Categoria: Movies

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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