Nara's Takes
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Cinema
Street Fighter's Second Weekend Confirms the Math Won't Work in Theaters
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Legacy
Yuri!!! on ICE at Ten: What the Show That Couldn't Get Its Movie Still Means
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Cinema
Paramount Bets on Red Rising — But Format Alone Won't Save It
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Anime
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Delays Episodes 49 and 50 — And That's the Point
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Legacy
Forty Years of Transformers on Screen: The Apology Tour, the Death That Started It, and the Franchise That Never Solved Its Own Movie
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Cinema
The 55-Point Gap: What Practical Magic 2 Reveals About Who Films Are Really For
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Games
The Nintendo Direct That Turned Zelda's 40th Birthday Into a Platform Statement
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Legacy
Metroid at 40 — How Nintendo's Most Atmospheric Franchise Accidentally Invented a Genre and Still Can't Escape Its Own Shadow
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Legacy
Labyrinth at 40 — How a Box-Office Bomb Starring David Bowie Became the Cult Classic That Refuses to Die
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Legacy
Garfield at 48 — Jim Davis Turns 81 and the Strip He Engineered to Sell Merchandise Became the World's Most Syndicated Comic
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Legacy
The Kubrick Method: How to Build a Masterpiece the World Hates First
