Dais Johnston

4 days ago | inverse.com | Dais Johnston

It may have been three years since the release of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but its influence still ripples throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe. One of its most important byproducts has been the character of Riri Williams, the MIT wunderkind who attempted to create her own version of Iron Man’s armor. Unlike most spinoffs, Ironheart was announced years before we even saw Riri on screen (in December 2020, specifically).

4 days ago | inverse.com | Dais Johnston

The 28 Days Later film series has always been deeply entrenched in British culture. One of the most iconic images of the franchise is Cillian Murphy’s Jim standing in an abandoned London. And while 28 Weeks Later showed the rage virus spreading to Paris, 28 Years Later took the virus back to the British Isles while the rest of the world continues as usual. This makes not only the story, but the outbreak itself, uniquely British.

6 days ago | inverse.com | Dais Johnston

The Wizard of Oz isn’t just an influential movie, it’s the influential movie. In 2018, researchers at the University of Turin used mathematical approaches to find what movie has been most referenced or cited as an influence in film history, and the groundbreaking 1939 MGM blockbuster took the top spot. With such an illustrious history, it’s hard to imagine any other movie trying to tackle it, but last year, Wicked proved that it was very possible, even with a different source material.

1 week ago | inverse.com | Dais Johnston

Marvel has been going through some things. After a post-Endgame slump, it seemed like the franchise would never find its footing again, especially after flops like Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and fallout from real-life scandals. The light at the end of the tunnel, it seemed, was a new strategy adopted by the MCU on both the movie and TV side of the franchise: quality over quantity.

1 week ago | inverse.com | Dais Johnston

Wednesday Season 1 and its new vision of the Addams Family accrued a huge fan base, much of it centered on Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday. The opening set of episodes left those fans with a lot of big reveals: Wednesday had exposed her new crush, Tyler, as a terrifying Hyde, the “normie” teacher Marilyn Thornhill was revealed to be the big villain all along, and shapeshifting principal Larissa Weems was caught in the crossfire. So, where does Nevermore Academy go from here?