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While Bruce Wayne is not yet Batman in the Gotham City inhabited by Arthur Fleck, Joker and Joker: Folie à Deux director and co-writer Todd Phillips thinks this Joker would admire the Dark Knight Detective. “I think Arthur would be in awe of the alpha male that is Batman. I really do. I think Arthur…Read more

Terrifier 3 opens in theaters October 11. This review is based on a screening at Fantastic Fest 2024. A Christmas-themed slasher in October? Why not? With Terrifier 3, director Damien Leone pays homage to ’80s and ’90s horror icons and the rapidly multiplying, increasingly “ridiculous” sequels that kept their franchises alive. (Like how Hellraiser, Leprechaun,…Read more

The MCU is in a bit of a weird place lately. The Avengers as we knew them are basically gone following the events of Avengers: Endgame, and Marvel is still building towards the debut of iconic teams like the Fantastic Four and X-Men. This world needs protecting, and that responsibility might just fall on the…Read more

Marvel’s upcoming Thunderbolts* movie is still shrouded in mystery, but we've finally gotten our first good look at the project thanks to the Thunderbolts teaser trailer. It doesn't reveal a lot about the plot of this MCU team-up. It does, however, give us our first look at Lewis Pullman as Bob, aka The Sentry. This…Read more

When it comes to fantastical book series that shaped our childhoods, Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians is one of the best. With the first season of the Percy Jackson Disney+ series adapting the beloved stories all-wrapped up and a second season on the way, we're here to lay out what makes the books…Read more

This article is part of IGN’s Fantastic Fest coverage and contains detailed spoilers for its opening night film, Never Let Go, starring Halle Berry and directed by Alexandre Aja. Are you wondering if Never Let Go has a post-credits scene? We’ll tell you right here: It doesn’t have a mid- or post-credits scene of any…Read more

Warning: This story contains potential spoilers for Gladiator 2's ending. It took Ridley Scott more than 20 years to bring Gladiator 2 to life, but that isn’t stopping him from getting a head start on Gladiator 3. The director spoke about the future of his Roman Empire action series during a conversation with French magazine…Read more

Transformers One is a major change of pace for this long-running Hasbro franchise. Not only is it the first feature-length animated movie starring the Robots in Disguise since 1986’s Transformers: The Movie, it’s also one set far earlier in the Transformers timeline. Rather than taking place on Earth, this film flashes back to the glory…Read more

Four months after it took home the award for Best Screenplay at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where it received a 13-minute standing ovation, Coralie Fargeat's body horror satire The Substance lands in US theaters this weekend. Our 8/10 review of The Substance said it "indicts celebrity culture’s obsession with youth and beauty in a…Read more

Let’s get this out of the way first: Yeah, we know there are too many streaming services. There probably shouldn’t be this many. Did you know that Chick-fil-A wants to launch a streaming service? I have no idea what would be on there, or if the thing would even work on Sundays. But the discourse…Read more