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Science fiction is a vast genre filled with franchises and individual films that can suit almost any palette. From other worldly creatures all the way to intense action-focused plots, sci-fi has it all. And the best part about it? The concepts presented to fans are entirely new ideas, allowing minds to wander and imaginations to run free. While we’ve recently been hit with quite a few great new additions to the genre, it’s time to take a step back and look at the sci-fi films that fans are still talking about today....

R.L. Stine has crafted many entertaining books in his career, but his most popular and successful work has to be the Goosebumps series. The children’s horror series began in 1992 with the book Welcome to Dead House, and Stine is still continuing to write new Goosebumps books almost thirty years later. In 1995, just a few days before Halloween, the first episode of the Goosebumps TV series would air on Fox Kids....

Let’s be clear: nearly every member of the Justice League is smart in their own way. While we don’t imagine Wonder Woman conducts an IQ test of every new teammate before they get their membership card, monogrammed robe, and complimentary coupons, the vast majority of Justice League members have exhibited an uncommon level of intelligence at some point in their crimefighting careers. Besides, intelligence is such a complicated concept that it’s fairly easy to argue the superior intellect of any Justice League member so long as you focus on one definition of the term....

John Carpenter’s 1978 classic Halloween is one of the most iconic horror pictures of all time. Not only did it give birth to the slasher film genre, it seemed to encapsulate all that’s mysterious and eerie about the October 31st holiday. It also established Carpenter as one of the most groundbreaking filmmakers of the ’70s and ’80s. Its villain Michael Myers caused countless nightmares, and inspired six sequels (there’s even another one currently in the works) as well as a remake of parts one and two by director Rob Zombie....

Comprised of six stones (Time, Space, Mind, Reality, Power and Soul), the fabled Infinity Gauntlet combines all their powers into a singularly awesome hand covering that allows whosever puts it on nothing less the ability to do whatever they please, be it wipe half the universe from existence or, even more impressively, make the MCU’s chaotic timeline make sense. The five-fingered weapon has a long, complicated history so we’ve gone ahead and compiled some of its most important, unknown and coolest tidbits for your reading pleasure....

As a movie character, Deadpool is all about Easter eggs and in-jokes. He is perpetually breaking the fourth wall and seems to be aware that he is in a movie, just as his comics incarnation seems aware that he is a comic character. That means that he is constantly making jokes to poke fun at the absurd world around him. It should come as no surprise that Deadpool is a bad influence, too....

Almost all stories succeed or fail based on their characters. This is especially true in television, where viewers are asked to repeatedly watch mostly the same cast of characters for hopefully years and years’ worth of screen time. Star Trek: The Next Generation is no exception. Star Trek especially revolves around it’s ensemble of characters, literally in the sense that the central location, the ship, requires a crew to function....

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Affinity announced today that its three popular content creation apps are being updated to version 1.10. Photo, Designer, and Publisher are receiving a boost in performance in their respective Mac apps. According to the blog post, this update is making some tasks up to 10 times quicker. For example, with Affinity Publisher, a complete rewrite of memory management now enables huge documents to offer instant loading times, smooth live editing, and super-fast scroll....

[This is a review of Agent Carter season 2, episode 3. There will be SPOILERS.] - The two-hour season premiere of Agent Carter was able to return fans to the characters they enjoyed from season 1 while also establishing the new location of Los Angeles in the 1940s and a new case for the S.S.R. The third episode of the season returns Agent Carter’s star Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) back to familiar territory for the show as she goes against Chief Jack Thompson’s (Chad Michael Murray) wishes....

No matter how real it might feel at times, The CW’s beloved Arrowverse is completely fictional. There are no metahumans and there’s no former billionare playboy named Oliver Queen. The particle accelerator and Wave Rider exist only in our imaginations (at least for now). Even though we don’t exist in a world with superheroes and metahumans, not everything in the interconnected multiverse is for show. The actors may not be ending innocent lives and saving people’s lives, but they’re not the cushy Hollywood elite who some might assume....

Some film roles can be harder to tackle than others. So hard, that once the actor or actress has found it, there’s no way to be anything but the character they’re playing. That can usually result in a more powerful performance - but it doesn’t mean it’s easy on their co-stars, or the crew behind the scenes. Here are 10 Method Actors Who Refused to Break Character. Meryl Streep It was intimidating enough for Anne Hathaway to share the screen with Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, but the Oscar winner approached the young actress on their very first day of shooting, telling her she was perfect for the role....

Nostalgia can be a powerful ally to movie studios. Rebooting a beloved franchise can be a delicate proces,s however, especially when you consider studios are attempting to please fans of the source material in addition to bringing on new audiences who are new to the material. That being said, remaking a well-known movie does not guarantee success. In fact, many remakes end up falling flat in the eyes of audiences, critics, and studios....

This article comes neither to bury Batman v Superman nor to praise it. That’s the critics’ job. So far, they seem to be doing a lot more of the former than the latter, which has been a bit hard for the cast and crew to handle sometimes - poor Ben Affleck! - but hey, it’s the critics’ job. To see the movies, react, and embolden or warn you. They don’t always get it right (remember our piece on early reactions to Star Wars?...

13 Reasons Why season 2 will arrive on Netflix soon, and first look photos hint at rising tensions and trouble for Tony. 13 Reasons Why arrived on Netflix last year amid a whirlwind of controversy. Following Hannah Baker’s decision to commit suicide, the show also dealt with many other issues such as bullying, rape, and substance abuse. The show suffered a backlash from concerned parents and others who felt the show glorified these issues, but 13 Reasons Why proved itself to be a huge hit, despite the heavy subject matter....

Sequels have long been a major part of business as usual in Hollywood. When a film is a commercial success, inevitably there is talk of making a follow-up film. And while some films lend themselves nicely to part 2, others need to be left alone. We’ve put together a list of 15 sequels that almost no one was asking for. Many of these are among the worst films of past three decades, thanks in no small part to their failure to step out of the shadow of the original films’ success....

Surprisingly enough, the 1990s was filled with a plethora of teen movies. While most look to the 80s as the definitive era for the subgenre, the 90s still offered a great range of teen movies, especially as they came to take hold in other genres. Rather than focus solely on relationships and love triangles, teen movies from the 90s also began to play around more with teens involvement in their community, such as sports or even family life....

In the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie, the filmmakers were tasked with adapting a novel of over 600 pages into a mere two and a half hour movie. It may sound like a long time, but considering the sheer amount of source material, it’s a daunting task to fit all the plot and details into a compact movie while maintaining a good pace. While they got the main story of the Triwizard Tournament across nicely, there are definitely both major and minor plot points that are noticeably missing from page to screen....

Apple TV+ is about to add a Webby Award to its long-running list of accolades. At the 26th Annual Webby Awards, Adam Scott, star of Severance, is going to receive the honor as Webby Best Actor. The hit series will be features at the in-person event in New York City on May 16. With its cliff-hanging season finale, viewers are on the edge of their seats to see what comes next at Lumon Industries....

Apple is being sued by two women over AirTag stalking, with the company accused of making it too easy for exes to track their movements. The case could form the basis of a class action lawsuit. In a separate case, police are being sued for conducting an alleged illegal search after they raided a property based on an iPhone (very vaguely) located using the Find My app … Background AirTag stalking became an issue very soon after the launch of the tracking device – not because tracking devices were a new thing, but because the high-profile launch brought them to the attention of criminals as well as customers....