Tag: Animation
Final Spider-Verse Movie Names Directors
In a Deadline exclusive, Sony Animation announced Bob Persichetti and Justin K. Thompson as the directors of Beyond the Spider-Verse, the final film in the trilogy that began in 2018 with Into the Spider-Verse. Persichetti and Thompson are veterans of the franchise, being on the direction teams f...
Read MoreDisney Dropping Transgender Storyline From Win or Lose
Is Disney pulling back on what the Critical Drinker has dubbed “the message”? Normally, I’d say something qualifying like “maybe” or “it looks like it,” but given today’s story, there’s no denying it anymore. The Hollywood Reporter exclusively reveals that a story arc involving a ...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024)
I’ve been looking forward to The War of the Rohirrim since I first heard of it. The people behind the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy are involved, and this is just one animated movie, so I wasn’t worried about it becoming bloated or self-indulgent like the Hobbit movies. The animation looked sl...
Read MoreTRAILER: Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2 (2025)
Yesterday, Netflix and DR Movie Co. put out the first full trailer for Castlevania: Nocturne season 2. Nocturne takes place around 300 years after the events of Castlevania, the animated series based on the popular video game franchise, and follows Richter Belmont, a descendant of Trevor and Sypha. ...
Read MoreSonic the Hedgehog Rides Santa’s Sleigh in “A Very Sonic Christmas”
Sonic the Hedgehog 3’s marketing is getting in the Christmas Spirit. Today, Paramount released a stop-motion short film called “A Very Sonic Christmas” to advertise the upcoming release of the latest in the video game adaptation series and spread a little Christmas Cheer at the same time. “...
Read MoreREVIEW: Arcane – Season 2, Episodes 7, 8, and 9, “Pretend Like It’s the First Time,” “Killing is a Cycle,” and “The Dirt Under Your Nails”
***SPOILERS*** “Pretend Like It’s the First Time” finds Ekko, and later Heimerdinger, in a timeline where Hextech was never invented. For his part, Jayce is sent to a future where Viktor’s evolution overtakes the Earth, wiping out humanity. Ekko encounters an alternate version of Powder, who...
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