superheroes

There are arguably two dominant superhero cinematic universes around right now: the MCU (although that’s a little more debatable these days), and, as io9 has written about before, the Fast and Furious franchise. But while Fast has dabbled with superheroics and touched the edge of full-on cars in space movies, we now have a series brave enough to supplant it: Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger.Spoilers of the Week April 11-15The 48th and latest entry in the Super Sentai franchise—the Japanese tokusatsu series that forms the action…

Image: Caspar Wijngaard/Image Comics.Sooner or later, modern superhero comics dig into what it means for people with extraordinary powers to exist in the world on a larger geopolitical scale. With the right team at the helm, those kind of stories can lead to compelling drama, and Image Comics is hoping you’ll turn up to see how that shakes out in its upcoming series, The Power Fantasy. Billy Crudup on Picking Mr. New York…Dr. Manhattan in Zack Synder’s Watchmen Written by Kieron Gillen (Immortal X-Men) and drawn by Caspar…

Not to state the obvious, but Tom Cruise has a few years on Nightwing, aka Dick Grayson. The former Boy Wonder is around his mid-20s, which would make things difficult for an actor in their 60s — although that doesn't stop Cruise from looking awesome in Nightwing's domino mask. Another entry that seems almost a perfect fit, but just ever so slightly off, is the Flash. Sure, Cruise might be the fastest film star alive, but the longer you look, the more former Flash Grant Gustin starts staring back through…

The web-heads at Insomniac Games must be celebrating, as Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 sales have reached over 10 million copies as of February 4, 2024. The news was provided to us by Sony, who just released its financial results for the latest fiscal quarter.  “Today, we’re honored to celebrate an amazing milestone: Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has surpassed 10 million units sold, bringing the game series sales to an astounding 50 million units!” said Insomniac Games on Twitter. “Thank you for the support and making this spectacular…

Anthony Carrigan was supposed to die in the first episode of Barry. And yet, his cheerful Chechen mobster in the crime-comedy series managed to survive for four seasons. “I was really rewarded with the opportunity to have this arc with Hank in which he starts off as this lovable goofball who’s continuously failing upward and his naivete gets him through these experiences unscathed,” Carrigan tells Rolling Stone.  Barry, which has nearly a dozen Emmy nods this year, follows war veteran turned hitman Barry…

It’s the final days of 2023, and voices everywhere are predicting the final days of the superhero movie. Even that bastion of the mainstream, the New York Times, is getting in on the eulogies. It’s no wonder, with this year’s solid string of financial and critical flops ebbing into 2024’s low-tide lineup of a mere three “interconnected universe” movies, Deadpool 3, Madame Web, and Kraven the Hunter. But in the final days of 2023, one thing remains clear. People aren’t tired of superheroes — they’re just tired of bad…

From typical romances to the most innovative superhero show we’ve seen in years, 2023 was a great year for South Korean TV 2023 has been a hell of a year for South Korean TV. We may not have had a megahit like Squid Game or All of Us Are Dead, but it feels like a year in which Hallyu has firmly embedded itself into the global cultural consciousness, with some of the biggest South Korean shows of the year spoken about in the same breath as Western hits. We’ve seen major…

The radio show – Killers of the Flower Moon Photograph: Melinda Sue Gordon/APMartin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon is frequently enthralling over the course of its three-and-a-half-hour runtime, sinking into the depths of American shame as it follows William Hale (Robert De Niro) and his unofficial lieutenant Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) as they grasp for the money and land controlled by the Osage tribe in 1920s Oklahoma, which involves slowly poisoning Ernest’s wife Mollie (Lily Gladstone) as they kill off…

You’ve read the stories. You’ve debated the casting announcements. You’ve watched a handful of artists try to do justice to a legacy of iconic characters that’s now just short of a century old. Maybe you even demanded that Warners release the Snyder Cut. (If so: Um, thanks?) By now, we don’t need to recount to you the long, storied history of the D.C.E.U., or remind you that because of a number of corporate decisions, scandals, disappointments, accusations, and outright WTF head-scratchers, some new management is about…

Activision has revealed the next store bundles in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Warzone, and there's a lot coming. Coming to Call of Duty in the Season 1 update include a scary version of Santa, characters from the Dune universe, and more heroes from Amazon's TV show The Boys.The Santa Gnaws bundle comes with a spooky version of the holiday hero who dons a red cap but has massive muscles and looks like he's been through some stuff. The bundle comes with two weapons, a sticker, a charm, and an…