Practical Magic 2: Mark Kermode stirs the cauldron, the critics stir the drink (film news).
If the embed above has been hexed, cursed or quietly set to private, you can watch Mark Kermode’s review here:
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Digger: Tom Cruise breaks the world, then insists he can fix it (film: trailer).
The final trailer for Digger has landed. Alejandro G. Iñárritu directs Tom Cruise as the most powerful man alive, racing to prove he is humanity’s saviour before the catastrophe he started finishes the job. In cinemas and IMAX from 2 October.
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Star Trek Turns 60, Promptly Sells You A Casserole Dish
The Star Trek 60th anniversary brings a new Paramount film and a Le Creuset cookware range, the 2026 Dragon Awards hand out rockets to a near-empty room, the HWA dissolves its Executive Director post, and HBO’s Harry Potter finds its Tom Riddle. Genre news, 7-9 September 2026.
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Godzilla Minus Zero: the maths gets worse, the screen gets bigger (monster movie: trailer)
The full Godzilla Minus Zero trailer has landed. Takashi Yamazaki’s sequel is the first Japanese production ever Filmed For IMAX, it opens in November, and Toho would like you to believe that this time it really is the last one.
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George Lucas spends a billion dollars to win an argument, and the Lucas Museum finally opens (news).
After sixteen years, three cities, two civic rejections and roughly a billion dollars of his own money, George Lucas opens the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles on 22nd September. Frazetta hangs down the hall from Gentileschi, and Star Wars is only seven per cent of the floor space.
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The Space Force uniform ‘inspired by Starship Troopers’, and nobody involved appears to have watched the film (news).
Trump posted a ‘next generation’ Space Force dress uniform to Truth Social, with a design sheet naming Starship Troopers as the inspiration. It is a genuine post. It is not, on close inspection, a genuine uniform.
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Disney+ Digs Up The Kane Chronicles, And We Have Opinions About Who Should Play The Cat (TV news).
Netflix let The Kane Chronicles rot in development for four years. Now Disney+ has prised the lid off the sarcophagus, with Rick Riordan co-creating alongside Angela Robinson. Here is what we know, plus our entirely unsolicited fantasy casting.
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Donguri’s pull-back Ohmu keyrings: a small ecological uprising for your desk (merchandise).
Donguri’s pull-back Ohmu keyrings from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind come in calm blue and furious red, move at different speeds, and cost ¥2,200 each. Getting one out of Japan is the hard part.
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Spider-Noir cancelled: Amazon shoots the goose, checks the spreadsheet, asks where the golden eggs went (news).
Prime Video has cancelled Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir after one season, roughly twenty minutes before the show turns up at the Emmys with eleven nominations. Streaming maths remains an eldritch discipline.
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Everyone you loved in 1979 is back, and most of them have brought a mecha (anime and manga news roundup).
We have not run a proper anime and manga news roundup since last October, which turns out to have been a scheduling error of some magnitude, because the industry has spent 2026 quietly digging up every single thing you watched as a teenager and putting it back on a cinema screen.
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