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What If’s Deadliest Episode Was Sadly Also Its Most Boring
After spending two episodes in wildly alternate universes where Marvel’s important, but not quite as central, heroes like Peggy Carter and T’Challa were the leads, What If’s latest went back to basics. The third episode of the animated Disney+ series is a story about the MCU’s original team of Avengers and the superspy who first…
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Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ Wild Monsters Will Kick Your Human Arse, Too
During this week’s Pokémon Presents announcements, the Pokémon Company revealed a number of new details about Pokémon Legends: Arceus, the upcoming Nintendo Switch game set in the distant past at a time when humans and Pokémon did not yet live in “harmony” with one another. While Arceus is set to introduce multiple new kinds of…
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FX’s Y: The Last Man Series Will Explore How Sex Doesn’t Define Gender
In Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s Y: The Last Man comic, most of the world’s population of mammals with a Y chromosome — save for one man and his pet capuchin monkey — suddenly perish in a mysterious plague whose origins are never fully explained. Though the comic spends a fair amount of time…
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In Gaia’s New Trailer, the Earth’s First God Wakes From Her Slumber to Kill
In director Jaco Bouwer’s Gaia, which premiered at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, there is something ancient, powerful, and unimaginably dangerous living deep in the Tsitsikamma forest of South Africa. While all of the movie’s characters have a certain degree of reverence for nature when you first meet them, none of them can comprehend what…