This week, we go deep on Lanterns and Forgotten Island, take a look at a doc about Disney animator Ron Husband, recap Dark Matter and chat with its star Alice Braga, break down the new Street Fighter trailer, and welcome back Shelf Conscious with toy YouTuber and artist Ibrahim Moustafa.
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At D23 Expo, we sat in on the panel for Don Hahn’s Huz: Drawn to Life, a Disney+ documentary following longtime animator Ron Husband — a look at perseverance, mentorship, and the Black artists who helped shape Disney Animation.
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Directed by Joel Crawford and Januel P. Mercado, Forgotten Island may draw inspiration from The Hangover, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and even Turning Red, but it never feels content to simply imitate them.
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Episode 2 of Dark Matter season 2, “A Perfect World,” finds its Pearl Jam parallel in “React, Respond” — as the Council of Leightons expands its reach, Ryan and Amanda train for what’s coming, and Jason’s retro-world detective turns out to be a familiar face.
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The newest Street Fighter trailer takes a closer look at Ryu and Ken’s storyline and the complex world of tournament fighting. Outside of the tournaments, the cast has kicked off its world tour in Japan with stops across Tokyo, including Sensō-ji Temple.
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Shelf Conscious is back from the dead! To resurrect the show, Keith sits down with one of his favorite YouTube creators and collectors, Ibrahim Moustafa — a world-renowned comic book artist whose graphic novel RetroActive is currently in development at Hulu, and who you may also recognize from a recent stop on the Middle Geeks podcast.
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We caught up with Dark Matter star Alice Braga to talk about season 2’s uncharted territory — there’s no second novel to adapt this time — her real friendship with author Blake Crouch, and the guilt Amanda carries into the new season.
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DreamWorks Animation’s first film rooted in Filipino culture and mythology, Forgotten Island, is a triumph. We caught up with directors Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, and stars Liza Soberano and Manny Jacinto, at a special screening ahead of its September 25 release.
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J. Alphonse Nicholson and Jasmine Cephas Jones on Lanterns’ backstory-heavy third episode, and what it means to raise a Black son to become a superhero.
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Despite a mighty and delightful ensemble cast, the Play On Shakespeare’s modern verse translation of William Shakespeare’s Pericles at Boston Court Pasadena is a bit of a head-scratcher.
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As Lanterns gears up for its third episode, we go inside a special panel with episode writer Vanessa Baden Kelly and stars Jasmine Cephas Jones and J. Alphonse Nicholson on adapting John Stewart’s origins for today.
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This week, we remember Peter Cullen — plus a Dark Matter recap, a Halloween Time at Disneyland preview, reviews of Batman: Knightfall, Colony, and It Ends, and a Lanterns cast and composer interview.
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Apple TV’s Dark Matter returns for a second season, and we’re recapping it episode by episode — pairing each installment with a corresponding track from Pearl Jam’s Dark Matter album, kicking off with the season premiere.
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Halloween Time returns to Disneyland Resort with new Mickey and Friends costumes, a fresh lineup of spooky snacks, and a taste test of the best seasonal bites at Disney California Adventure Park.
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Yeon Sang-ho’s Train to Busan is undoubtedly one of the best zombie films ever made. With his latest, Colony, he injects the idea of collective evolution with the zombies in a much more action-packed scenario that packs a lot of entertaining and terrifying tension even if logic falls apart tremendously halfway through the film.
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Alexander Ullom’s cosmic horror road trip traps four recent graduates on an endless highway, turning post-graduation drift into an unexpectedly effective metaphor for growing up and growing apart.
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As Forgotten Island nears its theatrical release, we make the case for why DreamWorks’ Filipino-led animated film deserves the same excitement and cultural moment that KPop Demon Hunters got.
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We follow up our Lanterns review with spoiler-free interviews — cast members Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, and Poorna Jagannathan, plus composer Stephanie Economou on the show’s ’90s grunge-inflected score.
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In the first film of the Batman: Knightfall animated trilogy, director Jeff Wamester and screenwriter Jeremy Adams, with Warner Bros. Animation, have crafted one of the greatest Batman films of all time.
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D23 coverage all week, plus interviews with the Outer Banks cast, Camp Rock 3’s Casey Trotter, and The End of Oak Street’s Jordan Alexa Davis — and reviews of Coyote vs. Acme, Slava Ukraini!, The Samurai and the Prisoner, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, and why Laika’s Wildwood is one to watch.
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This morning, to prepare fans for Avengers: Doomsday, Disney and Marvel Studios has announced the Countdown to Avengers: Doomsday Official Podcast to be hosted The Basement Yard’s biggest nerd, Frank Alvarez and the MCU’s biggest nerd, Ms. Marvel herself, Iman Vellani.
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Laika’s Wildwood is a bold, big-swing stop-motion epic — and a defiant statement about handcrafted artistry in an industry increasingly tempted by AI shortcuts.
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After five seasons, Outer Banks has come to an end, and we had the chance to speak with Chase Stokes, Drew Starkey, Jonathan Daviss, Madelyn Cline, Madison Bailey, and Carlacia Grant one last time. Please note: these interviews will contain major spoilers.
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