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...

Last February, Inu-Oh director Masaaki Yuasa announced the launch of ame pippin, a new Tokyo-based animation studio in collaboration with Asmik Ace, Aniplex, and CoMix Wave Films. There was no word then as to what Yuasa’s next project would be. That is, until now.  On Monday, Yuasa announced that he would direct Daisy’s Life, a Japanese-French co-production with Miyu Productions (Ghost Cat Anzu) based on Banana Yoshimoto’s novel Hinagiku no...

On Friday, Science Saru shared the first teaser trailer for its upcoming adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s cyberpunk manga Ghost in the Shell. In addition, the studio also announced the anime’s director and staff, shared the first promo poster featuring the series’ protagonist Major Motoko Kusanagi, and reiterated the anime will premiere in 2026. Published between 1989 and 1990, Ghost in the Shell centers on the exploits of Public Security Section 9,...

Spring has sprung, and the best way to celebrate the warmer weather is to watch TV. I know I say this every week, but bear with me — there’s some big ones. I, for one, welcome the day when I can curl up after a long day of galavanting outside and watch whatever fresh hell (complimentary) Nathan Fielder has cooked up for us on The Rehearsal season 2. And it’s always...