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The 2010s was the peak of the Golden Age of Television, that moment when the small screen surpassed the big one as the home for complex storytelling. Thanks to the boon of cable and streaming, television became a hub of creativity, daring to explore narratives and themes that were previously unthinkable. What made the 2010s…

Anime movies break reality down and rebuild it with total freedom. When millions of cinephiles on Letterboxd curate the ultimate anime canon, the resulting battleground stretches far beyond mainstream hits. While titans like Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion, Look Back, and Makoto Shinkai’s phenomenon Your Name…

Apple TV has now become a streaming service known for consistently churning out bangers. With the underrated modern sci-fi classic series “For All Mankind” and the award-munching comedic creep-fest “Widow’s Bay” to name a few, there’s one series that still feels, even after its sixth season, like it’s slipping under the radar, just like the…

What better way to underscore that a player’s actions have consequences to how a game’s story unfolds than through its conclusion? Ever since the classic “Bubble Bobble,” gamers have been treated with multiple endings to a given gameplay experience. As gaming storytelling has grown significantly more sophisticated, this trend has certainly grown more ambitious with…

There’s no shortage of content on Netflix, which makes scrolling through the streaming service looking for something to watch quite a Sisyphean task. How could one possibly decide what to watch among a variety of stand-up comedy specials, true crime docuseries, and historical dramas? However, there’s nothing that sets the mood right quite like a Netflix…

It’s no secret that the streaming app space is pretty crowded these days. There are so many great options with vast libraries of entertaining content to choose from. However, if you’re a person who loves a good chuckle, you arguably get good bang for your buck with Prime Video, which has a slew of laugh-out-loud…

It’s the first full weekend of November, the weather is finally turning truly chilly, and Halloweekend is in the rear-view mirror. Whether you went all-out on your costume last weekend or you elected to slap a nametag with a different moniker on your shirt and call it a day (which is my preferred way to…

The comic book and superhero movie arms race has been fueling Hollywood for almost three decades at this point. Not only did the runaway success of Blade and then X-Men in 1999 and 2000 trigger a massive response in getting superheroes on the big screen in a push that hadn’t been seen since the aftermath…

Growing up, I’d always carefully inspect the presents under the Christmas tree to locate any suspiciously video game-shaped boxes. I’ve been a gamer since I could hold a controller, and my family thankfully gifted accordingly.

Clockwise from top: Godzilla Minus Zero, Wild Horse Nine, The Cat in the Hat, and The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Everett Collection (GKIDS, Diego Araya Corvalan/Searchlight Pictures, Warner Bros.), Scott Gries/NBC