Paramount Ensign Pavel Chekov, played by Walter Koenig, first appeared in the “Star Trek” episode “Catspaw” (October 27, 1967), the first episode of the show’s second season. The appearance of a forthrightly Russian character, and a hero at that, communicated to Trekkies that the Cold War of the 1960s was …
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Jack Finney’s The Body Snatchers is a powerful use of sci-fi horror that asks the most dreadfully delectable question; Who can you trust? It’s a question answered in multiple adaptations, from Don Seigel’s classic 1956 version to the dreadful 2007 reimagining The Invasion. But one version truly gets the paranoid …
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A Satanic cult takes on students and teachers in a Boarding school at Christmas. Jenn Wexler’s The Sacrifice Game takes that pitch and does some wild things with it. The holiday home invasion is a surprisingly rich vein of festive fear (and farce). The Sacrifice Game acknowledges this by adding …
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You shaped a whole lot of things that I love more than anything in the world. Not to get too ahead of myself here, but “Star Wars Rebels” is one of the best parts of the religion I subscribe to. That’s awesome. Thanks. I subscribe to the same religion, so …
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UPDATED, 1.28 am with Biden’s arrival in Israel: U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Israel on Wednesday morning as Middle East tensions ratchet up further following a horrific strike on Gaza’s Al Ahli hospital overnight in which hundreds of people died. Images relayed on the X account of Israeli Prime …
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The U.K. prime minister, Pamela Lawton, appears in the finale episode of Secret Invasion. Here’s what happened to her in the episode 6 finale and what it could mean for future Marvel movies and TV shows. Secret Invasion U.K. Prime Minister: What Happened to Her in the Episode 6 Finale? …
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Secret Invasion has some things in common with more recent spy shows. Both the BBC’s Spooks (2001-2011) and Netflix’s much more recent Treason, for example (not to mention the American 24), became notorious for the shocking deaths of major characters, and Secret Invasion made sure to squeeze that into its …
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If you haven’t watched the first episode of Secret Invasion, this article gets into spoiler territory. The first episode was pretty good and set up an interesting story, now let’s see if that story plays out strongly. There were a few interesting twists and turns over the course of the …
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Marvel Studios The Marvel Cinematic Universe has hit some box-office and off-screen road bumps over the last year, but the brand keeps on expanding as the company builds to its next mega-blockbuster in 2024’s “Captain America: Brave New World.” Whereas Phase 4 was plagued by too much narrative wheel-spinning, Phase …
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Secret Invasion arrives this week on Disney+ in a live-action limited series adaptation starring Samuel L. Jackson, back in his Marvel movie role as Nick Fury. Following Avengers: Endgame, Fury is a liaison between mankind and a society of refugee Skrulls. When a more dogmatic sect of Skrulls seek to …
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Disclaimer: This article contains major spoilers from Secret Invasion episode 1-2 After seven odd series featuring our favourite Avengers and new superheroes in everything between a sitcom and a detective drama, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is back with a new series. Secret Invasion directed by Ali Selim, starring Samuel L. …
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Marvel is bringing Secret Invasion to your streaming device, and we’re about to see what the Skrulls have been up to since we discovered that Nick Fury had been a shapeshifter at the end of Spider-Man: Far From Home. Since then, it seems like a lot may have been going …
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