Movies

Credit: Madhouse/Crunchyroll These days, many anime have the budget and technical polish to stage dazzling fight sequences. For example, Jujutsu Kaisen’s Sukuna vs. Jogo clash is a spectacle of kinetic animation and inventive camera work. Yet that contemporary virtuosity only highlights how exceptional an older sequence remains: the showdown between Isaac Netero and Meruem from...

Credit: Image: FX Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci‑fi landmark, Alien, deliberately keeps its titular creature mostly out of view — a decision born as much of economic constraint as of Scott’s stylistic judgment. By contrast, James Cameron’s 1986 follow‑up, Aliens, flooded the screen with hordes of Xenomorphs, and subsequent entries in the franchise progressively revealed more...

Justin Tipping’s unusual football-horror film Him leaves plenty of questions in its wake, yet many resolve by the finale — especially the puzzle that is Elsie White, portrayed by Julia Fox. As the glamorous and unpredictable wife of football icon Isaiah White (Marlon Wayans), Elsie alternately charms and unnerves protagonist Cameron Cade (Tyriq Withers). She...

Credit: Sony Pictures What often proves most revealing about zombie cinema isn’t the outbreak itself but the aftermath. George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead redefined the risen-dead archetype, and its endurance owes as much to Romero’s willingness to revisit and reshape the mythology over time as to the original’s ingenuity. That same impulse informs...

Credit: Image: Sony Pictures With Halloween still a few weeks away, the season for chilling films is already here. If autumn’s mood has you craving a good scare, Netflix has a rich selection of horror — perfect for building tension before October arrives. True horror aficionados might gravitate toward specialty services like Shudder, but Netflix...

Credit: Image: Universal Across its 96-minute runtime, director Justin Tipping coaxes tension with the relentlessness of an NFL defensive front. When this Jordan Peele–produced football thriller finally detonates, the final act is a barrage of brutality so unremitting that it threatens to erase everything that came before. That cathartic surge, however, plays hollow for viewers....

Credit: Image: Warner Bros. Pictures What Matt Reeves Hinted About The Batman 2 The Batman 2 is scheduled to begin production next spring. While the film’s antagonist remains unconfirmed, director Matt Reeves dropped intriguing clues during a red‑carpet conversation with MTV’s Josh Horowitz at the Emmy Awards — an event where Cristin Milioti received the...

Credit: Image: Courtesy of Max In the second episode of Peacemaker season 2, an ARGUS squad visits Chris Smith’s (John Cena) house to investigate reported interdimensional disturbances. The assignment quickly unravels when Chris’s bald eagle companion, Eagly, obliterates the team — forcing Langston Fleury (Tim Meadows) and his agents into a panicked retreat. Fleury and...

Image: Critical Role Critical Role has published the official trailer for Campaign 4, posing a central question: what becomes of a realm when its gods are gone? The studio has been steadily releasing hints about the upcoming season, and the newest drop unveils the full ensemble — a striking, 13-person adventuring party whose members range...

Image: Netflix The animated fantasy series The Dragon Prince — which alternated between thoughtful storytelling and occasional coarse humor — wrapped up its seven-season run in December. Co-creators Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond are not finished with the world: after unveiling the concept for The Dragon King at San Diego Comic-Con, they’ve launched a Kickstarter...