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Comedy can at times be an art form, but it’s just as frequently a science. Which is to say that there’s some hard numerical data behind your enjoyment of the genre. Appreciation of a farce might be heightened by solid characterization, or a sense of satisfaction expanded on from a satire’s most ironic of well-clipped […]
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Read MoreThe next big live-action series in the long-running Star Trek franchise is Starfleet Academy. And, at San Diego Comic-Con 2025, we finally got a look at what the series will be like. The vibe and design of the show is very much in line with the later seasons of Star Trek: Discovery, which makes sense […]
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Read MoreThis post contains newly revealed spoilers for Predator: Killer of Killers and Predator: Badlands. By now, anyone coming to Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con expects big reveals and big teases. Somehow director Dan Trachtenberg outdid all expectations with in his panel for the latest entry in the Predator franchise, Predator: Badlands. In a panel […]
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Read MoreTwenty years after its debut, Avatar: The Last Airbender remains as viable and vibrant as ever. And, like the Avatar cycle itself, this story never truly ends. There is still plenty to come in the world of elemental benders, nations struggling for balance, and flying bison. From podcasts to books to concerts, to the next […]
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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 key to writing a brutally funny Wednesday Addams joke is to not write a joke at all. By virtue of her macabre predilections and hobbies—as well as the naturally sardonic performer channeling her on Netflix—the humor […]
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Read MoreMichael Holt (Edi Gathegi), also known as Mr. Terrific, has long been one of the most brilliant, layered, and morally grounded characters in the DC Universe. He’s also been one of its most overlooked. For nearly three decades, live-action and animated adaptations have reduced him to comic relief, background support, or a footnote in someone […]
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Read MoreThe hour has grown late, and the sun’s drawn low. Such ominous tidings definitely apply to the denizens of Earth in The Fantastic Four: First Steps. For it is in this movie that Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds, has come. However, it also applies to many longtime Marvel Comics fans in the audience. Despite four […]
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Read MoreWedding Crashers just turned 20. That seems hard to believe because of how relatively recent the movie might feel to anyone who was at least in high or secondary school in 2005. Yet unto itself, the movie has long since transformed into a relic of a bygone age. In one sense, the humor of the […]
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Read MoreThis article is presented in partnership with Nickelodeon and appears in the Den of Geek x Avatar: The Last Airbender special edition releasing in mid-July. For two decades, the lush songs and sounds of Avatar: The Last Airbender have immersed viewers in the fantasy world of the groundbreaking animated series. However, you might be surprised to learn that the […]
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Read MoreWhenever you think of Waterworld, the Kevin Costner-starring dystopian action movie that turns 30 this summer, chances are you immediately think of the world “flop.” There are few films in Hollywood history that carry the stink of failure as potently as the movie where they gave Wyatt Earp gills behind the ears. Indeed, Waterworld may […]
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Read MoreAri Aster started writing the film that would become Eddington in 2020 as COVID19 halted the world. Five years later, COVID19 is still killing thousands of people monthly around the world, and the political landscape has changed in ways that people in the 2010s could never imagine. It’s a stark backdrop for Eddington to set […]
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Read MoreIf you’ve been to the theaters recently and passed a standee for the upcoming Smurfs movie, chances are, you have audibly asked, “Those little blue bastards are back? AGAIN!? WHY?!” Lord knows I have. Somehow out of all the family-friendly intellectual property (IP) in existence, Hollywood keeps resurrecting comic artist Peyo’s uber-popular creations—the Minions to […]
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Read MoreThis article contains major spoilers for Ari Aster’s Eddington. People are finally treating Joaquin Phoenix‘s Sheriff Joe Cross with the kindness, and more importantly the respect, he thinks he deserves. “We need to find each other’s hearts,” he previously pleaded in that Facebook video which became a surprise announcement for his mayoral candidacy. Well, a […]
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Read MoreAs Star Trek: Strange New Worlds warps into its third season, longtime Star Trek fans have cause to celebrate. It’s actually been two years since Strange New Worlds debuted new episodes, and so the release of a new season will be like much-needed food for starving Trekkies. But those same fans almost certainly have questions. […]
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Read MoreEvery time a new season of a big tentpole science fiction rolls around, fans and critics tend to try to find the reason why this time things are different. New seasons often proclaim a new cast member or a shake-up behind the scenes in the creative team will change everything. But despite the two-year wait, […]
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Read MoreWhether it was the $500 sunglasses, the cockiness, or the one-liners—though I’m pretty sure it was the sunglasses—Johnny Cage was the epitome of cool to a certain age of movie-watcher in the mid-’90s. This viewer was of a specific and discerning variety too; the kind who was old enough to have played Mortal Kombat II […]
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Read MoreOut of all the Y2K-era R-rated horrors, it was only a matter of time before I Know What You Did Last Summer handed its hook over to the next generation—now in the shape of the boilerplate legacy sequel movie, as opposed to the short-lived and already forgotten 2021 Prime Video series. Despite the commercial success […]
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Read MoreMove over Mr. DNA, because Colossal Biosciences is here to offer an old-fashioned bit of exposition about “that scary de-extinction word and set the record straight.” That’s right, the company which made headlines this year with stories about bringing back dire wolves (or at least a version of them) and creating woolly mice, has partnered […]
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Read MoreMost folks do not want to remember the COVID-19 pandemic. Even when we were living through it, snapshot films from filmmakers as varied as Steven Knight and Judd Apatow were roundly rejected by streaming audiences, who could neither laugh at the absurdities of that moment or bask in paeans to essential workers (workers who, we […]
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Read MoreIn the 1990s, Disney was untouchable. After a low period in the ‘80s that almost saw the animation studio shutter, they experienced a legendary comeback with a slew of critical and commercial smash hits that became known as the Disney Renaissance. Films like Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, and The Lion King cemented […]
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