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Warning - This article contains spoilers for WandaVision. “Episode 6 - All-New Halloween Spooktacular!” of WandaVision was not only inspired by ’90s sitcoms but also by Halloween. The Maximoff-Vision residence finds themselves right in the midst of the spooky holiday, with Westview’s titular couple not-so-coyly dressing up similarly to their classic comic-accurate counterparts. Billy and Tommy Maximoff also get their own costumes, with Billy’s hinting that his Young Avenger persona, Wiccan, is soon to come within the MCU....

In some cases, cross-laminated timber and robotic wood frame can both do the same job. Which should you choose? My wife tells me that I got “mansplained.” I was attending a panel discussion at the Toronto Wood Solutions Fair, where Sandra Frank, Marketing Director of Folkhem, a Swedish home builder, showed a low rise apartment building built of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT), and Tad Putyra, President & COO of Great Gulf Homes, Low-Rise Division, described how his company built houses and low rise apartments out of wood frame using sophisticated Swedish tools....

Spider-Man: No Way Home was a dream come true for all eras of Marvel fans. The movie featured the return of both Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield as their respective versions of the web-slinger, as well as past villains such as Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin and Jamie Foxx’s Electro. Since the film’s release, fans have been campaigning for Garfield to make a full-time return to the world of Marvel. Many people have claimed that Garfield has been the best actor to portray the character in live-action to date....

Insider Charles Murphy revealed some new information about Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, touting the film as “Marvel’s best script.“Ant-Man 3 is coming fast, as Paul Rudd’s pint-sized MCU hero is sent into the Quantum Realm to take on Jonathan Major’s dastardly Kang the Conqueror. The threequel has been brandished as the most “epic” Ant-Man film to date, and that is in part thanks to script-writer Jeff Loveness. Loveness made a name for himself writing hit episodes of Rick and Morty and a number of Marvel comics but received major buy-in from Marvel Studios, as he is tasked with writing not only Quantumania but Avengers: The Kang Dynasty....

DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn confirmed the four types of content that will make up the new DCU.Gunn and Peter Safran, his partner in managing Warner Bros.’ (WB) DC efforts, have not even been in the job a month, and yet, the pair have been asked countless questions about their super-powered plans for the costumed franchise.The duo has supposedly put together a “bible” for the next eight to ten years of the DCU....

Recently, Netflix rocked the world when it was announced that the service would be losing streaming rights to its own original Netflix series. This meant the likes of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron First, The Defenders, and The Punisher would be leaving their homes. Even better, they were posed to join the rest of the Marvel live-action library on Disney+. When the move was made, many people worried about censorship; the shows can be fairly brutal, after all....

Hawkeye is close on the MCU horizon as the Disney+ series debuts later this month. Marvel’s fifth streaming project marks the first solo adventure for Jeremy Renner’s Clint Barton, but he won’t be the only archer on the screen. The show is as much a celebration of one of Marvel Studio’s original six Avengers as it is an ushering-in of the new MCU era with the introduction of Hailee Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop....

In which we marvel at just how profound it is that NASA’s New Horizons is set to pass the icy dwarf planet. Given the relatively small size of our planet in terms of cosmic things, our earthling brains can have a hard time grasping really long distances. The almost 25,000 miles around the planet, that makes sense. That the moon, on average, is 238,855 miles away … this isn’t too hard to fathom....

When European settlers first came to North America, they assumed they were looking at “untouched” nature. Sure, there were native peoples, but history tells us they didn’t value the skills or knowledge of the existing civilizations too highly. The fertile landscapes they were beholding must have been ordained direct from God. In making this assumption, they overlooked one of the most sophisticated, wide-spread and sustainable forms of land management ever practiced....

Bats are vicious monsters from your worst nightmares — if you’re a beetle, fly, moth or mosquito. For humans, however, bats are more of a blessing than a curse. That’s partly because many people are cursed, or at least annoyed, by insects. With more bats swooping around at dusk, there are fewer mosquitoes and flies to spread disease, fewer moths to swarm streetlights, and fewer beetles and moth larvae to raid vegetable gardens....

This is a question I ponder every year. From my own experience, I know that running a plug-in humidifier only adds to the wintertime terror of sky-high energy bills, and slathering on colloidal oatmeal lotion will get you only so far. That said, if you and your baby-soft epidermis are in a state of peril, I wouldn’t completely throw out the notion of investing in a humidifier. However, it’s worth knowing that the Energy Star program does not qualify humidifiers (there are Energy Star-rated dehumidifiers on the market, however), and energy consumption differences among different models are moot....

The MCU’s Disney+ shows have shaken up the traditional formula of the franchise so far, and She-Hulk is expected to be no different. Being presented as a “half-hour legal comedy,” She-Hulk will see Tatiana Maslany suit up as Jennifer Walters in the courtroom and the titular hero for more super-heroic escapades. Filming has commenced for the series in Atlanta, Georgia, though plot details are relatively scarce aside from a potential Skrull appearance....

It was touch and go with fans about whether Rachel McAdams would return as Christine Palmer in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness since early reports indicated she would be a no-show for the sequel. However, it was soon confirmed that she would return as the sorcerer’s former love interest but in a more active role. McAdams’ Palmer in the sequel certainly intrigued fans since she was spotted inside the Illuminati facility holding Strange and America Chavez prisoner....

It was previously rumored that filming for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania would begin June 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. Michelle Pfeiffer later said that filming would begin in spring 2021, but the release date of the film has been constantly in question. This uncertainty hasn’t stopped production from capturing footage in Cappadocia, Turkey, or actress Evangeline Lilly from promoting the upcoming threequel. Lilly actually expressed that she hopes that her character would lean away from the “tough badass chick” she portrayed in the previous two films....

As Monica Rambeau is poised to become a new superhero in The Marvels, the character’s MCU costume shined alongside its teaser poster.Teyonah Parris’ MCU character is set to be pushed to the forefront in Captain Marvel 2 after an impressive debut in WandaVision. Ahead of her appearance, one of the main topics of discussion is her costume and superhero name. It was previously hinted that Monica’s superhero name would end up being Spectrum, potentially indicating that she will have the same costume as her comic counterpart....

It’s been known for many years that director Scott Dickerson and writer C. Robert Cargill originally wished to include Nightmare as the villain for the Doctor Strange sequel, but it supposedly never made it into any existing script. The scribe for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Michael Waldron, heard of these rumors of Nightmare being the original villain, but he admitted that when he joined, “it was a Multiverse story....

Even though no official plans have been revealed, that hasn’t stopped a slew of mutant-related teases from making their way into the MCU. The recent Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is perhaps the best example of this, featuring not only scrapped X-Men characters, hints toward the upcoming X-Men ‘97 animated series, and a brief glimpse at a famous X-Men-related location, but also a real-live mutant in the form of Patrick Stewart’s Professor X....

With the exception of WandaVision, perhaps no other Disney+ show to date has quite captured Marvel audiences the same way as Loki. Coming into the series, fans knew that Hiddleston would deliver as the God of Mischief and touch on time travel, but Loki introduced audiences to Multiversal wars, Miss Minutes and Variants, Owen Wilson’s Mobius and his love of jet skis, and, of course, the TVA (Time Variance Authority). Created by He Who Remains, this bureaucratic organization is tasked with protecting the Sacred Timeline and pruning any Variants or branching timelines that deviate from the predetermined flow of events....

The latest installment of the storied Resident Evil franchise hits theaters this week. Unlike its six predecessors, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City brings fans back to where it all began. Welcome to Raccoon City adapts elements of the first two video game as it follows a group that are determined to uncover the secrets of the shady pharmaceutical company Umbrella Corporation. Taking place in 1998, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City picks up the day after the events of the Resident Evil 2 video game....

The Batman is on the radar of DC and comic book movie fans everywhere, as it gets set to show The Dark Knight in a new light come March 4, 2022. Robert Pattinson will be putting on the cowl of the Caped Crusader for the first time in his acting career, and he will be joined by Zoë Kravitz portraying Selina Kyle, better known as the villain/anti-hero Catwoman. The film is directed by Matt Reeves and will follow Bruce Wayne in his early years as Batman....