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Why Has Spider-Man Become Such a Movie Mess?
All told, Spider-Man is one of the weirdest high-profile superheroes. Peter Parker will always be famous, and that means anything he ends up headlining will just eventually have an odd aura around it. Look no further than his own movies: after Sam Raimi’s trilogy, Sony didn’t maintain the proper hold it had on the franchise,…
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The Acolyte Will Incorporate More Star Wars Legends
With three episodes left in the first season of The Acolyte, show creator Leslye Headland admits she isn’t quite done incorporating pieces of old-school Star Wars mythology from the Expanded Universe, aka Legends. Legends, of course, is the name for Star Wars stories written before Disney bought the franchise and put everything under one big…
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July’s Lego Releases Are All Abuzz
After the Eye of Sauron heralded a busy start to the summer for fans, you’re getting a bit of a break in July—with just six major releases bidding for your time and attention to beat the heat with large amounts of plastic bricks. And one of those is a book! But that doesn’t mean there…
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One of The Acolyte’s Stars Perfectly Explains Why It’s So Good
So, uh, that happened. And that happened. And THAT happened as well. The fifth episode of The Acolyte brought a whole new level of action and chaos to the Star Wars universe, something one of the show’s stars rightfully points outdoesn’t happen enough in modern franchises. Dafne Keen, who plays Jedi apprentice Jecki Lon on…