For some comic book fans, the news that Lars Eidinger had been cast as Brainiac for James Gunn‘s follow-up to Superman brings one phrase to mind: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? The uninitiated would answer, “Nothing! Man of Tomorrow is the name of the Superman sequel and obviously
First Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Puts Human Drama First
Although it dates back to the 8th century BC, The Odyssey has long been a monumental part of the Western literary canon, and with good reason. The story of Odysseus’ decade-long return from the Trojan War to his home Ithaca is filled with high adventure and incredible monsters. Gods such
50+ Most Anticipated Movies of 2026
With 2025 just about in the rearview window, tis the moment to take stock of what worked in 2025 before turning ahead to the most anticipated movies of 2026. As usual, the films I responded to most last year weren’t those trying to be agreeable or broad or endlessly franchisable.
Why Is Avatar So Big But No One Seems to Care?
Before viewers returned to Pandora in Avatar: Fire and Ash, they quickly checked in with an old friend. The first teaser for Avengers: Doomsday, which played before James Cameron‘s latest sci-fi adventure, featured no epic battles, no scenes of superheroes saving the day, not even a quippy one-liner. The one
Last Christmas Deserves to Be a Holiday Favorite
Last Christmas, you didn’t watch Last Christmas. And that was probably the same the Christmas before that and the Christmas before that. Immediately after the holiday rom-com released in 2019, it was mocked by moviegoers, who derided star Emilia Clarke‘s decidedly non-Daenerys role as a messy Englishwoman with a bad