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The Remarkable Life of Ibelin isn't the first Warcraft film, but it is definitely the best one. Duncan Jones's big-budget Warcraft from 2016 focused on the "main" characters of developer Blizzard's long-running sword-and-sorcery universe. This new Netflix documentary from director Benjamin Ree, released a month prior to World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary, instead puts its focus on WoW's actual protagonists: the players who call Azeroth home. Specifically, it tells the story of Mats "Ibelin" Steen, and in the process paints an incredible portrait of a digital life, one that drives home a core message of how online friends and relationships...

Among all of Junji Ito's vast body of horror manga work, Uzumaki manages to be the most unsettling. Many of his stories concern elements of building dread, encroaching madness, and beautifully off-putting body horror, but few combine all three to the same effect as Uzumaki, where the concept of a spiral pattern infects and mutates the inhabitants of a small town in myriad awful ways.Adult Swim's anime adaptation of Uzumaki focuses on that unsettling feeling in its premiere episode, which was provided for review by Adult Swim. This introduction, for the most part, succeeds in bringing what makes Uzumaki so...

In early 2021, the Marvel Cinematic Universe kicked off its post-Endgame era with WandaVision, a series that started out amusing and became less so as it descended into incoherence the way almost every MCU show has since. And now the main baddie from WandaVision, the witch Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), is back with her own little quest--and so far, through the four episodes that were screened for critics, it's one of the more entertaining and well-told stories in recent MCU memory.Agatha All Along begins with Agatha still trapped in some sort of residual illusion in Westview--she's a police detective who's...

When it was first announced that Colin Farrell would reprise his role as Oswald Cobblepot from 2022's The Batman in a streaming series, it was a scary proposition. After all, we've seen what happens when a popular superhero movie franchise continues its story on TV. We all saw how Marvel's Agents of SHIELD was not in any way a proper extension of the MCU. And don't even get us started about Inhumans. HBO's The Penguin, though, is almost an exact opposite of those shows, with a stellar cast and story that feel as though they were ripped directly from the...

The Terminator franchise has become synonymous with mediocrity. Outside of a few notable exceptions, it's composed of multiple bad films and an unfinished television show. Even Terminator: Dark Fate, though decent enough, failed to match the grimy, cyberpunk vibe of the original or the action-packed moments of T2: Judgment Day. So, it should come to no surprise that our expectations for Netflix's Terminator Zero--another potentially lackluster iteration of a once-popular franchise--weren't exactly high. As it turns out, this solid animated series not only respects the franchise's legacy but also offers up a unique take on its established lore.Despite being set...

"Get away from her--you bitch," a character stutters in a relative monotone, turning an iconic moment from Aliens into a somewhat more halting, slightly funnier one in Alien: Romulus.What compelled director Fede Álvarez to include this moment in Romulus is anyone's guess. It's a line that makes no real sense in context, it's out of character for the person who says it, and there's no particular reason to use that particular word on this particular alien monster. In Aliens, when Sigourney Weaver's Ripley first originated the line, it was shouted in rage, full of emotion, as Ripley stepped out in...

We're in a new era, one in which video game adaptations are seen as just as likely to be good as any other nerdy thing. Whereas many of us used to assume a video game movie would undoubtedly suck, at this point there have been enough good ones that the conventional wisdom has changed. Despite that general shift, the Borderlands movie feels more like a product of the old era--when most game adaptations were generic, disposable action movies at best, and frequently something worse than that. And "generic" and "disposable" is exactly what Borderlands is.Borderlands, from Hostel director Eli Roth,...

As Deadpool jokes several different times over the course of Deadpool & Wolverine, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is experiencing "a bit of a low point" since the massive success of Avengers: Endgame. Fortunately, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) is here to shake things up by joining the MCU and making things weird, right? Maybe not, because Deadpool & Wolverine is just an R-rated version of a bog-standard modern Marvel flick: It's pretty funny, the story centers around the same CGI macguffin stuff as always, the third act is utterly baffling and feels like a bunch of stuff was cut, and there are...

The original Twister is an archetypal '90s blockbuster, alongside stuff like Independence Day and Armageddon. A tornado might seem a little mundane next to those other flicks, but Twister delivered the same level of thrill even so. 30 years later, there are a lot of potential ways to update this weather-oriented flick for a modern audience, particularly as man-made climate change continues to ramp up. But Twisters just goes with the most straightforward approach available: Update the particulars, but still hit basically all the same beats as the original movie.Fortunately, it's a fun and well-made movie, and it's got a...