Meg 2: The Trench Looks Even Wilder Than Its Predecessor
Jet ski surfing with Jason Statham.Screenshot: Warner Bros. It was the summer of 2018. A movie starring Jason Statham and a giant shark hit theaters and those who saw it…
Kathleen Kennedy Wants Star Wars Movies to Feel Like Events Again
Image: Lucasfilm There comes a point in every movie franchise where new installments don’t feel quite as special as they usually do. Maybe it’s because the series has become annualized,…
Marvel’s Blade Has Been Delayed by the Writers’ Strike
Marvel’s vampire hunter Blade is a fierce warrior but he may have finally met his match: labor unions. The upcoming, long-in-development reboot of the Marvel franchise starring Mahershala Ali was…
7 Things We Loved and 3 Things We Didn’t in Star Wars: Visions Vol. 2
Image: Lucasfilm Visions volume two expanded to incorporate global voices like Chile’s Punkrobot, which offers an emotional tribute to the indigenous experience with In the Stars, and India’s 88 Pictures…
The Muppets Mayhem Offers a Lightweight but Entertaining Peek Behind the Music
Nearly five decades after The Muppet Show debuted, The Muppets Mayhem—a new 10-episode Disney+ series—aims to flesh out those intriguing weirdos who’ve provided so much of the Muppets’ all-important music…
Chopper Is the Chaos Star Wars Needs
Star Wars’ relationship with droids has always been weird. Their portrayal has run the gamut from revolutionary to servant underclass, to killer foes and straight-laced allies. But no droid has…
The Avengers’ Russo Brothers Had a Near Miss With Kevin Feige’s Star Wars
The directing-producing team of Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, and Kevin Feige, which minted money for Marvel in the form of Captain America movies The Winter Soldier and Civil War, and…
Star Wars Icon Carrie Fisher Honored at Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony
Billie Lourd and Mark Hamill help give Carrie Fisher a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Photo: David Livingston (Getty Images) Star Wars Day, May 4, always brings with it…
The Future of Radiant Black Is in Its Readers’ Hands
Image Comics’ superhero series turned cross-comic multiverse Radiant Black has long played with all sorts of tropes from the genre, drawing inspiration from places like Japanese superhero fiction and classic…
James Gunn Talks Carefully Calibrating Every Aspect of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Delivering a third film in a trilogy is never an easy thing. But imagine going into it after the company making it fired you, and finishing it while you’re beginning…