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...

Fantastic Four: First Steps, Marvel’s resuscitation of four popular characters with a spotty track record at the movies, is nearly upon us. And as the July 25 release date looms, so does Galactus, Eater of Worlds. The cosmic threat has been shrouded in shadow in most of First Steps’ reveals, but a new final trailer for the Pedro Pascal-led blockbuster showcases just how BIG of a bad the MCU’s new...

In the timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, brilliant inventor Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) uses scavenged parts to build an Iron Man-style suit that manages to look just as good and work as well as anything crafted with the full resources of Stark Industries. However the composition of her new standalone series Ironheart is far patchier, a mess of mismatched plots, themes, and action sequences. Showrunner Chinaka Hodge is certainly...

George R. R. Martin just can’t catch a break, huh? The author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, which adapted into the HBO show Game of Thrones, is suffering from perhaps the worst case of writer’s block in recorded history; Martin published A Dance with Dragons, the fifth ASOIAF book, in 2011 and hasn’t completed the planned seven-book series since. He receives plenty of flak from fans...