Regardless of one’s takeaway from Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, it’s hard for any normal person not to feel sorry for the crew. First the planned cinema release was scrapped in favour of unceremonious streaming on Paramount+. Then the whole film was leaked by a hacker, which is likely why …
Something is wrong. Someone is changing things, and the effects are rippling across the multiverse. In this world, Betsy Braddock, the misfit sister of Captain Britain, knows someone is missing. She can’t tell you who it is or where they’re missing from; she can just feel their absence. Sorta like …
Talk about a shocker: Wilson Fisk, A.K.A. The Kingpin is dead. Matt Murdock doesn’t know how to process it. But that’s okay because he doesn’t have time. Daredevil is too busy running around town putting out the fires that Fisk’s death has started. Bad guys are coming out of the …
Venom is a host-jumping alien symbiote who is most associated with Eddie Brock. But it’s had many hosts over the years, and in What If…Marc Spector was Host to Venom by Mike Chen, we see what it would be like if Moon Knight hosted the alien. But we get extra …
Seven years after the controversial The Rise of Skywalker, Star Wars returns to the big screen with the faint whimper of a broken lightsaber. In the years since the conclusion of the Skywalker saga, Star Wars has continued largely through Disney+ streaming shows. The best of these is Andor by …
I’ll admit I walked into this one with my guard up. Every trailer drop for Spider-Man: Brand New Day — and I avoided them like the plague, though there’s only so much a person can dodge — kept adding another name to an already overstuffed-looking roster: Bruce Banner / Hulk …
San Diego Comic-Con is well underway, and there’s been a ton of exciting news. But perhaps nothing has been more anticipated than Marvel’s return to the vaunted Hall H with their last appearance being in 2024. Just look at the line for people trying to get in to see the …
One day Zahara’s twin sister Annica walked out the front door and vanished. Not in the “was kidnapped and never seen again” way but in the “walked right out of existence” way. After Annica left the house on April 16th, 1994, the only person in the world who remembers her …
In retrospect, it makes sense that EP Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy were always going to be the ones to bring Fallout to the screen – after all; what was HBO’s one-time flagship series Westworld if but a trail run? What was Person of Interest if not for a show …
While I’m a huge self-appointed Marvel nerd, I have to be honest…The Punisher has never been one of my favorite characters. When I was still pretty young, my eldest sister met a guy who would eventually become my brother-in-law, who was obsessed with The Punisher. So much so that he …
There’s a myth that knowing your death approaches brings out the best in you. In these circumstances you will simply rise above the horror of your looming demise to love your family, be kind to your neighbours, save kittens from trees and generally be all excellent until you perish. Anyone …
As award season descends upon us, the winners and losers already feel set in stone. 2025 was a strong year for film, and not every performance can make the cut, but just because they didn’t earn a nomination doesn’t mean they aren’t worth checking out. From unknown queer biopics to …
2025 has just recently finished, the awards season is well underway, and our Letterbox stats are well in our inbox, but we’re already looking at the 2026 cinema schedule. 2026 sees the return of some of Earth’s mightiest superheroes, Spielberg to the science fiction genre for the first time since …
Imagine a world defined by stories. Stories that repeat over and over again, giving power and life to the land that they play out on. That is exactly how it works in the world of Tasha Suri’s The Isle in the Silver Sea. The characters of tales are reincarnated over …
It’s Spiderman’s birthday, and the Avengers are set to celebrate in Central Park when suddenly a giant blue arm takes out the bounce house. Arriving with the gigantic blue arm are Thor and Loki. Thor begs his fellow heroes to help him come and stop Ragnarok, but Loki insists that …
Writing about James Cameron (Titanic) is always an exercise in managing expectations. It’s a precarious balance between recognizing his technical genius and the hope, sometimes frustrated, that the narrative can keep up with the visual evolution. When Avatar: The Way of Water hit theaters thirteen years after the original production, …
Jeff Nichols is one of the best directors that America has to offer and Midnight Special was a delight to revisit for its timely science fiction themes rooted in immigration and fear of a controlling government. A father and son are forced on the run when the father learns his …
In November 2024, the film version of the 2003 Broadway musical Wicked finally hit theaters. The Broadway musical from Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman is an adaptation of the book of the same title by Gregory Maguire. The film by Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians & In the Heights) …
One of the central figures of the newest generation of Brazilian cinema, Gabriel Mascaro, is already a well-known name on the international festival circuit. His 2015 film, Neon Bull (Boi Neon), premiered at the Venice Film Festival. His next work, Divine Love (Divino Amor), world premiered at the 2019 Sundance …
The new Disney+ series Marvel Zombies builds on a single episode from season one of What If…?, What If…Zombies?, which first imagined a world where Earth’s Mightiest Heroes had become its greatest threat. Directed by Bryan Andrews and written by Zeb Wells, the four-episode miniseries introduces a new group of …