For many of those who stuck with the narrative rollercoaster that was Agents of SHIELD over seven seasons on ABC, it’s been a frustrating wait to hear Marvel confirm that the long-running show is fully MCU canon, but we still seem to be no closer to getting that confirmation. Even as the Marvel universe brings back beloved TV characters from the past, like the Netflix era gang and James D’Arcy’s Jarvis from Agent Carter, SHIELD’s faves seem lost in time and forgotten by those with the grand multiverse at their fingertips. Agents of SHIELD star Clark Gregg, who played Phil…

The universe has a talent for making even the wildest science fiction sound reasonable. Distances are beyond human comprehension, stars can explode, and events that happened millions or even billions of years ago can still be seen from Earth today. The strangest part is that these are not hypothetical ideas invented for a movie. They are observations, measurements, and physical phenomena that scientists have spent decades trying to understand. Some of them involve numbers so enormous that they stop feeling real, while others completely change the way we think about the sky above us. Once you start looking closely, space…

Characters die in fiction all the time, since death is a natural part of life, and life is a prevalent topic in everything we consume. When the death occurs in the plot of a television show, though, it can hit quite hard. These are characters you’ve spent countless hours with, connecting with their struggles and hoping they succeed. Well, they don’t succeed. They die, and that’s unfortunate and sad to go through. We’ve gathered the most remembered deaths in television history here to celebrate their impact, although you should be wary of spoilers from here on out. IMDb Joyce Summers,…

A recent Reddit thread asked people to identify the moment they knew someone’s career was finished, and the answers ranged from personal anecdotes to moments witnessed by nearly everyone on TV. The reasons vary greatly, although they often aren’t a single mistake on the persons’ part. Rather, what these examples have in common is that the person was caught, and what they were doing was something that started long ago. Of course, this isn’t the case for all examples; some can be boiled down to a single unfortunate circumstance. They’re all still entertaining, though. Wikipedia The Campbell’s Soup Executive Martin…

There was a time when going online as a kid meant going somewhere built just for you. You logged into Club Penguin and waddled around as a colorful cartoon bird. You raised a Moshi Monster, or grew flowers to lure Moshlings into your garden. You solved themed puzzles in Poptropica, or roamed Jamaa as your favorite critter on Animal Jam. These weren’t corners of a bigger platform. They were the whole platform, and they were built with one audience in mind: children.  That world has mostly disappeared. Club Penguin, which once claimed more than 200 million registered accounts at its…

At a certain point, oft-loved (and oft-adapted) classics, such as the works of Jane Austen, transcend their status as simple stories. They’re standards; myths; anthems whose value in each successive generation stems from how some beloved beats are adhered to whilst others are omitted entirely by a free-styling soloist having their way on a jazz bass. Or a pianoforte. I imagine most audiences who see this October’s vintage of Sense and Sensibility will know the tale from Austen’s pen, and plenty more around 40 and up due to the sublime 1995 screen adaptation, courtesy of Ang Lee and Emma Thompson.…

Sometime back in 1991, David Fincher made the jump to the movies. Fincher had already established himself as an impressive visual stylist, directing the music videos for Madonna’s “Vogue” and “Express Yourself,” and had worked in Hollywood as an employee at George Lucas‘ Industrial Light & Magic. Unfortunately Fincher’s experience making his debut feature Alien 3 went so badly that, to this day, he still disowns the finished film. Yet, it’s hard not to think about Alien sequels while watching the latest trailer for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. Not because xenomorphs burst from the chest of the titular…

Some of the most memorable movie moments were never fully written the way audiences eventually saw them. Sometimes choices in the moment created a better joke, a more natural reaction, or an unforgettable character moment that could never have been planned perfectly in advance. Improvisation can be risky, especially on a large production, but when it works, it can make a scene feel completely spontaneous. Looking back, it is fascinating to discover how many familiar moments came from actors simply trying something different in front of the camera, often without knowing that their experiment would end up in the final…

Some historical photographs leave you with more questions than answers. A strange outfit, an unfamiliar machine, an unusual gathering, or a moment that seems completely out of place can make you wonder what was happening just before the picture was taken. The fascinating part is that these images capture genuine moments from another time, yet the context is often missing. Without the original photographer or the people in the frame explaining what happened, all we can do is look closely and speculate about the story behind it. Sometimes the explanation is surprisingly ordinary, but other times the mystery remains. Either…

This article contains minor spoilers for Resident Evil Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil is finally out and thrilling audiences everywhere with its unique blend of laughs and scares. The director’s spin on the popular Capcom video game series has also delighted many fans who weren’t sure how much of the true Resident Evil experience they would get, since Cregger chose not to include characters from the games in his reboot. Instead, the film follows a medical courier named Bryan, who is more like a random NPC than a Leon S. Kennedy type. Ultimately, there was no need to worry; Cregger proved…

This article contains spoilers for Lanterns season 1 episode 6. Guy Gardner isn’t a good guy. He’s not a bad guy by any stretch of the imagination, at least not in a world where Lex Luthor and the White Dragon exist. But anyone who saw Superman knows that the Earth’s current Green Lantern is a craven opportunist, someone who uses the massive power bestowed upon him mostly to advance his own economic interests rather than doing good as its own reward. As played by Nathan Fillion, Guy concerns himself with brand identity and the fate of the Justice Gang more…

This article contains spoilers for Lanterns season 1 episode 6 Previously, on Lanterns… everything went wrong. What had been a surprisingly excellent superhero series took a turn that seemed so wrongheaded on a narrative and thematic level that it’s hard to see how Lanterns could recover. William Macon, his Manhunter wife Zoe, and the vengeful Antaan all died in the fight, which also destroyed most of Rushville, all while John and Hal fought each other more than they did the bad guys. Where can showrunner Chris Mundy go from there? Turns out, the answer is “nowhere,” and that was the…

This article contains massive Resident Evil spoilers. The ending of Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil is its most twisted and ambitious element. After a mean, lean, mutated-heart-on-its-sleeve B-movie where we watch a hapless millennial named Bryan (Austin Abrams) bungle his way through the zombie apocalypse consuming Raccoon City, the final act of is where everything comes to a gooey head. Determined initially to reach Raccoon City General Hospital to deliver what he is led to believe is an organ that will save a child’s life, poor Bryan in the end must realize that he’s attempting to save his own skin instead.…

This article contains Resident Evil movie spoilers. One of the greatest jump scares in all of video game history occurred during the early movements of the original 1996 Resident Evil classic. As either Jill Valentine or Chris Redfield, players would wander tentatively and fitfully through a big spooky mansion where they know the animated remains of human corpses are slowly shuffling about. What most gamers back then did not realize though is that humans weren’t the only danger. It is thus the perfect jump scare when a dog pounces with extreme speed and agility through a window, shattering glass everywhere…

There are countless things happening around us that most people will never see in person. Some are hidden inside familiar objects, others happen in places normally closed to the public, and some are simply rare moments that exist for only a few seconds. That is what makes photographs of them so fascinating. A picture can reveal the inside of something we use every day, show an unusual stage of a natural process, or offer a glimpse into a world that usually remains completely out of sight. These images are not necessarily spectacular, but they give us access to moments and…

Most photographs seem easy to understand at first glance. You see a street, a group of people, a family gathering, or an ordinary moment and think you know exactly what is happening. Then one tiny detail catches your attention, and suddenly the entire image feels different. Maybe someone in the background is doing something completely unexpected, an object is where it should not be, or two unrelated things line up in a strangely perfect way. These are the photographs that reward a second look. Nothing about them seems unusual at first, but once you notice that one little detail, it…

Even if you’re not into Zodiac signs at all, it’s still a fun exercise to see what is being arbitrarily assigned to you based on your birth date. It doesn’t hurt anyone to have a little bit of fun after all, and that’s what we’re doing today: selecting a movie we believe you would love based solely on your Zodiac sign. We’ve got a classic twin-swap comedy that’s perfect for a certain two-faced sign, a famously intense psychological thriller for the zodiac’s most mysterious members, and even a controversial ’80s satire for the ambitious workaholics. Are these matches written in…

FocusFest is returning this fall on October 10 in Los Angeles after its successful debut in 2025, which featured an advance screening of the global phenomenon Obsession. The festival will be hosted by television personality Justin Sylvester and will feature special guest appearances from Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed‑Miles, the stars of Sense and Sensibility.  Hosted by indie film studio Focus Features, this year’s one-day festival follows on the heels of last year’s sold out event and has now expanded with more screenings and themed food and beverages. FocusFest continues to celebrate filmmakers and successful films from the Focus catalogue…

Ever since Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts*, we’ve known that the Marvel Cinematic Universe currently has two sets of Avengers, two versions of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, who don’t necessarily get along. Sam Wilson’s Avengers and the New Avengers are sure to clash in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. But for years now, a group of youthful heroes have been assembling to join the fight, a group that will eventually become the Young Avengers. The end of The Marvels showed Ms. Marvel meeting up with Kate Bishop a.k.a. Hawkeye to recruit her to the team, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania…

The New Hollywood movement may have broken the classic studio system and opened the way for the smaller, more personal films of the 1960s and ’70s, but they never forgot about genre movies. In fact, the first proper New Hollywood film was Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967), a crime movie. It’s not hard to see why crime movies would capture the imagination of filmmakers at the time: New Hollywood movies tended to focus on complicated men at the bottom rungs of society, men who had to make hard decisions. Throw in the general unease that Americans felt after the…