Comic book movie fans who watched Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness may have noticed certain aspects that seemed familiar to events in the X-Men film franchise.

Returning to the world of The Mandalorian right now is honestly kind of a relief. Sometimes, you want an escapist treat that just eases you into a simple story of good versus evil, but sometimes, that's not enough. You need a story that's incredibly dense and complex with its callouts and cross-connections, that draws upon literal decades of canon, engaging every aspect of your brain even while on the surface telling a very simplistic story, one which maybe didn't require nearly an hour of screentime while still proving to be pretty damn satisfying. So, yep, the …

Teen television shows come in many different flavors, from the comedic leanings of Netflix’s Sex Education to the superpower infused I Am Not Okay With This. No matter what the overall tone, one aspect shared by each story is the preoccupation with having sex. Long before the streaming giant joined the TV production fray, this rite of passage was a preoccupation for Angela Chase (Claire Danes), Buffy Summer (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Felicity Porter (Keri Russell), and many other famous TV teenagers. Adding something new to the portrayal of adolescent desire isn’t an easy task, but Never Have I …

We know what to expect from Pixar, and it's getting a little old.

Hallmark holiday movies exist in their own unique bubble. Here are ten common tropes found in Hallmark's Valentine's Day films.

'90s action movies are known for having certain tropes and while some of these can stay in the '90s, there are some we wish would come back.

The great thing about the MCU's Captain America movies is the blend of spy and war genre tropes placed within the story.

Horror movies often are filled with tropes, but thankfully, some of them were subverted in horror movies of the 2010s.

Guardians of the Galaxy may be a super hero franchise, but it has tons of sci-fi components, as well as all the sci-fi tropes that come with them.

Spider-Man has been reintroduced in the MCU as a high school student, and along with that come some of the usual high school tropes we've seen before.

With all eyes now on Laika Studios' animated movie Missing Link after its shock Golden Globes win, we look at how original the Sasquatch story is.

The zombie genre has gained a lot of popularity over the years, and that is thanks to long-lasting tropes that have made the undead immortal in film.

You're Next took horror's most beloved final girl tropes and spun them around for a modern audiences in a no-holds-barred slasher film.

Christmas movies are comfort food for the holiday soul. These films often cover familiar plot and themes. We discuss the best and worst elements.

Every post-apocalypse & science-fiction film buff has seen these tropes more than a few times in their favorite movies. Which ones do you recognize?

The action movies of the 80s had a lot of common tropes behind them, but while some are timeless others were just annoying.

Sure, they can be a bit formulaic, but we love some of these exorcism movie tropes. Others, however, are super played out at this point.

Like any genre or sub-genre, found footage has its own tropes. There are some we love, and some that have gotten boring and dull over time.

Horror movies will re-use some pretty common tropes — it's the nature of the genre. Some still work, but some need to die.

Sci-fi is a genre that has a lot of iconic tropes, and while we love space travel and aliens, some of these tropes are pretty trite and redundant.