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Victor Frankenstein and his creature are two of the most recognizable figures in popular culture, having been a mainstay of literature, film, the stage, comics, TV, and more for 200 years. It all flows back to Mary Shelley’s original 1818 novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, which not only stands as a milestone in horror, […]
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Read MoreThis article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. You can read all of our magazine stories here. Edgar Wright, the filmmaker and genre specialist who has given the world modern gems like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Baby Driver, estimates he was around 13 years old when he read “the Bachman Books,” […]
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Read MoreFor a movie, Tron: Ares makes a pretty damn good Nine Inch Nails album. If there was an Oscar for Best Lead Performance by a Score, then the legendary act—who notably composed the music for this film under the band name and not, as usual, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross—should positively win. The music is […]
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Read MoreOnly six actors have officially played British secret agent James Bond over the course of 63 years (with apologies to non-canon outliers David Niven and Barry Nelson), and as the world awaits the announcement of the seventh thespian who will don the famous tux, the debate over that person’s status and identity has begun anew: […]
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Read MoreThere are as we write this some 947 episodes of Star Trek content available to watch, stretching across Star Trek: The Original Series to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, totaling something like 820 hours of viewing. There are also 13 theatrical Star Trek movies in circulation, plus one direct-to-streaming movie, which rack up another roughly […]
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Read MoreDirector Francis Lawrence has a thing for dystopias. His next film is The Long Walk, an adaptation of the bleak Stephen King novel set in a brutal, totalitarian future America. That’s still due in September, but already Lawrence is hard at work on his next movie: The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, the second […]
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Read MoreThis article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. You can read all of our magazine stories here. The Long Walk was Stephen King’s first completed novel, although it was not published until 1979 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. An allegory about the Vietnam War, it’s set in a totalitarian future where in an annual […]
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Read MoreIt was 25 years ago that X-Men truly launched the modern era of the superhero movie. While there had been films before starring Batman and Superman—and even Blade offered proof that obscure Marvel Comics characters could work at the box office—X-Men’s release in 2000 was a game-changer. It helped pave the way for Sam Raimi’s […]
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Read MoreWith the huge success of Jaws, it was inevitable that Universal Pictures would be interested in a sequel. But aside from the ludicrous premise of the same town getting terrorized by a shark again, Jaws 2 was saddled with two directors, massive reshoots, an unhappy star, and a script that never quite seemed finished. That […]
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Read MoreRemember the James Bond movie in which 007 teams up with an enemy agent to defeat a megalomaniacal supervillain? Of course you do. How about the one in which M is kidnapped and Bond must save his boss’s life at all costs? Yeah, that sounds familiar too. And let’s not forget the rogue North Korean […]
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Read MoreThe novella is a strange beast in writing and publishing. Not quite a novel but lengthier than a short story (and also longer than the craft’s red-headed stepchild, the novelette). It’s a form that allows fiction writers to explore a story and characters in greater depth than a short story but doesn’t require the structural […]
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Read MoreBatman Forever was a transitional film in the history of Batman on screen and superhero movies in general, which is why it’s important that the original cut of the film submitted by director Joel Schumacher finally see the light of day. It was 30 years ago this month that Warner Bros. Pictures released Batman Forever, […]
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Read MoreBallerina is what happens when a studio wants to extend a franchise but really has no reason to do so except a financial one. Subtitled From The World of John Wick, this action thriller contains too much action and precious little thrills. Directed (maybe) by Len Wiseman of Underworld fame, Ballerina is set in the […]
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Read MoreIron Man was a resounding success when it opened in 2008, earning more than half a billion dollars and declaring in no uncertain terms that Marvel Studios—and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as it later came to be known—had arrived. Although Marvel was also developing movies about Thor, Captain America, and Ant-Man at the time, Iron […]
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