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Screengrab via Walt Disney Pictures Despite all the creative and social challenges of reimagining a beloved classic for a new generation, Disney has found a happy medium to ace The Little Mermaid‘s live-action remake so far. Although directors have exercised their creative liberty and have made a lot of changes, Halley Bailey‘s casting as Ariel sparked debates and surprised Disney fans the most. Simultaneously, it was also applauded as a commendable step towards inclusivity and diverse representation in modern…

Image via Marvel Studios Perhaps it was the fact that it ushered in a new phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, perhaps it was because the first big-screen appearance of Kang the Conqueror generated exactly the hype it should have, or maybe MCU fans are just that fickle, but after Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania proved to be nothing more than a wet fart of a superhero film, faith in the future of Marvel seemed to fall off a cliff earlier this year. But it seems as though the threats of hype train abandonment…

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two First Amendment rights cases this fall after San Diego board members blocked parents for raising concerns on their social media accounts. A second case was filed against the city manager in Port Huron, Michigan for blocking a resident who raised Covid-19 concerns on his Facebook page. In both cases, the courts sided with the plaintiffs, but the defendants appealed to the Supreme Court which agreed on Monday to pick up the cases.The First Things To Do In VR, Part 2In the case of…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Naysayers are often unpopular, for obvious reasons. Sometimes, though, they're the only thing standing between a group of people and a disastrous decision. In the business world, internal auditors are in an analogous position. As the in-house watchdogs tasked with ensuring financial reporting and…

It would be the biggest understatement in Marvel Cinematic Universe history to say that Phase Four wasn’t anywhere near as beloved as its predecessors, with the post-Infinity Saga slate causing plenty of consternation among the fandom that Kevin Feige and his team had finally bitten off more than they could chew. While there were undoubtedly triumphs along the way, there was just as much (if not more) that rubbed people the wrong way. Eternals became the first installment in MCU history to end up with a Rotten score on…

It’s fair to say that James Cameron probably expected a little more hype around the debut trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water, which finally dropped this week, more than 12 years after the first film opened in cinemas. The internet has reacted with a collective yawn, and there have been a fair few comment pieces wondering if anyone really cares about a return to the forests and oceans of Pandora.It turns out they do. Or at least, enough to watch the trailer anyway. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the new promo was…