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Rumors of a Final Fantasy 9 remake for PlayStation 5 have been circulating for years thanks to the infamous 2021 NVIDIA GeForce Now leak, which included a list of several “unannounced” games that have since proven to be real. However, recent rumors suggest that the project may officially be “on ice,” according to a leak from NateTheHate at least, and it’s unclear just how much longer fans will be waiting before the project gets official confirmation. As Final Fantasy 9’s 25th-year anniversary came and went last year, many fans felt it would have been the ideal moment for an official…

It’s very rare that you catch a sighting of the c‑word in these august pages, but its usage is warranted in reference to one of the interviewees in Orban Wallace’s superb documentary Our Land, which examines the idea of the public’s right to roam on property owned by wealthy landowners. It’s a form of extreme invective that applies, probably prefixed by ​“complete”, ​“total” or even ​“ocean-going”, to one Francis Fulford, a ruddy-faced hatemonger dressed top-to-toe in vintage Barbour who not only has contempt for anyone who might want to experience the rural beauty of his land, but pretty much anyone who’s not a white,…

The Cannes Best Director Returns to Coco Martin — a Post-Duterte Apocalyptic Crime Film Set in a Devout Catholic Fishing Town During a Typhoon and a Red TideDanilo Faraon is a police officer in the devout Catholic fishing community of Pula — a small Oriental Mindoro town whose industry is dying from red tide as a typhoon approaches. A teenage girl named Angel is raped and murdered. The investigation implicates Danilo himself. What follows is a spiral from village crime drama into something approaching apocalyptic vigilante horror — a man covering his guilt through escalating violence while the typhoon and…

Surprise drops in music have become pretty common in the viral internet age. They’re far less frequent in the worlds of film and television — but here, out of the blue, is a brand new and totally unannounced episode of The Bear for everyone to enjoy.Titled “Gary,” the episode is a prequel starring and co-written by series regular Ebon Moss-Bachrach and frequent guest star Jon Bernthal. The prequel is set prior to the main events of the series, and follows Richie and Mikey on a work trip to Gary, Indiana.Moss-Bachrach revealed the existence of the episode on his Instagram account today, writing:COUSINS! PRIMOS!…

Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for Euphoria Season 3. Euphoria Season 3 has been a lot. Four episodes in, Rue (Zendaya) is a federal informant playing poker with the cartel-adjacent strip club magnate she’s recording for the DEA, having graduated from drug addict to drug mule to snitch in roughly the time it took Nate (Jacob Elordi) to marry Cassie (Sydney Sweeney), lose a toe after their reception, and leave her with a million dollars of his debt. Kingpins, cartels, cockatoo funerals. Sam Levinson really has thrown everything and the stove pot at the wall. Even stranger is that…

After eight years, Star Wars has recast a major villain. With the franchise turning 50 years old next year, there have inevitably been many recasts over the years, some of which have been generally well-received, while others were more controversial. One of the earlier examples was Star Wars recasting Emperor Palpatine after The Empire Strikes Back. In the second installment of the original trilogy, Palpatine appears as a hologram and is voiced by Clive Revill and physically played by Marjorie Eaton. In Return of the Jedi and for all the character’s future appearances in live-action movies and shows, the villain…

Unfortunately, the more impressionable the girl, the more the world infringes on her malleable sense of self. ​“You look a lot better without all the black shit on your eyes.” Self-styled princess Claire (Molly Ringwald) asserts, dragging an eyeliner pencil across Ally’s (Allison Reynolds) lower lashes. ​“Hey, I like that black shit,” she retorts. The Breakfast Club embodies the more frustrating facets of the makeover, which can reduce people to mere puppets of gender. When Ally steps out of the bathrooms, the outline of her cooler, grungier self is barely discernible beneath the layers of powder and frills. Toula’s (Nia Vardalos) similar transformation in My…

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Want to see an interesting list of movies? Check out Box Office Mojo’s ranking of the Top 200 Lifetime Grosses (Worldwide).These are the biggest names in the history of cinema. But they are not the most beloved. Sure; some of these mega-blockbusters remain extremely popular and well-remembered. Fans’ hearts still go on for Titanic. Viewers compulsively felt the need for speed when they went back to the theater time and again to rewatch Top Gun: Maverick. There’s a very good reason why the first Avengers smashed box office records along with Loki’s face.The same can not be said of all 200 movies on this list. Some of…

Sarah Michelle Gellar’s reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer may be dead and buried, but the Buffyverse is still thriving. While fans hold out hope that Buffy can find another home, they can turn their attention to Tubi. The well-written, if somewhat infamous, spin-off is now free to stream with no subscription required. Taking place after Buffy Season 3, Angel follows the titular vampire with a soul as he goes to the most soulless place in America — Los Angeles. The show starts slowly as Angel (David Boreanaz) teams up with Buffy’s old classmate Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter) to help…