Marvel Studios dipped its toe into the television world last year for the first time, and while all four of its series have been successful, only one of the live-action shows has been confirmed for a second season. Indeed, aLokiSeason 2was confirmedthe day the Season 1 finale of that show aired, promising thatTom Hiddleston’s title character will return for more misadventures now that the multiverse has been unleashed on the MCU....

The legacy and history of Marvel, from its early days as a publishing juggernaut to its current status as a major motion picture behemoth, is as long and complicated as any of its comic book narratives, full of colorful characters, tragic defeat, and some very wild twists. It’s fitting, then, that Marvel’s new documentary anthology show,Marvel’s 616(named after Earth-616 or Earth Prime, where most of the Marvel continuity takes place) goes deep into the company’s multilayered and complicated history and is as varied in tone and style as the various comic books the company publishes....

In a blow that truly hurts, Netflix has reversed its decision to renew the half-hour seriesGLOWfor a fourth and final season and has instead decided to cancel the show altogether. While the series was never as big as something likeStranger Things, it was critically acclaimed and its fans were eager to see how the story of these amateur female wrestlers from the 80s would conclude. Alas, we won’t get that chance....

CBS All Access revealed a new, longerStar Trek: Picardtrailer today while also confirming when, exactly, you’ll get to see the new series. Indeed, theStar Trek: Picardpremiere date has been set for Thursday, August 16, 2025, where it will kick off with the premiere episode and then the rest of the 10-episode first season will be released on a weekly basis on Thursdays. The show findsSir Patrick Stewartreprising his iconic role as Jean-Luc Picard fromStar Trek: The Next Generation, and picks up years after the conclusion of that series....

When it comes to great modern action sequels, franchises likeJohn WickandMission: Impossibleinstantly come to mind. However, one of the more underratedaction-thrillersof the last decade has beenSicario: Day of the Soldado. The sequel toDenis Villeneuve’s 2015 Oscar-nominated film made a modest splash at the box office when it debuted in the summer of 2018. While the franchise has gone dark in the past six years,Day of Soldadois now landing for free on Vizio TV’s free streaming service WatchFree+....

It’s been a good couple years for the intensely talentedOscar Isaac. Following some solid supporting work inDrive, and surviving the unfathomable catastrophe that isZack Snyder’sSucker Punch, in 2011, 2013 brought him into the spotlight with his emotionally wrecked, exquisitely melancholic performance as the titular folk singer in the Coen brothers’Inside Llewyn Davis, followed by an excellent turn inJ.C. Chandor’sA Most Violent Year, a better-than-averageSidney Lumetriff from 2014. 2015 proved his biggest year yet, however, with a starring role inStar Wars: The Force Awakensand, more importantly, a hypnotic performance inAlex Garland’s hugely promising debut,Ex Machina....

HBO Max is expanding its slate of adult animated television shows with a very exciting order:Velma, aScooby-Dooprequel series all about Velma Dinkley.Velmais one of three new adult animated shows ordered by the streamer. In addition to thisScooby-Dooprequel series geared towards grown-up fans, HBO Max has also givena two-season order totheCloneHighrebootand a new series calledFired on Mars. Velmacomes from executive producerMindy Kaling. As the title indicates,Velmawill focus on the orange turtleneck-wearing, spectacle-sporting Velma Dinkley....

After the premier accessDisney+debut of giant, international action-blockbusterMulanand the Christmas Day “regular Disney+” debut of giant, critically acclaimed Pixar filmSoul, it’s clear that Disney is investing a ton more resources into their streaming services, a move only exacerbated by loss in revenue and pandemic-era difficulties. But now, it sounds like Disney is going even further with this “skip the theaters, go straight to Disney+” strategy. Deadline reports of talks going on inside Disney regarding the sending of three key feature films straight to Disney+ instead of any kind of future theatrical release:Cruella,Pinocchio, andPeter Pan and Wendy....

2016 is upon us, so it is now time to set our minds on the superhero movies and TV shows that this New Year will bring, and it’s fair to say that the superhero news started the year pretty strong. Marvel’sDoctor Strangeis definitely the high point of the week for releasing the first official looks at the film,Daredevilfollows closely with reveals of Season 2 images, we also got a look atBen Affleck’s Batcave fromBatman v Superman, and plenty more....

The CW seriesSuperman & Loiscatches up with Clark Kent (Tyler Hoechlin) and Lois Lane (Elizabeth Tulloch) at a time when they’re struggling to figure out how to be working parents in high-stress and high-pressure situations, as well as provide what each of their very different twin sons Jonathan (Jordan Elsass) and Jordan (Alexander Garfin) need. Being the world’s most famous superhero and fighting off supervillains and monsters as Superman is the easy part, but raising two teenage boys, either of whom could inherit their father’s Kryptonian powers, is another thing entirely....

Remember when comic books, and the movies and TV shows based on them, were considered kids' stuff? It both feels like a very very long time ago and also alarmingly recently that narratives about heroes in capes and tights were universally looked down upon as immature and insubstantial; the journey fromAdam Westdoing the Batusi toBlack Panthergetting an Oscar nomination for Best Picture is at times baffling to contemplate, even though many of us witnessed it happening in our lifetimes....

Back in 2015,Ridley Scottquickly attached himself to direct an adaptation ofDon Winslow’s then-new bookThe Cartel, which was flying off shelves. Now, withAlien: CovenantandAll the Money in the Worldunder his belt, Scott is about to finally turn his attention toThe Cartel, and it’s shaping up to be one sprawling adaptation. Winslow’s book covers roughly a decade in the world of the Mexican drug cartels, including a fictionalized account ofEl Chapo’s 2001 prison escape, but adapting the book outright has proved to be a tough task....

Sergio Corbucci’s character Django, initially portrayed byFranco Nero, is the best but most underrated cowboy ever to grace the silver screen. Originally appearing inDjango(1966) and much later inDjango Strikes Again(1987), the character would go on to appear unofficially in an additional thirty-one films, beforebeing adapted into the 2023 TV seriesstarringMatthias Schoenaerts, cementing him as one of the most popular and enduring Western characters ever. The enormous popularity of the original films and loose Italian copyright laws made the character prolific, along with Franco Nero’s steely portrayal of the rugged anti-hero....