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I Think I Might Be More Excited for the New Lego Star Wars Game Than I Am for Jedi: Fallen Order

Don’t get me wrong, Respawn’s action-packed new Star Wars game looks fine. But there’s something to be said about the charm of the Lego Star Wars games that is just a lot more appealing than another story of another surviving Jedi in the Rise of the Empire (even if said Jedi just so happens to…

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Mattel’s Comic-Con Batman Exclusives Include Some Very Colorful Action Figures

Oh sure, there are other parts of Mattel’s Dark Knight-themed exclusives for San Diego Comic-Con. But do you really need convincing beyond the return of the Technicolor dreamboat that is Rainbow Batman? io9 can exclusively reveal two of Mattel’s exclusive bits of DC merchandise for the rapidly incoming San Diego Comic-Con, which will be tempting…

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Part of Dark Phoenix‘s Box Office Failure Might Be Thanks to…Alita: Battle Angel?

In the sort of nerdy debate over who would win between the cosmic fury of the Phoenix Force and a cyborg warrior from Mars, you never thought the answer “whichever was backed by James Cameron” would be the deciding factor. And yet, here we potentially are? The aggressively mediocre Dark Phoenix only did half of…

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Updates From Godzilla vs. Kong, Toy Story 4, and More

The Candyman remake wants to tackle toxic fandoms. Meet Christina Hendrick’s new Toy Story 4 villain. Plus, watch Tom Holland and Chris Hemsworth goof off about Far From Home and Men in Black: International, what’s to come on Fear the Walking Dead, and more. Spoilers get! Candyman In a recent interview with Deadline, Monkeypaw Creative…

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Retsuko’s Gonna Have It All (Or at Least Try To) in the New Aggretsuko Season 2 Trailer

And if she doesn’t? Well, at least we know how she’ll blow off steam. Netflix just dropped a brief new teaser for the rapidly incoming second season of the delightful Sanrio animated series Aggretsuko, chronicling the latest adventures of the adorable, death metal-loving Red Panda who channels her workplace rage into cathartic karaoke sessions. Retsuko’s…

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Watching Gwyneth Paltrow Realize in Real Time She Was in Spider-Man: Homecoming Is the Delight You Need This Friday

You know how it is, in between days of shilling scientifically dubious lifestyle methods to women and filming cameos for Marvel movie after Marvel movie. They all blur together to the point that you just don’t have a clue where you’ll eventually show up. That’s where Gwyneth Paltrow found herself during the first episode of…

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Jungle Cruise Director Jaume Collet-Serra Could Reunite With Dwayne Johnson on Black Adam

It must have been a very good cruise. Variety reports that The Shallows’ Jaume Collet-Serra—who of course just completed production on Disney’s Jungle Cruise movie with Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt—has entered negotiations to direct Black Adam, the Johnson/DC Comics project the former wrestler-turned-movie star has been the lone torchbearer for, for what feels like…

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The Wild World Set Up By King of the Monsters‘ Ending Is the Stuff of Michael Dougherty’s Dreams

Godzilla: King of the Monsters is very often a bonkers movie, in ways that are both good and not-so-good. I mean, it is about giant monsters smashing each other’s faces in, so that’s to be expected—but the intriguing status quo it leaves in the wake of that mad carnage has some great potential. It’s also…

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Updates From Birds of Prey, Stranger Things, and More

The team behind To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is tackling Lauren Oliver’s clone YA adventure Replica. Famke Janssen is open to returning to Jean Grey. Kristen Bell will go behind the camera for The Good Place’s fourth season. Plus, what’s to come on iZombie, and Cary Elwes hypes up Stranger Things’ return. Spoilers…

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Tom Holland Teases an Intriguing Detail About Far From Home‘s Gigantic Villains

Jason Blum drops some cheeky hints about Halloween’s future. Sophie Turner and Jessica Chastain discuss the fluidity of Dark Phoenix’s script. The Halo TV show, like every other TV show, wants to be the next Game of Thrones. Plus, new footage from Men in Black: International, and what’s to come on The Handmaid’s Tale. Spoilers…

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The Idea Behind Russell T Davies’ New Dystopian Drama Was Almost a Torchwood Ending

Russell T Davies’ new drama series Years and Years is based on an idea the writer has had for decades. He’d always imagined it to be its own project, but when trying to find an ending to Torchwood’s third season, the miniseries Children of Earth, there was a brief moment when his long-gestating idea almost…

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This Week’s Game-Changing Walking Dead Comic Marks the End of an Era

The Walking Dead has been around for so long at this point—on screen and on comic book shelves—that you can almost count on one hand the remaining elements of the series that were there from the very beginning and are still enduring what came after the zombie apocalypse. But this week’s issue reveals one of…

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More Hints for What to Expect From Robert Pattinson’s Batman

Benedict Wong offers a Doctor Strange 2 update. Mystique raises a good point about the X-Men in new Dark Phoenix footage. See Peter Parker build his new Far From Home suit. Plus, a new clip from Toy Story 4, teases for The Good Place’s return, and sad news for Happy! and Deadly Class. To me,…

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Watch Rick and Morty Shill for Justin Roiland’s New Game and Let the Metatextual Crisis Melt Your Brain

Rick and Morty traffics in metatexual, multiversal nonsense with the regularity of a human breathing air. But this new skit advertising co-creator Justin Roiland’s new, not-Rick-and-Morty-but-might-as-well-be video game just takes it to a whole new level. Roiland’s Trover Saves the Universe—a comedy video game in which the player teams up with the titular monster after…

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‘The Faceless Ones’ Is the Next Missing Part of Doctor Who History

Slowly but surely, the BBC has started plugging in the missing pieces of Doctor Who’s history—and while it was only recently we got to see another part of that history restored, we already know what gap it’s filling in next. The BBC has announced that “The Faceless Ones”—the eighth serial in Doctor Who’s fourth season,…

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Watch Krysten Ritter Kick Ass in Front of—and Behind—Jessica Jones‘ Camera

Jessica Jones’ third season isn’t just the final farewell of both Alias Investigations and the Marvel-Netflix partnership at large, it’s an interesting evolution for star Krysten Ritter, who found herself stepping up to direct an episode for the first time. As this new featurette shows, it’s clear she had a blast. Netflix has dropped a…

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Jurassic World 3 Could Bring Back Even More Familiar Faces

Get a look at Amazon’s fantastical new series Carnival Row. Toy Story 4 adds some puntastic comedy legends. David Dastmalchian teases the faithfulness of Dune. Plus, a new look at Jungle Cruise, teases for Agents of SHIELD’s most repeated reunion, and the return of Two Sentence Horror Stories. Behold, Spoilers! Jurassic World 3 Speaking with…

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RIP Paul Darrow, Blake’s 7‘s Unlikely, Sardonic ‘Hero’

Paul Darrow, beloved for his turn as Kerr Avon in the cult British sci-fi series Blake’s 7, has passed away after a short illness at the age of 78. Darrow was known for turns in everything from Law & Order UK, to The Legend of Robin Hood, and of course to classic Doctor Who—appearing not…

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The New Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Trailer Is Creepy as Hell

I’ll take a “Nope,” with a side order of “absolutely not,” and a “no way in hell” to go, please and thank you. CBS Films and Lionsgate have dropped a new trailer for André Øvredal’s adaptation of the classic kid’s horror novel series, and… well, let’s just say a new generation of youngsters should be…

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One of Good Omens‘ Best Additions Was an Excuse to Give David Tennant and Michael Sheen More to Do

The Good Omens TV show is a delightful adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s beloved novel—retaining all of its charms while effectively parceling out the book into six neat chunks of TV. But it goes beyond that by adding some wonderful elements to the original, including a grand sequence mainly born out of giving…

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I Think I Might Be More Excited for the New Lego Star Wars Game Than I Am for Jedi: Fallen Order

Mattel’s Comic-Con Batman Exclusives Include Some Very Colorful Action Figures

Part of Dark Phoenix‘s Box Office Failure Might Be Thanks to…Alita: Battle Angel?

Updates From Godzilla vs. Kong, Toy Story 4, and More

Retsuko’s Gonna Have It All (Or at Least Try To) in the New Aggretsuko Season 2 Trailer

Watching Gwyneth Paltrow Realize in Real Time She Was in Spider-Man: Homecoming Is the Delight You Need This Friday

Jungle Cruise Director Jaume Collet-Serra Could Reunite With Dwayne Johnson on Black Adam

The Wild World Set Up By King of the Monsters‘ Ending Is the Stuff of Michael Dougherty’s Dreams

Updates From Birds of Prey, Stranger Things, and More

Tom Holland Teases an Intriguing Detail About Far From Home‘s Gigantic Villains

The Idea Behind Russell T Davies’ New Dystopian Drama Was Almost a Torchwood Ending

This Week’s Game-Changing Walking Dead Comic Marks the End of an Era

More Hints for What to Expect From Robert Pattinson’s Batman

Watch Rick and Morty Shill for Justin Roiland’s New Game and Let the Metatextual Crisis Melt Your Brain

‘The Faceless Ones’ Is the Next Missing Part of Doctor Who History

Watch Krysten Ritter Kick Ass in Front of—and Behind—Jessica Jones‘ Camera

Jurassic World 3 Could Bring Back Even More Familiar Faces

RIP Paul Darrow, Blake’s 7‘s Unlikely, Sardonic ‘Hero’

The New Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Trailer Is Creepy as Hell

One of Good Omens‘ Best Additions Was an Excuse to Give David Tennant and Michael Sheen More to Do

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

Scientists Found a Weird New Way to Wash Fruits and Vegetables

White House’s Mysterious ‘Covfefe Moment’ Was Stupider Than We Imagined

Gym Bros Are Pushing Mystery Muscle Drugs Doctors Barely Recognize, Study Warns

The Head of HBO Explains What it Takes to Get a ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff Going

Elon Musk’s Lawyer Claims Jury’s 420 ‘Joke’ Proves He Didn’t Receive a Fair Trial

‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Is a Genre Blending Delight

Leaked Anthropic Model Presents ‘Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks,’ Much to Pentagon’s Pleasure

Don’t miss out: Bitdefender, One of the World’s Best Antiviruses, Is Now on Sale

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees