Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning was not a good movie — but I don’t know if even polarizing stunt-junkie Tom Cruise deserved the amount of shade thrown his way earlier this week. The man went zero g on a biplane! On Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization behind the Academy Awards, announced the recipients of its annual honorary Oscars. Issued as an actual Oscar...

DC Studios has found its Clayface: the handsome Tom Rhys Harries. According to Variety, the Welsh actor known for his role in Apple TV’s Suspicion and Netflix’s White Lines has officially joined the cast as the lead role for the upcoming title focused on the Batman villain. Harries secured the role after beating out talents such as Jack O’Connell (Sinners), Leo Woodall (The White Lotus), Tom Blyth (Hunger Games: The...

Pixar was built on risks. From its earliest days, the animation studio tried things no one had tried before: producing the first full-length CG animated feature; pushing the emotional limits of kid-friendly movies with stories built around death and loss; focusing on original characters, stories, and designs, rather than retelling familiar fairy tales or emulating existing and well-established animation styles. Compared to some of Pixar’s biggest swings, its latest movie,...

There are only so many ways to capture the majesty of sharks in reality television programming. In a genre all-but dominated by Discovery Channel’s Shark Week and National Geographic’s SharkFest, how can a contender like Netflix make a splash in the shark space? How about steal the hook of the Pokémon Snap games, but replace every Pokémon with a breed of shark? That’s effectively the premise of All the Sharks,...

From the beginning of its 2022 launch, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds offered a different approach compared to previous entries in the franchise. Tapping into nostalgia with a prequel to the original ’60s Star Trek, Goldsman and his co-showrunner, Henry Alonso Myers, provided fresh spins on the original show’s most famous characters and minor players alike. Strange New Worlds has alternated between issue-driven stories and silly stuff like body-swapping plots...

My Hero Academia season 8 will be the final season of the series, and as such, the latest trailer that has just been released marks the end of an era for the popular anime based on the manga by Kohei Horikoshi. The trailer above teases a few final conflicts, including the end of the battle between Armored All Might and One For All, which began in the previous season. The...

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. Disney’s live-action Snow White was box office poison thanks to bad reviews, controversy about the dwarves, and a scaled-back promotional tour, but it could still find new life if viewers fall in love with it on Disney Plus. This is a...

“Steve’s Lava Chicken” fans, rejoice: A Minecraft Movie will make its global streaming debut on Max starting next week. A Minecraft Movie follows four everyday misfits — newly orphaned siblings Henry (Sebastian Hansen) and Natalie (Emma Myers), down-on-his-luck ’80s arcade champion Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Jason Momoa), and real-estate hustler Dawn (Danielle Brooks) — as they’re pulled into the pixelated world of Minecraft. The group must learn to survive...

Devil May Cry 5 has officially crossed 10 million units sold since its 2019 release, and according to Capcom, the boost came largely thanks to Netflix’s anime adaptation reigniting interest in the franchise. “Recently, on April 3, 2025, the company released the new Devil May Cry animated series on Netflix,” said Capcom’s press release, “in line with the company’s Single Content Multiple Usage strategy,” which sees the company adapting its...

Coraline, the debut feature of the stop-motion studio Laika, was a modest hit in 2009, earning just over $75 million in the U.S.. But over the years, the macabre coming-of-age tale earned cult status, and when Fathom Events put it back in theaters last summer, it made another $33 million — a total that’s basically unheard of for most modern re-releases. So it’s no surprise that Laika is hoping a...