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Kit Connor's Elden Ring casting makes perfect sense if you've seen his underrated war movie

Kit Connor's Elden Ring casting makes perfect sense if you've seen his underrated war movie

Elden Ring, the 2028 IMAX-sized movie version of Hidetaka Miyazaki's action RPG, may complete an unlikely trilogy for writer-director Alex...

21.04.2026 1

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Matt Patches

Unfortunately Tubi is my enemy now

Tubi, the ad-supported service where you can watch everything from masterpieces like Goodfellas to schlocky erotic spy movies such as Malibu Express...

10.04.2026 6

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I played Pokémon FireRed like it was 2026 and lost everything because of it

The same way my barely legible high school handwriting has devolved over 25 years of PC word processing, so too have my instincts to pause and save a...

22.03.2026 7

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Long may the new King of January movies reign

31.01.2026 8

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Avatar without James Cameron feels impossible, unless this one director replaces him

Avatar: Fire and Ash left me thinking about Shakespeare. Not because James Cameron’s dialogue is up there with the Bard’s (sorry, Spider), but...

31.12.2025 10

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Avatar's incredible pee-break joke is actually the worst time to pee

20.12.2025 20

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Turkey Day, our time to celebrate turkeys

28.11.2025 10

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Let’s never settle on what ‘Game of the Year’ means

31.10.2025 10

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Freddy Krueger's best Nightmare on Elm Street movie makes me think a Weapons franchise could work

29.10.2025 10

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Channing Tatum kills any hope the lost Jump Street–Men in Black crossover will ever happen

16.10.2025 10

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Taylor Swift’s huge Disney Plus deal cements her status as music’s answer to Marvel

15.10.2025 8

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Log off, Tom Holland

05.09.2025 10

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Superman’s embarrassing video game legacy has a solve in Krypto

Superman is back in a big way: Filmmaker and studio head James Gunn is taking his franchise reboot (and the blockbuster kickoff to his DCU movie...

21.07.2025 10

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Switch 2 has actual competition from Nintendo clones

Sony and Microsoft don’t sweat Nintendo. At least, that’s the corporate line — they still might be coming for Nintendo’s ass. Sony has...

07.07.2025 10

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Tom Cruise receives the ultimate bad review of Mission: Impossible from… the Oscars

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning was not a good movie — but I don’t know if even polarizing stunt-junkie Tom Cruise deserved the amount...

19.06.2025 10

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I had a claustrophobic meltdown after getting stuck in a glitch

The nightmare was real, the situation was not. Revenge of the Savage Planet , an adventure spread across a number of distant — and quite savage!...

08.06.2025 10

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The Elden Ring movie director already made the best video game-brained movie

A rumored Elden Ring movie became a little more of a reality on Thursday night when Bandai Namco announced that Alex Garland (Civil War, Ex Machina)...

24.05.2025 10

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Nintendo built the Switch 2 for the next societal shutdown

The Switch 2 is a social machine. For the console’s second iteration, Nintendo prioritized processing power capable of large-scale multiplayer. The...

07.04.2025 10

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Atomfall is an achievement in cutting to the chase

Forget the number of hours it takes for a game to “get good” — how am I spending the first 15 minutes? Call me impatient, but a game’s...

30.03.2025 10

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