american culture
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Michael B. Jordan Is Bringing Black Superman Val-Zod to HBO Max
After a few years of waxing and waning, it seems like DC’s Men of Tomorrow are back in the spotlight at Warner Bros. Alongside the plans for Ta-Nehisi Coates and J.J. Abrams to bring a new Superman to the big screen, a new report suggests that Black Panther star Michael B. Jordan is working on…
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Zack Snyder’s Declaration About Superhero Sex Has Been Mysteriously Silenced
It feels like we’ve lived with the “Does Batman perform oral sex?” discourse for a million years now, because this is the internet and that’s how time works. It felt that way, perhaps, when Justice League director Zack Snyder eventually weighed in with… let’s say declarative artwork that Batman does indeed do what superheroes should.…
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Meet Firestarter’s Adorable New Pyrokinetic Star, Ryan Kiera Armstrong
The 1984 adaptation of Stephen King’s Firestarter was only Drew Barrymore’s third film — but it, along with E.T., catapulted the 9-year-old to stardom. Those are some big, fiery shoes for a new young actor to fill, but the team behind the Firestarter remake thinks they found the right spark in Ryan Kiera Armstrong.
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Batman’s in Fortnite Now, and He’s Just as Lost as You Are
Fortnite’s invasion of comics has no doubt left some people unaware of the smash global phenom of a video game/metaculture black hole confused about just what the appeal of a thing that has seemingly taken over the planet really is. Well, Batman’s among those people now, for very different reasons — but putting the Dark…