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6 days ago | thepopculturestudio.com | Leon Miller |Cultured Vultures |Panelx Panel

In 2025, The Pop Culture Studio launched an annual tradition of marking the start of summer by highlighting hot take articles from across the site’s history. Some of them I still agree with, some of them I don’t – but one thing’s true of all of them: they’re as red hot as the weather outside!An obsession of mine right now is building a curated collection of films on 4K UHD Blu-ray.

1 week ago | culturedvultures.com | Jimmy Donnellan |Leon Miller

While the Nintendo 64 didn’t sell the most units during its hallowed run, it did see multiple genre-defining games that would end up shaping plenty of genres and the industry as we know it. It doesn’t boast the deepest library ever, yet the N64 arguably has the greatest hit rate of any console ever — but which are the best N64 games ever made? 50. BattleTanx: Global AssaultOK, so there’s a slim chance around 0.5% of you sat bolt upright over hearing this game’s name again.

2 weeks ago | thepopculturestudio.com | Leon Miller |Cultured Vultures |Panelx Panel

Warning: The following review contains mild spoilers for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Every Mission: Impossible outing starts the same way: with Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt once again choosing to accept a high-risk assignment. Paramount Pictures is likewise hoping that audiences choose to accept the franchise’s latest entry, The Final Reckoning – although the odds they will seem far less certain.

3 weeks ago | thepopculturestudio.com | Leon Miller |Cultured Vultures |Panelx Panel

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.

3 weeks ago | thepopverse.com | Leon Miller

When Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning hits screens imminently, it’ll mark 29 years since Tom Cruise first portrayed franchise protagonist Ethan Hunt. As you’d expect, this near-three-decade history is something The Final Reckoning (like its immediate predecessor, 2023’s Dead Reckoning) leans into, hard — well, kinda. Sure, Ethan Hunt’s past is one of the primary drivers of the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible installments’ two-part story.