Birth of the Empires

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The End of Oak Street hits all the right nostalgic notes for a family adventure clearly inspired by the '80s most iconic sci fi films. David Robert Mitchell pulls from the same back of tricks that made It Follows a cult classic to add just enough plumage to the dinosaurs to make his film more than just a Spielberg impression.

Fantagraphics is kicking off a new curated line of East Asian graphic novels with Lovers of the Empire, and we've got an exclusive preview of this gorgeous book.

The brooding pace and relative silence that characterize writer-director Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood is more evocative of his standout debut film Pig than it is his far more mainstream A Quiet Place: Day One, making this elegiac but brutal period piece his most niche and least accessible film yet. Still, its heady mix of mournful drama and murderous action certainly distinguish it from the litany of other Robin Hood films in existence.

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