Month: November 2021

“There are certain rules that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a horror movie,” but nobody ever follows them. Couples have sex, people go out alone and no one confirms the killer is actually dead. It’s mostly left up to luck who survives the night, but some character traits can vastly improve a character’s survival

What began as a simple coming-of-age tale turned into a rollercoaster ride of drama, action, and hope. Naruto, the story of an orphan with hope in his big dreams inspired anime fans across the globe and is commonly regarded as many American fans gateway into the genre. RELATED: 15 Anime To Watch If You Love Naruto Though the series

Veteran comics artist Bob Wiacek launched a GoFundMe page to help him with expenses related to a diagnosis of glaucoma. Wiacek wrote on a GoFundMe titled “Bob Wiacek Glaucoma Relief Fund”: “I just recently went to a ophthalmologist, and was told I have glaucoma and high fluid pressure in my eyes. As far as medication, I am using

Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-Kun! is a Halloween-style isekai anime series starring Iruma Suzuki, a kind boy who finds himself in the demonic Netherworld with no way out. He is now the foster grandson of Lord Sullivan, like it or not, and he must also attend the demonic Babyls school as a first-year student. RELATED:

The Nintendo Switch, and its kid cousin, the Nintendo Switch Lite, have been somewhat of an elusive item for many throughout the past year or two. Thanks to a global pandemic and worldwide semiconductor chip shortage, all three major consoles have faced manufacturing problems along the production line, making them not only hard to find but

Squid Game burst onto the scene in 2021 and broke into unprecedented territory with it becoming one of the most popular Netflix series of all time. It was a series focusing on the concept of a death game, but delving much deeper into a variety of ethical and moral issues and dilemmas. RELATED: Squid Game: 10

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for The Magic Order Vol. 2 #1, on sale from Image Comics. When Netflix purchased Mark Millar’s Millarworld imprint, one of the properties fans were eager to see adapted was The Magic Order. Although an initial attempt to turn the hit comic book into a series petered out, it’s back

Superman has shifted into a whole new status quo. Right now, the Man of Steel is facing a whole load of different issues, from slowly losing his powers to being kicked out of the Justice League, and all the while he’s taking on a new kind of mission – one that will see him actively

Trevor Slattery was a small-time actor whose work had little success. Addicted to drugs and unable to get his acting career off of the ground, he agreed to work with Aldrich Killian. He posed as the Mandarin, claiming to be responsible for the explosions that were a result of Killian’s experiments. RELATED: MCU: The Best

Clyde Phillips, executive producer for Dexter: New Blood, recently admitted the continuation has been in the works since the original series wrapped up in 2013. “Look, it’s no surprise that many people were disappointed with the ending of Season 8, which I was not involved in,” Phillips told EW in a new interview. “I left

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for My Hero Academia Chapter 332, “State-of-the-Art Hypersonic Intercontinental Cruise…,” by Kohei Horikoshi, Caleb Cook and John Hunt, available in English from Viz Media. The American hero Star and Stripe and the sinister Tomura Shigaraki have been engaged in what’s easily one of the best fights in My Hero Academia for a few chapters

Less than two weeks after its premiere on Paramount+, the Nickelodeon-produced animated series Star Trek: Prodigy has received an early Season 2 pickup. In a press release shared today, Nov. 8, Paramount+ promised that “[m]ore adventures await the motley crew of the U.S.S. Protostar,” as the ViacomCBS-owned streaming platform has officially renewed Star Trek: Prodigy

Tite Kubo’s hit manga series Bleach inspired a long-running anime of the same name, and this story is absolutely packed with a colorful variety of characters of all shapes and sizes, from black-robed Soul Reapers to villainous Arrancars and far more. Plenty of human characters get a lot of depth, too. RELATED: Dragon Ball: 10

Robert Zemeckis’ Cast Away has a very simple premise: Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) survives a plane crash and gets stranded on a deserted island and must survive living on his own in a harsh new reality. Chuck is the only person on screen for most of the movie, meaning that there are several scenes where there is

Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia creates a world that manages to be both charming and dystopian, where ideas like worth and identity rotate around power. Because of that, most character names mimic the people that use them. The protagonist’s name, Izuku Midoriya, references the color green. While connected to physical attributes like his hair, his name is also related

TNT’s Animal Kingdom follows the Codys, a criminal family governed by the ruthless matriarch Smurf (Ellen Barkin) and comprised of her grandson and four sons. With a specialty in robberies, the Codys are infamous in Oceanside and have attracted the attention of law enforcement. To keep the family out of prison, Smurf encourages the boys

There are so many unanswered questions in Showtime’s Yellowjackets it’s tough to imagine that the creators will get around to answering even half of them in its 10-episode first season. The six episodes available for review raise nearly as many questions as they answer, but the story remains captivating. Yellowjackets is a genre-bending thriller with compelling characters and multiple

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the first five episodes of Young Justice: Phantoms, streaming now on HBO Max. In Young Justice: Phantoms, the Bat-family’s getting a lot more time in the spotlight outside of Batman, Nightwing and Robin/Tim Drake. Spoiler’s now playing a key role, as is Cassandra Cain/Orphan, with a new war with

The Korean survival drama Squid Game has become the most recent Netflix sensation. A surprising hit in a somewhat oversaturated genre, Squid Game manages to capture the true vileness and emotional depth of a death game in a way other similar works do not. There are several factors that contribute to this success, but much of

Dead Master will return in the upcoming Disney+ exclusive anime series, Black Rock Shooter Dawn Fall. The character’s new design was revealed on the official Black Rocker Shooter Twitter account, which showed off the villain in the second image released from the new series. The character still has her trademark horns, but now sports short green

The Simpsons is no stranger to celebrity cameos, with many of the biggest Hollywood stars and musicians featuring a cameo on the show at some point. They became so common that when The Simpsons Movie was released in 2007, it was expected that large celebrity appearances were a given. And while the movie did feature

Devilman Crybaby premiered on Netflix on January 5th, 2018, and was met with acclaim as well as a few raised eyebrows due to its graphic portrayals of sex, violence, and drug usage. Based on the classic 1972 manga, Devilman, the ultra-violent anime follows the story of Akira Fudo, a sensitive boy who, through demonic mishaps, becomes the titular

From showcasing beloved characters in an exciting new light to witnessing spectacular one-on-ones, tournament arcs are a staple of most shonen anime. Although they may appear to be a simplistic competition format on paper, in reality, they produce some of the most memorable moments in anime and are thus not easy to perfect. However, My Hero Academia‘s

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Eternals, in theaters now. It’s no secret that filmmaker Chloé Zhao is a fan of anime and manga. She grew up with these mediums, even writing fanfiction of her favorite series, and has stated that her “deep, strong, manga roots” played a major part in the development of her Marvel

The Warhammer world has many diverse races, each fighting to conquer and control whatever they can. However, one race is driven by a very different need than the others. The Ogre Kingdoms do not care about conquering or subjugation; their main focus is on eating everything before them. The Ogres appeared as a mercenary force in Total

Across the Marvel Multiverse, there are countless worlds where the heroes were tragically cut short, and the world was forced to move on without them. But some heroes were too important for such an event to just happen. Instead, their premature demise radically altered the fate of the entire world, as was the case with

Bioware is once again teasing fans about the next entry in the Mass Effect series, this time with a strange poster. The image, posted to Twitter to celebrate N7 Day, a date created by Bioware to celebrate the Mass Effect franchise, the poster shows what appears to be a massive crater. What exists within the blue hole is unknown

Netflix’s Stranger Things Day hyped the release of the show’s upcoming fourth season with, among other things, a new teaser trailer. Fans had been wondering how a Season 4 would work now that the Byers family and Eleven have moved out of Hawkins, and Hopper is presumably missing and stuck somewhere in Russia. This latest

Yet in their efforts to succeed, Nyxly and Lex may have kidnapped their own undoing. Esme is a Dyralian, an alien species that has the ability to copy other aliens’ powers. She successfully copied both J’onn and Kara’s powers, perfectly replicating them at full power. Nyxly is not technically an alien from space, but she