The Pop Culture Studio

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.

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.

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.

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

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.