‘Dune’ isn’t budging. ‘Spider-Man’ isn’t cowering. PLUS: ‘Coyote vs. ACME’ tickets are on sale, ‘Clayface’ takes the DCU in a grimmer direction, and why Chloe Fineman left ‘SNL.’
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Robert Downey Jr. in The Avengers, James Spader in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Chris Evans in Captain America: Civil War, Josh Brolin in Avengers: Infinity War, Scarlett Johansson in Avengers: Endgame and Chris Hemsworth in Avengers: Doomsday. / Marvel Studios
I rewatched the trailers for every Avengers film. The Doomsday trailer doesn’t live up to them.
Watching this trailer after rewatching the trailer for the previous Avengers films (and Captain America: Civil War) reveals how little work Marvel Studios has put into making Doomsday make sense. Yes, we know these characters. But there are no stakes. There is no weight. There is no investment. (Read more)
The first Avengers: Doomsday trailer is just a bunch of toys getting smashed together: While Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame truly felt like the culmination of a decade of storytelling, the trailer for Doomsday feels like Marvel Studios and the Russo brothers just smashed a bunch of random toys together. “Have a feeling this might kill the MCU dead,” The New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie wrote on Bluesky. (Read more)
No one is afraid of the MCU anymore: There are many flashing red lights when it comes to the release of Avengers: Doomsday. The film is up against a very real release-date fight with Dune: Part Three. And to top off all of that, Sony dropped its final trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day the day after the first trailer for Doomsday went live. If you ever needed a better sign of where the strength in the MCU currently sits, that last one is it. (Read more)
Matt Damon in The Odyssey. / Universal Pictures
It’s a short journey to a massive opening weekend for The Odyssey
It’s wild that, driven by IMAX innovation and a love of the Gotham font, Christopher Nolan films have become a franchise of their own. The Odyssey just landed the third biggest opening weekend of 2026, with its $124.5 million debut outdoing Michael($97.2 million) and falling not that far behind The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ($131.7 million).
The Odyssey’s opening weekend is the first $100 million+ debut for Nolan since The Dark Knight Rises opened with $160.9 million in 2012. It’s also the director’s biggest non-Batman opening weekend, also trailing The Dark Knight’s $158.4 million. Nolan’s adaptation is also the biggest non-Deadpool opening weekend for an R-rated movie, sneaking past It’s $123.4 million. (Read more)
A six-pack of Blue Moon and the Blue Moon Spicy Orange Challenge kit. / Snackology
Are you brave enough to take the Blue Moon Spicy Orange Challenge?
I wasn’t old enough to legally drink when Blue Moon made its debut in 1995. (I also wasn’t illegally drinking in 1995.) But Blue Moon was absolutely one of the, ahem, more prestigious beers that I began to expand my tastes with as I moved on from my early college days of drinking Keystone Light and Coors Light.
While Blue Moon never had the craft beer bonafides as a beverage like Magic Hat #9, it was still a key stepping stone on the journey that led from everyone drinking Bud Light to an expansive beer culture in America.
But what if Blue Moon had a spicer side?
That’s what the Blue Moon Spicy Orange Challenge is setting out to discover. Starting today, you can buy the Blue Moon Spicy Orange Challenge kit. Blue Moon and Frank’s RedHot have partnered to create the kit’s centerpiece: The Spicy Orange. (Read more)
The Honey Brown Butter Bacon Egg Cheese Biscuit. / Snackology
Elevate your breakfast with the Honey Brown Butter Bacon Egg Cheese Biscuit
The addition of Caesar Sauce to the McDonald’s menu stole the spotlight this month — there were a bunch of signs and it was prominently featured on the ordering kiosks when we ate there over the weekend — but the restaurant has somewhat quietly rolled out a new breakfast item: The Honey Brown Butter Bacon Egg Cheese Biscuit. (Read more)
Are Firehook x Grillo’s Dill Pickle Crackers as cool as a ... pickled cucumber?
Is 2026 the year of dill pickle? Firehook x Grillo’s Dill Pickle Crackers are the third pickle-based item that Snackology has reviewed this year, following in the footsteps of Oreo Dill Pickle Flavored Fudge Cookies (which also appeared in the Oreo Summer Carnival Cookie Tin) and PBR x Grillo’s Pickle Beer. (Read more)
The Omnicosm is written and produced by Bill Kuchman. Copyediting by Tim Kuchman.
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The Omnicosm founder. Snackology, Popculturology and The Cold Open writer. A Rochester, N.Y., native now living in the Washington, D.C., area. Won’t pass up a Genny Cream Ale.
‘Dune’ isn’t budging. ‘Spider-Man’ isn’t cowering. PLUS: ‘Coyote vs. ACME’ tickets are on sale, ‘Clayface’ takes the DCU in a grimmer direction, and why Chloe Fineman left ‘SNL.’
With an assist from ‘Captain America: Civil War,’ the teasers for the first four ‘Avengers’ movies hyped an increasingly complex cinematic universe. ‘Doomsday’ arrives with none of that.
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