The Penguin has been defiantly resistant to dabbling too deep in the Batman canon. A spinoff of the more gritty and grounded The Batman, the HBO show has zeroed in on its titular Batman antagonist and the much more street-level mafia war kicked off by the events of the film (and, y’know, Penguin’s own assassination of the would-be successor...

Don’t get too attached to any characters in Terrifier 3, the latest movie in Damien Leone’s viral-hit splatter series about evil murder-mime Art the Clown. This installment features a clearer sense of what series mainstay Art the Clown actually is, plus more narrative, more background lore, and more character work, particularly with previous...

Earlier this week, Silent Hill 2 finally emerged from the fog of its development. A remake of the original 2001 game of the same name by Polish developer Bloober Team (Layers of Fear, The Medium), Silent Hill 2 is easily the most anticipated and ambitious horror game of 2024, a modern take on one of the most iconic and influential survival...

The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch | Photo: Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images Metaphor: ReFantazio is not a horror game — it’s a fantasy RPG with a story that keeps getting better as it goes along and a combat system that’s complex and satisfying. But whenever I run into the “humans,” monsters whose visual design look nothing...

The comedy streaming service Dropout is breaking ground in a highly competitive genre of television: the cooking competition show. Its new series, Gastronauts, brings Dropout’s comedic talent and penchant for zany antics to the well-worn genre with something just a little less cutthroat than you’ll see on other cooking shows. Hosted by...

Tomb Raider fans, bless them, spend a lot of time wondering how the series all syncs up. If the Lara Croft we saw in the original ’90s games is the same one as the rougher-around-the-edges Lara from the Survivor trilogy, then what happened in between to have it all make sense?  Luckily, answers appear on the horizon. Tomb Raider developer...