Warm up your conch shells. Game Changer, Dropout.tv’s hit game show/comedy revue and one of the best shows on TV, will not conclude with the show’s purported finale, but with Game Changer: Battle Royale — Old Guard vs. New Blood, a four-part conclusion to the most changeable season of Game...
Best horror movies of 2023, ranked by scariness
Horror’s already looking great in 2023. There are established masters doing some of their best work in years, undeniable new talents making waves with their first or second big features, and old franchises breaking records at the box office. And it’s still only March. With so many good horror movies...
The Last of Us is the latest video game adaptation plagued by the same problem
The Last of Us has been widely celebrated not only as the “best video game adaptation of all time,” but also as the ostensibly simplest to jump from pixel to picture. And in many ways, HBO’s The Last of Us earned that reputation. Showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann have...
Shadow and Bone’s Sturmhond is a fan favorite — so why did Netflix change his story?
[Ed. note: This article contains spoilers for Shadow and Bone season 2 and Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse books.] From its very inception, Netflix’s Shadow and Bone adaptation took great liberties with its source material, combining characters and storylines from Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone trilogy and the Six of Crows duology....
Across the Spider-Verse composer aims to ‘outdo’ original with opera, punk rock, and ‘crazy sound design’
Flute players look away; Daniel Pemberton says there aren’t any in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, this summer’s sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. “There’s a scoop for you right now,” the composer joked, speaking via video chat. “There’s no woodwinds anywhere on Spider-Verse 2.” Pemberton spoke to Polygon on his...
OpenAI co-founder to angry Game of Thrones fans: Let ChatGPT write your self-insert fanfic
Are you one of those people who’s still upset about the ending of Game of Thrones? OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has a solution: Use ChatGPT to write your own different ending. And while you’re there, insert yourself into the story. Brockman appeared on a panel in Austin, Texas...
Was the giraffe CGI in The Last of Us? Yes and no…
You can visit The Last of Us’ breakout star at the Calgary Zoo, and no, it’s not Pedro Pascal or Bella Ramsey. As it turns out, the HBO series’ giraffe scene, adapted straight from the games, was created with a real giraffe and filmed inside the Calgary Zoo. The zoo...
The Glory part 2’s brutal ending takes no prisoners
The Glory concluded its epic, 16-episode tale of revenge on Friday when Netflix dropped the second half of the Korean drama. The story follows Moon Dong-eun (Song Hye-kyo) as she sets into motion an elaborate plan to enact revenge against the five classmates who severely bullied her as a teenager....
EO, the Oscars’ oddest nominee, proves we need more movies from animal perspectives
None of the six donkeys that star in Jerzy Skolimowski’s Oscar contender EO will receive a statue at the 2023 Oscars ceremony, even if the film does pull off an unlikely upset in the Best International Feature Film category against its stiffest competition, Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western...
Does the end of Creed III cheat Adonis out of what he deserves?
Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut, Creed III, is already one of 2023’s biggest success stories, a top 10 box-office contender that’s stirred up interest in the long-running Rocky franchise and prompted a lot of thoughtful, eager theorizing about Jordan’s directorial style and his possible future behind the camera. Most of...