The Last Of Us ends season 1 in a tense place. The long journey of Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) hit a major snag when Joel realizes the Fireflies can only investigate Ellie's immunity to the cordyceps virus by digging into her brain, a fatal procedure. Of course, Joel lost his own
Like a host of legendary Hollywood figures (think James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Jackson, and Martin Scorsese) Alec Gillis got his Hollywood start thanks to the inimitable Roger Corman, whose mountain of cult and genre films launched the brightest stars in New Hollywood. Gillis worked
A keen audience can almost always identify when a movie isn't centering the story it really wants to tell. Madame Web, for example, is ostensibly about Dakota Johnson's clairvoyant Cassandra Webb's efforts to save three girls destined to be Spider-Women in the future. Here, however, the girls do
Early belief in unicorns has long stemmed from writings like those of the ancient ‘natural history’ chroniclers Ctesias in the 4th Century BCE or Pliny the Elder in 1st century AD. Belief in the magical beasts, described variably but always with a single horn in the middle of their foreheads,
Dan Berk and Robert Olsen have a history of making nods to body horror hybrid films. Before Novocaine, the pair's last team-up was the sci-fi horror romance Significant Other, taking nods from John Carpenter's 1982 classic The Thing for its story of an isolated couple beset by an extraterrestrial
After Parasite took the globe and the Academy by storm, the cinematic world was director Bong Joon-ho's oyster. He followed up on that excellent class-centric thriller with a surprising sci-fi comedy, Mickey 17, starring Robert Pattinson, a wild swing in equally critical but entirely novel
Onimusha: Way of the Sword is a franchise revival that feels like it understands what made the original games so much fun. The gameplay is fast, frantic, and often delightfully violent, while the game throws a surprisingly large number of systems and mechanics at you. Thankfully, most of them feel
In 1977, a series of disability rights protests took place in the United States to protest the government’s failure to sign legislation that banned discrimination against people with disabilities. This protest, which continues to be the longest sit-in at a government office, was masterminded by
The 2026 reboot of Magic Knight Rayearth shows us that friendship is quite powerful in the magic department in Ep. 4 "Our Battle". It's a lesson from My Little Pony, but it's quite applicable to this anime too. Our trio of heroines will need that power, since this is their bloodiest battle to date.