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‘Dune 2’s Most Important Relationship Will Fix One Book Flaw

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5 Years Later, Star Wars Brings Palpatine Back Again For an Actual Good Reason

— Lucasfilm As a sequel to The Clone Wars animated series, The Bad Batch has, since 2021, shouldered the strangest Star Wars canon burden of them all: Walking back the heel-turn of the clones in Revenge of the Sith and bringing them back to being the sympathetic characters they were throughout the Clone Wars TV […]

20 Years Ago, a Completely Unhinged Crime Thriller Was Ahead of Its Time — By About 7 Years

— Warner Bros In 2004, Fast & Furious was barely even a franchise. While the first movie, about a cop who infiltrates a street racing gang, was a hit at the box office, nobody could have predicted where the saga would eventually lead. And although 2 Fast 2 Furious helped establish a unique approach to […]

‘True Detective’ Season 4 Easter Eggs Tease the Answer to a Decade-Long Mystery

— HBO It may end up being the coldest show of the year, but there’s something immediately warm and welcoming about True Detective: Night Country. HBO’s new season of True Detective couldn’t, in many ways, be any more different from the three that have come before it. For starters, none of the show’s original creative […]

Netflix’s Biggest Sci-Fi Epic of 2024 Is Hoping One Classic TV Trope Still Works

— Netflix In March, a massive sci-fi epic from David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo is coming to Netflix. Scientists are cracking up, there’s a ticking clock, a mysterious otherworldly VR headset, and aliens knocking at our door. This is 3 Body Problem, a series poised to be the next big thing in sci-fi […]

Amazon Just Quietly Released The Most Divisive Sci-Fi Movie of 2023

— Amazon MGM Studios Science fiction is designed, perhaps more than any other genre, to ask questions. Films like Blade Runner and 2001: A Space Odyssey interrogate not only the very idea of “humanity,” but also question what it takes to possess it. Others, like Arrival and Minority Report, find very different ways to explore […]

2024’s Most Exciting Sci-Fi Shows and Movies Reveal an Exciting New Trend

— 20th Century Studios The long-term effects of 2023’s Hollywood labor strikes will be felt on the industry’s release schedule long after the calendar has turned. The months-long pause on most productions has created gaps and dry spells that moviegoers won’t truly feel until late 2024 and early 2025, but there are still reasons to […]

Amazon Just Quietly Added Stephen King’s Most Chilling Sci-Fi Movie

— Paramount Pictures The 21st century has been warped by a wave of hyper-interconnectivity, infecting all of us with an appetite for global information. The internet, pulsing like a collective organ for the human race, has given us unbridled access to knowledge in exchange for a new kind of existential anxiety. To know is to […]

The Best Post-Apocalypse Games of 2023 Reveal an Exciting New Trend

is about those who remain after an apocalyptic flood, caused by a bygone civilization’s greed. For studio lead Hannah Nicklin that’s not cause for despair for the charming ship crew of De Kelpie. She tells Inverse, “The one act of pessimism the game performs is the previous society failed to stop a crisis of climate […]

10 Years Ago, an Incredible Sci-Fi Movie Predicted a Life-Changing Technology

— Inverse; Warner Bros. Imagine a perfect partner: One who always texts back, listens, and remembers even the most insignificant details about your life.The cherry on top? If you’re tired or need space, you can switch them off. That’s the appeal of AI programs created for connection, and it’s hardly surprising people are falling in […]