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Gwen Stefani was given yet another opportunity to address her infamous appropriation of Japanese culture — specifically what she learned from the backlash — and completely botched it. In a bizarre Allure interview meant to promote her new GXVE Beauty line, the Orange County-bred No Doubt frontwoman instead insisted repeatedly that she is Japanese, reigniting the conversation about cultural appropriation and her long track record of misappropriation, most notoriously displayed in her early 2000s Harajuku Girls era.Posed…

Nicolas Cage suggests his character, Spider-Man Noir, won’t be back for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.Image: Lionsgate/SonyAs a huge fan of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, I just kind of assumed all of the supporting Spider-people from the first movie would be back. We know about the big three (Miles, Peter, Gwen) for sure, but Spider-Han, Peni, and Noir? They have to be in there too, right? Well, maybe not.Speaking to Screenrant, the voice of Spider-Man Noir, the legendary Nicolas Cage, made it seem like he…

Image: Sony Pictures AnimationLast week’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer gave us a whole multiversal nexus of Spider-heroes to freak out about, both new designs and familiar looks. How could there possibly be even more? Well, the movie’s gorgeous new poster managed to get some in.Sony dropped the new poster today, along with a new tagline twisting Into the Spider-Verse’s “anyone can wear the mask” mantra: anyone can wear it, yes, but it’s how you wear it that matters most.Yes yes, great power, great…

Screenshot: Sony Pictures AnimationBefore he barrels into Miles, slamming him into the road and ending the trailer. Ouch!Our latest look at Across the Spider-Verse leans much more on mystery, telling us little about what to expect in the new movie other than that Miles is going to face a lot of ostracization from the multiverse in a very different experience to his prior encounter with other Spideys in the first film. For now, we’ve got plenty of time to ponder just who else could appear—notable absences from the trailer…

Hang around until next week and the new Across the Spider-Verse trailer.Image: SonyNext year will bring many highly anticipated films to your eyeballs, but few have us as excited as Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The follow-up to maybe the greatest superhero movie of all time arrives with super high expectations, and while we’ve already seen a brief tease from the film, now we know when the firstfull trailer will be upon us. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse comes to theaters June 2, 2023 and the official Twitter…

Gwen Stefani has been announced as part of the line-up for P!nk’s two headline shows at American Express presents BST Hyde Park on Saturday 24th and Saturday 25th June 2022. Stefani says: “I don’t think I would ever be me without the incredible musical influences of the UK. I am so excited to be back! This is going to be an amazing show” Multiple Grammy Award-winner Stefani rose to fame as the front woman of No Doubt before embarking on a hugely successful solo career. She has sold more than 60 million records…

A small sample of the cool stuff at Designer Con.Image: io9/Germain LussierImagine a place where monsters live with robots. Where the pinkest, prettiest thing you’ve ever seen is right next to the darkest and most gruesome. A place where art, pop culture, and collectibles collide like asteroids into a planet. That place is the annual Designer Con, and it’s the coolest place you’ve ever been.DCon, as attendees call it, took place last weekend at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, andlike every year, I…

Photo: Bryan Bedder (Getty Images)Say cheese! New York Comic Con 2022 is here and you know what that means? Cosplay. Lots of it. Characters from every universe, every comic, every TV show, every movie—the New York fans show up when Comic Con comes to town and here, we’ve put together a stunning collection of amazing cosplay.You’ll see a bunch of people cosplaying as X-Men, Spider-Man characters, the Fantastic Four, What If? characters, familiar faces from The Boys, horror icons, Stranger Things favorites, Lord of the…

You may be aware that the big event of Marvel Comics at the moment is that the Avengers, X-Men, and Eternals accidentally created a god with the power to destroy all life on Earth, and the mandate to do so if humanity is not judged favorably enough. “You will be judged individually. You will be judged as a collective,” said the Progenitor Celestial. Last week, it came for Hawkeye in the form of Black Widow, and this week, its roving eye finally arrived on our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. And naturally, it took…

Image: HBO Max / Marvel Comics The breakout star of House of the Dragon, Milly Alcock, has been reimagined in fan art as one of the biggest new additions to the Marvel comics canon: Gwen Stacy as Spider-Woman. Also known by other similar titles like Spider-Gwen and Ghost Spider, the character rose to prominence in 2017 thanks to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, where she was voiced by multi-Marvel role boasting actress Hailee Steinfeld. Yet to make an appearance in live-action with the superhero alter-ego,…