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We’re smack-dab in the middle of May and, if the reviews of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga are any indication, moviegoers are in for a hell of a show when it releases in theaters next week. If you’re looking for a fantastic film to tide you…

Compelling sci-fi dystopias are few and far between in movies these days, which is why it might be surprising that one of the best is hiding inside an underappreciated action movie from 2018. Upgrade, which arrived on Netflix this week,…

Netflix’s adaptation of Cixin Liu’s novel The Three-Body Problem and its sequels is coming back for a second season, and potentially more, the streaming service announced on Wednesday. It seems that the renewal is for however many…

Like a war over gas in a post-apocalyptic landscape, the franchise-fatigue debate rages on, with multiple factions claiming that sequels, prequels, and superhero films are killing the cinematic landscape, while others claim the smoke…

Spoiler warnings have become a polite way to signal to the internet that you’re about to discuss some aspect of a movie they might prefer not to know before seeing the film. People online have argued endlessly about what constitutes a…

Every new era of Doctor Who begins with a new Doctor. That’s always the most exciting part: As a nigh-immortal alien whose personality shifts with his looks after he regenerates into a new form, meeting a new Doctor is like meeting a…

Right now, every industry faces discussions about how artificial intelligence might help or hinder work. In movies, creators are concerned that their work might be stolen to train AI replacements, their future jobs might be taken by…

For more than a decade, reports have been circulating about the original version of the upcoming action movie Furiosa — an anime series that director George Miller and writer Mahiro Maeda were working on at the same time they were…

Ten years ago, writer Drew McWeeny posed a question in the headline of his latest column: “Has life in the age of casual magic made moviegoers numb to the amazing?” Frustrated by news of what would be 2016’s Alice Through the Looking…

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the latest sci-fi film from Wes Ball (The Maze Runner) and the direct follow-up to Matt Reeves’ 2017 War for the Planet of the Apes, opens in theaters this weekend. Set 300 years after the events of…