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Joker: Folie à Deux: The Kotaku Review
4.10.2024
It’s been five years since Todd Phillips’ Joker gave us a bleak, ultra-realistic take on the iconic comic book villain. Set in a seedy 1980s version of Gotham, Joker’s nihilism touched on contemporary issues such as political divides, wealth disparity, and social isolation, which only intensified...
Joker: Folie À Deux Is Getting Panned As An Okay Musical And A Very Bad Movie
4.10.2024
Director Todd Phillips’ 2019 Joker seemingly hit the box office at just the right time, weaving between the late Trump years and the breakout of the global pandemic and cashing in on post-Avengers: Endgame MCU exhaustion. This time around, nothing seems to be going Joker: Folie à Deux’s way. Also...
One Of The Best Vampire Movies Ever Is Almost Impossible To Watch Right Now
3.10.2024
“It’s one of the greatest vampire movies ever made,” director, writer, and actor Kevin Smith said about Near Dark in a recent interview with Kotaku. Yet the 1986 vampire western from then-unknown director Kathryn Bigelow is nearly impossible to watch in 2024, and that’s a damn shame. Read more
New Rugrats Movie Sounds Like Absolute Nightmare Fuel
2.10.2024
A new report says that Paramount has greenlit a live-action/CGI hybrid adaption of the classic Nickelodeon cartoon Rugrats from the ‘90s. Are you ready for this horrible cinematic nightmare?Read more
The Megalopolis Discourse Is, Appropriately, Mega Weird
30.9.2024
Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s modern epic starring Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Nathalie Emmanuel and more, released just a few days ago and it’s already being dubbed a “box office bomb” and sparking a ton of internet conversations about Hollywood, risky movies, and more.Read more
Every Movie In The Batman Universe, Ranked From Worst To Best
30.9.2024
Some call Batman the “Caped Crusader,” while others call him Christian Bale, Kevin Conroy, Michael Keaton…In his 85-year-long tenure as a sulky billionaire with wings, Batman has found the time to be a generous movie star, so today we honor him by ranking notable movies set in the Batman universe....
A Big Moment In Digimon History Is Coming To Blu-Ray, And It’s Up For Pre-Order
17.9.2024
2000’s Digimon: The Movie is notorious for its complicated development, incredible ska and punk soundtrack, and the decades of memes that it spawned. Looking back at scenes like the giant, yoked-up rabbit Wendigomon dancing to Smash Mouth’s “All Star” is a bizarre, time capsule of a moment in anime...
Behold The Latest Massive Lego Star Wars Set: A $500 Jabba's Barge
17.9.2024
Lego is back with another big, beefy Star Wars set and this time its Jabba’s Barge. The desert sea sci-fi yacht, envy of all of Tatooine, features almost 4,000 pieces and comes with a hefty price tag of $500. More expensive than a lot of Lego sets but still not as much as a PS5 Pro. Read more
Donald Glover Says Star Wars Can Be 'Too Serious', Wants Lando Movie To Be 'Fun'
17.9.2024
Donald Glover’s long-in-development Lando Calrissian Star Wars project continues to move along, and while we don’t know much about it, we do know one thing: It won’t be “super serious.” Read more
Jason Momoa Was 'Really Mad And Yelling' On Minecraft Movie Set According To YouTube Streamer Valkyrae
17.9.2024
A Minecraft Movie revealed itself to the world earlier this month with actor Jason Momoa in a bubble gum leather jacket and a trailer that looked pretty bad. New gossip from the set of the movie also suggests there were some toxic moments lurking beneath the vibrant green screens.Read more
Sonic Fans Might Want To Go See The New Transformers Movie On Day One
16.9.2024
Transformers One wasn’t even on my radar before this morning. I’ve seen a few of the Michael Bay films but the Transformers craze mostly passed me by as a child. Even when Overwatch 2 had its collaboration with the series I was unmoved despite over a thousand hours in that game. But Paramount...
Someone Recreated Stardew Valley Using 75,000 Lego Bricks
13.9.2024
A massive Lego recreation of Stardew Valley’s Pelican Town won the “People’s Choice” award at BrickCon 2024. But according to the person behind this incredible piece of Lego art, the best moment of the event was when Stardew Valley’s creator stopped by to take a look at the brick-built village....
These Horror Movie Children Keep Us Up At Night
13.9.2024
Much like terrifying alien births, creepy children are a horror movie staple. There’s something about the juxtaposition between their tiny innocence and their menacing actions that is very unsettling—whether they are possessed by something supernatural or just born that way. Read more
Transformers One: The Kotaku Review
12.9.2024
Maybe ten minutes into Transformers One, the computer-animated prequel to the entire existing saga of Hasbro’s robots in disguise, Scarlett Johansson’s focused mining manager Elita says to Chris Hemsworth’s idealistic worker Orion Pax, “You don’t have the touch or the power.” It’s a clunky, forced...
The Best Game And Movie Jokes About Last Night’s Presidential Debate
11.9.2024
If you watched the U.S. presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump on September 10, I apologize for the psychic damage you suffered alongside the rest of us. If you didn’t actually sit down and watch it, you probably have heard a lot of wild quotes...
Persona 3 Reload - Episode Aigis: The Answer: The Kotaku Review
9.9.2024
As a “definitive” edition of the phenomenal 2006 RPG, 2024’s Persona 3 Reload was lacking in a few key features like the 2009 PSP port’s female protagonist route. Still, perhaps the most egregious omission was the lack of The Answer, the meaty, playable epilogue that was included in the 2007...
Star Wars Outlaws Is Simultaneously Astounding And Busted, The Minecraft Movie Knows Its Audience, And More Of The Week's Takes
7.9.2024
This week saw the release of Astro Bot, a delightful game that pays tribute to the rich history of PlayStation. It also, inadvertently, highlights the dearth of new games and franchises really worth celebrating from the PS5 era. Also, Star Wars Outlaws is a game with a staggering gulf between...
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Is Too Much Nostalgia And Too Little Substance
6.9.2024
Nostalgia has been the driving force behind so many recently released movies, with sequels, prequels, reboots and remakes of films that we love from the past dominating theaters in the last several years. From Ghostbusters to Indiana Jones, Scream to Spider-Man, Twister to Deadpool, It feels like...
The Internet Reacts To The Minecraft Movie’s Divisive Teaser Trailer
5.9.2024
The first official trailer for the live-action Minecraft movie—which is annoyingly titled A Minecraft Movie—has finally been released. On September 4, Warner Bros. posted what it called a teaser for the movie to social media and the film distributor’s YouTube channel. Starring Jack Black and Jason...
Sorry, The Minecraft Movie Isn't Meant To Be For You
5.9.2024
As the Minecraft movie trailer broke yesterday afternoon, the internet was immediately abuzz with cynicism and disappointment, as adults across the world simultaneously expressed one thought: “Who is this film even for?” What almost every single one of them forgot is that they’re...