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Max Schindler

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18 Apr

The Mandalorian & Grogu Trailer Teases Baby Yoda vs. Babu Frik in the Cutest Lil’ Battle Ever

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Star Wars fans are nothing if not forgiving. They have gone from screaming about how George Lucas has ruined their childhood to embracing the prequels as really good, actually. They’ve gone from feeling embarrassment whenever The Holiday Special is mentioned to cheering when Life Day gets name-dropped in official releases. And they even admit that The Rise of Skywalker can’t be all bad, because it gave us Babu Frik. Never one to let goodwill go untapped, Disney has moved Babu Frik, or at least some of his fellow Anzellans out of J. J. Abrams‘s mess of a saga capper and…
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17 Apr

Dan Stevens in The Terror: Devil In Silver Has Serious Legion Vibes

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Period drama Downton Abbey may have made Dan Stevens a household name back in the 2010s, but his career since playing Matthew Crawley has been a delightful mix of weirdo character pieces and entertaining Hollywood blockbuster roles, with some occasional offbeat voicework thrown on top. (He is the best part of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and we will not be taking questions at this time.) Stevens has a half-dozen projects currently in the works, ranging from another Godzilla movie to playing a serial killer on the most recent Dexter revival. But it’s his next role that feels strangely…
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17 Apr

Anne Hathaway’s ‘Wrecking Ball’ Lip Sync Win Paved the Way for Mother Mary Reign

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David Lowery has a rule. Someone isn’t cast in his films until he meets them for the first time. “That really is always what seals the deal,” the filmmaker confides when we catch up on the eve of the release of his new A24 pop star spookfest, Mother Mary. “Like you have a conversation with someone.” Yet the filmmaker, whose singular taste for casting led to him tapping Dev Patel as Sir Gawain in the hallucinatory and devilish The Green Knight, and landing Robert Redford in his final starring role, The Old Man & the Gun, has a confession to…
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17 Apr

It’s Probably a Miracle That the Good Omens Finale Exists

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To quote another popular genre series: The universe is vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen, and we call them miracles. That’s a line from Doctor Who, but the sentiment basically applies to the third and final season of Prime Good Omens, a project that many of its most ardent fans feared might never actually see the light of day.  Sexual misconduct and assault allegations against creator Neil Gaiman, one-half of the writing duo who penned the original novel, paused early production on the series’ third season, and all signs indicated that Good Omens…
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17 Apr

Street Fighter Trailer Is Just Weirdos Battling Each Other, As It Should Be

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In 1994, Universal released a movie about United Nations forces investigating a warlord who expanded his grasp by establishing a new country, complete with its own currency. For some reason, this movie was called Street Fighter, and was based on the video game series. The video game series is about choosing one to three characters, having them stand equidistant on opposite sides of the screen, and then mashing buttons to cause all sorts of spectacular nonsense until the opposing character(s) fall down. If the latest trailer for the 2026 movie is any indication, the new movie will feel a lot…
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17 Apr

Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest Makes the Most Sense as a Movie

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Most of the buzz coming out of Warner Bros.’ panel at CinemaCon has surrounded upcoming films like Dune: Part Three and Supergirl, but the studio’s presentation had one key piece of information for Game of Thrones fans: Official confirmation that the long-rumored movie about Aegon’s Conquest is at last in development.  Titled (unsurprisingly) Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest, the film appeared briefly on a slide touting the company’s projects in 2027 and beyond. It will be written by former House of Cards showrunner Beau Willimon, and tell the story of the birth of the Targaryen dynasty and the creation of…
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16 Apr

Masters of the Universe Hopes to Follow Barbie’s Lead and Question Gender Roles

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As far as the toy company Mattel was concerned in the 1980s, the world was split into two groups. Girls played with Barbie and boys played with He-Man. Sure, the respective lines occasionally made gestures to inclusivity, introducing She-Ra and making Ken a bit more active. But for the most part, the toys reinforced indivisible gender roles. The upcoming Masters of the Universe movie is going to continue that trend, but not in the way you’d expect. Chris Butler, one of the movie’s final screenwriters, told EW, “A lot of what Travis [Knight, director] and I wanted it to be…
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16 Apr

Timothée Chalamet Prepares Audiences for a Darker Paul in Dune 3

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If you’re not paying much attention, Dune and its sequel Dune: Part Two can seem like a typical hero’s journey tale. It follows Paul Atreides, a boy who comes with his father to the desert planet of Arrakis to find himself caught in the middle of an interplanetary coup, a religious uprising, centuries of manipulation by space nuns, and one lady’s decision to have a baby. By the time the dust storm settles, Paul has become Muad’Dib, the savior of the Fremen and galactic emperor. Yet, attentive watchers and, especially readers of the novels by Frank Herbert, know that the…
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16 Apr

Jinx and Susie Are the Linchpin of Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ Modern Family

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Margo has way more than money troubles in the Apple TV series Margo’s Got Money Troubles. After an affair with her married English professor leads to an unexpected pregnancy, Margo Millet (Elle Fanning) confronts a laundry list of issues from negotiating with the baby’s father, to mollifying her sleep-deprived roommates to, yes, a lack of money. And while she’s able to solve some of those problems with her creative approach to OnlyFans modeling, others don’t have easy solutions. That is to say: Margo’s got family troubles. As the only daughter to a histrionic former Hooter’s waitress mother Shyanne (Michelle Pfeiffer)…
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16 Apr

Godzilla Minus Zero Teaser Promises a Reckoning for the US

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The King of the Monsters is too great to be held to just one country. 2023’s Godzilla Minus One kept Big G at home, for an honest and humane look at Japan’s actions during World War II. However, the first teaser for the sequel Godzilla Minus Zero makes clear that there’s plenty of blame to go around. The trailer establishes that Minus Zero takes place in 1949, two years after the first film. We check in with protagonist Kōichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki), seen briefly inside the cockpit of a fighting plane, as well as Noriko Ōishi (Minami Hamabe), wearing an…
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15 Apr

15 Sequels That Totally Ignored What Made the Original Work

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When we hear that a beloved movie of ours is getting a sequel, what we expect is for it to build on what audiences loved the first time around. Sadly, that doesn’t always happen, even if you’d think it is the natural course of action. It can be a drastic tone shift, overcomplicating the story, or sidelining key characters; what matters is that these follow-ups end up feeling disconnected from what fans expected. While they don’t always become a failure, they most often do, showing that whoever is making the continuation lost what made the original work function. Indiana Jones…
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15 Apr

Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Episode 5 Review – The Grand Design

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This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 5. Daredevil has a Kingpin problem. The superhero Daredevil, of course, has a Kingpin problem because Wilson Fisk’s wife Vanessa has died. In the final moments of the previous episode Bullseye fought his way toward the mayor’s high-profile boxing match, and though Daredevil tried to stop the killer from finding his target, Vanessa couldn’t be saved. Surely, the proximity of the Man Without Fear to his beloved wife’s death will only push Fisk to go full supervillain. However, the show Daredevil: Born Again also has a Kingpin problem, as…
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15 Apr

Superman 2 Reportedly Adding a Complicated Secondary Antagonist

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Look, it’s hard to keep anything about superhero movies a secret, especially casting news. As much as we’d all like to be surprised by the sight of the original Fox X-Men in Avengers: Doomsday or Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man: No Way Home, the current pop culture media complex punishes those who wait. Den of Geek is as susceptible to this reality as anyone, so when the trades started reporting last week that James Gunn was auditioning actresses to play antihero Maxima in the Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow, we started to write on it… at least until…
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15 Apr

New Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse Images Are Sweet But Foreboding

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We’re still more than a year away from being able to see Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, but attendees of Sony’s panel at CinemaCon got a sneak peek last night. The rest of us have to make do with a few images from the movie, and that’s enough to fill us with warmth and a bit of dread. In addition to shots of Miles battling Miguel O’Hara, the Spider-Man of 2099, and a picture of his father Jeff and uncle Aaron in their younger days, we got an image of father and son, sharing a tender moment during the golden hour.…
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15 Apr

Why Spider-Man Is Fighting Ninjas in Brand New Day

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This article contains potential spoilers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. While only the lucky attendees of CinemaCon 2026 got to see new footage of Spider-Man: Brand New Day that Sony showed at their presentation on Monday night, the general public does get to see a new poster for the film. It does, of course, feature Spidey in his homemade, comics-accurate duds, just like fans expect. Less expected, however, are the legions of ninjas crowding the bottom of the image. Those are Hand ninjas, a constant scourge of the Marvel Universe. The Hand have appeared previously in live action, as antagonists…
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15 Apr

My Adventures with Superman Season 3 Gets a Welcome Update

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It’s been a couple of years since the last season of My Adventures with Superman wrapped, but fear not! A third season of the animated DC series is almost here, according to the voice of Superman himself, Jack Quaid. “First of all, I can tease that it is coming out,” Quaid told Collider. “I know fans have been really patiently waiting, but it is coming out. I’ve been recording ADR recently. It’s happening. I’ve seen it.” Quaid went on to describe the third season of the show as his favorite, adding, “We do some episodes that are kind of standalone,…
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14 Apr

Remembering Little House on the Prairie’s Utterly Bonkers Series Finale

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With a new Netflix adaptation of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House novels on the way, television fans are bound to recall the beloved series that aired 200 episodes and five movie specials between 1974 and 1983. The series starred Michael Landon and Karen Grassle as Charles and Caroline Ingalls, homesteaders in the late 1800s who raise their three daughters—Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), Laura (Melissa Gilbert), and Carrie (Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush)—on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. From the French horn strains in the opening theme to the life lessons Pa lovingly imparted on his daughters, Little House on…
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14 Apr

Is Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man Related to the Image Comic or Clint Howard Movie?

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As the weather warms and the children are out of school, thoughts and ears turn toward that ubiquitous sound of summer: the ice cream man’s jingle. Even though few professions could be more joyful than bringing cold confections to children, the jingle always feels a bit too loud, the sellers a bit too friendly, the treats a bit too sweet. And so, like the equally innocuous circus clown, the ice cream man has become the subject of many horror stories, including the upcoming movie Ice Cream Man from Eli Roth. The trailer’s juxtaposition of jaunty music, bright colors, and bloody…
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14 Apr

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II Is a Silly Superhero Kids Movie, and That’s Still Okay

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Thirty-five years ago, some comic book fans left the theater absolutely disappointed, while a group of cartoon fans left utterly thrilled. These two groups both claimed to be fans of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and both had a deep appreciation for the adventures of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael. But those who came to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze hoping for a faithful adaptation of the indie comics by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird were frustrated in the spring of 1991, while those who loved the cartoon were satisfied. And both were right. Yes,…
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14 Apr

The Boroughs Trailer: Stranger Things Happen to Old People Too

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In the 2003 spy thriller The Recruit, Al Pacino’s CIA officer Walter Burke has a catchphrase. He’s “a scary judge of talent,” he says, before committing a string of inadvisable crimes. The Duffer Brothers, no matter what their perceived narrative crimes were during the five-season run of Stranger Things, also seem to be a scary judge of talent. First, they got behind Haley Z. Boston’s hit Netflix horror show Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, and next month will see their names slapped on The Boroughs, because they, like us, probably believe that The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance…
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