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Arcane doesn’t have to give League of Legends characters the ending you expect

Arcane takes place in the world of League of Legends , but whether or not the Netflix series is a direct adaptation of its lore is a little more up...

22.11.2024 10

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Dune: Prophecy’s Desmond Hart is a bit of a conundrum (and maybe a game changer)

[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for the end of Dune: Prophecy episode 1.] In our world, most Dune lore is known. While Dune, as a story, is...

18.11.2024 10

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Rings of Power is introducing moral grayness to a series that doesn’t need it

The universe of The Lord of the Rings is extremely complicated. There are Valar and Maiar, magic trees everywhere, ambiguously powerful rings, and at...

01.09.2024 9

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Alien: Romulus is Ready Player One for the Alien universe

Fede Álvarez may have been the perfect director to refresh the Alien film franchise. His movie Alien: Romulus is incredibly well shot, with the...

21.08.2024 8

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Hugh Jackman’s performance is the one sincere thing in Deadpool & Wolverine

31.07.2024 4

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The Death Note musical fixed the anime to become the superior adaptation

Despite Death Note ’s reputation as one of the greatest anime of all time, the adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba’s manga isn’t even the best version...

16.07.2024 5

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House of the Dragon is bringing back Game of Thrones’ long travel times

Among the many infamous failings of Game of Thrones ’ last two seasons on HBO, one of the most illustrative and important to the fandom was how...

08.07.2024 9

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Disney Plus is adding channels as streaming inches ever closer back to cable

Streaming is taking yet another step toward cable. Just weeks after combining its Hulu and Disney Plus services, Disney Plus is adding streaming...

18.04.2024 30

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The dirty secret to making sci-fi believable

Over the last decade, there’s been a glut of sci-fi and fantasy series on television and streaming. With peak Game of Thrones , House of the...

17.04.2024 30

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Dune: Part Two is really Zendaya’s movie

Denis Villeneuve’s planned trilogy of Dune movies is unmistakably focused on telling the story of Paul Atreides, as played by Timothée Chalamet....

06.03.2024 10

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Tenet is back in theaters — and it’s secretly a vibes-only Christopher Nolan masterpiece

The world wasn’t ready for Tenet when it was originally released in 2020. That’s both literally true — it was the middle of the pandemic —...

23.02.2024 30

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Did Greta Gerwig get snubbed at the Oscars because Barbie is the year’s Dark Knight?

The Oscar nominations are in, and there’s something missing from the Best Director and Best Picture nominees — or is there? None of us at Polygon...

23.01.2024 10

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Robert Downey Jr. proves we didn’t run out of real movie stars, we ran out of real movies

For years now, pundits have been declaring that movie stardom is dead. Everyone from Jennifer Aniston to The New York Times seems to have agreed that...

23.01.2024 30

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Streaming exclusivity doesn’t matter anymore

In the early days of the streaming wars, library content seemed to be king. Peacock holding onto the rights of extraordinarily valuable parent-company...

14.12.2023 3

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The new Hunger Games movie makes a great case for Marvel’s year off from MCU movies

It’s been eight years since the last Hunger Games movie and, as it turns out, fans were eager to come back for more of Panem’s most brutal game...

05.12.2023 3

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