The latest collab between Nintendo and Lego will feature the cozy world of Animal Crossing — though right now, it’s unclear just what the sets will consist of. Based on the teaser, though, things are appropriately adorable, and Isabelle unsurprisingly makes for a very cute minifig.
Monster was one of my favorite movies from the Toronto film festival this year, and now you can get a glimpse of it. From prolific director Hirokazu Kore-eda, Monster is about school bullying, but it also slowly reveals itself to be something much more complicated, with a story told from multiple perspectives that’s something of a puzzle. The movie opens in New York on November 22nd and LA on December 1st, before “expanding to additional markets in December.”
OK, not really, but it is just as fun. John Wick seems to have inspired a new wave of revenge movies; just yesterday we got the trailer for a Christmas-themed thriller from John Woo, and now comes The Beekeeper, starring Jason Statham.
It’s about “one man’s brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers,” which sounds like an Ubisoft game that I need to play immediately. It’s in theaters on January 12th.
Remember that sad Tears of the Kingdom commercial about a middle aged man escaping the dreariness of everyday life by venturing out into Hyrule? Well, he’s back, though this time he’s not quite so lonely. Seems that the Ultrahand can fix anything, even relationships.
The annual League of Legends World Championship kicks off soon and, as is tradition, we have a new song to celebrate. This year’s track is performed by K-pop group NewJeans, and it’s an appropriately dramatic affair, complete with an animated video featuring iconic League pros like Faker and Deft fighting it out on virtual battlefield. If nothing else, the song should make for an exciting opening ceremony.
If you missed the stunning stage version of Spirited Away when it was in theaters earlier this year, you can bring it home pretty soon: it’ll be available on-demand on October 24th and on Blu-Ray on November 14th. This year is turning out to be a pretty solid one for Studio Ghibli fans.
But in an intentional way. The action legend’s next film is called Silent Night, a Christmas Eve revenge story that also happens to be mostly dialogue-free, so the title works on two levels. It hits theaters on December 1st.
