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George Clooney's big break on the small screen came via NBC's ER, while the greatest critical acclaim he has received over the course of his career came from films like Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck.

The new Psion class for Dungeons and Dragons is all but confirmed with the reveal of the upcoming releases for the popular TTRPG. The Psion class is a new entry to the game, focused on the usage of psychic-based abilities to conjure mental magic, fig…

An original Home Alone star does not approve of the third movie. After the success of the franchise's first two films starring Macaulay Culkin and directed by Chris Columbus, the franchise released Home Alone 3.

Rangers are an often overlooked class in Baldur's Gate 3 and Dungeons & Dragons, which is a shame as they are a brilliantly customizable class with many awesome features.

Today's Connections are quite simple, but only if you understand the relationship between roles people have and where they often express them. There is an element of sociology to the puzzle today, both in humanity's history and how its terminology ha…

The 2010s were a great time for fans of fairy tales and folklore, as fantasy TV shows were all the rage. Some of these fantasy shows were darker than others, though, and Grimm, which ran from 2011 to 2017, was the creepiest one of all.

Tom Holland & Zendaya get the green light from this Disney legend. Tom Holland and Zendaya are currently on a major box office run after appearing in the likes of Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey together.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has brought one of the strongest characters into the franchise as of this summer.

Sydney Sweeney's intense R-rated erotic thriller has found new life on HBO Max years after it was released, and this film's revival comes at the perfect time, as the actress now continues a successful 2026 genre trend.

As the right-hand man to Monkey D. Luffy on One Piece's Straw Hat pirates crew, Roronoa Zoro has always enjoyed prominence as his team's resident master swordsman.

Warning: SPOILERS for the upcoming Deathstroke the Terminator #6 are ahead!The Teen Titans have battled a lot of villains over the decades, from Mister Twister and H.I.V.E., to Brother Blood and Trigon. Of this lineup, Slade Wilson, a.k.a.

Marvel reveals Kitty Pryde's darkest design to date, with a visual overhaul that overshadows the new X-Men by turning their most innocent hero into a horror movie monster.

Palpatine's devastating Clone Wars schemes would have failed had another, severely underrated Star Wars villain not paved the way for the Jedi's and the Republic's destruction centuries earlier.

PlayStation Plus has a classic 1999 PlayStation 1 game, which inspired the creation of Stardew Valley, available in its catalog for free; if you’re a fan of ConcernedApe’s work, you may want to check out what served as a foundation for the title deca…

IT gets a new release with Stranger Things' Duffer Brothers. Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer have previously spoken about how the classic Stephen King novel was a major influence on the hit Netflix series.

The 1960s were arguably the golden age of the cinematic epic. Studios poured enormous budgets into sprawling productions that transported audiences across deserts, battlefields, ancient civilizations, and entire continents.

Dungeon Crawler Carl has evolved from a relatively niche LitRPG novel to one of the biggest breakout success stories in modern fantasy and science fiction publishing.

The chances of a fourth Back to the Future movie happening are incredibly slim, and one of Doc Brown's greatest quotes explains exactly why that's a good thing.

Black Cat cosplayers are in for a real treat, as Marvel has unveiled a stunning new costume for the iconic Spider-Man character that would feel right at home not only at your next Comic-Con, but at a Renaissance faire as well.

When it premiered in 1999, The West Wing couldn't have had a more perfect cast. Each actor brought just the right balance of diligence and personality to creator Aaron Sorkin's signature fast-paced dialogue.

Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4, Episode 4 - "A Case of Chiaroscuro"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds laid the groundwork for why the Klingons abandoned their deadliest weapon after Star Trek: The Original Series.

If what you loved most about Avatar: The Last Airbender was watching characters turn elemental abilities into an actual martial art, there is plenty of fantasy beyond the Four Nations worth exploring. The best elemental magic systems do more than let…

Rogue and Gambit have spent decades circling each other through some of the X-Men’s biggest stories, balancing romance, danger and the complications of Rogue’s powers. Now, Marvel is giving the beloved couple a story built around their relationship.

It's the last day in Paradise. Hulu's post-apocalyptic science-fiction thriller series is returning for its third and final season. Creator and showrunner Dan Fogelman revealed on April 7 that season 3 filming had begun, only a week after the Paradis…

Life is Strange could be sticking around. Life is Strange is an episodic adventure game that first began in 2015. The original game won impressive awards after its release, including the BAFTA Games Award for Best Story, The Game Awards' Games for Im…

The ending of A Gentleman in Moscow brings with it the conclusion of Alexander Rostov's story, with his 35-year stretch of imprisonment inside Moscow's Metropol Hotel coming to a halt.

It’s been an incredibly difficult week for the Power Rangers fandom. After years of anticipation, Disney shockingly announced that its long-awaited Disney+ reboot of Power Rangers has been canceled.

Chicago Fire's difficult but necessary course-correction has started. Dick Wolf's Windy City-based franchise remains the king of Wednesday nights for NBC.

Spider-Man will swing back with a long-running series that has just been renewed for yet another season. Spider-Man is one of the most popular heroes in the world.

The detective novel is one of the greatest forms in literature, and each of the books listed here deserves to be considered an essential part of the genre's canon. Unfortunately, for most readers, these novels languish in obscurity, or at least on th…

House of the Dragon Season 3 has left viewers with plenty to process. The eight-episode season, which premiered June 21, 2026, and concluded August 9, pushed the Targaryen civil war into an even bloodier stage, with betrayals, dragon battles, shiftin…

Growing up, the PlayStation platform was a reliable source of action entertainment pretty much all the time. The PlayStation 2 is arguably one of the biggest action machines of all time, providing countless games to play and challenge yourself with.

One long-running murder mystery series' leading detective is the perfect blend of Sherlock Holmes and '80s action hero MacGyver. Sherlock Holmes has long been one of fiction's and Hollywood's most iconic characters, with hundreds of adaptations and i…

Spider-Man: Brand New Day has officially made history with its current box office gross, both in terms of its individual results, and what they mean for the wider world of the MCU.

Published Aug 16, 2026, 8:54 AM EDT Rianna is the Movie News Editor for ScreenRant. After earning her BA in Film Studies, she began her career as an entertainment writer, contributing to several publications before joining ScreenRant.

Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for The End of Oak Street.The End of Oak Street is now playing in theaters, and the final moments of the movie perfectly set up a new Jurassic Park of sorts.

Life is Strange just got even stranger. Life is Strange began in 2015 with the French development studio Dontnod and was published by Square Enix as an episodic narrative adventure. The game was led by creative directors Michel Koch and Raoul Barbet,…

The highly anticipated return of Ballard will also be bittersweet, as Bosch is expected to change forever after season 2. Prime Video’s Bosch remains one of the most popular series released by the streaming giant, and the franchise is still expanding…

Iconic X-Men hero Storm has an awesome new costume - part of a larger redesign that's guaranteed to inspire cosplayers in the months and years to come.

You can load up the Steam front page and see a horror game on it nearly every time you look. Ever since the streaming era, the genre has catapulted to the forefront, and it's easy to look left, then right, and find a brand-new horror game climbing th…

Wordle is a daily word-guessing game that tasks players with solving a five-word puzzle using letter position clues. Wordle presents the player with six rows of five empty boxes.

Anthony Starr's best role before Homelander deserved just as much success as The Rookie, which has become one of ABC’s biggest and most enduring dramas.

To this day, the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers remain the pinnacle lineup for the franchise, despite there being several iterations to follow. Since the series first debuted on Fox Kids in 1993, its original five Rangers have become nostalgic…

Rick and Morty's dialogue is often witty and sharp, but there is one line in particular that stands out among the rest, and it came pretty early in the show's run. Since 2013, Rick and Morty has been redefining what adult animation is capable of.

Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes has been around since 1985, and while there is plenty of humor to be found in this legendary comic strip, it may be even better known for its deep philosophical musings.

Since Doctor Who was revived in 2005, I have been an enormous fan of the show, but I'd be lying if I said the show didn't have some gaping flaws that I would love to see changed.

Earlier this week saw Sony announce the latest batch of titles heading to its PlayStation Plus service.

Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere is ever-growing, and for fans of The Stormlight Archive, you won't want to miss the Stormlight World Guide, a new book that contains new lore details on the planet of Roshar and its denizens.

Now that Season 3 of House of the Dragon has concluded, Game of Thrones fans have at least another year to debate whether the show's diversions from George R.R. Martin's Fire & Blood have paid off or are a complete disaster.

Diablo has influenced countless games after it, and I'm not just talking about the sequels. The original Diablo was an iconic dungeon crawler, and its dark, dour mood didn't detract from its enjoyment one iota.

Some of the best sci-fi shows and movies out there are not merely one-dimensional portrayals of futuristic technology and alien worlds. Instead, they hold the power to completely alter the viewer's perception of reality and prompt them to see the wor…

Considering their prominence in House of the Dragon but lack of appearances in Game of Thrones, many wonder what happened to House Velaryon.

Netflix's new K-drama makes a sticky case on the streaming charts. Since 2024, Korean content has ranked as the second-most-watched category on Netflix behind the United States. Due to the rising popularity and global hits like Squid Game and Bloodho…

Animal Crossing has never made its way to Steam, and for a lot of us, that’s been a genuine bummer. Nintendo’s cozy little island sim is the kind of game you keep coming back to, but if your primary gaming rig is a laptop or desktop, you’re stuck wat…

If Indiana Jones and Mission: Impossible are your vibe, Prime Video has something exceptional to offer for your next binge. Naturally, both these action film franchises feature a mutual offering—nostalgia.

The Diplomat season 4 is shaping up to put both personal relationships and international alliances under distress. Allison Janney, who portrays Grace Penn in the hit Netflix drama, has finished filming the upcoming installment.

When one thinks of Stranger Things, one may think of well-crafted 1980s nostalgia through the town of Hawkins Indiana, or the numerous sci-fi and horror tropes present throughout.

The next installment of Prime Video's Reacher is breaking new ground by being the first not to be based on a Lee Child book.

Warning! This article contains major SPOILERS for Absolute Batman #23. Absolute Batman fascinatingly explores Batman’s lore and mythology, including the symbology of bats and why bats are so paramount to Bruce Wayne’s whole ethos.

The 2000s saw the rise of kids' movies, including some groundbreaking animated films that remain beloved to this day. This was the decade that saw Pixar explode with movies like The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and WALL-E.

Spider-Man boasts a skill set that is well ingrained in pop culture: web-shooting and slinging, super-strength, agility, durability, and reflexes. However, not all of the character’s powers make it to mainstream media.

Disney released a new post for an upcoming Lilo & Stitch short film. The movie, titled Lilo & Scratch, was first announced back in June at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Market.

This article contains major spoilers for Silo season 3, episode 7.While many mysteries surrounding the central silos in Apple TV's Silo remain unsolved, the show seems to have quietly given away some crucial details about Silo 1.

It is no secret that many of the best K-dramas are usually based on webtoons and manhwa. Not only do these adaptations give producers a well-developed story and characters to work with, but also a pre-established fan base that's sure to tune in to th…

We don't have to worry about Prime Video's top-tier fantasy series meeting the same fate as HBO's Game of Thrones. Of course, when it comes to this particular genre, it doesn't get much bigger than HBO's massively popular Game of Thrones.

Spider-Man and The Punisher go back a long time. In Frank Castle’s case, it’s been since the very beginning, as he made his first appearance in 1974’s The Amazing Spider-Man #129 (as did The Jackal) to hunt down Peter Parker in his masked persona.

Buckle up, The Mandalorian fans; September is set to be a good month. Even despite a bumpy third season, The Mandalorian is widely regarded as one of the best Star Wars TV shows and has been almost single-handedly responsible for the franchise's focu…

Serial killers have been one of the most popular villains in thriller movies for years. This specific character type has appeared in everything from horror movies to action thrillers to intense dramatic thrillers.

While Naruto has an array of iconic fights that feature some of the coldest attacks and moves, Minato's showdown against Obito in Naruto: Shippuden remains the coldest. The fight in question does not last as long as most of the other narratively sign…

One of the longest-lasting additions to the Peanuts gang, Lucy Van Pelt has also featured almost as frequently throughout the comic strip as its other biggest stars, Charlie Brown and Snoopy.

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor hero Cal Kestis' live-action debut looks more likely than ever. With Star Wars Jedi 3 officially in the works, Respawn Entertainment's Imperial-era saga has a chance to go down in history as one of Star Wars'…

It has been 47 years since one of the greatest war movies of all time was released, and it contains a line that remains the best quote in war movie history thanks to its connotations.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day has completely transformed the MCU logo, making it a vital part of the upcoming story. For most moviegoers, the Marvel Studios logo is simply part of the pre-show experience.

Apple TV is well known for taking ambitious genre stories and giving them the kind of cinematic treatment normally reserved for major theatrical productions, and its upcoming horror series could be one of its most intriguing attempts yet.

The best decision that Spider-Man: Brand New Day made was to take inspiration from Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 and its predecessors’ combat and traversal animations.

Gary Larson's The Far Side is easily the wittiest comic strip of all time, with the creator's love of language shining through in every caption. However, not every Far Side needs a caption - or even dialogue - to hit you square in the funny bone.

Apple TV has established itself as the definitive platform for sci-fi, taking on projects that were once considered "unadaptable" and giving a chance to new and ambitious shows that might need a little more time to find their audience.

Since his anime debut in 2024, Sung Jinwoo has established himself as one of the strongest characters in all of anime. He notably came from very humble beginnings, however, and was an E-Rank Hunter initially known as the Weakest Hunter of All Mankind…

Avengers: Doomsday crashes into theaters later this year and will see some of the greatest and most beloved heroes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe collide. Avengers: Doomsday was officially announced during Marvel Studios’ Hall H panel at San Dieg…

The PlayStation 3 is almost 20 years old and sadly it shows. Most games from that era offered beige color palettes, low textures and loading times that could break the patience of a Zen master. Yet, not all games on the console were made equal.

The following contains spoilers for The End of Oak Street. The End of Oak Street's original ending was significantly grimmer. According to star Ewan McGregor, who portrayed Greg in The End of Oak Street, the film could have concluded on a considerabl…

Robert Duvall might have been best known as The Godfather's Tom Hagen, but his career also included a forgotten Western TV gem with an impressive cast.

Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender continued the beloved franchise by telling the one story that was missing from the original show. By the end of Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, the titular character solidified himself as the true continuation of the …

This summer saw the release of Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Supergirl, representing the latest installments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and DC Universe respectively.

The MCU's upcoming X-Men reboot just revealed more of its official cast at Disney's major D23 ultimate fan event, including the major surprise that Adam Driver is set to finally join the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the movie's new villain.

Not unlike how Steve Rogers’ Captain America was entombed in ice and eventually thawed decades later, Marvel’s Avengers missed the remarkably short era when AAA live-service games were thrilling, flourishing, and highly anticipated.

The latest game to employ the shadowdropping strategy is The Lord of the Rings: War in the North - Legacy Edition, a reissue of the 2011 release of the same name.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is responsible for some of the biggest movies of all time, and the franchise's highest-grossing hits confirm who Marvel's most popular superhero really is. The pinnacle of Marvel Studios' achievements at the box office r…

Jean Grey played a major role in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and the character will come back via an exciting new version in just one month. The Marvel Cinematic Universe will never be the same. From the moment Disney acquired Fox, fans started ponder…

This article contains spoilers for Reacher season 4, episode 1. Reacher and The Night Agent have been extremely different until now, with season 4 of Reacher giving us a very familiar opening.

Netflix is reportedly expanding one of its hit international fantasy series, Bon Appétit, Your Majesty, with a new story and lead star. The South Korean historical fantasy romance based on Park Guk-jae's web novel Surviving as Yeonsangun's Chef, debu…

The next major Star Trek series finally follows a key hero as the franchise's main star right from the beginning. Star Trek has reinvented itself several times throughout the decades, starting with The Next Generation, which moved the Enterprise and …

Warning! This article contains major SPOILERS for Absolute Batman #23. Bane, Joker, and Scarecrow from Absolute Batman are some of the scariest iterations of these classic characters, bar none.

Although Spider-Man is traditionally a solo act, he's often found himself fighting against entire teams of villains. Most notably among these is, of course, the Sinister Six, but several others have assembled to defeat him over the years as well.

Game of Thrones will continue on for the foreseeable future. Even if George R.R. Martin never finishes The Winds of Winter and beyond, rightsholders will keep telling stories in the world, through prequels, spinoffs, and even invented narratives.

Ever since Steven Spielberg's Jaws terrified audiences into reconsidering every trip to the beach in 1975, shark movies have faced an impossible challenge.

Stephen King’s TV adaptations have rarely achieved the same iconic status as King’s best movies. On the TV side, the 1990 It miniseries starring Tim Curry made Pennywise a generational villain.

A new R-rated horror movie starring Gillian Anderson is winning over audiences. Anderson's name is generally associated with The X-Files, in which she plays FBI Special Agent Dana Scully opposite Fox Mulder (David Duchovny).

With the upcoming release of Elden Ring's official feature film from A24, we're finally going to see some of the game's most iconic characters and enemies brought to life in live-action for the first time.

As one of the best sitcoms of all time, Cheers is known for its fast-paced, funny dialogue, including the best line from unsuspecting waitress Diane Chambers (Shelley Long), who's the catalyst for the entire series.

When it comes to The Vampire Diaries books vs. show, there are several key differences between the original novels by L.J. Smith and The CW's teen drama adaptation.

If there was a theme or central idea to today's Connections, it would be "getting to the end of your rope," with measuring one's tired state being crucial to the overall puzzle.

A little over two years since Young Sheldon wrapped up on CBS, and the decision has become totally unforgivable. When The Big Bang Theory ended in 2019, its first-ever spinioff continued its legacy and ran for five more seasons.

The Star Wars fanbase is divided on whether they really want the franchise to move forward from the Skywalkers, the Jedi/Sith, and the prequel trilogy era.

The End of Oak Street is having an inauspicious beginning. The new sci-fi adventure movie was written and directed by David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) and tells the story of a bickering married couple (Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor) fighting to p…

The most moving line of The Shawshank Redemption might be the greatest quote of any Stephen King adaptation. Predictably, horror is the banner most Stephen King movies tend to fall under, with the likes of The Shining, IT, and Carrie being the most f…

Star Wars has set up Ewan McGregor's long-awaited return as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Since the legacy character's titular turn in Disney+'s Obi-Wan Kenobi limited series, the actor has been vocal about his willingness to reprise his role in the galaxy far, fa…

Fox’s comedy slate was in a transitional period in the 2017-2018 season. The network's flagship animated comedies, The Simpsons and Family Guy, were institutions rather than growth engines, while their two biggest live-action comedies were coming to …

The upcoming release of How to Train Your Dragon 2 is history in the making, and it's a painful lesson for Disney's slate of live-action remakes. Hitting theaters 15 years after the debut of the beloved animated franchise, 2025's live-action adaptati…

Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere has become a global phenomenon, with The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn series creating one of the most sprawling fantasy universes in the genre.

Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4, Episode 4 - "A Case Of Chiaroscuro"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds reintroduces the first Klingon seen in Star Trek, who is played by a familiar actor replacing the late John Colicos.

A breakout horror star of 2018 is making a long-delayed return to the genre. Milly Shapiro blew some minds as Charlie Graham in Ari Aster’s terrifying psychological thriller Hereditary, becoming a budding horror icon thanks to her unsettling performa…

The DC Universe's latest Green Lantern cast reveal has officially confirmed the new cinematic world has crowned a new era for itself and for DC more broadly speaking, by flipping the last few decades of on-screen releases on their head in one major w…

Kyle Chandler is one of the most consistent actors in Hollywood — even in a thankless supporting role, he always does something memorable — and he gets consistent work because of it.

Despite being one of the most popular modern fantasy franchises, The Witcher is in a bit of an odd place in 2026.

Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth stories meet the twin twist of The Parent Trap in the BBC and BritBox's bingeable six-part detective drama.

S.W.A.T. Exiles brings with it some heartache for Hondo's original squad. Shemar Moore's return to his long-running portrayal of Sergeant II Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson Jr. is just a little over a month away, as S.W.A.T. Exiles will debut on Starz and a…

The X-Men cast is finally here, as the Marvel Cinematic Universe gets ready for what the future holds for the franchise beyond the Multiverse Saga, and a particular casting choice makes up for a recent disappointing reveal from another popular univer…

Time travel is always a tricky thing to pull off, but this 47-episode Syfy series attempted it in the most ambitious way possible and pulled it off.

The Super Mario games rank among some of the greatest in the history of gaming, and for very good reasons.

Wanda Maximoff's story has been one of the most enduring and significant of the Multiverse Saga to date, and in just two months, the story will continue in VisionQuest.

The Alien franchise features the Xenomorph, one of the most iconic and terrifying monsters in history. The creature first appears in the 1979 movie Alien, with a design credited to H.R. Giger and his painting Necronom IV, and it has evolved from ther…

Suits, which ran from 2011 through 2019, is one of the most popular legal dramas of all time, and there is a clear ranking of its seasons from worst to best.

After nearly 20 years, Bruce Campbell is back in the director's chair for Ernie & Emma. Campbell memorably broke out in the world of acting thanks to his leading turn in Sam Raimi's original Evil Dead trilogy as the chainsaw-wielding Ash Williams, wh…

Friends is the gold standard of sitcom ensembles. The alchemy between those six actors was strong enough to sustain 10 seasons, and timeless and endearing enough to still be one of the most popular shows on TV more than two decades later.