Cineverse dropped a first trailer today for the American release of Escape From the 21st Century, Yang Li’s frantic time-travel comedy movie about three hapless teenage nerds who mysteriously gain the ability to jump forward into their future adult bodies whenever they sneeze. The film, released in China in 2024, is the kind of goofy, high-energy, effects-driven mayhem that used to be the specialty of Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin...

In his seemingly endless quest to not finish The Winds of Winter, Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has a new project on the table: He’s producing a magical-realist reimagining of the story of Hercules, animated by Blue Spirit, the Emmy-winning studio behind the bloody Netflix revenge series Blue Eye Samurai. The film is based on the novella A Dozen Tough Jobs from Howard Waldrop, a Nebula Award winner...

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt celebrated ten years of monster slaying on May 19, and publisher CD Projekt honored the milestone with an anniversary stream starring Geralt voice actor Doug Cockle, a stunning new trailer, and The Witcher 3 price drops across platforms for those who aren’t one of the 50 million who’ve already purchased it. Yet, while you may want to celebrate by booting up The Witcher 3 for...

In Quentin Tarantino’s 2003 movie Kill Bill: Volume 1, vengeful assassin The Bride (Uma Thurman) seeks a sword from the legendary swordsmith Hattori Hanzō (Sonny Chiba). “I need Japanese steel,” she says. “I have vermin to kill.” Hanzō has sworn off making instruments of death, but when he learns the vermin is his former student Bill (David Carradine), he consents to forge her a new sword. It is his finest...

For fans of YouTube’s billion-view RackaRacka channel, the emergence of Australian twins Danny and Michael Philippou as filmmakers wasn’t necessarily a surprise — they’d been making videos together since childhood, and their online work earned them millions of followers. Movies were the next logical step. What was surprising, though, was the deeply grim, intense tone of their writing and directing debut, 2023’s Talk to Me. For a first film, particularly from...

Xbox Game Pass is adding yet another show-stopping role-playing game to its catalog with Metaphor: ReFantazio, arriving on the service on May 29. The game joins heavy hitters Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 alongside charming experiences like Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes and Avowed. Game Pass has an RPG for everyone. Metaphor: ReFantazio is a beautifully bizarre JRPG from Atlus, the creators of Shin Megami Tensei...

Happy Cool Sword Day to all who celebrate. What, you forgot? We get it. It’s easy to forget Cool Sword Day, the No. 1 holiday dedicated to cool swords in all walks of media, because it arrives in the lead-up to the “more legitimate” national holiday of Memorial Day. But that doesn’t mean it deserves any less effort or observation. After years of overlooking Cool Sword Day ourselves, Polygon is...

Guillermo del Toro recently spoke at the Cannes Film Festival, sharing some details about his upcoming film Frankenstein, set to release on Netflix later this year. As reported by Variety, he said he’s been asked whether his movie will have “really scary scenes.” That prompted the Academy Award-winning director to ponder how people would receive the movie made: “For the first time, I considered that. It’s an emotional story for...

[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for Dragon Ball Daima — especially the best bits.] I don’t know why my parents let me watch Dragon Ball Z when I was 6 years old — have you seen how brutal some of them fights get? — but I’ll always be grateful. Dragon Ball was my first major fandom, before I even knew what that word meant. And now, many years later,...

Netflix is about to mega evolve with more Pokémon content in June — just in time for fans who want to prep for Pokémon Legends: Z-A. According to What’s On Netflix, Pokémon the Series: XY and Kalos Quest will return on June 1 alongside XYZ — marking the first time the 19th season has been on the streaming platform. Pokémon the Series: XY was the 17th season of the long-running...