The Star Trek franchise features several iconic female villains—the Borg Queen, Kai Winn Adami, The Founder—but one who stole an early spotlight in her brief appearance was the Klingon operative … Continue reading Star Trek: Villains Spotlight: Valkris
Carol, a 2015 romantic drama film starring Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, and Kyle Chandler, is a touching tale of mutual attraction, sweet curiosity, heartache, and the thrill of … Continue reading Carol: Movie Review
The Smurfs franchise is known for its upbeat and kid-friendly tone, emphasizing the importance of friendship and community. While the 1982 Christmas special from The Smurfs second season doesn’t deviate from these points, it … Continue reading The Smurfs’ TERRIFYING Christmas Special Was a Fight With… the Devil Himself?!
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 2, Episode 5, “Chapter 13: The Jedi,” streaming now on Disney+. In The Mandalorian, Din Djarin is now looking to find a … Continue reading The Mandalorian: 7 Jedi Who Could Train Baby Yoda
Move over Mario and Sonic–Earthworm Jim is here. This robot suit-wearing character who battles evil is one of the wackiest and most surreal of his time, and both critics and … Continue reading The Complete History of Earthworm Jim
George Clooney would prefer fans forget the time he played Batman in the critically maligned 1997 film, Batman & Robin. Though the movie is universally disliked by critics and fans alike, it did add Clooney … Continue reading Batman & Robin: Why George Clooney Replaced Val Kilmer as Bruce Wayne
Nothing is as iconic as the lightsaber. The elegant laser sword wielded by both the Jedi Order and their sworn enemies, the Sith, are some of the most recognizable weapons … Continue reading Star Wars: What is the Lightwhip?
It’s a noisy and frigid morning in the market square of Windhelm, the City of Kings. Soft white snowflakes dance lazily through the grey sky, falling gently on the frozen … Continue reading Skyrim Character Build: The Poison Widow
Contemporary vampire stories are pieces of popular culture worth analyzing and exploring due to their roots in real-world beliefs and the sheer amount of movies, television shows, novels, and other … Continue reading The History of Vampires in Popular Culture
The characters on this list aren’t necessarily considered “Final Girls” who are the last women alive in horror movies (particularly from slasher films) and who triumph over the killer trying … Continue reading Underrated Female Characters from Horror Movies
Sly Moore makes for an imposing but memorable character. Tall, bald, and severe, this graceful and mysterious Umbaran serves as Chancellor Palpatine’s closest ally and confidant. Nothing escapes her piercing … Continue reading Star Wars Needs More Sly Moore
Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! … Continue reading The Adventures of Superman Radio Show Introduced Kryptonite
Spoiler warning! This post contains key plot elements from the horror slasher flick Return to Horror High. If you haven’t seen this movie, go watch it (or don’t–it’s actually pretty … Continue reading The Convoluted Return to Horror High and the Death of George Clooney
Spoiler warning: this post discusses key plot points and characters from In the Woods. “I crave truth, and I lie,” are words spoken by the narrator of Tana French’s murder … Continue reading In the Woods and the Unreliable Narrator
Princess Peach may be Mario’s most famous love interest and damsel in distress, but she wasn’t his first. That honor would go to Pauline, the tall slender brunette (although she … Continue reading An Ode to Pauline, Mario’s OG Girlfriend and Nintendo Rising Star
The werewolves of The Vampire Diaries adhere to some aspects of the horror genre, but the series adds its own take on the creatures. Werewolves are some of the most iconic … Continue reading Werewolf Anatomy, According to Vampire Diaries
BY MACK VELTMAN After her yellow lightsaber was teased in The Rise of Skywalker, Rey will finally use the blade in the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special. Read on CBR.com
BY MACK VELTMAN I previously covered Six Women of Horror Who Should’ve Been Final Girls, and after receiving some feedback and ideas (and since horror is awash with victims who were … Continue reading Another Six Women Who Should’ve Been Final Girls
BY MACK VELTMAN “This isn’t a job for a girl like you.” These words were spoken to V.I. Warshawski, the female detective and main character on several occasions throughout Sara … Continue reading Indemnity Only and the Hardboiled Woman Detective
BY MACK VELTMAN Pierce Brosnan’s first outing as James Bond came in GoldenEye, which is not only his best of his four film tenure as the 007 agent, but also … Continue reading 007: Why GoldenEye Was Pierce Brosnan’s BEST James Bond Film
BY MACK VELTMAN Amazon Prime’s upcoming fantasy epic The Wheel of Time could be the next Game of Thrones, complete with classic fantasy tropes that audiences love. Read more on … Continue reading Why Amazon’s Wheel of Time Could Be the Next Game of Thrones
BY MACK VELTMAN The Walking Dead provides key information on how zombies act, behave and evolve, and while they share some traits with established zombie lore, the series does expand … Continue reading Zombie Physiology, According to The Walking Dead
BY MACK VELTMAN The Femme Fatale of Star Wars. From her iconic purple armor to her dangerous shapeshifting abilities, Zam Wesell makes for a formidable foe, and though her role … Continue reading Star Wars Needs More Zam Wesell
BY MACK VELTMAN SPOILER WARNING! I’m discussing key plot elements from the film. If you haven’t seen this movie, go watch it, and then come back and read my review. … Continue reading Prom Night 1980 Review
BY MACK VELTMAN Fear not: Ranger, Barbarian, Magician, Thief, Cavalier, and Acrobat. That was Venger, the force of evil. I am Dungeon Master, your guide in the realm of Dungeons … Continue reading Forgotten TV Gems: Dungeons and Dragons: The Animated Series
The vampires in The Vampire Diaries adhere to some elements from vampire lore, but with roots in dark magic, they are their own bloodthirsty fiends. Read more on CBR.com
Can you imagine a time when people were actually sick to death of superheroes? It’s not a concept that’s too hard to grasp, considering the oversaturation of superhero movies in … Continue reading Obscure Comic Book Superheroes: The Blonde Phantom
Angela from Sleepaway Camp is back! Well—not really. There’s a familiar vibe to Felissa Rose’s over-the-top performance as Ms. Jessica Bloom, a teacher who chaperons some students at risk of … Continue reading Camp Twilight and the Return of (Almost) Angela
BY MACK VELTMAN Dr. Katherine Pulaski is a name that leaves some fans of Star Trek going “huh?” while others respond with indifference or delight at Diana Mulder’s one season … Continue reading In Defense of Star Trek TNG Dr. Pulaski
BY MACK VELTMAN The horror genre is full of iconic movie villains like Jason Voorhees, Micheal Myers, Chucky, and Freddy Krueger, whose franchises dominate the media and pop culture discussions. We … Continue reading Six Delightfully Devilish Female Villains of Horror Movies
BY MACK VELTMAN Warning: this post contains slight spoilers for the new episode of The Mandalorian which you can stream on Disney Plus. Fans of the expansive pantheon of Star … Continue reading The Mandalorian Season 2: Let’s Talk About the Krayt Dragon
BY MACK VELTMAN There’s no getting around it–this movie is pure trash, and even fans of bad cinema will have a hard time making it through this hour and twenty-five … Continue reading Horror Movie Review: Killer Workout
Just in time for Halloween, StarWars.com released concept art and new details surrounding the villains set to appear in the upcoming Star Wars: High Republic series of novels and comic … Continue reading Star Wars: High Republic Villains Revealed
BY MACK VELTMAN The Batman and Dracula clashed in this animated film, and the vampire was no match for the Dark Knight. Read more on CBR.com
BY MACK VELTMAN Inclusion shouldn’t stop at a simple presence in a story. It means something deeper, and unfortunately, Ratched only scratches the surface. Read more on the Geeky Waffle
BY MACK VELTMAN Halloween is only three days away and as many people adjust to a holiday spent indoors, movies are the best way to sate your horror appetite. Thanks … Continue reading Another Six Horror Movies You (Probably) Haven’t Seen
BY MACK VELTMAN With Moff Gideon’s backstory and true motivations in The Mandalorian still a mystery, a new theory from Reddit claims he could have a past in Star Wars … Continue reading The Mandalorian Theory: Moff Gideon Is a Former Inquisitor
BY MACK VELTMAN Netflix is currently developing a live action Assassin’s Creed television series. Ubisoft’s Jason Altman and Danielle Kreinik will serve as executive producers. The series is part of … Continue reading Netflix Developing a Live Action Assassin’s Creed Series
BY MACK VELTMAN Javicia Leslie dons the cowl as Batwoman in the upcoming second season of the CW’s Batwoman, set to premier in January 2021. In a series of newly … Continue reading CW Reveals Images of Javicia Leslie as Batwoman
BY BRONTË MILLER Anime is bursting with smoking hot characters, and narrowing down a list of the top five is a near impossible task. This didn’t deter our newest writer, … Continue reading Top 5 Hottest TV Anime Dudes
BY MACK VELTMAN Most people recognize the Friday the 13th franchise from the big screen, but there was a TV series that stood above the movies it shared a name … Continue reading Friday the 13th: The Series Was Better Than ANY of the Movies
BY MACK VELTMAN An eagle eyed Reddit user may have found an Easter Egg from Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures in Rise of Skywalker during the climactic battle. Read … Continue reading The Rise of Skywalker Hides a LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures Easter Egg
BY MACK VELTMAN Spoiler alert: none of the women on this list made it out alive of their respective horror movie, which is a shame because in some cases, they … Continue reading The Six Women of Horror Who Should’ve Been Final Girls
BY MACK VELTMAN Halloween is a week away, and as many people adjust to a holiday spent in doors, movies or TV shows are the best way to fill your … Continue reading Six Horror TV Shows You’ve (Probably) Never Seen
BY MACK VELTMAN With Dexter getting another crack at its ending, let’s look at other series that deserve the same treatment. Read more: After the Dexter Revival, THESE Shows Deserve … Continue reading After the Dexter Revival, THESE Shows Deserve a Shot at Redemption
BY MACK VELTMAN Obi-Wan Kenobi’s duel with Darth Maul in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace might have prepared him for his fated battle against his former Apprentice turned Sith Lord, Anakin Skywalker. … Continue reading Star Wars Theory: Obi-Wan Learned About the High Ground From Darth Maul
BY MACK VELTMAN Final Girls. They are the women who make it to finale and triumph over the killer who spends the film stalking her and murdering her friends and … Continue reading Underrated Final Girls
BY MACK VELTMAN The month of October–and of course the day of Halloween itself–is a great time to cuddle on the couch beneath your blanket and binge horror movies, and … Continue reading Six Horror Movies You’ve(Probably) Never Seen
BY MACK VELTMAN The sixth film in the Halloween franchise explores Michael Myer’s killing drive, his apparent immortality and the Curse of Thorn. Read more: Halloween’s Thorn Curse Explains Michael’s … Continue reading Halloween’s Thorn Curse Explains Michael’s Immortality
BY MACK VELTMAN They’re as iconic as Bond himself. They’re beautiful lovers, brave warriors, scheming villains, and often, one of the most memorable aspects of the films. They are The … Continue reading Bond Women Rising
In the Season 2 finale of The Boys, the show’s female characters show just why they’re not to be messed with.
BY MACK VELTMAN While adhering to many traditions of the genre, Netflix’s Vampires vs. the Bronx introduces a new twist on the titular bloodsuckers. WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Vampires … Continue reading Vampires vs the Bronx Adds a New Twist to Vampire Movie Lore
BY MACK VELTMAN Picard star Patrick Stewart says a crossover between the science fiction franchise Star Trek and the science fantasy franchise Star Wars is something he’s fantasized about. Read more: CBR.com
BY MACK VELTMAN AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead will introduce a new character for Season 6 who will help humanize and dimensionalize one of the series’ villains. Read on CBR.com
BY MACK VELTMAN Fans of Star Wars welcomed a new website today, Project Stardust which launched to much hype after months of careful planning and online collaboration. A team of … Continue reading The Women of Star Wars Unite: Project Stardust Launches Today
We’ve all heard the stories before. The Blood Countess, Elizabeth Bathory, bathing in virgin blood to retain her youth and beauty, savagely torturing, mutilating, and killing over 600 young women, … Continue reading Debunking the myth of the Blood Countess
Fallout fans worldwide rejoice! Three years after the release of the critically acclaimed Fallout 4, Bethesda Game Studios released a teaser trailer for their latest entry in post-apocalyptic, bestselling franchise. While there is … Continue reading Please Stand By: What is Fallout 76?
“The greatest scientists are artists as well.” -Albert Einstein Introduction Science, technology, engineering, and math are highly regarded as educational priorities, but these subjects and fields can seem scary and … Continue reading STEAM- Where Art Meets Science
If you open up the science and you allow diverse groups to participate, it could really stimulate innovation. -Ellen Jorgenson founder of Genspace DNA code sequencing is getting easier, cheaper, … Continue reading Biohacking- It’s Not About Creating Frankenstein
Apparently Pizza Hut is a fan of Black Mirror. Earlier this week, Pizza Hut announced its plans for a fleet of driverless delivery vans–an announcement which caught me off guard as … Continue reading Pizza Hut and Driverless Delivery
From guest writer: Eric Schucht. Crowdfunding is a fairly recent tool that has allowed game developers with projects either too small or too strange to receive funding. Instead of going … Continue reading The Death of Video Games on Kickstarter
Before we begin, I’d like to issue a spoiler warning. I won’t be discussing some of the major spoilers of the The Last Jedi but if you haven’t seen the … Continue reading The Last Jedi: Making Sense of Fan Backlash
From guest blogger Eric Schucht. Well it looks like it’s that time of year again when gamers and nerds alike argue, discuss, and compile their lists of the best games … Continue reading Top 5 Timeless Video Games of 2017
The male gaze has once again made its presence known in Hollywood, though is anyone really surprised? For all the films boasting strong female leads, there are a slew of … Continue reading Women Warriors and the (Unfortunate) Male Gaze
For all of the utopian visions of the future, with robots and spaceships and holodecks, there is an underlying fear of technology which often drives stories and films in the … Continue reading Technophobia and Fear of the Corporation
Western science fiction often presents fantastical ideas of the future, with robots and spaceships and groups of people living and working together in harmony. Yet for all of the ideas … Continue reading Stereotypes Among the Stars
Written by: Eric Schucht Recently it was announced that the Cartoon Network hit show Adventure Time would end on its 9th season, wrapping up the series sometime next year. Fans … Continue reading End of an Era: Farewell to Adventure Time
My journalism professor assigned this project involving data journalism. Along with a few of my peers who share my interest in science, I wrote some case studies on different publications … Continue reading Data Journalism
After an uneven first few episodes, Riverdale offers an entertaining and chilling season conclusion. I didn’t actually think I would be that interested in Riverdale, a mature CW adaptation of the popular Archie … Continue reading Season’s End: Riverdale
It’s a world where you can be an sneak assassin who shoots fireballs from your hands and collects gems to adorn to a spacious mansion overlooking a quiet lake, which … Continue reading Skyrim: The Art of Creative Storytelling
Imagine scientists can turn your genetic clock back in time to cure diseases like Parkinson’s and Huntington’s. This seems like an idea straight from the Twilight Zone, but as I … Continue reading Genes and Time Travel
“It’s time for the Jedi to end,” is the ominous phrase wrapping up the trailer for the highly anticipated Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi. The trailer, which was released Friday morning, … Continue reading The Force is Strong With This One
27 years after his big screen debut, Pennywise the Clown is returning to the small town of Derry, Main to terrorize a new generation of filmgoers in the upcoming remake … Continue reading It’s Back
Published on Front Line Genomics: http://www.frontlinegenomics.com/blog/11167/gattaca-genetically-enhanced-humans-fact-fiction/ The ability to alter a human genome to influence eye color, height and strength was a major plot point in the 1997 science fiction film, … Continue reading GATTACA and Genetically Enhanced Humans: Fact or Fiction?
CONTENT WARNING: THIS POST DISCUSSES GRAPHIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR GAME OF THRONES. When season six of the wildly popular fantasy show Game of Thrones premiered, one … Continue reading All Men Must Die: The Rise of Women in Game of Thrones
This evening I was catching up on one of my favorite television shows, Arrow, and just finished an episode which dealt with the aftermath of a mass shooting and touchy subject of gun control. Arrow, which is currently in its fifth season, is a modern take on DC’s Green Arrow, and tells the story of a rich playboy, Oliver Queen, who, after five years of being stranded on an island, returns home to Star City to fight crime with a bow and arrows.
In being in the business for so long, I’ve done everything but rodeo and porn.” -Bea Arthur Over the years, many women have made people laugh and have left huge … Continue reading Comedy’s Golden Girl
The “Jaguar Pitch”, scene that appears in a season 5 episode of Mad Men, is a perfect example of Laura Mulvey’s concept of the “male gaze”, a masculine point of … Continue reading “Mad Men” and the Male Gaze
Cocktails with clients, glamorous parties, and behind the scenes manipulation are common practices implemented by public relations agents in movies and television. Shows like Scandal, Ray Donovan, Mad Men and … Continue reading It’s Handled: How Public Relations is Portrayed in the Media
I made this blog in 2016, and my goal was to look critically at how popular culture reflected current societal trends and values. I didn’t keep up to date on … Continue reading Welcome to the new site
“One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice”. -Jim Lee, artist for DC Comics DC Comics … Continue reading The History of DC Comics
Why has American society responded so well to the television anti-hero? Shows like Breaking Bad, Hannibal, The Sopranos, Bates Motel, and Dexter, have dominated our screens and have catapulted their … Continue reading Batman, Hero or Villain?
Everyone in our society is familiar in some way with Star Trek, a franchise that has become a staple in popular culture and that has “warped” its way into the … Continue reading Star Trek The New Frontier: Spaceships, Nebulas, and Inclusion
