Valentines Day Anime Recommendations! Valentines Day! A day for all couples to be extra romantic and gushy, but if you’re like many others…you might not have that partner in your life right now and would rather have some other fun! Like always, making plans with friends is a great way to go! Even…

“WUTHERING HEIGHTS” movie review – Emerald Fennel’s interpretation of the classic novel Review by Allie G. Director: Emerald FennellStarring: Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes, and Ewan MitchellMovie Length: 2 hours 16 minutes What it's about: An…

2026 Annie Awards preview – celebrating animation in all forms In 3 weeks (February 21st to be exact) the Annie Awards ceremony will once again take place. The awards will recognize the year’s best in the field of animation with the ceremony taking place once again at UCLA’s Royce Hall...and we…

SEND HELP movie review – Raimi’s Send Help Has All the Help It Needs Director: Sam RaimiStarring: Rachel McAdams, Dylan O'Brien, Edyll Ismail, Xavier Samuel, Chris Pang, and Dennis HaysbertMovie Length: 1 hour 53 minutes Photo by 20th Century Studios/20TH CENTURY STUDIOS - © 2025 20th Century…

We aren't done with San Diego screening passes yet! This one is very short notice though. The animated sports comedy film GOAT at Edwards Mira Mesa tomorrow (Jan 31st, 1030am). As always, passes & seats are 1st come 1st serve so sign up quick & get there early.

Hey San Diego, it's screening time! Monday Feb 2nd 7pm at AMC Fashion Valley to see SCARLET. As always passes & seats are 1st come 1st served, so sign up quick & get there early!

The Start of the 2026 Anime Season Walking into 2026, we got some amazing new anime to watch this season! Some follow up seasons and long awaited new series. I know I have been waiting years for some of these series follow ups and new series to finally be released. Going from an anime slump, with…

MERCY movie review – No Mercy for criminals Director: Timur BekmambetovStarring: Chris Pratt, Rebecca Ferguson, Kali Reis, Annabelle Wallis, Chris Sullivan, and Kylie RogersMovie Length: 1 hour 40 minutes What it's about: In the future in a crime ridden Los Angeles, criminals who have been charged…

All the Events & Conventions starting off 2026 Starting off the year with a packed schedule for the first few months of 2026 is crazy, but there are some new events and good conventions coming up fast, so it’s worth it. It’s also exciting to be seeing all these new fan run events happening, for…

With the premiere of #StarTrekStarfleetAcademy now airing, lets throw it back to 2020 when our own Darren Shulman had a chance to speak with @robertpicardo.bsky.social. theconventioncollective.com/sandbox/robe...

Opening on January 23rd 2026 is the new movie starring Chris Pratt, MERCY. Lets flashback to this past October when our own Senior Editor got to sit down with the film's director Timur Bekmambetov about the movie. soundcloud.com/englishman-i...

PRIMATE review – Primates get a bad rap Director: Johannes RobertsStarring: Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, and Troy Kotsur Movie Length: 1 hour 29 minutes What Mike thought: As I compose this review, I can’t help but wonder about the thousands, perhaps millions of calls that the Simian…

Time for another screening pass for San Diego. This time it's the new Chris Pratt movie MERCY, 7pm Jan 21st at Edwards Mira Mesa....and it will be in IMAX 3D! As always, passes & seats are 1st come 1st serve, so sign up quick & get there early! mgmscreenings.com/PrattCon

FAN EXPO NEW ORLEANS 2026: New Year and new exclusive RSVLTS shirts The 2026 convention year begins this weekend, and our friends at RSVLTS are bringing some hot new exclusive shirts to this weekend's FAN EXPO New Orleans. Among the 5 new shirts are one for everyone's favorite card throwing mutant…

Year in Review: Conventions of 2025 I feel like this year just flew by, one minute it's March and we are slugging through the month and then BAM! It’s kind of wild to look back at 2025, cause it doesn't feel like anything was a few months ago, but years ago (I feel like I’m a completely different…

Los Angeles Comic Con Announces 60-Day Extension to Its Fan Investment Campaign One of the bigger shows in SoCal has extended their fan investment campaign for an additional 60 days! Los Angeles Comic Con earlier this year announced that they were starting a fan investment campaign that would let…

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH review – A great return to Pandora Director: James CameronStarring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, and Kate WinsletMovie Length: 3 hours 17 minutes Photo by 20th Century Studios/20TH CENTURY STUDIOS - © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights…

Hey San Diego! Want to kick off 2026 with a movie screening? If so, and you want to see PRIMATE on January 7th at 7pm, AMC Mission Valley then sign up. As always, passes & seats are 1st come 1st serve, so sign up quick & get there early! gofobo.com/MonkeyCon

The Plushie Labubus have Overtaken Anime Merch We are once again talking about Labubus, which we touched on back a few months ago over the summer because they did a collaboration with One Piece and fans went wild. Now for those of you who do not know what these little guys are well...It is a…

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2 review – What Did I Just Watch? An Examination of FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2 Director: Emma TammiStarring: Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Freddy Carter, Theodus Crane, Wayne Knight, Teo Briones, Mckenna Grace, Skeet Ulrich, and Matthew LillardMovie Length: 1…

Anime NYC 2025 in review Another wonderful year at Anime NYC 2025! The convention delivered a solid lineup of special guests including voice talent, guests of honor, and musical performers, exciting anime season updates, a vibrant artist alley, and the return of Hololive. Musical Guests We were…

Out now from @imagecomics.com is I Saw Santa A Spawn Universe Christmas Story #1. Here's our own Senior Editor @danberry.org's interview with co-writer of the title @chriskillian.bsky.social from #NYCC2025.

TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2025: the winners are in! with Mad Cave Studios, Tula Lotay and indie comics winning big At a semi-glittering affair at the acclaimed Cartoon Museum in the heart of the nations capital, Tripwire Magazine EIC Joel Meadows and celebrated writer Jasper Bark co-hosted the ceremony and…

Are Cupsleeves the “New Conventions”? I have been attending conventions for many years now, small, medium, and big and sized ones all both around the PNW as well as all over the US. Then this year “cupsleeve” events started popping up around the US, outside of them being just for K-Pop. A…

FanExpo Portland is bringing all the Stars! We are not even done with 2025 yet and I’m just trying to relax now that convention season is over and WHAM! FanExpo Portland is coming at us with all these amazing guests?!! I saw this announcement about the voice actors from Hazbin Hotel and My Hero…

RUNNING MAN review – Running Man is more of a Leisurely Jog Director: Edgar WrightStarring: Glen Powell, William H. Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, Daniel Ezra, Jayme Lawson, Sean Hayes, Colman Domingo, and Josh BrolinMovie Length: 2 hours 13 minutes What Michael thought: Running Man…

Hey San Diego! Short notice, but if you want to see SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE tonight at AMC Mission Valley at 7pm fill out the form below. Passes & Seats are first come first serve, so sign up quick & get there early! forms.gle/i5xHqCgqdr8J...

What stood out at Kumoricon this year! There were many super fun things this year at Kumoricon that really stood out to me, and were fun to see happening at the convention. Lots of fan meet ups, even unofficial ones around the convention. It was cool to see groups of cosplayers from the same…

Los Angeles Comic Con 2025 – My first ever comic con! By Allie G. This past September I finally went to a comic con after hearing about all the different ones for years. I decided to attend Los Angeles Comic Con, and it was an unforgettable first comic convention experience! The first day of the…

Now that MegaCon has started announcing their guests for 2026, lets look back at some of the highlights from the 2025 show. theconventioncollective.com/connews/mega...

Kumoricon 2025 Wrap up! It’s only been about a week since Kumoricon 2025 ended, and therefore my last convention of the year (yes, there are a few more but I need a break). Kumo was one heck of a way to end the year for myself, because this convention was about the silly things that take place at…

PREDATOR: BADLANDS review – Lots of Predator action Review by Allie G. Director: Dan TrachtenbergStarring: Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-KoloamatangiMovie Length: 1 hours 47 minutes What it's about: The latest film in the Predator franchise, from Director Dan Trachtenberg (who also gave us Prey…

Here's the 2nd screening pass for a movie on the 10th (if you signed up for that one, don't for this one please). The Running Man, November 10th at 7pm at Edwards Mira Mesa. As always, passes & seats are 1st come 1st serve so sign up quick, & get there early! gofobo.com/RunningTheCon

Time for another screening in San Diego! NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON’T on November 10th at 7pm, AMC Mission Valley. As always, passes & seats are 1st come 1st serve so sign up quick & get there early. lionsgatescreenings.com/NYSMCollective

#TBubs2025: the @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social team have unfortunately announced the following will not be attending Harrogate, 15-16 Nov: ~ Caroline Cash ~ @garyerskine.bsky.social ~ @patrickhorvath.bsky.social ~ @ianmcque.bsky.social ~ @jonathanhedrick.bsky.social ~ @francescafantini.bsky.social

Time for another San Diego movie screening! Tomorrow, 7pm, AMC Mission Valley for Predator: Badlands. gofobo.com/ConventionBa... As always, passes & seats are 1st come 1st serve so get there early & sign up quick!

Leading to a Spooky Kumoricon! We are just a couple hours out from Kumoricon 2025! This is already going to be a very fun convention to end the year on for my books, as it starts on Halloween!  Cosplayers love to think outside the box and go all out, but adding in Halloween to the mix for a…

TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2025: DC Absolute titles, Mad Cave, DSTLRY lead the charge as public nominations go live 2025 is the 7th consecutive year that Tripwire Magazine has run their acclaimed awards, casting an eye over the brightest and best in comics over the last twelve months, as well as celebrating…

Dragon Con 2025 recap This past Labor Day weekend myself and our TTRPG Correspondent Jeffrey Venture once again attended Dragon Con in Atlanta, and as it has been they both attended, this con is always one of my favorites. Here's their thoughts on this years show: Dan Berry: Once again Dragon Con…

At Dragon Con this year, @samanthabeart.bsky.social met with our very own @thetenaciousdm.bsky.social to talk about a burlesque #BG3 show, #Daggerheart and other #TTRPGs, and her experience at #DragonCon. theconventioncollective.com/sandbox/gues...

Guests of Dragon Con 2025: I interviewed Samantha Béart! Fans of the wildly popular game, Baldur’s Gate 3 (BG3), continue to be well fed with plenty of actual-play Dungeons & Dragons content featuring the voice (and mocap) actors behind their favorite characters. I am one of those fans! So it was…

At Dragon Con 2025 this year, @critbard.com Omega Jones met with our tabletop gaming correspondent, @thetenaciousdm.bsky.social to talk about diversity in the #TTRPG space, TTRPG mechanical fun, and #DragonCon itself. theconventioncollective.com/connews/gues...

Guests of Dragon Con 2025: I interviewed Omega “Critbard” Jones! Omega “Critbard” Jones rose to prominence in the tabletop roleplaying game actual-play space in the lockdown-era and has been BUSY ever since. His appearances across games being streamed online are too numerous to count, but…

Hey San Diego! Ready for another movie screening? This time it's GOOD FORTUNE starring Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen & Aziz Ansari. AMC Mission Valley on Oct 14th at 7pm. Passes & seats are 1st come 1st serve so sign up quick & get there early! lionsgatescreenings.com/AzizRogenCC

Huge news at #NYCC from @ssnyder1835.bsky.social and DC! New books Deathstroke, Firestorm, Barbara Gordon, The Demon and more titles are coming in 2026. vt.tiktok.com/ZSUARGE93/

The Great Halloween Puzzle artist @ryandunlavey.com is at NYCC this weekend (with his daughter Pearl). Stop by and see him at artist’s alley. And get his great art on the puzzle here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/448...

Well, well: #FanExpoBoston2026 you cheeky tease. What do we think, any guesses on what they could be planning to announce?

NYCC 2025: RSVLTS is going strong with NYCC exclusives As we approach the last major con for the 2025 convention season our friends at RSVLTS are bringing the heat with new exclusive shirts to this weekend's New York City Comic Con. Among the 7 new shirts are Edward Scissorhands, Daredevil,…

At DragonCon 2025, @catieosaurus.bsky.social sat down for an interview our very own Jeffrey Venture to talk about TTRPGs, Dragon Con itself, content creation, and even secondhand furniture finds. #DragonCon #TTRPG

Guests of Dragon Con 2025: I interviewed Catieosaurus! Dragon Con 2025 was easily the best Dragon Con yet after 4 years of attending, and one of the first things to make my con experience so awesome was getting to talk to Catie Osborn, AKA Catieosaurus! I had been following her tabletop…