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Let Mark Wahlberg's terrible horror movie unite your family this holiday season

Let Mark Wahlberg's terrible horror movie unite your family this holiday season

Different people want different things from a holiday movie. Some want a cozy story that’s expressly about the spirit of the holiday and what it...

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Tasha Robinson

The Mighty Nein has already surpassed Legend of Vox Machina as Critical Role's best show

The Mighty Nein has already surpassed Legend of Vox Machina as Critical Role's best show

Critical Role took a huge swing with 2022’s The Legend of Vox Machina , adapting their ultra-popular Dungeons & Dragons campaign into an animated...

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Aimee Hart

Hideo Kojima's new favorite manga is a must-read for Metal Gear fans

Hideo Kojima's new favorite manga is a must-read for Metal Gear fans

Hideo Kojima loves a good sniper, especially if they’re female. His Metal Gear Solid franchise features 2, Sniper Wolf and Quiet, plus The End if...

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Isaac Rouse

15 under-the radar games you may have missed in 2025

15 under-the radar games you may have missed in 2025

The truth about Game of the Year season is that it’s near-impossible to consider everything. No list could ever be thorough enough. No ranking...

21.12.2025 1

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Giovanni Colantonio

5 years later, Christopher Nolan's most divisive movie is better than you remember

5 years later, Christopher Nolan's most divisive movie is better than you remember

Christopher Nolan, the director behind the Dark Knight trilogy and science fiction epics like Inception and Interstellar, nearly always hits a...

20.12.2025 2

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Austin Manchester

Avatar: Fire and Ash has a Death Star problem

Avatar: Fire and Ash has a Death Star problem

Here’s a useless piece of trivia: Out of the 11 canonical Star Wars movies, eight feature the Death Star in one way or another. There’s the...

20.12.2025 1

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Jake Kleinman

Arc Raiders opened the floodgates for extraction shooters in 2025

Arc Raiders opened the floodgates for extraction shooters in 2025

Let's get one thing straight: Arc Raiders was not the first extraction shooter. Escape From Tarkov is often credited with the founding of the...

20.12.2025 3

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Ford James

We are not ready for how much worse video game prices will spiral out of control thanks to AI

We are not ready for how much worse video game prices will spiral out of control thanks to AI

A couple of months ago, OpenAI signed a deal with two top memory chip producers in an effort to power the tech company's massive, state-sanctioned...

19.12.2025 2

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Patricia Hernandez

If you loved Dust Bunny and Hannibal, try out Bryan Fuller’s overlooked grim reaper show

If you loved Dust Bunny and Hannibal, try out Bryan Fuller’s overlooked grim reaper show

Bryan Fuller is a master of mixing horror, fantasy, and black comedy. After working in television for decades, Fuller’s feature film directorial...

19.12.2025 2

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Aimee Hart

Avatar has eclipsed Star Wars as a blockbuster family saga

Avatar has eclipsed Star Wars as a blockbuster family saga

James Cameron’s high-tech magnum opus Avatar is now a trilogy. The sequels The Way of Water and Fire and Ash have turned the story of ex-soldier...

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Jesse Hassenger

Avatar's incredible pee-break joke is actually the worst time to pee

Avatar's incredible pee-break joke is actually the worst time to pee

When’s the best time to pee during an Avatar movie? The question has been asked by movie-goers since the dawn of time — and dinosaurs didn’t...

19.12.2025 7

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Matt Patches

2025 was the year the bottom fell out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

2025 was the year the bottom fell out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

In the summer of 2025, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige summoned a group of journalists to his office for an uncharacteristically unvarnished...

19.12.2025 2

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Jake Kleinman

Expedition 33's Game Awards sweep fuels online drama and conspiracy theories

Expedition 33's Game Awards sweep fuels online drama and conspiracy theories

If you've seen Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 content on TikTok in the days since its historic sweep at The Game Awards, you might have noticed...

17.12.2025 4

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Patricia Hernandez