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The central image of Koreeda Hirokazu’s Look Back references its title in an unexpectedly literal sense. A young girl sits in her room at her desk, working by hand on manga illustrations. Later in the film, this same image repeats: the young woman seated at a kitchen counter; in a school classroom; then as an…

ByClyde E. DawkinsPublished about an hour ago•Updated about an hour ago•3 min read

“Original” is a hot buzzword in the movie business these days, but Hollywood animated films have a long list of misses in that regard. Especially this past decade. Leave it to DreamWorks Animation, a studio with a long history of adapting all sorts of books and IP, to unleash “Forgotten Island,” one of the best…

Netflix’s Italian teen dramaMinerva Academytakes viewers inside a military high school in Naples, where discipline, hierarchy and tradition collide with everything that normally comes with being a teenager. What begins as a fairly familiar school drama becomes considerably more interesting, and darker, across its eight episodes.

The Twilight’s End DLC wraps up the story of Demeo X Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked with a grand finale of a third campaign that any battle-hardened Demeo player will enjoy.

Popular mangaka Aya Kanno made a welcome return to the Western market with the new seriesFruit of the Underworld. But does it continue to offer a compelling story? Let’s take a look at the second instalment!

The Paradise: Bengaluru court bars review bombing of Nani-starrer ahead of release

We’ve watched enough TV drama pilots by now that we can almost feel it coming: the big, shocking plot twist at the very end of the pilot that Changes Everything and leaves us dying to see the next episode to find out what happens next. (Well, the networks hope so, anyway.) NBC’s new drama “Line…

Reviewing Madden NFL 27 on Switch 2 is weird. For one, this is the first time since the Wii that Madden has come out on a Nintendo system in consecutive years. It’s also the second time around for the game to hit a new console. The novelty factor has worn off. I’m still interested in…

EA Sports FC 27 from EA Vancouver and EA Romania continues the effort to win over fans on a global stage.