On Friday, Future Boy Conan finally comes to streaming on Retrocrush. Anime enthusiasts will recognize the series for being Hayao Miyazaki’s directorial debut, premiering one year before his first theatrical film, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, and several more years before he founded Studio Ghibli with Toshio Suzuki and Isao Takahata. The 26-episode anime was released on Blu-ray in the U.S. in 2021, but this marks the first time...

The past decade-plus has seen a lot of familiar names tapped to helm Star Wars movies which have subsequently disappeared into vaporware. Those familiar names have ranged from The Last Jedi and Knives Out writer-director Rian Johnson to Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige to The Lego Movie’s Phil Lord and Christopher Miller to Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. So it’s...

Remember back in 2003 when Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King came out, and fans kept circling back to the topic of how every time they thought the movie was over, Jackson added a new epilogue, finale, wrap-up scene, or coda (Even so, some people still didn’t think the movie had enough endings.) Ryan Coogler’s sprawling, gloriously messy 1930s-set vampire movie Sinners does something...

Many of us have moved on to the second season of Arcane, the Netflix animated seried inspired by League of Legends. But, if you’d like to make the inaugural season a permanent part of your collection, you can currently pick up the 4K Blu-ray of Season one of Arcane for its lowest price ever on Amazon. Originally $59.99, this physical copy of the show comes packaged in a Steelbook case...

Bad news for everyone hoping to see skins from League of Legends television adaptation Arcane return to Fortnite: You’re going to be waiting a long time, if not forever. “We’ve had a lot of conversations with Epic about what might be possible,” League of Legends co-creator and Riot Games co-chairman Marc Merrill said on X (formerly Twitter) on April 17, responding to what’s apparently been frequent questions about the collaboration....

Twisted Metal’s first seasons was surprisingly good, which why it’s so exciting that the show is getting a second chance at blowing up later this year. On Thursday, Peacock announced that Twisted Metal season 2 will be released on July 31. The announcement came with a brief teaser trailer and a few images that show off some of the show’s characters with their updated season 2 looks. The trailer itself...

Polygon sat down with Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu, the stars of Doctor Who’s latest season, recently by video chat, and when we asked for their favorite things they got to do while filming, there was one that they truly gushed about.  “I love the outfits,” Sethu said. “Honestly, I love the outfit reveals. […] The first time we come on set looking at each other in our outfits, I...

Marvel’s latest trailer for Fantastic Four: First Steps digs deeper into the lives of the Fantastic Four, and the plot of the movie that’s set to kick off a new era of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Not only do we get get our first look at Reed Richards stretching like rubber and our first look at Julia Garner’s Silver Surfer, the Herald of Galactus, endowed with the Power Cosmic —...

I was barely five minutes into the new Hatsune Miku anime movie that hits theaters on April 17 when I realized I was definitely in over my head.  I already knew that Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing was the first-ever movie for Hatsune Miku, the virtual idol and synthesized singing software. Even though she’s appeared in various games (including Fortnite), a manga series, and even a...

In their second annual comic book team-up adventure, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman will set off on another bizarre adventure while their main titles take a little summer vacation. In a follow up to last year’s Gotham City Sirens, writer Leah Williams (X-Factor, Power Girl) joins artist Haining (Spirit World, Poison Ivy) to take everyone’s favorite Gotham City gals to space — sort of. Polygon can exclusively reveal the...