Author: Jacob Dressler

One of Disney and Marvel’s latest as well as biggest successes in recent history has been Avengers: Endgame. The film acts as a conclusion to Marvel’s Infinity Saga, essentially everything leading up to the massive crossover, and was a huge hit with fans, critics, and of course – at the box office. But the film has also kept fans interested well after its theatrical run. Many have taken to analyzing the epic crossover, and have gone as far as reading and rereading so much as the screenplay just to try for deeper insight or hidden easter eggs. As such things…

Most Stephen King and horror fans are perhaps already familiar with Stephen King’s iconic vampire novel ‘Salem’s Lot. The book has since become the inspiration for a variety of adaptations, including two miniseries and an upcoming theatrical film. It also served as inspiration for one of the locations in the Hulu series Castle Rock. What some fans may not be familiar with, however, is a short story published by King titled Jerusalem’s Lot which takes place more than a century before ‘Salem’s Lot. As it turns out, that short story is now becoming the basis for an all new television…

The Star Wars franchise received a big first for the franchise with the latest installment, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. As the film’s director J.J. Abrams has previously teased, the movie would have some form of inclusion for the LGBT audience. And for those of you who’ve managed to see the film, you’d know that he’s correct – the film has the first gay kiss shown on screen in a Star Wars movie, as well as any live action Disney blockbuster. However, new reports from fans watching the film in Dubai have been stating that the scene has been…

One of the most iconic and popular horror franchises to ever come into existence, especially out of the 1980’s, has been the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Ever since Wes Craven introduced the world to his character Freddy Krueger, played by Robert Englund in A Nightmare on Elm Street and all of its original sequels, the character has become a mainstay in pop culture fandom. While he’s not as popular now, Freddy Krueger is still just as relevant, continually being parodied and featured in a plethora of appearances to this day. Now read on below to find out why Freddy…

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…