Categoria: Movies

Fantastic Four Box Office Drop Poses Tough Questions for MCU and Superheroes

Last week I was away on assignment in San Diego. For that reason, I was not able to write about the opening weekend of The Fantastic Four: First Steps. But if I had, like many I would have noted the film’s $117.7 million debut was a positive sign for the MCU, offering the best launch […]

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Together: Alison Brie and Dave Franco Really Are a Horror Power Couple

Real life couples playing big screen lovers has been a fascination for audiences since the days of Fairbanks and Pickford, Tracy and Hepburn, Cruise and Kidman. How much of what we are watching is indicative of the real-life dynamic between these two performers? Do they love like that, lean on the other’s shoulder in the […]

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The Long Walk Cast Reacts to Being ‘Too Tense’ for SDCC

It marked some kind of milestone when the lights went out and an audible gasp spread across thousands of people. For the first time in San Diego Comic-Con history, new exclusive footage shared with the excited and hopeful in Hall H was being obscured. The screen literally went dark. This was not done to hide […]

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Shin Godzilla Director Reveals Why Those Eyes Are So Adorable

For a long time it seemed like Godzilla would never be scary again. While the most famous of giant movie screen monsters to stomp around a metropolis began as a sober, menacing metaphor for the dangers of nuclear weapons in Ishirō Honda’s 1954 masterpiece that started it all, the Big G soon became a creature […]

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2000’s X-Men and the Lost Gravitas of Xavier and Magneto

Twenty-five years ago, Marvel brought its mutants to the big screen for the first time in X-Men. Though the movie eschewed the brightly colored spandex costumes of the comics, it remained largely true to the source material, complete with fantastic displays of superpowers and addamantium claws. Yet the most exciting part of the movie happens […]

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The Naked Gun Review: Liam Neeson Has Killer Deadpan

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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Fantastic Four and Superman: The One Scene That Shows What a Difference James Gunn Makes

This article contains spoilers for Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Even before they released, just two weeks apart from one another, we knew that Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps would have a lot in common. Both movies feature founding characters from the comics, both embrace the qualities that made their characters […]

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Peacemaker Season 2 Trailer Goes Full Multiverse, Confirms The Suicide Squad Still Canon

Thus far James Gunn has been reluctant to answer too many questions about the relationship between the DC Universe that he and DC Studios co-head Peter Safran rebooted and the previous universe which Zack Snyder started with Man of Steel in 2013. He recently told Den of Geek that “there are certain things from the […]

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Fantastic Four: The Terrifying Reed Richards Line That Could Affect Avengers: Secret Wars

This article contains The Fantastic Four: First Steps spoilers. Late in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, a quiet moment between father and son takes a brief and despairing, turn. Ever since the world-devourer Galactus expressed interest in the boy, Reed had been monitoring Franklin for signs of powers, not unlike the irradiated abilities he shares […]

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Predator: Badlands SDCC Footage Description and New Connections to 1987’s Dutch

This 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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The Trouble with Alien Zombies

This week’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “Shuttle to Kenfori,” saw Captain Pike and Doctor M’Benga visit an abandoned science outpost, because that is always a great a plan. It wasn’t long before they discovered that the episode title was a sneaky roundabout reference to the Korean movie Train to Busan, because this outpost was […]

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Fantastic Four: Why Baby Franklin Matters So Much for the Future of the MCU

This article contains spoilers for The Fantastic Four: First Steps. As in most action and adventure movies, the heroes of The Fantastic Four: First Steps suffer utter defeat halfway through the picture. But rarely has a downfall been so complete. Despite their amazing abilities, the Fantastic Four are mere flies in the presence of the […]

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The Naked Gun Director: Liam Neeson Has the ‘Particular Set of Skills’ to Replace Leslie Nielsen

This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. You can read all of our magazine stories here. Even in these divisive times, we can all at least agree on one thing: Leslie Nielsen can’t be replaced.  Amid his prolific 60-year acting career, which featured hundreds of roles in film and television, the cloudy-haired Canadian […]

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Hunger Games Director Teases Sunrise on the Reaping’s Connection to Other Films

Director 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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EXCLUSIVE: We Can Be Heroes Trailer Spotlights Young LARPers on a Path to Self-Discovery

Live action role-playing (LARP) is an international phenomenon that gives fantasy fans an opportunity to inhabit the magical lives of characters that they create. We Can Be Heroes, the documentary from directors Carina Mia Wong and Alex Simmons, follows the exploits of a unique group of young LARPers finding their voices and their places in […]

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps Post-Credit Scenes Explained

This article contains The Fantastic Four: First Steps spoilers. For fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the coming of The Fantastic Four: First Steps is as anticipated as the arrival of Galactus, the world-devourer himself. It’s not just that MCU fans have longed to see Marvel’s First Family done right, with a respect to the […]

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War of the Worlds and the Post-9/11 Blockbusters

War of the Worlds is unquestionably a big sci-fi movie about aliens invading the Earth. It begins with Morgan Freeman narration about observers jealously watching our planet from afar and it is filled with the big thrilling sequences that made director Steven Spielberg‘s reputation. Yet for the film’s first viewers in 2005, War of the […]

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The Long Walk Director Reveals How to Adapt Stephen King’s Scariest Dystopia for Today

This 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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Superman: Mr. Terrific and James Gunn’s Approach to Black Characters

Michael 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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