Even though the Digimon Adventure reboot is just as much a story about kids journeying to a wondrous digital world of imagination and monsters, the series has incorporated elements of our world. For instance, workers’ needs for unions and how information systems really control the modern world. To no surprise, the…
Source: io9 – Digimon Adventure’s Latest Villain May Remind You of a Certain Mouse We All Know
In fact, as the first trailer for the upcoming horror movie The Night House reveals, there’s something extremely wrong with the titular house indeed.
Source: io9 – In The Night House’s First Trailer, There’s Nothing Right About Haunted Houses
The DC Comics villain King Shark has always been your very normal, rudimentary, giant anthropomorphic pants-wearing shark-man. But when DC rebooted its universe with The New 52, King Shark became a giant anthropomorphic pants-wearing hammerhead shark man. Now that he’s making his big-screen debut in The Suicide Squad,…
Source: io9 – The Suicide Squad’s James Gunn Explains Why King Shark Isn’t a Hammerhead
Monster movies often ride or die by their over-the-top action. One can be willing to forgive failures elsewhere—many of them, even—as long as the bits where the monsters punch the bejesus out of each other are satisfying. But Godzilla vs Kong has a problem: its titanic action heights just come too rarely to justify an…
Source: io9 – Godzilla vs. Kong Can’t Be Saved, Not Even by Good, Dumb Fun
The next chapter of Lucasfilm’s plans for Disney+ is about to begin—taking us back to a broken friendship that changed the Star Wars galaxy forever. Now, as Obi-Wan Kenobi prepares to enter production, we officially know who’s joining prequel stars Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen in the streaming series.
Source: io9 – The Obi-Wan TV Series Has Found Its Tremendous Cast
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Three weeks ago, I titled the headline of my recap about The Walking Dead episode that explored Daryl’s romantic past and his and Carol’s angry fight in the present “The Daryl and Carol Power Hour Returns, Minus the Power.” Well, “The Daryl & Carol Power Hour” has returned for its third outing, only this time it’s…
Source: io9 – On a Clunky Walking Dead, Daryl and Carol Walk 2 Rocky Roads
The Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing (aka MODOK) will be joined by a few more friends and foes when the Marvel stop-motion animated series makes its way to Hulu on May 21.
Source: io9 – Marvel’s MODOK Picks Up a Few More Big Names
Some movies give us monsters that are supernatural. Some hail from outer space or are so huge they just stomp anything in their way. But other movies—including the three we’re celebrating here today—spotlight those small yet vicious critters in our midst that often go unnoticed until just the right thing sets them off.
Source: io9 – 3 of the Squishiest, Creepy-Crawliest Cult Horror Movies Ever Made
Hey, remember when Comic-Con International: San Diego was going to have a virtual convention once more this summer but try to hold a small, in-person con in November for…some reason? The organization has decided Thanksgiving weekend is the perfect time. In the immortal words of Pugsley Addams: Eat me.
Source: io9 – WTF, Comic-Con?
The Sound of Violence, from writer/director Alex Noyer, debuted at the 2021 South by Southwest Film Festival’s Midnighter showcase. It’s a booming and colorful horror film, following an unhinged DJ. With that kind of logline, you’ll understand that when it allows itself to relish in brutality, it’s great fun. When…
Source: io9 – The Sound of Violence Will Make Your Head Explode (In a Good Way)
Beyond simply continuing Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes’ respective superhero stories in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has been billed as the studio’s latest foray into social commentary using its larger-than-life characters to reflect some of the real-world challenges actual…
Source: io9 – The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Commentary on Race Is Too Much, and Not Enough
Netflix already has a lot of anime on its service, not to mention plenty more on the way based on existing IP. But today there’s a tease of a brand new original anime, and it seems right up our alley.
Source: io9 – Robots Really Hate Humans in the Teaser for Netflix’s Original Anime, Eden
After what felt like a non-stop barrage of Transformers movies, the past few years have been quiet on Cybertron (at least in live-action). That’s largely in part to the most recent film, Bumblebee, doing so poorly in comparison to its predecessors, despite many thinking it was the best of the bunch. In that time,…
Source: io9 – 2 Transformers Movies Are Apparently Still in the Works
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I’m usually not one for VOD horror movies, but this trailer for Vincent Paronnaud’s Hunted has me hooked. It’s a modern-ish take on the classic fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood, but saying that barely scratches the surface of what Red’s got going on in Hunted.
Source: io9 – The Horror Movie Hunted Is Ready to Reboot Red Riding Hood
Fresh off Zack Snyder’s Justice League and the trailer for The Suicide Squad, DC continues to keep its momentum. Randy McKinnon has been hired to write the script for Static Shock, which will be produced by Michael B. Jordan.
Source: io9 – DC’s Static Shock Movie Just Got Another Jolt Forward
Hmm, maybe “Vibrating Things Up” is more appropriate.
Source: io9 – The Boys TV Series Casts Little Nina to Shake Things Up
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round-up of all the latest and greatest toy news. This week: Pikachu wants to shock you, Lego returns to the galaxy far, far away with some new helmets, Batman techs up, and…Where’s Waldo? Well, he could be right on your shelf with a new action figure. Check it out!
Source: io9 – The Falcon and The Winter Soldier Enters the Hot Toys Endgame and More Toy News
Impulsive as the DCEU’s Barry Allen is, it’s surprising that he possesses enough self control to refrain from using those Speedforce powers to run backwards through time itself. But we want to be right here, right now, in this moment: because it’s Friday. And that means gifs.
Source: io9 – This Friday’s Gif Party’s All About Going Back