Spider-Man: No Way Home is unlikely to take shape as a Sinister Six-centric movie, but the film will evidently send ripples down the shared timeline of the Marvel movies of Sony’s SPUMC (Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters) and Disney/Marvel Studio’s Avengers-housing MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe), as the March-scheduled MCU follow-up film, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, now clearly suggests. Indeed, an ill-advised spell by Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to erase the previous film’s post-credits scene doxing of Peter Parker (Tom Holland) as Spider-Man will tear the fabric of the multiverse (a concept recently introduced on Loki), resulting in a greatest hits rogues gallery being unleashed....

SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It was first developed in the 1970s by a team of IBM researchers, NoSQL databases, on the other hand, were first used in 1998 by Carlo Strozzi. The most common difference between these two databases (DB) systems is that SQL is relational and NoSQL is non-relational. Let’s deep dive into these two databases to better inform your decision when next you are considering a database for your project....

Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 4 Star Trek: Discovery walks a fine line with viewers, particularly with those who are intimately familiar with the canon of past series. If one focuses on the drama of a mutineer on a journey of redemption, there’s plenty to love, but if the spotlight is on the mission of the Discovery, which is to exploit scientific research for advantage in war, the show has a problem....

Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, Episode 7 The Vulcans have long been one of Star Trek‘s most fascinating creations. A society built on the value of logic, The Original Series immediately challenged the concept by making main character Spock half-human, with all of the emotionality that comes with it. Through his struggles, we were able to see both the value and limits of a life led by logic; his conclusions (and ours) on the matter were rarely simple ones....

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 9 The generally episodic nature of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds means that the show can much more easily play with things like tone and genre than either of its fellow modern-day predecessors. From last week’s emotional gut-punch disguised as a candy-coated children’s fantasy to a bodyswap romantic comedy, the show seems to delight in subverting our expectations about what a show like this is supposed to be and do from week to week....

The series, which was been in development for a few years now, has recently been shooting in Cleveleys, a coastal town in the UK that’s just a few miles north of Blackpool. It’s at this location that a leaker has managed to snap a few set photos that reveal Luna back in costume as well as a familiar Imperial enemy from Rogue One. Below, Cassian encounters a coastal defender stormtrooper, the same kind of infantry unit he, along with Jyn Erso and company, faced on Scarif during the mission to steal the plans to the Death Star....

Whatever they wanted from a continuation of Obi-Wan’s story, fans almost got more – a whole lot more. Speaking exclusively with The Direct, screenwriter Stuart Beattie revealed that Lucasfilm originally planned an entire trilogy of movies starring McGregor as Obi-Wan. “Yeah, Ewan was on board, everyone,” Beattie assured the outlet. But one problem stood in the way: Solo: A Star Wars Story. When that prequel movie failed to meet expectations, Lucasfilm decided to scrap their plans and start anew, changing the three-movie epic into one six-hour television season....

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Episode 6 As a story about what purpose-built soldiers do after the war, The Bad Batch has been as aimless as its protagonists so far. But an entertaining episode that finds them still deep in the underworld, “Decommissioned,” written by Amanda Rose Muñoz and directed by Nathaniel Villanueva, brings back some minor The Clone Wars characters and deepens the Batch’s scant characterization. It also goes into the fate of the battle droids from the other side, showing how the Empire erases the evidence of the prior war by melting it down to scrap....

The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 3 After a Western homage and a puppetry episode, The Mandalorian returns to its “toy box” beginnings in a mixed adventure that’s Star Wars through and through. “The Heiress” wows with some jet pack action and a surprise betrayal, but it also feels less grounded than the other episodes, and not just because of the multiple starship crashes. Bryce Dallas Howard’s direction, seemingly meant to evoke the animated series The Clone Wars, has a slipperiness that makes otherwise thrilling action a bit harder to follow than it should be compared to the show’s other relatively down-to-earth fight scenes....

Naturally, Star Wars fans had plenty of opinions about the new slate of projects, who should be in charge of it, and how they should handle things. Not everyone agreed that there needed to be more Star Wars beyond The Rise of Skywalker — indeed, some fans think the franchise should remain the kind of pop culture event we only see on the big screen every 10 years (but they’re wrong) — while others were ecstatic that Star Wars would begin to adopt more of a Marvel Cinematic Universe feel....

And yet, somehow racists fail to understand such simple principles of the story and direct their hate at members of the cast. Most recently, Obi-Wan Kenobi star Moses Ingram was the recipient of vile language directed toward both her and her character, Inquisitor Reva, also known as the Third Sister. A clearly frustrated Ingram took to Instagram to express her thoughts on the situation, telling viewers, “There are hundreds of those [hate messages], hundreds… There’s nothing anybody can do about this, there’s nothing anybody can do to stop this hate....

Let’s be honest, backed up by that epic John Williams score and featuring some of sci-fi’s most recognizable iconography, it’s hard for any Star Wars game to be an unmitigated failure. However, it just so happens that Star Wars: Squadrons also excels in its own right, providing fun and engaging dogfighting combat primed to satisfy both genre newcomers and any franchise veteran craving a true successor to 1997’s X-Wing vs....

Steven Universe Season 5 Episode 25 Surprise, there’s still more to season 5! After an explosive two parter the series takes it downa notch with a mostly transitional episode. Nothing wrong with that, since we finally get some info on Centi, Homeworld, and White Diamond. The characters that’s been most shrouded in mystery… and she’s finally revealed! Yeah, Steven Universe isn’t giving us another set of episodes centered around Beach City as downtime....

Stranger Things season 4 volume 1 has now premiered its seven episodes on Netflix. After that, only the two episodes that constitute season 4 volume 2 and a fifth season are set to follow. Prior to the premiere of season 4, Matt and Ross Duffer explained their reasoning to fans in an open letter. “Seven years ago, we planned out the complete story arc for Stranger Things,” the identical twins wrote....

Supergirl Season 6 Episode 16 Nia took on Nyxly and her long-absent, transmisogynist sister while Kara juggled heads of state and her decision to unilaterally put a giant dome over half of National City. And yet, the monster that made them put the dome up managed to feel like the least important part of an episode that belongs to Dreamer. This episode doled out some fun details, including the fact that Nyxly had a crush on Myxy’s cousinwhen she was a kid....

Supergirl Season 6 Episodes 19 and 20 After five long seasons, Supergirl has ended and Supercorp, the romantic pairing of Kara Danvers and Lena Luthor, is not, in fact, endgame – at least not canonically. In some ways it feels like this was always how it would go, but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating and even hurtful. For many viewers, especially the young LGBTQ viewership of Supergirl, this show and its fandom are their lifeline to the LGBTQ community....

Supergirl Season 6 Episode 18 This episode serves as an example of the way that the totem story arc has forced Supergirl to mow through convoluted plot at speeds usually reserved for soap operas. It feels like the show barely pauses to make room for Nyxly and Lex to square off against Supergirl and the Super Friends, in their first real brawl in ages. Meanwhile so much totem-related business cycles through that Lex’s machinations don’t even really register as a reveal, so much as a reminder that these things happened in the first place....

The DC Universe is thriving. It’s quite easy to see if you look at the big screen, where Matt Reeves’ The Batman is proving to be one of the best on-screen iterations of the character to date. The Batman is a treat for movie and comics fans alike, and takes inspiration from many of the caped crusader’s standout issues. If you’re looking to dive into some fantastic standout Batman lore, look no further!...

While 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok had a moderate (and amusing) number of cameos, Thor: Love and Thunder really ups the ante in terms of surprise walk-ons. Some of the unexpected appearances in this movie are from Marvel first-timers while others are from characters who previously showed up in either Ragnarok or those other movies about the God of Thunder that we don’t like to talk about anymore. Well, at least Thor: The Dark World—the first Thor is still pretty good if you ask us!...

For starters, The Boys season 3 will premiere its first three episodes on Friday, June 3 (this writer’s mother’s birthday. Happy birthday, ma!). To celebrate the release date (and presumably my mom’s birthday), Prime Video unveiled an intense little teaser featuring everyone’s favorite superpowered psychopath, Homelander. My God, just look at Homelander’s face as every high-powered photo flash digs further into his soul. Not one episode has aired yet but don’t let that stop you from starting the “An Emmy for Antony Starr” campaign in earnest now....