K-pop superstar Taemin is poised to take genre to greater heights

Taemin onstage holds a microphone and gives a thumbs-up.

In recent years, you can’t look at a Billboard chart, the Hot 100 or the 200 without seeing a K-pop artist. It wasn’t always this way. The genre was still in its infancy when the […]

A must-watch anime movie for Studio Ghibli fans just dropped on Netflix

A brown-haired man in a loose brown jerkin crouches by a fallen body in a dark outdoor space, raising a hand crackling with orange energy to fend off a man wielding a staff glowing with blue energy

The anime feature The Deer King, now streaming on Netflix, has a bunch of significant things in common with Studio Ghibli’s movie Princess Mononoke: Both movies’ plots concern a spreading corruption overtaking a country. Both […]

The Three Biggest Takeaways From ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’

The Three Biggest Takeaways From ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’

The superhero team-up that Marvel fans have dreamed of for years has finally arrived, and it’s already breaking box office records. On Friday, Deadpool & Wolverine was released in theaters worldwide. In its opening weekend, […]

DC and Marvel comic book continuity doesn’t matter, and I can prove it

A map of the Orrery of Worlds in the DC multiverse, edited to have a red arrow pointed at Earth 0, labeled “YOU ARE HERE.”

In the post-Marvel Cinematic Universe era, it’s hard to find a savvy pop culture maven who can’t define “continuity,” whether they’re talking about comics, movies, TV, or video games. To me, as a lifelong superhero […]

Nobody Other Than George Harrison Wanted to Make the Original ‘Time Bandits’

Nobody Other Than George Harrison Wanted to Make the Original ‘Time Bandits’

Because Hollywood won’t rest until it’s turned every Terry Gilliam movie into a TV show, Apple TV+ will soon be releasing a Time Bandits series, starring Lisa Kudrow as a temporal plunderer.  Don’t Miss While recycling ‘80s films for […]

A hacked Game Boy, compliment battles, video games and Mr Blobby: the rise of UK nerdcore | Games

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We’ve had live jazz bands playing Mario Kart, and a full orchestra rendition of Sonic. But there’s a whole subgenre of video game music artists who’d happily describe their sound as even more nerdy. “Nerdcore […]

Comedian, actor and painter Martin Mull was always right for the job

Martin Mull with Steve Martin

For anyone lucky enough to have experienced the long arc of his career, the death of droll, dry, deadpan Martin Mull, Thursday at 80, feels like the end of an era. A writer, songwriter, musician, […]