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The second and final season of Netflix’s The Sandman opens with Destiny (Adrian Lester), the eldest of the Endless, calling a family meeting. It’s a messy affair that involves a lot of the immortal siblings sniping at each other while complaining about how fractious they’ve become. “The Endless dynamic mirrors sort of my own family dynamic, in that they’re not necessarily the people you would choose, but they are your...
Back in the mid-1980s, the nighttime soap opera Dallas set the all-time gold standard for terrible uses of the “It was all a dream!” plot reveal, with a ridiculous twist erasing the entire previous season. In the decades that followed, Hollywood has continued to exploit this overused trope. Horror movies, in particular, going back to the beginning of cinema and including genre classics like Carrie and Friday the 13th, have...
With shows like Dandadan returning and Gachiakuta being the hottest new shonen right now, there’s never been a better time to be an anime fan. The one anime this season that has its claws, hooks, and alien-like tendrils stuck in me is none other than CygamesPictures’ latest production: The Summer Hikaru Died. [Ed. note: Spoilers ahead for episodes 1-4 of The Summer Hikaru Died.] Adapted from Mokumokuren’s 2012 manga, The...
Before Marvel Studios’ widely derided movie Eternals hit theaters, it faced a range of challenges. It came shortly after 2019’s massive Phase 3 climax Avengers: Endgame, and before the Marvel Cinematic Universe defined or built a meaningful hook into Phase 4. Eternals’ release was delayed by COVID, and affected by critically low post-COVID theater attendance. It centers on comparatively obscure characters who weren’t interacting with any previous MCU superheroes or...
When The Bad Guys 2, the sequel to DreamWorks’ hyperkinetic, stylish 2022 animated heist picture The Bad Guys, hits theaters on Aug. 1, adult viewers will immediately make a connection that goes over most kids’ heads. Once again, the stars of the film — drawn from Aaron Blabley’s bestselling illustrated children’s series — are Mr. Wolf (Sam Rockwell), Mr. Snake (Marc Maron), Mr. Shark (Craig Robinson), Mr. Piranha (Anthony Ramos), and Ms....
Critical Role surprised its fans with non-stop news during San Diego Comic-Con 2025, with confirmation of the fifth and final season of The Legend of Vox Machina, as well as brand new clips. But what got me most excited was the reveal of their newest upcoming Prime Video show, based on Critical Role’s second campaign, The Mighty Nein. This show has a chance to improve a great romance between two characters...
When James Cameron delivers his fifth and final planned Avatar movie, currently scheduled for 2031, the saga will have spanned an impressive 22 years. But even with three more full Avatar movies coming — including December’s Avatar: Fire and Ash — Cameron says he wants to explore the world of Pandora in new ways. That includes an animated anthology focusing on “stories that you wouldn’t have expected” from the world of Avatar....
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the best (official) Fantastic Four movie. You barely need to like it for that to be true. Marvel’s original superstar team has had terrible luck on the big screen, from a low-budget 1994 Roger Corman movie that was never officially released to Tim Story’s mid-2000s movies, which were not much improved by their availability on thousands of screens nationwide. In 2015, a pre-Disney Fox...
In Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comics, Norse god of mischief Loki teams up with the faerie Puck to steal a baby conceived in the Dreaming, seemingly with no greater goal in mind than having fun and causing trouble for Dream of the Endless. But when showrunner Allan Heinberg brought the characters to the screen in the second and final season of Netflix’s The Sandman, he decided he needed to flesh out...
James Cameron’s Avatar series has nothing to do with Avatar: The Last Airbender, but the franchise is following a similar path by going on a tour of the elements. After the first movie involved former Marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) conquering the skies and Avatar: The Way of Water took him and his family into the ocean, the conflict on Pandora is heating up in Avatar: Fire and Ash. The...