The biggest Blu-ray release of 2023 is here: Avatar: The Way of the Water hits shelves on June 20 in both standard Blu-ray and 4K flavors. But please don’t let James Cameron’s colossal new blockbuster keep you from also enjoying a parade of weirdo, overlooked gems from the past thirty...
The 10 best mermaid movies ever made, ranked
Another summer, another Disney release. And this time it’s a reimagining of the movie that kicked off the Disney Renaissance, The Little Mermaid. But the ensuing mermaid craze obviously didn’t come out of a vacuum; legends have been circulating for centuries about merpeople in one form or another, whether as...
The end of the live-action Little Mermaid makes the animated sequel impossible
The line that gets me every damn time I watch the 1989 animated version of The Little Mermaid isn’t one of the famous ones — a lyric from “Part of Your World,” Ariel’s defiant “But Daddy, I love him,” or even one of Sebastian’s quippy asides. It comes toward the...
The 5 best horror movies to watch on Netflix and other streamers this May
Another month, another round of the best horror movies available on streaming. We may be staring down the barrel of summer, but there’s still tons of spooky and seasonally appropriate films to watch to chill you to the bone as the weather starts to warm up. If you don’t feel...
Sharing a Netflix password will now cost $7.99 a month per additional user
The day of reckoning has finally come: After months of warning and testing in selected countries, Netflix is tightening its belt and ending password sharing. In a first step toward the streamer’s announced plans to implement “paid sharing,” Netflix is politely informing subscribers that, to paraphrase Marlo Stanfield from The...
Fast X is a box office hit, just not in the U.S.
The Fast and Furious franchise continues to be a global phenomenon, just not as much as you might think in the United States. Fast X, the latest movie in the franchise and the first part of the series’ finale, debuted in the U.S. on May 19 and was met with...
The best mystery movie of the year is now on Netflix
It’s rare that a mystery movie feels new. From the world’s greatest detectives to based-on-a-beach-read thrillers, movies have mined the mystery genre for nearly all it’s worth over the years. Which is why it’s so nice when something like Missing comes along and shakes up the formula a little bit....
Disney World’s immersive Star Wars hotel will shut down in September
Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, the large-scale immersive Disney World hotel experience with surprising ties to Star Wars canon, is setting sail for its final voyage this September. The two-day Star Wars-themed resort hotel experience first opened on March 1, 2022, with a starting price point of $4,809 for a two-person...
The best TV of 2023 so far
We’re going to put this really simply for you: TV whips. Long-form serialized storytelling — what a concept. What a gift! Even in an ongoing time where there’s just so much TV to wade through, it’s hard to be mad about so much beauty in the world. At this point...
The lost episode of Dragon Ball Z narrated by Johnny Bravo has finally been found
The turn of the century was a weird time for television, filled with bizarre spin-off shows and inexplicable commercial campaigns that resemble more like hallucinations than reality. Occasionally, some intrepid media archaeologist will exhume a particularly fascinating piece of pop cultural ephemera from the digital dustbin of history for modern...