The dog’s fabulous too, to be fair.

Wallace & Gromit. Creature Comforts. Chicken Run. Shaun the Sheep. Aardman’s catalogue of animated works is filled with wonderful absurdities that can tug at your heartstrings and, more often than not, charm you into a chuckle or six. Its latest is a short, stark, kick right to the gut—and it needs to be.

Serious question: Does Taika Waititi ever sleep? We’ve long had our suspicions about the very busy writer-director-actor for some time now, but the latest nugget of news about the Oscar nominee hints at yet another major project in the works—one that could return him to a certain galaxy far, far away.

As a three-year-old—and also a Brit—I was not particularly paying attention when, 25 years ago today, Star Trek: Voyager began its sojourn out of the Delta Quadrant on UPN. My path to discovering it, and Star Trek at large, was appropriately a bit more circuitous.

Kitty White—best known to her friends as Hello Kitty, the beloved Sanrio mascot that has charmed the world for decades—likes friendship. She does not like devastating pan-galactic conflict between Federations and principalities. So it’s of no surprise that she has lofty goals: Stop Mobile Suit Gundam from happening at…

Given, the debut fantasy novel from author Nandi Taylor, introduces a new heroine in Yenni, a gifted young warrior who sets out on a journey to help her ailing father and finds some big surprisesalong the way. We’ve got a sneak peek at this forthcoming Afrofuturistic adventure.

Empyre is coming to pull Marvel’s heroes back into the cosmic drama between the Kree and Skrull alien races, and Spider-Man is swinging into the action in a big way. Yesterday, Marvel revealed that Spidey and Wolverine would be rejoining the Fantastic Four during the event, and The A.V. Club has the exclusive…

Grief isn’t a simple process, and it can make you do weird things. In the season five premiere of The Magicians, the loss of Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) is felt in every moment as characters also deal with (or avoid) the chaotic state of magic that has put all their lives in even more disarray.

For better or worse, it is not unfair to describe either of Star Wars’ most recent major projects—at the box office, the climax of the saga, The Rise of Skywalker; and on streaming, the culmination of years of attempts to bring live-action Star Wars to the small screen, The Mandalorian—as stories that deeply engage in…

During a special presentation this morning, Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai said that he had been working on the fifth downloadable character for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in secret, and that only a few people at Nintendo knew about it. Viewers wondered: what kind of twist could that be? A Mario monster?…

The CW’s DC crossovers are always filled with fun, and often incredibly absurd surprises. They are, after all, about asmorgasbord of attractive actors in various heaps of pleather punching extradimensional beings, aliens, nazis, and sometimes even extradimensional alien nazis. But Crisis on Infinite Earths perhaps…

Looks like that’s one less Stephen King adaptation on the giant pile.

One the most intriguing and mysterious creatures on the planet—the giant squid—has finally had its genome fully sequenced. But while the genome is helping to explain many of its distinguishing features, including its large size and big brain, we still have much to learn about this near-mythical beast.

It’s not all singing, dancing, and half-naked boys in chains. The latest trailer for Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part 3 puts the “chic” in Monarchical Rule, as Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka) is tasked with taking up her demonic father’s mantle and reigning as Queen of Hell. But can she find a balance…