Full spoilers ahead. Adam saw Spider-Man: Brand New Day and calls it the first time he's felt confident in the MCU in years. A complete breakdown of who Sadie Sink is playing, why the Peter/*REDACTED* symmetry is the smartest thing in the movie, and how a self-contained, street-level Spider-Man story quietly lays every piece of groundwork the *REDACTED* saga needs. Plus the Tom Holland and Jon Bernthal double act, the best Hulk scene in years, a *REDACTED* hiding in plain sight, and the one narrative thread the film ties up a little too neatly. A full 5 out of 5, and the reason to believe in Marvel again.

The first new Avatar project in nearly a decade is here, and Adam has thoughts. A full-spoilers review of Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, why it's one of the best-looking things the franchise has ever produced, and why it should never have been dumped onto streaming. Plus the central problem: scale. From wrecking Republic City, to unlocking a beast-mode Avatar State, to granting airbending to non-benders, the events feel to large for an interquel.

Adam finally caught Obsession, the sub-million-dollar Blumhouse phenomenon that became the horror hit of the year, and he's got reservations the hype train left behind. A full-spoilers breakdown of why Inde Navarrette's multi-layered performance is genuinely Oscar-worthy, how the monkey's-paw premise nails its unsettling middle stretch, and why the blood-soaked third act breaks the film's own fantasy rules, and its moral center, by making Nikki's suffering suddenly, unbearably real. Plus the Lisa Frankenstein problem, the case for Bear as an unreliable narrator, and the Blumhouse model working exactly as designed.