NOT GAMES
Dylan Roth Jun 2, 2022. 8 minute read
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Goes Silly with ‘Spock Amok’
A few months ago, while reviewing the Star Trek: Discovery episode “All In,” I commented on how modern era Trek has isolated the many flavors that have made the franchise so rich for the past half-century and siloed them each into their own series. Discovery and Picard are tonally distinct…
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Mike Williams Jun 1, 2022. 2 minute read
DC Films Becomes a Key Pillar in Warner Bros. Discovery Reshuffle
We finally have a better idea about the shape of the merged Warner Bros. Discovery under the leadership of CEO David Zaslav. This news follows the departure of Warner Bros. Picture Group chairman Toby Emmerich, who announced he was stepping down earlier today. In a memo obtain obtained by Variety, Zaslav…
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Imran Khan Jun 1, 2022. 1 minute read
Pirate Romantic Comedy Our Flag Means Death Renewed for Season 2
Rejoice, fans of gay pirate TV: Our Flag Means Death is coming back for a second season. The news officially comes from HBO Max’s Twitter account, which announced “Season 2 is officially setting sail. #OurFlagMeansDeath.” It is accompanied by a small video from early on in the show’s first season of…
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Danielle Riendeau May 31, 2022. 55 minute read
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is a Masterpiece
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is hard to spoil, and it’s even a little hard to get your mind around (by design). But this week on You Love To See It (our movie podcast!), we tackled this beautiful, ridiculous, epic film, alongside our fantastic colleague, Imran Khan. We tried to…
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TV/FILM
Danielle Riendeau May 31, 2022. 2 minute read
MJF Being Treated After Getting Wrecked at AEW Double or Nothing 2022: A (Medical) Review
I’ll admit it right now: I don’t know much about professional wrestling outside of the lessons I learned from LB during our glorious Fanfyte podcast days, and the bits and pieces I pick up from our incredible Fanfyte editor, Colette Arrand. But this weekend, Fanbyte staffers sent me images from…
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WRESTLING
Fūnk-é Joseph May 31, 2022. 1 minute read
Hunter X Hunter Creator Yoshihiro Togashi is Twitter’s Most Followed Manga Artist
For the past week, Hunter x Hunter creator Yoshihiro Togashi has been tweeting out manga panels suggesting that the sensational series is coming back from hiatus soon. In this short timespan, he has become Twitter’s most followed mangaka, rapidly dethroning My Hero Academia‘s Kohei Horikoshi with 2.4 million followers at…
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TV/FILM
Imran Khan May 31, 2022. 1 minute read
13 Spy x Family Characters as Reddit R/Relationship Posts
The Spy x Family animated series has taken the world by storm. By some estimations, the anime based on Tatsuya Endo’s Shonen Jump manga is one of the most popular shows on streaming networks right now and for good reason. The series follows a fictional spy named Twilight as he attempts…
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FEATURES
Joseph Anthony Montecillo May 31, 2022. 5 minute read
Anarchy in the Arena Succeeded on the Strength of All-Time Greats
If “Wild Thing” played over the whole thing, it’s probably a perfect match. I couldn’t tell you how serious I am about that statement, but I can tell you that the Anarchy in the Arena ten-man tag between The Jericho Appreciation Society and Eddie Kingston’s cohorts absolutely rocked. It’s one…
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WRESTLING
Colette Arrand May 30, 2022. 2 minute read
Eddie Kingston’s Gasoline Can: A Review
Wrestling is great, truly the highest form of art and most virtuous of sports. Paraphrasing every Wikipedia article on every wrestling show ever, it is a literal battle between good and evil, acted out by men, women, and non-binary people who have sworn blood oaths to the lighter or darker…
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WRESTLING
Colette Arrand May 29, 2022. 1 minute read
Jon Moxley’s Theme Playing Twice During Anarchy in the Arena: A Review
Friends, I don’t normally do this, but I am writing about a wrestling match while the match is happening. That match is the Anarchy in the Arena match, which pit the Jericho Appreciation Society against the Blackpool Combat Club, Eddie Kingston, and Santana and Ortiz. It is, as of the…
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WRESTLING
Colette Arrand May 29, 2022. 7 minute read
MJF’s Potential Absence from Double or Nothing Is, at Worst, an Inconvenience
Yesterday, MJF no-showed AEW’s Double or Nothing Fan Fest. This marked the beginning of a sprawling network of good reporting, fan and wrestling journalist speculation, complaints that MJF had deprived fans of a promised opportunity for an autograph, too many tweets about whether or not this was a work or…
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WRESTLING
Colette Arrand May 27, 2022. 4 minute read
Britt Baker’s Johnny Depp T-shirt Is a Fun Reminder That You Can’t Escape Anything
I’m going to begin this piece by acknowledging that last week, Fanfyte ran two reviews that were decidedly in favor of an Abortion Rights Are Human Rights! shirt that CM Punk wore on an episode of AEW Dynamite. This is a political statement he’s now made twice when performing in…
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WRESTLING
David Bixenspan May 27, 2022. 6 minute read
AEW Is Finally Back in Vegas, and Boy Have Things Changed
Double or Nothing, AEW’s annual Memorial Day weekend pay-per-view event, was supposed to be in Las Vegas every year, just as it was for their debut show in 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic changed that, with the 2020 (in front of wrestlers serving as the crowd) and 2021 (in front of…
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WRESTLING
Dylan Roth May 27, 2022. 8 minute read
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Review: Ride Into the Navy Zone
In 1986, producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson, director Tony Scott, and star Tom Cruise hit paydirt with the blockbuster success of Top Gun, a drama loosely based on the real-life magnet program for the US Navy’s most talented aviators. It was the highest-grossing film of the year and propelled…
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Steven Nguyen Scaife May 27, 2022. 5 minute read
‘Men’ Review: Trash Indeed
Still recovering from the death of her husband James (Paapa Essiedu), Harper Marlowe (Jessie Buckley) has rented a country cottage, retreating to the sort of stone-and-brick village that makes her blue car look like an intruder. The landlord, Geoffrey (Rory Kinnear), seems harmless enough, insofar as she won’t be seeing…
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Steven Nguyen Scaife May 27, 2022. 6 minute read
‘Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers’ Review: The Loneliest Number
Does it really matter if I dislike Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers? I found it empty and pandering, an instance of some typically reliable comedians on autopilot, but is it even for me? It’s a PG-rated movie that got dumped on Disney+, that comes with a supplemental list of what…
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Natalie Weiner May 27, 2022. 3 minute read
Softball Is Proof Of Sports Investors’ Terrible Logic
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. When you’re a fan of women’s sports, it’s very hard…
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SPORTS
Trevor Dame May 26, 2022. 10 minute read
Owen Hart’s Legacy Goes Much Deeper Than His In-ring Career
It’s a depressing fact that we’ve now spent many more years debating how Owen Hart’s legacy should be celebrated than we got to enjoy actually watching it. It seems like every few years something sparks a new round of arguments, be it a book, DVD, interview, or Hall of Fame…
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WRESTLING
lb hunktears May 26, 2022. 4 minute read
Remember When Lupin the Third Almost Won the Monaco Grand Prix?
In 1977, Niki Lauda won the Monaco Grand Prix. Sorry, no, not the real Monaco Grand Prix. The real one was won by Jody Scheckter, with Lauda coming in second. (Though Lauda did go on to win the championship that year.) I’m talking about the fictional 1977 Monaco Grand Prix…
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Steven Nguyen Scaife May 26, 2022. 4 minute read
‘Petite Maman’ Review: Little Momma’s House
Grief pervades every aspect of Petite Maman, though not as a free-floating metaphor or even as much of a focal point. It’s understated, to the point where we never see the death that looms over the entire film: the Grandmother of 8-year-old Nelly. We don’t hear it talked about, either…
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