There was a time when seeing two major Marvel characters share the same movie felt like a genuine event. Then came Avengers: Infinity War. Then Endgame happened and basically broke the scale. Now Marvel is looking at that problem and apparently decided the only reasonable answer was to make the universe itself fall apart. Avengers:…
There are some Marvel casting decisions that make you curious. Then there are decisions that make the entire internet lose its mind. Robert Downey Jr. returning to the MCU as Doctor Doom is firmly in the second category. For years, Downey’s face was practically synonymous with Tony Stark. Iron Man wasn’t just another Marvel character;…
There is something wonderfully cruel about the idea of Avengers: Doomsday borrowing from Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers: Time Runs Out. Not because Marvel needs another giant crossover, and certainly not because fans need another excuse to argue about multiverse variants on Reddit. It is because Time Runs Out is one of the rare Marvel stories where…
The internet has reached that familiar Marvel-fan stage where nobody knows what is real anymore, but everyone suddenly has a very detailed opinion about it. A massive alleged Avengers: Doomsday plot leak has been circulating through Reddit, X, YouTube channels, and fan communities, claiming to reveal everything from Doctor Doom’s actual strategy to the destruction…
The Resident Evil movies have spent years trying to answer the wrong question. Instead of asking what makes Capcom’s survival horror series terrifying, Hollywood kept asking how to make it bigger, louder, and more marketable. Paul W.S. Anderson turned the franchise into an action-heavy spectacle. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City moved closer to the…
There is a strange history behind Resident Evil movies. The games have spent decades proving that survival horror can be terrifying without turning every hallway into an excuse for a gunfight, yet Hollywood has repeatedly looked at the same material and decided that what audiences really needed was more explosions, bigger action scenes, and heroes…
There is something oddly encouraging about the new Resident Evil (2026) movie. For once, the biggest selling point isn’t a returning star, a giant action sequence, or another attempt to turn Capcom’s horror universe into a conventional blockbuster. It’s fear. Real, uncomfortable, claustrophobic fear. After years of wildly different interpretations, Sony Pictures and Constantin Film…
There are a lot of things I am nervous about with The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. Adapting one of Suzanne Collins’ most emotionally brutal books was never going to be easy, especially when the story revolves around a younger Haymitch Abernathy and the infamous Second Quarter Quell. But there is one piece of…
There is something especially nasty about the 50th Hunger Games. The Capitol had already turned the deaths of children into annual television entertainment, but for the Second Quarter Quell, it decided that twenty-four tributes simply weren’t enough. Instead, 48 young people were thrown into the arena, creating one of the most disturbing Games in Panem’s…
There is one question that has been following The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping everywhere: Is Katniss Everdeen actually in the movie? At first glance, the answer should be an obvious no. The new movie takes us back to the 50th Hunger Games, the infamous Second Quarter Quell won by a sixteen-year-old Haymitch Abernathy….
There are plenty of prequels that make me nervous. Then there is The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, which has one huge advantage before it even reaches theaters: we already know exactly where Haymitch Abernathy ends up. We know the bitter mentor, the drinking, the sarcasm, the emotional walls. What we have not seen…
There are some movie roles that come with pressure, and then there are roles like Haymitch Abernathy. Woody Harrelson turned the character into one of the most recognizable faces of The Hunger Games, mixing sarcasm, exhaustion, intelligence, and just enough buried pain to make every scene feel heavier than it first appeared. So when Lionsgate…