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DC Just Revamped Its Flagship Team for the Absolute Universe

This article contains full spoilers for Absolute Evil #1. How would Absolute Green Arrow be different from his mainline counterpart? That was the question many readers had going into Absolute Evil #1, which hit comic book stores today. Turns out, that was the wrong question. Like its sister over at Marvel, the Ultimate Universe, the […]

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This Al Pacino Movie Predicted Our AI Actor Future

Before Tilly Norwood, there was Simone. In the latest attempt to legitimatize the technology, a startup called Particle6 has debuted Tilly Norwood, an AI-created actress. In videos posted to Instagram, Tilly boasts about her range as a performer and, according to Deadline, the gambit worked. Talent agencies have already made offers to represent Tilly in […]

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Marvel Phase 5: Ranking Every Movie and TV Show

With the arrival of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has begun, putting an end to what is easily the most fractious period in the franchise’s history, phase five. For those who don’t remember, Marvel’s fifth phase came sooner than initially intended, as franchise boss Kevin Feige decided to […]

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The Most Optimistic Star Trek Episodes

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation season 1 episode “The Neutral Zone,” Captain Jean-Luc Picard speaks with an angry capitalist who was cryogenically frozen in 1994 and reanimated aboard the Enterprise-D. When the capitalist tries to resume his wheeling, dealing ways, Picard sets him straight. “A lot has changed in the past three hundred […]

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Goodfellas: Ray Liotta’s Iconic Laugh Is A Lot More Than Just a Meme

Goodfellas is an undisputed classic. Since it first released 35 years ago, Martin Scorsese‘s vibrant adaptation of Nicholas Pileggi’s non-fiction book Wiseguy has earned respect for its bravura filmmaking and its shocking depiction of gangland violence. It has influenced countless filmmakers, including Paul Thomas Anderson, whose most recent work One Battle After Another is receiving […]

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Peacemaker: What That Big Cameo Means for Superman 2

This article contains spoilers for Peacemaker season 2. Just as we feared, things have gotten very bad for the 11th Street Kids on Peacemaker season 2. In the sixth episode of Peacemaker’s second season, Chris Smith’s friends follow him into an alternate dimension. When they do, they realize a truth that Chris couldn’t see through […]

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One Battle After Another Ending Explained

This post contains full spoilers for One Battle After Another. At the climax of One Battle After Another, Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio) has finally found his daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti). Before this moment, Bob spent most of the film searching for his only child, trying to keep up with and outrun Sean Penn’s Col. Steve […]

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Is Peacemaker Season 2 About to Adapt the Darkest DC Universe?

This post contains spoilers for Peacemaker season 2 episodes 1-5. For the first five episodes of Peacemaker‘s second season, Chris Smith believes that he has found the best universe ever. This alternate reality that he accesses through a Quantum Folding Chamber offers everything that Chris wants. Not only is his father kind and supportive, not […]

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Superman 2 Might Finally Bring A Long-Awaited DC Villain to the Big Screen

Superman may be still playing in theaters and may have just hit HBO Max, but director and DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn‘s already looking to the future. Not only has he announced a follow-up titled Man of Tomorrow, but he also took to Instagram to share a picture of a draft of the completed script. […]

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The Mandalorian and Grogu Trailer Promises Star Wars Is Returning to its Roots

There’s only one word to describe the first trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu: fun. We get neon signs reflected in puddles of rain. We get spaceships shooting lasers at one another while racing through clouds. We even get Grogu a.k.a. Baby Yoda dropping a Schwarzenegger-esque one-liner. In short, we get a full embrace of […]

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The Essential Paranoid Political Thrillers of the ’90s

In the 1990s, America had no enemies. So we had to make up new ones. Okay, that’s a very simplistic way of looking at the Clinton era, and certainly all manner of suffering existed within and without the country’s borders. But there’s no denying that the U.S. embraced an End of History ethos, the belief […]

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What Swiped Fails to Say About Modern Dating Culture

This article contains plot points from the film Swiped. Swiped is a movie stuck in the 2010s. It’s not just that the events portrayed in the movie happen between 2012 and 2014, when entrepreneur Whitney Wolfe Herd helps create Tinder, gets ousted from the company, and founds Bumble. Nor is it just the movie’s liberal […]

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Peacemaker May Have Just Revealed the Map to the New DCU Multiverse

This article contains spoilers for Peacemaker season 2 episode 5. Even though Quantum Folding Chambers appeared in both the first season of Peacemaker and in Superman, James Gunn has been clear that their application in the show’s second season has much greater significance to the rest of the new DC Universe. Thus far, the chamber […]

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Peacemaker’s Sasha Bordeaux Reveal Could Point to a Darker Batman in the New DCU

This article contains spoilers for Peacemaker season 2 episode 5. James Gunn hasn’t even fully revealed the Batman of his rebooted DCU, but we’re already feeling the presence of the Dark Knight. First, there was the silhouetted cameo in Creature Commandos. Then there was the reference to Gotham City in Superman. Now, Peacemaker season 2 […]

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Michael Chiklis on The Senior, Tough Characters, and Fantastic Four’s The Thing

When asked what drew him to the football drama The Senior, veteran actor Michael Chiklis doesn’t mince words with his answer. “Look, all we do as actors is look for great stories,” Chiklis tells Den of Geek. “You know how movies say ‘Based on a true story?’ This isn’t based on a true story, this […]

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Sneakers Remains Robert Redford’s Most Underrated Performance

With news of his death at the age of 89, Robert Redford will be remembered as a beloved actor from the New Hollywood era. While obituaries will be correct in discussing his stunning screen presence, commitment to interesting roles, and contributions to independent cinema, they may overlook a surprising and oft-forgotten fact about Redford: he […]

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Have We Forgotten Batman Is for Kids?

Has the Dark Knight become too dark? If a new report about pop culture trends for the next generation is any indication, the answer might be yes. Another for kids might be, “Who’s Batman again?” As per Variety, a recent scientific poll found that Gen Alpha (children born between 2010 and 2025) surprisingly enjoy going […]

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Spawn Creator Todd McFarlane Explains How to Break a Character Out of the Comics Bubble

Todd McFarlane is more than just comics. He may have got his start penciling for DC and Marvel, and then became a superstar while working on Amazing Spider-Man, but these days he is far more known as the creator of Spawn, a character who has appeared in television and film, and as the namesake of […]

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Desperado: How Steve Buscemi Became One of the Greatest Hype Men in Cinema

In 1995 Robert Rodriguez unleashed Desperado onto the movie-going public. A remake/sequel to Rodriguez’s low-budget debut El Mariachi, Desperado stars Antonio Banderas as El Mariachi, a musician uniquely gifted in the art of destruction who goes on a rampage of revenge after a mysterious drug kingpin kills his girlfriend. Over the course of 105 lean […]

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Star Trek Crews Ranked from Worst to the Real Number Ones

Star Trek is all about exploring the final frontier. But its also about how you can’t explore it alone. From the naval trappings that inform its starship setting to the utopian United Federation of Planets, Star Trek offers a fundamentally communal vision, a depiction of the future in which humanity has overcome its petty differences […]

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