Anime NYC 2025 Through My Eyes: A Diary of Encounters and Creativity
This year, I had the privilege of attending Anime NYC 2025. In the same vein as having covered press for Comic-Con since 2022, after a decade of writing reviews on…
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This year, I had the privilege of attending Anime NYC 2025. In the same vein as having covered press for Comic-Con since 2022, after a decade of writing reviews on…
Peacemaker blasts back onto Max for an all-new, eight-episode second season, and the chaos, comedy, and carnage have never been better. Christopher “Chris” Smith, aka Peacemaker, returns with his absurdly…
“I knew you were dangerous the moment I met you. You were covered in blood.” Nobody 2 is an assassin-action-family-comedy. It’s a warped version of 1983’s National Lampoon’s Vacation if,…
In Butterfly, the shadows of espionage conceal wounds far deeper than bullets or betrayals, as a father and daughter find themselves on opposite ends of a deadly mission neither can…
After years of buildup, misdirection, and anticipation, Marvel finally brings this chaotic crew of anti-heroes together on screen—and Thunderbolts* does not hold back. A volatile team of anti-heroes—Yelena Belova, Bucky…
Everyone’s favorite reformed criminals are back—and this time, they’re not the only ones breaking the rules. In The Bad Guys 2, the crew is dragged into a globe-trotting heist by…
“You trust everybody. You think everyone you meet is beautiful.” This film marks the 4th incarnation of the character portrayed on the silver screen since 1978. Clark Kent is the…
From the surreal energy of Spümcø cartoons to the haunting aesthetics of Aeon Flux and Ghost in the Shell, illustrator and comic creator Scott Gerard Ruhl draws from a kaleidoscope…
“No one knows who they were or what they were doing.” It is the 41st anniversary of the very first mockumentary and one of the funniest movies ever made, This…
The Sandman returns for its second and final season on Netflix—and it might just be one of the most ambitious adaptations of a comic ever made. Based on Neil Gaiman's…