My Adventures with Superman is back after nearly two years, and Adam digs into the first three episodes of season three. Is this secretly Kara's season, how the Reign of the Supermen arc reframes Cyborg Superman as a Lex Luthor story, and why the show's refusal to hit the reset button on Clark and Lois makes it the most emotionally honest Superman on screen. Plus the Seto Kaiba take on Lex, the dating-app fish epidemic, and the one Jimmy subplot that's already wearing thin. Weekly coverage starts here.

DC's second swing lands, mostly. Adam caught an early screening of Supergirl and makes the case that Milly Alcock's jaded, Woman of Tomorrow-flavored Kara is strong enough to carry a film with real structural cracks. Full spoilers on the Kara-and-Ruthye dynamic that anchors the whole thing, the grungy visual design that makes the action hard to follow, the third-act green-screen problem, and why a cartoonishly evil villain keeps Kara's arc from fully landing. Plus: is the DCU actually in trouble, or is this just the Iron Man 2 phase? A solid 4 out of 5, maybe a 3 on a worse day.

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The toys are back, and Adam has thoughts about whether they needed to be. A full-spoilers breakdown of Toy Story 5, the Lilypad tablet villain, a tech-and-childhood theme the movie raises and then refuses to actually wrestle with, why this is fundamentally Jessie's story and all the better for it, how the film gets caught serving two masters, the conspicuous absence of anything Lightyear-related, and the recasting problem Pixar can't put off forever. Bring tissues if "When Somebody Loved Me" still gets you. A conflicted but fair 4 out of 5.

Adam caught the world premiere of the first two episodes of X-Men '97 season 2 at the Tribeca Festival, and this one's deliberately spoiler-free ahead of the show's July 1 return. The team is scattered across time, Apocalypse steps up as the season's central threat, and the second episode delivers a piece of character work that earns a Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 comparison in the best way. A look at the MCU visual nods, the expanding mutant roster, and why Marvel's best work this year might be animated. A preview 5 out of 5, with a full spoiler breakdown to come when the season drops.

Steven Spielberg is back in theaters for the first time since The Fabelmans, and he's returned to the aliens that made him. Adam digs into Disclosure Day, Spielberg's coldest, most institutional take on first contact, built on a sharp premise: the government can't keep a secret this big, but a tech company could. Full spoilers ahead on Emily Blunt's award-worthy performance, the two-person math-translator conceit, a deus-ex-machina problem with the alien tech, and a third act that doesn't quite stick the landing. A 5 out of 5 all the same.

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John Carney is back in wide release for the first time since Sing Street, and Power Ballad might be the movie that finally gets him the Best Original Song nomination the Academy has owed him for a decade. We get into Paul Rudd's quietly devastating turn as a wedding singer whose song gets stolen, Nick Jonas as the surprise of the film, the structural problem that keeps it from a perfect score, and why Taylor Swift and Toy Story 5 might wreck his Oscar run anyway.

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After almost fifteen years in development hell, He-Man finally hits the big screen. We get into why the new Masters of the Universe plays like a 2009 idea in a 2026 body, how shamelessly it lifts from Thor: Ragnarok, the message it keeps undercutting, and the one cameo that nearly saves it. Plus: the most egregious product placement of the year.Preorder Adam's latest book Succession Planning on your ebook store of choice here: https://books2read.com/u/bzE9g9

As Frank Castle searches for meaning beyond revenge, an unexpected force pulls him back into the fight, but does One Last Kill make the most of its runtime? On today's Beware of Spoilers, Adam digs into the Marvel Special Presentation, the action, the character work, and what it sets up for Castle's next appearance.