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What’s so great about Star Wars is that every trilogy, movie, and show has its fair share of fans as the franchise really offers something for everybody. As many eagerly await the latest blockbusters movies and live-action series, others are seated with bated breath waiting for The Bad Batch Season 2 - the popular Clone Wars sequel series starring a battalion of clones with enhanced abilities. The hit first season debuted on Disney+ last summer to an exceptional response as fans were taken on a galactic adventure with Hunter, Wrecker, Tech, Crosshair, Echo, and Omega....

One of the most lovely heralds of spring are the cottony white blooms of the Bradford pear trees. In full splendor on a mature tree, they’ve been likened to white clouds. They certainly make a showy impression. But there’s a much bigger story behind Callery pear trees or Pyrus calleryana. Native to Korea and China, Callery pears were imported to the U.S. several times. Originally, it was to help with issues facing the common pear, but then the tree was embraced as a popular ornamental, especially the Bradford cultivar....

Ice cold, creamy, soft, and sweet — what’s not to like about ice cream? The heat has finally caught up to us here in Oregon, and we are reaching for cooling foods and drinks everyday. None of us complain when we have ice cream on a hot day! But when my daughter and I, through some testing, realized that we don’t tolerate dairy very well, I wondered if my ice cream days were over....

The upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a sequel full of both second steps and new beginnings. The film will continue the long-running stories of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Stephen Strange and Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff, while also launching fan-favorite rookie characters like Xochitl Gomez’s America Chavez.Since the promotional campaign for Doctor Strange 2 kicked off in December 2021, America Chavez has been at the forefront alongside the film’s leading stars....

A handful of Marvel TV series originally released as Netflix titles were recently taken off the streaming service and relocated to Disney+. The six shows, which include Daredevil, The Punisher, and Jessica Jones, got their own category under the Marvel section of the platform, titled “The Defenders Saga,” but are not being treated as canon to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Of the six titles, Daredevil is generally the most popular. Charlie Cox, who portrays the titular character, recently made his MCU debut in Spider-Man: No Way Home....

New rumors suggest that a Doctor Strange spin-off show on Disney+ could be in development at Marvel Studios, taking inspiration from the Strange Academy comics.The Strange Academy line of comics by Skottie Young and Humberto Ramos follows Doctor Strange as he and other Marvel magic users (including Brother Voodoo, Magik, and the Scarlet Witch) help up-and-coming magician heroes hone their skills.Now, this story may be adapted into the MCU if a new rumor regarding an upcoming Disney+ program is to be believed....

Dwayne Johnson is mere weeks away from making his DC debut as Teth-Adam in the highly-anticipated Black Adam, which has been in development for more than a decade. But on top of The Rock’s arrival as the Man in Black, some attention has turned to the reports that Henry Cavill may be set for his long-awaited return as Superman in the movie, which would be the actor’s first canon DCEU appearance since 2017’s Justice League....

Our editors independently research, test, and recommend the best products; you can learn more about our review process here. We may receive commissions on purchases made from our chosen links. When you use cloth, you never have to worry about running out. Cloth diapers are popular all of a sudden. Parents have gone from preferring the convenience of throwing away dirty diapers to not wanting to get caught without diapers on hand – a worst-case scenario....

Chemicals in commercial products are not rigidly regulated in the United States, which is why consumers need to be smart about what they bring into their homes. A documentary film came out last year called “The Human Experiment.” It suggested that we humans are the unwitting subjects of a terrifying mass experiment in toxic exposure. It asked the question, “What if the greatest environmental disaster of our time is not an oil spill or nuclear meltdown, but rather our long-term and persistent exposure to toxins?...

It’s all so wonderful, the smart home where all of our appliances talk to each other and turn on and off automatically. Bosch wants to wire up our windows so that the Internet of things can close them if it starts raining. Dacor wants us to control our oven through a tablet computer. Matt Hickman shows us a wifi-connected Crock Pot. Now Google is buying Nest Labs, with its thermostats and smoke detectors, hopping on the smart home bandwagon....

Ms. Marvel is a celebration of all things Marvel as it introduces audiences to Kamala Khan, a Muslim teen who is just as much of an Avengers super-fan as the rest of us. The Disney+ premiere took Iman Vellani’s young hero to AvengerCon and delivered references to 28 MCU heroes and villains while also including an oddly specific description of Avengers: Endgame’s final battle. As the Avengers’ battle for Earth against Thanos took place outside the public eye, the writers were always going to have a tough job explaining how the world was so aware of what happened....

Despite often being overlooked by general audiences, music is among the most integral tools in filmmaking for the role it plays in creating atmosphere. Over the years, the superhero genre has spawned countless iconic tunes, including the theme tunes from The Avengers, Spider-Man, and Batman - two of which were scored by composer Danny Elfman.Danny Elfman, John Williams, and Hans Zimmer are arguably three of the biggest composers in film history, and they’ve all made their mark on the superhero genre....

Marvel Studios continues to move further into its Phase 4 slate after a dozen new entries have already hit theaters and Disney+ since the beginning of 2021. Included in those upcoming releases is the next round of episodes for Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, the first Disney+ show within the MCU to be officially renewed for a second season. Just about every actor from Loki Season 1 is set to bring their talents back for Season 2, which is now deep into production ahead of its undisclosed release date on Disney’s streaming service....

Warning - This article contains spoilers for the series premiere of Loki. The premiere of Loki was driven by exploration as fans were introduced to an entirely new sector of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Episode One introduced a variety of concepts and rules that define the flow of time and the role of the TVA in the MCU. The majority of that exposition was given in the form of a two-minute instructional video narrated by the TVA mascot Miss Minutes....

What If…? will explore the MCU’s multiverse like never before, giving established heroes and villains different storylines. The anticipation is high for the upcoming project, mainly because this will be Marvel Studios’ first foray into the realm of animation. What If…? will feature the voices of a plethora of MCU veterans like Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, and Samuel L. Jackson, and all of them will bring new life to their respective characters in animated format....

Following Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox, almost no character’s MCU debut has come with more anticipation than Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool. Recently, the fan-favorite anti-hero has seen a spike in popularity over rumors that he would make that first appearance in Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which just debuted in theaters. Fans first started to believe this idea when Deadpool was thought to be in the Doctor Strange 2 poster that debuted with its Super Bowl trailer in February....

On September 3, Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will introduce audiences to a new MCU hero - Shang-Chi played by Simu Liu. As Marvel’s first Phase 4 origin story, the film follows the MCU’s master of Kung-Fu as he confronts his past, his family, and the real Ten Rings organization supposedly headed by his father, The Mandarin. Shang-Chi is also Marvel’s first martial arts film; and while it looks to deliver incredible action-packed sequences, it also intends to explore the spiritual and the mystical, as its promotional marketing has already revealed....

The topic of MCU canon has been hotly debated throughout the franchise’s run, with several projects technically not within Marvel Studios’ circle thought by fans to be part of the MCU’s mythos. This issue dates all the way back to the MCU’s first spin-off, Agents of SHIELD, which has received a few winks and nods from the movies despite technically being considered non-canon. Agent Carter has seen similar canon concerns, though it seems that Hayley Atwell’s solo series may be considered part of the MCU’s canon after all....

In the late 1990s, Marvel was hit by bankruptcy, which resorted to them having to sell the film rights to many of their characters to multiple movie studios. One of these studios was Universal Pictures, who were sold the movie rights to Hulk, Namor, and all of their related characters. Universal then went on to produce director Ang Lee’s Hulk in 2003, and later distributed Louis Leterrier’s MCU canon film, The Incredible Hulk, in 2008....

Fans learned in WandaVision that Monica Rambeau has a strained relationship with Carol Danvers, being actively dismissive of her. Then, fans saw Carol preoccupied with another matter off Earth in the post-credits scene of Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings. Now, fans have gotten the most explicit clues in Episode 1 of Ms. Marvel that something is wrong with Captain Marvel. An explanation for Carol’s behavior will come in her sequel, The Marvels, but Ms....