This article contains spoilers for Prime Video TV series Carrie. Carrie White was never alone. While the titular teenager of Stephen King‘s debut novel may have felt isolated under the burdens of high school bullies, an abusive mother, and burgeoning telekinetic powers, in reality she was but one of many experiencing those same trials and tribulations… yes, even the “telekinetic powers” bit. That’s made apparent in the pages of King’s epistolary text and it’s something that showrunner Mike Flanagan wanted to make even clearer in Carrie, Prime Video’s eight-episode modern update to Carrie White’s story. “[King] is pretty explicit about…

Being good-looking can sound like an easy advantage, and in some ways, it is. People may be friendlier, offer free things, or give you opportunities before they know anything about you. But being attractive can also bring unwanted attention, jealousy, awkward assumptions, and the uncomfortable feeling that people are interested in your appearance rather than who you are. In a recent Reddit discussion, people shared what life is like when others consider you extremely attractive. Their stories ranged from perks to exhausting social situations, showing that good looks can change interactions in ways that are flattering, frustrating, and sometimes lonely.…

Movie plots often depend on people making terrible decisions at exactly the right moment. Someone ignores an obvious warning, refuses to ask a simple question, or walks straight into danger despite having several perfectly reasonable alternatives. Sometimes the characters are supposed to be intelligent, experienced adults, which makes their choices even more frustrating. You can practically see the credits rolling if anyone would stop for thirty seconds and think things through. These stories gave us memorable entertainment, but their biggest problems could disappear almost immediately if the characters acted like real people instead of following a script designed to keep…

Comedy shows are supposed to make you laugh, so it hits differently when an episode suddenly leaves you feeling absolutely miserable. You can spend years watching ridiculous arguments, awkward dates, running jokes, and characters making terrible decisions, only for one unexpected moment to change the entire mood. Sometimes a beloved character dies, a relationship falls apart, or a seemingly ordinary storyline reveals something painfully real. The hardest part is that these episodes often arrive without warning, catching viewers completely off guard. Some of television’s most emotional moments happened in shows nobody expected to make anyone cry, and fans still remember…

People in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s had some pretty interesting ideas about having fun. Kids rode around in the back of station wagons, families dressed alike on purpose, and somebody apparently decided that keeping a raccoon as a pet was a perfectly reasonable plan. There were giant playground slides, questionable furniture choices, and enough polyester to furnish an entire department store. Luckily, plenty of people had cameras ready to document these decisions. Reddit is full of old family snapshots and vintage photographs that capture just how wonderfully strange everyday life could get. Here are 15 photos from a time…

Why in the world would anyone make a time-travel movie? As soon as a character steps out into the past or the future, even by a matter of minutes, it raises huge questions that most filmmakers don’t want to answer: Is this a new reality? What happens at a physics level? Is the future different now? And yet, when we’re watching a great time travel movie, we don’t ask any of those questions. We just go along for the ride. The ability of the best movies to overcome those fundamental questions and grip the audience make time travel one of…

This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. Find out how you can subscribe to get the full physical copy right here! They say love never dies, but after 500 years, it might at least need a nap. CBS’s newest supernatural comedy asks what happens when forever starts to feel a little too long. Eternally Yours follows Charles (Ed Weeks) and Liz (Allegra Edwards), vampires married for five centuries who’ve long since lost their spark, going through the motions of eternity alongside their eccentric coven in modern-day Seattle. Their stagnation gets upended when their daughter Emma starts dating Max,…

Some actors become so familiar that it feels strange imagining movies without them. Their faces appeared in countless films, their voices became instantly recognizable, and certain roles became permanently associated with their careers. Then, sometimes quietly, they stepped away from acting and stopped appearing on screen altogether. Retirement can happen for many reasons, including age, health, family, or simply deciding that there are other things worth doing with life. While some retired performers occasionally return for a special project, others seem genuinely finished with acting. These are some well-liked actors whose retirement means audiences will probably never see another new…

Movies tend to work because characters make choices that keep the story moving, even when those choices would probably seem ridiculous in real life. Give someone ten minutes to think things through, make the sensible phone call, ask one obvious question, or simply walk away, and an entire plot can collapse before the interesting part even begins. That was the idea behind a recent Reddit discussion asking people which movies they could completely ruin by making the rational, boring choice. The answers were often hilarious because they exposed just how many famous stories depend on characters ignoring solutions that seem…

Attraction can disappear for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with someone’s appearance. A person can look incredible, seem charming, and have everything going for them, only to say or do one tiny thing that suddenly changes the entire impression. Sometimes it is a major personality flaw, but other times it is something ridiculously small, like littering, refusing to admit a mistake, or being rude to a stranger. A recent Reddit discussion asked people what instantly made them less attracted to someone they initially found very attractive, and the answers revealed just how quickly one little moment can completely…

In a few weeks, the DCU will finally take us to Gotham City for Clayface. But don’t expect to see Gotham’s Caped Crusader as we watch actor Matt Hagen’s strange transformation into a shapeshifting monster. When asked about the prospect of a Batman appearance in Clayface, director James Watkins told SFX Magazine, “You’re in a city called Gotham. So I guess you feel the shadow of the Bat inherently.” In other words, no, Batman in Clayface. But that’s alright, because Watkins is right. It’s not just that Batman casts a shadow all over Gotham. It’s that Gotham City is a…

This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. Find out how you can subscribe to get the full physical copy right here! Mike Flanagan understands your skepticism when it comes to modern horror reboots. After all, the prolific horror auteur already had to address one notable genre fan’s qualms before embarking on Carrie, Prime Video’s TV miniseries based on the classic Stephen King novel.  “I went to Stephen King and said, ‘We’re talking about doing Carrie. I of course won’t do it without your express blessing,’” recalls the TV showrunner and King aficionado. And King, ever the veteran of…

This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. Find out how you can subscribe to get the full physical copy right here! The Capitol has always been good at making murder look pretty. That contradiction is baked into the Hunger Games, in which children are sent to die, but first they get costumes, parades, interviews, constructed reality-TV storylines, and an audience trained to consume suffering with indifference. In Sunrise on the Reaping, that structure will be operating at full capacity. The world is brighter, grander, more colorful. Even the arena is resplendent…this makes the whole ordeal much, much…

Chris Hansen became one of television’s most recognizable figures every time he calmly walked into a room, offered someone a seat, and asked his iconic question. His work on To Catch a Predator turned him into a household name, but there is considerably more to Hansen than the catchphrase and the confrontations that made him famous. His career has taken some genuinely strange turns, including unusual side projects, internet fame, financial troubles, and a surprisingly complicated relationship with his own pop culture image. With a new movie about his most famous work now bringing him back into the spotlight, some…

Method acting has produced some unforgettable performances, but it can also lead actors into some unusually intense territory. When performers become deeply immersed in a character, they sometimes keep elements of that role alive long after the cameras stop rolling. That can mean changing their appearance, adopting strange routines, refusing to break character, or putting themselves through genuinely uncomfortable situations for the sake of a performance. Some stories have become almost as famous as the movies themselves, especially when fellow cast members were left wondering where the actor ended and the character began. These fifteen examples show just how far…

In a recent interview with Variety, Ben Affleck shared some thoughts about his time playing Batman for Zack Snyder, and the superhero movie genre in general. Recalling the criticisms leveled at the dark tone of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Affleck observed, “It seems to be an ongoing question, and I don’t know the answer: Do you go all the way to a hard-R rating like Joker? Or do it like Marvel, which does something broad, unless you’re talking about Deadpool & Wolverine?” He continued, “There seems to be more tension between ‘Are we doing the grown-up version or…

Even though it’s more than 50years old, The Exorcist remains both a spooky season favorite and the standard pick for “the scariest movie ever made.” That canonical status explains why legacy sequels like the 2016 television series or 2023’s The Exorcist: Believer, would stick so closely to the first movie’s characters and iconography. That also explains why one would expect Mike Flanagan to follow the first film’s model for his upcoming take The Exorcist: Martyrs. But according to a first-look released by Esquire, it sounds like Flanagan’s moving off of the 1973 movie by William Friedkin and William Peter Blatty…

A lot of people watch horror movies the same way they watch sports, yelling at the screen and explaining how they could do a better job. And this is targeted at someone that can’t hear them, mind you. While we know how poorly we would perform in professional sports, what about horror settings? Well, you’d do even worse, because you’d end up dead. Here are just a few examples of how hard life would be inside the movies, where you can’t pause the movie to figure out the best course of action. We’re just happy to not have to deal…

The internet is full of photos of things you would probably never think to photograph yourself. A strange object in a backyard, an unexpected detail hidden in an old building, or an unusually clever piece of everyday design can become surprisingly fascinating when someone saves it. Reddit is a great place to find this stuff, with people posting photos of objects, places, animals, creations, and odd details they stumbled across in real life. Sometimes, the picture itself is enough to make you stop scrolling. Reddit A Lightning Strike Captured at the Perfect Moment Reddit A Misprinted Penny Reddit A Debit…

This article contains spoilers for Lanterns. Ever since the pilot episode of Lanterns ended with a shot of Hal Jordan, frozen on a high school football field stand and dead from a bullet hole in his head, fans have hoped against hope that the death would be undone. Yet, despite the fact that Lanterns takes place in a world with robot Manhunters and magical wishing rings, the finale ended not only with Hal still dead, but the Hal-o-Gram backup that allowed him to pal around with John Stewart dissipating once and for all. Yet, as final and the finale seemed…