Io9 Staff Pick at Genre Movies, TV Shows, Comics

Trailers dropped all kinds of interesting tricks about Jean-Luc's new equipment, communicating with the Romulans and the Borg alike. We were given the return of a familiar face, not just a departure TNG but from my beloved Voyager and. It has a very nice dog! As someone he had always wanted to see Star Trek go ahead, to see what its timeline looks like in the post-Voyager, post-Deep Space Nine the world, and to see what today's show can say about that world, Picard it represents an exciting opportunity that I can wait to share.

The final concept of VII Duplication (April 10)

Yes, there I am that boy, like the troops of others: The final concept of VII on the original Playstation it was a transformative experience for me. I never saw or played anything like it in 1997, its full outbreak of environmental activists, guys with long hair and swords to match, and yes my heart is broken by the death of Aeris (I don't care, Aerith). The final concept of VII introduced me to a series of my favorite game of all time, reinforced the JRPG love that I still hold deep in my chest to this day. It has taught me, as do many others, the simple power of storytelling can command more than happiness through defeat and frustration over defeat.

Recreation Area it's fun graphic novel series from the McElroy family and writer / illustrator Carey Pietsch, presented in a tongue-in-cheek style mixing real podcast characters with the universal characters of Magnus, Taako, and Merle. Also, after the recent news that the Balance arc will be transformed into a Peacock animated show, it's a great way to refresh if you've been reluctant to listen to hours of noise. Again.

Motherland: Fort Salem (Spring, Freeform)

Come on, I'm allowed one the stupidest thing I'm happy about. Motherland: Fort Salem a YA dystopian series that draws inspiration from everything, The Man in the Upper Palace and Tma of the Servant. is a bizarre history in which Salem witches worked with the (non) U.S. government. the U.S. military to act as an interchangeable force, you know, not burned at the stake. This means that the United States has become a glorified social network viewed by witches – complete with pentagrams instead of stars on the American flag – and all teenage girls are forced to enroll in this magical army when they reach a certain age. Including evil witches who can be demons and / or aliens? Maaaaaaybe. All I know is that Cats

Germain Lussier

Ghostbusters: After Death (July 10)

We find Ghostbusters a movie that tells us what happened to the original Ghostbusters. That in itself is a surprising fact. It's something fans have been looking for, and players have promised, for decades. And while the 2016 film was incredibly funny and cool, it wasn't those characters. Venkman. Stantz. Spengler. Zeddemore. On that basis alone, we are happy Ghostbusters: After death.

Otherwise, re-entering that world through what appears to be an extended Egon family, in today's forgotten time about New York City's demise in the 1980s, feels worthless. Director Jason Reitman is not just an asset lease. He is a filmmaker with a track record who worked everything on the line where he started where his father, Ivan, left. Add to that the cast that includes Carrie Coon and Paul Rudd and we have high hopes that it will all come together for a fun, upcoming catch Ghostbusters the real feeling.

Hi 9 (May 15)

If ninth-headless Hi The movie was simply "Seen 9" definitely wouldn't be on this list. But the fact that the film was starred by comedian Chris Rock found us, and happily, enlightened us. Chris Rock? In Hi movie? What is that? it will look like? He also brings in Samuel L. Jackson and Darren Lynn Bousman, who has directed three of them Hi films set the tone for the rest of the franchise? Come on. That sounds strange. Rock is someone who shouldn't do something like this without feeling passionate about it. So, for fans who feel the same enthusiasm about the twisted world created by serial killer Jigsaw, we're on the edge of our seat in anticipation.

Charles Pulliam-Moore

New Mutants (April 3)

Or Fox & # 39; s time X-Men imminent, Phoenix is ​​black in fact I will never be a film that ends a franchise. Like Logan and Deadpool before it, it's Josh Boone New Mutants is set by yet another example of Fox betting on its money on the idea that audiences are ready for superhero movies that stick to images of other non-cape genres such as horror. We've spent years seeing small-scale transformations develop the power of fantasy and become superheroes on the big screen in ways that start to crave it. However New Mutants ready to dig into the less-threatening, scary things to come in the X-gen – something that has always been Marvel comics.

WandaVision (sometime in 2020, Disney +)

Ever since Wanda Maximoff from Marvel & # 39; s Cinematic Universe, you got the idea that it would be a matter of time until things started have the right chaos around him, in a sense of balance. You'd think that after losing her world, her family, and her favorite syntapaliid, Wanda might be ready to crack and pop up in the world around her as her jokes might do, but in this case we've seen WandaVision, he may end up turning too deep into the subject. Strong as Wanda, she has never been given all that much do in the movies and in a small space to explore her feelings, but by the looks of them, what are those issues WandaVisionWe'll fix it when the Disney + series goes down.

The Land of Love (sometime in 2020, HBO)

The culture of anti-Black racism is a kind of deceptive beast that people have never found themselves beginning to believe. Matt Ruff's novel The Land of Love it took that realism again cut it with Lovecraftian horror to tell the story in the many ways the racism of institutions can take and the lengths that people have always had to do to fight them. As with the hit HBO series, one hopes that the novel's threat will be partially rewarded in order to convey the horror that the heroes will always be. But when we look at the team behind the series, it seems safe to assume we are ready for something good.

Cheryl Eddy

Halloween Kills (October 16)

In 2018, I look forward to it the return of Halloween. I am a huge fan of the series, even the smaller sequences (even the one with Paul Rudd). So I was very happy Jamie Lee Curtis is once again playing the role that has made him an awesome icon, with the blessing of co-founder John Carpenter, and the team's director David Gordon Green and writer Danny “Kenny Powers” ​​McBride. Also, anything with Judy Greer is the default. But even with all that magic behind it, Halloween I didn't have the impact I wanted to make. I didn't think it sucked, but I didn't shocking, which would have been a fatal mistake had it not been obvious that the filmmakers, really wanted to do well with the original film, and probably spent far more time on the fans' service than they cared about. all those structural holes or brave enough to do anything informal.

This is the time for similar movies Us and Independent, a panic that not only makes you staggered right now, but also relaxes your bones when you try to sleep in the next dark hours. So it is my hope that Halloween Kills it's going to be a film that really sounds like a real rebirth of the series. It will still honor the spirit of the past (we know that some original characters the ones who were not in the 2018 film will be back), but some of this pressure will be off because they are not the first film in the reboot group. Possibly, hopefully, in this case the entry will include some shocking news as well. After all, what would be more real to the original film than easily dispensing shriek-indlying light?

Awareness of Bly Manor (sometime in 2020, Netflix)

Mike Flanagan's lump Hill House attacks it was a near-perfect mixture shock, sadness, sadness, misery, moderation, angst, sibling rivalry, impatient parent production, eerie production design, and memorable moments from "Getcha!" in my mind, a year and a half later. Hill House and it felt perfectly suited for the Netflix format, with 10 episodes worth the length of each episode of the story, and a perfect view for the weekend (or a day, depending on how much hooks you got).

Only bad Hill House that it had been the greatest story ever made — again; there is no reason to revisit Crain's children after all that has passed in that one time. But Netflix knew better than to throw away something good, which is why it gives back and the busy Flanagan because anthology style season two with Awareness of Bly Manor, a new fairy tale (full of familiar faces) and a new literary inspiration (Henry James in this case, rather than Shirley Jackson). There has never been a teeer, or a solid release date for that story, but I AM READY TO OPEN TO THESE PICTURES!