120 posts tagged ‘disney’
‘What Does Hollywood Want to Be?’
The strikes are over, but corporate entertainment’s identity crisis–cum–reckoning is far from resolved.
David Tennant's 14th Doctor Will Make His TV Debut This Week
Doctor Who’s new 14th Doctor—with that old face—has already gone on his first adventures in the pages of the show’s official magazine. But he’ll be making his televised debut a little earlier than anticipated... and bringing some old foes with him. Read more...
Yeah, that's probably it for Loki
Although Marvel hasn’t said anything official yet, it’s sounding increasingly likely that the just-concluded second season of Disney+ TV series Loki will be its last. Both star Tom Hiddleston and series writer Eric Martin have given statements to press surrounding the show’s just-released second-season finale,… Read more...
Loki season 2 finale: Loki ends, surprisingly perfectly
If Loki is about any one specific thing, underneath all the comedy, the time traveling, the ’shipping and quipping and fun, then it’s a show about systems. Systems of control, systems of “protection,” systems of self-propagating evil. Systems that “have to exist,” because, we’re told, they have to exist. Systems that… Read more...
Loki Season-Finale Recap: This Is the Bad Place
Perfect on paper, miffed in execution.
Hollywood’s not afraid of superheroes anymore, but it’s still afraid of real superhero stories
Before superhero movies were the only kind of movies, they almost always had a cute little gag where someone would acknowledge that something—typically something pulled straight from the comic book source material—was silly, whether it was by directly breaking the fourth wall or with a winky meta gag. That way the… Read more...
Inside Out 2 teaser reveals the replacements for Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling
We’ve known for more than a year at this point that Pixar’s Inside Out 2 was suffering from some pretty serious casting disputes—specifically, that neither Bill Hader or Mindy Kaling would be returning for the film as Fear and Disgust, respectively, having apparently expressed their own fear and disgust at being… Read more...
David Tennant’s 15 best Doctor Who moments
When we said goodbye to David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor after a multi-episode farewell tour back in 2010, we thought it was the last time we’d ever see him on Doctor Who. Boy were we glad to be wrong. Whether you go by ratings or audience polls, Tennant consistently scores as the most popular Doctor in the New Who era,… Read more...