Leo Noboru Lima

There's nothing quite like a heart-breaking anime movie when you need to have a good cry. These films will all have you reaching for the tissues.

The MonsterVerse has grown into one of Hollywood's standout franchises over the last decade, but what's the best way to watch all the films and TV shows?

The beautiful thing about television is that it's a living medium. A writer or showrunner can work everything out in their head ahead of time, put all the pieces in place hoping for a specific audience reaction, and then find things to turn out completely differently in practice. There can, for instance, be a set intention to emphasize a certain character in the show's development — only for a supporting character with less screen time, less material, and less prominence in the plot to capture viewers' hearts.

All around the world, the past two decades have made South Korean cinema central to the media diets of inveterate cinephiles and casual Netflix surfers alike. And, within the vast realm of the country's audiovisual media, South Korean romance is a particularly fruitful and popular orchard. Whether in the form of television dramas or feature films, either you or someone you know has almost certainly had some exposure to the genre as it is practiced in the peninsula. Depending on where the media in question hails from, that exposure may have been to something pristine, soft-spoken, family-friendly, and even borderline chaste, as many popular romance K-dramas are wont to be. Or it may have just as well been to something steamy.

Christmas movies are a genre unto themselves, even if said genre is a tent big enough to have accommodated virtually all other genres you could name over the years. Depending on what kind of holiday entertainment you favor, your best option for Christmas could be a streamer section filled with posters of couples wearing red and green sweaters, a horror-focused service, or something else entirely. But for fans of more traditional Christmas fare, Disney+ is one of the streamers with the widest array of options — which makes a lot of sense when you think about what kind of movie Disney Studios has specialized in over the decades.

Each entry in the "Deadpool" series has one-upped the previous film in terms of production value. Where the first "Deadpool" movie got made as a scrappy, mid-sized action flick that worked wonders with a relatively modest $58 million budget, the second one upped the ante with a $110 million price tag and bigger, busier, more star-studded and cameo-filled action sequences.

Bob Clark's "A Christmas Story" is perhaps one of the most notorious cases in history of a film that didn't quite find its audience right away. Released in November 1983 to only moderate commercial and critical success, the film didn't quite make the splash during its original year-end theatrical run that one might expect of a movie that has become all but synonymous with Christmas. Instead, its gradual consolidation into the holiday canon happened — fittingly enough — in people's living rooms, through home video and annual, highly-rated television marathons that turned "A Christmas Story" into a sort of all-encompassing holiday tradition.

The idea of a "Squid Game" Season 2 has long been controversial. Many argued that the first season was so perfect and self-contained that it needed no continuation at all. At the same time, the mythology introduced by Season 1 was so fascinating that further exploration seemed like a great idea to a lot of fans. Regardless of which camp you stood on, "Squid Game" was the kind of massive TV success that couldn't not get a follow-up, and, three years later, that follow-up is finally here, with Season 2 set to arrive all in one swoop to the homes of Netflix subscribers on December 26, 2024.

The box office record-breaking success of "Wicked" is once again proving the crowd-pleasing chops of Jon M.

There are few characters in American media, let alone superhero comics, let alone Marvel lore, as legendary as the Hulk. From his grey-skinned, Gothic horror-inspired beginnings in 1962, when Jack Kirby and Stan Lee conceived him as a "Frankenstein"-type innocent giant trapped in a "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"-esque dynamic with Bruce Banner, the character has consistently captivated audiences around the world, effectively establishing a new fiction archetype of its own. Everyone knows the Hulk. Everyone loves the Hulk.