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Looking back on 2021’s Mortal Kombat, I’m still blown away by how much fun that movie turned out to be. I’m not the only fan who feels that way, especially as we reckon with how, if the 2025 fall movie schedule held fast, we would have seen Mortal Kombat II landing in theaters this month. The
Warning: massive spoilers for Tron: Ares are in play. If you think the Tron series isn't a dense environment of lore, you've been playing the wrong game, Program. Now that Ares is loading up in theaters, some questions about Disney’s sci-fi legacy have been answered. As if that wasn’t enough,
The Grid: a digital frontier. Since 1982, Walt Disney Pictures has made select detours into the world of Tron, always bringing a new twist to the table when it’s time to play. Almost 15 years after its predecessor reintroduced the franchise to audiences at large, Tron: Ares has finally given the
You can just tell when a creative force like Guillermo del Toro is working with a collaborative force they love. The filmmaker’s partnership with Netflix is one of those connections, as his creative freedom with the streamer turned studio has yielded impressive results. As we prepare to see the
It used to be that if you wanted to see Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, you needed to cross your fingers, pray to a carton of Red Apple Cigarettes, and be within spitting distance of the New Beverly Theatre. For years, I was taunted by the fact that LA-based friends could actually see the
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Getting Daniel-Day Lewis to come out of retirement isn't something anyone thought was possible. Then again, judging by how the actor has framed his previous announcement after 2018s' Phantom Thread, he never meant to give anyone the impression that he'd officially called it quits. What cannot be
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
Who could've guessed that a film about a stinky fisherwoman and a wicker husband would end up being one of the most romantic movies of the year? For all its vulgarity and absurdity, Wicker weaves a surprisingly sincere, shockingly sweet fable of against-all-odds love and a dismantling critique of
Few studios have set such a precedent within their own genre quite like Laika Studios. With each painstakingly crafted story, they consistently find new ways to level up stop motion animation and push the limits of what can be accomplished. Stop motion is already a marvelous feat of patience and
