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Image: ©Koyoharu Gotoge / SHUEISHA, Aniplex, ufotable English dubs often attract skepticism: purists insist that no translation can capture the nuance of the original performances, while others prefer dubs for convenience or because they find them more immersive. In reality, quality varies widely and must be judged on its own merits. For dubbing actors, the...
Image: New Line Cinema/Warner Bros. Pictures The Conjuring franchise was already a box-office powerhouse before its latest entry, The Conjuring: Last Rites, recorded what was then the largest opening weekend in horror history. Marketed as the capstone to James Wan’s long-running saga, the film grossed $194 million worldwide and eclipsed the 2017 benchmark set by Andy...
Image: IFC Films Thirty years after Mortal Kombat proved that video-game adaptations could find box-office success, the industry landscape has shifted in surprising ways. Reports around the recent greenlight for a Call of Duty feature at Paramount suggested that even a director of Steven Spielberg’s stature was declined by the publisher for insisting on final...
Image: Esad Ribić / Marvel Comics We’re still roughly 14 months out from Avengers: Doomsday, so don’t expect a steady drip of reveals from Marvel Studios before then. Beyond the film’s title and initial casting news, details have been scarce. Still, directors Joe and Anthony Russo recently posted a grainy, cryptic tease to their shared...
Image: Prime Video The first teaser for season 2 of A24’s animated breakout, Hazbin Hotel, has surfaced — a rapid-fire 40-second glimpse that will have the show’s fervent fandom combing every frame for clues after the first season’s explosive musical finale. The clip is brief and elliptical: quick, unsettling flashes stitched together beneath a menacing...
Major spoilers ahead for chapter 1159 of One Piece. One Piece keeps peeling back the world’s history, and chapter 1159 deepens that excavation. The God Valley flashback reveals Rocks D. Xebec’s true identity and ancestry, reshaping Blackbeard’s place in the saga and reframing events we’ve taken for granted. These disclosures make God Valley feel less...
Image: Showtime From Dracula to Michael Myers, horror has long taught us one rule: no matter how definitively you dispatch the antagonist, they somehow crawl back. Now add another recurring killer to that list—one who is far more selective in his violence. Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) has returned in Dexter: Resurrection, resurfacing in New...
Image: Netflix Netflix’s Wednesday leans on the familiar supernatural-school template — a gifted teen enrolled at a boarding academy who uncovers mysteries while suspecting faculty of secret agendas. But the show’s overloaded second season largely sidelines a core element of that subgenre: the nuts-and-bolts of schooling itself. Ed. note: This article contains major spoilers for...
Image: Yellow Veil Pictures Disney’s Frozen saga has never quite delivered the kind of hypnotic, ice‑bound psychological thriller I crave: a taut drama between two formidable — perhaps deluded — women, refracted through frosted imagery. Maybe the currently scheduled Frozen 3 and 4 will answer that call, but the signs are not promising. Fortunately, The Ice...
Photo: Scott Garfield/Lionsgate Films After years of fan pleas, Lionsgate has officially greenlit a follow-up to The Last Witch Hunter — with Vin Diesel returning as Kaulder and Michael Caine set to reprise his role. The studio has moved quickly to attach Diesel’s One Race Films to the project, and Caine has agreed to come...
