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One Piece follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy, a boy with a body that responds like rubber thanks to eating Devil Fruit, on his quest to become the next Pirate King by finding the ultimate treasure of legendary Pirate, Gold Roger. Based on Eiichiro Oda's best-selling manga series, One Piece is full of epic…Read more

Black Bag opens in theaters Friday, March 14. Director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp make one hell of a creative pair. After the paranoid pandemic thriller KIMI and the paranormal first-person-POV drama Presence, their latest collaboration, Black Bag, is an equally skillful melding of genre and style, mapping a web of romantic entanglements onto…Read more

The upcoming Monopoly movie from Lionsgate just found its writers in John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the writers and directors behind Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Announced today, Daley and Goldenstein will write the screenplay for the film based on Hasbro's board game. As we've learned previously, the film will be produced by…Read more

The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola returned in 2024 with his first movie in 13 years: Megalopolis, a "Roman Epic set in an imagined Modern America." IGN's Megalopolis review awarded it a score of 9/10, calling Coppola's new movie "a frustrating madcap odyssey that gives way to something wildly unique." That said, takes on this…Read more

Following up on the Oscar-nominated hit The Wild Robot, Universal and DreamWorks brought another popular children's book (well, comic) to the screen. This time, the animation studio turned to the famed comics of Dav Pilkey. Instead of a sequel to Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, the next project in the franchise is based on…Read more

Depending on what kind of movie and game fan you are, the name Paul W.S. Anderson will either bring pure joy or absolute misery to mind. For years gamers (including some at this very publication) have trashed his adaptations of Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, and Mortal Kombat for any number of reasons: lack of fidelity…Read more

Just as Cinderella’s dream come true was set to end at midnight, so too was that of The Walt Disney Company in 1947 after being roughly $4 million in debt following the financial failures of Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Bambi due to World War II and other factors. However, thanks to this beloved princess and her…Read more

Dune: Part Two, one of the first (and overall) biggest blockbusters of 2024, is still being talked about. Nominated for Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars, though snubbed of plenty more nominations it deserved, the Dune sequel showed off the talents of director Denis Villeneuve and its long list of A-list stars, including Timothée Chalamet,…Read more

For longtime Harry Potter fans, there’s always something special about returning to the Wizarding World. Whether it’s rereading the books, rewatching the films, or diving into new adaptations, the magic never really fades. One of the more exciting ways to revisit the story is through the interactive illustrated editions, and right now, the first three…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 landed in US theaters. The film has since picked up plenty of awards and nominations, including a Golden Globe for Best Actress and an…Read more