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It is an obscure piece of trivia to know that before William Shakespeare wrote what is often argued to be the greatest play in the English language, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, that he also had a son named Hamnet. It is therefore an even more esoteric fact that to this day, scholars […]
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Read MoreSo it’s kind of a funny story about Ray and Colin. They had the type of meet-cute which is only supposed to occur in Richard Curtis movies. In an English pub on Christmas Eve, Colin (an eternally fresh-faced Harry Melling) is singing Vaudeville-tinged carols in front of locals, plus his parents, brother, and assorted family […]
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Read MoreIt was not a question for writer-director Steven Kostanski about what movie he wanted to make next. It was a calling, or perhaps a prophecy written in the stars, when the Canadian filmmaker—and genre necromancer of old school creature features like Psycho Goreman and The Void—was invited to peruse a catalog of old Roger Corman […]
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Read MoreLong before he starred in The Running Man, Glen Powell had a professional relationship with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Kind of. See, way back in 2014, back in a time before Top Gun: Maverick or working with Richard Linklater, Powell appeared in The Expendables 3, an old school action flick which starred the likes of Schwarzenegger, Sylvester […]
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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. In a remote corner of a laboratory in Dallas, scientists stare intensely at a tinamou egg resting on the counter. The tinamou, for the record, is a plump and endangered bird found in Central and South America […]
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Read MoreIn October 1964, Sidney Lumet, the furrow-browed director of 12 Angry Men and (later) Dog Day Afternoon, brought his sober-eyed vision for the end of the world to theaters. Barely two years since the real-life Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in the same autumnal season, Fail Safe was intended to be a probing and despairing look […]
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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. What if your worst nightmare just kept coming back? Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions are doing everything in their power to turn Ethan Hawke’s Black Phone slasher The Grabber into a bona fide horror icon. The masked […]
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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. So, a robot from the Alien franchise and a Predator from Predator walk into a movie together. If that sounds like the setup of an old Dark Horse comic from the 1990s, in which Batman fought the […]
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Read MoreThis article is sponsored by eBay Live. The United States’ largest comic con is finally here, and the celebration is being kicked up a notch. Skybound Entertainment, eBay, and Big Clutch are teaming up for some awesome auctions that coincide with the 25th issue of Skybound’s amazing Transformers comic. Select sellers are getting exclusive eBay […]
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Read MoreLong before she became a filmmaker, Mary Bronstein developed an interest in therapy and what they call “the talking cure.” Psychology is what she got her master’s in prior to attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; and in her second feature as a writer-director, the cryptically titled If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, […]
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Read MoreWell before she joined a team of half a dozen other filmmakers to bring V/H/SHalloween to spooky season, director Micheline Pitt was living it. Which is to say that like a lot of the genre fans who count horror as sacred ground, All Hallows’ Eve has always been a special time of the year. “I’m […]
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Read MoreThere are a couple of spectacular fights in Benny Safide’s The Smashing Machine. The new film, about the life and career of Mark Kerr during the early days of the UFC and mixed martial arts going mainstream, is marketed for its hard-hitting sports action, as well as Dwayne Johnson’s physical and spiritual transformation. And to […]
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Read MoreOne year ago today, scientists and researchers at Colossal Biosciences saw a breakthrough so startling that, a decade earlier, the scene would be written off as the ravings of a Michael Crichton novel. After less than five years of research and planning, a pair of pups born from a gray wolf mother, but which featured […]
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Read MoreLongtime collaborators and horror connoisseurs Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill are not big on doing sequels. Granted, a lot of folks in Hollywood say that before making one, but few have such a rich history of walking away from the alleged sure-thing. Whether it was turning down the chance to helm Sinister 2 or […]
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Read MoreThough the Final Fantasy franchise has been one of the biggest gaming properties in the world, Square Enix’s beloved RPG series is having an especially celebrated moment in its long, global history. The Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy that began in 2020 has completely reinvigorated the franchise, with its first two installments widely acclaimed, while […]
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Read MoreWhen Shelby Oaks premiered earlier this month at Fantastic Fest, it felt something like a homecoming to Chris Stuckmann. The longtime YouTube movie critic and personality has been coming to the festival for years. And well before he committed to making the jump across the line that divides film reviewers from filmmakers, he always admired […]
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Read MoreOne of the last major video game exhibitions of the year is Tokyo Game Show, an international event and convergence point where game developers from around the world–though obviously most prominently from Japan—offer glimpses of the future during the final weekend in September. And we were on the ground to cover the event in-person, checking […]
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Read MoreLike so many people living in the greater Southern California area, Justin Long and Kate Bosworth are no strangers to coyotes. The genre power couple, who previously met on 2022’s House of Darkness, often see the furry little guys in their Los Angeles neighborhood—not to mention bobcats, mountain lions, and a surprisingly wide array of […]
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Read MoreThings can and will change plenty over the course of 20 years. It’s a truth that applies to people, places, and sometimes film festivals. Once the scrappy genre curio co-founded by Tim League in the mid-2000s as a movie nerd Mecca—one which lived up to the local motto of “keep Austin weird”—after two decades on […]
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Read MoreIn the middle of a snow-swept street, which at night seems wholly abandoned to the chill of twilight, sits a solitary box. This wooden black cube, and the even more abject dark secrets contained therein, is the tantalizing hook of Bryan Bertino’s Vicious. It is in this object, we are warned, awaits a mystery that […]
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