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When Blade premiered in 1998, superhero cinema was on life support. Batman & Robin had turned the genre into a caricature the year before, Marvel Comics was broke and desperate, and a shared cinematic universe seemed unthinkable. Superheroes were fading into irrelevance.Then Wesley Snipes stepped across a blood-soaked floor wearing

This article contains spoilers for Alien: Earth episode 4. For the past 46 years, the Alien franchise has been immortalized by the tagline, “In space, no one can hear you scream.” Just four episodes in, and Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth is making it clear that the mantra doesn’t apply to

For a certain section of the population, the news that pop icon Taylor Swift and football star Travis Kelce are engaged to be married is a seismic event. How else could you describe the pairing of such titanic figures? For others, it’s old news—at least when those others are superhero

Darren Aronofsky has had an interesting career thus far. After an auspicious beginning with his intriguing and minimalist debut Pi, the sadistic cult classic Requiem for a Dream, and the ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful sci-fi opus The Fountain, Aronofsky became a legitimate force with The Wrestler and Black Swan, both

Nintendo’s breakout title was not Mario Bros. or The Legend of Zelda, but rather Donkey Kong, with the eponymous ape headlining the company’s 1981 arcade game that helped Nintendo establish a prominent foothold in the American gaming industry. Since then Donkey Kong has become a fixture for the company, either