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An Armored Core wielding an assault rifle faces a giant mecha in a screenshot from Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon

This Armored Core 6 lore video is the best mecha movie of 2024

By Clayton Ashley June 3

Star Trek

Star Trek: Discovery tore itself apart for the good of Star Trek’s future

And it helped set the tone for where Star Trek is now

By Dylan Roth June 3

George Miller’s smartest move in Furiosa is totally dissing Immortan Joe

By Susana Polo June 2

Who is Furiosa’s equivalent of the Doof Warrior?

By Tasha Robinson and Polygon Staff June 2

Doctor Who goes full Black Mirror only to set up its most shocking twist

By Joshua Rivera May 31

Scavengers Reign, a sci-fi show like no other, now gets a second shot at life on Netflix

By Joshua Rivera May 31

Anya Taylor-Joy walked off the Furiosa set with her favorite prop

By Tasha Robinson May 30

Why Lucasfilm decided the High Republic is the future of Star Wars

By Austen Goslin May 30

The 2024 summer entertainment preview

Let Keanu Reeves punch and shoot his way onto your summer reading list

By Joshua Rivera May 30

The 2024 summer entertainment preview

The Expanse’s James S.A. Corey returns with a new space opera — read the first chapter now

By Matt Patches May 28

George Miller did 5 things to make Furiosa an essential prequel instead of a cash grab

By Rosie Knight May 28

Movies

Respect to the director of Netflix’s Atlas for thinking deeply about mechs

Jennifer Lopez’s dance skills were key to making the machines work

By Matt Patches May 25

Where does Furiosa fit into the Mad Max timeline? George Miller says it doesn’t matter

By Austen Goslin May 22

Doctor Who put Steven Moffat back where he belongs

By Joshua Rivera May 22

The top 5 times a remastered Phantom Menace trailer made me incorrectly go ‘Star Wars is so back’

By Matt Patches May 20

The best sci-fi movies to watch on Netflix this May

By Toussaint Egan and Polygon Staff May 18

Upgrade is a terrific cyberpunk thriller disguised as an action movie, and it’s now on Netflix

By Austen Goslin May 17

3 Body Problem renewed for season 2 — and however many more seasons it needs to wrap

By Austen Goslin May 15

Furiosa kicks sand in the face of boring franchise-filler movies

By Rosie Knight May 15

What’s it like to crush on a Victorian man transported to modern London? Kaliane Bradley had to find out

By Joshua Rivera May 15

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ posters and trailers all contain a huge spoiler

By Tasha Robinson May 11

Doctor Who’s new season breaks one big tradition

By Joshua Rivera May 10

Movies

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ VFX lead explains its ethical use of machine learning

How Wētā FX’s digital tools made the film possible, without replacing workers or stealing other people’s art

By Austen Goslin May 10

George Miller explains what his live-action Furiosa kept from the anime version

By Rosie Knight May 8

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes brings nothing to the table

By Joshua Rivera May 8

Where to watch all the Planet of the Apes movies on streaming

By Toussaint Egan May 8

Star Trek

Star Trek: Discovery boldly goes where no Trek has gone before by saying religion is... OK, actually

‘Whistlespeak’ breaks from Trek tradition to be pretty chill about believing in a higher power

By Dylan Roth May 8

First photo confirms: James Gunn’s Superman will wear his underwear on the outside

By Susana Polo May 6

Gen V producers won’t recast the late Chance Perdomo’s character

By Austen Goslin May 6

The animated sci-fi mystery Mars Express aims high and lands among the stars

By Toussaint Egan May 3

The makers of Dune 2’s viral popcorn bucket didn’t see the jokes coming

By Austen Goslin May 1

Your guide to Fallout’s vaults and wastelands

Fallout took the Alien approach with the Brotherhood of Steel — and it worked

The power suit had to be ‘kind of klutzy’ to work

By Zosha Millman April 29