Five years later, the conclusion to the Skywalker Saga has still left a mark on Star Wars and the world's relationship to it.

Max has you covered if you’re looking for some solid films and TV shows to stream this holiday season.

Actors do made-for-TV Christmas movies for Hallmark, Netflix, and GAF because they make big money and offer steady work.

Leto will cackle maniacally (hopefully) alongside new additions Sam C. Wilson, Hafthor Bjornsson, and Kojo Attah in Masters of the Universe.

Greenwood, author of a new book of Radiohead photos, reminisces about his years in the band, gives more details about the band's recent private reunion, and much more in our new interview

From layoffs to the return of Gamergate, video games—and the people who make and play them—had a rough year.

It’s hard to say what’s more of a bummer, folks. Was it the dark days where every single big blockbuster movie got a shitty tie-in video game crunched out by some poor dev team in six months to launch alongside the film? Or is it the present, where new movies…

io9 spoke to the Superman writer-director this week about the Batman villain spinoff film from Mike Flanagan.

Paramount clearly has faith in its video game franchise and has given the go-ahead for "Sonic the Hedgehog 4."

Author, filmmaker, and curator Kier-La Janisse talks her new streaming series The Haunted Season, and its first entry, Sean Hogan's To Fire You Come at Last.

Season 1 of Dune: Prophecy ends on December 22nd, and HBO has already confirmed that it has been renewed for a second season.

We break down every detail from the first trailer for the James Gunn film starring David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Nicholas Hoult.

From Deadpool & Wolverine, Dune: Part Two, Wicked, Abigail, Twisters, and beyond—here are our favorite sci-fi, fantasy, and horror movie moments of the year.

James Gunn's DC mega movie starring David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan opens July 11.

This should've been the year Star Wars projected a confident vision of its future—instead, most of that future seems more uncertain than ever.

Just because a movie is set during Christmas doesn’t mean it’s a good Christmas movie. Some movies simply use Christmas as a sort of emotional backdrop for their naughty deeds. Meanwhile, other movies use the holiday as a narrative device meant to highlight a…

Sonic 3 arrives in theaters on December 19 (watch out for the leaked post-credits reveal) and seems like what you’d expect from a star-studded, blockbuster adaptation of a classic gaming franchise that straddles the divide between traditional family movie and…

The latest entry in Sega and Paramount's video game adaptation hits theaters December 20.

Jon M. Chu’s hit movie version of the Broadway musical Wicked (or more accurately, Wicked: Part I) has prompted a new wave of enthusiastically shipping frenemy protagonists Elphaba and Galinda/Glinda under the ship name “Gelphie.” That fandom has been present…

From "Mean Girls" to "The Crow," some movie remakes lived up to the expectations set by the originals, while others missed the mark.

Bluey, the kid-friendly series that has made a name of itself by wrecking adults with stories of family, friends, and little life moments, is getting the movie treatment from Disney. The Australian animated series globally distributed by the BBC became a sens…

28 Weeks Later is also widely available, if your hunger for millennial zombies remains insatiable.

Guy Pearce told Business Insider why he's never starred in a Christopher Nolan movie since 2000's "Memento."

The latest edition of the Complete Guide to Single Malt Scotch delivers a fresh look at the world of whiskey, featuring detailed updates on the most noteworthy new releases. Widely regarded as an essential resource for enthusiasts, this guide blends practical…

James Gunn's DC mega movie starring David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan drops its first trailer this Thursday.

“The Black Utopians,” by Aaron Robertson; “Blue,” by Rachel Louise Moran; “Rental House,” by Weike Wang; and “The Prisoner of Ankara,” by Suat Derviş.

Keep in touch with this refillable desk address book. This handsome leather address book features a refillable ring system for easily updating your contacts. Full-page tabbed A to Z dividers are complemented by blue, acid-free paper with a gilt edge. Includes…

In Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada, Shahu Patole pays tribute to a cuisine that has long been considered not worthy of documentation. We interviewed Patole — and are sharing some of his recipes.

Stars hail a decision by Disney+ to order four new episodes 18 years after the comedy TV show ended.

Greta Gerwig said she didn't think she was ready to direct a potential "Barbie 2." Now, The Hollywood Reporter says a sequel is coming. Reps called the report "inaccurate."

We may never know where Sony could've gone in still trying to make its Spidey-less Spider-Man spinoff universe happen, but Kraven still gave us one potentially wild path forward.

On December 12 the 2024 Game Awards were held, and over the span of about four hours, the yearly event handed out a ton of awards while also premiering a bunch of cool-looking trailers for upcoming games. And like every year before, the show ended with the re…

Avengers: Doomsday's latest casting report could give some context to this week's earlier wild murmurings.

Luke Wilson told Business Insider he's always bringing up his sequel idea to "Idiocracy" director Mike Judge.

The Party of Five star joins her original co-star Freddie Prinze Jr. in the upcoming horror film.

Fans will meet a whole new Gi-hun, aka Player 456, when the Netflix show returns December 26.

From The Witcher 4 to a shock Okami sequel, there was a lot to gawp over at Geoff Keighley's annual awards show.

"Kraven the Hunter" has the second lowest Rotten Tomatoes score of the entire Spider-Man movie franchise. It's low, but one film was even lower.

Netmarble and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today announced Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, an action-adventure RPG game set to launch in 2025.

The next adventure in CD PROJEKT RED's Witcher series gets a wicked trailer...but where's Geralt?

Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans seek out a missing man with the bag in the Prime Video offering.

The Netflix show's lead writer hopes its queer representation will pave the way for more video game adaptations to come.

Plus, after letting this one get away, Warner Bros. might actually start trying to make Looney Tunes projects for itself again.

Netflix’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ conjures the idiosyncratic beauty of Gabriel García Márquez’s prose.

From deleted scenes to rumors of an "Elf" sequel, here are behind-the-scenes secrets and fun facts about "Elf" the movie starring Will Ferrell.

Purnell wonders if she'll become a victim of her own success if she keeps knocking it out of the park with video game adaptations.

Pokémon TCG Pocket’s Mythical Island expansion set released on December 17th.

The new movie stars John Magaro as an ABC Sports producer whose team broadcast the Munich massacre for millions around the world during the 1972 Olympics.

Morning Edition host A Martinez and NPR gaming editor James Mastromarino discuss the nominees of this year's Game Awards and their significance in gaming culture.

Nickel Boys is one of the hot tickets of movies’ awards season this year. The first fiction feature film by artist, photographer, and documentarian RaMell Ross was adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning Colson Whitehead novel about an abusive, segregationist r…

Yep, another Disney animated hit is getting a live-action movie; this time, it's the studio's 2010 Rapunzel riff.

This year's festival had I Saw the TV Glow, In a Violent Nature, and It's What's Inside. What will be 2025's breakouts?

Gotham's going to shit, but Metropolis' own brand of shit is going to give Harley and Ivy one hell of a time.

Co-founder Marc Merrill talks to io9 about how the game studio turned media empire strives to live up to its philosophies after a year of successes and layoffs.

Apple wants you to care about F1 TV and the NYTGames apps, but you shouldn’t miss out on Thank Goodness You’re Here!

The new four-episode TV series is set between the two Pixar movies.

Hollywood's annual ranking of popular but not-yet-produced scripts includes some genre stories we'd love to see on-screen.

Keira Knightley said on "The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon" that she doesn't watch films she's been in, including "Love Actually."

Only as side characters, alas—but let's be real, we want them for a Spideypool rom-com.

There are some "Love Actually" facts fans may not know about the Christmas movie featuring Keira Knightley, Hugh Grant, and Emma Thompson.

The first trailer for 28 YearsLater is here and full of dread. Its grim mix of violence and futile resistance rekindles that sense of hopelessness from the first movie, though perhaps without the same moments of humanity and levity. It also might give us our …

Director Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow is a cute animal romp about an adorable black kitty — that also happens to be a tense adventure set in a strange, post-apocalyptic world, and one of Polygon’s top 10 movies of 2024. Flow is Zilbalodis’ second feature film, and …

Slasher Stream and 1990s throwback Y2K are the next to hit the format after Alien: Romulus.

Love Actually is meant to be an antidote to Hollywood romances and happily-ever-after endings. Its mix of vulnerability, sentimentality, and disarming goofiness has made it a Christmas movie classic for decades, but there’s also plenty of ick. Actor Keira Kni…

The second season of Netflix's most-watched show of all time is coming December 26.

Kenji Kamiyama directs the anime based on the books of J.R.R. Tolkien and films of Peter Jackson. It's out December 13.

“Every Valley,” by Charles King; “The Migrant’s Jail,” by Brianna Nofil; “The Rest Is Memory,” by Lily Tuck; and “The World with Its Mouth Open,” by Zahid Rafiq.

Apple has released a new trailer for season 2 of the Apple TV Plus series Severance, which starts streaming in January.

Teyonah Parris and Sam Richardson are the latest stars to be a part of whatever this Matchbox movie's gonna be.

Fortnite is getting a new five-on-five first-person shooter experience called Ballistic on December 11th. Fortnite creators will be able to publish their own experiences with first-person modes that same day.

You'll have to make up your own mythology for the movie's mysterious monsters.

The new film about an FBI agent chasing a white supremacist terror cell is based on a true story—and one that connects the headlines of 30 years ago to those of today.

The Order, now a movie starring Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult, was a real-life white nationalist organization in the 1980s.

Amy Adams is known for movies like "Enchanted" and "Arrival," but here's how critics ranked all of the six-time Oscar-nominated actor's films.

The Game of Thrones author is still insistent he's going to try and finish the next book in the series, regardless of what people say.

A new movie tells the true story of one of Denmark's most notorious serial killers.

Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home. This week, Speak No Evil, the new horror thriller starring James McAvoy and Scoot McNairy, comes to st…

Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene, creator of PUBG, has announced a handful of new games, including a free tech demo out now called Preface: Undiscovered World.

Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, and Sam Rockwell star in the classic sci-fi comedy.

Blur Studio's Dave Wilson and Tim Miller discuss how they got game developers' approval to adapt their games for Prime Video's Secret Level.

OK, I know. We don’t have practical teleportation. But that hasn’t stopped generations of science fiction authors and movie makers from building stories around it. If you ask most ordinary …read more

Secret Level starts streaming on Amazon Prime Video on December 10th and features animated shorts based on Pac-Man, Mega Man, and other video game series.

Plus, Adam Schndler and Brian Netto really want to make a new Darkman movie.

Taylor Swift's "Eras Tour" book that went on sale exclusively at Target was the second-best-selling non-fiction launch after Barack Obama's memoir.

In an exclusive interview, GOG, with its new Good Old Games preservation label, promises to preserve out-of-print titles, even ones that publishers try to delist.

Before it was a blockbuster movie, the hit Broadway musical also had a run as an abridged 35-minute theme park show.

Art the Clown will put on the Santa suit one more time with a sneak peek at a new Terrifier documentary.

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates' favorite books of the year include an autobiography and a book by Mustafa Suleyman, the head of Microsoft AI.

Plus, when to expect The Last of Us Season 2.

Suze Orman, a financial expert and best-selling author of several personal finance books, recently spoke about the "tax torpedo" some retirees should prepare...

One of the most important eras of superhero TV came to an end last night, and perhaps fittingly, it did so with a mix of sentiment and absolute insanity.

On Friday, a post on the official X (formerly Twitter) account for the Lupin the 3rd franchise announced a new animated movie set to come out next year. The film, tentatively titled Lupin the IIIrd The Movie, will be directed by Takeshi Koike (Redline), with …

Months after its cancelation, the Squid Game star is still reflecting on the virtiol that surrounded his Star Wars series.

A parent is suing the toy company after the URL for a porn website mistakenly appeared on packaging for Wicked dolls.

Published in 2012 to act as a guidepost for a tech giant, the book now feels like a forgotten manifesto for a world that no longer exists.

Plus, James Gunn is already thinking about DC riffs on his Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special.

The new game from Rezzil called “Premier League Player” uses spatial data captured in real soccer games to recreate critical plays in virtual reality.

The power of Kendrick Lamar's mustard has defeated the pink and green—for now.

The biggest question the new Star Wars TV series asks: Jod Na Na-who-od?

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