Alex Marcus

We are so excited for anyone attending San Diego Comic Con later this month to come hang out with our incredible panel as we fight it out over which pop culture vacation destination is the one above all!

It's here! Our first episode is up now, where Alex, Justin, and Randy celebrate #TwentyYearsofTaylor by digging into their Taylor Swift origins and preview what to expect from the pod. New episodes are available on Spotify and a video version of the pod is live on YouTube now! youtu.be/-ujHxblNltk

After a month away, we are back with our countdown to Avengers: Doomsday with our guided tour through Agents of SHIELD’s many almost apocalypses! Plus we do some MCU news quick hits, including Marvel Studios ZODIAC!

Just going to be straight here — no pun intended: I am the only journalist who has been covering this issue in depth, was often the only journalist at hearings, and was the only one explaining what DOJ was actually arguing here. Support my work if you can: www.lawdork.com/subscribe

The horse carriage industry is coming to an end in New York City. Our administration will make sure workers and owners are protected and the horses are safe.

So excited for you all to check out a recent convo I had with @billboard.com @jasonlipshutz.bsky.social about his new book A Whole Lotta History: One Direction & The Sound That Shaped a Generation. We deep dive on the past, present, and future of 1D. youtu.be/H1VLG5WRweE?...

Love this take!

So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.

Tonight’s had no shortage of depressing and infuriating news, so here’s a bit of a diversion from one of our great young writers who had the chance to cover the Marvel Television Panel at NYCC today!

Well hello there Marvel Television panel at NYCC.

Our 1st New York Comic Con Panel Coverage in nearly a decade! We caught the Brooklyn Nine-Nine reunion. thepopbreak.com/2026/10/08/n...

My power ring ran out of juice halfway through but I was so pleased to be there for any length of time to talk about one of the best shows of the year!

The TV Break Podcast Dissects the New York Times Top 100 TV Series of the 21st Century + reviews East of Eden's 1st episode. @alexmarcus.bsky.social @billbodkin.bsky.social

As any digital media person who lived through the Great Facebook Algorithm Shift of 2017 will tell you, depending on Meta as your primary (or sole!) platforms for publishing/marketing will always end like this.

Kathleen Turner's two-sentence response here is true, cool-temperatured old-world movie star excellence. Olivia de Havilland would discreetly nod in approval. people.com/kathleen-tur...

Good morning. 'Batman's aff his Nut' by Robert Florence.

The Batman by the Numbers Podcast ranks all the Nolan Batman Action Sequences as they reflect on the Dark Knight Trilogy. @kris-ingersoll.bsky.social, @alexmarcus.bsky.social

No Bill vs. The MCU this month, but I had the pleasure to be the guest host of this week’s Socially Distanced where we broke down. TON of breaking Marvel news and reviewed Avengers: Endgame - Encore!

To celebrate Pop Break's 17 year anniversary @alexmarcus.bsky.social, @reznorschic.bsky.social, @billbodkin.bsky.social & @marvelguides.bsky.social discuss Avengers: Endgame - Encore, Jon Watts to Star Wars, GOT, & more.

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

OK, Madonna, Sabrina Carpenter and Charli xcx killed it tonight. L #VMAs

Hey folks! Bill vs. The MCU is taking the month off for personal reasons, but we’ll be back next month with Agents of Doomsday Part 2, where we dig into Agents of SHIELD S5 Part 2. In the meantime, check out our past Agents of SHIELD episodes right here! open.spotify.com/playlist/4d7...

The fraud is that they are paying for insurance ... but not using it? Who exactly is the defrauded party here?

This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it

The Anniversary Brothers throw it back to the 10th Anniversary of the Kiefer Sutherland political drama Designated Survivor, which aired on ABC & Netflix.

Great montage of one of Bob Mackie's signatures--the Cher unveilings, circa 1976.

25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.

No one does the teen romcom like Preeti! Everyone should check out her latest ASAP. You will not be disappointed!!

This week over on Socially Distanced, Bill and my good buddy Justin Mancini interview David Hudson, the CEO of Brass Jar Productions and creator of Drunk Shakespeare, Drunk Dracula, and much more! youtu.be/S91gcZOcRF8?...

Check out our latest TV Break, where we break down everything you need to know about The Emmys, Lanterns, Furious and so much more! Also, I get off my hot take on what Top Gun: Maverick could learn from Lanterns.

Mountain lions are making American roads safer by frightening away deer. On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where cougars were most active, deer-vehicle collisions fell 76%. Deer kill up to 440 Americans a year; cougars have killed 29 Americans since 1868. buff.ly/9bDfEKZ #ShareGoodNewsToo

Sure makes one wonder about what the Batgirl movie would have been like!

Mt Sinai has violated the Hippocratic Oath and sacrificed the health of Trans and Gender Nonconforming youth by capitulating to the Trump admin. A coalition of TGNCNB and LGBTQIA+ activists, and allies will stand up for our youth against @mountsinainyc.bsky.social . JOIN US!

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

This week's great installment of Lanterns made me realize there's a new trend in TV lately—experimental third episodes that serve as a calling card for what the season wants to do thematically www.avclub.com/lanterns-epi...

I am generally skeptical of boycotts. But I don't think one can overstate the degree to which J.K. Rowling has chosen to make loathing of trans people and cruelty about them into her primary identity. Nobody on earth will suffer from skipping the Harry Potter series. Let's not make her richer.

I knew as soon as I watched "OutKast" in full that I had to find a way to talk to the brilliant writer behind it, and it was a pleasure to dive into #Lanterns Episode 3's character spotlight for John Stewart and its most important scenes and themes with series writer/co-EP Vanessa Baden Kelly:

My SDCC Panel is now available on YouTube if you are curious to check it out. We had a great time debating the best fiction world we’d like to travel to. Thanks to everyone who turned out! youtu.be/gYOdA9V2Gq8?...

We are ranking Spider-Man movies! We are reacting to the new X-Men casting news! And we are headed to the future with Agents of SHIELD S5 Part 1! Come along with us!!!

LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE