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Max Schindler

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07 May

15 Photos Remembering the Undeniable Talent of Diane Keaton

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Diane Keaton built a legacy across decades of iconic performances. From early breakthrough roles to award winning work, her presence always brought a unique mix of intelligence, charm, and individuality. Here are fifteen photos remembering the undeniable talent of Diane Keaton. The post 15 Photos Remembering the Undeniable Talent of Diane Keaton appeared first on Den of Geek.
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07 May

The Russo Brothers Just Revealed a Major Change to Spider-Man’s Backstory

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The Spider-Man of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has always been a bit different from his counterparts across the Spider-Verse. The Peter Parker played by Tom Holland had a younger, hipper Aunt May, a rich benefactor in Tony Stark, and, most notably, no clear relationship to a late, lamented Uncle Ben. Fans have always assumed that some movie would eventually fill in the backstory, but there’s been lots of spectacular speculation in the meantime. Well, speculate no more, true believers, because we now know what happened to Uncle Ben. No, you didn’t miss an early screening or even a new trailer…
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07 May

Why Mortal Kombat II Is Deliberately Bringing ‘90s Game Graphics to Life

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Director Simon McQuoid is sitting in a blue void when we catch up with him during a weekend in LA. He prefers it that way. Which makes sense when one realizes the cerulean-tinged vortex around us more or less recreates the Blue Portal battle arena, one of the surprise secrets in the OG Mortal Kombat II video game from way back when it was ported to the Sega Genesis in 1994. “One of the things we wanted to do with our tournaments and arena is to take the arenas from the very early games, like ‘the Pit,’ where Sonja and…
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07 May

Daredevil: Born Again Season 3 Promises to Adapt One of the Best Stories from the Comics

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This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 8. In the final episode of Daredevil: Born Again season 2, Matt Murdock recovers his faith. Where the first season saw Matt struggling to remember his calling as the vigilante Daredevil, the second season tested his belief in the legal system, as Wilson Fisk used his position as mayor to institute martial law. Yet, in the last episode, Matt resumes his work as a lawyer to help remove Fisk from power—at a cost. His own activities as a vigilante are revealed, and Matt goes to prison with everyone knowing…
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07 May

The Boys: What Really Went Down with Clara Vought?

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Homelander has always been the biggest villain in The Boys, but season 2 also introduced a woman named Clara Vought (Aya Cash) who rivalled even the Seven’s antagonistic leader. A terrifying white supremacist who seemed to have already gotten away with murder for decades, Clara Vought was eventually revealed to have been there from the very beginning of Vought’s nefarious dealings. But although the show has dished out some of her insidious history, there is still much we don’t know about the Supe who was once Liberty, then became Stormfront, but who began life as Klara Risinger. However, thanks to…
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07 May

Daredevil: Kingpin’s Best Grudge Matches from the Comics

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It’s easy to underestimate Wilson Fisk. He is, after all, a large man, with a body shape often associated with laziness and poor health. Moreover, despite his “Kingpin of Crime” title, Fisk often relies on underlings to do his dirty work, letting Typhoid Mary, Sandman, and James Wesley enforce his will so he can keep his hands clean. But as Daredevil: Born Again‘s second season proves, anyone who underestimates the Kingpin’s physical prowess does so at their own peril. The Kingpin can hand out a beating, and was happy to do so to Daredevil and others who crossed his path.…
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06 May

Daredevil: Born Again S2 Finale Sets Up the Return of Two Netflix Characters

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This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again season 2. By the end of Daredevil: Born Again‘s second season, things look rough for Matt Murdock, who has his identity revealed to the public and is sentenced to prison. But things are slightly better for Jessica Jones and for fans of the Netflix shows, as the last episode sees the return of Mike Colter as Luke Cage. Even if they don’t realize it, Matt Murdock’s very bad day is very good news for fans of the Netflix shows. Both the reveal of Daredevil’s secret identity and Matt’s prison sentence come directly…
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06 May

How Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Finale Leads Into Spider-Man: Brand New Day

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This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again season 2. Even though they’ve only met in the MCU once, and even then only in civilian guises in No Way Home, Spider-Man and Daredevil are usually linked in the Marvel canon. Both are street-level heroes in New York City, both have tragic childhood stories, and both suffer from overwhelming and unending guilt. But where Peter Parker usually faces trouble with non-stop banter, Matt Murdock forever wrestles with the dark night of the soul. So if Peter’s going to have a brand new day in the MCU, then Matt must first have…
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06 May

Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Episode 8 Review – The Southern Cross

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This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again season 2. It had to end this way. Even more than the three seasons of the Netflix show, Daredevil: Born Again has been devoted to the idea that Daredevil and the Kingpin are inextricably linked, to the point that they play as co-leads. But as much as their showdown seems predetermined, showrunner Dario Scardapane pulls a neat trick in the finale. The two meet one last time, not as Daredevil and Kingpin, but as Matt Murdock, esquire, and Mayor Wilson Fisk, combatants in a court of law. Ending on courtroom drama instead…
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06 May

The Mandalorian and Grogu Brings ‘90s Movie Style to Star Wars at Extended Footage Preview

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There have been Star Wars movies made since the 1990s. There was even a Star Wars movie released (barely) in the ’90s, the decade of Clinton and dot.com, beanie babies and Swingers. However, 1999’s The Phantom Menace, like every Star Wars movie produced by George Lucas (or those who would seek to imitate his aesthetic) tended to reach toward a more classical cinematic style and vocabulary. The original Star Wars evoked the vistas of John Ford and the compositions of Akira Kurosawa, while the Prequel Trilogy maintained that mid-20th century influence, even while going all-in on CGI and digital photography…
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06 May

Evil Dead Burn Trailer Features a Major Twist on the Usual Formula

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Evil Dead Burn is going to swallow Sam Raimi‘s soul. Okay, okay, that’s going too far. But the latest trailer for the next entry in the horror franchise features both the audacious camera movements that have been the director’s calling card since he made The Evil Dead in 1981, but it also inserts something new for the series: a plot. The trailer has lots of nastiness, as someone with a car seat headrest in their face chases a couple into a family home. But it also sets up some character stakes, with the loss of a family member driving a…
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05 May

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation’s Goofiness Has Aged Perfectly

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If you’ve spent any time at all on the internet, you’ve probably seen the most infamous moment from the 1997 bomb, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. A woman in purple strides onto the screen to take her place between two ninjas standing in fight positions. When a young lady below says, “Mother… you’re alive,” the camera cuts to a close up on the purple person. “Too bad YOU… will DIE!” she declares with an ostentatious point. That bit of dialogue occurs just four minutes into the film, and for nearly 30 years, it solidified fans’s opinion that Annihilation represented a serious step-down…
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05 May

New Star Wars Viewing Data Shows a Deep Generational Divide

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Nielsen has released new viewership data to mark Star Wars Day, aka May 4th, and the numbers are pretty fascinating for anyone curious about how well the franchise is doing in the streaming landscape. Largely based on 2025 data, it reveals that in the U.S. alone, viewers watched a staggering 33 billion minutes of Star Wars content last year. A New Hope, The Phantom Menace and Rogue One were the most popular movies, while Andor, Skeleton Crew and The Mandalorian filled out the top three spots on the TV side. Yet, it’s the data from the first quarter of 2026…
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05 May

Shattered Might Have the Most Underrated Ending Twist of the ’90s

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The late Wolfgang Petersen made some memorable films in his career. The German director, who first gained international acclaim with the war film Das Boot, went on to traumatize children everywhere with The Never Ending Story and then captivate audiences with movies like In the Line of Fire, Outbreak, Air Force One, and Troy. You’ll also occasionally hear people discuss his box-office flop, Enemy Mine, which later became a cult sci-fi movie. But a Petersen movie that no one talks about has one of the most underrated ending twists of the 1990s, and it’s time to give Shattered its due.…
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04 May

Marvel’s Oddest Show Is Staying That Way in Season 2

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After garnering positive reviews and having cracked the Nielsen Streaming Originals chart using a binge release model, something that Daredevil: Born Again hasn’t managed in either of its much-hyped weekly rollout seasons, Wonder Man will be coming back to Disney+ for a second batch of episodes in the future. Marvel doesn’t renew its live-action Disney+ shows very often. Only Loki and Born Again managed to secure renewals before Wonder Man’s debut. Yet unexpectedly, audiences warmed to the unusual series, which introduces a complex superpowered human and struggling actor named Simon Williams, who keeps his powers hidden so he can audition…
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04 May

Euphoria Season 3 Is Full-On Body Horror – We Should Have Seen It Coming 

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This article contains spoilers for Euphoria through season 3 episode 3. Euphoria has always enjoyed mistreating young bodies. From the physical toll Rue (Zendaya) faces during her numerous drug relapses and withdrawals, to the way characters like Jules (Hunter Schafer) and Kat (Barbie Ferreira) utilize their sexuality in dangerous situations, the story of this teenage drama is told through the exploitation – self-inflicted or otherwise – of the human body  Euphoria has also never been short on raw violence. In its first two seasons, Nate (Jacob Elordi) chokes and bruises his ex-girlfriend, puts another high schooler in a neck brace…
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02 May

The Devil Wears Prada 2 Eulogizes Journalism, Movie Stardom and Last Gasps of Creativity

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It was a different world The Devil Wears Prada opened in 20 years ago, as indicated by the fact that you could open a summer hit like The Devil Wears Prada without it being a sequel, remake, or reimagining. To be sure, the 2006 original—which also netted Meryl Streep an Oscar nod—was still based on a hit bestselling book. But even that trend of adapting popular, gossipy novels aimed at a slightly more sophisticated audience was the rule in Tinseltown, not the exception. It was a time when comedies were blockbusters, summer crowd-pleasers didn’t regularly cost a cool quarter-billion dollars…
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02 May

Hokum Cements Adam Scott as One of Our Great Everyman Actors

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This article contains light spoilers for Hokum. Early in the Irish horror movie Hokum, American author Ohm Bauman loses what little patience he had with the staff of the rustic hotel he’s visiting. When bellboy Alby (Will O’Connell) fails to comprehend his blunt and rude rejection, Ohm places a spoon over a candle, lets it heat up, and then presses it into the interlocutor’s hand. Alby recoils with shock and waits for an explanation, but Ohm only says, “You’re gonna need thicker skin than that if you’re gonna make it as a writer.” For all that writer/director Damian McCarthy does…
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02 May

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Star Reveals the Season 2 Ending That Almost Was

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The following contains spoilers for the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2 finale. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ second season may feature some of the series’ biggest Titan battles to date, but its primary story is a deeply human one. From Cate’s refusal to leave Lee Shaw in Axis Mundi to Kentaro’s wild plan to try to save the dead father he can’t bring himself to admit he lost, it’s been a season of big emotions, hard choices, and far-reaching consequences. And perhaps no character has been asked to endure quite as much as Keiko Randa, the brilliant, time-displaced scientist who is forced to…
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01 May

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ VFX Supervisor on the Debut of Another Familiar Kaiju and Humanizing Titan X

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The following contains spoilers for the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2 finale. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ second season wraps up with a monster-sized face-off between Kong and Titan X on Skull Island, another appearance from Lee’s past self, an emotional split between Cate and Kentaro, and the dramatic rescue of a stolen Titan egg. The finale wraps up most of the season’s outstanding plot threads, but it also sets plenty of new stories in motion, including the establishment of a secret Monarch division (in a literal basement) that’s charged with the top secret task of locating Kentaro and Apex’s…
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