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5 days ago | 
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Let’s be honest: if today’s smart tech is in any way intelligent, it lives a truly cursed existence. Imagining constantly fielding our inane requests, weathering our abuse (admit it: you’ve chewed out a smart assistant before), and just generally dealing with how dumb, petty, and dismissive we are? It’s the stuff of nightmares – but for Murderbot Season 1’s titular cyborg security guard protagonist, it’s simply the way of the world.
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2 weeks ago | 
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Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat: Thunderbolts* is not an A24 movie, no matter how much Marvel Studios’ marketing machine tries to say otherwise. On the contrary, a slightly darker tone and a few late-game creative flourishes notwithstanding, the Jake Schreier-helmed flick is very much your standard Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster.
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1 month ago | 
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A few weeks back, one-time Star Wars producer Rick McCallum made headlines when he shed a (teensy) bit more light on one of the franchise’s great unmade projects, Star Wars: Underworld. Announced in 2005, the live-action TV series was how Star Wars architect George Lucas planned to keep his space opera creation going post-prequels and would (as its name suggests) have delved into the seedy underbelly of a galaxy far, far away.
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1 month ago | 
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The Escapist is one of the most well-established pop culture websites around. As its name suggests, it caters to “the mature enthusiast of escapist entertainment.” I’ve been a freelance contributor with The Escapist since October 2023, cranking out film, TV, video game, and comics-related reviews, features, explainers, and list articles. Check out samples of my work for The Escapist below. Leon Miller is one of the finest writers that I’ve had the privilege of working with in my career.
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1 month ago | 
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An online creative space dedicated to film, TV, comics, and video games managed by freelance writer and artist Leon Miller.
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1 month ago | 
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Founded in 2012, Polygon is a leading source of magazine-quality online entertainment journalism. I’ve been one of Polygon’s regular freelance contributors since October 2021, getting my start writing a feature for the site’s “Year of the Ring” campaign celebrating the 20th anniversary of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thepopculturestudio.com | Leon Miller |Cultured Vultures |Panelx Panel
Comic book scheduling is increasingly tricky to keep track of (and it’s not just me saying it). Even so, we still have a pretty decent idea of what’s headed our way over the next 12 months – and it’s an impressive mix of new and returning ongoings, limited series, and graphic novels across a range of genres. Daunted by the prospect of all that choice?
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
thepopculturestudio.com | Leon Miller |Cultured Vultures |Panelx Panel
At first glance, Halo 2 and Half-Life 2 have a lot in common. Both are sci-fi first-person shooters. Both are sequels to games considered the greatest of all time – a distinction they subsequently earned themselves. And both are the product of tortuous development cycles that pushed their respective development studios to the brink. So, it’s somewhat fitting that Halo 2 and Half-Life 2 both celebrate their 20th anniversaries this month.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
thepopculturestudio.com | Leon Miller |Cultured Vultures |Panelx Panel
The spooky season is upon us, which for me means watching as many classic horror movies and TV shows as I can before Halloween arrives. Top of my list this year is one of my all-time favourites: Midnight Mass, Mike Flanagan’s acclaimed 2021 Netflix miniseries. It’s easily one of the most satisfying Stephen King stories ever, despite not actually being based on one of the legendary scribe’s novels! How does that work? One word: vibes.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
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SCRIPT/VO: Will MasonEDITING: Djordje NikolicCheck out the latest Basically on Fallout in the embed above or over on our channel. Pack your Radaway and don’t forget your stimpacks, we’re about to take the great American road trip at the end of the world. Ensure you have a pocket full of caps because this is Basically… FalloutFallout has gone from being a niche RPG with table top mechanics to one of the biggest gaming franchises ever, but how did this happen?
