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Star Trek: Picard’s Showrunner on How That Big Twist Wouldn’t Affect a Legacy Spinoff
This week’s Star Trek: Picard set up big stakes for what will be the very last episode of the series — and you can’t have big stakes without some big threats and big blows for our heroes. But it turns out episode nine’s biggest blow may not matter so much in the grand scheme of…
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Everything We Spotted in The Marvels’ Totally Cosmic Trailer
This morning we got our first look at The Marvels, and our first inkling of just how Kamala Khan, Monica Rambeau, and Carol Danvers will be thrust together. But this first trailer also gives us some very intriguing hints about the current state of the MCU’s cosmic side — at least, a little closer to…
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Star Trek: Picard Finally Got What It Wants — But at What Cost?
Star Trek: Picard’s third season has felt like such a departure from its first two at times that it has felt almost standalone, the rare character beats and plot points that have mattered to its nostalgic tale of changelings and family mattering little more than a footnote. But this week saw the series try to…
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Illumination Wants Everybody Back For Shrek 5
Everything old is new again, especially for Illumination. Whether it’s working in sequels to its franchises like Despicable Me or Sing!, or this week’s release of the Nintendo nostalgia trip that is The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the animation studio du jour has a lot on its plate, most of it continuations of familiar tales.…