How Avatar The Last Airbender pulled from anime in a way no one else did

A giant mech doing the “Gainax Pose” by standing with its arms crossed

Folks who grew up watching Avatar: The Last Airbender have high-key been in distress since its series finale aired in 2008. Unlike other notable pop cultural phenomenons like HBO’s Game of Thrones, whose divisive ending […]

Hazbin Hotel’s creator credits these shows for inspiring Prime’s hit

Tiny green alien Zim stands on a ledge. he is triumphant, raising his arm to the sky. Behind him is a red background filled with abstract planets.

Hazbin Hotel’s frenetic first season finished up on Friday, with a dozen reveals and dangling plot threads, all primed for a second season. The devilish comedy comes from creator Vivienne Medrano, who first posted the […]

10 Famous Cartoon Characters With Glasses

Doc in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Cartoons are as old as the history of cinema. It dates back to as far in history as the late 1800s. However, animation historians often consider Émile Cohl‘s 1908 French animated film Fantasmagorie as the […]

DC ‘Elseworlds’ Projects Will House Standalone Movie and TV Series

DC Elseworlds will include Matt Reeves The Batman, Todd Phillips Joker, and Teen Titans Go (1)

The DC Movie and TV universe is unifying into one cohesive world under the leadership of James Gunn and Peter Safran. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for DC stories that take place beyond […]

Nickelodeon childstar looks totally unrecognisable 17 years after stint on show as he ditches acting for music career

Rob Pinkston played Coconut Head on Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide

NICKELODEON childstar Rob Pinkston looks unrecognisable 17 years after his stint on Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide. The TV star – who was best known for playing Coconut Head from 2004 to 2007 – has now […]

Mask of the Phantasm is still the best Batman movie, 30 years later

The Phantasm in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, a vigilante in a grey cowl and deaths-head mask, with one arm ending in a huge metal cap with a blade sticking out of it

As a teenage comic book fan coming of age as superheroes were breaking into the mainstream, I always approached any conversation about Batman with a hipster’s sense of ownership. Like any comics nerd with a […]

Black Friday streaming deals 2023, Netflix, Hulu, Max, and Paramount Plus

An image showing Hulu’s logo on an abstract background

If it feels like every streaming service received a price hike this year, it’s probably because most of them have. Netflix, Apple TV Plus, Discovery Plus, and Disney Plus are just a few recent examples, […]

Anime revitalized Teen Titans and made cartoons what they are today

Raven walking in front of Robin and Starfire, who are smiling at each other, and Beast Boy and Cyborg, who are laughing together

Nowadays, Teen Titans’ rise can feel a bit inevitable. After all, it came on the heels of anime access in the U.S. moving from VHS tapes at your local comic or video stores to the […]

My Adventures with Superman Trailer Flies in from Adult Swim

Matthew Razak

Superman is invulnerable. Well, some versions of him are evidently. Not Henry Cavill’s version, who went away when new Warner Discovery CEO David Zaslav began culling Warner Bros. and DC Studios content left and right […]

GREMLINS: SECRETS OF THE MOGWAI Animated Series Unleashes Its First Trailer

One of the movies responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating—too scary for PG but not graphic enough for R—is getting turned into an animated series. Joe Dante’s 1984 film Gremlins is getting a cartoon […]