I often keep the protagonist’s default name in RPGs, but I identified so strongly with Zidane in Final Fantasy IX at first glance that I named him after myself. “If there was a pillar that defines the ...

The final episodes of X-Men ’97 Season 1 seemed to tease a handful of deep-cut developments from the comics. The titular team is once again forced to face off against Magneto, and the casualties are ...

Disney and its various brands (namely Marvel and Star Wars) are no strangers to award recognition on the small screen, but few Disney+ shows have felt more deserving of that attention than Wonder Man.

The Game of Thrones cast and crew send their regards. Ten years ago on June 2, 2013, a dagger was plunged into the hearts of viewers as House Stark was annihilated and the balance of power in Westeros ...

Blue Beetle is set to appear in an upcoming DCU animated series, so his becoming canon isn’t a huge surprise. But appearing ...

In 1986, Mark A. Altman was a young Trekkie serving as the editor of his college newspaper. Seemingly out of nowhere, he was invited to the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The invitation put ...

Projects are announced as being in development all the time, and then that’s the last fans hear of them until they’re ...

Kathryn Bigelow's box office flop Strange Days has been championed as a cult classic by audiences for years without a home on ...

Films with powerful environmentally centered narratives can transform our thinking and connect us with nature in ways that scientific papers cannot. For example, Studio Ghibli, a renowned Japanese ...

In 1859, French art critic Charles Baudelaire wrote an essay bemoaning the latest disruption to the art world: the camera. Baudelaire believed the camera would make painters lazy, and other artists ...

It’s unusual for a movie to have inspired creations as diverse as Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Roland Emmerich's Independence Day, but a movie celebrating its 100th birthday today can claim just such ...

On the issue of the One Ring, the entity known as Gollum famously said “we wants it, we needs it” — but it’s hard to feel the same about the incoming midquel starring Gollum himself. It’s been years ...