Grant DeArmitt
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Experience Critical Role's Age of Umbra actual play earlier than expected with special Session Zero coming May 22
Session zero will see Critical Role's Ashley Johnson, Laura Bailey, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, Taliesin Jaffe, and Travis Willingham create their Daggerheart characters with GM Matthew Mercer
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Why HBO series The Last of Us season 2 expands on Dina's game backstory, according to Dina herself, Isabela Merced
The Last of Us, season 2, episode 5 gives us character details we didn't know about Merced's Dina. Their inclusion, says the actor, informs both her relationship to Bella Ramsey's Ellie and the show's take on trauma
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Dead by Daylight's Five Nights at Freddy's map changes the killer queue forever
Not only will Dead by Daylight soon introduce Five Nights at Freddy's Springtrap - it will also add a Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria map AND a gaming mechanic for which fans at PAX East 2025 went wild
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Wednesday season 2 might not have been the reason Jenna Ortega didn't do Scream VII, but it was the reason she didn't do You season 5
You showrunner Michael Foley recently revealed the schedule conflict between You's final season and Wednesday's sophomore appearance on Netflix
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Driving century-old cars, talking to local historians, learning Sicilian swears - How Mafia: The Old Country's devs brought the game back in time
I'm just saying, I don't know of a Mario Kart dev team that ever got behind the wheel like the Mafia: The Old Country folks did
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
HANK: Drowning on Dry Land is Batman: The Animated Series, if Batman could manipulate time and was always drunk
Playing HANK: Drowning on Dry Land at PAX East 2025 brought me back to a beloved part of my childhood, while giving me something I haven't seen in gaming before now
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Shadow Labyrinth star Swordsman No. 8 almost had a Pac-Man head, reveals Bandai Namco producer
Look, if you're formatting the gaming world's silliest character, Pac-Man, into the grimdark world of Shadow Labyrinth, some of the transition is bound to be a little funny
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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28 Years Later: That eerie poem from the trailer was used simulate stress in military training
A century after its recording, the use of this particular iteration of the poem Boots, by Rudyard Kipling, is an extra creepy way to tease 28 Years Later
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Carnies on Consoles: A shocking personal realization from PAX East 2025 concerning the connection between spectacles from ye olden days and now
Talk about "geek" culture! Get it? Because PAX East and carnivals both... nevermind
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Popverse Picks: The best Stephen King movie & TV (and more) adaptations, from one King fan to another
It's maybe the greatest horror movie of all time, but King himself doesn't like it - so let's just skip Stanley Kubrick's The Shining altogether and get into some other things based on Stephen's works, yeah?
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Here's what you need to know about Mafia: The Old Country's new feature: Knife combat
Expect Mafia: The Old Country to have a lot less shoot-outs than previous games in the franchise, but a whole bunch more backstabs. Literally and figuratively
May 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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There are still two iconic movie killers the Dead by Daylight director still wants to see in the game - here's who they are
Coté's choices won't exactly surprise you, but they will leave you asking why these two horror icons haven't made their way into a Dead by Daylight chapter already
May 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Pac-Man being rebooted into 'Dark Pac-Man' for Shadow Labyrinth was almost too dark for Bandai Namco, reveals producer
Speaking at PAX East 2025, Shadow Labyrinth producer Seigo Aizawa recalls his original pitch for the game and the opposition to it
May 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The future of World of Warcraft is in housing, as the game invites players to own "a little slice of Azeroth"
Of everything discussed at the Evolving Azeroth panel at PAX East 2025, housing was the most anticipated by both the crowd of World of Warcraft fans and the developers on stage
May 11, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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World of Warcraft's developers reveal the one secret that almost evaded gamers in the game's history
Speaking at PAX East 2025, World of Warcraft devs Maria Hamilton, Jesse Kurlancheek, Jeremy Feasel, and Paul Kubit addressed the secret it took 11 months for players to discover
May 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Hey, Lord of the Rings gamers - Tales of the Shire allows you to customize your own Hobbit feet
How big? How hairy? Don't google those questions out of context, but know that you can provide your own answer when Tales of the Hobbit: A Lord of the Rings (cozy!) Game comes out this year
May 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Nicolas Cage's Dead by Daylight character is the real thing, because "there's never been a Nicolas Cage soundalike," according to the Con Air, National Treasure and Face/Off star
Dead by Daylight voice actors usually let metal singers do the screaming... but not Nicolas Cage
May 10, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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No, Dead by Daylight's Witcher outfits won't let you access Geralt's mutant abilities... but there's a lore reason why (maybe)
Let's be honest - Dead by Daylight fans who know "the bathtub scene" understand that The White Wolf's real power is in his looks. And The Witcher outfits do give us that
May 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Dead by Daylight game director praises Blumhouse's upcoming movie: "They absolutely get what we're trying to accomplish"
Game director Mathieu Côté has a message for Dead by Daylight fans - that movie you're looking forward to is in good hands with Blumhouse
May 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Dead by Daylight x Five Nights at Freddy's will be the first time fans can become Springtrap
A full decade after Springtrap debuted, Five Nights at Freddy's fans will at last be able to enter the suit. Or rather, as we learned at the Dead by Daylight panel at PAX East... suits
May 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Matthew Lillard returns to Five Nights at Freddy's Springtrap before FNAF 2 as a playable character in Dead by Daylight
Springtrap, AKA William Afton, AKA Matthew Lillard, AKA the big bad of Blumhouse's film sequel, will be playable on an all new Five Nights at Freddy's map
May 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Dead by Daylight is adding Dragula hosts the Boulet Brothers as DLCs
The Boulet Brothers will be represented as wearable outfits for pre-existing Dead by Daylight killers The Huntress and The Artist
May 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Dead by Daylight x The Witcher sees Doug Cockle return to the role of Geralt of Rivia
Behaviour Interactive has announced The Witcher Collection for Dead by Daylight, featuring outfits for franchise favorites such as Yennifer, Ciri, and of course, the White Wolf
May 09, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Mafia: The Old Country confirms FOUR returning characters will appear in new prequel (but they're not saying who)
Speaking at PAX East 2025, lead Mafia creatives Nick Baynes, Alex Cox, and Tomáš Hřebíček were forthcoming about who we'll see in the next installment - up to a very, very specific point
May 08, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Halloween villain Michael Myers was the key to licensing Dead by Daylight's many killers, says the game's director
Dead by Daylight offers legions upon legions of franchise DLCs. But according to game director Mathieu Côté, that might not've been possible without the OG slasher from John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic
May 08, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
The Last of Us season 2 has an A-ha moment: What 'Take On Me' means to the franchise
As we should expect by now, The Last of Us, season 2, episode 4 proved that it knows exactly which emotional moments to bring over directly from the games
May 07, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
After being struck down 27 yeas ago, Star Wars' answer to Goosebumps is ready to become more powerful than we as kids could have imagined
If Lucasfilm and Disney want to tap into YA, 90s nostalgia, there may be a better option than what they went with in Skeleton Crew
May 07, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Why wasn't [SPOILER] in You season 5? Netflix didn't ask her to be
If you've finished You's final season on Netflix, you might've been aware of a major character's absence. As it turns out, season 5 plans never included bringing her back
May 06, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Surprised by who dies in Thunderbolts*? So was the movie's writer
Just because you're Eric Pearson, who wrote the screenplay for Thunderbolts*, doesn't mean you get to know who dies in Thunderbolts*
May 06, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Matthew Lillard’s return to the Scream franchise almost happened 25 years ago
Lillard, who plays the infamous Stu Macher, is headed back to the Ghostface Gang in Scream VII. As it turns out, though, he was nearly the villain in the franchise's 2000 entry
May 06, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Squid Game season 3 trailer teases the finale of the Netflix show (though we know it's not really over): "Time to play one last time"
Not to undercut the finality of this Squid Game chapter (it may very well be the end of Seong Gi-hun) - but Netflix isn't letting a cash cow like this one go
May 06, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
After Avengers: Doomsday, Kevin Feige has a 10-year plan for X-Men in the MCU
The likes of Cyclops, Mystique, Magneto, Nightcrawler, Beast, Professor X and more have an MCU future that stretches well into the 2030s, as new details of Feige's plans for the X-Men emerge
May 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
The Righteous Gemstones: How Star Wars inspired the final season of HBO's blessedly raunchy comedy
With The Righteous Gemstones' finale now streaming, co-creator Danny McBride dishes on the influence the early Star Wars films had on his irreverent, religious comedy saga
May 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Spoilers!If you haven't seen Thunderbolts* ending, too bad: Marvel Studios is now marketing with the film's tail-end twist
MCU fans: if you were hoping to find out about the asterisk in Thunderbolts* by seeing the movie, you'd better stay away from commercials and billboards until you get to the theater
May 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Last of Us season 2's Isabela Merced says filming Superman affected the Dina/Ellie relationship
Being Hawkgirl takes a lot of work, says Superman star Merced, and that meant hopping into her Last of Us season 2 role with less prep than she would've liked
May 05, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Netflix hit Stranger Things originally had a different setting (and title) to honor the series creators' favorite movie: Steven Spielberg's Jaws
Who knew that Montauk, which was almost the title of Stranger Things, was the inspiration for Jaws? And not for nothing, who knew Jaws was the Duffer Bros.' favorite movie?
May 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Spoilers!What the asterisk in Thunderbolts* means, and where the name comes from (No, it's not the Red Hulk, or any other Marvel Studios connection)
Look, we love Harrison Ford just as much as everybody else, but it turns out that the Thunderbolts' name comes from a very different place (Sorry, Captain America: Brave New World)
May 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Spoilers!Yes, Marvel spoiled a major Thunderbolts* moment in the Avengers: Doomsday cast announcement, but hoped no-one would notice
A widely-spread MCU fan-theory regarding who was (and wasn't) in the cast list of Avengers: Doomsday turned out to be 100% on the money
May 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Spoilers!Thunderbolts* resurrects a longstanding Marvel Studios tradition (with a Sentry-inspired twist)
An MCU staple that was missing from Captain America: Brave New World returned for Thunderbolts*, but then it got weird... and dark
May 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Evil Dead icon Bruce Campbell is "so in" to be on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, despite not exactly knowing what Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is
Hey, you have to give the Evil Dead and Bubba Ho-Tep star points for being up for anything. Even if "anything" includes a Star Trek series that Bruce Campbell has never *technically* heard of
May 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto VI release date delayed a year- and goes right after Avengers: Doomsday and Star Wars' Mandalorian & Grogu
If you're the kind of Star Wars and Grand Theft Auto fan who has to experience things as soon as they're available, get ready to make a touch choice - GTA VI is out less than a week before The Mandalorian's next chapter
May 02, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Hazbin Hotel's Alex Brightman talks Broadway, Beetlejuice, and whether or not he has an extra vocal cord at Emerald City Comic Con!
Alex Brightman walks our staff writer Grant DeArmitt through his illustrious career on Broadway and in animation with shows like Hazbin Hotel
May 01, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
Guides
Spoilers!Thunderbolts* ending explained: What happens, who dies, and what's next after Marvel Studios' latest film
Obviously, some MAJOR spoilers are on the horizon. Don't read this "ending explained" unless you've already seen the MCU's Thunderbolts*, or don't mind the entire thing being spoiled for you
May 01, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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With Clown in a Cornfield headed to theaters, creator Adam Cesare is already teasing the fourth book in the series
Before it was an Eli Craig film, Clown in a Cornfield was a novel series, with sequels Frendo Lives and Church of Frendo filling in its frightful ranks. Now, Adam Cesare reveals what's next for Kettle Springs
May 01, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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A Different Man's Adam Pearson will play Joseph Merrick in a new Elephant Man movie
Pearson will star as Merrick not in a remake of David Lynch's 1980 movie of the same name, but an adaptation of the 1977 stage play of the same name by Bernard Pomerance
May 01, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Guy Ritchie becomes the busiest director in streaming after joining Road House 2 at Prime Video
Ritchie takes over directing duties from Doug Liman, who helmed the 2024 remake of the 1989 action classic. Star Jake Gyllenhaal is set to return
May 01, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Spoilers!The Netflix You season 5 ending was originally very different (and a lot more final for Joe), teases showrunner
The show's final season is on the streamer now, but the Netflix You season 5 ending was once very different. Read to know more, but beware of spoilers
May 01, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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You've been getting an Army of Darkness quote wrong for 33 years, says Bruce Campbell
To be 100% fair, it is technically a quote that Campbell's character *also* gets wrong in the Army of Darkness. The plot kind of hinges on it
May 01, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Chris Evans's rumored Avengers: Doomsday return to the MCU is in the news again thanks to X-Men legend Chris Claremont
Speaking at the Huntsville Comic & Pop Culture Expo, Marvel Comics staple Claremont seemed to tell attendees not only about Evans' return, but which character he would be playing (and no, it's not Johnny Storm)
April 30, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Stephen King's never-made Castle Rock season 3 would have focused on the niece of The Shining's Jack Torrance, reveals star Jane Levy
Had Hulu not canceled the series set in a Stephen King-inspired universe, Castle Rock would have had its own take on The Shining, with the star of 2013's Evil Dead remake as its star
April 30, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Actually, the new Sherlock Holmes LEGO set from Barnes & Noble DOES count as a business expense
I'm just saying, when I put the Sherlock Holmes: Book Nook down in my taxes next year, I better not hear a damn peep from the IRS
April 30, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Why all Star Wars villains have a British accent, according to Andor season 2 villain Ben Mendelsohn
Mendelsohn, who returns to Andor as Rogue One's Orson Krennic, has reasoning rooted in the history of all cinematic villains, not just the ones from Lucasfilm
April 30, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Spoilers! The Last of Us Part II ending explained: What happens - and who survives - in the game that inspired HBO's post-apocalyptic hit?
If you don't want to be emotionally blindsided like you were by The Last of Us season 2, episode 2, heres one way to prepare
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Here's every Sherlock Holmes story that's been used in CBS's Watson (so far)
Speaking in doctor terms, Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmesian canon doesn't make up the entire body of CBS hit medical mystery series Watson, but it is the backbone
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
The Twilight Zone episode that inspired Ryan Coogler to make Sinners
For its humor, its superstition, and its portrayal of the American South, Coogler points to the 88th episode of Rod Serling's classic of chiller TV
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Lore Corner: Who are the Washington Liberation Front, and what do they mean for The Last of Us season 2?
The Last of Us season 2, episode 3 introduced a violent organization that played an important part in the games. Learn who the WLF are (and their connection to Abby Anderson) right here
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Top Gun: Maverick's Joseph Kosinski is tackling a new Miami Vice, but he's making a UFO thriller first
Kosinski can take it from Vince Gilligan - sometimes you have to do X-Files before getting to Breaking Bad
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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The Last of Us season 2 continues the tradition of breaking our hearts in the credits
First Ashley Johnson gets fans of the game cry even harder after episode 2. Now this? Clearly The Last of Us is just a marketing psyop for Kleenex and depression meds
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Sinners box office barely drops for second weekend, the second best for a horror film after 2017's It
Between its first and second weekend in theaters, Ryan Coogler's vampire hit Sinners only dropped 6% in sales - an incredible achievement for a theatrical horror run
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Don't look now, but an Alien: Earth teaser just confirmed our prediction about Weyland-Yutani
Earlier, we asked if the Weyland-Yutani corp had acquired more alien species than just the xenomorph before Prometheus. Turns out, that's a big, doubled-mouthed "yep"
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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How Netflix's Stranger Things influenced Star Wars: Starfighter, according to director Shawn Levy
Expect Lucasfilm to announce things the way they did Starfighter at Star Wars Celebration 2025. And if you don't like that? Well, blame those pesky Hawkins kids
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Relive the action: VIZ Media's Ninjas, Samurai & Roosters panel from ECCC '25 is available to watch now
Didn't get enough of all the excited anime teases from VIZ media at this year's Emerald City Comic Con? Missed the panel altogether? Don't worry, Popverse has your back
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Popverse Picks: My favorite horror movie franchises (besides Scream)
Of course my favorite horror franchise is Scream - everyone's favorite horror franchise is Scream. What we're going for here is my favorite you *don't* already know
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Lore Corner: The Last of Us season 2 episode 3 changes the "bigot sandwich" moment from the game
In a minor but interesting departure from The Last of Us Part II game, HBO's The Last of Us series gave Seth, Jackson's resident homophobe, a chance to be a better man
April 28, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
Ms. Marvel & Overwatch 2's Anjali Bhimani discusses staying hungry as an artist, what it's like working on Critical Role, and the best X-Men to play in a video game
If you're a gamer, you've heard Anjali Bhimani's work, especially as Symmetra in Overwatch 2. But Bhimani's career stretches far beyond the recording booth, and Popverse got an exclusive window into the many mediums it covers
April 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Pedro Pascal knew about THAT The Last of Us season 2 scene before he was cast, says showrunner Craig Mazin
I mean, so did the millions of us that played the game. That said, Mazin says there's still a place for [SPOILER] in the future of the show
April 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Sinners costumer tells all about why Ryan Coogler's vampire flick is "more than just a horror film"
"I had to remind myself, 'Oh, they're gonna bloody this one up!'" says Ruth E. Carter, who brought the style to Ryan Coogler's acclaimed Sinners
April 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Murderbot is "more relatable than most characters I’ve ever played," says the star of Apple TV+'s upcoming adaptation, Alexander Skarsgård
Between a Viking Hamlet, a southern vampire, and a robot who basically just wants to watch TV all day, Murderbot's Alexander Skarsgård knows who he'd most want to get a beer with
April 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Flying Lotus was supposed to score Marvel's Blade: "We are so far from it even being a possibility now"
The status of Marvel's Blade is still pretty nebulous, but the way Flying Lotus talks about it, it looks like this vampire isn't rising anytime soon
April 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Guides
Phineas and Ferb season 5 release date: Disney's daring duo returns to save Danville from the likes of Dr. Doofenshmirtz, this summer
Join Disney+ this June as Phineas & Ferb continues proving the rule that nothing is funnier than a platypus pulling a Clark Kent
April 24, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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And Just Like That... season 3 release date: Carrie Bradshaw & co. continue making New York sexier and citier on Max
20 years after the events of Sex and the City, Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte still have lives that deserves to be written about. And narrated!
April 24, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Hey, fans of The Studio, a prestige drama about the Jonestown massacre actually *is* coming to your screens... but from SNL and Barry star Bill Hader, not Martin Scorsese
What can we say? Seth Rogen's a prophet. But the "makes a joke so good it tells the future," kind, not the "drink this Kool-Aid" kind, as Bill Hader will probably agree very soon
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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10% Criminal, 90% Minds: Matthew Gray Gubler will play Albert Einstein's fictional descendent in new CBS procedural
Based on a German police procedural of the same name, Gubler will star as Lewis Einstein, Albert's great-grandson who helps a detective (Rosa Salazar) solve mysteries
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Spoilers!The Last of Us's Bella Ramsey struggles to cry on camera - here's what they did for THAT season 2 scene
In case you haven't already seen it/had it spoiled for you, we are getting into some major spoilers for The Last of Us, season 2, episode 2. You've been warned
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Predator: Badlands: While Killer of Killers goes into Earth's history with the Predator, the trailer for the franchise's other 2025 release presents an alien future
Dan Trachtenberg's Amber Midthunder-starring Prey brought us back in time for a Predator of years gone by. With Badlands, he appears to be pointing the time machine forward
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Stranger Things: Tales from '85: Netflix's animated adventures from Hawkins, IN gets a title
The Duffer Brothers and Netflix have conquered your screens and stages, announced their plans for your gaming console, and now, are coming for your Saturday Mornings
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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After Pope Francis's passing, people really want to know what happens next - which has led to a 283% bump in streaming viewership for 2024's new pope drama Conclave
Conclave, the 2025 Oscar Winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, is seeing a rise in popularity along with Netflix's The Two Popes, in watch Jonathan Pryce portrays the late Holy Father
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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After You season 5, Netflix star Penn Badgley wants to work with Jordan Peele and/or be on Severance
After You's final season airs on Netflix, Badgley doesn't want to play another dark, messed-up character. But he's not shying away from folks who tell dark, messed-up stories
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Ransom Canyon's Garrett Wareing sure does talk like season 2 is happening
Wareing, who plays Lucas Russell on Netflix's western romance, talks about a Ransom Canyon season 2 like it's confirmed. Which we should remind you - it is not (yet)
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Black Mirror star Cristin Milioti "intentionally stayed away" from Star Trek before filming USS Callister
"I watched about two minutes of one episode and was like, 'I don’t want to watch any more of this,'" actor Cristin Milioti says about the source material behind Black Mirror's USS Callister
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Nintendo Switch 2 consoles will be hit by Trump's tariffs, but physical Switch games themselves get an exemption
Yes, Switch 2 hopefuls, it's going to cost you more to play Donkey Kong Bananza. The cartridge it comes on, though, won't be part of the price hike
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Our Flag Means Death star Taika Waititi is too busy to work on his Star Wars movie according to Lucasfilm boss, but she hopes "they get there" eventually
Speaking at Star Wars Celebration 2025 in Japan, Kathleen Kennedy says that Waititi will get to his Star Wars film when he's ready, and holds out hope it'll happen
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Wednesday's season 2 trailer reveals two-part release dates... and introduces a secret Addams Family member?
Just whose grave are we looking at in the Wednesday season 2 teaser trailer, and what does it mean for our macabre heroine?
April 23, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Guides
Rick and Morty season 8 release date: The Smith/Sanchez family returns to Adult Swim for more existential scifi comedy
Space Christians aren't the weirdest thing that reality-hopping Rick and his (maybe replaceable) grandson will see in Rick and Morty season 8, but not for lack of trying
April 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Guides
Poker Face season 2 release date: Rian Johnson & Natasha Lyonne return to Peacock for even less lies, but even more murder
Natasha Lyonne's Charlie can smell bullshit a mile away, and unfortunately for her, more Poker Face means more reasons to hold her nose
April 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Guides
The Walking Dead: Dead City, season 2 release date: Negan & Maggie are back in the Big, Rotting Apple on AMC+
It is far, far easier to wipe the walker horde off of planet earth than kill The Walking Dead franchise, as Dead City season 2 stands to prove
April 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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New Alien: Earth teaser could hint at FX's biggest canon change yet: Is Weyland-Yutani studying other aliens besides the xenomorph?
A blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in FX's latest teaser for this summer's Alien: Earth hints that the xenomorph is only one of the creatures the infamous Weyland-Yutani is studying
April 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Netflix's Stranger Things season 5 series finale was almost spoiled by The First Shadow, until the writers changed the script midway through rehearsals
In the Netflix documentary Behind the Curtain, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Broadway's Stranger Things chapter, we see (censored) footage of a reveal that the high-ups decided needed to wait for the series
April 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Bethesda reveals Oblivion remaster available now; but still no word on Elder Scrolls VI
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remaster is available to order now, but the announcement probably didn't feature the news that some Elder Scrolls fans really wanted - that is, a release date for Elder Scrolls VI
April 22, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Ortegas or Melissa: We play Who Is More Likely To? with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Melissa Navia
Beam aboard with Popverse video producer Ashley V. Robinson for a conversation on the difference between actor Melissa Navia and her Starfleet character, helmsman Erica Ortegas
April 21, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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Easter is for Sinners: Ryan Coogler's vampire flick dethrones Minecraft, gets a record CinemaScore, and outperforms a Jordan Peele opening at the box office
Nosferat-who? The Black Panther director's first completely original film has accomplished at least one thing a horror movie never has
April 21, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Sorry X-Files fans, but I think Ryan Coogler's Gillian Anderson comments are being blown out of proportion
The way the internet is talking about it, you'd think that Dana Scully is in talks to return for the Sinners director's next project. But let's add some context to what Coogler recently said about the project
April 21, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
You heard right, Critical Role fans, that was Ashley Johnson in the most recent episode of The Last of Us season 2
Johnson, whose voice is familiar to millions and who did the motion capture/voice work for the original Ellie, got a moment to shine in HBO's Last of Us. Technically, though, it wasn't the first
April 21, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
What to Watch May 2025: Netflix, Max, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu & more take you to the ATM (Animation, Travel, & Murder)
From Love, Death + Robots to an actual Murderbot, from Conan O'Brian's journeys to a Galaxay Far, Far Away, and from Fear Street to The Chi, May is perfect for a very, very niche set of streamers
April 19, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
What to Watch June 2025: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+ & more bring blockbuster entertainment to streaming
Hearts of Iron, Islands of Love, and Games of... Squid. It's not your local theater's lineup, it's what to stream in June
April 19, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Netflix doesn't seem too worried about Trump's tariffs... and according to their Q1 numbers, they might not have to be
In a recent call, Netflix's co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters said the company was "paying close attention," but "not changing anything."
April 18, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Stranger Things: The First Shadow is built on the Vecna backstory that didn't make it into season 4
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Lore Corner: The Daredevil: Born Again season 1 finale sets up John Bernthal's Punisher for a special that's straight out of Marvel Comics
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Watch NowStar Wars and Attack the Block star John Boyega was at C2E2 2025 for The Force of Talent Spotlight panel, and you can watch the whole thing right now
Watch the uninterrupted John Boyega spotlight panel from Chicago's premiere pop culture event, thanks to your pals at Popverse
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