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About Tasha Robinson

Tasha Robinson is the entertainment editor at Polygon, writing about whatever she can get away with: Movies, TV, books, graphic novels, TTRPGs, fandom, and anything else in the cultural sphere. She loves classic noir and neo-noir movies, animation, musicals, and Terry Gilliam before he lost the plot.

Tasha has worked as a cultural editor and film specialist at The A.V. Club, Pitchfork’s film site The Dissolve, and The Verge. Her writing has appeared at NPR, The Chicago Tribune, io9, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, and The L.A. Times, among other publications.

Tasha is a longtime podcaster and co-host of The Next Picture Show, a movie-of-the-week podcast that compares new releases to older classics and puts movies in a cultural context. She periodically designs elaborate LARPs and much less elaborate TTRPGs, and is an enthusiastic participant in the Indie Games on Demand community. Find her on itch.io.

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Eva Stratt (Sandra Hüller), a severe-looking woman in a beige turtleneck, sits in an office in Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary star Sandra Hüller took some of her character from the X-Files' Dana Scully
Q&A

The Oscar-nominated star of Anatomy of a Fall talks Ryan Gosling, interpreting the enigma of Eva Stratt, and the one piece of backstory she added

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A woman with blueish-purple skin, huge purple eyes, and purple-and-pink hair looks horrified in close-up in Disney Plus' short animated film Versa
Disney's heartbreaking new short film fully earns its content warning
Animation

Versa is a deeply personal story about child death and grief

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Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) stands in a dark tunnel, wearing a red spacesuit, in Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary’s screenwriter took one important lesson from working on The Martian
Sci-fi

Drew Goddard, writer of Cabin in the Woods and Bad Times at the El Royale, on working with Andy Weir again, and hard science vs. big emotion

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James Cameron illustrates how he wants a giant crossbow to be used in a behind-the-scenes featurette from Avatar: Fire & Ash
James Cameron with a car-sized crossbow is everything I wanted from Avatar's behind-the-scenes footage
Avatar

Ahead of Avatar: Fire and Ash's digital and physical release, watch this exclusive video from the 'set'

Harry Potter (Dominic Mclaughlin) smiles in an up-close shot from HBO's 2026 Harry Potter reboot series
The first Harry Potter TV reboot teaser takes us to Hogwarts — and back in time
Harry Potter

The HBO series re-adapting J.K. Rowling's seven Harry Potter novels will launch in December

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A girl with her hair pulled up in a topknot, wearing a Bowser-style spiked turtle shell, comforts her friend, a girl with long, dark hair shaved on one side, and big red glasses sliding down her nose, in Forgotten Island
DreamWorks' latest animated movie looks like Eternal Sunshine for the KPop Demon Hunters generation
Trailers

Watch the trailer for Forgotten Island, about two friends losing their memories of each other on a magical island

Sasha (Charlize Theron) sits with her back to a tree, her arms tied together above her head. A man (Taron Egerton) holding a metal basket with something inside leans close to her. From Netflix's Apex
Netflix calls its new Charlize Theron movie an action-thriller — but c'mon, this is horror
Trailers

The first Apex trailer does look thrilling, but Taron Egerton hunting a woman for sport is pure horror

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Project Hail Mary author Andy Weir on the set of the movie, surrounded by a tunnel of lit-up dashboards and devices
Project Hail Mary improved on the book's ‘contrived’ story in one specific way, author says
Sci-fi

Andy Weir admits, ‘I wish that I had done it that way in the book.’

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Eva Stratt (Sandra Huller) and Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) walk together outdoors in Project Hail Mary
Does Project Hail Mary add romantic tension to its Earth story? Ryan Gosling and Sandra Hüller weigh in
Movies

Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, and Andy Weir weigh in on whether there's a hint of romantic feeling between Ryland Grace and Eva Stratt

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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Simon Williams in Wonder Man takes a call on his cell phone with his eyes and mouth wide open in shock
Marvel's Wonder Man renewed for season 2, to everyone's utter shock
Marvel

It's only the third MCU series to get a second season

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The kids from Stranger Things cluster together and stare with horror at something off-screen
10 TV shows that should have been just one season
One and Done

Hear us out on Stranger Things

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Anni, a lanky woman wearing a bright red skirt, white blouse, and glasses, dances in front of an open window in the animated movie Bubble Bath
You've never seen anything like this one-off movie from a forgotten animation pioneer
One and Done

Stream it free on Tubi or Kanopy — it's a wild, startling experience

In a dark, narrow space, astronaut Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), in a full spacesuit and helmet, peers through a small opening in Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary author, screenwriter share the biggest thing they hated cutting for the movie
Q&A

'It wasn't like the studio did it. I was the one that was like, I think we got to cut it, guys. But I'm still sad about it.'

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Vi (Felicia Day) in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a young woman with bobbed red hair, sitting on a floor, wearing a quirky striped knitted cloche hat and matching striped shirt
Felicia Day shares her Buffy reboot experience: 'Incredibly disappointed the show is not moving forward'
TV

The author and actor says the showrunners informally discussed bringing her back to reprise her Buffy role

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Astronaut Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), shaggy-haired, wearing glasses and an orange jumpsuit, in front of a crystal-faceted background
Ryan Gosling felt so ‘alone’ on Project Hail Mary that he proposed a radical directing method
Movies

'We had never done it that way, but it was Ryan's idea,' Phil Lord says

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Two panels from Felicia Day's graphic novel The Lost Daughter of Sparta. A woman in a red shawl explains to her daughter, who wears a red veil, that the daughter cannot defy the gods, and is doomed to betray her husband.
Felicia Day's first graphic novel is gloriously angry about men, women, myths, and monsters
Q&A

'We should be beyond this. There should be outrage. There should be people in the streets,' Day says

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A shot from The Guild, with all six main characters in costume as their MMORPG characters, from the
Felicia Day will crowdfund a movie spinoff of The Guild this summer
Entertainment

'We have the whole original cast back, and we had a reading just the other day. I almost cried.'

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Evy (Nina Kiri), a dark-haired young woman in a white shirt and blue cardigan, wears headphones and looks fearful as she sits in the dark, lit by her laptop's screen, in Undertone
A24’s new horror movie Undertone ‘was built on top of creepypastas,’ director says
Q&A

The first movie from creepypasta author and viral VR filmmaker Ian Tuason channels the only thing that still scares him — collaborative online horror

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Promotional art for the Dropout streaming service series Toon Out, with the title in cartoony lettering that makes the O's in
Dropout's latest experiment taps toon talent from Spider-Verse and Amphibia
Animation

The comedy streaming service will present standalone shorts by animators later this spring

Astronaut Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) floats sideways in zero gravity in a spaceship in Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary is every bit the emotional epic you hoped it would be
Reviews

The latest Andy Weir adaptation is a worthy companion to The Martian

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