Tag: Spin-Off

I Pray You Bloody Your Spear Tonight | Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) on Hulu

Predator: Killer of Killers (2025)

Confident that the Predator franchise is finally back on track, executives at 20th Century Studios greenlit not just one but two new movies for release in 2025, both shepherded by Prey director Dan Trachtenberg. The first, an animated prequel/side-story called Predator: Killer of Killers, arrived directly on Hulu streaming (as Prey had) to serve as… Read More I Pray You Bloody Your Spear Tonight | Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) on Hulu

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Not Very Starfleet | Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) on Paramount+

Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) - Michelle Yeoh

Long delayed from its original announcement almost a half-dozen years ago, the planned Star Trek: Discovery spinoff series Section 31 was eventually reduced to a television movie deposited onto streaming in the late January dumping ground. That this project saw any completion at all is no doubt a consequence of star Michelle Yeoh having won… Read More Not Very Starfleet | Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) on Paramount+

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Skynet in the Shell | Terminator Zero: Season 1 (2024) on Netflix

Terminator Zero (2024)

Once an unstoppable box office powerhouse, the Terminator movie franchise has seen its fortunes dwindle with subsequent installments as audiences moved on to other sci-fi diversions, many of which have borrowed from the foundation James Cameron originally built. Nevertheless, the property remains valuable enough to keep active in some form, if no longer on movie… Read More Skynet in the Shell | Terminator Zero: Season 1 (2024) on Netflix

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Godzilla without Much Godzilla | Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023) Apple TV+ Series Premiere

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023)

The corporate zeal to turn every piece of remotely valuable I.P. into a shared cinematic universe will eventually have to hit a tipping point where the gambit simply no longer works anymore. I’m not sure that we’ve gotten there yet, but I think we’re close. The latest in the cycle comes with the premiere of… Read More Godzilla without Much Godzilla | Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023) Apple TV+ Series Premiere

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It’s Gonna Be Different This Year | Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (2023) Paramount+ Series Premiere

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (2023)

Revisited a much-loved pop landmark from the heart of the Baby Boomer era with a pointedly more diverse cast and a stronger focus on the female point-of-view, Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies feels like it was explicitly (if not expressly) designed to inflame our current culture wars and drive the anti-“woke” crowd absolutely insane… Read More It’s Gonna Be Different This Year | Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (2023) Paramount+ Series Premiere

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Well, This Was a Disaster | True Lies (2023) CBS Series Premiere

True Lies (2023)

Nostalgia reboots of old movies are so common right now (Fatal Attraction coming imminently to Paramount+!), one can hardly blame CBS for trying to revive James Cameron’s 1994 blockbuster True Lies as a weekly spy/action series. That it would be terrible should also be no surprise, given the network’s history. The trailers certainly looked awful.… Read More Well, This Was a Disaster | True Lies (2023) CBS Series Premiere

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The Past Matters | Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Premiere (2023) on Paramount+

Star Trek Picard Season 3 (2023)

Star Trek: Picard begins its third and final season haunted by the fact that (how to put this delicately?) the show’s first two seasons basically sucked. I’m honestly at a loss to decide which of the two was worse, but at the moment am inclined to say the second. Planned as a big reunion and… Read More The Past Matters | Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Premiere (2023) on Paramount+

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More Clonin’ Around | Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 2 Premiere (2023) on Disney+

Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 2 (2023)

The latest in the never-ending cycle of Star Wars content being churned out on Disney+, the animated Clone Wars spin-off series The Bad Batch has returned for a second season. Released in mid-2021, the first season was decidedly underwhelming, to be honest. Whether this one will show any growth or improvement remains to be seen,… Read More More Clonin’ Around | Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 2 Premiere (2023) on Disney+

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Star Wars Odds & Ends | Tales of the Jedi Season 1 (2022) on Disney+

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi (2022)

Although LucasFilm’s animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars initially seemed to come to a close back in 2014 after six very successful seasons, it showed up again in 2020 for a bonus seventh season that felt like it finally brought the narrative to a conclusive end. Even after that, however, creator Dave Filoni is apparently… Read More Star Wars Odds & Ends | Tales of the Jedi Season 1 (2022) on Disney+

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