There’s a particular gravity to watching Eddie Vedder perform on his own. Without the band, without the familiar roar of a Pearl Jam crowd, what’s left isn’t catharsis — it’s intention. Matter of Time understands that, and it’s why the film works. This isn’t just a concert movie, it’s a document about responsibility.
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To paraphrase Prince Adam’s opening monologue to the cartoon, we poured through every frame of Amazon MGM Studios’ Masters of the Universe trailer to reveal all of its fabulous secrets. In case you haven’t seen it yet, take another look:
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Amazon MGM Studios teased it was coming yesterday, but the brand new trailer for the upcoming live action Masters of the Universe adaptation lives up to the hype.
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Amazon MGM Studios just confirmed production is underway on Spaceballs 2, the decades-in-the-making follow-up to Mel Brooks’ 1987 space opera classic. The film will reunite Brooks with original stars Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, and an unretired Rick Moranis. Though if history is any indication, they will never share any significant screen time together.
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Hot on the heels of Superman’s blistering box office, James Gunn took to social media this morning — or maybe it was a team of monkeys in a pocket universe — to tease the next cinematic installment of the DCU by sharing an official teaser poster for Supergirl.
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Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios just greenlit an adult animated series based on Mister Miracle, the critically acclaimed, brain-melting comic series from Tom King and Mitch Gerads. Even better? King is being brought in to showrun the series — with a few Mother Boxes and Omega Beams thrown in for good measure.
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It’s been well documented on this site that I’m not much of a gamer. It’s is also well documented that I am a huge and unabashed Pearl Jam fan. Those two facts about me collided during last night’s viewing of the most recent episode of The Last of Us on HBO.
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Five years ago in the before times, my Secret Identities partner-in-crime Jerry Ma exhibited a solo art show called A Chinatown Odyssey about a modern interpretation of The Monkey King and his adventures throughout New York’s Chinatown. Well, for this AAPI Heritage Month, Jerry and the Monkey King are back at Pearl River Mart, but this time he’s brought along some legendary comics artist pals for the ride.
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By the power of Grayskull, we have the first official look at Nicholas Galitzine as He-Man in a teaser image from Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming live action Masters of the Universe adaptation, due in theaters next year.
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In another lifetime, I was a high school teacher in Chesapeake, Virginia. One of the students in my school went on to become one of the top stand-up comedians in the world and a breakout on Saturday Night Live. Recently, I had the honor of reuniting with Jay Pharoah to reminisce about high school, discuss his career, and celebrate his innovative virtual special as part of Meta Horizon’s Soapstone Comedy Presents series.
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With only a week to go before another consequential presidential election, perhaps the most consequential, it’s more vital than ever that voters are informed of the stakes before pulling that lever. That’s why comics industry giants like Denys Cowan, Greg Pak, Matt Fraction, Greg Rucka, Jen Van Meter, Jim Ottaviani, and dozens more came together earlier this month to publish Stop Project 2025.
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The teaser for the long awaited second season of Severance is here, announcing the award-winning phenomenon finally comes back to Apple TV+ this January.
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Long-time Friend of the NOC, Marc Bernardin, is back ! This time, he’s here to talk about his episode of Batman: Caped Crusader, “Night Ride,” which introduces Gentleman Ghost and Papa Midnite into this reimagined animated universe.
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With apologies to fans of X-Men ‘97, I must proclaim Prime Video’s Batman: Caped Crusader as the clear winner of the battle between nostalgic revivals of classic ‘90s animated series.
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Generic Asian Man is finally the lead of a real television show! Today, Hulu revealed a first look at the adaptation of Charles Yu’s National Book Award-winning novel, Interior Chinatown. While the book itself was formatted like a television script, the series will not be a one-for-one adaptation but will retain the original’s satirical spirit.
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ATARASHII GAKKO! is another step closer to conquering the world. Having just completed the first leg of their World Tour, the four new school leaders — Suzuka, Mizyu, Rin, and Kanon — have teamed up with Thai-rapper MILLI to debut a music video for the song, “Drama,” featured on their latest full length album, AG! Calling.
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Apple TV+ just dropped the trailer for the highly anticipated series Sunny, starring Rashida Jones and acclaimed Japanese actor Hidetoshi Nishijima. The series stars Jones as Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband (Nishijima) and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash.
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Nearly three years to the date since it was officially announced, fans are finally getting their first glimpses at Bruce Timm’s return to animating Gotham: Batman: Caped Crusader, debuting later this year on Prime Video.
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We’ve come a long way since I first wrote a New York Times editorial about the lack of opportunity for AAPIs in Hollywood. In the ensuing eight years since that was published, AAPI-led films and shows have swept the Oscars and the Emmys, anchored both the DC and Marvel Cinematic Universes, and broken box office records.
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Even though we won’t be getting The Batman sequel until 2026, the first teaser trailer for Matt Reeves’ The Penguin, starring Academy Award nominee Colin Farrell, should hold us over until then or at least until the series premieres on Max this fall.
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In a press release this morning, Max announced it was extending its exclusive deal with GKIDS to stream Studio Ghibli films in the U.S., including the rights to Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning The Boy and the Heron.
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To celebrate the first day of filming — and the titular hero’s canonical birthday — director and co-head of DC Studios, James Gunn, took to social media to share the first official image from the movie formerly known as Superman: Legacy.
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I’ve heard it said that trailers come into our lives for a reason. And during the first half of Super Bowl LVIII, one of the most anticipated films of the year was teased when Universal Pictures gave a first look at Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the Broadway classic, Wicked. And we couldn’t be happier!
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