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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 7 should end with Quake recognized as the team’s Iron Man, i.e. the top superhero of the Marvel TV universe. Marvel’s flagship series announced that summer 2020’s season 7 would be Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s last. Launched in 2014, the Clark Gregg-fronted spinoff has gradually carved out its own niche in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and created characters beloved by their loyal fanbase. This definitely includes Daisy “Quake” Johnson (Chloe Bennet), who is Agents of S....

How long is too long? At what point does the audience’s hunger for more of the story go away? The critical and commercial success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (after 10 years without a Star Wars movie), Jurassic World (after 13 years) and Mad Max: Fury Road (after 28 years) makes this a tricky question to answer. For certain franchises, it seems as though it’s never too late to return to the well....

Though film school education – much like any degree – varies from university to university and professor to professor, there is a commonality to the films shown to students in those first few semesters. First year students will almost always have to take a required cinema history course, which covers the earliest prototypes that led to film cameras (for the rest of your life, you will wonder why you know what a zoetrope is) and the first film experiments....

J.J. Abrams’ release of 10 Cloverfield Lane, due next month, is the sort of bold risk that you can take when your last movie was, say, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s a sequel to Cloverfield, but from a Hollywood exec’s perspective, the purpose of a sequel is to be reliably pretty close to the original - often bigger and occasionally better, but definitely of a piece with the first movie, and if it’s a later sequel, also the most recent movie....

Nowadays, streaming services like Netflix and Hulu make it easier than ever to watch television shows produced in other countries. Whether you are looking into documentaries, dramas, or comedies, shows from across the pond are immediately available to the large pool of people subscribed to these services. The British murder mystery genre is one of the more popular choices when it comes to prime television, and thankfully there are a lot to choose from....

It’s been a big year for Marvel Comics. In addition to the “All-New, All-Different” changes brought to your favorite superheroes thanks to Secret Wars, the House of Ideas has been busy introducing the next wave of brand new characters that are already winning over the hearts of readers everywhere. Some of these characters are so new, you probably haven’t heard of them yet. Others are replacements for existing heroes. Still others might be older heroes in a whole new form....

The Harry Potter film series did an amazing job bringing the beloved characters from the books to the big screen. Fans were left with relatively few complaints about the movies. For the most part, they were perfectly casted and well-adapted from the books, with some notable exceptions. However, that’s not to say they could not have been improved in certain ways. The films were working with limited time, the constraints of special effects and makeup, and the usual challenges of converting a book to a movie in a compelling way....

Sponsored by Journey: Get 10% off the new Journey cases for iPhone with code JOURNEY10. Enter the iPhone giveaway. Stories discussed in this episode: Apple will charge 27% commission for app purchases made using alternative payment systems in the Netherlands Apple Music free trial period reduced from three months Apple planning March 8 event, here’s what to expect Enjoy the podcast?: Follow Chance: Twitter: @ChanceHMiller Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Overcast RSS Stitcher TuneIn Google Play Share your thoughts!...

Warning: SPOILERS for Kong: Skull Island ahead - In 2014, Godzilla emerged from the depths of the ocean to battle two gigantic M.U.T.O.s - Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms in the parlance of Monarch, the organization that investigates and monitors the huge ancient species that live beneath the surface of the Earth. Mankind was unaware of the existence of the M.U.T.O.s up until that point, and if people thought those monsters were all that existed - think again....

The AirTag stalking controversy, which forced Apple to beef up the protections offered against misuse of the tracking device, has led Tile to follow the Cupertino company’s example. Tile has announced a Scan and Secure feature, which allows anyone to check for the presence of its own trackers – though in a clunkier fashion than Apple’s safeguards … Background It wasn’t long after AirTags launched that we started to see stories about stalkers and thieves misusing the devices....

Netflix might still be the first and most prominent name in online streaming, but Hulu is quickly closing the gap. Despite its general reliance on being the best place to watch new episodes of shows like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Blindspot, Arrow and so many others, Hulu also has a veritable archive of classic television series. Given its shared corporate parentage with NBC/Universal, Hulu is the first stop for many classic TV shows, and it doesn’t even run into the same licensing problem as Netflix for many of them....

When a media franchise gets popular to ridiculous lengths, even its own fans begin questioning stuff that doesn’t make sense. The poster child for DC Universe is a guy in a red cape who protects the Earth while not even being from Earth, with his best friend being a guy who wears a tight black costume and likes to play with bats, so you can see what we’re dealing with here....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is not an overtly comedic franchise, but it’s also not an overtly dramatic one. This series of tightly interconnected superhero blockbusters gives us the best of both worlds: hilarious gags and emotional resonance, rolled into one. Of course, to create that balance, the franchise has had to give us characters that are more comedic than anything else. There are dramatic characters, who we care about for their personal arcs, and there are comedic characters, who we depend on for the laughs....

Horror fans are a smart bunch and many are dubious the moment they start seeing phrases like “inspired by true events” or “based on a true story” thrown around during the opening credits of any film. There have been plenty of hoaxes and instances of truth-stretching in Hollywood over the years, both in horror and other “true story” films, including biopics and beyond. But with horror films, it is especially interesting because the possibility of one of these stories being 100% real would prove that ghosts and demons could be real too....

Despite its all-star cast, Sons of Anarchy was all about Jax Teller and his ascendency to club leader. It was a rollercoaster of emotions and drama, as the character was put through the wringer. Actor Charlie Hunnam, though, still misses the role. “I’ve never had an experience of getting so close and so deeply meshed with a character before. I felt when I finished Sons, it was a real process to get back to center and try to exorcise him out of my psyche for as much as possible....

Sci-fi takes many forms. There’s your classic alien invasion, popularized by films like War of the Worlds (1953). Then there’s your time travel adventure in films such as Timecop (1994). Or maybe you enjoy robots taking over the world in films like The Terminator (1984) or voyaging through space in Star Trek? Maybe you enjoyed Starship Troopers but want to see something different, like the upcoming film based on the novel rather than the film?...

There’s no denying it; movies are expensive, and now more than ever. It isn’t uncommon for a production company to drop $200 million dollars on a film production, and not without good reason either. As long as you have the right actor, director, or IP — that can be all it takes to make your huge investment back and more. But what about those aspiring directors that can’t afford to make a movie about your favorite superhero, or hire any top-name actors?...

With over 40 films featuring the Dark Knight Detective, Batman has become the tent-pole for one of the most beloved and successful franchises of all time, raking in over $4.5 billion worldwide. Within the next few years alone, we can already expect to see the masked vigilante featured in Justice League Parts One and Two, The Lego Batman Movie, and an Untitled Batman Reboot written and directed by none other than Batfleck himself....

Supergirl is a slightly troubled character for DC Comics. Although The CW series has rocketed her to the forefront of public consciousness in a very exciting way, she hasn’t always been treated the best. There have been multiple versions of Supergirl throughout DC’s history. Yet all of them have been viewed like nothing more than gender-swapped Superman. While disappointing it’s a fair comparison. The current, and most popular, version of Supergirl copies Superman’s origin to a tee....

Celebrity can be a nasty beast for anybody to wrangle with, no matter how prepared one might think they are. It changes every aspect of life and once it is obtained, it becomes almost impossible to give back. While this life style takes a heavy toll on adults, the effects are felt ten fold for children who encounter fame at such a young age. Few people know what fame does to children better than Dakota and Elle Fanning....