https://youtu.be/LjldaalT9hY In Blood of Zeus, the new Netflix Anime series from Charley and Vlas Parlapanides, Heron, a commoner living in ancient Greece, discovers his true heritage as a son of Zeus. His true purpose? To save the world from a demonic army. That's about as classic a hero's journey as you'll find. But the action-packed battles of Powerhouse Animation's signature style get a contemporary tweak thanks to the Parlapanides Brothers' reimagining of well-known stories from Greek mythology. I had a chance to talk to the Blood of Zeus co-creators about …

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In the first episode of the 1977-set Hunters, Jonah Heidelbaum (Logan Lerman) and his curiously nicknamed friends Bootyhole and Cheeks (Caleb Emery and Henry Hunter Hall) walk out of a screening of Star Wars analyzing what they think of the film. Is a reading of the film as simple as "Darth Vader is Space Hitler leading Space Nazis?" Is George Lucas racist for coding his Space Hitler as a black man? Or are the sources and breeding grounds for hatred much more complicated, more intertwined with upbringings, more deserving of our empathy? Hunters, an Amazon Prime show about the …

With Locke & Key now available to stream on Netflix at long last, fans of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's acclaimed comics title can finally see the story come to life. And as long as that wait has been for the planned adaptation over the years, many audience members are already looking ahead to Season 2. But that's not a done deal just yet. In a chat with Locke & Key's executive producers Carlton Cuse and Meredith Averill about the show overall, our own Christina Radish had a chance to ask about the almost certain but not …

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Disney Channel has already ordered up a second season of their new animated series The Owl House ahead of the series' premiere on Friday, January 10th (8:45 p.m. EST), and with good reason. Created and executive-produced by Dana Terrace (Disney’s DuckTales), the series follows Luz (Sarah-Nicole Robles), a self-assured teenage girl who stumbles upon a portal to a magical realm where she befriends a rebellious witch, Eda (Wendie Malick), and a tiny warrior, King (Alex Hirsch). Despite not having magical abilities, Luz pursues her dream of becoming a witch by serving as Eda’s …

Frozen 2 expands the Disney movie's mythology with Scandinavian culture and legends; the Elsa story gets some things right and other things wrong.

Greek mythology is a niche genre that can be spectacular on the big screen. We rank popular Hollywood movies that share legends of the gods.

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From showrunners/writers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, and based on the Marvel comics created by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona, the Hulu original series Marvel’s Runaways is back for its third and final season, and the Runaways must deal with corrupt parents, powerful aliens and the world’s most nefarious sorceress, all while trying to save each other. The series stars Rhenzy Feliz, Lyrica Okano, Virginia Gardner, Ariela Barer, Gregg Sulkin, Allegra Acosta, Annie Wersching, Ryan Sands, Angel Parker, Ever Carradine, James Marsters, Kevin Wesiman, Brigid Brannagh, James Yaegashi, Brittany Ishibashi and Elizabeth Hurley. In an interview …

Game of Thrones is the most modernized fantasy world. Still, a lot of the creatures are certainly inspired by other fantasy origins and lore.

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Here's your ultimate guide to the expanded mythology of Frozen 2: the elemental spirits, Ahtohallan, and the true secret of Elsa's powers.

Pennywise is back and more vicious than ever before in IT Chapter Two, director Andy Muschietti's followup to his record-smashing 2017 adaptation of Stephen King's IT. Set up 27 years after the events of the first film, Chapter Two picks up with the adult Losers club -- James McAvoy's Bill Denbrough, Jessica Chastain's Beverly Marsh, Bill Hader's Richie Tozier, Jay Ryan's Ben Hanscom, James Ransone's Eddie Kaspbrak, Isaiah Mustafah's Mike Hanlon and Andy Bean's Stanley Uris -- when the child-eating creature known as It returns from slumber with a rather literal …

What exactly is happening in the world of Apple TV+'s See? Here's why the characters don't get out much, and what that means for the big picture.