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10 Pokémon Shorts That Prove Trainers Are Overrated

Much as Pokémon trainers would love to believe that their pocketable monster friends are well taken care of, each and every single Pikachu-centric short has made it abundantly clear that Pokémon thrive and are at their best when the humans are just gone. Left to their own devices, the Pokémon get to be their whole-ass…

By Charles Pulliam-Moore Published July 7, 2020

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Studio Ghibli’s First Full CG Movie Will Come to the U.S. Next Year

You won’t have to wait all that long to see Studio Ghibli’s first crack at an entirely 3D CG feature. Shortly after its debut in Japan later this year, GKids will be bringing Earwig and the Witch to American theaters in early 2021—well, if they’re open, hopefully. GKids formally announced that it had acquired the…

By James Whitbrook Published July 7, 2020

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Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Is a Cautionary Tale About the Power Men Wield

We, and Peter Parker, have heard it a zillion times before: with great power, comes great responsibility. The watchwords of Stan Lee are suffused into the very fabric of who Spider-Man is as a character, and how Sam Raimi brought him to the big screen in 2002 is no exception. But Raimi’s first swing with…

By James Whitbrook Published July 7, 2020

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Westworld’s Thandie Newton Has Mixed Feelings on Maeve’s Lack of Autonomy

Maeve was one of the first robots to achieve sentience in season one of Westworld, and her ability to control other hosts made it seem like she would be unstoppable. However, the rest of the HBO series has held her back. It’s something actress Thandie Newton has had trouble coming to terms with, but also…

By Beth Elderkin Published July 7, 2020

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Warrior Nun Is the Patron Saint of Boring Chosen Ones

Netflix’s adaptation of Ben Dunn’s Warrior Nun Areala is a series that wants you to have faith. Not necessarily faith in the biblical divinity or hellish demonsthat drive the uneven plot forward over 10 episodes, but faith in the narrative trope of an unsuspecting Chosen One™ being called upon to save humanity from the ultimate…

By Charles Pulliam-Moore Published July 7, 2020

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Disney World Is Still Reopening This Weekend as Florida’s Covid-19 Cases Skyrocket

Select queues and rides are lined with plastic shields, Disney characters are doing socially distant ride-alongs instead of in-person visits

By Beth Elderkin Published July 7, 2020

Illustration: Yuta Onoda (Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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Fall in Love With Kiki’s Delivery Service All Over Again With This New Translation of the Original Novel

Studio Ghibli fans are well familiar with Hayao Miyazaki’s 1989 film Kiki’s Delivery Service, about a young witch who flies to a new town for a series of adventures. But have you ever read the book that inspired the movie? Emily Balistrieri’s brand-new translation of Eiko Kadono’s 1985 fantasy story is out today, and io9…

By Cheryl Eddy Published July 7, 2020

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Even More Rumors About Justice League Dark‘s Heroes Getting Standalone Movies

Cate Shortland discusses how Black Widow will carry on Nat’s legacy through Yelena. Kumail Nanjiani talks about what he wanted to bring to The Eternals’ Kingo. Another familiar face is confirmed for Lucifer’s final season. Plus, what’s to come on Snowpiercer’s finale. To me, my spoilers! Constantine Following yesterday’s rumors of a Zatanna movie, Charles…

James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson Published July 7, 2020

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In Netflix’s New Transformers Trailer, Even Optimus Prime Is So Very Tired

Another day, another war for the fate of Cybertron, and things are looking dire in Netflix and Rooster Teeth’s take on the latest version of the Transformers origin story. So dire that even Optimus Prime, scion of hope and occasional truck, is getting a bit defeatist. Netflix just dropped the latest trailer for Transformers: War…

By James Whitbrook Published July 6, 2020

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Why Boba Fett’s Sound Was a Mystery for Almost 20 Years

If I say “Bad Guy in Helmet from Star Wars” first you think of Darth Vader and then you think of Boba Fett. However, while everyone knows what Darth Vader sounds like when he walks around, what about Boba Fett? Going into Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, the plan was for the new character…

By Germain Lussier Published July 6, 2020

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Charlize Theron Is as Heartbroken as You Are That She’s Unlikely to Play Furiosa Again

The exciting news of George Miller prepping a new movie about Furiosa from Mad Max: Fury Road came with a huge asterisk. The film was going to be a prequel and Charlize Theron would not be returning. Theron knew that was Miller’s decision, but it didn’t mean she wasn’t disappointed. “It’s a tough one to…

By Germain Lussier Published July 6, 2020

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A Young Warrior Battles a Ghastly Enemy in This Exclusive Preview of Marie Lu’s Skyhunter

Marie Lu, author of the Legend series, has a brand-new, far-future dystopian YA series arriving this fall, inspired in part by her own experiences as an immigrant in the United States. The first book, Skyhunter, introduces us to mute heroine Talin Kanam. Read on for exclusive first look at the prologue and first chapter! First…

By Cheryl Eddy Published July 6, 2020

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Our 25 Favorite Summer Blockbusters of the 2000s

For the first time in most of our lifetimes, your local movie theater won’t have a summer blockbuster season. The covid-19 pandemic took care of that, pushing most of the big-budget popcorn films scheduled for this year’s summer months into fall, spring, or even next summer. Since we can’t enjoy summer blockbusters in theaters this…

By Germain Lussier Published July 6, 2020

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Stargirl Will Return for Season 2, But Only on the CW

The relationship between DC Universe and the various arms of the Warner Bros. corporation continues to get weirder and weirder, as evidenced by all the nonsense about the movies on HBO Max, the strange partnerships for its originals like Doom Patrol and Swamp Thing, and so on. But now, there are even more signs pointing…

By James Whitbrook Published July 6, 2020

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DragonCon 2020 in Atlanta Is Officially, Finally, Going Virtual

Another of the biggest convention holdouts has just given up its battle with covid-19. DragonCon 2020, scheduled for September 3-7 in Atlanta, GA, has now officially been postponed and will be held virtually. This comes after months of assurance the event was “moving forward…on schedule,” according to the official website. That’s no longer the case.…

By Germain Lussier Published July 6, 2020

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Get Ready for a ‘Stan Lee Universe’ of Shows and Movies That Has Nothing to Do With Marvel

In the months leading up to Stan Lee’s death, the comics legend was embroiled in a number of legal disputes both against individual people and companies as a whole, like Pow!, the entertainment production outfit Lee co-founded that he also sued in 2018 to the tune of $1 billion for allegedly forging Lee’s signature in…

By Charles Pulliam-Moore Published July 6, 2020

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Ennio Morricone, Movie Composing Legend, Has Passed Away

Ennio Morricone, one of the most beloved movie composers of the 20th century, has died. The legendary Italian artist, who was 91, passed after suffering complications from a recent fall. Morricone’s filmography numbers well into the hundreds, a body of work over seven decades that, much like his most famous soundtracks, speaks for itself. But…

By James Whitbrook Published July 6, 2020

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Exclusive: Infinity Train‘s Third Season Is Bringing Anarchy to HBO Max

Infinity Train’s second season introduced us to The Apex, an anarchic group of young passengers who, unlike the series’ original protagonist Tulip, saw being trapped on the titular train as an opportunity rather than a curse. Where Tulip understood that the point of the train was to work through the cars while working to get…

By Charles Pulliam-Moore Published July 6, 2020

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Ron Howard Has a Hopeful Update About Disney+’s Willow Show

Before Justice League Dark, could another mystical DC Comics project be on the way? Chris Miller hypes up the mindblowing art of Into the Spider-Verse 2. Eric Kripke is waiting for the stars to align on Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s potential appearance in The Boys. Plus, what’s to come on Doom Patrol, and how the Witcher…

James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson Published July 6, 2020

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Netflix’s Into the Night Outruns the Sun Long Enough to Get a Second Season

Netflix’s Into the Night is a point of personal fascination for me, for the sole and entire reason that is absolutely bizarre. A thriller about literally outrunning the sun, it is a weird melange of influences and concepts, including being inspired by a novel (Jacek Dukaj’s The Old Axolotl) that it does not resemble in any…

By Julie Muncy Published July 5, 2020