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Image: Sony/Crunchyroll Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle debuted in U.S. cinemas this past weekend and delivered a staggering opening, earning north of $70 million domestically, according to a Sony press release shared with Polygon. That haul marks the largest opening weekend ever for an anime feature — eclipsing the long-standing benchmark set by Pokémon: The First...

Image: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment My introduction to pop culture came at home: my dad taught me Tekken 3 and later nudged me toward anime with landmark films like Tekken 3, Akira, and Princess Mononoke. But his attempts at selling me on sci‑fi fell flat: Godzilla and Star Wars felt distant and sterile. Then one...

Photo: Jonathan Hession/Netflix Wednesday season 2 has wrapped, and regrettably, a large portion of the show’s charm evaporated with it. I entered the latter half of this season cautiously optimistic — but many narrative choices left me feeling misled rather than delighted. Between baffling plot turns and moments that felt engineered for virality more than...

Image: Warner Bros. Pictures Weapons, the new unsettling thriller from Barbarian writer-director Zach Cregger, proved a major box-office draw as viewers packed theaters to experience its tense blend of dread and dark humor. The film, which follows a town reeling after the baffling disappearance of 17 children, is now available on VOD for the first...

Image: Don’t Nod A television take on the time-bending adventure Life is Strange has circulated in rumors since 2016, but Prime Video confirmed on Sept. 5 that it has ordered a series based on the franchise. Charlie Covell — known for KAOS and The End of the F***ing World — will serve as executive producer...

Image: Magnolia Pictures Nicolas Cage, a prolific and unpredictable screen presence, leads the cast of the forthcoming religious-horror film The Carpenter’s Son — a dark, unsettling take on episodes from Jesus’ childhood. As someone who admires Cage’s recent work in films like Pig and his classic turn in Face/Off, I found the premise intriguingly strange...

Image: Sony Classics Mark Hamill has lately been appearing in Stephen King adaptations in distinctly different registers. In The Long Walk, he dons sunglasses and an unsettling charm as The Major — an orchestrator of a brutal, vaguely fascistic spectacle in which young men must outpace one another or face death. By contrast, in The...

Photo: Marni Grossman/Paramount Plus Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was conceived—according to co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman—as a character-driven series, with serialized emotional arcs anchoring episodes that shift in tone and genre. Season 3 opened with strongSetup that explored themes like PTSD, bodily autonomy, and mentorship. Unfortunately, many of those promises falter as the season increasingly leans...

Image: © Koyoharu Gotōge / SHUEISHA, Aniplex, ufotable Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle opened in the United States on September 12, 2025, kicking off a trilogy of films that will conclude the anime’s saga. Fans planning cosplay or a formal night out at screenings may be wondering whether any additional footage appears after the credits —...

Photo: Murray Close/Lionsgate Francis Lawrence’s 2025 film of Stephen King’s 1979 novel The Long Walk largely honors the source material — until it deliberately diverges. JT Mollner’s screenplay expands the backstories and motives of several central figures, trims the field from 100 contestants to 50, and amplifies the propaganda machinery that sustains the Walk, clarifying...