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 leading man replaced by a CG chimp, built around the career of an international superstar and former boy-band member who’s never really broken through in the States. Americans don’t share the […]
I hope someone has the balls to import this Pixar-style animated musical about sperm
This report comes from Fantastic Fest 2024, the annual genre film festival in Austin, Texas. We’ll have more reports from the ground throughout the fest. Immediately before Fantastic Fest’s late-night screening of Norway’s animated musical Spermageddon, the fest employee introducing it described it as “the most midnight movie that ever midnighted.” It’s an accurate summary: […]
Garth Nix’s Dungeons & Dragons fandom is all over his upcoming alien-invasion book
Fantasy author Garth Nix isn’t primarily known for his connection to Dungeons & Dragons, but it’s something geeky journalists can’t stop asking him about. Best known as the author of the Old Kingdom YA novels (Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, and more), Nix has also written everything from children’s picture books to adult short fiction — and articles […]
Inside Out 2 ruins one of Inside Out’s best gags — and it’s no big deal
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Where were the new emotions during Inside Out? It honestly isn’t worth all the Anger
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Who is Furiosa’s equivalent of the Doof Warrior?
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We all need another weird, weird hero
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The best movies of 2024 so far
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The year is off to a great start at the movies
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The Contestant, like a real life Oldboy, might be the year’s scariest documentary
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How a Japanese comedian sealed naked in a room for more than a year helped shape reality TV
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6 things to know before watching Zendaya’s new sports movie Challengers
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Post-credits scene status, relevant rules of tennis, and why it’s worth watching
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Civil War stuns in the least likely ways imaginable
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Alex Garland lets politics play in the background of an action drama that lives in the moment
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We need to talk about the ending of All of Us Strangers
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Polygon Court is in session again, as we debate conflicting takes on the movie’s finale
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