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Film criticism is a very dude-heavy industry. According to a 2016 study by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University, men account for 73% of the top critics on Rotten Tomatoes, resulting in men often shaping the narrative of what makes a "good" film or a "bad" film—what's worth seeing and what's not. And even the most well-meaning, wokest of men wouldn't necessarily catch the microaggressions or tropes that tend to define whole genres.

Today, May 25th, This Day in Twilight Zone History and The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia celebrate the 1962 premiere of "Cavender is Coming."

During the events of Dark Nights: Metal, the assembled DC heroes essentially broke the universe. More specifically, they broke the Source Wall that was protecting the universe from previously unimagined threats. That’s why Brainiac kidnapped most of the heroes and villains in Justice League: No Justice. However, there were a few heroes who were left behind, either intentionally or not.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is, in many ways, a huge departure for the popular shooter franchise. While every single game in the long-running franchise has placed its own unique spin on things, this year's release has made some very out-of-the-box decisions in terms of what it's going to offer and how it will present that. Ever since the official game reveal on May 17, we've been ruminating over what else we'd like to see aside from what's already been confirmed.

Welcome to the latest episode of Who Won the Week, a weekly podcast in which SYFY WIRE's Adam Swiderski, Dany Roth, and Karama Horne look back at the week that was and the stories that are blowing up the geek-o-sphere.

We’ve seen some pretty amazing art dedicated to that galaxy far, far away, but never before have we seen Star Wars art that bugs us so darn much – and we mean that in the best possible way.

The hyperspace romp that is Solo: A Star Wars Story has finally arrived in theaters, and it comes with a YT-1300 freighter full of Easter eggs. The movie is packed with Star Wars lore both new and old — some old canon is canon once again, and some tenuous connections have been solidified.

Welcome to Female Filmmaker Friday, a new series from SYFY FANGRRLS devoted to celebrating women in film in all of their various roles—both in front of and behind the camera! This week, we spoke to director Amy Adrion, whose documentary Half the Picture chronicles the struggle faced by female directors in Hollywood.

Imagine you were a sixth-grader standing in the the Great Hall of Hogwarts for the very first time, legs trembling as the Sorting Hat just declared which House you will belong to for the next six years of your life in front of the entire student body. Wouldn't you have wanted some kind of theme song?

A series of books by the late legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin will be adapted into a series of films, Paramount has just nabbed a horror thriller spec script from Cory Goodman and a pitch about scientist bringing a prehistoric human to the present day gets sold in this edition of Development Roundup. 

Time again for Star Wars Weekly, the SYFY WIRE series that rounds up the most important news of the week from a galaxy far, far away. Think of us as your own personal Star Wars Holocron.

BOBA FETT? BOBA FETT! WHERE?

Today’s casting news finds new parts for some old, familiar faces, and a new old part for another. Let’s kick it!

Since we’re kicking it, we’ll start with the man responsible for some of the cheapest kicks in the Valley back in the ‘80s. Martin Kove, aka Yes Sensei, aka John Kreese. He’s joining YouTube Red’s new hit series Cobra Kai as a regular in Season 2. 

Critically acclaimed Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale is deep into its second season, and this week's episode gives us a closer look at Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski), one of the architects of the horror Offred (Elisabeth Moss) lives in. It’s a difficult episode, taking us from hoping to see some bit of reason from Serena to realizing how monstrous her actions have been and currently are.

The post-credits scenes for Deadpool 2 are basically the Wild West of the superhero world and the one place that the hero - who typically follows the rules set by his predecessors in the DCEU and MCU - can stretch his meta-textual legs.

Solo: A Star Wars Story is finally in theaters, and if you haven't already seen the film, chances are you'll be making your way to the cinema at some point over the long weekend to get a taste of the early career of Han Solo. With that in mind, one of the film's writers has some words for you.

The history of gaming is serious - and not just because the Manhattan Project lent some of its scientists to the industry. It’s a scrappy timeline full of intellectual property theft, eccentric inventors, and lucky breaks. It’s also filled with objects and icons so recognizable that you might hum the theme music or feel the muscle memory return to your thumbs upon seeing them.

The final frontier has never been closer to your eyeballs thanks to the PS4 game Star Trek: Bridge Crew, but now with a new The Next Generation-based expansion, the VR mission simulator allows Trekkies to get down and dirty with the Borg and Data-like robots. No Wesley, though. Yet.

Reports broke on Thursday night that James Mangold, the director behind Logan and Walk the Line, has been brought on to bring Boba Fett to life on the big screen in a new Star Wars story. For many, this is the movie they've been waiting for: A Star Wars movie with their favorite bounty hunter bad guy front and center.

Pop culture's most iconic vampire is 121, so we're taking a look at some of the best, worst and oddest adaptations of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Solo: A Star Wars Story is finally out in theaters, which means you can finally discover how Han met Chewie and made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. The world of the movie is so crammed with characters and Easter eggs, that you might not get them all during your first viewing.

Every month, SYFY WIRE brings you the solicitations for all the upcoming comic books you need to know about. Today we have Marvel Comics listings for August 2018 single-issue comics.

The biggest Marvel release for August will almost certainly be the long-awaited return of the Fantastic Four by writer Dan Slott and artist Sara Pichelli. The four never really left the Marvel universe, but it's been years since they starred in their own title. Now, the First Family is back, and a void has been filled.

The Joker exists in many iterations, some more human than others, and all terrifying in their own twisted way — but there is a level of madness and depravity from which there is no return. Nightmare Joker, which just crawled into the Sideshow Nightmare collection next to his Bat-nemesis, might just invade your nightmares.

Martin Freeman’s had an interesting year.

First came Black Panther, a superhero film that redefined the genre and set a new course for the Marvel universe. Then a departure with Ghost Stories, a horror anthology that premiered at the BFI London Film Festival before heading across the pond to SXSW in Austin, Texas. Now Freeman’s braving uncharted waters again with a role in Netflix’s Cargo, a post-apocalyptic zombie flick set in the Australian Outback that’s hoping to elevate the standard walker fare we’ve already seen on TV and on the big screen.

Season 1 of Westworld was like a giant clockwork puzzle, a series filled with hidden clues designed to drive the more observant viewer off to the depths of tinfoil hat theory land.

What’s more in the realm of science fiction than talking, walking toys? At least the ones in Disney’s live-action Winnie the Pooh adaptation Christopher Robin are cute.

We've already said that the marketing folks at 20th Century Fox could quit while they're ahead when it comes to Deadpool 2 and the movie would still make an insane amount of money.

You did it. Another week has been crushed by your vise-like grip. Good for you and your absolute power! Who says it corrupts? Not me, but that's mostly because I'm very scared of you and your week-destroying ways.

And to appease your mighty needs, here they are: the 5 biggest stories from... The Week in Geek!

SOLO HAS A STORY. A STAR WARS STORY

If you’re fan of the late French artist and writer Jean Giraud, also known as Moebius, then the Dark Horse Comics’ Moebius Library has been nothing short of stunning. The Moebius Library: The World of Edena was a New York Times bestseller and Eisner Award winner, and its companion The Art of Edena showcased Moebius’ out-of-print stories in a beautiful hardcover.

We know it's hard to muster any sympathy for Freddy Krueger; after all, the man has pretty much terrorized our dreams ever since he sliced into mainstream cinema in the 1984 slasher classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. But spare a thought for the poor guy when he wanted to go on vacation, because it can't have been easy getting those shiny razor blades through airport security.

The Birds of Prey ensemble movie at Warner Brothers has made quite a few advancements over the last few months by hiring director Cathy Yan (Dead Pigs) and receiving a prime slot on the DCEU slate be

There's no doubt that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has dominated theaters over the last few years. In 2017 alone, there were three MCU films released. So maybe it's not too surprising that Marvel-related baby names are pretty popular.

When last we heard about Bond 25, we knew that Daniel Craig was on board and that Sunshine director Danny Boyle was basically a sure thing for the spy franchise’s milestone movie. We also knew that much of the production and release scheduling depended on the screenplay. Was it finished?

Long before video game consoles had the capacity to deliver a full range of sounds, the game music still played a major role in setting the mood and tone. Even with only a few basic tools to work with inside the NES, classic titles like Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda had themes that are still popular to this day.

Yeah, yeah, I know. When you think of animals from The Neverending Story, you probably think of Artax, the horse who singlehandedly (singlehoofedly?) scarred an entire generation. Or you might think of Morla the Aged One, a giant turtle who *checks notes* ah, yes, is stoned absolutely all the time. Literally always. Stoned as hell. Tell me I’m wrong.

Hearing Kevin Smith talk about the meaning that comic books held for him from an early age, it’s easy to pick out the themes that get so many of us hooked from the start: Take a young person’s sense of justice, add in a heroic story that rescues good from evil in dramatic fashion, and be sure to do it all with a set of larger-than-life powers and a cool suit.

I love images of Earth taken by satellites in space. The view from above is a change of perspective, not only giving us a different angle on our planet, but also showing us things on a scale that's hard to see otherwise.

Just when you thought the three official trailers for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom were already crawling with dino-sized shockers, this latest TV spot unearths a spoiler that was only hinted at between all the teeth, claws, and explosions.

**SPOILER WARNING: DANGEROUS REVEALS LURK BEYOND THIS POINT!**

Alden Ehrenreich describes Han and Chewie as "an old married couple," and if this new featurette is any indication, he's 100% right in the best way possible. 

There’s no shortage of zombie video games. But until 2013’s State of Decay, most portrayed only one aspect of what it might be like to try to live through an undead invasion. The best of the genre, like Valve’s popular Left 4 Dead series and Capcom’s Dead Rising, focused on the gory thrills of mowing down tidal waves of moaning creatures en masse.

Still trying to figure out what to do with those tossed salads and scrambled eggs? How about those tossed salads and... green Thala-siren milk? 

This week, Throwback Thorsday is less about looking to the past and more about looking towards the future — at least when it comes to what's airing next week. I can't be the only one who's pumped about the upcoming Lake Placid: Legacy, which stars not just one but TWO of our Wynonna Earp faves, Kat Barrell (otherwise known as Officer Nicole Haught) and Tim Rozon (DOC, duh). It promises to be full of livetweeting fun.

It’s not easy coming back from the dead, even when you’ve done it before! Jean Grey has a bit of a reputation for cheating the grim reaper. After The Dark Phoenix Saga, it was revealed that Jean had never really died at all. It was just the Phoenix pretending to be Jean. But then, years later, death caught up with her. Even with all of the powers of the Phoenix at her command, Jean perished. And this time, everyone thought she was gone for good.

We don't know much about what Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are planning for their upcoming excursion into the Star Wars universe, but one of the stars of both franchises is excited to see what they come up with.

After years of rumors, the Boba Fett movie is reportedly one step closer to becoming a reality. 

It's almost time to revel in all of the fun of Solo: A Star Wars Story, which opens Friday and features Woody Harrelson alongside Alden Ehrenreich as the titular scoundrel. Harrelson plays Tobias Beckett, a mentor figure to the young Han Solo. 

I love seeing women of color kicking ass and taking names. And that's why, for the last three seasons, I've watched the women of The Expanse with a huge grin on my face. I've waited almost my whole life for a sci-fi show where the women I see on the screen resemble those I see in my daily life. So, when it was announced that the show had been canceled, we fans immediately took to social media to express our displeasure.

Bruce Campbell may never return to the character of Ashley J. Williams, but that doesn’t mean he’s possessive about someone else stepping into the spotlight of the Evil Dead-based media empire he and Sam Raimi helped create.

That Phoebe Waller-Bridge walked into her audition to play a droid in Solo: A Star Wars Story without any clear concept of what that actually meant has become a thing of immediate lore, a talk-show anecdote aggregated around the world. What has gone less remarked upon is that, once she did discover that she was, in fact, trying out to play a robot, nothing about her approach to the character really changed anyway.

Stranger Things, Netflix's hit supernatural series, is mostly a show built on fun, steeped in 1980s nostalgia, spooky without being too scary, and full of bike-pedaling adventure for a group of kids in a small Midwest town. As fans know all too well, though, the show is not without its dark moments, from shattered families to tested friendships to inevitable character deaths.

Today, May 24th, This Day in Twilight Zone History and The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia celebrate the 1907 birth of actor Willis Bouchey, who played Sam Thorne, millionaire Jason Foster’s (Robert Keith) doctor in “The Masks.”

Bouchey (1907-1977) is another one of those golden character actors you've seen a million times, but can never remember his name. He was particularly adept at playing authoritarian figures, whether it was in politics, the military or medicine.

The Marvel brand is everywhere: comics, toys, movies, TV shows...and soon to be coming to a sports stadium as well.

Dream Casting is an imaginative look at the casting process of potential Hollywood projects based on comics and other media. This isn't just about what is being made; this is about what should be made, and who we think should be the stars.