Heroes

The tree, which weighs around 12 tons, was plucked from the musician's property in Vestal, New York, and delivered to Rockefeller Center on November 11 It’s the most wonderful time of the year — unless you live in New York and find yourself having to travel through swarms of tourists in Rockefeller Center. The 91st annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 29, with this year’s 80-foot tall, 43-foot wide Norway Spruce arriving courtesy of Gym Class Heroes…

Image: Loungefly, BoxLunch, Hedley and Bennett, Heroes & Villains, DIFF, CrocsThe season of giving is upon us, and fandom friends, here’s a list of deals and festive inspired geeky gifts and gear ideas.An array of fandom forward sites and retailers like BoxLunch, Heroes & Villains, Blackmilk are more are ready. Here’s a selection of essentials from across the gamut of pop culture—Star Wars, One Piece, Marvel, DC to name a few. Plus some tech deal ideas for the cinephiles and pop culture parents in your life.Check…

The crowd had been revived. The energy had been restored. The building shook. The Dallas Mavericks were shaken.“Let’s Go Lakers!”... “Let’s Go Lakers.”With one minute left in a roaring comeback for the ages Wednesday night, the Lakers were on the verge of overcoming a 20-point fourth quarter deficit for their finest moment of the young season.They grabbed a two-point lead. They grabbed the ball. They had stolen a victory.And everything went dumb.LeBron James, amazing again with 16 points in the final dozen minutes,…

The Hunger Games was a wildly popular franchise, thanks to the acclaimed novels and four-movie film franchise starring Jennifer Lawrence. While we’ve spent some time away from that sci-fi world, fans will get to return to Panem with the prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. And actor Tom Blyth recently defended Snow getting a prequel before the heroes of the franchise. Let’s break it all down.The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes cast is led by Tom Blyth, who is playing a young Coriolanus Snow. Some fans have taken…

It took about nine hours’ worth of episodes for Loki to wrap up 12 years of MCU storytelling. Just nine hours. That’s like, half an Eternals.  What’s even more impressive is that the Disney Plus series stuck the landing, gracefully making it feel like its hero had always been on this path. It closed out Loki’s character arc in a beautiful, satisfying way. Even the character’s biggest fans had to admit that if things had to end, this was an ending that made the journey worthwhile.  Which makes you think: What if that…

High up in the penultimate tier of the Albert Hall, two spotlit heralds blast out a fanfare on trumpet and tenor sax. They are answered by a deep dub bassline on stage. A wild-haired pianist limbers his fingers across a keyboard while drummer and Ezra Collective band leader Femi Koleoso – arriving on stage like a boxer to the ring – raises his arms, acknowledging the crowd’s roar, before he’s even hit a snare.Ezra Collective have many things going for them: conservatoire musical chops on the one hand, and an instinctive…

Across 15 years of MCU history, there have been countless close calls as the beacons of all that is good and just go toe-to-toe with the diabolical forces of evil. Although the heroes always prevail, it hasn’t always been a washout from start to finish; there were certainly times that the bad guys had us sweating profusely. Maybe they were outnumbered, overpowered, or simply met their match in an individual who knew all their weaknesses, but some do-gooders struggled against particular foes. And isn’t that the fun of it…

Match-3 games have come a long way since Bejeweled, and it’s one of the dominant genres on the mobile market. Heroes & Villains is a new match-3 game that will let you play as your favorite DC, well, heroes and villains. It was a pre-registered title for a bit, and now it’s available to download. This game’s download is around 840MB on the Play Store, with about 40MB of user data created. It’s free to download, but it does have in-app purchases. The Play Store listing says that it contains ads, but we haven’t…

Whatever your idea of a typical Superman movie is, James Gunn is not making that. The writer and director of 2025's Superman: Legacy got the ball rolling by first casting David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan as Clark Kent and Lois Lane. Which makes sense. Those characters arethe leads in most Superman movies. From there, casting so far has been atypical, to say the least, and Gunn recently commented on why that is.Sean Gunn on Working With His BrotherAfter casting Clark/Superman and Lois, Gunn followed it up by casting…

Can Travis be far behind? Recently, No More Heroes creator Suda51 held the first-ever “Grasshopper Direct” event. It’s a madcap show, packed with curses and cosplay, serving as a fantastic example of modern anti-marketing. Most of the “real” content on display is non-game related news like the reveal of new t-shirts, gallery showings, and related merch, while the most shocking moments of presentation pop in under the guise of unrelated, intrusive advertisements. First, there’s Pistol Yakuza (a John Wick-esque movie and…