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Game of Thrones is perilously close to turning the Targaryens into the Sith

Game of Thrones is perilously close to turning the Targaryens into the Sith

As Warner Bros. relentlessly expands the Game of Thrones franchise into new territories, from an epic-scale stage play to as many as three animated...

06.03.2026 4

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George R.R. Martin may never finish The Winds of Winter. Read his best standalone novel instead.

08.02.2026 6

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The Iron Lung movie is scarier than critics claim — and it should scare Hollywood, too

06.02.2026 10

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Why one-shot tabletop RPGs should start full throttle

“Okay, so you’re tied to a chair inside a run-down trailer,” the game master told me. “The woman standing in front of you punches you in the...

13.01.2026 20

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The year's biggest movies told us to eat the rich again. We still aren't listening.

There’s a familiar theme running through a lot of 2025’s genre movies, including its biggest box-office hits. It's an idea that stretches all the...

31.12.2025 8

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

23.12.2025 10

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Bring back the coolest animated series (and coolest animated sword) of 1981

09.12.2025 4

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Bring back the coolest vampire cartoon of 1980

03.12.2025 10

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Let Keanu Reeves smile more

03.11.2025 7

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Weapons ends exactly where it needed to end

12.08.2025 10

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Why you need to watch Weapons with the biggest audience possible

07.08.2025 9

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Fantastic Four: First Steps has an Eternals problem in Doctor Doom

Before Marvel Studios’ widely derided movie Eternals hit theaters, it faced a range of challenges. It came shortly after 2019’s massive Phase 3...

03.08.2025 10

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Together fixes horror movies’ worst cliché in a supremely creepy way

03.08.2025 8

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Where was Doctor Doom during Fantastic Four: First Steps, and is that an Eternals problem?

Before Marvel Studios’ widely derided movie Eternals hit theaters, it faced a range of challenges. It came shortly after 2019’s massive Phase 3...

31.07.2025 40

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Scarlett Johansson’s Jurassic World Rebirth hero mode is smarter and sneakier than it looks

Jurassic Park Rebirth does pretty much what fans of the franchise expect, and seem to want: Director Gareth Edwards ( Rogue One: A Star Wars Story , ...

10.07.2025 4

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Incredibles 3’s new director raises some early concerns about where Pixar is headed

The Hollywood Reporter broke the news Tuesday that Pixar Animation Studios is going through with a new sequel to 2004’s The Incredibles, but that...

12.06.2025 7

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Mission: Impossible was an origin story for Ethan Hunt’s superpower: a really good grip

If you watch all the Mission: Impossible movies in order, a clear connecting narrative emerges. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), a patriotic, idealistic...

29.05.2025 8

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Bring back the coolest animated series (and coolest animated sword) of 1981

Back in 2010, when Cartoon Network first announced its plan to reboot the beloved 1985 animated TV series Thundercats, the first thought that went...

23.05.2025 6

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Oh thank Yoda, Andor didn’t fridge Bix after all

From the beginning of season 2 of Andor , I was angry on behalf of Bix Caleen. Adria Arjona’s character on the show spent a lot of the season...

17.05.2025 2

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A Minecraft Movie’s ‘Chicken jockey!’ meme makes me miss GentleMinions

Part of the fun of cultural acceleration is that it’s now possible to feel nostalgia about things that happened as little as a few months ago. These...

11.04.2025 4

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Don’t think of Better Man as a music biopic — it’s a must-see fantasy spectacle

For American audiences, at least, the movie musical Better Man is a fairly hard sell. It’s an odd-sounding project — a music biopic with the...

12.01.2025 10

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What If…? is at its best and worst in its most comedic episode

An ongoing problem throughout Marvel Studios’ animated multiverse show What If…? comes from the baffling way many of its episodes are framed. Each...

08.01.2025 9

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