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Hades Is Life
11.1.2021
While playing through Supergiant Games’ Hades I kept asking myself, why is this game so freaking good?Read more
This Gorgeous Soul Art Tribute Was Made in Virtual Reality
10.1.2021
This tribute to Disney and Pixar’s Soul is impressive, and even moreso when you find out how it was made. Read more
Early WandaVision Impressions Suggest the Marvel Series Is as Good as It Is Weird
9.1.2021
Critics have seen the first three episodes of WandaVision, the upcoming Marvel Studios Disney+ series starring Scarlet Witch and the Vision as they take on their greatest challenge yet: the sitcom. Which means we’ve got impressions. Read more
The Rogue Squadron Pilots We Want in Patty Jenkins' Star Wars Movie
7.1.2021
In 2023, Patty Jenkins will deliver (pending future ramifications of the world in which we live) Rogue Squadron, the next major theatrical release in the Star Wars saga: a tale of the bravest squadron of pilots in the galaxy far, far away. The Rogues have a long history within canon and a longer...
Transformers Just Shook Up Its Lore in a Wild Way
6.1.2021
Transformers is a franchise that from the get-go has almost been ceaselessly fascinated with its past. The long shadow of the fabled “G1” era—from its design sensibilities to its origin deep-dives—has cast a long shadow over so much of what has come since, including Netflix’s latest re-litigation...
A Number of Disney TV Productions Delayed Amidst Surge in LA Covid Cases
3.1.2021
The Los Angeles
entertainment industry, typically a hub of Hollywood production, is once again
slowing to a halt in response to the unprecedented, basically unchecked spread
of the novel coronavirus in LA County. Read more
This Fan Animation Reimagines a Pivotal Steven Universe Moment With the Pilot's Art Style
2.1.2021
Steven Universe’s art style is characterized
by a cute, iconic sense of style. But the original draft, was seen in the
unreleased pilot, was a lot different. Not worse, mind you, but a bit less
simplified, a bit more odd. We never got to see that Steven Universe. But a new fan animation gives...
The Nerd's Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in January
28.12.2020
Viewers are turning to streaming entertainment more than ever thanks to the global pandemic, and the plethora of services can serve as a much-needed escape. At the start of each month, most streamers do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some away, and io9 is here to help with your...
Wonder Woman 1984 Has One Great Thing Going for It
28.12.2020
Wonder Woman 1984 has been quite the lightning rod since its release. On the one hand, there’s the epic scope, complex romance, rousing score, and positive messages. It also has an incredible cast including Gal Gadot, Kirsten Wiig, Chris Pine, and Pedro Pascal. On the other hand, some have...
Giancarlo Esposito Reflects on the Star Wars Influences That Made Moff Gideon
27.12.2020
Giancarlo Esposito got to play one of the more coveted roles in movie history: a Star Wars villain. Read more
The Fictional Characters, TV Shows, and Movies We Lost in 2020
23.12.2020
It was a rough year for all of us in the real world, but those fictional universes we spend so much time in didn’t get off scot-free. A lot of television shows ended their runs this year, and a lot of our favorite characters from sci-fi, fantasy, and horror took their final bows as well. Here...
Characters Who Helped Us Make It Through 2020
22.12.2020
Twenty-twenty has been a year of seeking comfort in media, both in the nostalgia of old favorites and the exciting discovery of new and excellent stories. This year, more than any recently, we’ve looked for new bonds and new characters to fall in love with. Here are the heroes who kept us going...
The Witcher's Blooper Reel Declares Henry Cavill a 'Sexy Greased Pig'
22.12.2020
Netflix has released a blooper reel for The Witcher, centered around our beloved Geralt (Henry Cavill) trying hard to keep a straight face while greased-up on a bed, flubbing his lines, and standing by while Roach takes a shit in the background. Well, the book does say “everybody poops.”Read more
How The Mandalorian's Finale Reveal Fits Into Star Wars' Timeline
21.12.2020
The Mandalorian’s season finale took Din Djarin’s small slice of the Star Wars universe and exploded it into smithereens—smithereens with much larger ties to the vast Skywalker Saga than any of us could’ve imagined when this show first started last year. But now that its adventures are inextricably...
George Clooney Still Isn't Down With the Critical Reappraisal of Batman and Robin
19.12.2020
It’s been a couple
decades, now, I think we can all just admit it: for a certain version of
Batman, Joel Schumacher’s Batman and Robin kind
of rules. A cheesy fever dream, it’s an incredible exercise in ‘90s Blockbuster
excess and the sort of Batman that fans of Adam West’s ‘60s series...
The Pop Culture Highlights and Lowlights of 2020
17.12.2020
In a year full of all kinds of bad real-world news, pop culture still managed to poke its head up periodically to remind us that not everything sucks. Of course, this being 2020, that same realm also managed to leave a few steaming piles for us to step in, too. Here are our picks for the year’s...
Our Favorite Comic Moments of 2020
16.12.2020
While 2020 posed more than its fair share of significant challenges for virtually everyone working within the entertainment industry, comics in particular stood as an example of creative teams adapting on the fly—and doing their damndest to keep telling compelling stories at a time when people...
The Star Wars Kids YouTube Channel Tries to Condense the Plot of The Rise of Skywalker Into Five Minutes
13.12.2020
Star Wars Kids does a great job of making
entertaining, accessibly bite-sized chunks of Star
Wars that are probably great for children. But this latest time they had
an unenviable task: condensing The Rise of
Skywalker, which has a… less than simple plot, into a scant five
minutes. Read more
Watch the Extended Trailer for Ark: The Animated Series, the Show Based on the Survival Video Game
12.12.2020
Starring Gerard Butler? Yeah, this is weird news, look, I’m just reading what they send me. Read more
Fantastic Four Finally Entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe and More Huge News
11.12.2020
It’s official. The Fantastic Four is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Jon Watts (Spider-Man Homecoming) will direct. And that’s only the beginning.Read more