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Max Schindler

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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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14 Apr

Soderbergh Reveals Wild Plan to Split James Bond Into Two Universes

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“The name’s Bond, James Bond.” “What! My name is also Bond, James Bond, but from a different, sexier universe!” is almost certainly not dialogue that Black Bag director Steven Soderbergh would have chosen to add to his James Bond movies had he been given the reins to the spy franchise many years ago. Still, he had some ideas that would have at least made it possible. “I had pitched in 2008 the idea to Barbara Broccoli of a parallel franchise,” Soderbergh revealed to The Playlist. “Set in the ’60s, R-rated, violent, sexy. Fictional backstory to real historical events, different actor,…
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12 Apr

The Audacity Creator Talks Silicon Valley: “They’re Stripping Away Aspects of What It Means to Be Human”

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Succession and Better Call Saul producer Jonathan Glatzer has written for some legendarily complex and problematic characters in his career, but his new AMC show, The Audacity, presents an even more damaged crop of figures. The new drama series follows Silicon Valley manchild Duncan Park (Billy Magnussen), the data-mining CEO of a tech company called Hypergnosis, who is delulu enough to think he’s an absolute genius. But when he discovers that his therapist Dr. Joanne Felder (Sarah Goldberg) has been patiently listening to his musings while insider-trading with information that he and others have provided in their sessions, it’s not…
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11 Apr

The Drama’s Ending is As Sweet As You Want It to Be

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This article contains full spoilers for The Drama. Except for a few particularly illiterate trailer watchers, everyone going into A24‘s The Drama knew they were in for a bad time. The film stars Zendaya and Robert Pattinson as Emma and Charlie, soon-to-be newlyweds who fall apart after the former confesses that, as a middle schooler, she planned a school shooting, and only failed to complete it because another shooter launched an attack before her. What follows is a cringe comedy as the couple and all their friends manage to make everything worse. Emma’s maid-of-honor Rachel (Alana Haim) takes offense at…
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11 Apr

American Horror Story Season 13 Is Shaping Up to Be a Timeline-Shifting Coven Follow-Up

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As regular viewers of the FX anthology series already know, American Horror Story can be something of a mixed bag. Over the past 15 years, the series has tackled everything from serial killers and aliens to vampires, witches, ghosts, and famous true crime cases, with varying degrees of success. The show’s later seasons, in particular, have struggled to recapture the magic of the earlier outings, which saw its stars — most notably Oscar winner Jessica Lange — racking up awards season nominations and hardware. (In fact, if you haven’t seen them, you should probably just skip AHS: Delicate and AHS:…
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11 Apr

Luis Guzmán Looks Back on His Filmography: Super Mario, Community, and The Limey

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For most of its cast and audience, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie offers a chance to make childhood real again. The film recalls those carefree days of sitting in front of a Nintendo Entertainment System or one of its successors, being dazzled by the fantastic adventures in the Mushroom Kingdom. Not so for Luis Guzmán, who voices Wart in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. “We were too poor back then,” he tells Den of Geek. “My kids played the games, but I never really had the ability for it. But I would sit down and just watch how they manipulated…
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11 Apr

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan Talks Never Have I Ever and Why We Need More Teen Dramas Today

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Though actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnan’s latest role sees her playing a superhero that can talk to crows on The Boys, her breakthrough performance was as the lead of Netflix’s Never Have I Ever, a charming teen comedy that follows the coming-of-age journey of an Indian American girl in Los Angeles. Ramakrishnan played Devi Vishwakumar, an ambitious teen left reeling in the wake of her father’s death, and the show was consistently praised for its diverse cast and thoughtful depictions of teenage life, grief, friendship, and romance. Never Have I Ever ended after four seasons in 2023, with a sweet and largely…
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11 Apr

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Stars Kurt and Wyatt Russell Break Down Their Time-Bending Moment

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The following contains spoilers for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2 episode 7. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters has what is probably the best stunt casting on TV right now. This isn’t an insult, by the way. And not even entirely accurate; it’s actually more like a very human sort of special effect. The sci-fi series, which revolves around the titular organization that tracks the movements of Godzilla and other prehistoric Titans, spans two time periods and features several generations of a family whose origins are tied to its founding. And at the center of all of this is Lee Shaw,…
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