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Max Schindler

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11 Jun

Toy Story 5 Is Already Proving Doubters Wrong

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The impending release of Toy Story 5 had the generations of fans raised by Woody, Buzz, and friends worried. After the financial success of Toy Story 4, another sequel — needed or not — was bound to happen, despite a myriad of complaints about the direction of the series. A new addition to the canon of stories about our favorite talking toys, even if trailers hinted at taking on timely themes, was not exactly wanted. However, film journalists got their first look at the newest Toy Story, and the reactions have been rapturously positive. So good to the point that…
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11 Jun

George Clooney Has an Unprompted (and Solid) Pick for the Next James Bond

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Amazon MGM can rest easy on its hunt for a new 007 because George Clooney’s been on the case and he’s cracked it. According to Clooney, there’s a “perfect” James Bond out there already, and it’s Callum Turner. The London-born Turner, who recently wed pop star Dua Lipa, is best known for playing Newt Scamander’s brother Theseus in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, but has also snagged plum roles in Apple TV’s Masters of the Air and last year’s well-received romantic comedy Eternity. The 36-year-old actor might be slightly on the older…
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11 Jun

The Death of Robin Hood: Exclusive Look at Hugh Jackman’s Unmasking of a Legend

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Most folks do not like it when their heroes die. A quick glance at online discourse about franchise movies that ended with icons perishing will remind you of this. But the resistance to fictional mortality dates back far longer. There are dozens upon dozens of Robin Hood movies, for example, yet only one previously has made a serious attempt at adapting Robin’s death. Even fewer have genuinely sought to examine the events of “A Gest of Robyn Hode,” a ballad dating back to at least the 16th century that is our oldest surviving account of Robin’s demise. Yet for Michael…
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11 Jun

The Social Reckoning Trailer Has Already Failed to Live Up to The Social Network

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The Social Network had no business being the perfect movie it is. Pairing the verbose and optimistic Aaron Sorkin with the frigid and controlled David Fincher? Making a movie about Facebook, an obvious fad only a few years into its popularity? Focusing a lot of attention on nerdy computer guys coding a website? And yet, as a montage of Facebook posts played over a choral version of Radiohead’s “Creep” in the first 30 seconds of the trailer, we knew that The Social Network would be something special. The Social Reckoning offers no such reassurance. There’s nothing inherently wrong with the…
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10 Jun

Jem and the Holograms Is Getting a Second Chance at Live Action

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Jem and the Holograms will join Prime Video’s TV offerings of female-centered series that have seen massive success with Gen Z like The Summer I Turned Pretty and newest addition, Off Campus. Deadline broke the news that Amazon and MGM studios are starting the development process for a TV series based on the hit animation from 1985, Jem. This series adaptation is coming just over 10 years after the poorly-received film, directed by Jon. M Chu, hit theaters in 2015. The Jem and the Holograms film has a truly outrageous rating of 22% on Rotten Tomatoes. Frank Scheck of The…
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10 Jun

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Writer Downplays Season 3 Criticism

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Star Trek is about optimism, exploration, and boldly going where no one has gone before. Star Trek fandom is often about complaining. We’re not pointing fingers here; god and his starship know we have launched criticisms at Star Trek here at Den of Geek. Nor is this anything new. The people who make Star Trek have been told they’re getting wrong from the very beginning, when Gene Roddenberry had to scrap the original pilot to film a new one with William Shatner‘s James Kirk as captain. For that reason, anyone who would make a Star Trek property must have thicker…
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10 Jun

Disclosure Day Review: Steven Spielberg’s Coda to a Lifetime of Alien Movies

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I always felt bad for Larry, Josef Sommer’s character in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). In Steven Spielberg’s magnum opus about UFOs and the governments who cover them up, Larry is a true believer that, like Richard Dreyfuss’ Roy and Melinda Dillon’s Jillian, traveled all the way to Devils Tower in Wyoming, sneaking past federal authority checkpoints and lies… only to miss the aliens at the last minute because of some knockout gas. That of course was part and parcel for Spielberg’s vision of an obsessive, almost maniacal need to know. Only the most dedicated, driven and, ahem,…
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10 Jun

Tom Holland’s The Odyssey Plea Is Gen Z’s Latest Attempt to Save Cinema

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The kids are alright, at least as far as the movies are concerned. After years of speculation that too many video games and internet videos would make them disinterested in the theatrical experience, it turns out that Generation Z loves the movies, and movies on the big screen, in particular. Case in point: the appeal that Tom Holland made to users of Letterboxd, the film-rating social media platform popular among teens and 20-somethings. Holland appeared to urge viewers to see the Christopher Nolan movie The Odyssey in different formats and to record their experience on the app. “For the first…
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10 Jun

Romy and Michele 2 Deserves a Theatrical Release

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Back in the 1990s, films often found their audiences on home video. That was certainly the case for Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, which didn’t do much in the way of business at the box office and wasn’t particularly well received by critics at the time either. Nevertheless, people eventually discovered the movie, and it became an outright cult classic, spawning a made-for-TV prequel film and even a musical as audiences warmed to David Mirkin’s charmingly offbeat comedy about a pair of best friends (played by Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow) who start to feel like failures when they…
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09 Jun

Resident Evil’s Most Overdue Remake Is Finally Happening

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Some announcements feel surprising. Others feel inevitable. The reveal of Resident Evil: Veronica at Summer Game Fest 2026 falls squarely into the latter category. For years, fans have viewed the survival horror cult classic as the missing piece of Capcom’s remake lineup, making its long-awaited return feel less like a shock and more like a correction.   Like the Resident Evil remakes before it, Veronica aims to strike a balance between nostalgia and reinvention. The eerie reveal trailer shows a modernized take on the original game, trading fixed-camera angles for a more immersive over-the-shoulder perspective, alongside updated gameplay mechanics, enhanced visuals,…
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09 Jun

Masters of the Universe Features an Actually Great Jared Leto Performance

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This article contains spoilers for Masters of the Universe. Turns out Masters of the Universe doesn’t have the power after all. After getting trounced on opening weekend by Scary Movie, a movie no one seems to want or like, Masters of the Universe will probably not make back its nearly $200 million budget. There’s a lot of blame to go around, and we could point fingers at the fact that someone (probably IP-holder Mattel) thought He-Man could be Barbie, or the fact that the franchise’s target audience is pushing 50 and would prefer to watch movies at home after mowing…
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09 Jun

Jacob Anderson Had Fun With the “Bitchier Side” of Louis in The Vampire Lestat

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This article contains spoilers for the premiere of The Vampire Lestat. The first two seasons of Interview with the Vampire detailed the turbulent relationship between the fiery Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and the brooding Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) from Louis’ point of view. But in the third season of AMC’s adaptation of Anne Rice’s book series, we switch to Lestat’s version of events following the pair’s reconciliation and the notable release of Daniel Molloy’s best-selling book about their relationship. For the first time, we get to see how Lestat and other vampires perceive Louis rather than…
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09 Jun

Ghostbusters: Night Shift Returns the Franchise To Animation, its Natural Home

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For now four consecutive feature films, bustin’ has made audiences feel okay-to-bad. After the classic that is 1984’s Ghostbusters, the franchise has gone through multiple sequels and reboots, none of which have come close to recreating the magic of the first film. Conventional wisdom would say that Ghostbusters should be a one-off, and any attempt to expand the franchise wreaks of desperate IP-mining. The announcement of the Sony and Netflix series Ghostbusters: Night Shift contradicts that wisdom. Night Shift will be an animated series, bringing the franchise back to its natural home. The series The Real Ghostbusters, which aired 150…
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08 Jun

Anthony Head Was a Father Figure to an Entire Generation of Genre Fans

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Teen supernatural drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a formative force in the world of genre television. It made lead Sarah Michelle Gellar a star, helped shape over two decades worth of similar shows that followed in its wake, and became beloved by a legion of dedicated viewers who can still almost certainly recite the “Into every generation a Slayer is born” monologue that once opened the show by heart. But it’s been a particularly rough year to be a Buffy fan, as several of the series’ core original cast members, including Michelle Trachtenberg and Nicholas Brendon, have passed away…
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06 Jun

Masters of the Universe Can Point the Way for Thor 5

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Even a few months ago, if I told you about a movie that had a blond guy with gigantic muscles, a rainbow bridge between dimensions, and endless monsters and spaceships, you’d think I was talking about Thor. But this weekend, the description fits a non-Marvel flick, Masters of the Universe. The similarity between the two properties isn’t entirely a coincidence. Masters of the Universe started out in 1982 as Mattel’s attempt to cash in on the popularity of Conan the Barbarian and Star Wars, launching a toy line that was part sword and sorcery and part sci-fi. When Mattel teamed…
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06 Jun

New Supergirl Clip Might Be Hiding a Man of Tomorrow Connection

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In the latest clip from Supergirl, Earth gets a new hero in the form of Kara Zor-El, cousin of Superman. But did she bring something more sinister with her? The scene in the clip comes directly from Supergirl’s first appearance in 1959’s Action Comics #252, by Otto Binder and Al Plastino. But where Plastino drew Supergirl emerging from a rocket, not unlike the one that baby Kal-El took to Earth, Milly Alcock arrives via a silver sphere, with a very unsettling pattern. The sphere consists of hexagons, a pattern new to Supergirl’s rocket, but not to DC Comics. In fact,…
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06 Jun

Masters of the Universe Reminds Us That Not Every Silly Thing Needs to Be a Joke

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This article contains spoilers for Masters of the Universe In the first big payoff moment of Masters of the Universe, kindhearted HR rep Adam Glenn (Nicholas Galitzine) raises the power sword into the air and declares, “By the power of Grayskull… I have the power!” Where once stood a milquetoast man in a powder pink shirt now stands a certified hunk, all rippling biceps, with a tiny metal plate over his impressive pecs and a loin cloth keeping the movie PG-13. Now in He-Man mode, Adam lunges toward his enemy, a blue-skinned pirate guy with a red metal mouth and…
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05 Jun

Documentary Stealing Magic Takes on Trickery Within the World of Illusions

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Magicians have been using the art of illusion to deceive the mind for centuries, yet it appears that even they can fall victim to trickery. In Fish Bowl Films and Magic Castle Entertainment Production’s documentary Stealing Magic, the audience will follow British illusionist Andi Gladwin as he launches a multi-year global investigation of an online piracy ring whose mark is any and everyone with a magic trick.  Gladwin teams up with magicians from across the world to follow a trail of encrypted messages, aliases, and suspicious transactions through an underground marketplace built on stolen magic. The team of magicians faces…
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05 Jun

10 Reasons Why Xbox Lost The Console War

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The console war was the constant back and forth of Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo to be the main household name for the video game console. It’s been a long time coming, and it hasn’t always been these three, but they are the main names associated today to this ‘console war,’ but it seems to be finally over. Nintendo was never seemingly interested in this competition, since they were doing their own thing, and it was enough to be in a ‘second place’ of sorts (except in Japan where it is the undisputed number one). But the Xbox console could never…
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05 Jun

Remember the Guardians: Stan Lee’s Ill-Fated Collaboration With the NHL

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Stan Lee played a role in coming up with some of the greatest villains of all time: Doctor Doom, Magneto, Devin Dark. Oh, you don’t know that last one? Well, clearly, you weren’t watching the NHL All-Star Game on January 30, 2011, in Raleigh, North Carolina. That was not just the night when Team Lidstrom, led by the Perfect Human Nicklas Lidstrom, beat Team Staal, led by then-Carolina Hurricanes captain Eric Staal. It was also the night when the NHL Guardians gathered to do battle with the evil cloud man known as Devin Dark. Okay, even if you were watching,…
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