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Warning: This post contains spoilers for Venom: The Last Dance. The third Venom movie may be subtitled The Last Dance, but as is the case with almost every superhero movie, it ends with post-credits scenes that tease another possible waltz to come. But the post-credits scenes dangle two storylines that in all likelihood will never be followed up on—as seems to be the case with most of the post-credit scenes in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe and plenty of other superhero flicks. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Venom: The Last Dance follows Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock as he and the alien symbiote he’s bonded with (Venom, also voiced by Hardy) flee a government agency and an unstoppable extra-terrestrial killer through the Nevada desert.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Don’t Move When we first meet Iris (Kelsey Asbille) in Netflix’s new horror movie Don’t Move, now streaming, she’s visibly grieving the death of her young son Mateo, who we soon learn slipped off a cliff in a tragic hiking accident. In fact, she’s so deep in the throes of depression that when she wakes up at the start of the film and decides to make a trip to the spot where Mateo fell, it’s clear she’s considering subjecting herself to the same fate. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] That is, until a handsome stranger who introduces himself as Richard (Finn Wittrock) shows up and quite literally talks her off the ledge.

There are Spider-Man movies and then there are movies in the franchise known as Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. What makes Spider-Man movies in this latter category interesting is that they don’t have, well, Spider-Man in them. Due to longstanding rights issues and a shared custody agreement that lets Tom Holland’s web-slinger fight crime in the Disney-owned MCU, Sony has made several additional live-action movies starring second- or third-tier Spider-Man characters rather than Spidey himself so as not to dilute the main Spider-brand.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for the entire second season of Hellbound. In November 2021, Netflix was fresh off the success of Squid Game, when a new supernatural horror series from Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho hit the streamer. Hellbound, or 지옥, tells the story of what happens to the Korean social order when hell comes calling.

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