“It’s been 20 years this week since Hayao Miyazaki’s wondrous rite-of-passage saga Spirited Away was first released in theaters in Japan. The winner of the 2003 Academy Award for animated feature and, up until just recently, the highest grossing film in Japanese history.” Read more at Thrillist Why you should revisit the original Planet of the Apes series streaming on HBO Max right now. Read more at Inverse Has the MCU found its Storm? Who Michaela Coel could be playing in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. “Last night news broke from Variety that Emmy award-nominated I May Destroy You actress, director, and writer Michaela Coel will be joining the cast of Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Coel joins Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Daniel Kaluuya, Winston Duke, Lupita Nyong’o, Florence Kasumba, and Angela Bassett, who will be reprising their roles from the original film. Ryan Coogler returns as director and production on the film has already begun in Atlanta.” Read more at The Mary Sue How exactly is Transformers: Rise of the Beasts going to adapt the Animal Transformers to the big screen? Read more at Gizmodo The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are paying tribute to one of Japan’s biggest industries. “For the nerdy among us, Japan is practically synonymous with video games. And if you play video games and happened to watch the opening ceremony for the biggest sporting event of the year, you probably went, ‘wait a minute, is that…?’ Oh, it was. Actually, there was a slew of musical references that will likely only be legible to gamers, particularly those with a penchant for classic Japanese role-playing games.” Read more at Kotaku Somehow, Netflix found a way to make its reality show Sexy Beasts, where contestants go on blind dates in costumes, extremely boring. Read more at Jezebel
