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Spider-Noir Creator Reveals What Season 2 Could Have Looked Like After Cancellation
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James Bond 26 Reaches Major Milestone as First Script Draft Is Completed

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X-Men at D23 2026
Everything Marvel Revealed About the Mutants

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Gen V Star Asa Germann Cast as Angel in Marvel’s X-Men Reboot
Gen V star Asa Germann will join Marvel’s growing list of mutants by playing Warren Worthington III aka Angel. He’s best known for his role as Sam Riordan on The Boys spin off Gen V but joining an already stacked list of characters that are making their debut in the MCU. Asa Germann will make his Marvel debut alongside a cast of other notable actors including Bad Bunny, Letitia Wright, Dane DeHaan, Suki Waterhouse, and many more. Together they’ll bring to life some of the original X-Men characters who have been a part of the comics since 1963. Born into a wealthy family, Warren Worthington III developed a pair of huge feathered wings and became one of Professor Xavier’s earliest students. Ben Foster played Warren in X-Men: The Last Stand back in 2006 while Ben Hardy took up the mantle in X-Men: Apocalypse. While everyone who’s read the comics knows that Warren had some pretty dark stuff going on when he transformed into Archangel (though we don’t have any indication at this point if Marvel intends to explore that storyline), we’ll stick with what we’ve got for now. Germann is just one of the newest additions to this new generation of mutants alongside Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, Kit Connor as Cyclops, Maya Boyd as Storm, Inde Navarrette as Rogue, Samara Weaving as Emma Frost, and Christopher Abbott as Professor Charles Xavier, and Adam Driver is also joining the party as Mister Sinister, giving Marvel an awesome villain already to work with. So who’s doing all this? Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier is also slated to direct the film as is Marvel current plan to bring out the X-Men on 5 May 2028. While the X-men have been floating around the edge of the MCU for some time, this will be Marvel studios attempt to build their own iteration of the team rather then just bringing over characters and actors from fox movies. You probably weren’t thinking Angel was going to make your top five picks for “the team” but it definitely adds interest to see that Marvel doesn’t intend on just copying the line up of the previous movies (with which we’re assuming there will still be plenty of overlap). Marvel has had decades to build its x-men roster, it’d be surprising if they didn’t use that history, and with the cast growing ever larger, you can probably expect us to hear about another X-Men announcement soon enough, too.

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Spider-Man Brand New Day
Four years after the world forgot his identity, an isolated and battle worn Peter Parker lives a solitary life in New York, fighting street-level crime as a full time vigilante. However, the crushing emotional toll of his loneliness triggers a radical physical mutation, causing his spider-powers to violently evolve as he struggles to control his changing body.

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Sonic The Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog is a super fast alien hedgehog who has been hiding on Earth. After accidentally revealing himself, he teams up with a small town sheriff to escape the government and the eccentric Dr. Robotnik, who wants to capture Sonic and use his powers for himself.

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Police Story
Police Story is an action comedy following honest Hong Kong police detective Chan Ka Kui (Jackie Chan) after he single handedly arrests a major triad drug lord. Ka Kui is assigned to protect the drug lord’s secretary, who is set to testify for the state, but things quickly go wrong when she vanishes. The syndicate retaliates by framing Ka Kui for a murder he didn't commit, forcing the clean cop to go on the run to protect his girlfriend, clear his name, and bring down the criminals through a series of jaw dropping, high stakes martial arts stunts and battles.

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Dragonheart
In 10th-century England, a disillusioned knight named Bowen forms an unlikely partnership with Draco, the very last living dragon on Earth.Years after a tragedy turns Bowen into a cynical, wandering dragon slayer, he crosses paths with Draco. Realising that fighting each other is a waste of time, the two strike up a clever partnership: they travel from village to village staging fake "dragon attacks" so Bowen can "slay" Draco and collect the reward money.However, as a tyrannical king pushes the realm to the brink of ruin, Bowen and Draco are forced to stop their con games. Together with a band of rebels, they must stand against the corrupt monarchy to restore justice to the kingdom.

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Reign Of Fire
n 2020, a post-apocalyptic Earth is ruled by fire-breathing dragons after they are accidentally awakened from hibernation beneath modern-day London.The story follows Quinn, the leader of a desperate community of British survivors hiding out in a castle. Their fight for survival changes when Van Zan, a bombastic American military leader, arrives with a ragtag squad of high-tech dragon slayers. Realising that all the beasts they are fighting are female, the two groups must unite and venture into the ash-ruins of London to hunt down the only male dragon on Earth before humanity faces total extinction.

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The Hobbit
Set in the fictional world of Middle-earth, The Hobbit follows the quiet homebody Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who is unexpectedly recruited by the wizard Gandalf and a company of thirteen dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield.Their perilous quest is to journey to the Lonely Mountain to reclaim the Dwarven kingdom and its vast treasures from the fearsome, fire-breathing dragon, Smaug. Along the way, Bilbo encounters dangerous creatures, discovers an immense reservoir of personal bravery, and stumbles upon a mysterious, invisibility-granting ring that will alter the fate of Middle-earth forever.

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Pokemon Done Right
Tim Goodman teams up with a talking Pikachu to uncover the mystery behind his father’s disappearance, leading them into a strange world filled with Pokemon, secrets and one very big mystery.

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Mortal Kombat - The Original Movies
Earthrealm faces imminent destruction as the demonic realm of Outworld prepares for a final martial arts tournament that, if won, will allow them to conquer Earth. To avert this fate, Lord Raiden recruits fighters Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, and Sonya Blade to travel to a mysterious island and battle Outworld's warriors in a decisive showdown against the sorcerer Shang Tsung.

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Project Hail Mary
The story follows Ryland Grace, a middle-school science teacher who wakes up from a long coma with severe amnesia aboard an interstellar spaceship, only to discover he is humanity's last hope to prevent an extinction-level event

Review Review
Mutiny
A fun movie if you just switch off your brain and dont think about it too much
TV Review
Batman Caped Crusader Season 2 Delivers Twists That Even Long-Time Fans Won't Expect
Batman Returns...again

Anime Review
Engage Kiss
A Surprising Supernatural Action Anime

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Reincarnated As A Sword

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The Dog Stars

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Pinocchio Unstrung
He just wants to be a real boy

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Coyote Vs Acme is bringing pure nostalgia
For decades we have watched every single attempt Wile E Coyote has made to capture the Roadrunner backfire and fail, and every single attempt had one common denominator. Acme products. Starved and defeated Wile sees an advert for billboard lawyer Kevin Avery (Will Forte) and decides enough is enough. Acme are going down. Wile teams up with this down and out lawyer to take on the biggest company in the looney Tune-verse and their team of lawyers led by Buddy Crane (John Cena)

What’s Coming to Rakuten TV This August?

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Will This Be The Biggest New Anime Of 2027
Kagurabachi Image courtesy of ©Takeru Hokazono/SHUEISHA, Project Kagurabachi

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Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2
Arriving Tomorrow on Prime Video

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5 Spider-Man Comics To Read Before Brand New Day Comes Out Tomorrow
Spider-Man Brand New Day Out In Cinemas Tomorrow

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Reacher is back
and once again everyone thinks they can take him on!
