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Although some past winners were more of a mixed bag for the public, the Crunchyroll Anime Awards are undoubtedly one of the most anticipated events for anime lovers. Anime enthusiasts eagerly await the list of nominees to discover which groundbreaking titles they may have missed during the year to add them to their watchlists, and 2025 already has its top candidates. 2025 was an incredible year for the anime medium, with a wide range of series exceeding viewers’ expectations. While the 2026 Crunchyroll Awards are still a few months away, here are the series that deserve to be nominated for…

1. One Battle After AnotherWe’ll be honest: in the run-up to the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, we had no real idea of what to expect. We kinda knew that it had been inspired by a Thomas Pynchon novel; it had Leonardo DiCaprio wearing granny shades and doing a lot of shouting; and that it was his first contemporary-set film since Punch-Drunk Love. When we finally got to see it, we all agreed that this was 2025’s pure kino moment, our jaws constantly on the floor upon witnessing the work of a filmmaker with almost Jedi-like mastery of the…

Movies: Dreams (2025) by Michel Franco: When Desire Crosses Borders and Power Sets the Rules top of pagebottom of page

Some fantastic new movies are streaming for the first time at home this weekend, and ScreenCrush has your guide to the newly released films that deserve your attention while you relax as the week comes to an end.Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays are for watching movies, but if you’re not in the mood to journey out to your local theater, you can always heat up a bag of microwave popcorn, curl up on the couch in your PJs and hit “play” from the comfort of your own home.New Movies Streaming This WeekendThis week and weekend you can dive into Netflix’s brand-new…

Since its premiere on November 28, 2025, Heated Rivalry has become HBO Max’s latest streaming hit. Currently at #2 in the US, the series, which is based on the 2019 novel by Rachel Reid, follows two opposing hockey players, Shane (Hudson Williams) and Ilya (Connor Storrie), as their antagonism on the ice blossoms into a steamy romantic connection. The series has a sizzling gay romance at its heart, and is certainly one of the first shows of the genre to receive this much attention, but another queer romance series from Netflix has been trending too. In 2021, Netflix released Young…

PlayStation-owned studios have produced a string of hits throughout their history, resulting in some of the most successful games ever made. In recent years, though, reports suggest that there’s a lot of pressure to deliver, leading to some intense deadlines. Based on a report from Bloomberg, one major PlayStation game is in trouble. Currently, it doesn’t even have a release date yet. Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Is Still In Development And There’s A Lot Of Work Left According to Bloomberg, Naughty Dog is racing to meet an internal deadline for an internal demo of Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, the developer’s…

“It was the summer of 1959, a long time ago. But only if you measure it in terms of years.” Richard Dreyfuss is desolate-looking in a truck parked up somewhere pastoral and private. On the seat beside him is a newspaper with a violent front page headline. Stand By Me is a film steeped in nostalgia for a time full of pleasures and sorrows. Rob Reiner’s visual language heightens the emotions so that we feel everything that 12-year-old Gordy, Chris, Teddy and Vern feel as they set off to find a dead body. Every episode in their odyssey feels more vivid than life itself. In retrospect, these were…

Festivals: A Sad and Beautiful World (2025) by Cyril Aris: Love, Time, and the Cost of Staying top of pagebottom of page

In 44 years as a working filmmaker, James Cameron has only directed 12 movies. And since 2009, he’s only made three features: Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Avatar: Fire and Ash. So when there’s a new James Cameron picture, it is always an event.And what better way to celebrate such an event than by looking back at his entire filmography, all 12 films, and ranking them all. That total does include Cameron’s two nature documentaries about his undersea exploration — 2003’s Ghosts of the Abyss and 2005’s Aliens of the Deep — but it does not include his significant (but not strictly directorial) contributions to other fiction movies like Strange…

The third installment of the Now You See Me franchise, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, has landed on digital streaming platforms as the lowest-grossing film of the lot. The movie has made around $60 million at the domestic box office and just over $200 million globally, while both its predecessors, Now You See Me and Now You See Me 2, made more than $300 million worldwide. The first film, which was released in 2013, remains the trilogy’s only installment to have made it past the coveted $100 million mark. Not only has the third film fallen short of…