Month: October 2021

Netflix has announced the release window and setting for the hotly anticipated third season of The Umbrella Academy. A brief teaser was uploaded to the series page on Netflix, which sees an animatic of a bird landing on an umbrella, indicating Season 3 will focus on the Academy’s variant-timeline counterparts in the Sparrow Academy. It then shifts to a concierge

Romance and video games have a long and rocky history. While love stories are nothing new for the genre, many games still treat intimacy as a reward. Players are often presented with a handful of different datable companions and are usually treated to an awkwardly animated sex scene after plying them with a number of gifts and

It’s hard not to love a classic kind-hearted, empathetic character who strives to help others. They’re typically incredibly bright and would do anything to protect or help the people closest to them. Others naturally gravitate towards their cheery exteriors. RELATED: 10 Anime Characters Who Aren’t Total NEETs Tragically, in the realm of anime, however, it’s

Some fans can’t wait to watch their favorite anime as it airs week to week. Others are more patient and wait until the entire season is available to binge all at once. Both approaches have their merits, but, more often than not, the best approach depends on the kind of story being told. RELATED: 10

According to Venom: Let There Be Carnage director Andy Serkis, the Venom sequel almost had a different title — and no, it wasn’t Venom: Lethal Protector, as some people speculated. “Not really, nothing to do with ‘Lethal Protector’ at this point,” Serkis told Collider. “We did think for a moment it might be called ‘Love Will

Love them or hate them, amusement parks have become a unique and iconic experience for citizens and tourists alike. Accordingly, theme parks have made their way into modern media, and there are many series out there that feature amusement park settings. They’re often used for family-based or romantic-based plots in anime, but they’ve also been

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 2, Episode 2, “New World Order,” which premiered Thursday on NBC. As the episode opens a Law & Order: Organized Crime flashback recaps Detective Elliot Stabler’s undercover work with the Albanian gang and against the Marcy Killers, as well as Congressman Kilbride’s peace offer to Sgt.

Funimation has released the first English dubbed trailer for My Hero Academia: World Heroes Mission, and has revealed the first details about a special bonus for fans who see the movie during its opening weekend. As was previously announced, Funimation will bring the third and latest My Hero Academia movie, World Heroes’ Mission, to theaters

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Venom: Let There Be Carnage, now playing in theaters The symbiotes have always been powerful beings in the Marvel Universe. Especially when they become unleashed against other life forms and are able to possess them, creatures like Venom (Tom Hardy) can become remarkably dangerous. But perhaps one of the

Tite Kubo’s hit manga series Bleach launched in 2001 in Japan, and it soon became one of Shonen Jump‘s “big three” alongside Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece and Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto. The series concluded in 2016 and still has an incomplete anime series to its name. However, while Bleach‘s future looks bright, its past doesn’t. Fans

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 2, Episode 8, “I, Excretus,” streaming now on Paramount+. Ever since their debut in Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Borg Collective has been one of the most terrifying and unstoppable enemies the Star Trek franchise has ever seen. Dealing Starfleet devastating battles during

Licensed movies don’t stay on streaming services forever, but the positive flipside of this is that the regular expiration announcements can serve as effective reminders to finally get around to the films that will soon disappear from your queue. HBO Max has a lot of movies leaving its library on October 31, but which of

The final arc of Dragon Ball Z involved the hungry villain Majin Buu, and like his two predecessors, he had several forms throughout the series. The most known of these forms is the powerful Super Buu as well as the seemingly innocuous and rather corpulent first form that later became a good Buu. However, there’s another

While Skyview Temple serves as something of an introduction to The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD‘s dungeons, things really heat up with the Earth Temple — both metaphorically and literally. After making his way through Eldin Volcano, Link must navigate the Earth Temple in hopes of finding Zelda. In doing so, he faces some

Warning: The following contains spoilers for Thor #17, on sale now from Marvel Comics. While Odin has worked diligently to keep the peace across the Nine Realms as the King of Asgard and Norse All-Father, he has historically not been a particularly good family man. Repeatedly unfaithful to his wife Freyja and exceedingly cruel to his

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for What If…? Season 1, Episode 8, “What If… Ultron Won?,” streaming now on Disney+. Since Disney’s purchase of Marvel and Star Wars, there have been plenty of fans of both properties chomping at the bit for s cross-over. With both worlds so distinctly different, it would take a universe-shattering

Square Enix revealed a new gameplay trailer for Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin which also confirmed the game’s release date. The story-focused trailer provides fans with a closer look at the game’s characters, settings and enemies. Chaos, the game’s antagonist who was comically over-mentioned in Stranger of Paradise‘s reveal at E3 2021, takes a back seat

Techland, the developer of Dying Light 2 Stay Human, announced that beloved Hollywood actor Rosario Dawson will feature in the open-world zombie game as a “key character.” Revealed in the latest episode of Dying 2 Know, a web series that provides deep dives into elements of the upcoming video game, Rosario Dawson will play Lawan, who will

Chandler Bing has often been a rather divisive character on Friends. Much like any other fallible human, Chandler isn’t perfect. He’s hurt some of his best friends and, on the other side of the coin, has been hurt by people he thought to be friends. Sure, he’s been given some of the best jokes in

Right now, living in the modern world doesn’t feel especially great. Society is facing unprecedented challenges, compounded by our ability to connect to all these challenges and negativity online. There’s no escaping how bad things have gotten. RELATED: 9 Anime That Take Place In An Alternate Reality Japan And yet, it’s rather heartening to know that

Titans actor Jay Lycurgo says he recorded his audition for the role of Tim Drake in HBO Max’s DC series while he was battling coronavirus (COVID-19). “At the time, it was a character called Danny, or Daniel. It was so long ago. It was just another tape,” Lycurgo said in an exclusive interview with CBR. “I watched

Today, we look at the first ongoing comic book series devoted to adapting films to comic books. This is “Look Back,” where every four weeks of a month, I will spotlight a single issue of a comic book that came out in the past and talk about that issue (often in terms of a larger

While the DC Comics Universe sets itself outside of reality by using fictional cities like Metropolis and Gotham, Marvel Comics likes to have their superheroes, for the most part, to feel like they are living in the world as the readers, but just slightly removed from reality. RELATED: 10 Comic Books You Didn’t Know Were Written

For those with a fear or dislike of clowns, Northern Ireland is the place to be, as that nation is experiencing a shortage of the circus performers. The lack of clowns is part of the overall worker shortage that is hampering many businesses in the wake of COVID-19 driven lockdowns. Many performers from other countries

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition received an official age rating in South Korea, potentially confirming the collection’s rumored release. A South Korean video game content rating board known as Game Rating and Administration Committee database (GRAC), added the long-rumored collection to its database, rating the game “18 or unavailable for youth.” The entry was

Get ready to scream! Just in time for a spooky season — and ahead of the highly-anticipated release of Scream (2022) — Airbnb announced that fans of the hit horror franchise will be able to rent out the home featured in the first Scream film during the week of Halloween 2021. Located in Tomales, California,

Back in August of 2017, Netflix acquired Millarworld Limited, the comic book company founded in 2004 by Mark Millar, writer and co-creator of such titles as Kick-Ass, Kingsman and Jupiter’s Legacy, among many others. Despite selling his company, however, Millar has no plans to stop making comics — something that initially came as a surprise

World domination is one of the most popular villainous motivations in fiction, but very few actually accomplish it. The same goes for anime, where the number of successful self-proclaimed world rulers is very limited. RELATED: 10 Devious Double Agents In Anime (Who Were Good All Along) While some of the following villains’ reigns were shorter than

Certain anime simply fail to excite from the moment the first trailer drops. Whether it looks like a generic story that has been told before, doesn’t have appealing animation or even simply isn’t as flashy as other shows that season, a lot of things can turn fans off an anime before giving it a try. However,