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Image: NetflixThe path to Universal and Blumhouse’s Wolfman reboot—known here as Wolf Man—has been slow going. But on Friday, the movie added a new star to its cast in Ozark’s Julia Garner. Will You Click Windows’ New Copilot Button?Per Deadline, Garner will have the lead role as a mother whose family ends up terrorized by the titular werewolf, playing opposite Christopher Abbott. (The two actors previously worked together in 2011's Martha Marcy May Marlene, Garner’s professional acting debut.) Her casting comes weeks…

The Deep!: Wild Life at the Ocean’s Darkest Depths Did you know June is National Ocean Month? Consider celebrating with The Deep!: Wild Life at the Ocean’s Darkest Depths by Lindsey Leigh. This clever and informative nonfiction survey uses comics and comedy to impart fascinating facts about the denizens of the most enigmatic areas of the ocean. Through The Deep!, readers of all ages will be introduced to creatures like the blob sculpin and the pigbutt worm, to fascinating concepts like marine snow and chemosynthesis, and…

Posted in: Comics | Tagged: Agent, Cloud Puppy, graphic novel, Kelly Leigh MillerJulia McCarthy at Atheneum has acquired world rights to the first four books in the Cloud Puppy graphic novel series by y Kelly Leigh Miller.The Cloud Puppy graphic novel series by Kelly Leigh Miller of I Am A Wolf and I Love My Fangs, follows bubbly Cloud Puppy (part cloud and part puppy), a lover of all things pop culture, comics, gaming, and more as she navigates fandom with friends, finds quirky new ways to have fun, and has plenty of…

Image: NetflixThe main plot of the series takes cues from two books, but there are scenes, characters, and winks towards an additional four books, including Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom (which follows the Crows of Ketterdam), and the duology that follows Nikolai Lantsov; King of Scars and Rule of Wolves. To call the series rushed is an understatement. The characters were enough to keep me invested, but if Shadow and Bone had just slimmed down the plot and slowed the pacing,and it would have been a much better…

Netflix hit Shadow and Bone’s second season follows up the heists and twists of season one, offering another glimpse inside the magical world of Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse. While the pacing of the series is exceptionally fast and the three main plotlines feel cramped, the show still delivers an exciting-enough plot, successfully renders each of its (many) characters with brilliant and chaotic fury, and remains accessible without losing a sense of style.In this season, after Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) escapes the…

Image: Wit Studio/FunimationWe left 2022 behind in the dust weeks ago, but there’s still awards to be given for the previous year’s top movies and TV shows. It’s the same for anime too, as Crunchyroll finally unveiled the list of nominees for its annual Anime Awards ceremony.Of the many nominees, Cloverworks’ Spy x Family has caught the most attention with 16 nominations in various categories including Anime of the Year and Best Animation. The show’s popularity isn’t much of a surprise, but the number of nominations…

Image: Geraldo Borges and Mark Englert/Image ComicsRadiant Black has become a smash hit for Image Comics, now playing host to a whole rainbow of Radiant heroes and villains. But its next big thing isn’t bright lights and big superheroics—it’s a multimedia thriller about murder in a world of heroes, and io9 has your first details.The latest addition to the “Massive-verse” series is NO/ONE, a 10-part thriller penned by Radiant Black’s Kyle Higgins and former Detective Comics scribe Brian Buccellato, with art from…

Credit: Netflix Tina Roesler Kerwin and Jaime Leigh McIntosh are both Emmy-nominated hair and makeup artists with an illustrious roll call of A-list projects on their resume. Top Gun: Maverick, The Gray Man, Magnolia, and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer are just a few projects that have been elevated through their involvement. With that wealth of experience built up over time, it is little wonder that both Tina and Jaime have looked after the likes of Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, and most recently Ana de Armas for…

‘A feast of challenges that were pure anarchic bliss’Mike Leigh. Photograph: Karl Black/Alamy Live NewsMike LeighThe passing of Jean-Luc Godard leaves me pining with deep nostalgic sadness, despite my reservations – shared by many – about the director’s later eccentricities. It was 1960 and Breathless exploded on to the screen at the precise moment I arrived in London, a film-obsessed 17-year-old from Salford, who had never seen a movie that wasn’t in English, British and Hollywood fare being my sole diet. Godard’s debut…

Speaking of Taika Waititi, to me, he’s the Spielberg of today, with a particular strength in sharing stories about found families. (Every time he makes a movie or produces a show by uplifting creatives we need and breaks barriers for the marginalized, I turn into the Jeff Goldblum “you did it” meme.) Boy, released in 2010, is about a kid growing up in New Zealand during the ‘80s (much like Waititi did), and in 2014's What We Do in the Shadows, with its coven of vampire forever flatmates, you really saw how even on the…