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Charles Pulliam-Moore

Charles Pulliam-Moore

Film & TV Reporter

Film & TV Reporter

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    Please let Jonathan Majors explain how Creed III has the heart of shonen anime.

    Creed III director Michael B. Jordan has been and continues to be a big-ol anime nerd, and in a new Polygon interview, he gets into how Naruto inspired one of the pivotal fights in his new film.

    But while Jordan may be quick to wax poetic about the nuances between Dragon Ball Z and My Hero Academia, his co-star Jonathan Majors has come to understand something about shonen stories that we should all take to heart: they’re derivative.

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    The original Pokémon TCG base set is coming back as a trio of premium decksThe original Pokémon TCG base set is coming back as a trio of premium decks
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    Cocaine Bear doesn’t have a problem — it just doesn’t know when to stop

    Director Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear over-delivers on a very simple, silly premise that mostly works because it doesn’t take anything seriously except being ridiculous.

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    The Pokémon anime’s new professor is a man about town.

    Pokémon Scarlet and Violet both have their own version-specific Professors who become important parts of the games’ stories.

    But the new upcoming Pokémon anime set to debut this year will introduce a third — Friede, a man partnered with a Pikachu wearing a captain’s hat — who will join the series’ protagonists on their adventures, and maybe have something to do with how the group manages to travel around the entire Pokémon world.

    Creed III brings Adonis’ story full circle by trading in one set of daddy issues for another

    Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut feels like an experimental remake of Rocky V that finally lets Adonis Creed step outside of his mentor’s shadow.

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