Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalkerintroducedthe Force Dyadas a brand-new concept inStar Wars, but it’s only now, nearly six years later, that it’s really begun to make sense. TheStar Warssequel trilogy remains one of the most controversial additions toStar Warsmovies and TV shows, andThe Rise of Skywalkerwas a substantial part of that. In fact, many considerThe Rise of Skywalkerto be one ofStar Wars’worst movies. There are various reasons whyThe Rise of Skywalkerreceived such pushback, from choices likePalpatine’s resurrectionto Rey adopting the Skywalker name....

WARNING! This article contains spoilers forStar Wars: Jedi Knights#5. Star Warslore continues to expand almost daily, often revisiting familiar faces and events with fresh perspectives. A new comic series is digging deeper into the enigmatic past of a beloved and often overlooked Jedi Master, promising revelations that will alter the understanding of a tragic canonical moment. This intriguing exploration takes center stage in a preview for the upcomingStar Wars: Jedi Knights #5,written by Marc Guggenheim and with art by Madibek Musabekov....

A historic first in theStar Warsfranchise has just made the upcoming 50th anniversary of the first movie all the more exciting. As everyone now knows, the firstStar Warsmovie in release orderwas, well,Star Wars, now retitledA New Hope. The movie was released on June 23, 2025, and kickstarted theStar Warsfranchise as we know it today. Theranking ofStar Warsmoviesdiffers from person to person, but none can deny the sheer importance of George Lucas' first movie....

Microsoft ended extended support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 in 2023, and many applications that still worked on those releases have made the same move over the past year. Now, the game store and launcher Steam has officially ended support for Windows 7 and 8. Valveannounced last yearthat it would end support for Steam on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 starting on June 25, 2025. The company’s stated reason was that many Steam components rely on an embedded version of Google Chrome (or more specificially,Chromium), and sinceChrome is now only updated on Windows 10 and newer, security flaws in older versions aren’t being addressed....

Despite their unfair treatment inThe Big Bang Theory, upcoming spinoffStuart Fails to Save the Universecould make great strides in redeeming one of its main characters. It’s long been confirmed that theStuart Fails to Save the Universecastis cobbled together of notableBig Bang Theoryside characters, allowing their personas to be developed in greater depth. It probably won’t feel like the secretThe Big Bang Theoryseason 13fans are hoping it will turn into, butStuart Fails to Save the Universeis a perfect opportunity to fix any slights or oversights in the original....

Superman & Loisstar Tyler Hoechlin has opened up about which Superman suit was his favorite to wear. Thelive-action Superman actorhas a long history with the Man of Steel. Hoechlin first donned Superman’s iconic costume as part of the Arrowverse inSupergirlback in 2016. Then, Hoechlin’s Superman appeared in multiple Arrowverse crossover events and more standalone episodes before getting his ownDCseries.Superman & Lois' four seasons featured many exciting moments, with Clark Kent donning different suits along the way and fighting foes like Lex Luthor, Doomsday, and more....

The dawn of computer-generated effects spelled bad news for action cinema at the turn of the 21st century. James Bond surfed on a CG tidal wave inDie Another Day, while John McClane jumped a CG police car into a CG helicopter to create a CG explosion inLive Free or Die Hard. But the action movies of the last two decades haven’t been all bad. RELATED:10 Of The Greatest Action Movie Directors Of All Time (& Their Highest Rated Movie On Rotten Tomatoes)...

I often surprise people when I tell them that one of my favorite movies is 2016’sThe Founder, which has been overshadowed for far too long thanks to its surface-level similarities with another Academy Award-winning biopic. Quietly one ofMichael Keaton’s best movies,The Founderstars him as Ray Kroc, the man who turned McDonald’s into the fast food empire it is today. Specifically,The Foundergoes over how Kroc essentially stole the idea from Mac and Dick McDonald, the two brothers who actually came up with the concept for fast food in their original McDonald’s restaurant....

The Acolyteconcluded one year ago, shortly followed by the news thatThe Acolyteseason 2wouldn’t be happening despite what many anticipated, butI still believe one ofThe Acolyte’sbest characters will return toStar Warseventually.The Acolyteintroduced a host of new characters, from twins Osha and Mae to Jedi Masters like Sol, but one of the most popular characters was Manny Jacinto’s Sith character Qimir/the Stranger. At first, it wasn’t clear what role Qimir would play; he initially seemed like little more than Mae’s goofy sidekick....

Horror is a massive umbrella, perhaps the most varied genre in film today both in quality and in the subject matter. The extremely popular subgenre of cosmic or eldritch horror was popularized largely through the works of one enduringly unusual author, Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Lovecraft is largely responsible for themodern obsession with the horrorof unthinkably old and powerful beings that exists just outside the boundaries of human understanding. His works introduce a sprawling universe of ancient deities which draw the inherent meaninglessness of humanity into focus....

A secret prequel movie was actually how theFast & Furiousfranchise debuted one of its strongest characters. Thechronological order of theFast & Furiousmovieshas been admittedly difficult to track for a while. Some of thebest-rankedFast & Furiousmovies, likeFast Five, for example, have a unique place on the timeline of the franchise.Fast Fiveand its predecessor,Fast & Furious,were the fifth and fourth installments in the franchise respectively, when concerning release order. However, they took place before the third released film,TokyoDrift, chronologically....

Sicario: Day of the Soldado, the follow-up to 2015’sSicario, the great collaboration between director Denis Villeneuve and writer Taylor Sheridan, didn’t understand why the first film functioned so well in the first place.Sicariowas one of the best-received films of the 2010s, but its sequel made barely an impact just three years after the original film’s debut. Released in 2018, the secondSicariofilm, subtitledDay of the Soldado, received a lukewarm receptionand mediocre financial returns....

With the second season ofThe Last Of Usending very recently, the community has been abuzz with things that should have been done differently, both in the TV adaptation and the original games. Many of those discussions revisited the same themes that were explored five years ago, given the choices made in the still-divisive sequel. But one pitch fromReddit user Zealousideal-Row8118 caught our eye. As most of you know,The Last Of Us Part 2still hasn’t gotten aLeft Behind-like DLC....