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Mars Express’ fascinating vision of a robotic future was inspired by film noir and Big Tech
Director Jérémie Périn talks his favorite conspiracy thrillers, anime inspirations, and planned obsolescence
The Boys songwriter behind Vought on Ice did the excruciating homework
‘Let’s Put the Christ Back in Christmas’ was dredged up from culture-war hell
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Inside Out 2’s Lance Slashblade was inspired by a real-life secret video game crush
The character’s creators explain the influences that shaped Lance: ‘like Cloud and Sephiroth had a child’
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Scavengers Reign still has so much more to say
Co-creator Joe Bennett talks through the origins of one of 2023’s best sci-fi series and what could lie on the horizon
Fallout 76 finally stands triumphant — and there’s more to come
A No Man’s Sky-style journey from launch
House of the Dragon won’t mess up Dunk and Egg or any other Game of Thrones spinoff
‘We don’t want to cause large ripple effects’
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Star Trek: Discovery tore itself apart for the good of Star Trek’s future
And it helped set the tone for where Star Trek is now
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Cuckoo’s director hopes young people sneak into his movie and blow their minds
A spoiler-free first look at Hunter Schafer’s upcoming horror movie, from German director Tilman Singer
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Hope or nope? 2 radically different readings of I Saw the TV Glow’s bleak ending
Two radically different reads on the end of Jane Schoenbrun’s movie
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Robot Dreams’ director founded an animation studio just to adapt a graphic novel he loved
Pablo Berger says he’d never made an animated movie, but when he read Sara Varon’s comic, he knew he had to
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Respect to the director of Netflix’s Atlas for thinking deeply about mechs
‘I knew I had to separate from everything — I had no interest in repeating.’
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In Hellblade 2, the biggest challenge Senua faces is other people
The writer and psychologist behind the Xbox sequel on taking its portrayal of psychosis to the next level
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Evil Does Not Exist’s director unpacks its strange, controversial ending
The Best Picture nominee walks us one of through 2024’s most discussable, debatable movies
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I talked to a swordmaker about the coolest swords he makes
How Sabersmith’s cutting edge blades are born in rural Michigan
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The makers of Shogun, Wheel of Time, BSG, and more sound off on Game of Thrones’ true legacy
5 years after the HBO fantasy series ended, the industry is still figuring out what it meant
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I Saw the TV Glow director Jane Schoenbrun on fighting the ‘nefarious mechanism’ of story
What the movie means, what they’re deconstructing, and how their Slenderman documentary connects all their work
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth set the fandom back 20 years
This is the ship war that will never die
X-Men ’97’s Morph actor wants the shapeshifter to find love — just not with Wolverine
Karliak digs into how Marvel’s X-Men revival is getting representation right
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Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone couldn’t stop adding jokes to Knuckles’ dream musical
‘My goal for the episode was honestly to have this be something that you watch and are like, Whoa, what was that?’
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Kim Kardashian: Hollywood has an unlikely, lasting place in gaming history
Looking back on Kim Kardashian’s video game legacy
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The monsters that made me: Growing up disabled, all of my heroes were villains
Horror movies challenged my relationship with myself
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ VFX lead explains its ethical use of machine learning
How Wētā FX’s digital tools made the film possible, without replacing workers or stealing other people’s art
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Star Trek: Discovery boldly goes where no Trek has gone before by saying religion is... OK, actually
‘Whistlespeak’ breaks from Trek tradition to be pretty chill about believing in a higher power
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For Brad and Fiona Dourif, Chucky is a ‘family business’
And how Brad’s in-person return made him feel like "a part of the franchise" again
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A People’s History of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
The rise and fall (and rise?) of a man who loves to cook
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The Wandering Village is proof of TikTok’s impact on games
‘We’ve seen just some amazing, amazing success stories on TikTok’
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The Fall Guy was its stunt team’s explosive dream come true
‘I’ve never been in a situation where I can go up to the director and ask him for advice on how to get hit by a car’
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Fallout took the Alien approach with the Brotherhood of Steel — and it worked
The power suit had to be ‘kind of klutzy’ to work
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Marvel’s Iman Vellani dishes on her love of Attack on Titan
‘I can’t think of anything else I’ve watched recently that’s impacted me as much as that’
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TikTok’s biggest creators imagine what would happen if the app went away
‘So many are fearful that years of hard work and dedication could soon be taken away with no resolve to be found’
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Never Have I Ever’s Maitreyi Ramakrishnan says Twitch will give her chill ‘creative control’
The Never Have I Ever star has serious opinions on Mario Kart and needs to share them
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