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The Drops of God: Wine Snobbery Has Never Been This Good
Wine snobbery becomes something unexpectedly human
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Supergirl: The Trailer That Could Make Me Believe
Supergirl’s casting and trailer, finding unexpected depth
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Ghost in the Shell-2nd Trailer Drop: The Franchise Stops Compromising
Ghost in the Shell 2026 returns with a cap to the dome. This isn’t resurrection. It’s evolution.
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Middle-Earth Arises Anew: Stephen Colbert and a New Fellowship Ride
The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past, and the creative team reads like a who’s who of Tolkien obsession.
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Sekiro: No Defeat – The Anime That Doesn’t Ask For Your Permission or Forgiveness
This is Ninja Scroll energy, returned.
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Ride Eternal: The Fast & The Furious Family as Egyptian Gods (We Had Time Today)
The cookout is the afterlife, the ride is eternal, and The Book of the Dead saw this coming (a quarter mile at a time). What if the Fast & Furious Family were Egyptian gods?
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Scum, Saints, and Swords: The Unsparing World of Sentenced to Be a Hero
Convicted criminals. Disposable weapons. One impossible question: can the damned ever truly be heroes?
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Antihero by Gregg Hurwitz: Machismo In A Time Capsule
Antihero channels a time-capsuled strain of late-’80s and ’90s adventure fiction, where violence is aesthetic, masculinity is armor, and survival is never in doubt.
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The Last Death of the Year: A Novel
Greek Island. New Year’s Eve. A written threat. A dead body. Poirot at his coldest and most amused.
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‘Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill’ – Let ’em Cook Because We’re Eating
Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill cranks the meta-fantasy dial even harder, serving up a new batch of loud, genre-aware oddballs and a cute nods that lands.
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Episode Appetizer: This Monster Wants to Eat Me Episode 2-Desire and the Slow Devouring of the Soul
Hinako’s gloom deepens as yokai Shiori joins her —turning depression into a haunting slow dance of hunger, grief, and surrender.
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Karen Pirie Season 2 – Smarter, Sharper, and More Emotionally Layered
Karen Pirie returns with sharper instincts and heavier truths—season 2 turns a cold case into a haunting study of justice, guilt, and the cost of doing good.
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Series Appetizer: My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s [Episodes 1–4]
When Edge Meets Exhaustion
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Episode Appetizer: This Monster Wants to Eat Me – Episode 1
This Monster Wants to Eat Me is the sad, slow burn anime you didn’t ask for (you might still want to watch anyway)
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Tartakovsky Wants Us To Rise For THE BLACK KNIGHT
Animation legend Genndy Tartakovsky unveiled test footage for The Black Knight, an ambitious adult animated film about a 14th-century knight piloting a 20-foot armored suit.
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WAR OF THE WORLDS: TODAY WAS NOT A GOOD DAY
Made with the pandering aesthetic of a politician trying to survive a side-chick, baby mama abortion scandal but less intriguing.
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Mr. Terrific: Fair Play – All or None
If life isn’t fair, I will help make it fair. I’m goddamn Mr Terrific.
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Series Appetizer: Detectives These Days Are Crazy!
Keiichiro Nagumo used to be a genius detective, that’s over, but there might be hope for this misbegotten gumshoe in the form of the brash junior detective Nagumo Masahiro, a girl who dreams of becoming…
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Episode Appetizer: Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse
It’s just an Isekai, the Isekai can’t hurt me but Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth-verse says hold my beer.
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Episode Appetizer: Clevatess
Thirteen chosen heroes, armed with regal weaponry, embark on a perilous quest to confront the Lord of the Dark Beasts
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Episode Appetizer: Fire Force Season 3 – [episode 01]
Within 10 minutes of this first opener, I was reminded of why I loved the series in the first place.
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At Last, a Unicorn Slasher Flick – ‘Death of a Unicorn’
The good news is that Unicorns aren’t real. The bad news is that Unicorns aren’t real.
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Episode Appetizer: Honey Lemon Soda [episodes 1 & 2]
Was there ever a period in your life where everything fit precisely where it was supposed to? Welcome to the struggle that is the life of Uka Ishimori
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Episode Appetizer: ‘Solo Leveling’ Returns -Arise From the Shadow-
Welcome back to Solo Leveling, the world of magic-wielding hunters who defend humanity against monsters from other dimensions
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Blade Runner: Although Things Explode It Really is a Christmas Movie
Dear Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart, and It’s a Wonderful Life, Ridley Scott says, “Hold my beer.” Blade Runner is the unacknowledged seminal Christmas movie of the 20th century.
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The Horseman Of Rohan Ride Again…If Only They Had Gandalf Leading Them
In this adaptation of Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the people of Rohan’s clans struggle to maintain an uneasy alliance as looming evil arrives on the horizon
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Episode Appetizer: Adult Swim’s ‘Uzumaki’ Ep 2
After episode 1 of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki, if you thought it couldn’t get worse, episode 2 says…HOLD MY BEER.
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Episode Appetizer: ADULT SWIM’s ‘Uzumaki’ Ep 1
In this four-episode series, you can expect: building dread, encroaching madness, and beautifully horrendous body horror—no one combines those themes better than Junji Ito
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Riot the Rings: A Rings of Power Recap Season 2 Episode 4
Welcome to the Season 2 recap of The Rings of Power, the hit show from Amazon. So nice they renewed it twice. Following the events of Season 1, SAURON HAS RETURNED! Middle-earth now faces its greatest…
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Riot the Rings: A Rings of Power Recap Season 2 Episode 3
Welcome to Episode 3: The Eagle and Sceptre.
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Riot the Rings: A Rings of Power Recap Season 2 Episode 2
Halbrand announces himself in Eregion and refuses to be turned away. Welcome to Episode 2: Where the Stars are Strange
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Riot the Rings: A Rings of Power Recap Season 2 Episode 1
Welcome to the Season 2 recap of The Rings of Power, the hit show from Amazon. So nice they renewed it twice. The fate of the Three Rings must be decided.
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Alien: Romulus
On May 25th, 1979, we learned that no one could hear you scream in space and that silence is just the sound of death in Alien: Romulus.
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These A**holes, Aren’t Human: DC Studios Release Teaser Trailer for ‘Creature Commandos’
James Gunn this Friday at San Diego Comic-Con showed off the new teaser for Max’s animated series Creature Commandos, which he wrote all seven episodes. Premiering this December. In the trailer, we are introduced to the entire…
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HAIKYUU!! The Dumpster Battle
What happens when our favorite underdog team meets another team of underdogs?
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The RIOTUS Crunchyroll Spring 2024 Roundup
Spring has arrived like an Itadori-style kick to the face. With that, dear readers, comes the excitement of a new anime season full of joy, fear, good, evil, and cherry blossoms.
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The Madam Blanc Mysteries – Season 3
We find the delightfully charming Jean White embroiled in another web of mysteries she must solve to help the residents of the cozy village of Sainte Victoire in the South of France.
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Mayhem – Satoru Gojo as the Trickster Archetype in Anime
By Philip Jean-Pierre I can already hear you nerds coming after me about, “What about Tanuki-the raccoon dog?”, What about Kitsune, the fox? What about them? The world is a big place with room for…
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Mrs. Sindhu Investigates: Murder Most Auntie
Anyone who knows me can tell you I am a fan of quaint mysteries. That’s how I find myself in the world of ‘Mrs. Sindhu Investigates’. Welcome to Slough, a town in Berkshire, England. It’s…
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Evil Dead Rise
If you are here for praise for the nostalgia of the Evil Dead franchise and the Necroverse—I’m really hoping that sticks—stop reading now.
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