https://knowitallnation.com Film and TV criticism through a filmmaker's lens. Every verdict scored on the Know-It-All Index by Mr. Know-It-All. en-us Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:17:36 GMT https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/street-fighter-2026-review-danny-the-dork-knight https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/street-fighter-2026-review-danny-the-dork-knight Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Street Fighter A lifelong Street Fighter II arcade rat saw the new movie twice on opening day. One screening changed how it felt, and one casting choice never stopped bugging him. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/visionquest-painting-first-of-us https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/visionquest-painting-first-of-us Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All VisionQuest Vision stops at a painting of a burning synthetic man and calls him the first of us. In the comics, that man's body is the one Ultron built Vision out of. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/absolute-justice-league-brainiac-picked-the-seats https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/absolute-justice-league-brainiac-picked-the-seats Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All DC Absolute Universe Everybody knows the Justice League is the villain in DC's Absolute Universe. Read Absolute Evil #1 like a scene and the real question is who arranged the table. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/arden-cho-kpop-demon-hunters-kayou-nycc https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/arden-cho-kpop-demon-hunters-kayou-nycc Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All KPop Demon Hunters The speaking voice of Rumi signed KAYOU cards at New York Comic Con, then started swapping with fans to finish her own collection. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/my-little-pony-chase-the-magic-kayou-nycc https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/my-little-pony-chase-the-magic-kayou-nycc Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All My Little Pony KAYOU's Chase the Magic winner designed a brand-new Pony with comic artist Andy Price, then got the finished art on stage at NYCC. Plus the new Pony cards hitting shelves this month. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/visionquest-theseus-king-father https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/visionquest-theseus-king-father Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All VisionQuest Ultron's best line in VisionQuest episode 2 points past the Ship of Theseus to the myth itself. Read the myth and the advice stops sounding like encouragement. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/clayface-pitch-outlived-everyone-developing https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/clayface-pitch-outlived-everyone-developing Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Clayface Mike Flanagan pitched a Clayface horror movie in 2021, got told no, pitched it again, got a yes, and left. The movie opening October 23 is built on that pitch. Here is what the hires, the money and the trailers say it is, pinned a week before the reviews. The second DEVELOPING board. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/vision-is-how-ultron-gets-out https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/vision-is-how-ultron-gets-out Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All VisionQuest James Spader's Ultron is living in Vision's attic, and he just told Vision to be the king. Two episodes in, sixty years of comics say exactly where this is going. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/absolute-universe-nycc-2026-absolute-justice https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/absolute-universe-nycc-2026-absolute-justice Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All DC Absolute Universe I was in Room 405 on Friday for DC's Absolute Universe panel at New York Comic Con. Absolute Justice from Jason Aaron and Juan Ferreyra, Batman finally finds the Joker, Barbara Gordon steps up, Superman heads for space and Wonder Woman gets an Absolute Cheetah. Here's everything. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/rl-stine-the-babysitter-tubi-afraid-of-clowns-nycc-2026 https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/rl-stine-the-babysitter-tubi-afraid-of-clowns-nycc-2026 Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All R.L. Stine on Tubi Tubi used its R.L. Stine panel at New York Comic Con to announce a live-action adaptation of The Babysitter for 2027, debut the first clip from Afraid of Clowns with Jimbo as Ringmaster Rollo, and put Pumpkinhead 2 in front of the room. Here's the whole Stine slate. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/skybound-visions-transformers-gi-joe-turok-nycc-2026 https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/skybound-visions-transformers-gi-joe-turok-nycc-2026 Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Skybound Visions Skybound and Image used New York Comic Con to launch Skybound Visions, a line of standalone limited series that reimagines Transformers, G.I. Joe and Turok. The first three books arrive January through March 2027, and the creative teams are stacked. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/dragon-ball-super-beerus-nozawa-yamadera-interview https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/dragon-ball-super-beerus-nozawa-yamadera-interview Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Dragon Ball Super: Beerus For the Dragon Ball Super: Beerus premiere, Toei sat down Masako Nozawa and Koichi Yamadera, the voices of Goku and Beerus. Her stance has been getting wider for forty years, and his verdict on her is one for the books. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/dragon-ball-super-beerus-nycc-2026-world-premiere https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/dragon-ball-super-beerus-nycc-2026-world-premiere Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Dragon Ball took day one of New York Comic Con with the world premiere of Dragon Ball Super: Beerus, and the series premiered in Japan this Sunday. What was shown, who was on stage, and what an enhanced edition actually means. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/gundam-seed-freedom-zero-nycc-2026 https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/gundam-seed-freedom-zero-nycc-2026 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom Zero Bandai Namco Filmworks used the Gundam Showcase at New York Comic Con to date Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom Zero for North American theaters in February 2027 and name its English cast. It's a prequel written alongside SEED Freedom, and the director calls it his late wife's final work. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/star-trek-60th-shatner-ben-stiller-nycc-2026 https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/star-trek-60th-shatner-ben-stiller-nycc-2026 Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Star Trek 60th Anniversary Ben Stiller hosted William Shatner on the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con for Star Trek's 60th anniversary. The Enemy Within, Arena, The City on the Edge of Forever, The Wrath of Khan, and a Gorn head from Stiller's own collection. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/starfleet-academy-season-2-nycc-2026 https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/starfleet-academy-season-2-nycc-2026 Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Star Trek: Starfleet Academy I was in the Empire Stage for the Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic Con. Starfleet Academy season two has a date, two new guest stars, a new cadet and a theme. Here's everything they said. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/blumfest-nycc-2026-exorcist-martyrs https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/blumfest-nycc-2026-exorcist-martyrs Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All BlumFest I spent Friday afternoon at BlumFest at New York Comic Con with MatPat hosting, Chiwetel Ejiofor on stage and the first trailer for The Exorcist: Martyrs. Here's what got a guy who avoids horror to walk out with a watch list. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-know-it-all-files-season-1-autopsy https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-know-it-all-files-season-1-autopsy Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Lanterns I called Lanterns a face-up mystery all season. I read 24,072 comments from 9,516 of you to grade that claim: three of the four big cards were on the table, one was in the dealer's sleeve, and this room read the rest first. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/marvel-tv-animation-nycc-2026-visionquest https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/marvel-tv-animation-nycc-2026-visionquest Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Marvel Television and Animation Marvel Television and Animation screened the entire first episode of VisionQuest at New York Comic Con, with Paul Bettany and James Spader in the room. Plus the Defenders back for Daredevil: Born Again's final season, X-Men '97, Spider-Man, three more Marvel Zombies and a new spy series called Zodiac. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-episode-8-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-episode-8-review Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Lanterns The Lanterns finale never puts John in the suit, rewrites the oath, and puts yellow in his lantern. The comics did all three first. The real problem is where the climax went. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-know-it-all-files-season-2-writers-room https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-know-it-all-files-season-2-writers-room Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Lanterns HBO staffed six people to write a second season of Lanterns it has not ordered yet. Tom King is not one of them. I hired a writers room once, so I read every chair: what left the room, what came in, and five predictions on the record. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/x-men-movie-plot-mister-sinister-developing https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/x-men-movie-plot-mister-sinister-developing Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All X-Men At D23, Adam Driver joked about playing Magneto, then said his character's real name: Nathaniel Milbury. Nobody looked it up. Read the X-Men cast in the order Marvel hired it, and every name points at the same story. The first DEVELOPING board. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-episode-7-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-episode-7-review Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Lanterns Everybody is crying at the note. The note is the delivery mechanism. Episode 7 buries its real sentence in a baseball, and it took a dead copy of Hal Jordan to say it out loud. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-know-it-all-files-not-asking-if-hal-is-dead https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-know-it-all-files-not-asking-if-hal-is-dead Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Lanterns The rest of the internet spent the week asking whether Hal Jordan is really dead. This comment section spent it working the murder, and it came out with better evidence: a suit that fit without a tape measure, a shot nobody fought, and a punch a man asked for. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/strange-new-worlds-tomorrows-enterprise-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/strange-new-worlds-tomorrows-enterprise-review Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Two Uhuras, a time ripple, and a bridge that has already been struck. The season 4 finale is not the show finally becoming serious. It is All Good Things, built for the one ship that never got an ending. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-episode-6-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-episode-6-review Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Lanterns The eulogy everybody is carrying out of Bad Optics reads as bravado inside one hour. Held against the five episodes before it, it reads as a hero's letter. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-fake-hal-clone-subtitle https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-fake-hal-clone-subtitle Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Lanterns A speaker label on the Latin American Spanish track of Lanterns Episode 5 reads Clon de Hal. The Know-It-All Nation got to the clone theory sixteen days earlier, using nothing but what was already in the frame. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/strange-new-worlds-once-laan-a-time-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/strange-new-worlds-once-laan-a-time-review Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Everybody spent the season calling these episodes gimmicks. Go count the original series. The fantastical hour is not the detour, it is the spine, and this one gets spent on the only person on that bridge whose ending nobody has written. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/strange-new-worlds-chronitons-orders-of-magnitude-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/strange-new-worlds-chronitons-orders-of-magnitude-review Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Star Trek: Strange New Worlds I almost turned off episode 7, and then a man opened a cookbook in a bar. Two hours, two weeks, one move: the show keeps running up a bill and sliding it to somebody else. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-episode-5-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-episode-5-review Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Lanterns Episode 5 got a standing ovation for a refusal, and used the applause to cover the two biggest things it did all night. One of them rewrites how Hal Jordan got his ring. The other one is a kid nobody is talking about. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-know-it-all-files-zoe-not-the-whole-answer https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-know-it-all-files-zoe-not-the-whole-answer Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Lanterns Sunday night the show handed everybody the Manhunter with four episodes still to run. By Monday afternoon this comment section had already stopped celebrating and started building a case against a Guardian. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-episode-4-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-episode-4-review Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Lanterns Episode 4 spends four hours of television building a man who cannot say no, and then lets him refuse in total silence with nobody watching. The best hour this show has made. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/by-any-means-ending-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/by-any-means-ending-review Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All By Any Means The last ten minutes of Paramount's Mississippi thriller hand you a bibliography instead of a final scene. A sourced breakdown of what the files actually say, and the ending that was sitting right there. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-know-it-all-files-parents-argument https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-know-it-all-files-parents-argument Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Lanterns It was abuse and it was not malice, and both of those sentences are true at once. Behind the one word everybody spent a week yelling about is a show quietly building a Manhunter out of a human being. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/by-any-means-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/by-any-means-review Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All By Any Means A spoiler-free press-screening review of Paramount's 1966 Mississippi FBI thriller, from a filmmaker's read on where the money went and where it didn't. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-episode-3-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-episode-3-review Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Lanterns Episode 3 is not the secret origin of where John Stewart came from. It is the secret origin of who is responsible for him, and it buys that answer with the man's first free decision. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-know-it-all-files-ballot-decoy https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-know-it-all-files-ballot-decoy Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Lanterns 7,031 people voted on the anomaly in Rushville and 42 percent walked straight into the trap. The vote is a gut. The comment is a case. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/strange-new-worlds-off-hours-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/strange-new-worlds-off-hours-review Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Star Trek: Strange New Worlds A bottle episode that reaches back forty-two years to build Montgomery Scott, and then puts him in the B slot. A craft read on Strange New Worlds season 4. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-episode-2-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-episode-2-review Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Lanterns Trust Fall pays out the suit, the oath, and Sinestro, then quietly deals a fair-play mystery whose clues point somewhere nobody is looking. A sourced breakdown, with a call on the record. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-on-trial-hal-jordan-john-stewart https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-on-trial-hal-jordan-john-stewart Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Lanterns The artist who helped rebuild Hal Jordan said Lanterns is not the Green Lantern, then said it's going to be great, same man, same day. The Know-It-All Nation asked which statement is true. The Files opens the case. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/star-trek-puppet-episode-most-important https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/star-trek-puppet-episode-most-important Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Six months of build, a hired puppeteer crew, and a standing set that still had to shoot every other week. Everyone is arguing about whether SNW should have done the puppet episode. The better question is why anybody would bother. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/x-men-97-burned-genosha-92-show-told-you-why https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/x-men-97-burned-genosha-92-show-told-you-why Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All X-Men: The Animated Series I had not watched this since I was 13, and I had it wrong in two directions at once. Registration, Genosha, and the cure are the same lie in three different outfits, and the show built that argument in five scattered episodes before anyone thought it would get a second season. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-episode-1-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/lanterns-episode-1-review Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Lanterns The HBO Max premiere had to make Green Lantern believable before it made him spectacular, and Episode 1 understands that completely. A sourced production breakdown. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/x-men-97-season-2-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/x-men-97-season-2-review Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All X-Men '97 All nine episodes, receipts on the table. Season 2 of X-Men '97 wasn't rushed, it was paid for twice, and we got the half they'd already bought. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/x-men-97-finale-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/x-men-97-finale-review Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All X-Men '97 In July I let X-Men '97 get away with a big swing. The season 2 finale isn't swinging, it's hoping you won't look. A sourced breakdown of where it was built wrong. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/jean-grey-evil-the-case-against-her https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/jean-grey-evil-the-case-against-her Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Spider-Man: Brand New Day She makes a man walk into traffic, and that one scene became the whole argument. A sourced trip through the actual record, from Dark Phoenix to Ultimate X-Men, on why this Jean is not the dark version. She's the tame one. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/strange-new-worlds-human-best-friend-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/strange-new-worlds-human-best-friend-review Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The jokes land, Foley's great, Pike's tattoo is a gift, so why does SNW's comedy episode still feel like it's wrestling the show it lives in? A craft read on season 4, episode 3. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/x-men-97-dead-mans-hand-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/x-men-97-dead-mans-hand-review Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All X-Men '97 Rogue finally touches Gambit and it's the most horrifying moment of the episode. Season 2, episode 8 is six people being handed exactly what they wanted, in a shape they can't use. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/spider-man-brand-new-day-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/spider-man-brand-new-day-review Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Spider-Man: Brand New Day Everybody walked out saying the same six words about the runtime, and everybody diagnosed them wrong. A full-spoiler craft read on why the most exhausting Spider-Man movie is also the best one. https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/strange-new-worlds-griffin-incident-review https://knowitallnation.com/reviews/strange-new-worlds-griffin-incident-review Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Know-It-All Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Star Trek handed an episode to a real horror director and got out of her way. A craft read on season 4, episode 2, from a reviewer who does not do horror and got got anyway.