1990s

On a Tuesday night at Logan Arcade, a bar on Chicago’s Northwest Side, Ian, a 57-year-old assistant manager, looks at the Rick and Morty pinball machine. “This is a frustrating machine," he says. He steps up and takes his turn—one of a…

Image via Marvel Studios Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania might’ve earned unwanted comparisons to such cinematic stinkers as Spy-Kids 3 and Tron: Legacy, but it turns out that its predecessor Ant-Man actually deserved to be accused of pinching plot points from another movie but has gotten away with it for the best part of a decade. Whether intentional or not, 2015’s Paul Rudd vehicle bears surprising similarities to a bonafide classic of the swashbuckler genre that dates back 25 years. As outlined by…

Scott J Shapiro / The Guardian: A profile of Dark Avenger, a pseudonymous PC virus writer from Bulgaria who gained notoriety in the 1990s after the country became known as the “virus factory” — Bulgaria in the 1980s became known as the ‘virus factory’, where hundreds of malicious computer programs were unleashed to wreak havoc. Scott J Shapiro / The Guardian: A profile of Dark Avenger, a pseudonymous PC virus writer from Bulgaria who gained notoriety in the 1990s after the…

NEW YORK —  A writer who accused former President Trump of rape filed an upgraded lawsuit against him Thursday in New York, minutes after a new state law took effect allowing victims of sexual violence to sue over attacks that occurred decades ago.E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer filed the legal papers electronically as the Adult Survivor’s Act temporarily lifted the state’s usual deadlines for suing over sexual assault. She sought unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for pain and suffering, psychological harms, dignity…

via Marvel Studios As a superhero sequel set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is obligated to tick a number of boxes as required by the parameters of the franchise. What we weren’t expecting to hear, though, was director Ryan Coogler naming a number of classic 1990s action blockbusters as influences and inspirations. Having already compared Tenoch Huerta’s Namor to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator 2: Judgement Day protagonist, the filmmaker went one step further during an…

As murders go, it was supposed to be a simple one. When the braintrust of Superman creators hatched their plan for The Death of Superman in 1992, their outline was as fiendish and simple as one of Luthor’s best schemes. Kill the Man of Steel in the pages of his own comic, and then replace him, over the course of the following year, with a slate of would-be substitute Supermans, each claiming the Big Man’s mantle but only representing a fraction of what made Kal-El great to begin with. Finally, when readers had…

A clip from the recently rediscovered TV-movie “The Soulmates: The Gift of Light” which first aired in Canada in 1991.Gif: YouTube / GizmodoWill Sloan, a movie podcast host in Canada, first posted an old family photo online in 2016, asking if anyone knew what cartoon was playing on the TV in the background. Oddly, nobody could figure it out. But someone finally cracked the case on Monday after six long years.“My gf and her friends have spent years trying to figure out what cartoon (glimpsed in the background of a family…

Image via 21st Century Fox David Fincher has just turned sixty. The director has had a long and successful career in Hollywood and has been garlanded with awards for visually dazzling and rigorously plotted dramas like The Social Network, Gone Girl, Zodiac, and Mank. But there’s one title in his filmography that’s guaranteed to spark debate: seminal 1999 cult classic Fight Club. Adapted from Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel of the same name, the movie follows Edward Norton’s miserable narrator as he meets the…

via Gramercy Pictures/Universal The video game genre remains as inconsistent now as it’s ever been, but the critical and/or commercial success enjoyed in the last few years by titles including the Tomb Raider reboot, Rampage, both Sonic the Hedgehog movies, Detective Pikachu, Werewolves Within, Uncharted, and Mortal Kombat has yielded arguably the medium’s most fruitful period to date. Next year marks the 30th anniversary of the infamously disastrous Super Mario Bros., and it wouldn’t be unfair to say that the…

Developer and publisher 3D Realms is looking to bring back a classic 1990s-style real-time strategy experience with Tempest Rising, an RTS that has you fighting over resources in the aftermath of a nuclear war. Publisher THQ Nordic announced the game with a new trailer during its 2022 games showcase, which shows how Tempest Rising is combining old-school inspirations with modern graphics and a more cinematic presentation.GameSpot got an early look at Tempest Rising ahead of THQ's showcase, which included…