This season of The Mandalorian has been frustrating in all new ways, delivering some of the best episodes of the series right next to some of the worst. But more annoying than the inconsistent quality has been its aggressively incoherent overall plot. Everything about Season 3 was disjointed, disconnected–a series …
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As one would expect, the Season 3 finale of The Mandalorian brought us some major story developments–and none of them were bigger than the reveal, finally, of what the hell Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) wanted Grogu for at the beginning of the series. Warning: This article contains major spoilers for …
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The moment The Super Mario Bros. Movie landed Jack Black to play the voice of Bowser, directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic knew what they had to do. “As soon as we cast Jack, our greatest desire was to get him to sing in the movie,” Horvath told GameSpot. You …
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One of the biggest criticisms of the Star Wars sequel trilogy from die-hard fans was the lack of context and world-building–even now we have very little sense of how we got from the end of Return of the Jedi to the beginning of The Force Awakens. But that gap is …
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If there is a single character who can be considered the main antagonist of the Super Mario Bros. video game franchise, it’s Bowser. And, after one movie, he’s also the main antagonist of the brand-new Super Mario Bros. Movie franchise, too. But that doesn’t mean he’ll for sure be the …
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When most folks head to the theater to check out The Super Mario Bros. Movie, they’ll probably be expecting a funny and charming and very nice-looking animated movie. But what they might not expect is a pretty great action movie. And while there are plenty of extremely sick action sequences …
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie is here, it’s great, and it’s poised to dominate the box office and spawn a new movie franchise–or maybe even a full-blown cinematic universe with some of Nintendo’s many other intellectual properties. It’s an enticing prospect, and hardly impossible to imagine when mega-franchises like Marvel …
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After three long decades, a new Super Mario Bros movie has arrived–and it’s pretty great! The animated film was made with all sorts of love for the Mario IP, but much more importantly: It’s crafted with skill and genuine cleverness. It’s a good movie, full stop. But it’s also a …
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It took a few decades, but we finally have our second big-screen adaptation of the Super Mario Bros franchise. And it was worth the wait–the new animated film starring Chris Pratt and Charlie Day as the titular brothers manages to be both quite charming and a feast for the eyes …
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Unreal Editor for Fortnite is finally here. And while over time this will change Fortnite into something that is so far beyond the Fortnite that we know today, nothing really has changed just yet. The beginning of Creative 2.0 is just a nicer version of Creative 1.0, if we’re being …
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