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Belle’s Mamoru Hosoda Tells Us Why He Keeps Making Stories for the Internet Age
Mamoru Hosoda has been fascinated with the digital world since his career in animation started. From his directorial debut with the first Digimon Adventure film and its follow up Our War Game!, all the way to his brand new awards season contender Belle, the director has repeatedly dove back into the themes of connection we…
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Game Awards 2021: All the Coolest Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Announcements
Comics have the Eisners, movies have the Oscars, TV has the Emmys, and video games have the Game Awards. This year’s edition of the latter happened last night, and it was really half awards, half an excuse for big companies to tease all their big, upcoming projects. So, for example, you probably saw trailers for…
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How to Build a Better D&D Dragon, According to the People Creating Them
They’re literally in the name — dragons are to Dungeons & Dragons as, well, dungeons are to Dungeons & Dragons. In the many pages of a million monster manuals, there will never be a creature so iconic and important to the fantasy of the tabletop RPG franchise than its monstrous namesake. But what’s it like…
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Spider-Man: No Way Home’s Trailer in Animation for Your Saturday Morning Cartoon Viewing Pleasure
We got the first, highly-anticipated trailer this week for Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. If that wasn’t enough to satisfy you, a YouTuber has recreated it (yes, already!) using animation from Spider-Man: The Animated Series — with a little helping hand from the animated The Incredible Hulk.