Matt Murdock has many problems in Daredevil: Born Again — and a complete lack of chemistry with his canon girlfriend is absolutely up there. When I first started the show, I was tentatively interested in Heather Glenn, who meets Matt during a blind date set up by Matt’s current law partner. They had some cute moments in the first episode, but soon it turned out that Heather had no personality...

Worried about the uncertain ending of Daredevil: Born Again, and wondering when, if ever, the show will return for a second season? With seven years between the final installment of Netflix’s Daredevil and this year’s Daredevil: Born Again, nobody would blame you for assuming the wait will be a long one.  Fortunately, Disney Plus’ more MCU-integrated Daredevil series will return almost unbelievably soon, as far as the realm of comic...

Stories about A Minecraft Movie’s viral “Chicken jockey!” audience response meme continue to roll out on a regular cadence. Minecraft Movie star Jack Black showed up at one screening to warn the audience not to yell or throw things during the scene where his character Steve shrieks at the arrival of a baby zombie riding a chicken, which his new buddy Garrett (Jason Momoa) has to fight in a wrestling...

Solo Leveling season 2 just ended, which means it’s the perfect time to look back at where the anime started. Crunchyroll announced on Tuesday that it’s giving Solo Leveling season 1 a special Blu-ray treatment, with a conventional standard edition, as well as a limited edition release that looks absolutely gorgeous. According to Crunchyroll, both the standard and limited edition Blu-rays of Solo Leveling season 1 will include all 12...

It’s easy to forget that Stephen King doesn’t always write horror stories. There’s sci-fi stories like Under the Dome, coming-of-age tales like Stand By Me, and a few nicer stories that fall somewhere in-between. But with his horror-first approach, it’s probably fitting that King’s short story The Life of Chuck is getting a movie adaptation by Mike Flanagan, someone who also does most of his work by scaring people. In...

Jean Luc Herbulot’s new movie Zero is one of 2025’s most fascinating projects: The latest action film from the director of the cult hit Saloum has a radical political message, but still packs tons of thrills into its 88-minute run time. And while real-world events certainly played a big part in inspiring both projects, Herbulot told Polygon he also drew deeply from video games for both Saloum and Zero. Before...

Watching Warfare, Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s intense portrait of the 2006 battle of Ramadi in Iraq from the perspective of a SEAL unit that comes under fire, it’s easy to get lulled into thinking it’s just another war movie. Except that there’s no music juicing up the drama, and no pat narrative arcs: no hero, villain, protagonist, or moral. Apart from an early on-screen note that the unit is...

We’ve made it to 2025, the year movie studios are hoping box-office returns will return to pre-COVID levels. That means it’s the year movie studios have been punting some of their biggest planned releases to, leading to an overstuffed schedule full of blockbuster-hit hopefuls, from Wicked: For Good and Avatar: Fire and Ash to Jurassic World Rebirth, James Gunn’s Superman, Disney’s Zootopia 2, and Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps....

Black Mirror can sometimes be a bit of a mindfuck, but Issa Rae felt clear on one thing when she signed up: Her episode reminded her of “San Junipero.” “Hotel Reverie” shares a lot of connective tissue with episodes of Black Mirror’s past, but the queer love story taking place entirely in a virtual world definitely ties “Hotel Reverie” and “San Junipero” more directly together. In a press junket, Rae...

Disney’s 1994 animated classic, The Lion King, is a gorgeous, heartrending movie with a soaring soundtrack. It has one of the most devastating deaths in kids’ movie history, a compelling story about rising up to take responsibility, and a heartfelt love story. And it also has fart jokes. Those fart jokes are mostly centered around Pumbaa, the bumbling warthog who makes up one half of the movie’s comedic duo. The...