Men are one of Marvel’s most popular properties, and their biggest X-Man is most definitely Wolverine. After all, he’s the best he is at what he does, and he’s more than proven that over the years. He’s easily the most popular mutant around, having broken through the X-barrier that usually holds most of his […]
DC Comics is on the kind of roll that honestly seemed impossible five years again. They rebuilt their universe with “Dawn of DC” in 2022 and 2023, leading into “DC All-In”, which not only gave the mainline DC books an amazing main story arc, but also gave us the blockbuster Absolute Universe of comics, new […]
The Batman: Part II has been delayed again, and while the DCU waits for Matt Reeves to finish his Batman story before introducing its own Batman, fans actually have one of the best versions they can turn to right now. There hasn’t been a DC hero who has had more adaptations than Batman, from the […]
After years of waiting, the fourth Spider-Man movie with Tom Holland as the Marvel hero has finally arrived. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now playing in theaters around the world, marking the first Marvel Studios movie since The Fantastic Four: First Steps last summer and the last one before Avengers: Doomsday. Per the tradition of […]