But it’s an uphill battle for something like Fullmetal Alchemist, especially when the property in question is such a beloved series. Fullmetal Alchemist (and Fullmetal Alchemist : Brotherhood) is considered by many to be one of the best anime of all time. Fumihiko Sori’s film adaptation isn’t a complete success, but there are moments where the movie is pure magic. Sori taps into the spirit and wondrous feeling of the anime and it’s clear that he is a fan of the source material, which is paramount for a project of this nature....

“This is an exciting day at GameStop,” says GameStop CEO, George Sherman. “Since joining the company last April, we have been on a mission to evolve our strategy to take advantage of our undisputed leadership position in gaming.” Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox, also weighed in on the deal by noting that “GameStop has been a strong go-to-market partner for our gaming products” and that Microsoft is “excited about continuing and evolving that relationship for the launch of the Xbox Series X|S....

Glass has arrived and with it comes the resolution to a 19-year-old story, bringing to a close auteur M. Night Shyamalan‘s epic on the birth, life, and death of superheroes. Most importantly, Glass answers many of our most burning questions about the saga’s main characters: What did David Dunn (Bruce Willis) do with his newfound power after the credits rolled in Unbreakable? Where did Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) spend his days after that shocking twist?...

The comedic horror thriller was such a surprise success that Blumhouse Productions, the company behind this and many other genre hits, immediately fast-tracked a sequel called Happy Death Day 2U. Directed again by Christopher Landon (who also wrote the script) and featuring the return of Rothe and fellow cast members Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Phi Vu and others, Happy Death Day 2U takes the previously unexplained time loop of the first film and puts a sci-fi spin on it that involves parallel universes and more ethical and personal choices for Tree to unsnarl....

HBO Max’s list of releases for April 2022 features three hotly anticipated seasons of television. The Flight Attendant, which helped launch HBO Max as a viable spot for good dramedy in 2020, premieres its second season on April 21. That will be followed by another go-around for the sci-fi comedy Made for Love on April 28. Of course, the big ticket item this month is something that HBO Max inherited from its cable cousin....

The original Hellraiser (1987), written and directed by Clive Barker, is forever a classic horror hall-of-famer. It centers around a mysterious puzzle box that, when used, summons the Cenobites— a sadistic group of hell dwellers who take pleasure in torturing their unfortunate summoner for eternity. This new Hellraiser film will be the 11th installment of the franchise. “I think a lot of things are going to hit just a little bit different,” says Bruckner....

So it’s unsurprising to spot countless clever grownup references to classic TV and films dotted throughout Hey Duggee’s four series, from the subtle to the downright uncanny. In fact, it becomes rather addictive to look out for them, so we’ve listed a few of the best ones here: Apocalypse Now and The African Queen (The River Badge) In The River Badge, the Squirrels help Duggee deliver a package at the other end of the river, travelling by boat....

In His Dark Materials season two opener ‘The City of Magpies’, Lyra and Will find themselves in a new land. Cittàgazze is deserted but for a group of children left to fend for themselves after their parents came under attack. Some adults fled the city but others were caught by the Spectres, who drained them of the spark of life and turned them into blank-faced automatons, like the man Lyra and sees numbly and absently refilling a water jug in a city square....

“Now is the winter of our discontent.” Those are the first words in William Shakespeare’s Richard III, the Bard’s most infamous “history” play and a continued source of inspiration for everything from House of Cards to Game of Thrones. Aye, George R.R. Martin’s beloved “A Song of Ice and Fire” text, and the HBO series it spawned, are obsessed with Richard, both as the Shakespearean fiend who basked at his own wickedness and in the historical personage that many students of history, including Martin, think got a raw deal....

Films like Batman Begins and Constantine brought more adult stories from the comics to the big screen prior to 300, but they didn’t look like comics come to life like 300 did. The imagery bears an uncanny resemblance to Frank Miller and Lynn Varley’s artwork in the original book, and at times it’s essentially a panel-by-panel recreation of the graphic novel. In 2007, the film married beauty and brutality in a way audiences hadn’t quite seen before....

That leads to the biggest difference between the Marvel Animated Universe and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. When it came to the latter, the real beginning came from the Avengers brand name. Nick Fury appearing at the end of Iron Man to discuss the Avengers Initiative was a sign of what these movies were promising while the first Avengers movie was not only a finish line to the movies before it, but it was also the moment that spring-boarded Marvel’s film universe into the stratosphere....

Much of the pre-release hype for the new Marvel series Loki has centered around the idea that Loki himself — after using the Tesseract in Avengers: Endgame to escape punishment for the events of The Avengers and vaulting himself into a whole new timeline — would skip through history in his new solo show. Presumably he would find himself in different historical periods, perhaps even influencing world events in ways we can’t begin to imagine....

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is the title that this most intriguing of projects will brandish. The feature, a studio collaboration between New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Animation, will see veteran anime director Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045, Cyborg 009: Call of Justice) tackle the Tolkien-crafted story of Helm Hammerhand himself. The King of Rohan, who lived during Middle-earth’s Third Age from the year 2691 to 2759, was portrayed as a mythical figure whose wartime deeds still inspired the kingdom even centuries later, in the year 3019, when the Battle of Helm’s Deep took place....

Control studio Remedy Entertainment recently asked how exactly Capcom’s latest superstar stands up against The Former, while Bandai Namco claimed it did the “tall lady” first. Meanwhile, Xbox humbly confirmed that Lady Dimitrescu is taller than the Series X fridge, and developer Ninja Theory wondered whether it should make some tweaks to Senua’s height for Hellblade II. In short, the internet’s beloved “Vampire Lady” has made her way into every corner of the internet at this point, short of donning a Mario hat and taking on Nintendo’s finest in Smash (although I bet someone’s making that meme as we speak)....

However, the common complaint that the Oscars never change is misleading. While there are, for better and worse, certain types of drama and aesthetics the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences favors, the Academy has changed and changed again in the 21st century. One could even speculate the embrace of retro dude-bro movies is in response to the Academy’s current state of transition. After all, The Dark Knight couldn’t get a Best Picture nod 11 years ago, and now Joker is the most celebrated Oscar contender of 2020....

Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan (1998) is known for a number of things: the gut-wrenching, visceral terror of its battle scenes (especially the opening landing at Omaha Beach), the shocking way in which bodies are torn to pieces during the course of those battles, the attention to period detail, and a powerful performance by Tom Hanks that rates as one of his finest. But one thing that the film may not be as widely recognized for is the lineup of young actors who played members of Capt....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe doesn’t exactly have a great track record with female characters. There, I said it. Because despite the fact that these films feature some of Marvel Comics’ most recognizable women in Natasha Romanoff, Carol Danvers, Gamora, Janet Van Dyne, and Jane Foster, too many of these characters are often still stuck languishing on the sidelines, serving as love interests or plot devices, and sometimes both, if they’re lucky....

To set the stage going into Reign of X, we’ve decided to lay out some of the big questions asked in X of Swords (and by the Reign of X teaser image you see at the top of the page). WHAT HAPPENED IN X OF SWORDS? X of Swords was primarily three stories: Betsy Braddock’s journey towards fully becoming Captain Britain; Saturnyne trying to get Betsy to accept being Captain Britain (and trying to nail her brother Brian, the previous Captain Britain); and the payoff to the Krakoa/Arakko schism first introduced in Powers of X....

In I Care A lot, Pike plays Marla Grayson, a woman who works as a professional guardian and exploits loopholes in the legal system to extort money and property from her wards. She’s a beast in a sharp suit. This isn’t the first time Pike has played a monstrous and manipulative woman with an icy exterior. 2014’s Gone Girl saw her win accolades and awards (including an Oscar nomination) for her portrayal of Amy Dunne, the “cool girl” who fakes going missing with a view to framing her husband (Ben Affleck) for her murder, having him executed, and then killing herself....

At New York Comic Con, I got the opportunity to sit down with Seeley to discuss the crossover. It was a good time. You should have been there. Well, bye. ……… Den of Geek: I have to get it out of my system and ask: I say, hey, what’s going on? Seeley: It’s so weird to me that that’s the thing everyone remembers about Masters of the Universe. It was one of the first memes, really....