“Your father abandoned us. We were unchosen, cast out of his eschatology. We are going to destroy your father’s cult and salt the earth where it falls.” Fetter’s mother rips off his shadow immediately after birth, and almost as immediately starts his training. He commits his first killing at age eleven (a grand-uncle on his
Directed by Adam Wingard, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire follows up from the explosive showdown of Godzilla vs. Kong with an all-new adventure. It pits the mighty Kong and the fearsome Godzilla against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within the Hollow Earth that challenges their very existence as well as the existence of humanity.
WELL. The gigantic trash fire of last year’s nominating process sure was a thing, wasn’t it. It sounds like there’s been a house-cleaning in the committee, and maybe we can hope that all the votes are fairly counted this year, and no one’s getting unfairly disqualified, yes? This year will also be slightly different in
“If a civilization is not capable of keeping a book from burning then perhaps it wasn’t ready for whatever knowledge was held within.” Livira is a little girl living in a tiny, unprotected village in the dustlands. Evar Evantari is a young man who’s lived his entire life trapped in one library chamber with four
Directed by Gil Kenan and written by Jason Reitman, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire follows the Spengler family who have decided to leave Summerville, Oklahoma, and return to the iconic New York City firehouse where the original Ghostbusters have taken ghost-busting to the next level. When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, the
Children of the Doors know about being mislaid… Antoinette Ricci, better known as Antsy, returns to the world of the Wayward Children. Only this time she’s dragging along most of the main characters of the previous stories as they break the “No Quests” rule of their school for former fairy tale adventurers. People who have
“I have returned. I am one known to you. Please allow me safe passage to bring back those who are lost.” Author Premee Mohamed takes a new look at a familiar fairy tale trope (two children lost in the woods) in her new book The Butcher of the Forest, a frightening combination of horror and
Directed by Mike Mitchell, Kung Fu Panda 4 follows Po (Jack Black) on the next step of his journey where he must train a new warrior when he’s chosen to become the “Spiritual leader of the Valley of Peace”. However, when a powerful shape-shifting sorceress called “The Chameleon” (Viola Davis) sets her eyes on his
This was a satisfying category to watch this year, partly because they weren’t all complete downers (I applaud the effort that goes into documentary films, but some years they’re all so depressing it’s really difficult to power through the whole list) but also because I didn’t have any trouble tracking them down; they were all