Author: Jacob Dressler

We’re at a moment in pop culture history when LGBT representation is at an all time high. In a notable new announcement for an upcoming video game titled Tell Me Why, it’s been revealed that the game will be the first to include a playable transgender protagonist. The revelation was made at Microsoft’s X019 event, where the Life Is Strange franchise game development company DONTNOD Entertainment made the announcement. As explained, the main character is a trans man named Tyler Ronan. It turns out that game director Florent Guillaume and Joseph Staten, senior creative director at Xbox, worked with the…

One of the most iconic and memorable superhero characters under the Marvel umbrella is none other than Peter Parker aka Spider-Man. He’s been an important part of Marvel for decades now, ever since that faithful original storyline where Peter Parker ended up getting bitten by a radioactive spider. The event left him with a variety of superpowers, those of which have been as important to the character as his personality traits and brightly colored superhero costume. But as it turns out, there’s one superpower from the character’s early days that was kind of forgotten. And honestly, it’s probably for the…

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is usually thought to be a politically progressive person, one that’s previously criticized Donald Trump, and taken on a variety of LGBT perspectives. But now she’s been receiving backlash for a statement she made on Twitter in support of a woman who lost her job at an international think tank for having opposed a particular set of proposed U.K. laws. The laws would allow people to identify as the sex of their choice. Here’s what J.K. Rowling had stated specifically: “Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have…

Jackass 3D was largely expected to be the final installment in the Jackass franchise after it was released in 2010. While Ryan Dunn died in 2011, which made things look a little more bleak, it looks like the stars have aligned for a proper new Jackass sequel to move into production. The currently untitled Jackass 4 movie is being scheduled for a release in 2021, as it was confirmed by Paramount Studios. Of course, it still makes sense that a fourth movie would eventually get produced. While it has been a long wait for fans of the franchise, these movies…

As everyone could’ve probably expected years in advance, director J.J. Abrams has been receiving complaints from fans over the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. And in an interesting response, fellow Star Wars director Rian Johnson, who helmed Star Wars: The Last Jedi, decided to come out and state that pandering to fans is a “mistake.” In fact, he made the following statement: “I want to be challenged as a fan when I sit down in the theater.” He explained it all while on a podcast interview with the Swings & Mrs. podcast, “I think approaching any creative…

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been expanding in a handful of interesting ways. We’re not only getting a new line of theatrical films for Marvel’s Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but we’ll also be receiving a plethora of new original shows produced for Disney’s streaming service Disney Plus. The amount of Marvel content going into production and being released is relatively limitless. Of course, we’re still waiting to find out the release dates for a variety of projects – including James Gunn’s hotly anticipated sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The film was originally scheduled to be…

Christopher Nolan is a film director that loves to keep his movies as mysterious as their massive plots up until they’ve been properly released in theaters. He’s given us films like Memento, Inception, as well as the three movies included in the Dark Knight trilogy. Now the trailer for his next film has been released – and it’s titled Tenet. While not much is known about Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, it’s been described as “an action epic revolving around international espionage, time travel, and evolution,” which you can get a clear picture of from the trailer down below. Of course,…

When cult leader Charles Manson died several years ago in 2017, his body was cremated. It appears that artist Ryan Almighty received some of Charles Manson’s ashes, and ended up using them for a variety of eerie artistic projects. One of the most recent projects, which he collaborated on with fellow artist Rick ‘Sik Rik’ Fisher, have been to create two masks based on Manson’s face. What’s more, the Charles Manson masks were painted with human blood and even specked with some of Manson’s ashes. As you can see in the video/pictures down below, the masks are a truly eerie…

Star Wars fans across the world are excited for the much anticipated release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Now it turns out those fans in support of the LGBT movement will be pleased to know that the film includes a gay kiss between two female characters. Of course, the kiss occurs only between two minor characters in the background of the film, but it marks a first for both Star Wars as well as live action Disney blockbusters. The kiss occurs during a celebration sequence in the film, where two female characters are eagerly excited and decide to…

For several generations now, the traditional image of Santa Claus has been displayed all over for Christmas celebrations. The character is most notably portrayed as a hefty, white bearded man, with a large red suit and matching hat. But in modern times, some people tend to recreate traditional iconography to better suit their desires. As such, logo creation company GraphicSprings has brought up an interesting new poll – one which asks whether or not Santa Claus should be modernized for the era we live in today. The poll comes with a variety of different possibilities regarding the ways in which…