Pity the sharks. They are not generally considered to be cute and cuddly; they tend to incite shudders rather than “aww”s. It’s bad enough that they are frequently cast as villains by Hollywood, but the real injustice comes from the shark’s distinct misfortune of having fins which demand a high price for use in soup. Consider this. Sharks have been around for 400 million years and have survived five mass extinction events....
After many were introduced to the world of Westeros with HBO’s Game of Thrones, the fantasy mega-franchise is set to debut its first TV spin-off later this summer with House of the Dragon. The project will see the author of the books the TV franchise is based on, George R.R. Martin, take a step back from the writer’s table and serve in a more advisory role. House of the Dragon debuts on August 21, 2022, showcasing the Targaryen civil war that took place nearly 300 years before the events of the Game of Thrones TV show....
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the season finale of Loki. The first season of Tom Hiddleston’s Loki solo series has officially come to an end after six episodes on Disney+. With the MCU’s fourth full project release of 2021 now in the books, there is a literal multiverse’s worth of story details to dissect and analyze before the franchise returns in a few weeks. Even with the God of Mischief fighting his way through time and space alongside the newly introduced Time Variance Authority, the season finale still managed to blow the fandom’s collective minds with one big reveal after another....
Before the credits rolled on The Book of Boba Fett’s fourth episode, a familiar theme led fans to believe The Mandalorian’s Din Djarin may appear in the show’s next chapter. However, few would’ve guessed that Episode 5 of Lucasfilm’s newest live-action series would’ve been all about Mando in the wake of events from his action-packed Season 2 finale. Warning - The rest of this article contains spoilers for The Book of Boba Fett....
While many fans are excited for The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, some may have actually forgotten how they’ll pop up well before that first. In fact, it should be at some point in December when The Holiday Special lands on Disney+.Given how successful the cosmic franchise has been, Marvel Studios has given director James Gunn a lot of leeway to do nearly whatever he wants. This seems to also include his own Holiday Special, a project he seems very excited to show the world....
When the show first began filming, Ms. Marvel’s plot was a mystery, as many initially speculated that Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan and Matt Lintz’s Bruno Carrelli were sneaking out to go to a Halloween party at one point in the narrative. Soon after, it was revealed that they were actually sneaking off to AvengerCon and that the two of them worked together to make Kamala’s Captain Marvel costume. Evidence began to pile up that it was likely that the costume was for some contest at the convention, which Kamala even imagines winning in the trailer....
Marvel Studios is currently preparing to start off its 2022 with Oscar Isaac’s Moon Knight on Disney+. Featuring the elusive Steven Grant alongside a mysterious villain in Ethan Hawke’s Arthur Harrow, this series will look to bring a new dynamic to the MCU’s growing story. With ancient Egyptian mythology and difficult mental issues, Moon Knight may be one of the most unique MCU projects to date.The show’s promotional tour kicked off in mid-January as fans got the first look at Isaac’s Steven Grant, even getting the first full look at the hero’s incredible costume in the process....
Fans recently got some insight into why HBO Max has canceled and abandoned so many streaming programs in recent years.Warner Bros. (WB) is in the middle of some major managerial changes, as it continues to work through its merger with Discovery, leading to some new strategies when it comes to production and releases for certain programs. Most recently, this has been seen in the nearly complete overhaul of the DC Universe (DCU) with James Gunn and Peter Safran joining the company, but this also means that a number of movies and TV shows have been canceled in the process....
Forget “prefabricated” – remember “Monteringsfärdiga”. After writing about the Deep Performance Dwelling, which I described as “Passive House and Prefab,” Scott Hedges of Bygghouse – “a building technology company focused on commercializing Scandinavian approaches to energy performance in buildings” – took issue with some of the language. Scott seriously knows his prefab and has worked with Ecocor, the builders of the Deep Performance Dwelling panels. Scott points out that even though what we now think of as prefabrication has been around for centuries, the term is relatively new....
2019’s Joker was an interesting move by Warner Bros. The film disconnected itself from the canon of the DCEU to make an entirely separate story focused on how Jack Napier became the Prince Clown of Crime. The decision paid off, as that solo outing crossed the highly-coveted billion-dollar mark at the box office, and now Todd Phillips’ project is getting a sequel.But what’s the next story that Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix have to tell?...
Disney and Lucasfilm are in an incredible place with Star Wars after Kathleen Kennedy’s presentation at Star Wars Celebration 2022, which featured The Mandalorian, Andor, and everything in-between. However, the only thing not on the agenda at this massive fan event was the next step on the big screen for the galaxy far, far away. Star Wars hasn’t had a film in theaters in over two years, the last of which being 2019’s Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker to close out the nine-movie Skywalker Saga....
Perhaps the ultimate “alternative to the alternative,” the LED (light-emitting diode) is well on its way to dethrone the compact fluorescent light (CFL) as king of the green lighting choices. Little remain of the early challenges to acceptance: most notably, brightness and color choices are now quite satisfactory. Affordability remains a challenge but has greatly improved. Here’s a review of the little semiconductor device transforming our indoors and outdoors environments....
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law has no shortage of references to the larger MCU. The Tatiana Maslany-led series didn’t fail in showcasing these Easter eggs in Episode 1, opening with a sneaky reference to Hayley Atwell’s Agent Carter series. The installment also featured callbacks to previous MCU movies, such as The Incredible Hulk, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Thor: Ragnarok. Warning - the rest of this article contains spoilers for She-Hulk Episode 2....
Marvel Studios is just a few weeks into its new venture with Phase 4 of the MCU, which is already receiving rave reviews from fans and critics alike. The WandaVision finale coming on March 5 is building up considerable hype, which will be followed up in two weeks by The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and eight subsequent MCU entries through the course of the year. There are still a few Phase 4 entries that have some uncertainty in terms of release dates and other specifics, including the Mahershala Ali-led reboot of Blade....
Marvel Studios is set to bring one of its most unique projects ever to the MCU with this summer’s What If…?, which will be the franchise’s first dip into animation. While the rest of Phase 4 will largely focus on expanding into the future, this show will take a deep dive into the MCU’s past and explore everything that could have been with movies from the Infinity Saga. Nearly every actor that’s been involved with the MCU through the first thirteen years will be back to reprise their roles, including stars like the late Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa....
One reported rumor that has got fans excited is Moon Knight having “a choreographed sequence that draws a parallel to the gruesome hallway fight sequence from Marvel’s Daredevil on Netflix.” Additionally, this moment of brutality would likely involve another of Marc Spector’s superhero personas from the comics, called Mr. Knight. Mr. Knight is the name that Moon Knight goes by when patrolling the city streets in the dead of night, not as a superhero, but as a detective or private investigator....
Sony Pictures is deep into preparation for its next animated Spider-Man movie, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which has its next trailer on the way.In Summer 2023, Sony Pictures will finally bring the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, one of the company’s best-reviewed superhero movies ever made. Across the Spider-Verse has already become one of the most anticipated movies of the year, in part for being the lone animated outing amongst a hoard of live-action stories from both DC Studios and Marvel Studios....
For years we have been saying “Your office is where you are.” Now we have the Nissan e-NV200 WORKSPACe, an electric van that has been converted into a mobile office. Nissan collaborated with UK designers Studio Hardie to build the works into their electric van, with such lovely touches as a foldout desk, big screen computer, LED lighting, WiFi, a fridge and of course, a serious espresso machine that pops up out of the counter....
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is set to feature the return of Charlie Cox’s Daredevil. The Disney+ series marks the second appearance of the character in the MCU after his surprise inclusion as Peter Parker’s lawyer in Spider-Man: No Way Home. Although Daredevil’s role is still being kept under wraps, the show’s cast and crew have been sharing several notable tidbits about his return. She-Hulk lead star Tatiana Maslany previously teased the “amazing” return of Cox’s Marvel hero in the series, noting that fans will be “really happy” about his comeback....
With less than a month remaining until its long-awaited release, Marvel Studios fans are building anticipation for December’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. Now that this movie is the next one on Phase 4’s release schedule, it’s an all-hands-on-deck scenario for the promotional tour and press rounds over the next few weeks. Most recently, the second full trailer for No Way Home broke the internet with footage featuring five of the movie’s villains, particularly centering on Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock and Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin....
