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South Korea is one of the world’s biggest exporters of popular culture. From K-pop to K-dramas, Parasite to BTS, the East Asian country knows how to reach an international audience. Korean TV, especially K-dramas, have long been of interest to western markets, but it’s no longer just the Korean diaspora or romance drama fans underserved

The recent controversy regarding the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing’s lawsuit against Activision Blizzard has prompted players and streamers to stage various forms of in-game and real-world protests. The very short version of this story is that the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing has filed a lawsuit against game publisher Activision

Sports stories have traditionally belonged to the movies. Something about the rhythms of competition, in which an athlete or team trains, plays, and then either wins or loses, is a natural fit for the film world’s three act structure. Television, with its multiple episodes and seasons, is often more discursive and therefore less viable for

Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan has left his unmistakable stamp on some of our culture’s most primal fears: ghosts, beings from another world, and even unnamed monsters in the woods. Yet in his latest effort, the cryptically titled Old, the storyteller attempts to wrap his arms around the greatest terror of all: time itself. Like the

Marvel is known for its impressive story strategizing, which often involves planning future plot and character development years ahead of a movie’s release. Now that the studio has committed more fully to its TV series as a place to build the larger MCU, that planning necessitates even more work that must take place across both

The upcoming release of Aliens: Fireteam Elite is not only a reminder of the surprisingly interesting history of Alien video game adaptations but an excuse to celebrate 1986’s Aliens sometimes overlooked status as arguably the most influential movie in video game history. In fact, Aliens changed gaming so much that it’s almost tempting to retroactively

This article contains MAJOR spoilers for Loki Episode 6. The Loki season finale introduced a major character—or at least his actor—to the MCU. In “For All Time. Always,” Loki and Sylvie reach the Citadel at the end of time and are met by He Who Remains, the man behind the TVA and the Sacred Timeline.

While it’s understandable that Valve’s Steam Deck is already drawing comparisons to the Nintendo Switch, the Steam Deck’s closest (and most important) comparison in the history of video game handhelds has to be the ill-fated PlayStation Vita. Released in Japan in December 2011 as the follow-up to the PSP, the PlayStation Vita was positioned to

On June 25, 2000 on Fuji TV in Japan and October 21, 2000 on Fox Kids in the U.S. an episode of Digimon aired that over 20 years later continues to haunt fans and the franchise itself alike. This was an episode that opened up a world of possibility and a plotline darker than anything

This Evil review contains spoilers. Evil Season 2 Episode 5 We stumble right into the action on Evil season 2, episode 5, “Z Is for Zombie.” Grainy film footage captures tattered young people fleeing slow-moving zombies, the kind which annoy the younger generation of the genre’s fans. Kristen’s (Katja Herbers) daughter Lila (Skylar Gray) is

This War of the Worlds review contains spoilers. Mind. Blown. Zut alors! How is this possible?! Such was Catherine’s reaction to realising that the Invaders had travelled to Earth not through space, but through time. It was a total revelation for the physicist – proof of concepts previously held only in theory. For Dr Durand, it changed everything. Catherine’s

Thirty-five years ago, James Cameron’s Aliens opened in theaters, stunning audiences and surprising even the most jaded critics. Here was a much belated sequel to a Hollywood blockbuster that was seven years old—and at a time when sequels were synonymous with soulless cash grabs. Yet in so many ways, Cameron’s follow-up took the ideas introduced

This My Hero Academia review contains spoilers. My Hero Academia Season 5 Episode 16 “Let’s enjoy this momentary peace…” It’s not easy to strike a healthy balance between fun and work, yet this is something that’s important for not just the prospective heroes to properly master in My Hero Academia, but also the series itself.

Let it never be said that the Twilight film franchise doesn’t know how to make an entire movie theater gasp aloud in shock and horror. In 2012, with the release of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, the final installment in the paranormal romance adaptation, it did just that, delivering a twist ending

This article contains Fear Street Part Three: 1666 spoilers. It never could be as simple as reuniting an ancient skeleton’s hand with its wrist, right? That became obvious last week when the Fear Street trilogy’s ostensible heroine Deena Johnson (Kiana Madeira) attempted to break the curse of Sarah Fier by attaching all missing appendages in

Valve has finally revealed its handheld Steam device after months of rumors and speculation. It’s called the Steam Deck and it sounds like it’s much more than just a Nintendo Switch-like handheld device loaded up with Valve’s Steam OS. There’s a lot more going on under the hood of this portable gaming PC. The Steam

This article contains Loki spoilers. The Loki season finale felt like the payoff that MCU fans have been waiting for: it was a massive expansion of the MCU while also rewarding those of us most steeped in the lore of the Marvel Universe. And in that, it was a triumph in more than one way:

After seven books, eight films, a theme park, and the creation of a veritable merchandising empire, you can hardly blame the Harry Potter production team for wanting to go out on a high note with the final installment of the beloved film franchise. But one final mountain loomed ominously before Harry Potter and the Deathly

Space Jam: A New Legacy, the much belated sequel to the 1996 pseudo-classic may boxes it has to check. First and foremost, it must work as children’s entertainment that introduces the Looney Tunes to a new generation of kids; it also needs to satisfy aging millennials’ nostalgia for the Michael Jordan-led original; and finally it

This Wellington Paranormal article contains no spoilers. Wellington Paranormal does for cops what What We Do In the Shadows does for vampires: not really much. People didn’t offer their throats to Staten Island bloodsuckers, asking to be made immortal after the FX series, and there won’t be a run on the New Zealand police academy

While the NES was obviously not the first video game console, it’s hardly a surprise that some of the rarest and most expensive games in the world belong to that beloved console’s legendary library.  As it becomes increasingly obvious that nostalgia is driving up prices in the suddenly lucrative collectible video games market, it’s also

Warning: contains spoilers for The Office seasons 1-9. “Geese and goats and Schrutes and hijinks at the Bed and Breakfast” is how Rainn Wilson, the actor behind The Office‘s Dwight K. Schrute, summed up proposed spin-off The Farm, which never went beyond its pilot episode. Speaking to fans on a Reddit AMA back in 2012, Wilson called the Dwight-focussed

Say what you will about the DC Extended Universe’s inability to match Mighty Marvel’s reliably lucrative talent for cohesive world-building, but the onscreen presence of Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn has become—justified cliché incoming—iconic in the pop culture panorama from her thus-far two movie appearances. Consequently, Robbie’s return for a third-go-round in franchise-crossing director James Gunn’s

This article contains Black Widow spoilers.  The wait is finally over, as Black Widow has arrived in theaters and on Disney+ to end a two-year drought in which no new movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe were released. Of course, the powerhouse company kept the flag flying with the premiere of three well-received series on

This Evil review contains spoilers. Evil Season 2 Episode 4 Evil season 2, episode 4, “E Is for Elevator,” stops between floors to squeeze in an urban legend. The team is called in on a job outside their scope, an internet game. It has no demonic ties except for a pentagram drawn on the floor

Black Widow is out, bringing the women-led spy genre to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film follows Natasha Romanov in the time between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War as she works to bring down the Red Room, aka the Soviet-affiliated program that took her as a baby and brainwashed her into becoming

This article contains Black Widow spoilers. During the first Avengers movie, in the midst of the Chitauri invasion into Manhattan’s Midtown district, Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow) and Clint Barton (Hawkeye) are standing shoulder to shoulder as wave after wave of aliens swarm. The archer has just saved civilians on a bus while the Russian spy

Game genres go in and out of fashion all the time, but for nearly 30 years, first-person shooters have been one of the industry’s most reliable sources for blockbuster experiences that often help dictate the future of the medium.  There’s no one element that makes FPS games so brilliant, and that is, ironically enough, exactly

This article contains Black Widow spoilers. Cinema is back! Marvel is back! Natasha Romanoff is back! There’s so much excitement going on all at once that it can be overwhelming. Marvel’s latest—the long awaited Black Widow—is set during Natasha Romanoff’s (Scarlett Johansson) exile period, after Captain America: Civil War left the Avengers divided, and Nat

This article contains light spoilers for America: The Motion Picture. Director Matt Thompson has been in the adult animated comedy game for a long time. Thompson was around for the dawn of Adult Swim in 2001 when the programming block hosted Sealab 2021, the series he created alongside frequent collaborator Adam Reed. Reed and Thompson