Month: August 2026

This article contains spoilers for X-Men ’97 season 2 episode 9. How many is too many X-Men? That’s the eternal question for the creators of X-Men ’97 and its predecessor, X-Men: The Animated Series. Even when that first series began in 1992, Marvel had enough mutants to fill five monthly

Nobody actually dies if the home team loses, but sports movies don’t always seem convinced of that. Give Hollywood a championship game, an underdog boxer, or a group of kids competing for a trophy and suddenly everything depends on what happens in the next two minutes. Careers are on the

There’s laughing at a movie, and then there’s laughing so hard you miss the next three jokes. Someone else in the room starts laughing, which makes you laugh even more, and eventually nobody has any idea what’s happening on screen anymore. Those are usually the comedies people remember years later,

Harrison Ford was sick. Leonardo DiCaprio cut his hand. Robert De Niro was given little more than a direction to talk to himself in front of a mirror. None of those situations sounds particularly important on its own, but they helped create moments people are still talking about decades later.

There are certain facts that sound completely made up until you look them up and realize they’re actually true. They’re also the ones you immediately want to tell somebody else, whether that person asked for a random fact or not. History, animals, space, food, and everyday objects are full of