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Gen V is a spin-off of The Boys. That's both a fact about the show and a warning. It's an ultra-violent, ultra-bloody show, and you'll see more than one nude penis on the screen during the eight-episode Season 1. At the same time, it's also a more focused story that knows how to use the tools we associate with The Boys effectively and--pending a sharp left turn in the final two episodes we haven't seen--finds plenty of interesting stuff to do with them without involving Vought or The Seven as more than background noise. At the same time, you should...

The Expendables franchise is out of step with the present. These movies are supposed to serve as homages to the silly, low-rent action movies of the '80s and '90s, when many of our biggest action stars made their names. But if this franchise wanted to keep going after a nine-year break, Expendables 4 (officially dubbed Expend4bles) needed a meaningful change to how it operates--something akin to how Bad Boys for Life added a welcome streak of self-awareness.Amusingly, Expendables 4 borrows a number of elements from that third Bad Boys movie--like casting the actor who played that film's sub-villain, Jacob Scipio;...

Stop me if you've heard this one before: A grizzled and world-weary loner of a man finds himself as the unlikely ward for a child whom some claim to be the future savior of the post-apocalyptic world in which survivors are struggling to live. Together, the man and child embark on a road trip that may bring them closer together while also sometimes tearing them apart due to the monsters and murderers who now claim the lands.Yes, let's address the zombified elephant in the room; The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is clearly derivative of The Last of Us (TLOU) and...

Wealth, fame, power. In the two and a half decades since Eiichiro Oda first created the legendary manga-turned-anime series One Piece, it has obtained this and everything else the world has to offer. Since 1997, the swashbuckling Shonen Jump serial has maintained an extraordinary level of adoration and popularity, culminating in record-breaking sales and one of the longest-running anime series around. Suffice to say that, much like series' protagonist Monkey D. Luffy himself, One Piece has built up something of a reputation for itself: a legacy filled with wonder, adventure, exuberance, and just a pinch of notoriety, thanks to its...

I used to think I was unreasonably harsh on Disney's attempts at live-action Star Wars because I didn't like any of it. Then I watched Andor and saw what a legitimately good Star Wars TV show looked like. I'd rather not go back to the old normal. But despite its attempts to pretend otherwise in the two episodes provided by Disney+ ahead of the series premiere, the old normal is exactly what Ahsoka represents. Unless you're a Rebels fan dying to follow up on that cliffhanger from the series finale, there's no reason to watch this show.Ahsoka begins with a...

It's been a really bad year for DC Studios. Shazam 2 and The Flash were bad movies that both flopped. And now we've got Blue Beetle, a film that has the look and feel of a big Arrowverse crossover event on The CW. I'm sorry to say the state of DC hasn't improved at all with this movie.Blue Beetle follows recent college grad Jaime Reyes (Xolo Mariduena) as he tries to help his family keep their house. Instead, he runs afoul of Victoria Kord (Susan Sarandon), the evil billionaire running a tech company called Kord Industries, and gets himself and...

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise on the big screen has been a mixed bag, at best. The newest entry, the stylized CGI film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, is a brand-new take on the iconic franchise that introduces the turtles to a younger generation of potential superfans. And this time, the cast and creatives of the film got nearly everything right.The first live-action film in 1990 captured the Ninja Turtles in a way that it's hard to believe would be possible, had 1989's Batman not paved the stylistic way. It was dark, gritty, dirty, and incredible. The sequel,...

The excitement around Talk to Me is palpable. A new horror film from A24, the people who brought us Hereditary, The Witch, and Midsommar, is something to be excited about. And Talk to Me is certainly a film that deserves to live in that pantheon--it's one of the best horror films of the year.On the anniversary of her mother's untimely death, high schooler Mia (Sophie Wilde), her best friend, Jade (Alexandra Jensen), and Jade's little brother, Riley (Joe Bird), sneak out to a house party. While there, they discover a new game going around: Talk to Me. A couple of...

Oppenheimer is not an easy film to write about after one viewing. It's a massive movie both in terms of its length and in terms of its intricately and painstakingly laid-out story, which defies all of Hollywood's rules for biographical and historical films. Christopher Nolan, as always, is doing things his way. And it's going to take the rest of us a minute to catch up.Despite what you may have heard from some vociferous Batman fans, Christopher Nolan doesn't make perfect movies. Not because he screws them up, but because he only takes aim at targets that are immensely difficult...