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Square Enix is really going all out for Final Fantasy ahead of the franchise’s 30th anniversary next year and one of its big titles just in time to close out 2026 is Final Fantasy Resonance. An upgraded adaptation of the 2015 mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, the game returns to the series to a classic turn-based RPG adventure, complete with a vibrantly rendered pixelated presentation. Set to launch on virtually all major modern gaming platforms on October 22, we got a chance to play a pre

Some character quirks feel so deliberate that it is hard to imagine them not being planned from day one. Then you find out the actor was actually fixing a piece of makeup, struggling with a costume, trying not to laugh, or making a weird noise to entertain a co-star. Those little accidents can end up doing more for a character than pages of carefully written direction. Even better, once audiences latch onto them, there is no going back. A random gesture becomes a trademark, an awkward movement b

This article contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame Encore A couple of days before Avengers: Endgame Encore’s release, Marvel Comics editor Tom Brennan fired off a post on X that some described as a perfect response to the negativity over extra footage from the film leaking online. Endgame, which once wrapped up the Infinity Saga in a fairly neat bow and closed out Steve Rogers’ story, now just sets up another chapter of it in Avengers: Doomsday. While some loved the new ending, ot

The most famous actors of Hollywood deserve the recognition they get. They do the hard work, and their journey transformed them into a brand more than a celebrity, gaining well deserved praise. There are other actors, however, that may not be as immediately recognizable, but they still deserve some praise for what they do. They don’t always get the big headlines or the major awards, and yet the movies we know and love wouldn’t be the same without them. These are the less celebrated acto

Some movies are easy to watch, enjoy, and forget a few hours later. Others follow you home and keep running through your head for weeks, or forever. They raise questions about identity, memory, morality, reality, relationships, and the choices people make without giving you an easy out. A good thought provoking movie can leave you questioning what you just saw, noticing details you missed, or completely rethinking the story on a second viewing. These films are especially rewarding because there

Movies are packed with tiny details that are easy to miss, especially when the story is moving quickly. A strange prop in the background, an unusual costume choice, a character’s odd reaction, or a tiny visual detail can look like a continuity mistake when you first notice it. Sometimes, though, those things were placed there deliberately. Filmmakers love hiding little jokes, clues, references, and visual tricks in places most viewers will never think to look. Once you learn the reason beh

Some movies seem to make it their mission to leave you confused for as long as possible. Characters behave strangely, important details appear without explanation, and entire scenes can feel like they belong to a completely different story. Then the ending arrives and suddenly those odd little pieces start fitting together. These movies reward paying attention, but they can also leave you wondering what on earth is happening until the final reveal. Once the credits roll, you may want to watch th

After seven years toiling in the Disney+ content mines with one mid movie to show for its troubles, Lucasfilm is reportedly sticking with its plan to continue the Skywalker Saga on the big screen in the future. Deadline has confirmed that Cop Car and Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watts will helm a new trilogy set in a galaxy far, far away, with Simon Kinberg (XXX: State of the Union, Jumper) on writing duties. Both have previously dipped their toes in Ahch-To-adjacent waters; Watts co-c

This article reconfirms who the second kaiju is in Godzilla Minus Zero, which neither we nor the filmmakers consider a spoiler. But just in case… here’s your warning. When Godzilla Minus One released three years ago, it was remarkable for a multitude of reasons. While there have been other great kaiju movies that took the Big G seriously, including the slyly satirical Shin Godzilla about a decade earlier, none before writer-director Takashi Yamazaki came along had ever made its central human

Some movies manage to squeeze in scenes that feels completely disconnected from everything else. Sometimes these moments are intentional, while others came from unusual production choices, deleted storylines, or directors simply deciding to take things in a strange direction. Whatever the reason, they tend to stick in your memory. These are the scenes that make you pause for a second and wonder how they ended up in that movie. IMDb Pulp Fiction (1994) The brief sequence showing Christop

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“Hey, listen!” Just reading those words is enough to make anyone who has played The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time sit up and pay attention. Link’s fairy guide Navi says those words approximately ten billion times while traversing across Hyrule’s past and present to prevent Ganondorf from using the Triforce to conquer the world. Annoying at first… and second… and third, Navi’s little interjections are as much a part of the game as the various puzzles a

Paul Greengrass knew he always wanted to make a quasi-Robin Hood movie well before his deeply naturalistic historical epic, The Uprising, had the famous rogue’s name added to the poster. The film is still very much in the vein of the realpolitik thrillers Greengrass made his bones on early in his career with the Irish Troubles-set Bloody Sunday (2002) and the 9/11-based United 93 (2006), plus more recently in Captain Phillips (2013)—although this time with a far more exotic sheen in 1381 England

Why do we like action movies so much? We know, after all, that the main character will survive, and likely achieve all of their goals; once the opening scene is over, you can pretty much tell where everything is going. So clearly, it’s not the plot we’re here for. We’re here for the action, for the over-the-top scenes and elaborate choreographies that challenge what was possible before. And movies keep getting better and better in that regard. The ones we’ve gathered here aren’t remembe

Hard reboots, soft reboots, remakes, legacy sequels… Hollywood uses many tactics to keep valuable IP alive. Yet those tactics have also made the definition of “reboot” fairly muddy. Mad Max: Fury Road stretches the limits of what we consider a “soft” reboot, in that director George Miller engineered it to fit into the franchise without erasing his original films. 2018’s Halloween is a soft reboot “requel” that also functions as a direct sequel,

Some movie details are so small that you could easily miss them the first time, yet once someone points them out, they become impossible to ignore. A background object, a strange piece of dialogue, a visual clue, or a tiny continuity choice can suddenly change the way you watch an entire scene. The best examples do not require complicated theories or hours of research because the detail is right there waiting to be noticed. Once you catch it, your brain seems determined to look for it every time

Sometimes the best movie experiences happen when you are expecting absolutely nothing. Maybe the trailer looked terrible, the premise sounded ridiculous, or you only bought a ticket because someone else wanted to go. Then the movie starts, and somewhere along the way you realize you have seriously underestimated it. When Reddit users were asked which films they went into with zero expectations only to be blown away, the answers covered everything from superhero blockbusters to animated family mo

Some days just seem determined to go wrong. A tiny mistake turns into a ridiculous problem, an innocent decision creates an unexpected disaster, or a perfectly normal moment suddenly becomes a story you will never forget. The funniest part is often how specific the bad luck can be. People online have shared some of their most unfortunate moments, and many of them sound like situations that could only happen once in a lifetime. These stories are not necessarily major disasters. They are those won

The world is full of things that are easy to overlook when we are busy with everyday life. A strange natural formation, an enormous structure, an unusual animal, or a tiny detail hidden in a familiar place can suddenly make everything feel a little more fascinating. Sometimes a single photograph is enough to show just how much is happening around us that we rarely get to see. These images capture some of those moments, places, and details that make our planet worth looking at a little more close

Early September is traditionally a quiet time at the multiplex. The last holdovers from the dog days of summer movie season—your Spider-Mans and Odysseys, as well as August risks like Coyote vs. Acme—continue to do dwindling business. Meanwhile new and skewed genre films are taking their chances in the off-season. But for everyone else outside the industry, now’s the time to think about schools reopening and vacations ending. In the biz, though? This is among the most important weekends of the y