Picture the Crunchyroll Showcase at New York Comic Con: trailers drop for The Remarried Empress, Teenage Mercenary and The Boxer. Then the bigger news: around 15 WEBTOON series are being lined up for anime.

#webtoon #nycc

Revisiting my Frankenstein review a year on: Del Toro gives the rage to Victor, not the monster. The trade-off is Jacob Elordi's creature, which comes off a bit emo and so muted that it's forgettable by the end.

#frankenstein #guillermodeltoro

A year ago I reviewed Deliver Me From Nowhere. The detail I'd send you back for: watching Springsteen's Nebraska travel from cassette tape to vinyl master. Mundane on paper, oddly fascinating on screen.

#springsteen #delivermefromnowhere

Hot take: a great Chris Hansen performance isn't enough. Primetime nails the narcissism behind To Catch a Predator, then barely touches the fallout for decoys, staff, or victims. Tonally messy, but it says a lot about how we got here.

#primetimemovie #tocatchapredator

A year ago fans worried the Badlands Predator looked too human. Revisiting my review, the bigger story was Trachtenberg finally giving the Yautja a coming-of-age tale. No xenomorphs, no bumbling humans, just a lot of Predator.

#predatorbadlands #dantrachtenberg

Popular wisdom: a NYT bestseller is a safe bet on screen. Verity begs to differ. Anne Hathaway shines (while mostly 'comatose'), but wall-to-wall narration and a twist that shows up too late make it easy to forget on the way out.

#verity #colleenhoover

Ten years after the animated Moana, Disney's live-action version sticks almost scene-for-scene to the original. The Rock is back as Maui, and there's a new song, "Along The Way." Safe choice or pointless remake? This review weighs both.

#moana #moviereview

A year ago I wrote that Bugonia doesn't stick with you long after the theater. Revisiting that review, the core problem I flagged was the message: it only dips its toes into conspiracy theories until the last 10 minutes.

#bugonia #yorgoslanthimos

A24 put Zendaya and Robert Pattinson in a wedding-week film where a friendly "worst thing you've ever done" icebreaker goes horribly wrong. Our reviewer's advice: skip the spoilers and brace for second-hand embarrassment.

#thedrama #a24

A year ago I reviewed Tron: Ares and called Ares the least interesting lead in his own movie. Athena's fight against her code was the real story. Rewatching it? Watch her, and give the Nine Inch Nails score a few days to settle in.

#tronares #tron

Spielberg's Disclosure Day has a meteorologist, a cybersecurity expert on the run, and Colin Firth hiding the truth. The review says some moments feel so real you forget it's fiction. Weekend alien movie, sorted?

#disclosureday #spielberg

Hot take: Practical Magic 2's plot doesn't need to work for the movie to be fun. Nothing feels earned, and Lee Pace's professor might be under a spell, but Kidman and Bullock as sisters? Still spellbinding. And yes, there's a blender and a song.

#practicalmagic2 #moviereview

Beerus, God of Destruction, wakes from a long, deep sleep, hears rumors of a Saiyan who beat Frieza, and drops in on Goku. Earth is not thrilled. Dragon Ball Super: Beerus hits Crunchyroll Oct 11 with enhanced and all-new animation.

#dragonballsuper #crunchyroll

A year after reviewing Hamnet, one choice still gets me: casting Noah Jupe, Jacobi Jupe's real-life older brother, as Hamlet on stage. He looks like a grown-up Hamnet, and you feel it before you think it. Worth noticing on a rewatch.

#hamnet #filmreview

A year after reviewing Wicked: For Good, my advice is the same: watch parts 1 and 2 back to back. Part 2 carries the musical's weaker half, but it is darker, and Grande's Glinda finally gets room to breathe.

#wickedforgood #wicked

A year after reviewing Avatar: Fire and Ash, my rewatch tip: look past the spectacle and follow Lo'ak and Spider. Two outcasts, two sides of the same coin. The film's own line sums it up: the fire of hate gives way to the ash of grief.

#avatarfireandash #jamescameron

Comfort rewatch list: Hunter x Hunter, My Hero Academia... and a harem anime set in the middle of a civil war? Tenchi Muyo: War On Geminar made the cut, and its 45-min episodes play like mini-movies.

#tenchimuyo #anime

Opened a 2015 best-anime list and found power struggles everywhere: vampires trading "protection" for human blood, an Earth vs Mars war with a Martian princess in a love triangle, and a #1 pick about why two gods hate each other.

#anime2015 #seraphoftheend

Didn't expect a Pixar movie to crack an Avatar joke, but Hoppers does. A girl's mind gets beamed into a robotic animal, "pond rules" ensue, and parents and kids both laugh. Slow start, fun ride once it gets going.

#hoppers #pixar

Maomao got sold to the emperor's palace and solved her way up. Emi Lo, her English dub voice, is signing postcards Oct. 8 at The Loop in LA. Spend $35 on Apothecary Diaries merch Oct. 5–8 for a wristband. First come, first served.

#theapothecarydiaries #emilo