“I’ve never been a Star Wars fan. I’ve seen only one of the movies, The Phantom Menace, and I was eight years old at the time. And yet even I, as a child, owned and played with one of those little lightsaber toys, as have millions of children before and after me (not to mention the millions of children yet-unborn, who will not be spared induction into the Disney Industrial Complex).” Read more at Gizmodo We wouldn’t be getting Metroid Dread if it weren’t for the infamous addition to the franchise in Metroid M. Read more at Inverse Marvel’s latest trailer for Eternals showcases the fantastic diversity in front and behind the camera for the film. “While the MCU has tackled space before, this will truly be a shake-up in a way we haven’t seen before. With a star-studded cast and the second woman to ever have a directing Oscar (and first woman of color), Chloé Zhao, onboard, there is a lot that this film is offering on a surface level. Especially in terms of diversity.” Read more at The Mary Sue Don’t get too attached to the new Pokémon in Legends: Arceus because they are probably going to go extinct. Read more at Kotaku Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr. in an animated sci-fi thriller from Boyhood director Richard Linklater? Here’s why you should revisit the 2006 film A Scanner Darkly. “Philip K. Dick’s 1977 novel A Scanner Darkly is an oddball mash-up of genres—a strange admixture whose stylistic shifts get even more pronounced in Richard Linklater’s film adaptation. During a time (‘seven years from now,’ according to the opening title card) when America is in the throes of a massive new drug epidemic—’Substance D,’ a brain-shredding euphoric which causes almost instantaneous dependence.” Read more at The A.V. Club After Nine Perfect Strangers, even we aren’t entirely sure what Nicole Kidman’s real voice sounds like anymore. Read more at Jezebel
