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About Tasha Robinson

Tasha Robinson is the entertainment editor at Polygon, writing about whatever she can get away with: Movies, TV, books, graphic novels, TTRPGs, fandom, and anything else in the cultural sphere. She loves classic noir and neo-noir movies, animation, musicals, and Terry Gilliam before he lost the plot.

Tasha has worked as a cultural editor and film specialist at The A.V. Club, Pitchfork’s film site The Dissolve, and The Verge. Her writing has appeared at NPR, The Chicago Tribune, io9, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, and The L.A. Times, among other publications.

Tasha is a longtime podcaster and co-host of The Next Picture Show, a movie-of-the-week podcast that compares new releases to older classics and puts movies in a cultural context. She periodically designs elaborate LARPs and much less elaborate TTRPGs, and is an enthusiastic participant in the Indie Games on Demand community. Find her on itch.io.

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Josh (Joshua Leonard) clutching a camera in a typically blurry, pixelated image from 1999's The Blair Witch Project
Blumhouse's Blair Witch Project remake taps a popular horror YouTuber to direct
Movies

It's the latest in a wave of successful horror YouTube creators getting bumped up to helm studio work

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Michonne (Danai Gurira), a Black woman with dreadlocks held back by a colorful bandana, stands in a ready stance with a katana in The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead’s legacy is getting sliced into 160,000 pieces — literally
Interview

We went deep into the details of chopping Michonne's sword and Negan's bat for the next Mini Museum project

Murderbot star Alexander Skarsgard in his robot outfit
The next Murderbot book 'may be the last' in the beloved series
Interview

'It feels like, to me, we’re coming to the end of Murderbot's story.'

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Detail from the cover of Octavia Butler's Wild Seed, showing a black woman in a headdress that incorporates melded bits of body parts from various animals — a monarch's wing, a zebra's eras, a rhino's eye, a cheetah's face, and more
The long-lost 'Star Trek novel' that Octavia Butler disavowed is returning to print 40 years later
Sci-fi

Butler disavowed the book and kept it from being reprinted — but here's why it's worth reading anyway

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Charlize Theron clings to Taron Egerton's back as they're both swept through rapids in 2026's Apex
Netflix's Apex really is a Predator movie with an all-human cast
Reviews

Taron Egerton hunts Charlize Theron through an Australian forest in a grueling survival thriller that eventually goes full horror-movie

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A small pig with a huge open-mouthed grin on his face falls spread-eagled toward the camera in Andy Serkis' 2026 Animal Farm
Andy Serkis defends his beleaguered Animal Farm movie: 'exactly what Orwell would have wanted'
Animation

Many reviews of Serkis' animated rewrite of George Orwell's bleak classic have been brutal. Serkis remains unfazed.

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The core cast of 2004’s Battlestar Galactica pose together, all looking at the camera confrontationally
The Battlestar Galactica reboot is finally returning to streaming
Sci-fi

On May 1, you can watch Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell tear each other apart in space again

A black-and-white author portrait of Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham, who write together under the name
The Expanse creators don't want their new series to fall into a Star Wars rut
Books

'Star Wars is never going to stop. And Star Trek is the same way. If you have a big universe, it is expected you will just keep dipping in that well.'

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A layout of elements from the boxed TTRPG One Last Fight: character and nemesis cards, decks, dice, and the game box
This brilliant TTRPG skips the campaign and jumps straight to the final boss
Tabletop Games

The GM-less boxed roleplaying game One Last Fight is built for a high-drama one-shot

The Book of the Dun Cow cover on a swirly blue background
My favorite forgotten fantasy novel might actually be coming to movie screens
Recommends

Walter Wangerin’s Book of the Dun Cow was once heralded as equal to The Lord of the Rings, but who reads it today?

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Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike in Ladies First
Netflix's new Sacha Baron Cohen movie is gonna make the internet sooo mad
Trailers

The first trailer for Ladies First should ruffle every kind of feather

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A graphic with the book covers for James S.A. Corey's The Mercy of Gods and The Faith of Beasts side by side
The Expanse’s James S.A. Corey returns with The Faith of Beasts — read the first chapter here
Exclusive

The Captive's War series enters a new stage of horror

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A blonde woman in a dark room lies on a bed as a small figure stands silhouetted in the open doorway behind her in Paranormal Activity 4
Undertone director says his Paranormal Activity movie will 'define the found-footage genre'
Interview

'I'm a big fan of the series, so I'm excited for other fans to get hit with some big reveals'

Pomni from the animated YouTube series The Amazing Digital Circus — a short jester character with brown hair and mismatched gloves — freaks out in the pilot episode
The Amazing Digital Circus' series finale is coming in June as a theatrical exclusive
Animation

The viral cult animated series racked up hundreds of millions of views on YouTube before Netflix nabbed it for streaming

A frightened-looking Korean woman tries to keep emotion off her face while a blood-covered humanoid sniffs at her in Colony
Train to Busan's director is reinventing the zombie movie again and you really have to see how
Trailers

Watch the first teaser for Colony, Yeon Sang-ho's latest blood-soaked horror movie

A screenshot from the Exit 8 trailer, as a young Japanese commuter realizes with horror that a man with a stretched, creepy grin is standing right next to him
Here's the Exit 8 scene the director cut because it was too scary for Cannes
Excerpt

Read an excerpt from the director's novelization, and his explanation of why he filmed and cut that scene

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A close-up of a thin, balding Japanese man laughing with a rictus grimace that seems like pain in Exit 8, the movie
Video game movies won't work unless you break the rules, says Exit 8 director
Interview

'I wanted to blur the boundaries between what the movie medium represents, and what the video game medium represents.'

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Bowser goes for a ride with his son Bowser Jr., both Koopas beaming at each other, in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Why doesn't Jack Black sing in the Super Mario Galaxy Movie?
Animation

Black wanted this movie to be a Bowser musical — and we know exactly where the songs should go

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A group of animated farm animals — pigs, sheep, chickens, a cow — in Andy Serkis' 2026 Animal Farm
Don't watch the new trailer for Andy Serkis' Animal Farm. Watch this old one instead.
Trailers

The two versions paint very different versions of the 2026 George Orwell adaptation

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Marcel Pagnol, a 60-year-old man with grey hair, laughs with a ghost of his childhood self in a dim library office with all the curtains drawn in the animated movie A Magnificent Life
In A Magnificent Life, Triplets of Belleville’s director invents the cozy ghost-story biopic
Reviews

Sylvain Chomet’s animated biography of legendary French writer Marcel Pagnol comes with a strange supernatural twist

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