Sandler’s second Netflix special is silly, sentimental, and another slam dunk. Five minutes and at least one possible punchline into a freewheeling fantasy about meeting a genie outside an airport restroom, it’s still impossible to see where Adam Sandler is taking his audience with this one. It’s the beauty of every finely honed bit in Sandler’s latest Netflix special, Love You: There’s no telling what’s going to happen when he rips up the handbrake and drifts down a side road.

This ain’t just fantasy-Persona. From each character’s magical awakening and all the RPG mechanics it opens, to the social sim elements that feed into how you interact with the world, Metaphor ReFantazio is clearly adopting the Persona formula – but it’s doing so for something seemingly bigger in scope from both a gameplay and storytelling perspective. After playing about five hours of Atlus’ upcoming RPG, it’s extremely apparent how it’s leveraging the strengths of its previous games to think outside the confines of traditional fantasy and create something wholly unique.

Okay, Google: Find a smarter thriller. Ten years ago, Spike Jonze imagined a rapturous romance between a man and his breathy operating system. How sweet, how strange, how 2014. But the honeymoon is over, and the quizzical ambivalence of Her seems pretty out of step with the cynical spirit of our new age, defined by a growing distrust of Silicon Valley “visionaries” and their supposedly miraculous toys. Accordingly, we now have Afraid (the emphasis here is on the “AI” near the end of the title), a cheap and preposterous Blumhouse potboiler that plays like a bluetooth Fatal Attraction.

Lee Daniels’ foray into horror is neither scary nor thoughtful enough to leave a mark. Much like the demonic forces that lurk in its shadows, there’s a good movie hidden away in The Deliverance. The trouble is, it’s buried so deep, you only catch fleeting glimpses of it. Following a family that’s being haunted by something profoundly sinister, the latest movie from director Lee Daniels – best known for the soapier likes of Precious, The Butler, and The United States vs.

Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself. Warner Bros. Games has announced the closure of mobile game Harry Potter: Magic Awakened just over a year after its global launch. Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, a collectible card role-playing game developed by Zen Studio, launched in the west in June 2023 courtesy of Warner Bros. Games’ Portkey Games publishing label. In the game you play as a new student at Hogwarts and collect cards you deploy as spells in duels.

The best the franchise has been in years. Netflix’s Terminator Zero is disarmingly good. The franchise has seen better days, and with Genisys and Dark Fate suggesting that the appeal of this particular war between man and machine is waning, it’s easy to dismiss any new Terminator-related project. But Zero, a slick, brutal anime that elevates its premise with earnest ruminations on family, fate, and whether humanity is capable of being saved, could be a turning point.

Cue up the theme song and grab your lucky dime. Dynamite Entertainment has been on fire lately when it comes to licensed comics, whether it’s the recent revival of the Thundercats franchise or their ongoing Gargoyles continuation. Now another beloved animated series is making a comeback at Dynamite, as the publisher gears up to launch a new DuckTales comic in November. IGN can exclusively debut a new preview of DuckTales #1.

Final answer? Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has revealed which game in the series he thinks is “most complete,” and it’s not the fan favorite Final Fantasy 7. Instead, Sakaguchi told Inverse he believes Final Fantasy 6 sits at the top. This was released as the last 2D Final Fantasy game in 1994, before Final Fantasy 7 arrived on the original PlayStation and redefined the franchise in 1997. “In terms of the Final Fantasy that I think is the ‘most complete’; I believe Final Fantasy 6 comes close, and does stand out above the other Final Fantasies, especially because it was the last Final Fantasy to use pixel art in all of its visual expression,” Sakaguchi said.

Not quite legendary. It takes a couple of episodes to acclimate to writer, creator, and executive producer Charlie Covell’s contemporary yet highly stylised interpretation of Ancient Greek mythology in Kaos. The eight-episode series takes place across three planes of existence – Mount Olympus, the Greek island of Crete, and the Underworld – where an epic prophecy threatens the power Zeus (Jeff Goldblum) has over humanity and the immortality of his divine family.