“I’ll believe it when I see it.” So reads one of the many replies to the Netflix Geeked X account’s 2024 post announcing a Magic: The Gathering animated series for the streamer. That commenter’s skepticism (and many others like them) may have been curt, but it was certainly warranted. Despite being one of the most successful games ever made and having decades of compelling built in lore, Magic: The Gathering has had a surprisingly tough time making it off of card stock and into other visual media. Sure, the legendary trading card game’s stewards at Hasbro and Wizards of the…

No one was really too worried when Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings broke from the usual MCU model by following its final post-credits scene not with “Shang-Chi will return,” but rather “The Ten Rings will return.” After all, the second post-credits scene showed Shang-Chi’s sister Xialing taking her father’s place as the new head of the terrorist organization, so it made thematic sense. And Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was an enormously entertaining film, so surely Simu Liu would be back soon as the title character, right? Turns out, the answer is, “Wrong.” Shang-Chi…

Ever since Daniel Craig left the role in 2021’s No Time to Die, we’ve all been wondering who will be the next James Bond. Turns out, we may not have been asking the right question. The real question may be: how will the next James Bond story be told? Will it be a series of stand-alone adventures, as has been the case before the Craig era? Or will modern blockbuster standards demand that Bond continue the ongoing continuity established by Craig’s movies? We may be getting an answer to both questions at once. According to the latest newsletter from insider…

In the early 2000s, Reki Kawahara unknowingly changed the anime landscape by creating the manga Sword Art Online. Its premise, which saw a teenager trapped in a video game and having to fight for his life, captured audiences’ attention; that audience only increased when the anime adaptation made its debut in 2012. As a result, Sword Art Online became one of the biggest anime franchises of the modern era…and it looks like Kawahara is about to catch lightning in a bottle again with Devil’s Crest. Devil’s Crest recently dropped its first two episodes on Prime Video, and from the start,…

Clayface is the premier shapeshifter in the DC Universe, a mercurial figure who uses his ability to take any form to wreak havoc on the innocent and the guilty alike. So it’s fitting that the Batman villain’s solo movie would make trouble for the bosses at Skydance. In this case, though, it’s hard to say that Matt Hagen’s the bad guy. A new report from The Wrap indicates that since James Gunn and Peter Safran were fired from their positions as the heads of DC Studios and replaced by Jeremy Latcham, Clayface is now categorized as an “Elseworlds” film. As…

When you think of Tom and Jerry, you probably think of the titular cat and mouse duo causing all kinds of chaos as they chase each other… and Tom subsequently suffering grievous bodily harm. You also probably consider them to be icons in the same way that Scooby-Doo and the Looney Tunes are, given that the duo has been entertaining audiences for over 80 years. What you probably don’t think of when you think of Tom and Jerry is about Kamen Rider…but that’s about to change. A new collaboration between Kamen Rider MY-TH and Tom and Jerry was recently announced,…

As time goes on, the golden era of ’90s Star Trek looks better and better. But no matter how much you get annoyed by the teenage antics on Starfleet Academy, and no matter how much you miss 24-episode seasons, you have to admit that Star Trek: Enterprise stinks. The otherwise likable Scott Bakula plays Captain Jonathan Archer as a man both baffled and irritated by new life and new civilizations, he’s saddled with a crew of nobodies like Malcolm Reed and Travis Mayweather, and the time-travel nonsense of the first season gets worse with the post-9/11 bravado of the Xindi…

Most people know Giancarlo Esposito from his roles as magnetic, yet sinister figures in shows like Breaking Bad and The Boys. Yesterday, however, Esposito added a new layer to his career, announcing he’d co-write the graphic novel The Venetian. Featuring contributions from co-writer Matt Wheeler (Hawaii Five-O) and storyboard artist Jay Martin, who’s drawn storyboards for movies including Ad Astra, The Venetian centers on retired assassin Matteo Moro returning to his bloody ways after his estranged son is kidnapped. It sounds like the pitch for a killer movie, but Esposito’s been clear that working in comics is truly a passion…

How do you solve a problem like Victor Von Doom? Don’t ask the producers of the previous two live-action outings of Doctor Doom. The 2005 Fantastic Four movie and its 2007 sequel asked the late Julian McMahon to stay in Nip/Tuck mode, playing Doom as a petulant rich kid running a Fortune 500 company. The 2015 film was even worse, casting Toby Kebbell as Doom a pouty computer nerd who later developed the power to make people’s heads explode. This is a guy who speaks in the third person and wears a green tunic over his metallic armor, a master…

After his Oscar win for last year’s triumphant Sinners, no one questions Michael B. Jordan‘s star power. And anyone who saw his striking directoral debut Creed III knows that Jordan has an incredible eye. And yet, we can’t help but come away from the trailer for his latest movie, The Thomas Crown Affair, with a few questions. The trailer looks incredible, splitting between Jordan’s debonair Thomas Crown flirting with an insurance investigator played by Adria Arjona and shots of him scaling buildings and racing through the streets. Like the (somewhat sleepy) 1968 original, starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, and…

For more than 60 years, James Bond has thrilled movie audiences with his globetrotting exploits – battling a collection of iconic villains, romancing a plethora of beautiful women, and tinkering with various gadgets.  What Bond observers sometimes forget, however, is that the super spy’s adventures actually began on the page in a series of novels by writer Ian Fleming, who based Bond on a variety of figures he met during World War II. Those same observers also might not realize that Bond has highlighted more than his fair share of comics, and they range from movie retreads to wholly original…

The news that James Gunn and Peter Safran were out as heads of DC Studios came as a shock to many fans. Apart from the stumble of Supergirl, a majority of the projects under Gunn and Safran’s tenure were well-received in terms of critical acclaim and box office hauls. Apparently that wasn’t enough for Skydance heads David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz, as a new report from The Hollywood Reporter claims that part of the reason Gunn and Safran were ousted is due to the fact that the Gunn-directed Superman apparently “did not net out, or have the kind of pop…

Midway through Clayface, our antihero protagonist Matt Hagen celebrates his renewed celebrity status by engaging in a rousing game of pick-up basketball. The scene sends a shiver down the spines of moviegoers, and not just because it ends with Hagen discovering his regeneration powers, which will eventually lead him down the path of evil. It scares us because we’ve already watched a Batman villain use their powers to play basketball in a movie. And that movie was terrible. The movie, of course, was 2004’s Catwoman. The scene, of course, found artist Patience Phillips (Halle Berry) encountering Detective Tom Lone (Benjamin…

This article is presented in partnership with Upper Deck. Don’t pawcrastinate and wait until the last minute to get your cat-loving friends and family meowmbers their gifts this year. No one wants to be running around at the eleventh hour like a cat being chased by the dreaded vacuum cleaner! Save yourself the stress and purrchase these meowrvelous, I Can Has Cheezburger-approved gifts with plenty of time to spare so you can enjoy a cat nap or two as the hectic holiday season approaches. Some people are really good at giving gifts, but I am not one of those people. That’s…

This article contains spoilers for VisionQuest episode 8. In a surprise to even those who had advanced screeners and wrote all of their reviews in good faith that they were being shown the entire show and are not at all grouchy about finding out that their articles are now wrong, VisionQuest ended with an unexpected post-credits scene. The scene picks up shortly after the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, where Scarlet Witch gets crushed on Mount Wundagore. In the new material, we look through Wanda’s point of view as the rubble lifts, courtesy of Doctor Doom’s…

This article contains spoilers for VisionQuest episode 8… and Avengers: Doomsday, believe it or not. The VisionQuest has completed. Let the Children’s Crusade begin. Although billed as the third entry in a trilogy that includes WandaVision and Agatha All Along, VisionQuest has mostly felt pretty distinct from those two shows, which put Wanda Maximoff in the center. However, with its finale, Vision and Wanda’s two sons finally reunite, albeit in different bodies, when Billy Kaplan a.k.a. Wiccan and Tommy Shepherd a.k.a. Speed connect via magic. Seeing the two together is obviously good news for fans of the Young Avengers, as…

This article contains spoilers for VisionQuest season 1 episode 8. Early in the VisionQuest finale “Forever,” our big bad Virgil Horton, points out that his grandfather Phineas’ error in creating a flaming robot called the Human Torch is so infamous, that “You Horton’d it” has become a colloquialism for making a mistake. It’s a broad, goofy line, one that recalls the bit in Community about “pulling a Britta,” and it’s just one of many instances of “Forever” embracing TV tropes. This is the climax of a Marvel TV show, so of course, we’ll have a showdown between Vision and Ultron,…

On October 21 of this year, Mass Effect fans were sent reeling by the news that EA decided to shutter studio BioWare, meaning that the beloved sci-fi gaming franchise – alongside DragonAge and who knows how many future projects – were brought to an end. In the weeks since the announcement, fans and actors associated with Mass Effect have launched an online campaign to try and make sure the series lives on. Those fans are in luck, as Prime Video is still slated to bring a Mass Effect TV project to life. A recent report from IGN confirmed that the…

Tonight marks the finale of VisionQuest, and the end of an era for Marvel Television. VisionQuest isn’t just wrapping up a trilogy that began with WandaVision and Agatha All Along; it also marks a shift in Marvel Television’s storytelling strategy. Next year will mark the end of Daredevil: Born Again, while 2028 will debut an entirely new series, Zodiac (which some fans believe will be the long-awaited resurrection of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.). Now that Marvel Television is shifting gears, it should look to the WandaVision trilogy for inspiration with its future efforts. For starters, don’t forget that some of the…

It’s been an interesting 24 hours in the world of superhero movies, with not just the news that James Gunn and Peter Safran have been removed as co-heads of DC Studios, but also with information about their dismissal coming clear. Initially, Gunn’s post to social media made it sound like he and Safran willingly stepped down from their position, certainly (but not explicitly) in response to Warner Bros.‘ new ownership under Paramount boss David Ellison, who will combine the two studios into a new company called Skydance. However, a more in-depth article from The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Gunn and…