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Voltron: Legendary Defender is barreling ahead as always and now the fifth season has made its Netflix debut. The show delivers another solid story-line across six seasons with some new developments and the same old narrative problems. The focus of this season is undeniably on Prince Lotor, who turned himself over to Team Voltron last season. He wants to ally with them to take down his father and the team is understandably reluctant to do so. But when Lotor kills his father, he gets in goo

It is without question The Last Jedi had more women in major roles than any Star Wars movie to date. Between Rey, Leia, Rose, Admiral Holdo, Paige and even a quick but important check-in from Maz, the major roles of the movie were actually fairly evenly split between men and women. This really SHOULDN’T be rare in sci-fi and fantasy cinema, but sadly, it still very much is. And it’s definitely a big step up for Star Wars. These ladies were also downright indispensable to the narrati

There’s something to be said for going into an adaptation with an open mind and not comparing it to the source material. However, Netflix’s Americanized Death Note movie is absolutely terrible whether or not you consider the source material, so I might as well look at the two stories side by side and figure out what went wrong. Death Note Netflix movie protagonist Light Turner (2017) vs the Death Note anime protagonist Light Yagami (2006) Death Note, a Netflix Original Film direct

There was a lot of great anime last season, but there was also a lot of anime that fell short. We’re going to rank them and see what worked and what didn’t. Please note that I am not ranking every single anime that aired this season, both because I couldn’t possibly watch every one and because if I included every single one this article would be ridiculously long. Instead, this is a ranking of a broad sample of last season’s anime that looks at what worked and what didn&

The third season of Voltron: Legendary Defender is coming to Netflix on August 4th and the first two episodes start the new chapter off with a bang. The first episode of the season is "Changing of the Guard" and the second episode is "The Red Paladin". The show picks up where last season left off with the team having to deal with the messy aftermath of their leader Shiro’s departure. Shiro went missing during last season’s finale and that leaves a