The following post contains SPOILERS for Deadpool & Wolverine. And maybe for Deadpool. And a little Deadpool 2. There’s probably some X-Men spoilers in there too. And Last Year at Marienbad for some reason. That’s a weird one. There are so many Marvel Easter eggs in Deadpool & Wolverine. So many. In fact our Easter egg breakdown … Read more
The finale of The Acolyte gave us the answers (and big cameos) we’ve been waiting for all season. But it was also an episode with some really important connections to Star Wars history, and it showed how this series has actually been setting up the events of the Star Wars prequels all along. For more on that, plus every hidden reference and secret … Read more
The new episode of House of the Dragon, “Regent,” is full of Game of Thrones references, and also a bunch of really smart visual storytelling that you might have missed. For example, all season we have seen the corpses of the ratcatchers hanging, as they have all season. But now they are reduced to skeletons. Throughout House of … Read more
Captain America is back — but not Steve Rogers. Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson takes up the mantle of America’s Sentinel of Liberty in Captain America: Brave New World, the character’s first starring film after The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. In that show, the government tried to militarize Captain America by giving his shield to John Walker. But … Read more
Episode 7 of The Acolyte had ties to the prequels, the sequel trilogy, and the long history of Star Wars. And just as earlier Star Wars films and shows have drawn from Kurosawa movies like The Hidden Fortress and Seven Samurai, The Acolyte draws from Rashomon, where a crime is shown multiple times from multiple perspectives, and each time you see the events … Read more
This episode of The Acolyte, “Teach/Corrupt,” is set on an “Unknown Planet.” But is it really unknown? This looks a lot like the long-hidden Jedi Temple where Rey finally found Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. They have similar mountains, similar rocks, and even similar alien life forms. So are they the same? In our latest Star Wars video, … Read more
Oh man, stuff went down on this week’s The Acolyte. We learned the identity of Mae’s mysterious Sith master. We saw the deaths of several significant characters. We saw the beginnings of a whole twin magic subplot. And we saw the payoff of several clues and hints from the very beginning of the season paid off. We … Read more
We spotted over 100 Easter egg, little details, and hidden Game of Thrones secrets you might have missed on the Season 2 Episode 2 of House of the Dragon. In our latest video we’ll break it all down for you. We’ll explain the symbolic meaning of the model’s destruction, and what sets House of the Dragon apart from other … Read more
The third episode of The Acolyte introduces viewers to a coven of Force-sensitive witches. But how do these characters connect to the witches previously seen on Star Wars: The Clone Wars and on the recent Star Wars: Ahsoka TV series? What makes one Force witch different from another? In our latest Acolyte breakdown video, we’ll explain just where all these … Read more
Season 1 of X-Men ’97 is over. And what a season it was, filled with action, adventure, melodrama, romance, and tragedy, all of it drawn from the vast history of X-Men comics. But if you haven’t read X-Men comics or watched the original X-Men: The Animated Series, you might have missed some of the coolest Easter eggs in the season finale. … Read more