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Four takeaways from the Allston Melee Bender Smash Melee Singles

This weekend, Allston Melee hosted the Allston Melee Bender; a 48-hour lifestream focused on helping raise money to fund their Super Smash Bros. Melee content creation. The Bender featured an online shop, numerous side events and, of course, a Melee Singles bracket for East Coast players. Here are some of the biggest results from the Allston Melee Bender. Gahtzu completes a perfect week “Gahtzu” Diehl won the Allston Melee Bender. That feat is impressive in its own right, however, the fact that this was his fourth tournament victory within a

WandaVision Proves that MCU Side Characters Have Serious Potential

Marvel Studios’ WandaVision is a series that probably never should have worked to begin with. Taking two underdeveloped characters from the world’s most popular film franchise and sticking them in a feature film-like series is a tall order. Forget the budget; what makes a show like WandaVision work is the richness of its characters, and no matter how big or small, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has them in spades. If WandaVision tells us anything, it’s that all of the MCU’s side characters have so much potential. Image Credit Marvel Since

Mulan Review — All Style, No Substance

Disney's recent history with live-action adaptations of their animated classics has been a mixed bag at best. There seems to be no real hard-and-fast conventions as to just what gets added or changed in the transition from 2D to 3D. New songs are added, new characters, new plot threads--all, presumably, in service to whatever will help reinvent a decades-old classic for a new generation. Unfortunately, in the case of Mulan, it seems that the calculations were botched right from the start.It's a familiar story. Hua Mulan (Yifei Liu), the eldest

Anthony Mackie Talks About Falcon And The Winter Soldier TV Show, Says It’s Like A 6-Hour Movie

MCU actor Anthony Mackie has shared a little more insight on the upcoming Marvel TV show The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Speaking to Variety, Mackie said the show--which reportedly carries a $150 million budget--is being filmed like a movie."We're shooting it exactly like a movie," he said. "Everybody who had worked on TV before was like, 'I've never worked on a TV show like this.' The way in which we were shooting, it feels exactly like we were shooting the movie cut up into the show. So instead of