In 2002, Infernal Affairs paired Hong Kong stars Tony Leung and Andy Lau for a critically acclaimed seedy cop thriller about two moles trying to find each other out. In 2006, Martin Scorsese remade the film as The Departed, winning…
Secrecy is not everyone’s jutsu: Lionsgate has reportedly been developing a Naruto movie, and one of the buzziest screenwriters in the biz is working on it. In a Variety roundup of notable screenwriters in 2023, writer Tasha Huo — whose…
Spider-Man arguably has one of the best supporting casts in comic books, a collection of friends and enemies nearly as iconic as he is. It’s one of the reasons he’s so popular, and why Sony is content to make movies…
It has been 641 days since Prime Video dropped the first season of Reacher, and it will be 38 more before we get to see the new one when it drops on the streaming service on Dec. 15, the official…
The Avengers will be assembling soon alongside the Planeswalkers of Magic: The Gathering. Hasbro and Marvel announced Monday a blockbuster partnership to bring collectible products and “tentpole sets” of cards based on the iconic superheroes to the leading collectible card…
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is one of our funniest holiday traditions, a kitschy paean to commercialism that is the only place I can think of where you can find Goku, Sonic the Hedgehog, and the Jolly Green Giant all in…
These days, Fortnite is mostly a game about playing Fortnite. To play Fortnite well is simply to always be playing Fortnite, and not doing other things. Other things will come to you, in Fortnite: concerts, anime, movies, and all sorts…
A funny story about me: I did not know that “Tav” was the default name for the player character in Baldur’s Gate 3. I thought, like in other role-playing games I’ve played, it was a randomly generated name. “Tav,” I…
It is, in my humble opinion, pretty messed up that John Woo has not made a Hollywood action film in 20 long years. But the drought is now over. After spending the last two decades working in Hong Kong cinema…
There’s no one quite like Masaaki Yuasa. One of the most celebrated directors in anime, Yuasa’s films and TV series constantly push visual and narrative boundaries to produce some of the most unforgettable animation you’ll ever see. Every one of…