What to Watch

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The title card from the Mummies Alive! TV series, featuring a bas-relief pharaoh in a traditional headdress above the series title
If Lee Cronin’s The Mummy looks too gross for you, try this lighter animated Mummy fare from the 1990s

Mummies Alive! was a solid late-1990s cartoon that's mostly been forgotten

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Wonder Woman holds her arms up, wrists protected by silver bracelets, in a defensive pose
50 years ago, the Wonder Woman TV show rescued DC's most important female hero

The show reflected both a new and old direction for the comics

Still from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex featuring Major Kusanagi in cyberspace.
5 surreal and striking sci-fi anime to watch while you play Pragmata

Find your next favorite anime with these Pragmata look-alikes

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robocop holding a gun
5 anti-AI movies Tubi’s new chatbot would never recommend you

Et tu, Tubi?

dust bunny
Bryan Fuller’s surreal hitman fairy tale arrives on HBO Max

Mads Mikkelsen slays monsters in the ultra-stylish film

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Jonathan and Dio pose against a gothic backdrop in Phantom Blood
In defense of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood

Part 1's intimate stakes paved the path for a delightful and inventive franchise

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An image from Roadside Attractions' Dust Bunny. It features Mads Mikkelsen as an unnamed hitman. He looks distressed.
A Hannibal reunion, a movie for Sinners fans, and everything new to streaming this weekend

Explore a spooky amusement park or unleash some creepypasta

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Scene from Vampire Hunter D featuring D as lasers shoot him from off-screen.
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust still looks better than most anime 25 years later

Like a crumbling gothic painting brought to life, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust remains iconic

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avatar aang
Avatar's best adult Aang story is already streaming legally

Skip the leaked movie and watch this old episode instead

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Totoro
Why you should experience this unusual Ghibli double feature as the studio originally intended

Grave of the Fireflies and My Neighbor Totoro make an unforgettable combo

In a scene from the 2016 thriller Green Room, Amber (Imogen Poots), one of several young adults trapped at a white-power club, issues a warning while Pat (Anton Yelchin) looks on in the background.
10 years ago, Green Room predicted a future more terrifying than a horror movie

Jeremy Saulnier's intense siege thriller still hits hard and sharp

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Poster of Virgin Punk Clockwork Girl anime showing Ubu Kamigori and Mr. Elegance.
A single second in last year’s slickest anime reportedly took a month to animate

Virgin Punk is what happens when you give a perfectionist far too much time

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Orange Piccolo with steam coming off him in a screenshot from Dragon Ball Super Super Hero
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero finally did right by Piccolo

Featuring new transformations and characters galore

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A man wearing a white ceramic mask and a beanie stares ahead.
10 years ago, Mike Flanagan proved that silence in horror can be more terrifying than screaming

There is fear in the silence

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Journal with Which Makio and Asa
Crunchyroll's most underrated Winter season anime is the total opposite of Jujutsu Kaisen

A surprisingly rich anime that focuses on the subtleties of life and human interaction

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A Critter grins
40 years later, this Gremlins 'knock-off' is still full of B-movie magic

Critters is everything you want in a cheesy horror movie

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Natalie Portman, Danny McBride, and James Franco, dressed in medieval fantasy gear, brandish their weapons in a scene from Your Highness, with the unarmed Zoey Deschanel standing alongside them in a red dress.
15 years ago, Danny McBride went on an underrated quest for fantasy-comedy glory

Your Highness closely followed Pineapple Express, but didn't land the same way

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The Bride
The Bride, Netflix's killer shark thriller, and every movie new to streaming this weekend

Keanu Reeves looks for redemption while The Yeti emerges on VOD

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A long haired man (H P Lovecraft) stares at his hand as a bespectacled man (Kunikida) points a gun at him in Bungo Stray Dogs
This underrated genre mashup anime is a must-watch for lovers of literature

Bungo Stray Dogs reinterprets literary geniuses as flashy, eccentric personalities

Nigel Terry as Arthur and Cherie Lunghi as Guenevere in Excalibur (1981)
Excalibur started as a failed Lord of the Rings project, then transcended fantasy movies

45 years later, John Boorman's film is still the best attempt to bridge cinema and myth

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