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io9MoviesStar Wars
Star Wars Goes Hunting With New Online Arena Combat Game
Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Padmé had to fight their way out of an arena in Attack of the Clones, and now fans will have a chance to go wild in a Star Wars arena of their own. Coming later this year to Nintendo Switch (and iOS and Android) is a new game called Star Wars: Hunters. … Continued
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io9MoviesSci-Fi
10 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Deep Cuts on HBO Max
These days there are so many streaming services, you might as well just have cable again. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney+, Peacock, the list goes on and on. While most people do not subscribe to them all, one that seems to be climbing in popularity lately is HBO Max. You might have it because you were … Continued
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io9MoviesAnimation
Tom and Jerry Will Kill Us All
No, not the upcoming movie. I mean Tom the mouse and Jerry the Cat, who will clearly unleash destruction and possibly death throughout the world if their animated forms ever break through to our material plane of existence. The Tom & Jerry movie is no longer a movie, but a PSA warning us of the … Continued
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io9MoviesSci-Fi
Fortnite Is Hosting an Animated Film Festival, Because Sure, Why Not
Hello, fellow kids! I’m hip teen Bob Ricken, here to tell you about the newest development going on over at our favorite video game, Fortnite! The game our parents just don’t understand will be hosting an honest-to-goodness film festival of animated shorts, because kids—cough, um, we kids love our cartoons, am I right? Unfortunately, these … Continued
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io9MoviesDC Universe
Batman Forever: The Retro FAQ
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and things must be desperate here because I just watched Joel Schumacher’s first Batman movie, Batman Forever. The follow-up to Tim Burton’s beloved Batman and Batman Returns was derided when it was released in 1995 as being too silly. However, recently, the even sillier sequel Batman & Robin has … Continued
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io9MoviesFantasy
5 Short Films to Distract You From the Winter Blues
Need a quick brain break? We’ve got five short films that’ll transport you out of whatever winter funk you’re currently stewing in, and show you the very human perils of outer space and social media—as well as some more-than-human tales involving superpowers and the supernatural. 1) The Wheel We’ve featured the work of Nikhil Bhagat … Continued
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io9MoviesSci-Fi
The Major Sci-Fi and Fantasy Anniversaries of Winter 2021
Let’s face it. We’re all old. Even if that’s not technically true, there’s always something a person can say or do to make you feel that way. For us, one of those things is when we realize a movie we feel an affinity for is way older than we remember it being. The best course … Continued
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io9MoviesHorror
Paranormal Activity Is Coming Paranormal Back-tivity
Six years after declaring the series as dead as Micah at the end of the first Paranormal Activity (apologies for 14-year-old spoilers), Paramount Pictures and producers Jason Blum and original writer/director Oren Peli have resurrected the franchise. The new film, which is set to release next year, will be directed by Underwater’s Will Eubank with … Continued
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io9MoviesHorror
It’s Well Past Time to Rethink ‘Auteur Theory’ and the Way Actresses Are Treated
This week, the Hollywood Reporter released a new interview with actress Shelley Duvall. To say “a rare interview” is a massive understatement. Duvall largely disappeared from the public eye in the ‘90s and stayed that way until Phil McGraw and his team of charlatans and opportunists subjected her to one of the most exploitative interviews … Continued
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io9MoviesMarvel
Captain Marvel 2 Finds Its Big Villain in Zawe Ashton
Lest you forget that Carol Danvers is up there in the MCU doing space stuff, her sequel movie is beginning to expand its cast with a big-ticket get: a mysterious new villain. Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, and Variety all report that Marvel has tapped Velvet Buzzsaw and Fresh Meat star Zawe Ashton in Nia DaCosta’s follow … Continued
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io9MoviesSci-Fi
A Glitch in the Matrix Gives Us a Glimpse at Simulation Theory History in This Devilish Clip
The latest weird documentary from Room 237 director Rodney Ascher, A Glitch in the Matrix, premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and is now in theaters and on-demand. It offers a deep dive into simulation theory, asking how we got to the point of believing that the world could very well be an artificial … Continued
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io9MoviesSci-Fi
Adam Wingard’s Not Making a Face/Off Remake—It’s a Sequel
Yesterday, it was reported that Adam Wingard (he of Godzilla vs. Kong, but also my personal favorite, You’re Next) would be helming a remake of the Nicolas Cage-John Travolta action nonsense classic, John Woo’s Face/Off. Well, like Nicolas Cage’s face on top of John Travolta’s face, all is not as it appears. Though Deadline called it … Continued
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io9MoviesReviews
Mayday Is a Circean Myth About Surviving the World’s Cruelty
The situations that bring Ana, the disoriented heroine of writer-director Karen Cinorre’s Mayday, to the movie’s remote, windswept island are as disturbing as they are integral to the movie’s message of survival. After losing herself in a storm of the world’s brutality, Ana comes to on a seemingly deserted island, unsure of what’s happened, and … Continued
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io9MoviesSci-Fi
The Most Iconic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films Streaming on HBO Max
So, you’ve got an HBO Max subscription. Maybe you got it to watch Wonder Woman 1984 and are gonna hold on to it until Godzilla vs. Kong comes out. Maybe you’ll keep it going until the fourth Matrix or the new Dune. But what can you watch in the meantime? Is there more than just … Continued
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io9MoviesDC Universe
That Justice League Meal Kit Has Turned Absolutely Inscrutable
Hey, remember that strange Justice League Snyder Cut-inspired gourmet meal kit that includes a deeply weird take on fish and chips in “honor” of Aquaman? Wonderland at Home has revealed its full menu, and things have gotten much, much weirder. There are seven dishes representing the six DC superheroes seen in the film, with the … Continued
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io9MoviesHorror
The True Monster in Silence of the Lambs, Still Rearing Its Ugly Head 30 Years Later
Clarice Starling first appeared onscreen in 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs; the 2001 feature Hannibal followed, and the CBS series Clarice debuts this week. The lead’s immediate association has always been with the killers she pursues for the FBI—but rewatchingLambs offers a reminder of a different formidable antagonist. The Silence of the Lambs, which … Continued
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io9MoviesAnimation
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Unsurprisingly Officially Titled Sonic the Hedgehog 2
The Sonic sequel has a name. Please, try not to be too surprised. This morning Paramount officially confirmed that the sequel to the actually pretty solid adaptation of Sega’s iconic blue blur will spindash into theaters next April, while revealing its new logo that is…well, basically the old one but with a 2 on it. … Continued
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io9MoviesAnimation
Netflix Is Turning the Redwall Books Into an Animated Movie and Series
In what might come as a very pleasant surprise to people who were looking forward to Disney’s now-cancelled adaptation of Mouse Guard, Netflix and Penguin Random House are stepping up to the plate to bring a new spin on Brian Jacques’ Redwall series into the world. Today, Netflix announced that it’s tapped Over the Garden Wall … Continued
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io9MoviesAnimation
Disney Is Closing Blue Sky Studios, Creators of Ice Age
The Walt Disney Company has decided to dissolve Blue Sky, one of its animation studios, starting in April. As a result, production on that studio’s 2022 releaseNimona has been cancelled. Disney absorbed Blue Sky, the studio behind hit films like Ice Age and Rio, in its 2019 acquisition of Fox. Though Disney already owned two animation studios, … Continued
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io9MoviesFantasy
The Wizard Of Oz to Get Fresh Retelling From Watchmen Director Nicole Kassell
Director Nicole Kassell will follow the Yellow Brick Road from Watchmen to the Wizard. She’s been tapped by New Line, a Warner Bros. company, to helm a fresh retelling of L. Frank Baum’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The book, which is in the public domain, was most famously the inspiration for the 1939 … Continued