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Richard Newby

  1. movies recap
    An Abridged Guide to Every Expendables Movie So FarThese movies aren’t terribly complex, but they do tend to bleed together a bit. Here’s a quick recap of everything that’s happened before Expend4bles.
  2. spoilers
    The Many Multiversal Easter Eggs You Might Have Missed in The FlashAnd some good news for Snyder Cut fans.
  3. endings
    Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Ending Really Goes for the JoeLike an ’80s kid mashing action figures together, the Transformers franchise is in its crossover era.
  4. sequential art
    Who Are All These Spider-People?The Spider-Verse has a lot of spider-creatures. Here is every man, woman, punk, cat, monkey, manga, dinosaur, and car, explained.
  5. endings
    Let’s Talk About the Cliffhanger Ending of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseWhat’s next for Miles Morales? Sony and Marvel Studios may be working toward a similar goal from different ends.
  6. easter eggs
    7 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Easter EggsThe references to other Marvel stories aren’t rampant in the Quantum Realm, but they’re there if you are appropriately squinting.
  7. credits scene
    The Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Credits Scenes (and Every Kang), Explained[Redacted character] will return.
  8. surprise!
    The Wakanda Forever Mid-Credits Scene Wants You to Meet SomeoneWith a new face and a familiar name.
  9. easter eggs
    7 Marvel Easter Eggs in Black Panther: Wakanda ForeverFrom Scott Lang’s podcast to the M-word (mutant) to the cultural roots of an A.I.’s name.
  10. we should have a talk
    Black Adam’s Mid-Credits Scene Flies Up, Up, and AwayThe countdown to the inevitable throwdown begins now.
  11. easter eggs
    All the Black Adam Easter Eggs You Might Have MissedLet’s break down the Easter eggs referencing Black Adam and the Justice Society’s comic-book pasts and cinematic futures.
  12. easter eggs
    Why That Old-Timey Pistol at the End of Prey Looks So FamiliarFast forward to Los Angeles in 1997.
  13. easter eggs
    8 Easter Eggs You Might Have Missed in Thor: Love and ThunderFrom screaming goats to familiar faces in the Hall of Legends.
  14. spoilers
    Thor: Love and Thunder Post-Credits Scene Goes From Zero to Hero, Just Like ThatHe’s here, he’s there, he’s every-fuckin’-where!
  15. easter eggs
    20 of the Strangest Cameos and Easter Eggs in Multiverse of MadnessAn exhaustive list of cameos and references to guide you through the madness.
  16. explainer
    Doctor Strange’s Multiverse of Madness Mid-Credits Meet-Cute, ExplainedWho was that?
  17. easter eggs
    6 Spider-Man and Venom References You May Have Missed in MorbiusFrom Daily Bugle sightings to mutterings about San Francisco, here are all the Easter eggs in the new Spidey spinoff movie.
  18. post-credits scene
    It’s a Bird! It’s a Bat! It’s Morbius’s Mid-Credits Scenes, ExplainedFeaturing a sinister and familiar face.
  19. the batman
    What and Where Is Blüdhaven, and Who Will Catwoman Meet There?Think of Blüdhaven as the New Jersey to Gotham’s New York City.
  20. plug back in
    Everything You Need to Know About the Matrix Before Watching ResurrectionsWho died, who lived, and where the war between humans and the machines stands after three films, one Animatrix, and an MMORPG.
  21. spider-man: no way home
    All the Easter Eggs You Might Have Missed in Spider-Man: No Way HomeAn Aunt May and Doc Ock romance, a Kraven the Hunter cameo, and more of the comics, video game, and MCU meta references in the latest Spidey sequel.
  22. go ask alice
    Everything We Know About The Matrix Resurrections So FarWhere is Morpheus? Do Neo and Trinity not remember each other? Why is only one Wachowski involved? Let’s see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
  23. eternals
    Who Is Eros, Marvel’s New Star Playboy?The arrival of Eros, Thanos’s sexy brother, poses tricky questions about how to adapt a hero whose superpower is seduction for the screen.
  24. easter eggs
    Nine Easter Eggs You Might Have Missed in EternalsIncluding a doorway to the horror side of the Marvel universe, hints about Thor: Love and Thunder, Thena and Kro’s romantic history, and more.