Browsing: Franchises

One of the darkest anime franchises is set to make its return with a new feature film trilogy, and has dropped a new trailer showing off its first entry. There are all sorts of dark and scary anime that have gotten under fans’ skin over the years, but Made in Abyss has truly been one…

When I was a kid, I loved Star Wars. I religiously watched and rewatched the original trilogy. I collected action figures and toy ships. I even played Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire for Nintendo 64, which is neither underrated nor overrated, but rated exactly right. But eventually, around the time the prequel trilogy began…

One of the really great things about horror as a genre is that we don’t just get singular movies but instead frequently get entire franchises. What starts with one good movie often turns into sequels, spinoffs, and more. Just look at things like Saw, Paranormal Activity, Halloween, and so many. more. Sometimes, those movie franchises…

(L-R): Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro and star Doug Jones during a July 24 Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2026 to celebrate the Oct. 9 20th anniversary re-release of the film.

The cyberpunk genre owes a huge debt to Masamune Shirow’s “Ghost in the Shell,” the essential manga from 1989 that inspired Rupert Sanders’ controversial Scarlett Johansson-starrer. Sanders’ 2017 film is just one adaptation in a longstanding sci-fi franchise, as a brand-new anime tackling Shirow’s source material recently dropped its first episode on Prime Video. This highly…