Posts

When Pokémon first became established in America in the 1990s, there were only 151 creatures in the animated show. That number has more than tripled throughout various generations, giving fans even more to love (and to catch if you’re playing Pokémon Go). Because there is so much diversity in this one fandom, Pokémon characters are actually very common in the cosplay community. Sometimes the designs are based on artwork, while other versions are completely original takes made by cosplayers themselves....

On July 17th, 1987 Paul Verhoven’s RoboCop was released in theaters. The film introduced a modern-day knight in shining armor destined to protect his city of Detroit, Michigan. With a silly title like RoboCop, audiences expected a super-hero like romp on the big screen. With Verhoven’s satirical eye and finger on the social pulse, audiences received much more than expected. A peek into the technological advances of the future was showcased along with an allegorical resurrection story of the hero’s journey....

To help you ramp up your profile and get more followers on TikTok, we’ve put together 11 actionable tips. Let’s get started. 1. Identify your target audience The first step in growing your following on any social channel is to make sure you know who to target with your content and that you’re creating content that your target audience will enjoy. There are a few ways to go about this for growing your TikTok following....

You know that feeling when you’re watching a TV show and you spot an actor you recognize, but can’t quite place them? Well, sometimes that might be because - continuity be damned - you previously saw them on that same show, just in a different role. This happens a lot more than you may realize. Most of the time it’s a result of a series running for so long that bringing back a previous guest star in a different role isn’t going to ruin the audience’s suspension of disbelief, although in more recent years it’s become a more purposeful occurrence, worked into the fabric of a show’s narrative to provide a shocking rug-pull....

Smallville, the story that lasted for 10 years on The CW as it told the origin story of Clark Kent (Tom Welling) and how he became Superman. Still keeping the title as the longest-running comic book TV show of all time, Smallville was an important chapter for superhero media on the small screen. With its success on The WB and then The CW, it paved the way for more superhero shows to come to life....

31 years ago, on Christmas Eve, a bunch of German Terrorists stormed the Nakatomi Building in downtown Los Angeles. Their original intent was merely pretend to be terrorists while actually stealing a lot of bearer bonds. Nobody had accounted for a New York cop on vacation visiting his estranged wife getting caught up in the mix. No one in the real world accounted for the impact that Die Hard was going to have on audiences either in 1988, or now....

It’s now been more than a month since Avengers: Infinity War was released in theaters. Now that the shock has worn off and the initial heated debates about its implications have died down, we can start looking ahead to what might come next for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, we don’t want to look ahead at Phase 4, we want to really look ahead to Phase 5. We already know some of what Marvel has greenlit for Phase 4: we’ve got sequels for Spider-Man: Homecoming, Black Panther, and Doctor Strange in the pipeline, as well as a last Guardians of the Galaxy movie to finish out the trilogy....

Like any other marketable niche, tattoos have found their place in the reality television arena. TLC launched Miami Ink in 2005, and it was an undeniable success, spawning a great number of spin-offs and resulting in a huge boost in the popularity of tattoos. Members of the show’s original cast, led by the soft-spoken Ami James, have since gone on to achieve surprising levels of stardom. Kat Von D, in particular, has stayed in the headlines for reasons both good and bad....

The MCU is filled with memorable and now iconic heroes, but it is hard not to first think of the hero who started it all, Iron Man. Before his first solo film in 2008, Tony Stark and Iron Man were far from household names. However, the hugely entertaining film introduced the hero to the masses and the rest is cinematic history. While the Iron Man armor is certainly impressive, it is Stark’s mind that makes him such an asset to the Avengers....

When Marvel was forced to sell off some of its more popular characters’ film rights in the 90s due to bankruptcy, Sony Pictures picked up the rights to Spider-Man and his related characters and released multiple films since the first Spider-Man film in 2002, with a new film from the latest iteration of the character on the way in a partnership with Marvel Studios. The absence of Spider-Man hasn’t stopped Sony from exploring the other characters that came along with his film rights....

Through its 11 seasons and more than 200 episodes, the legendary TV show The X-Files didn’t just redefine televised storytelling but gave credence to the idea of an episodic horror-themed mystery series. Under the shadow of a looming alien invasion plus the most famous conspiracy theories and urban legends ever heard, The X-Files cemented its famous FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) as pop culture icons....

Nuclear bombs were dropped in Montana at the end of Far Cry 5, proving that the dark prophecies of the Seed family were true. Doomsday happened. World War 3 happened. That’s now the prequel to 2019’s new franchise entry, Far Cry: New Dawn. We had the opportunity to visit Ubisoft Montreal in advance of this announcement to see the game in action and learn about its unique new features, story, and development....

For supernatural horror movies to actually qualify as supernatural, we believe there must be some evidence to confirm the hauntings and happenstances are really occurring within the narrative of the film, and they’re not simply all in a character’s head. That’s why when we set out to make this list, we left off flicks like The Shining, where there is clearly some unexplained malevolence afoot. (Remember, Jack may have seen ghosts, but so did his son....

Booksmart (2019) is a recent teen comedy centered on two “good girls” in high school trying to get to the year’s last party. In an effort to cut loose at least once before they go off to college, the duo finds themselves in all sorts of crazy and wild situations involving drugs, drinking, and sex. Though the film underperformed at the box office, it still received high praise from critics and audiences alike....

Independent movies have become harder and harder to define over the past two decades. The definition of independent film in the 1990s meant something entirely from what it means to be an indie film in 2020. With the advent of streaming services, studio mergers, niche distributors, multi-platform content and the like, the filmmaking landscape continues to change. As a result, several high-quality indie films have gone overlooked in the past five years....

Over the past decade, Marvel has been the leading company when it comes to superhero flicks. They kick-started the Marvel Cinematic Universe back in 2008 with Iron Man, but since then have released dozens of movies with different Marvel characters. The MCU has made these characters more popular than they already were, but some of them had gotten movies prior to being a part of the MCU. With many of these characters being created in the ‘60s, it wasn’t long before the superheroes were given live-action movies and TV shows....

Archer, the adult animated series about the adventures of confidently incompetent secret agent Sterling Archer, has eight seasons under its spy belt. Though it’s a bit of a stretch to think that any of the cast members might have something in common with their action-oriented alter egos, many of them do have aspects of their personalities that bleed over. Sometimes, the growth of a character on the show is synonymous with the comfort the actor feels bringing them to life, especially after having played them for eight years....

For the past six years, we’ve been promised a sequel to Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot Man of Steel. While the movie was decidedly gloomier than previous Superman films and some would say it didn’t do the character justice, fans have taken to Henry Cavill’s portrayal of the last son of Krypton and want to see his incarnation of the character properly served in a solo follow-up. We technically got a Man of Steel sequel in the form of Batman v Superman, but that wasn’t really Man of Steel 2....

The Simpsons is in an odd place at the moment. It’s one of the most iconic animated comedies in TV history (heck, most iconic shows in TV history period), boasting hundreds of beloved moments and episodes that fans endlessly reminisce about. The trouble is, a lot of those priceless slices of The Simpsons are far behind us now. However you feel about the 660+ episodes deep show these days, there’s no denying that so many of Springfield’s residents are true TV icons and always will be....

Ever since the beginning of movies with works like the 1902 Lumière Brothers’ A Trip to the Moon, science fiction is a genre that has been the most ambitious and inventive throughout movie history. While other genres tend to be rigid and conventional, sci-fi movies are constantly pushing the boundaries of plot structures and visual storytelling. Some of the most memorable movies ever made are sci-fi films. One reason for this is that sci-fi movies are never afraid to throw in wild plot twists over the course of their storylines....