Studio Ghibli’s most harrowing and devastating movie will soon be available in a Steelbook Blu-ray. The Grave of the Fireflies Steelbook costs $22.96 (or $26.98 on Amazon) and releases July 8. Pre-orders are available now. Grave of the Fireflies is based on a semi autobiographical short story of the same name, which follows two orphaned siblings struggling to survive the final months of the Pacific War. It’s an unflinching look...

In the latest batch of Andor episodes, we get to see Cassian (Diego Luna) do something he’s never done before: dress up.  He’s been in disguise before, and certainly incognito as the (immaculately named) Keef Girgo. But Cassian’s spy work so rarely takes him to upscale establishments; even around the rarefied air of Coruscant, he’s still just sporting a nice jacket with an ample hood so he can hide. So...

Even with Netflix’s recommendation algorithm serving you new movies, new TV shows, and original programming tailored to your viewing habits, the streaming service’s fire hose of content makes what’s coming difficult to parse. We’re here to help. This month has some exciting back catalogue picks, like the whole Twilight saga, the Ocean’s Eleven movies, horror flicks like Heart Eyes, Train to Busan, and Smile; and The Wild Robot. There’s also...

Even before I fully became an anime fan, I knew about The Rose of Versailles, one of the greats of the shoujo genre. I’d seen pictures of gender-nonconforming aristocrat Oscar François de Jarjayes in her French military uniform, luxurious blond hair tumbling over her svelte shoulders. Even without knowing much about who she was, I was intrigued by her striking looks and gender ambiguity. I never read Riyoko Ikeda’s 1972...

Which Marvel shows are canon Marvel Cinematic Universe and which aren’t? The fan debate rages on unchecked, but Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige semi-answered the question when he implied that the multiverse business that’s dominated the MCU for the last few years makes everything semi-canon, somewhere. Still, some Marvel shows — particularly the Disney Plus run beginning with 2021’s WandaVision, the point where Marvel Studios stopped licensing its characters all...

[Ed. note: Some slight spoilers for the set-up for The Eternaut follow.] It’s summer in Buenos Aires, and the tension in the air is thick. Protestors are engaging in a noisy cacerolazo on the streets after a series of issues with the power grid, and it’s a hot day in the thick of the season. And then, the whole world comes to a stop. After a series of mysterious lights...

Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith had one of the all-time biggest rereleases in history in 2025, as it returned to theaters for its 20th anniversary. At the same time, Lucasfilm celebrated Matthew Stover’s novelization of the film by announcing a deluxe edition reissue coming in October. While each of the prequel films has its own book adaptation, Revenge of the Sith’s is the first to get...

When Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (pronounced “G-kwuuks”), the latest entry in the long-running military sci-fi anime franchise, was first announced in December 2024, the majority of focus was on the fact that none other than Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno would be working on the series.  While Anno is indeed integral to GQuuuuuuX, he’s not the director; that would be Kazuya Tsurumaki, the maverick mind behind the epochal anime...

There aren’t many characters in any universe like Saw Gerrera. That’s been true since the moment he wheezed his way onto the scene in Rogue One, and since he went toe to toe with Luthen Rael in Andor season 1, but it wasn’t until this latest batch of Andor episodes that we really got to see pure, unfiltered Saw. And thank god for that. [Ed. note: This post contains spoilers...

Legendary anime director Mamoru Hosoda is back at it again — and his latest project, Scarlet, features a pink-haired warrior princess battling enemies through a wasteland. According to the YouTube description, she’s the titular Princess Scarlet and she wakes up in a mysterious “Land of the Dead” and must avenge her father’s death, or be lost to nothingness and disappear. The poster is similarly badass, featuring the princess in a...