Watch Video Lucasfilm just dropped a bit of a surprise for us all. This Friday a new series of Star Wars animated shorts will launch on the Star Wars Kids portal and the Star Wars Kids YouTube page. Not quite as exciting as The Man...   read

Remember Candyman? He's back! In Pog form! No, actually, movie form, though some sweet Candyman Pogs would totally round out my collection of super dated things.  As previous rumors stated MGM has partnered with Mon...   read

  Watch Video Netflix wants to keep the kids watching even after all their Disney content scampers away, and nothing captures kids' imaginations quite like the charming and wonderful books of Roald Dahl, and so the studio has just announc...   read

Hellboy is coming back, but this time he's coming back hard. Horror director Neil Marshall is taking over the reins and he's basically been promising since day one to get real weird up in this thing. This first look of H...   read

The sequels had it over the five-day box office weekend, with both Ralph Breaks the Internet and Creed II bringing in massive numbers. There's barely anyone in show business upset after this weekend... well, except ...   read

  Watch Video Rocky is not only one of the greatest sports movies ever, it is one of the greatest films ever. It was a dramatic, gritty, and surprisingly grounded film that redefined the genre, established now common tropes, and basic...   read

  Watch Video Dennis Quaid has made a career of acting like a wholesome dude that you'd gladly let be a surrogate father to your children. That was clearly all a lie as in the first trailer for The Intruder we see him go full on psyc...   read

It seems that WB's hope that Fantastic Beasts would begin a new Potter frenzy in America is quickly being shattered. While Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald delivered a decent box office of $62 millio...   read

It's a big year for new characters in the Arrowverse. First, we're getting Ruby Rose's Batwoman, and now Lex Luthor is finally going to show up in Supergirl after being teased since the first season. CW just announced th...   read

  Watch Video I honestly got stuck with Instantly Family to review. Sometimes as EIC you gotta take a bullet for the team and let someone else review the big Harry Potter film (review coming later) or whatever. I was all set to take the sa...   read

There's a third Bad Boys movie coming. If you didn't know that then you can read all about it here, with the only update being that Martin Lawerence has confirmed that he is returning alongside with Will Smith. Instead o...   read

  Watch Video There have been seven Leprechaun movies, including a reboot? What kind of world do we live in and does this make it a good world or a bad one?  As you ponder that philosophical question, tune into the first trailer...   read

I kind of got unboxing videos back in the day. Honestly, I did. Back in the early days of YouTube and the Internet, we weren't bombarded by every detail about everything before that thing got into our hands, and so when someo...   read

Venom opened in China! Just saying that right off the bat so you all don't immediately jump to the comments to yell at me. While Venom has been doing perfectly fine without China it opened there this past weekend and tor...   read

  Watch Video One of the longest traditions of science fiction is its incredible ability to address social issues and concepts without directly being about the specific social issues of the day. Captive State is very clearly a scienc...   read

  Watch Video Believe it or not, prior to my screening I wasn't paying that much attention to Illumination's The Grinch, but from what I did see I thought the film was going to try something a little new with the character and focus o...   read

  Watch Video It's not really fair to compare a film to something as good as Disney's live-action The Jungle Book, but obviously, Mowgli, the new film from director Andy Serkis, is going to draw them. The two actually started production a...   read

At Flixist we don't publish every story we write on Destructoid. We try to curate our content over here to bigger ticket items, reviews, and some fun niche stuff. With that in mind, you're probably wondering why I've cho...   read

Who knew that what the people really wanted were drama-filled musicals? This weekend showed that evidently what we've all actually been craving are films filled with great songs and big emotional moments as Bohemian Rhapsody&...   read

James Cameron and Warner Bros. are about halfway through shooting Avatar 2-5, but we still know almost next to nothing about them aside from the fact that they'll take place on Pandora and a few casting tidbits. Now the BBC h...   read

Gladiator was one of those seminal films that if you were the right age and saw it at the right time has stuck in your mind ever since. I was both at the right age and at the right time so the movie for me is one of my f...   read

  Watch Video With Netflix's The Witcher series rolling into production we're getting a first look of Henry Cavill as the show's lead, Geralt. As many of you have probably spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours staring at the game vers...   read

I'm going to have to watch (or read, or play) this Attack on Titan thing aren't I? A live-action movie has been in the works for a bit, but the ball is finally rolling forward with the announcement that Andy Muschietti i...   read

  Watch Video Like all slasher franchises, Halloween has had its ups and downs over the years. Sure there's something to appreciate in even the worst of the eight original films and two Rob Zombie reboots, but it's hard to argue ...   read

Netflix is in a bit of a tiff with the Academy Awards, which require that all movies up for nomination have at least a week-long theatrical run. The outcome of this is that Netflix is basically releasing their awards contende...   read

For most of us out there the fate of the Marvel Netflix shows seemed pretty up in the air. After Disney announced its own streaming service, the second seasons failed to attract the massive cultural buzz that the first season...   read

  Watch Video Joel Cornish, the wonderful human who brought us Attack the Block, is back to his antics of young people saving the world, and it looks pretty wonderful. The Kid Who Would Be King is the kind of film I would normally roll my...   read

The DCEU is pretty much at a standstill. Sure, we've got Aquaman coming out, but with Cavill's Superman up in the air, Shazam! seeming to play mostly on its own, Batman development focusing on his early years, ...   read

The big question last week was whether or not Venom's above-expectation box office would carry over to next week. Predictions were for a pretty solid drop considering the poor reviews and only OK audience reception. Those pre...   read

  Watch Video Genre deconstruction is awesome when done right. When it's done wrong it comes across as trite, like the filmmaker doesn't actually understand the very genre they want to take apart. However, when it's done right you get film...   read