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6 days ago | 
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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.
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2 weeks ago | 
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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.
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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.
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1 month ago | 
thepopculturestudio.com | Leon Miller |Cultured Vultures |Panelx Panel
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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2 months 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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2 months ago | 
thepopculturestudio.com | Leon Miller |Cultured Vultures |Panelx Panel
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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2 months 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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2 months ago | 
thepopculturestudio.com | Leon Miller |Cultured Vultures |Panelx Panel
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.
