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Ever since Ridley Scott first changed science fiction and horror forever with his 1979 masterwork Alien,the Xenomorph and the legacy it leaves behind have been pretty inescapable on-screen. The 80s gave us James Cameron’s beloved action-heavy sequelAliens,the 90s gave us the studio-manipulated (but bold swings nonetheless) missteps of Alien 3and Alien: Resurrection,and while not official…
Avengers: Endgame was arguably the premier cinematic event of the 2010s, serving as the culmination of everything Marvel Studios had been building since the original Iron Man. It marked the end of an 11-year journey that encompassed 22 movies, looking to pull off something that had never been attempted before at this scale. Anticipation for…
Sports anime such as Haikyu and Blue Lock have been on the rise in recent years, but several classics came before them to pave the path for the genre’s success. Fans often love the underdog trope in sports series where the protagonist, who everyone underestimates, gets to shine due to his grit and dedication. One…
Sci-fi is such a cool movie genre. Not only do sci-fi movies frequently take us into strange and unusual high-tech worlds full of possibility (that, let’s be honest, sometimes go terrifyingly awry) but when done right they also leave us with a lot to think about in terms of our own lives and realities. That…
Vampires have been done to death in anime, but few films still cast the long shadow of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. Directed by genre legend Yoshiaki Kawajiri and animated at Madhouse, the 2000 dark fantasy anime film has spent over two decades as a cult favorite, mostly kept alive through import discs.
Since the eighties, most Transformersfans have been quick to dismiss Tonka’s Go-Bots as a simple Transformers knock-off. But the real story is much more complicated, with the Go-Bots actually reaching American store shelves a full year before Transformers. In the late seventies, companies like Mego and Mattel had established precedent for importing Japanese toys with…
Ten years after the original series came to an end, Bleach is still shocking fans with the debut of a brand new Bankai for Ichigo Kurosaki from the original creator making its debut in the latest episode. Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War is working its way through the final season of its episodes adapting Tite Kubo’s…
In the realm of video games, Kingdom Hearts has always existed in a league of its own. Thanks to a partnership with Disney, what would otherwise be another RPG in the vein of Final Fantasy became a genre-bending, world-hopping adventure where our hero Sora must explore realms of beloved Disney films like Frozen and Ratatouille…
16 Years Later, The Huge Ending Change for One of the Best Comic Book Adaptations Has Been Forgotten
These days, we are so used to seeing comic book adaptations on the big screen that we forget how difficult it is to get it right. There are so many elements from any comic book turned into a movie that have to get left out. More often than not, it’s due to there simply not…
“9/11: United We Stand – 25 Years Later,” a powerful story of hope and healing led by Michael Strahan, premieres Tuesday, Sept. 1, on ABC and streams next day on Disney+ and Hulu. The devastating terrorist attacks of 9/11 have been well documented, but the story of what helped people heal in the wake of…