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Animated cinema is “so hot right now”, as a certain “Zoolander” baddie might put it. After all, “Inside Out 2” and “Zootopia 2” each topped the yearly domestic box office for 2024 and 2025, respectively, while “KPop Demon Hunters” has become one of the biggest cultural sensations of the decade so far. Meanwhile, programs like the…

In theaters now is Supergirl, the latest film in James Gunn’s DC Universe. This is the latest attempt to get the heroes of the DC Comics world right on film. That’s not to say that DC hasn’t seen success at the box office and with critics; Christopher Reeve’s Superman films practically wrote the script for…

It’s always a little frustrating to see sci-fi and fantasy books lumped together at a bookstore. While both genres are speculative, they come at history from opposing angles. Sci-fi looks to the future and posits how human society might react to changing technology, interaction with aliens, or extensive space travel. Fantasy, meanwhile, looks to the…

When it comes to animated movies, 1988 was a great year — and several of its releases still hit incredibly hard, even decades later. It helps that many animated projects from the ’80s don’t pull their punches. From 1982’s The Secret of NIMH to 1989’s All Dogs to to Heaven, there are many examples that…

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One of the best anime movies of all time is coming back to theaters to celebrate its 10th anniversary, and it’s getting a big upgrade for its comeback. Anime in theaters has been treated a lot differently than the trend began a decade or so ago. Thanks to the runaway success of franchises like Demon…

Horror and thrills have dominated 2026 in a big way — from Sinners winning Best Picture at the Oscars to new releases including Obsession, Backrooms, and Send Help

From the moment he first appeared as Captain Jonas Grumby, aka The Skipper, Alan Hale Jr. remained fond of “Gilligan’s Island.” Rightly so. The actor brought joy to millions as the perpetually perplexed Skipper, and the importance of such a thing was not lost on the man himself. That said, he had a lot more…

There are two big names when it comes to comic books and, by proxy, comic book films: DC and Marvel. Naturally, Marvel has plenty of bragging rights when it comes to its film slate, but DC has been hugely influential in setting the template for the modern superhero blockbuster. 1978’s “Superman” proved superheroes could work on…

Happy Fourth of July weekend! Welcome to your end-of-week roundup of everything new on Netflix US. As we noted in our special mid-week July 1st recap, the first of the month brought an absolute tidal wave of new licensed content. Now that the dust has settled, we’re back to look at the complete picture: a…