Kodansha USA Is Giving Away a Ton of Free Manga Right Now
Manga, have you heard of it? Once a niche subset of the graphic novel market, the Japanese comics now dwarf it in popularity, and are only finding new readers (and…
15 Video Game Movies and Shows That Don’t Totally Suck
Screenshot: Detective Pikachu/Warner Bros. The Tom Holland/Mark Wahlberg adaptation of the Uncharted video game series is out this week, riffing on Indiana Jones with a modern young protagonist. It’s one…
25 of the Best Niche Streaming Services For Every Kind of Viewer
Screenshot: Joel Cunningham Kino CultThis free, ad-supported service from boutique film distribution label Kino Lorber launched Oct. 1 with apps for Roku, Apple TV, Google TV, and Amazon Fire TV,…
10 Effortlessly Cool Anime You Should Watch Before Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop Comes Out
For fans of: mercenaries, action, moral ambiguity There’s a moral ambiguity at the heart of Cowboy Bebop and its rag-tag crew of mercenaries. Spike and the crew generally act for…
15 Shows We’re Begging You to Stream to Prove Wrestling Is Awesome
Screenshot: GLOW/Netflix Wrestling isn’t just for grandmas anymore. (My grandma was really, really into pro-wrestling when I was a kid. I assume that is the norm.) The United States has…
20 Anime From the 90s You Should Watch (or Rewatch) With Evangelion
The final film in the Neon Genesis Evangelion “Rebuild” series, Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.01 Thrice Upon a Time, recently dropped on Amazon Prime, introducing a new generation to the series’…
What’s New on Hulu in July 2021
The pantheon of movies about a pair of dimwits with an ampersand in the title (see: Dumb & Dumber, Batman & Robin) grew by two in 2020 with the pandemic-impacted…
Your Spring 2021 Anime Guide
Screenshot: Mappa | Kadokawa | Bakken Record Spring is in the air! That only means one thing. Actually, it means several things, but one of them is that it’s time…
12 Movies That Will Make You Love Hand-Drawn Animation
Screenshot: The Triplets of Bellville/YouTube (Fair Use) In the 20 years since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences introduced the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, a hand-drawn movie…
What’s New on Hulu in April 2021
Screenshot: Wild Mountain Thyme/YouTube There is a legend of a movie. A movie with a twist so ludicrous, I dare not speak of it, lest you scoff yourself right off…