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Creature Commandos is the better version of The Suicide Squad

With its season 1 finale, Creature Commandos has secured its spot for the strangest first installment of an interconnected cinematic superhero...

11.01.2025 10

Susana Polo

Star Trek: Section 31 is about the most dangerous idea in Trek canon

Star Trek: Section 31, Paramount Plus’ first foray into feature-length Star Trek movies, has to do one, and only one, thing to succeed. The Michelle...

09.01.2025 10

Susana Polo

DC’s Batman reboot promised hope, but Wonder Woman and Superman delivered

When DC Comics’ Absolute line was leaked, then announced in 2024, one arresting image sucked all the air out of the room: the widest, square-est...

06.01.2025 10

Susana Polo

The Joker movies never got the point of the Joker

We live in a landscape where words like “reboot” and “retcon” are common knowledge. Hollywood executives use the word “multiverse” in...

29.12.2024 6

Susana Polo

Superman Returns’ teaser is one of the best Superman films ever made

Bryan Singer’s 2006 movie Superman Returns is infamous. A lukewarm direct follow-up to a 30-year-old superhero franchise from none of the same...

21.12.2024 10

Susana Polo

So Amazon is making its Mass Effect show. Does it have the guts to make it good?

When news broke yesterday that Amazon MGM Studios was moving ahead with its long-dormant Mass Effect TV series, I had one wistful thought: Wow. I...

09.11.2024 4

Susana Polo

I can’t believe how much I like the fights in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

The Dragon Age franchise is not known for staying exactly the same from game to game. Whether it’s changes in scope, in setting, in who your...

02.11.2024 1

Susana Polo

Making my old Dragon Age character in Veilguard hit me where I didn’t expect

Dragon Age: The Veilguard has a lot of rewards for fans of Dragon Age: Inquisition who’ve stuck out the decade-long wait between the two games....

31.10.2024 8

Susana Polo

DC is reviving Vertigo Comics because it has to

Among all the news from New York Comic Con this weekend, there was one item to make any comics fan gasp. DC Comics chief creative officer Jim Lee...

24.10.2024 30

Susana Polo

Dan Da Dan is horny and gross and frankly really intriguing

The first episode of the Dandadan anime adapts a scene that nearly put me off the manga entirely. In it, a teenage girl is abducted by alien...

17.10.2024 1

Susana Polo

What does the Marvel Cinematic Universe think a witch is, exactly?

There are any number of reasons to be watching Agatha All Along . Maybe you’re here for Kathryn Hahn Hahn-ing around, or to see Aubrey Plaza goth...

26.09.2024 4

Susana Polo

Rings of Power’s Celebrimbor plot is adapting a myth, not a book

Three episodes into its second season, and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power feels more comfortable just being fucking weird than in all of...

30.08.2024 2