After 10 episodes, HBO’s The Last of Us has finally gotten to the issue being talked around since the show first dropped: What happens between Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Abby (Kaitlyn Dever). The scene is very close to what plays out in the game — certainly too close for those who weren’t looking forward to watching it happen again. But the show version makes a crucial change to the setup...

Ryan Coogler, the Academy Award-nominated director of Creed and Black Panther, hasn’t been shy at all about citing the various inspirations behind his new horror thriller Sinners. In the weeks leading up to the film’s premiere, Coogler has been making the rounds along the press circuit, drumming up excitement and talking at length about the creative process behind his latest original feature. “It’s a genre-fluid film,” Coogler told SciFiNow in...

When Polygon had a chance to video-chat with Doctor Who stars Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu in advance of the new season, there was an experience that leapt out as their favorite: filming the animated sequences for this Saturday’s episode. Not recording — filming.  “Shooting the animation was very fun,” Gatwa said, “because it was just a different way of working, and we’ve not had that.”  “I think when we...

There’s a lot of exciting new releases hitting theaters within the next month. Aside from Sinners, the new horror thriller from Black Panther director Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan, we’ve got The Legend of Ochi, David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, Thunderbolts*, and more. But if you’re looking for some great sci-fi to watch from the comfort of your home right now, we’ve got a solid selection of this month’s...

Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home. This week, Captain America: Brave New World, the latest Marvel superhero movie starring Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford, soars onto video on demand following its theatrical premiere in February. There are a few other exciting titles to rent this weekend, including...

One of the most astounding characters in A24’s new fantasy-adventure movie The Legend of Ochi is the titular mythical creature, a monkeylike animal with golden fur and big ears. While the other ochi in the movie are slightly bigger than human-sized, the main ochi is just a baby, small enough to perch on a kid’s shoulder. But even though it’s a mythical wee creature, it isn’t a digital effect: It’s...

An announcement at TerryPratchett.com revealed today that the estate of the late fantasy author, one of the UK’s all-time bestselling writers, is opening up the “Discworld graphic novel universe,” a planned series of comics adaptations of Pratchett’s Discworld books that will come from different publishers, writers, and artists. Pratchett’s Discworld setting was the basis for more than 40 fantasy novels, ranging from light comedy and genre satire, to YA coming-of-age...

Shinichirō Watanabe has never done something quite like Lazarus before.  Sure, the 59-year-old anime director of Cowboy Bebop, Space Dandy, and more isn’t new to science fiction, nor is he a stranger to suspense thrillers like Terror in Resonance. But a globe-trotting, sci-fi spy thriller about a secret task force assigned to apprehend a brilliant scientist before he kills off all of humanity? That’s a new one, and from the...

Lucasfilm is in production on a new solo animated series for the Star Wars villain you absolutely cannot keep down: Darth Maul. Despite him having been killed on screen by Obi-Wan Kenobi twice over, Darth Maul will anchor the newly announced series Maul: Shadow Lord. The Star Wars studio revealed the news in Friday’s Lucasfilm Animation’s 20th Anniversary panel at Star Wars Celebration 2025, in which Director Dave Filoni and...

Vampires never really leave the cultural conversation, but not since the heyday of Twilight have they felt quite so back as they do right now. Between last year’s excellent Nosferatu and this year starting out hot with Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, it seems like everyone has the Children of the Night on their minds. The only problem, however, is that there probably aren’t quite enough new vampire movies and TV shows...