Matt Patches

I always breathe a sigh of relief after the announcement of a new Aardman Animation project. The studio behind some of the most imaginative stop-motion projects of the last 50 years has never been a household name or box-office titan like Walt Disney Animation, but founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton’s quirky claymation company remains just […]

As genre enthusiasts continue to heal from the proliferation of the label “elevated horror” over the last decade, A24, which defined the made-up prestige subgenre with films like Hereditary and The Witch, is not looking back. The studio’s new movie The Legend of Ochi affirms the strategy — it’s pure fantasy, elevated only by a […]

The history of video games is full of wild, untold stories fit for great documentaries — so Polygon decided to make one.  Produced and directed by our own Clayton Ashley and Simone de Rochefort, and narrated by New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, The Great Game unravels the making of the iconic ‘90s video game […]

The race for Game of the Year remains wide open, with celebrated indies having as much or stronger critical interest than the obvious AAA tentpoles (and the fall calendar shaking up last minute – Assassin’s Creed Shadows was never poised to be The Big One for 2024, but Ubisoft’s decision to punt it to 2025 […]

While the box-office haul of 2023’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts doesn’t compare to the highest highs of the Michael Bay era, it was still a big enough hit that fans of the robots in disguise can expect another sequel in the future (and one with a toy line crossover twist). But before Transformers 8, […]

Concord, Sony’s new hero shooter, may be DOA, but its spirit will survive. Launched on PlayStation 5 and Windows PC on Aug. 23 only to be removed from storefronts on Sept. 3, with servers set to be fully shut down on Sept. 6, Concord will have one last splash in mainstream culture when its characters […]

Timo Tjahjanto is a gift. The Indonesian director has carved out a career minting propulsive, relentless action at every filmmaking price point. 2018’s The Night Comes for Us was a major breakthrough on Netflix, kicking off a deal that has made him a low-key star on the platform — and his next thriller is headed […]

So much has happened to Warner Bros. Pictures since The Lord of the Rings: The War for Rohirrim was fast-tracked into development in June 2021. Three years later, the studio is now a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery, a company that has rewired itself a dozen times, often at the cost of its animation business.  […]

As we patiently wait for the long-gestating Squid Game season 2 to roll around — the show finally returns to Netflix on Dec. 26 — the streamer continues to keep survival-horror sickos content with new (squid) games.  Revealed at Gamescom 2024 Opening Night, Squid Game: Unleashed is the latest title from Boss Fight, the mobile-minded […]

Villains finally have a home at Disney World. Plans for a Villains Land at Walt Disney World were unveiled on Saturday at the D23 Expo, where Disney Experiences chairman Josh D’Amaro promised the expansion would be “a fearless new vision…