If you’re lucky enough to have a brother, you know that there are few bonds quite like that of true brotherhood. The relationship shared by two brothers is one of the most important building blocks in a nuclear family. Unsurprisingly, Hollywood knows this. As a result, we’ve gotten so many great movies about brotherhood over the decades. With centuries of great people, cultures, and tales to draw on, Hollywood has all but perfected the telling of stories that involve the heartfelt, complicated, but overall unique bond of brothers....

If there’s one movie that has overshadowed every other movie released this year (so far), it’s clearly Barbie . Where most people expected a fun but generic kids movie about the world’s most famous doll, Greta Gerwig gave us something deeper: a timely feminist study. In fact, Barbie was so popular that it has already secured a bunch of other toy-based movie productions. Monopoly , Hot Wheels , Uno , Magic 8 Ball , and Thomas the Tank Engine are just some of the rumors right now....

Jazz was a ragtime dance music popularized in the early 20th century. Think flappers, live orchestras, and prohibited champagne. This rhythmic and bluesy genre—that got Americans of the Roaring Twenties bopping—forged an iconic legacy built on elements of improvisation, scat singing, and trumpet solos. While people today look down on jazz as boring and lacking in structure and modernity, these incredible films about jazz and jazz musicians will have you appreciating the genre like never before....

We’re a few generations ahead of the console that introduced Xbox Live, and ever since then, Microsoft’s consoles have become known for their great online multiplayer experience. While you can play online multiplayer games on any modern gaming console these days, Microsoft still ekes out an advantage for gamers with Xbox Game Pass, which offers a solid number of options. So many console games, across so many different genres, now have some kind of online multiplayer functionality....

In all of cinema, few genres are as popular as the romance drama. Between the sparks, the arguments, the passionate embraces, there’s so much material that can lead to a compelling story. The basis of drama is conflict, and romance is full of conflict at every angle. From old loves to new flames, from heated breakups to desperate attempts to save marriages, romance is drama. Here are our picks for the best romance drama movies of all time and why they stand out as must-watches to this day....

In 2022, Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front won four Oscars at the 95th Academy Awards, adapted from the classic literary novel published by Erich Maria Remarque in 1928. The fictionalized account was based on Remarque’s real experiences serving in the Imperial German Army during World War I. But it isn’t the only fascinating book about real war stories, nor is it the only war story that was adapted into film....

Monster movies are my jam. Give me the slimy, the toothy, the disgusting. Give me the beasts that go bump in the night, the primordial fear that humans are no longer on top of the food chain. A monster movie is one where the plot involves characters fighting and/or surviving against supernatural creatures that don’t exist in the real world: nightmarish brutes of folklore, aliens from outer space, ancient giants who have been long dormant, etc....

Naruto and Naruto Shippuden have some of the best music of any anime, period. Composed by Toshio Masuda and Yasuharu Takanashi, not many anime series have music as emotional and fitting and consistently good as what we got in both halves of Naruto . I still listen to these tracks to this day, and not just when I’m feeling nostalgic. They’re plain good listening. Related: Naruto vs. Naruto Shippuden: Which series is better?...

While many anime characters find ways to surpass their individual limits and become better versions of themselves on their own, some characters rely on the guidance of teachers and mentors. Teachers and mentors play a vital role in the development of many main characters. Sometimes those lessons are featured episodically while others are featured as flashbacks. Either way, those lessons often come to save the day at pivotal moments. Many anime heroes wouldn’t exist without the mentors and masters who stood behind them....

Magic items are iconic in Dungeons and Dragons —so much so that many high-level encounters are designed to assume that players will have a handful of magic weapons and armor at their disposal by the time they’re even able to cross paths with said high-level encounters. No matter how high a Barbarian’s strength, no matter how dexterous a Rogue might be, no matter how many spells a Wizard knows, they’re toast if they don’t have magic weapons and armor—or, at the very least, completely ineffective against whatever the Dungeon Master brings....

When it comes to collectible card games (CCGs) and trading card games (TCGs), Magic: The Gathering is the first game most people think. Wizards of the Coast first launched the game back in 1993, and it has caused games of the sort to become far more popular. If Magic just isn’t the game for you, but you still want to get into the world of such card games, you should give the following games a shot....

War never changes, and yet the Fallout series has seen many significant changes over the years. While the developer hass changed multiple times, and while the series has dipped into various genres and systems, the setting and its tongue-in-cheek humor have stayed consistent throughout the franchise. From the original Fallout in 1997 to Fallout 4 in 2015, there have been many Fallout video games to date. But which ones are the best?...

Romance is often blended into many anime genres, but it stands out most when it’s coupled with a suitably hilarious premise. Romantic comedies —also called rom-coms —are just as popular in anime as they are in movies and television. Who doesn’t love to smile and laugh while having our heartstrings tugged? Whether you’re looking for a series grounded in reality or one with fantastical adventures mixed in, here are my picks for the best romantic comedy anime series that you need to check out!...

Whether you’re a gaming veteran with fond memories of 8-bit and 16-bit classics or you’re going back to them for the first time, there has never been a better time for retro games. And while you could easily use a gaming emulator or a retro gaming system, there are plenty of retro game collections for modern gaming consoles—and they’re much easier to play! This is not a comprehensive list of all the retro game collections available....

The temporary nature of a hotel stay provides a lot of potential for fascinating stories. It can be a metaphor for relationships beginning and ending, friendships forged and disbanded, fortunes won and lost. In cinema, hotels are often neutral ground. They represent a place where two people can be themselves—or whoever they wish to be—without fear of reprisal from the people they’re usually around. In these temples of passing, some of the best cinematic tales have unfolded....

While Zoan-type and Paramecia-type Devil Fruits are prominent in One Piece , Logia-type Devil Fruits are much rarer. As a result, Logia-type abilities tend to be unique and more powerful than others. Logia-type Devil Fruits allow users to generate and manipulate elemental substances and matter, as well as turn their bodies (or certain parts) into those substances and matter, giving the user’s body the attributes of their respective Devil Fruit elements....

There are few movie genres as tense as the chamber drama . Taking inspiration from theater juggernauts like August Strindberg and Max Reinhardt, chamber films involve only a few actors in a closed environment, usually with a plot that occurs in real time. Chamber dramas often feel like there’s a ticking time bomb in the corner that could be unearthed by one person being the first one to make a wrong move....

The best kid shows are the ones that are also fun for adults to watch, so that supervising parents won’t be bored out of their minds. That’s why cartoons in the early 1990s started to include pop culture references that kids wouldn’t recognize but parents would find funny. They also occasionally snuck a few jokes past stringent network censors, turning adult heads and earning a few snickers. Over the years, many kids shows have experimented with boundaries, pushing against censorship to see how far they could take the humor of a kids show....

Independent movies have come a long way. They weren’t always the grounded staples that film experts, movie buffs, online communities, and cult enthusiasts know them as today. After the invention of film cameras, businesses looked for ways to sell the movies made by those cameras. That eventually led to the creation of the studio system, which evolved into Hollywood and beyond. The Hollywood studio system became too powerful, especially in the post-WW2 era, which prompted smaller studios (who opposed the system) to produce their own films independently....

Redemption movies offer some of the strongest catharsis in cinema. After watching a character fail, mess up, and bungle all of their chances, they finally grow, step up, and redeem themselves. All of the doubts we had about them are dispelled in one fell swoop as we’re shown that they had what it takes all along. Then again, maybe not. Perhaps their efforts were all for naught and they couldn’t actually accomplish what they set out to do....