ArchiveApr 22, 2025A literary Streisand effect: Bans on books like Gender Queer lead to increased readership, according to a new studyA Universal Studios Epic Universe theme park easter egg put Back to the Future whiz Doc Brown as the secret creator of it allJ.R.R. Tolkien or C.S. Lewis? Shades of Magic author V.E. Schwab reveals the two kinds of fantasy fiction, and which she writesNew Alien: Earth teaser could hint at FX's biggest canon change yet: Is Weyland-Yutani studying other aliens besides the xenomorph?Netflix's Stranger Things season 5 series finale was almost spoiled by The First Shadow, until the writers changed the script midway through rehearsalsMarvel Matters: The cursed chalice of Marvel Studios' success, and the broken cinematic universe dreams it gave HollywoodBethesda reveals Oblivion remaster available now; but still no word on Elder Scrolls VIThe Boys' Garth Ennis imagines a nuclear war future in New York City with Becky Cloonan called The WarJohn Boyega expected The Star Wars sequel trilogy to have a big plan "like Kevin Feige... at Marvel" (and was surprised when it didn't)Ahead of Netflix reboot, here's how the historical fiction anime Rose of Versailles helped me revisit my own history as a 'tomboy' and my "gender troubles"Apr 21, 2025Amid tariffs hitting the gaming industry, Steve Jackson Games CEO Meredith Placko resignsMichigan town assembles 300 person human chain to help local bookstore move 9,100 booksOrtegas or Melissa: We play Who Is More Likely To? with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Melissa NaviaThe Donald Trump tariffs could scare off Halloween (and the costume industry) as we know it, with your favorite Halloween costumes set to double in priceEaster is for Sinners: Ryan Coogler's vampire flick dethrones Minecraft, gets a record CinemaScore, and outperforms a Jordan Peele opening at the box officeAndor star on why Cassian makes the ultimate sacrifice in Rogue One: “There’s something romantic behind every revolution”Sorry X-Files fans, but I think Ryan Coogler's Gillian Anderson comments are being blown out of proportionThe six Star Wars movies Lucasfilm says is still in development, and the six they avoided talking about at Star Wars Celebration 2025Red Dead Redemption 2 was made using real horses, but the actors reveal they didn’t get to ride themYou heard right, Critical Role fans, that was Ashley Johnson in the most recent episode of The Last of Us season 2Five Nights at Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon has asked the voice actors to stop participating in fan projects including even voice actor memesJohn Boyega reveals a Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker alternate scene exists where he reveals he's a force-user and JediPopverse Picks: From Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man to Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel, our favorite all-time MCU castingsJust like the best parts of Star Wars, Andor season 2 episode 1 shows how easy it is to give in to fascismApr 20, 2025Yoda says the future is always in motion, but we know the next Star Wars Celebration dates are (and where it'll be)Finally, fans get a chance to join the Clone Wars for themselves (with special secret missions) in upcoming Star Wars Zero Company video gameStar Wars' Andor series was a joke on the set of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story according to Diego Luna, then years later it became real"It really works!" Star Wars' Rosario Dawson has a new favorite cosplay mashing up her Ahsoka and DC Wonder Woman rolesReturn to Mos Eisley in a Star Wars meets Studio Ghibli anime coming as part of Visions Volume 3I just saw the coolest lightsaber design ever at Star Wars Celebration, and we'll all get to see it in The Duel sequel coming in Star Wars Visions Volume 3Fortnite's next Star Wars event Galactic Battle will include Darth Jar Jar, as well as the Mandalorian, Luke Skywalker and... a Death Star?Studio Ghibli's Shinya Ohira is doing a Star Wars anime this year, and from what we've seen it changes the way we look at StormtroopersStar Wars: The Ninth Jedi is getting spun off into its own standalone special with Production IG after Visions' successStar Wars Visions Volume 3 release date: Sequels to fan-favorite episodes, brand new stories, moreApr 19, 2025How Darth Jar Jar and LEGO Star Wars helped Ahmed Best fulfill a Star Wars ambition of 20 yearsStar Wars veteran Ahmed Best on getting offered "the coolest five minutes in Mandalorian history": "It's about time""The dinner party from hell": Star Wars Andor dark power couple Kyle Soller & Denise Gough dish on one of their top 3 favorite scenes from the showAhsoka season 2 teases a massive Star Wars military battle, as Thrawn goes head to head with Admiral AckbarHayden Christensen is returning to Star Wars for Ahsoka season 2 - but is it as Darth Vader or Anakin Skywalker?Ahsoka's Dave Filoni and The Mandalorian's Jon Favreau are in a custody battle over the Star Wars "toys" in their various Lucasfilm projectsRyan Gosling's Starfighter just overtook Daisy Ridley's New Jedi Order project to map the Star Wars future post-Rise of SkywalkerI saw episode 1 of Andor season 2 at Star Wars Celebration Japan, and it's everything you want it to beAndor season 2 premiere throws out unexpected references to classic Star Wars ship design and The Force AwakensStar Wars' Mon Mothma actor Geneveive O'Reilly has waited 20 years to stand up to the Empire, and with Andor season 2 she feels she finally has "this moment"Andor and Hit Man star Adria Arjona teases a "really beautiful" relationship in season 2 of the critically acclaimed Star Wars seriesThe breakout character from Star Wars: Andor season 1 is going to disappoint fans by being her true, evil self in the show's final outingCassian Andor & K-2S0's first meeting (and the droid's birth) gives Diego Luna & Alan Tudyk the giggles ahead of Star Wars' Andor season 2 revealWhat to Watch May 2025: Netflix, Max, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu & more take you to the ATM (Animation, Travel, & Murder)Amazon is fully in the Henry Cavill business now after buying the movie rights to Highlander Fantasy great Terry Pratchett is coming to comics as an extensive graphic novel program adapting his novels is announced - and his daughter is working on one of the booksApr 18, 2025Star Wars: Rebels benefited from a surprising amount of "latitude" from Disney shortly after their purchase of LucasfilmDC's James Gunn, David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and more of the cast talk making Superman into a big screen hero again: "The Fantastic Four: First Steps' retro New York City is a wonder to my eyes as a New YorkerNetflix doesn't seem too worried about Trump's tariffs... and according to their Q1 numbers, they might not have to beMargot Kidder, cinema's finest Lois Lane, explains how to make the character work on the big screen (Hint: she's not only Superman's girlfriend)Our charming prince Hugh Dancy dishes on Hannibal, Ella Enchanted, Downton Abbey, and moreChristopher Reeve almost had one final Superman movie, and it would have given closure to Clark/Lois romanticsThe way Star Wars portrays clones and stormtroopers shows a more subtle bit of storytelling than we ever gave George Lucas credit forLook for the Get Out of Niamos card as Star Wars and Monopoly Go cross over this summerExpect "Easter Eggs" about DC Comics' future and a realignment of DC's past in New History of the DCU, according to Mark WaidSuperman Unlimited's Kryptonite revival reverses a 54-year trend on DC's deadly green alien elementStranger Things: The First Shadow is built on the Vecna backstory that didn't make it into season 4Amongst Superman's many accomplishments: creating the comic book miniseriesIs Lex Luthor Donald Trump? Only partly, says the comic book creator who gave Luthor a businessman makeover in the 1980sDC has dropped a big tease about how it’s going to bring the Legion of Super-Heroes back (and it doesn’t include Darkseid)Popverse Jump: Star Wars: Visions has convinced me that we don't need a new trilogy - we just need to let the galaxy be weirdStar Wars’ John Boyega reveals his own con fandom: Pokémon conventionsCowboy legend James Brolin kept his Ransom Canyon co-stars on their toes, says Jack Schumacher Andor before Andor: How George Lucas' unrealized Star Wars TV series would've been "Deadwood in space"Star Wars: The Phantom Menace's villain returns yet again in Maul: Shadow Lord animated seriesThe Star Wars: Mandalorian & Grogu movie is the Disney+ show with the time taken to get it perfect, teases creator Jon FavreauStar Wars' mysterious Knights of Ren have a new female leader. Meet Tava RenStar Wars brings its real-life Galaxy's Edge theme park droids into fiction with The Mandalorian & GroguFrom Alien to X-Wing: Sigourney Weaver will be an X-Wing pilot and Rebel leader in Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, teases Dave FiloniDisney & Lucasfilm are quietly planning a 50th anniversary Star Wars movie that's focused on all-new charactersLongtime Star Wars fan Ryan Gosling sees 2027 Starfighter movie as a chance to "shine a light" into a part of the Star Wars Universe we haven't seen beforeI never realized how much I wanted to see Star Wars' Thrawn in a shoujo-style manga until nowCal Kestis is back as Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is getting its own comicLucasfilm launches its first-ever Kickstarter to revive Star Wars: The MangaThe Star Wars: Starfighter movie will be the first Star Wars movie since 1977 that's not a sequel, a prequel to anything before - and Shawn Levy & Ryan Gosling are keying into thatHow do you write a show like Star Wars' The Mandalorian? First, you need a lot of action figures says Jon Favreau & Dave FiloniStar Wars' Pedro Pascal knew that audiences would love The Mandalorian even before shooting started - here's whyScrew CGI! Lucasfilm has built a life-size Walker for Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu so it looks cooler in IMAXRyan Gosling to reveal the future of Star Wars past Episode 9 with Starfighter (and we have a release date!)Apr 17, 2025Marvel's commitment to a retro Fantastic Four movie goes further than fans can seeStephen King's The Life of Chuck movie adaptation is one of the first "uncynical" projects writer/director Mike Flanagan has ever doneDune: Awakening is a What If story that acts a love letter to every previous incarnation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi classicHow to write DC superheroes like Superman, The Flash, and more, according to Mark WaidFinal Fantasy XVI's adorable dog Torgal gets his own Magic: The Gathering card at MagicCon 2025John Cusack & Joan Cusack were in the original Breakfast Club cast - and Molly Ringwald explains why John Hughes changed it all upMarvel's The Thing has teeth in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and I have a lot of feelings about itThe MCU resurrects Marvel Comics' original name & company in The Fantastic Four: First Steps Easter EggThe Critical Role cast tease body piercing, edging, and more for their darkest campaign yet: Age of UmbraWe finally meet MCU's Silver Surfer, and she brings a new attitude with latest The Fantastic Four: First Steps trailerThe Lord of the Rings cast reveal a marathon 3-day crying scene cursed with costume errors & accidental film destruction (and Sean Astin accepts PART of the blame)The best movie and TV Westerns, according to Ransom Canyon's Jack Schumacher Apr 16, 2025After Captain America 4, Anthony Mackie promises Avengers: Doomsday will "give the audience that old Marvel feeling"Lore Corner: The Daredevil: Born Again season 1 finale sets up John Bernthal's Punisher for a special that's straight out of Marvel ComicsThe hottest trading cards in Japan's Fukuoka Prefecture are of real-life old menThe creepiest SFX from Ryan Coogler's Sinners blinded the vampire actors (temporarily)