‘The D’Amelio Show’ season 2 premiere review: For fun or for money?

The D’Amelio Show starts Season 2 by trying to establish a growing rivalry between the two sisters, Charli and Dixie. We follow Dixie on her journey to prepare for the 2021 Jingle Ball tour while we watch Charli struggle with…

‘Rise’ review: A slam dunk of a biopic

Rise could easily be a standard sports underdog movie, where, with training and sheer willpower, athletes overcome all odds and win a championship or something similar. It could also stumble upon oversimplification, like many biopics do, by trying to fit…

‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ review: Star Wars goes back to formula

What even is Star Wars anymore? In the modern age, that question is an increasingly tricky exercise. To a generation of those who were teens or adults in 1977, Star Wars is a thrill ride spectacle for the ages that…

The best Star Wars comics to read before ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’

In the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi (premiering this week), audiences will finally get to fill in one more gap in the Star Wars timeline between Episode III and IV. While live action Star Wars entries have mostly avoided showing us…

‘Black Widow’ just packed a box office punch, but how does its debut compare to other Marvel movies?

Black Widow reportedly opened to $80 million domestically at the box office this past weekend, pulling in $158 million worldwide. That’s big by 2021 standards, as the movie industry is still facing an overall decline from the COVID-19 pandemic. Let’s…

Bending realities: WandaVision tweets trailer for the first Marvel animated series, ‘What if…?’

Have you ever wondered if a story would have ended differently if this-or-that never happened? Well, What if…?, the first Marvel animated series, explores this captivating question. Marvel Studios released the trailer for this universe-bending series on July 8. The…

No, seriously, movie theaters might be key to whoever wins the streaming wars

Disney, Warner Bros, Universal, and Paramount are currently locked in a cutthroat battle to dominate the streaming landscape. Each of these studios now has their own streaming service, but their approaches wildly differ at the moment. And the surprise wildcard…