The biggest moments from the 2024 Oscars

The Oscars is one of the biggest — if not the biggest night in the American entertainment industry every year, and the 2024 Oscars were no different. All the stars were out tonight, from best actor nominees like Jeffrey Wright, Paul Giamatti, and Cillian Murphy to best director nominees like...

Netflix’s Damsel, Poor Things, Wonka, and every new movie to watch this weekend

Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home. This week, Damsel, a new dark fantasy adventure starring Millie Bobby Brown of Stranger Things fame, premieres on Netflix. That’s...

Imaginary is a mess of a horror movie, and not in the fun way

It’s hard to know where to start in describing how bad Imaginary is. The new horror movie from Blumhouse and director Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2) starts with the simple but promising premise of a haunted stuffed animal and a malicious imaginary friend, but its bland characters, muddy storytelling, and lack...

Megan Thee Stallion names Inuyasha’s Kagome the definitive anime hot girl

It’s no secret that Megan Thee Stallion is a huge anime fan. Over the years, the 29-year-old Grammy-winning rapper and songwriter has shouted out her favorite shows on social media and cosplayed as the likes of Soul Eater’s Death the Kid and My Hero Academia’s Shoto Todoroki. Her love of...

The full 2024 Oscar nominations list — and predictions for who wins

The 2024 Academy Awards are set to air this Sunday, March 10, and at an hour earlier than usual: 7 p.m. EST/4 p.m. PST. And while Oppenheimer looks set to sweep, there is plenty of room for surprises. This year’s Oscar nominations honor highly regarded films from around the world,...

Anime Awards 2024 names Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 Anime of the Year

Crunchyroll has announced the winners of the 2024 Anime Awards, the annual awards ceremony hosted in Japan to honor and celebrate the best shows, voice actors, animators, musicians, and creators of the past year. On Saturday, Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 took home this year’s top prize for anime of the...

Dive into the Dune: Adventures in the Imperium TTRPG for just $18

Dune: Part 2 is finally in theaters, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did (grab extra napkins if you’re buying the themed popcorn bucket). If you’re indulging in the second part of the Denis Villeneuve-directed saga and want even more ways to engage with the Dune...

Drive-Away Dolls lets Ethan Coen embrace his inner queer punk

The Coen brothers’ filmography is tragically straight. Acclaimed for their stylistic breadth and wit, their films are rich and willing to play with gender roles in ways that welcome queer readings — the screwball hijinks of The Hudsucker Proxy and the winking choreography behind Channing Tatum’s dance numbers in Hail,...

We need to talk about the ending of All of Us Strangers

Andrew Haigh’s dark love story All of Us Strangers arrived to Hulu on Feb. 22, after two quiet months of building up word of mouth in theaters. Debuting just before Christmas and competing with a lot of more bombastic releases, it initially reached a small audience — but it was...