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One Of Sonic 3’s Biggest Game References Is Hidden In Plain Sight (And Fans Are Split On It)
2.1.2025
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is heavily based on the events of the 2001 Dreamcast game Sonic Adventure 2. The live-action movie doesn’t recreate the platformer’s story beat for beat, but it introduces Sonic’s revenge-driven rival Shadow, explores villain Doctor Robotnik’s family, and the moon gets blown...
The Wonderful Wicked Movie Had Some Of Its Best Scenes Deleted
2.1.2025
Wicked, the magical movie musical phenomenon that has been taking the internet by storm for the past two months, is finally available on digital platforms. So now you can try to belt Cynthia Erivo’s “Defying Gravity” battle cry from the comfort of your own home. The digital version of the movie...
Fans Want Sonic To Be An Absolute Simp In The Fourth Movie
30.12.2024
Each live-action Sonic movie introduces another beloved character from Sega’s speedy platformers to the film universe in a post-credits scene, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is no exception. Though the new addition to Sonic’s growing family of anthropomorphic animals doesn’t have any spoken lines in...
Every Official 'Kotaku Review' Of 2024
30.12.2024
Writing a review is a tall order. Especially at a place like Kotaku, where we have a whole headline format meant to declare our “definitive” word on a game, movie, or show. It can come off as if we’re putting an authoritative stamp of approval or disapproval on whatever we’re critiquing, which...
One Of The Weirdest Movie Moments Of 2024 Happened In A Film Nobody Watched
27.12.2024
A bizarrely quiet and slightly squeaking scream in the middle of Kraven The Hunter is one of the weirdest movie moments I’ve experienced in 2024, and more people need to see it. Read more
Christopher Nolan's Next Movie Is The Odyssey As Dads Everywhere Get Hyped For Epic Mythical Action
26.12.2024
Christopher Nolan could make any movie he wants, and for his next project, he’s opted to make an adaptation of The Odyssey, the ancient Greek epic poem about the gods fucking with a war-weary guy by stranding him and his crew at sea for a decade as they fight to overcome cyclopes, sirens, and...
10 Awesome Movie-To-Game Adaptations To Play After Indiana Jones And The Great Circle
20.12.2024
It’s hard to say what’s more of a bummer, folks. Was it the dark days where every single big blockbuster movie got a shitty tie-in video game crunched out by some poor dev team in six months to launch alongside the film? Or is it the present, where new movies rarely get tie-in games at all outside...
The New Superman Movie Trailer Is Here And It's A Whole Lot
19.12.2024
Our first extended look at what DC studios boss James Gunn has been cooking for the next Superman movie is finally here, and it doesn’t disappoint. The first trailer gives us a glimpse of all of the comic book character’s staples—the Kent farm, the Daily Planet, and Lois Lane—as well as elements...
The Naughtiest And Nicest Christmas Movies, Based On Blood, Joy, And F-Bombs
18.12.2024
Just because a movie is set during Christmas doesn’t mean it’s a good Christmas movie. Some movies simply use Christmas as a sort of emotional backdrop for their naughty deeds. Meanwhile, other movies use the holiday as a narrative device meant to highlight a character’s road to redemption...
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Parodies All Your Favorite Christmas Movies With New Posters
12.12.2024
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 doesn’t seem to be a Christmas movie, but that hasn’t stopped Paramount from leaning into the fact that the movie is launching less than a week before the holiday. Jim Carrey has at least one scene in the film dressed as Santa Claus, and now Paramount has released several...
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Early Impressions Are Calling It The Best In The Series
11.12.2024
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 had its official premiere in London yesterday, December 10. While full reviews won’t be out until closer to the movie’s December 20 launch, early impressions are trickling out on social media from people who attended early screenings. It sounds like the Year of Shadow is ending...
Barbie Director's Narnia Movie Will Be 'All About Rock And Roll'
10.12.2024
Narnia’s been done. First as a set of BBC movies and later as an incomplete set of Hollywood blockbusters amid the Harry Potter-fueled YA fiction adaptation goldrush. So if it’s going to come back, it might as well be a completely different spin on the C.S. Lewis books about kids, witches,...
A Pitch Video For A Lego James Bond Game Has Leaked
5.12.2024
At one point in time, TT Games—the studio behind the Lego Star Wars franchise—pitched a James Bond game to the toy block brand. That project never happened, but now a video pitch for the proposed 007-themed Lego game has leaked and it lets us look at what might have been. Read more
The Opening Credits Sequence For Lindsay Lohan's New Movie Is One Of Weirdest Things We've Seen This Year
2.12.2024
Lindsay Lohan’s third Netflix movie, the second released this year, is out now, and the romcom’s intro credits are melting our brains.Read more
8 Lego Cyber Monday Deals That Are Actually Good
2.12.2024
Lego is getting in on all the Cyber Monday deals and sales with a host of discounts on many different items, including some Star Wars and Disney-themed Lego sets and accessories. Read more
The Great Filter Comes For Us All
2.12.2024
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now?teaching the aliens how to exit Vim(Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don't stop there - read the Story of
Denis Villeneuve's Childhood Keeps Him From Directing A Star Wars Movie
29.11.2024
Honestly, most of us are just grown children, even Award-winning directors. On a recent episode of The Town podcast, Dune: Part Two director Denis Villeneuve allows his intrusive thoughts to win when he explains how his childhood disappointment in Return of the Jedi is still preventing from ever...
Put Your Phone Away And Just Watch The Movie
27.11.2024
The film adaptation of Wicked is breaking box office records and is likely to be the biggest movie of the Thanksgiving season. But it’s also become ground zero for a newly invigorated debate about theater etiquette that’s been raging for a few years now and is only getting more heated as more...
YouTuber Uses Science To Discover The Most Painful Lego To Step On
22.11.2024
Lego are neat, fun, and incredibly durable. Long after our names have been forgotten and our ancestral bloodlines have been wiped out, their colorful plastic bodies will persist until the heat death of the universe. They also hurt like hell to step on in bare feet. Read more
Minecraft Movie Director Reacts To Backlash Over Weird First Trailer
19.11.2024
The first Minecraft Movie trailer was a mess. It felt tonally off, the humor didn’t quite land, and the live-action aesthetic was disorienting. Stars Jack Black and Jason Momoa seemed like they were acting in different galaxies. Kids will probably still love the finished thing anyway, but swarms...