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Spell Is a Gorgeous B Horror Movie With Messy Ideas About Class and Power

Paramount Pictures’Spell—from director Mark Tonderai—is a film that sets out to exist in a number of emotional spaces while terrifying you with a story about how simultaneously horrific and freeing homecomings can be. While the film doesn’t quite accomplish all of its goals, it does manage—perhaps accidentally—to be a wildly fun horror flick centering one … Continued

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Star Trek: Discovery‘s Tilly and Michael Reunite in This Bittersweet Clip

This week’s episode of Star Trek: Discovery was a hard one on the crew—the joy of being reunited with Michael Burnham after she crashed into the 32nd century ahead of them, tempered with the stark realization of the future they find themselves in. It’s something that’s starting to hit home for the Disco crew, as … Continued

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Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s Goofy, Ghostly Truth Seekers Is Well Worth a Binge

Truth Seekers, a new series whose co-creators and stars include noted nerds Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead), hits Amazon tomorrow. It would be a welcome arrival any time of year, but since it’s all about the paranormal (and the humans who’re obsessed with it), it’s the perfect binge for Halloween. Though … Continued

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Onyx Equinox‘s New Trailer Is an Absolute Bloodbath

In Crunchyroll’s upcoming anime-inspired seriesOnyx Equinox, a young boy named Izel sets out with an unexpected group of friends on an adventure to save the world from the gods—who take pleasure in the idea of toying with humanity just for shits and giggles. As the chosen one, Izel has both fate and magic on his … Continued

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Celebrate Grand Admiral Thrawn’s 30th Birthday Next Year With New Books, Fancy Books, and Old Books (on T-Shirts!)

In 1991, the Star Wars universe changed forever. After a few years of quiet, the Expanded Universe exploded in scope and reach, kicking off with a series of novels from Timothy Zahn that brought us the story of what happened after Return of the Jedi. With it came the rise of Grand Admiral Thrawn and … Continued

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Netflix’s Alice in Borderland Trailer Is an Invitation to Play the Deadliest Game

Much like Lewis Carroll’s fantastical heroine, the trio of slackers at the center of Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of Alice in Borderland are a group of people whose imaginations are almost too big to fit into their current realities, and so they delight in flights of fancy that pull them out of the humdrum of their … Continued

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Y: The Last Man Is Back With a New Agent 355 and Hero

Y: The Last Man has had a long, long, long journey to a screen near you and now, finally, it’s actually happening. FX announced that the newly reimagined Y: The Last Man TV series has begun production in Toronto, and a few new cast members are along for the ride. Actress Ashley Romans (NOS4A2) replaces … Continued

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New Witcher Season 2 Set Photos Tease an Armor Upgrade for the Villains

Our first look at Adam Mason and Michael Bay’s coronavirus movie Songbird is here. Vivica A. Fox is leading another remake of Night of the Living Dead. Plus, sneak peeks as Spider-Man 3 starts filming and the CW wants to make a Nancy Drew spinoff with a black, queer protagonist. Spoilers get! Night of the … Continued

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On Star Trek: Discovery, You Really Can’t Go Home Again

This week, Star Trek: Discovery reunited the disparate halves of its cast for an emotional chance to take stock of their unprecedented situation. The crew has arrived in the future and is headed to the ancestral home of the Federation—but as we so often learn when we return to our roots, they come to the … Continued

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Obi-Wan Kenobi Reflects on His Past in This Badass Star Wars Short

Anakin, Luke, and Rey Skywalker may be the respective stars of each Star Wars trilogy, but they all pale in comparison to Obi-Wan Kenobi. Over the course of Star Wars, the evolution of Obi-Wan Kenobi has been pretty extraordinary. Beginning as a stoic, powerful aging Jedi Master played by Alec Guinness, then going back in … Continued

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Genndy Tartakovsky’s Unicorn: Warriors Eternal Is Heading to HBO Max

A new generation of heroes are rising—well before their time. HBO Max and Cartoon Network have announced Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, the latest animated series from Samurai Jack and Primal creator Genndy Tartakovsky, all about ancient heroes who’ve been reincarnated into the bodies of teenagers. “Unicorn: Warriors Eternal is going to be crazy cool and I … Continued

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Let Moral Orel‘s Halloween Episode Remind You That People Are the Scariest Thing of All

In the very first episode of Dino Stamatopoulos’ Moral Orel, 11-year-old Orel Puppington resolves to bring the dead back to life by reading from the Necronomicon because of his sincere and naive belief that the deceased are “rejecting” Orel’s God’s greatest gift: life. Terrifying as it is when zombies start rising from their graves and … Continued

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Give a Chaotic First Listen to Amazon’s Wheel of Time Series

Like so many other series in production, Amazon’sThe Wheel of Time was brought to a halt by the onset of the covid-19 pandemic. At this point, it doesn’t seem at all likely it’ll launch in 2020 the way it was originally meant to. That being said, The Wheel of Time’s team wants people to know … Continued

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Tim Curry’s Gloriously Bad Halloween Song From The Worst Witch: A Scholarly Analysis

As Halloween approaches, it is paramount that we all take a moment to remember—or discover—Tim Curry’s “Halloween Song” from The Worst Witch. Since HBO aired its extremely low-budget, TV movie adaptation of Jill Murphy’s children’s books in 1986, it has remained one of the most wonderful, terrible, bizarre videos of all time, thanks to its … Continued

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Tiny Toons Is Returning for More Adventures on HBO Max

They’re tiny, they’re toony, they’re all a little, well, Looney Tunes. HBO Max and Cartoon Network have announced Tiny Toons Looniversity, the latest ‘90s animated series revival from executive producer Steven Spielberg. According to a press release, Tiny Toons Looniversity has been given a straight-to-series, two-season order. Based on the characters from Tiny Toon Adventures, … Continued

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The Nerd’s Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in November

Viewers are turning to streaming entertainment more than ever thanks to the global pandemic, and the plethora of services can serve as a much-needed escape. At the start of each month, most streamers do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some away, and io9 is here to help with your decision making. Welcome … Continued

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These New Collections Are the Perfect Place to Start Reading Hellboy

Hellboy has a long history in comics, but it’s one that’s splintered—tales that dip in and out of timelines and jump around his history of fighting to keep his adopted home safe from the supernatural. It’s understandable if you might be unsure just where to start, or what the best stories are. But a new … Continued

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Check Out This Exclusive Peek at Simon Stålenhag’s Journey Into The Labyrinth

Tales From the Loop creator Simon Stålenhag has a knack for playing on our greatest hopes and fears, combining the innocence of youth with science fiction’s fascinating, yet terrifying, unknown. Now, the storyteller is back witha newart book, The Labyrinth, and io9 has an exclusive look inside the maze. Free League Publishing has announced The … Continued

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The Craft: Legacy Has Good Intentions But Fails to Cast a Spell

The Craft has become a cult classic thanks to its indelible portrayal of misfit teen witches gone wild, with an appealing dose of 1990s nostalgia baked in. The Craft: Legacy aims to capture the spirit of the original, and while it definitely succeeds in putting a modern spin on the story, it comes up lacking … Continued

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Updates on the Animorphs Movie, Marvel’s Moon Knight, and More

André Øvredal has an update on the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark sequel. Disney+’s Moon Knight show has seemingly found its director. Hasbro’s bold new Power Rangers reboot has tapped a writer. Plus, a new look at Freaky, and what’s to come on Soulmates and Moonbase 8. To me, my Spoilers! Animorphs Michael … Continued