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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...
[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...
The universe of The Lord of the Rings is extremely complicated. There are Valar and Maiar, magic trees everywhere, ambiguously powerful rings, and at...
Fede Álvarez may have been the perfect director to refresh the Alien film franchise. His movie Alien: Romulus is incredibly well shot, with the...
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...
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...
Streaming is taking yet another step toward cable. Just weeks after combining its Hulu and Disney Plus services, Disney Plus is adding streaming...
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...
Denis Villeneuve’s planned trilogy of Dune movies is unmistakably focused on telling the story of Paul Atreides, as played by Timothée Chalamet....
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 —...
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...
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...
In the early days of the streaming wars, library content seemed to be king. Peacock holding onto the rights of extraordinarily valuable parent-company...
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...