Nautilus, which premieres on AMC on June 29, tells the origin story of Captain Nemo from Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, portraying him as an Indian prince seeking to use the eponymous submarine to get vengeance against the British East India Company. While the series has elements of the fantastical, it’s rooted in history that showrunner James Dormer (Medici, Beowulf: Return to the Shadowlands) got to experience...

Some roles are a stretch. Other are more like a leap of faith. Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* is headed to digital and Blu-ray, and Polygon has exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of Florence Pugh gearing up for her death-defying stunt. The charming, never-before-seen clip shows Pugh working through nerves and anxiousness as she prepares to take her tower leap from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s Merdeka 118 — the second-tallest building on the planet, alongside...

A new entry in Netflix’s Trainwreck series of documentaries must have been a difficult one to hold in: Trainwreck: Poop Cruise takes a 55-minute look back at an infamous Carnival cruise ship disaster from early 2013, when thousands of passengers were stranded at sea for days in a largely electricity-free vessel. Tensions ran high, as did the levels of waste-water that seeped onto the boat as toilets failed to flush...

This week, a giant screen in the lobby of Sony’s headquarters glowed with the image of J-pop rock icon LiSA to celebrate her first-ever tour stop in New York City. The mega-star beamed even brighter when we met in person days after the show.  Over the past decade, LiSA has carved out a powerful legacy in Japan with her high-energy performances and unmistakable vocals. Internationally, she shot to fame producing...

Publisher Dark Horse is giving the deluxe treatment to Lone Wolf & Cub, the landmark manga series from writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima, with a series of re-releases slated to launch starting this year. The new oversized hardcover editions will feature the manga’s epic story in its original right-to-left reading format, with Japanese-language sound effects. Lone Wolf & Cub Deluxe Edition vol. 1 arrives in December 2025, and...

Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy is swinging back into theaters starting Sept. 26. Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man journey is hitting the big screen again as part of Fathom Entertainment’s Fathom Fan Favorites special event in collaboration with Sony Pictures. Spider-Man (2002) will hit theaters first, not only on Sept. 26, but also on Oct. 3. Spider-Man 2.1 extended cut will make its theatrical debut on Sept. 27 and Oct. 4, with the...

[Ed. note: This review contains minor spoilers for the first three episodes of Ironheart season 1.] Ironheart, Marvel’s spinoff of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, has more in common with Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? than any MCU fan might guess. The existential question at hand: Can a machine truly feel or be human?  In the Disney Plus series, the young, Tony Star-esque hero Riri Williams resurrects...

As divisive reactions to 28 Years Later continue to take shape, the movie has inspired some side chat about how, exactly, we’re expected to think about 28 Weeks Later, the other 28 Days Later sequel.  Now that Boyle and Garland have made their own sequel, it feels like 28 Weeks Later has been squeezed out – especially because Boyle, Garland, 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy, and 28 Weeks Later...

Capcom and Legendary Pictures’ live-action Street Fighter movie is shaping up its cast with the addition of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson as Balrog the Boxer, who serves under villain M. Bison. Nexus Point News first reported the addition of Jackson to the Street Fighter cast, which appears to have been corroborated by 50 on his Instagram. News of the multi-hyphenate musician comes shortly after another recent Street Fighter addition: Deadline...

Being an anime fan nowadays means never being starved for new content to watch, and the summer 2025 anime season is lining up to be another exciting one. After the spring season whet fans’ palates with Solo Leveling season 2 and Lazarus from Shinichirō Watanabe, summer sees the return of several fan favorite series, including DAN DA DAN and Kaiju no 8. There’s also the debut of a couple of...