Normally we might let something like that go if the rest of the movie entertains or makes up for it, but Infinite doesn’t do either. In addition to that cliché rescue maneuver (which is followed by a destructive and pointless car chase through the inside of a police station), the film contains a string of laughably implausible and uninspired action sequences while borrowing freely and liberally from films like The Old Guard, The Matrix, Nobody, Avengers: Infinity War, and any of the X-Men entries....

Fans of Anne Rice’s book series, and viewers who only know the characters from AMC’s Interview with the Vampire, will be equally shocked by the season 1 finale, “The Thing Lay Still.” If you haven’t seen it, stop reading now. The vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) is given a vampire time-out by those he gave the Dark Gift to, Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), and Claudia (Bailey Bass)....

That’s because a German shell (or flak) has pierced directly through the center of his B-24 Liberator. The whiplash is so intense that only harnesses keep him in his seat. Still, Stewart rises in the air; pilot Capt. Neil Johnson’s hands are briefly shaken from the controls; and for a moment, the entire plane is consumed with smoke as it violently ascends. When Stewart finally gets his bearings, he’s able to look down and see the hole in the aircraft—the edge of it is inches from his boot....

Riverdale Season 5 Episode 15 “Our story is about three young women bursting with talent.” When last we saw Josie McCoy (Ashleigh Murray), she was in New York City trying to make her dreams come true on the ill-fated (and gone-too-soon) Riverdale spin-off Katy Keene. Often when characters are spun-off and their subsequent shows fail, they vanish into the pop culture ether — The Ropers from Three’s Company being the textbook case of this phenomenon....

Podcasting has been growing in popularity recently, with countless new shows launching and thousands of listeners tuning in. Rory’s Buzzsprout’s free online course will show you how to launch your first podcast with competence. The podcasting sector has grown tremendously over the years. However, the most significant reason behind its success is the convenience it supplies. Nowadays, there is a podcast for everyone, no matter what interests you or who you are....

“Legendary composer John Williams is 90 years old. He’s written music for over 150 movies, with several pieces becoming so iconic and recognizable, people know them even if they haven’t seen the film. He’s largely regarded as the greatest composer in the history of cinema, but his career may soon be coming to an end.” Read more at Gizmodo Thor: Love and Thunder has yet to release to the public, but fans are already asking the question of whether or not there will be a Thor 5?...

“Over 20 years before Iron Man kick-started what’s now the Marvel Cinematic Universe—the pop-culture juggernaut that devours so much of the box office—another Marvel hero got his chance to save the world. Big difference, though: the star of Howard the Duck didn’t exactly set the world on fire with his efforts.” Read more at Gizmodo. Few novels are as universally loved as Pride and Prejudice, but even Jane Austen’s most famous work had its contemporary critics....

“Choosing a favorite Pixar movie is an impossible task we wouldn’t wish on anyone—not even Sid, the toy-torturing bully first introduced to audiences back in 1995. But with the release of the Italian seaside adventure Luca on Disney+, we revisited all 24 Pixar feature films that have made us laugh and (especially) cry over the past 26 years to assess them from worst to best.” Read more at Thrillist. Juneteenth’s recognition as an official federal holiday happened in no small part thanks to Opal Lee, the 94-year-old Black activist known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth....

“In Rian Johnson’s whodunnit Knives Out, a metaphorical donut and donut hole lay out the mystery. For the film’s sequel, another food will guide the way: The multilayered onion. That’s right, the title for Benoit Blanc’s next adventure is Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” Read more at The A.V. Club The main villain of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has been revealed, and it’s a deeper cut into Marvel comics lore than we expected....

“Earlier today, Gilbert Gottfried’s family announced in a statement that the iconic comedian with a penchant for filthy jokes and a screeching voice had died ‘after a long illness at the age of 67. Naturally, other famous people and members of the comedy community have been paying their respects to Gottfried, reminiscing about their favorite comedy bits and noting—as Kathy Griffin did—that he would’ve been the first to make a dark joke about his death....

Loki Episode 6 If you thought Marvel’s Disney+ shows were done with Contact homages after Monica Rambeau’s transformation sequence in WandaVision, you thought wrong. The Loki season finale, “For All Time. Always.” opened with another one. We heard iconic dialogue from other MCU films, including Vision’s “What is grief, if not love persevering?” – which went from a heartbreaking utterance to an instant meme earlier this year – as we pulled out from Earth and its blistering sun and outward toward the Citadel at the End of Time where He Who Remains aka Very Old Kang resides, but not before we were joined by the likes of Neil Armstrong, Greta Thunberg, and Nelson Mandela....

The little guy appears around the 35-second mark and he immediately joins the canon of Marvel’s greatest characters. Does he have a name? Not yet. Does he have a purpose? Unclear. Is he a cutie? You better believe it, bud. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has always operated under the mantra of giving people what they want. For the first decade of its existence that meant introducing dozens of iconic Marvel comic characters and having them crossover in one another’s movies, creating an exciting and comprehensive cinematic universe....

Or does it? It’s true that the movie takes some time to wrap up the story after the climactic showdown at Mount Doom (with Frodo, Sam, and Gollum) and at the Black Gate (with nearly everyone else). But we’d argue that as the culmination of more than nine hours of story-telling, the audience needs that. We need time to say goodbye to these beloved characters; we need to see the full conclusions to their stories; and we need the film to give us a sense of closure....

Today in Hall H, roughly 6,500 fans were treated to 90 revealing minutes of The Rings of Power‘s massive SDCC panel. Late Show host and Tolkien super fan Stephen Colbert served as master of ceremonies as showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay and 21 members of the show’s ensemble cast discussed the new series, set to premiere on Sept. 2, 2022. There were plenty of tidbits dropped, sneak peeks revealed, and even the presence of the show’s composer Bear McCreary, who provided the audience with an orchestral performance of the show’s score....

Task management is a way to ensure that you’re always working on high-priority tasks and being as efficient as possible. Easy it may sound, it’s challenging to track large-scale projects and even more difficult to apply to small-scale projects. If you’re working with a lot of team members, then you need to have task management software in place. This article will look at different aspects of task management and determine how to overcome problems with task management software like Monday....

Watch the Eternals trailer here if you haven’t already…then we’ll get to talking about who all these cool new characters are! And here’s the official synopsis, courtesy of Marvel Studios: So who are all these cool new characters joining the MCU? We’ve got a breakdown for you here. Richard Madden as Ikaris Eternals is going to give us a veritable Game of Thrones reunion with Richard Madden as Ikaris, the most famous member of the Eternals....

Yet, there are times when Midnight Suns doesn’t even feel like a 2022 game. It feels like a game from a bygone era in ways that often infuriated and delighted me in equal measure. That’s the thing about Midnight Suns. It’s the kind of game that makes us confront the current state of gaming, what we’ve lost along the way, and how certain innovations and improvements have become irreplaceable standards that just might be more valuable than we’d sometimes like to believe....

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales ends in notably epic fashion considering the deeply personal story at its heart. Most of the game focuses on the conflict between Miles Morales and his best friend Phin Mason, whom he discovers is the villain known as the Tinkerer, the leader of a terrorist group known as the Undeground that has been waging war against the shady Roxxon Energy corporation on New York’s City streets....

Wandavision has arrived, and with it, a whole slew of new Marvel characters join the MCU. Probably the most interesting, and the one with the most implications for the story of the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is Wanda and Vizh’s neighbor, Agnes (Kathryn Hahn). The strange couple’s next door neighbor is actually Agatha Harkness, and her presence here bodes ill for Wanda’s mental health. Harkness has a somewhat complicated history [editor’s note: she’s old enough to remember Atlantis sinking, go on with “complicated”], par for the course for anyone mentoring a reality manipulator....

WandaVision episode 4 ditches the sitcom format in favor of something that gives us a much clearer picture of what’s happening in the “real” MCU. Primarily functioning as a Monica Rambeau origin story, and one that gives us a better look at the inner working of SWORD (and puts FBI Agent Jimmy Woo front and center!), this week’s WandaVision also answers some big questions about what’s going on in Westview....