Our Favorite io9 Stories of 2024

Film

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15 Things We Learned From James Gunn connected the Set of Superman

By Germain Lussier

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a study from the acceptable of James Gunn’s Superman. This past June, io9 was among respective outlets invited to Cleveland, Ohio to sojourn the acceptable of 1 of the most highly anticipated superhero films ever. The relaunch of the DC Universe, starring the world’s archetypal and astir celebrated superhero, each from the man who made Guardians of the Galaxy. And connected that beauteous summertime day, we learned a large galore things astir the film. And portion we can’t stock everything we learned conscionable yet, we tin stock immoderate very, very chill stuff. [Read more]

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Trapped the MCU successful a Machine of Its Own Making

By Justin Carter

Back successful the early Marvel Cinematic Universe days, the 2nd movies of a sub-franchise weren’t overmuch to constitute location about. Both Iron Man 2 in 2010 and 2013’s Thor: The Dark World felt similar unremarkable sequels compared to their predecessors, hamstrung by being fast-tracked earlier they were acceptable oregon conscionable not doing overmuch beyond offering immoderate airy spectacle. That wasn’t the lawsuit with Captain America: The Winter Soldier.  [Read More]

Moana’s Moana 2 Destiny Was Foretold successful the First Film

By Sabina Graves

When the credits rolled on Moana 2, we could not get implicit the stunning uncover that Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) made a immense sacrifice which resulted successful the Disney Princess becoming much than a royal wayfinder. As Moana gazed upon her gifts successful the signifier of a caller tattoo and oar upgrade, she asked herself “does that mean… ?” earlier Maui (Dwayne Johnson) gave a winking effect arsenic a non-answer arsenic they celebrated their win against the gods. [Read more]

Madame Web Is the Best Superhero Movie 2003 Has to Offer

By James Whitbrook

You whitethorn person heard that Madame Web is not a bully movie. That determination are, successful fact, things astir Madame Web that could beryllium described arsenic “The Worst.” I americium not present to refute those claims; determination are successful information galore things about Madame Web that are not what you would feasibly telephone “good.” But successful its astonishment campy turn, it embraces its play mounting to present a potent reminder connected however acold superhero movies person come, and what they’ve mislaid on the way. [Read more]

Time Is Finally on Tenet’s Side

By Justin Carter

When Tenet released successful 2020, it did truthful nether the worst of circumstances. The discourse of the pandemic made the movie a lightning rod erstwhile writer-director Christopher Nolan encouraged radical to spot it successful theaters. Compared to his different caller movies, the time-bending spy thriller saw a much muted reaction. It made $365 cardinal (against a $200M budget), and those who went to spot it weren’t afloat clicking with it. [Read More]

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Jennifer Kent Looks Back connected 10 Years of Traumatizing Audiences With The Babadook

By Cheryl Eddy

The Babadook is returning to theaters for its 10-year anniversary—but really, did Jennifer Kent’s searing communicative of a parent grappling with grief truthful almighty it manifests a monster ever really escape your thoughts? The movie is terrifying connected aggregate levels, adroitly drafting connected elements plucked from the darkest nightmares. io9 was thrilled to speech to the writer-director astir her 2014 debut, which for a assortment of reasons (some decidedly much lighthearted than others) has lone seen its popular civilization footprint turn larger since its release. [Read more]

John Krasinski’s IF: The Spoiler FAQ

By Germain Lussier

Who could person guessed that John Krasinski would beryllium truthful bully astatine making fearfulness movies? His directorial debut was A Quiet Place, helium followed it up with A Quiet Place Part II, and present he’s made IF, not a fearfulness movie by genre but a horrible movie successful quality. We reviewed the movie rather unfavorably here but present that it’s successful theaters, figured it mightiness beryllium worthy diving into further by bringing by an io9 classic: the spoiler FAQ. [Read More]

Longlegs’ Osgood Perkins connected Nic Cage, T. rex, and the Scariest Movie of the Summer

By Cheryl Eddy

It’s astir clip for Longlegs to arrive, and if you haven’t been counting down the days, you indispensable not beryllium a fearfulness fan. It stars Maika Monroe (It Follows) as an FBI cause hunting a genuinely peculiar serial killer—played by Nicolas Cage successful 1 of his most memorably shocking roles ever, which is saying a lot. You tin cheque out io9’s reappraisal of the movie here, and support speechmaking for an interrogation with writer-director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter). [Read more]

One of Dune‘s Biggest, Non-Spoiler Questions Is Answered successful Sandworm Poop

By Germain Lussier

Dune: Part Two, which opens successful theaters March 1, has a batch of thumpers successful it. Like, a lot. Mainly due to the fact that the Fremen and their civilization are specified a prevalent portion of the movie and often request a ride. And portion watching, you can’t assistance but wonder, wherever bash these thumpers travel from? Who makes them? Are they conscionable one-and-done devices? We decided to inquire the antheral himself, Dune: Part Two co-writer and manager Denis Villeneuve, for his thoughts connected thumpers and his reply did not disappoint. [Read More]

io9 Meets the Real Hero of the Venom Franchise: Mrs. Chen

By Gordon Jackson

As the bizarre and divisive yet ever shockingly good-natured Venom trilogy draws to a close (still the “gayest” Marvel franchise, contrary to nationalist opinion), thing we tin each hold connected is the sheer joyousness of its breakout character: Mrs. Chen, the unflappable bodega proprietor and Eddie Brock’s lone quality friend. It’s for this crushed we were honored to person the accidental to talk to Peggy Lu, the pharmacist-turned-actor who portrays her. [Read more]

Sonic 3 Is a Fast and Furry-ous Ride

By Sabina Graves

Full of electrical spectacle and action-packed adventure, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 completes the champion video crippled movie trilogy yet. [Read more]

How Cult Filmmaker Don Coscarelli Brought Phantasm From the Screen to the Page

By Cheryl Eddy

io9 talked to cult filmmaker Don Coscarelli erstwhile he released his memoir successful 2018. Now, the manager of Phantasm I-IV, arsenic good arsenic Bubba Ho-Tep, The Beastmaster, and John Dies astatine the End, is trying thing new: fiction. Or rather, Phiction—a publication of abbreviated stories that explores “tales from the satellite of Phantasm.” [Read More]

Aliens‘ Villain Carter Burke Is Back! And Paul Reiser Told Us All About It

By Germain Lussier

James Cameron’s Aliens is 1 of the large sequels of each time. Heck, it mightiness be one of the top movies of each time. And, successful the astir 40 years since its release, moments, images, and characters from the film have cemented themselves successful the pantheon of popular culture. [Read more]

Television

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Racists Are Trying to Make Dan Da Dan the Latest Front successful Their Culture War

By Isaiah Colbert

Lately, the net has go a nuclear wasteland. The support beingness to bask caller media, beryllium it video games oregon anime, inevitably becomes the focal constituent of a meritless civilization war, wherever chuds impeach creation of being “woke,” pearl clutch astatine divers characters who don’t look similar them being showcased successful media, and launch harassment campaigns against creators and those attempting to foster constructive dialogue. [Read more]

Star Wars Is astatine Its Most Interesting When It Trusts Us to Not Trust It

By James Whitbrook

The 3rd occurrence of The Acolyte is beauteous unthinkable for a batch of reasons. It’s an occurrence that, successful content, invites america to see caller perspectives connected immoderate of the saga’s most cardinal spiritual ideas, and delivers a meaty portion of backmost communicative for its protagonists and antagonists alike. But it besides does thing rather singular for Star Wars: it asks america to not marque the presumption that what we are watching is the full truth. [Read More]

The Creators Behind Netflix’s Castlevania Myth-Bust the Ins and Outs of Animation

By Isaiah Colbert

Animation has experienced a mixed output successful 2024. On the 1 hand, shows and films similar the precocious released Dan Da Dan, Look Back, and Ranma 1/2 have reignited fans’ affinity for animation continuing to beryllium an awe-inspiring mean teeming with ocular clarity and fluid artistry. On the different hand, hotly anticipated shows similar the long-delayed Adult Swim Uzumaki anime adaptation and Blue Lock season two have near fans wondering wherefore their favourite projects didn’t get arsenic overmuch radiance arsenic their contemporaries. [Read more]

‘Banned’ Bluey Episode ‘Dad Baby’ Is Finally Viewable successful the U.S.

By Sabina Graves

A Bluey episode primitively released successful 2020 everyplace but the United States yet gets the greenish airy to beryllium seen—with a catch: it’s lone online (for now). [Read more]

Evil‘s Andrea Martin connected Acting With Demons and the Terror of AI

By Cheryl Eddy

Andrea Martin’s vocation has included a batch of comedy—she was connected legendary 1970s sketch series SCTV—but implicit the years she’s excelled successful astir each genre, with 2 existent projects earning her adjacent much caller fans: Hulu’s Only Murders successful the Building, and Paramount+’s Evil. With Evil heading toward its bid finale, io9 jumped astatine the accidental to speech to Martin astir what it’s similar starring on one of TV’s best-ever fearfulness series, peculiarly successful the discourse of her character: Sister Andrea, a wise, wisecracking, demon-slaying nun. [Read More]

The Best Moment successful Deep Space Nine‘s Greatest Episode Is a Punch Left Unthrown

By James Whitbrook

Twenty-six years agone today, Deep Space Nine delivered the weapon nether its cloaked introspection of Star Trek’s morals successful wartime with each the delicate precision of a sewing needle: the unthinkable “In the Pale Moonlight,” not conscionable 1 of DS9 oregon Star Trek’s finest hours, but 1 of the each clip top episodes of TV ever made. But the finest infinitesimal successful an already immaculate portion of tv is each astir the ways to enact unit without lifting a azygous finger. [Read more]

Interview With the Vampire’s Season 2 Finale Goes Full Divorce Court

By Sabina Graves

Leave it up to Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) to give Louis’ (Jacob Anderson) interrogation a last definitive disruption that leads to marital woes for Armand (Assad Zaman). Call it a vendetta writ ample for our amusement portion Molloy plays roast big similar a daytime Maury oregon Divorce Court episode, due to the fact that you’ll beryllium hootin’ and hollerin’ during “And That’s The End Of It. There’s Nothing Else”—the eighth occurrence of AMC and AMC+’s Interview with The Vampire season two. The occurrence brings in showrunner Rolin Jones arsenic its scribe for each the explosive revenge and revelations successful the finale directed by Levan Arkin. [Read more]

Games, Immersive Entertainment, and Theme Parks

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Every Moment You’re Playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Feels Like Torture

By James Whitbrook

Indiana Jones should beryllium the cleanable video crippled hero. He solves puzzles, he shoots Nazis, helium leaps and swings done an planetary cavalcade of locations primed for platforming. His precise beingness has inspired immoderate of the greats of the medium, from Tomb Raider to Uncharted, each successful homage to the whip-slinging blueprint Indy provided. And portion he’s decidedly starred successful plentifulness of attempts implicit the years, helium inactive feels similar he’s waiting for his infinitesimal to radiance successful the satellite of games of his ain accord, alternatively than simply via the interaction of his legacy. With Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, he’s precise overmuch inactive waiting. [Read more]

The Essence of Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Was You Made the Experience

By Sabina Graves

A twelvemonth aft the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser took its past flight, here’s a look backmost astatine the champion of Disney Parks’ bold task into the immersive amusement space—and wherefore successful the end, it couldn’t rather work. [Read More]

Borderlands Will Always Shoot to the Beat of Its Own Gun

by Justin Carter

In its heyday, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 epoch produced galore still-ongoing franchises, but fewer person endured rather arsenic interestingly as Borderlands. Gearbox Software’s shooter-RPG bid has been truthful definitive and so infamous for truthful agelong successful ways that volition ne'er genuinely spell away. At the aforesaid time, it’s ever been itself: for amended oregon worse, Borderlands has nary involvement successful changing what it is, oregon astatine slightest not for precise long. [Read more]

The Dark Universe Begins Again astatine Universal’s Theme Park

By Sabina Graves

Universal Studios would not beryllium the premiere cinematic acquisition taxable parkland without the Universal Monsters. Influencing filmmakers from Spielberg to Peele, they are the blueprint of thrills and it’s astir damn clip that the astir century-old fandom volition yet get its owed with Epic Universe’s Dark Universe, the taxable parkland location of gods and monsters. This caller country joins the antecedently announced lands astatine Universal Studios Orlando’s newest taxable park, including Super Nintendo World and How to Train Your Dragon’s Isle of Berk. [Read more]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Is Ready to Bring You Back

By Justin Carter

After revitalizing Mass Effect with a remastered collection of the archetypal 3 games and handing off Star Wars: The Old Republic to a abstracted studio, BioWare’s present putting its afloat value down its different large franchise, Dragon Age. Over the years, it’s been a question of if (and successful what way) BioWare would instrumentality to the satellite of Thedas, adjacent arsenic it’d continuously reaffirm a caller introduction was successful development. [Read more]

Tiana’s Bayou Adventure Breaks 87 Years of a Weird Disney Princess Canon

By Sabina Graves

Over the past fewer days Disney fans who person managed to thrust Tiana’s Bayou Adventure astatine Walt Disney World have been among the archetypal to experience the continuation of Tiana’s fairytale after the events 2009’s The Princess and the Frog. The thrust itself serves arsenic a sequel successful attraction form, wherever guests travel Tiana and friends arsenic they enactment unneurotic a set for their Mardi Gras celebration. But determination are truthful galore much details revealed adjacent earlier you committee the flume h2o thrust for fans of the beloved Disney film. [Read more]

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