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01 Jun

The Boogeyman Review: Classic Stephen King Story Makes for Soft Horror

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In 2005, screenwriter and author Blake Snyder coined the term “save the cat” when referring to the beat in a story—usually very early on—in which a protagonist does something so admirable it instantly engenders audience sympathy and trust. Think Aladdin giving his only loaf of bread to two street urchins in the Disney movie, or Indiana Jones saving Alfred Molina from spiders, even after Molina’s buddy already betrayed him moments earlier, in Raiders of the Lost Ark. While watching the opening moments of The Boogeyman, this concept popped into my head, as did the realization that there’s a reversal of…
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01 Jun

Disney+ New Releases: June 2023

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Even though the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to churn away in theaters, it’s been a minute since Disney+ has had a proper Marvel blockbuster TV show join its servers. That all changes with Disney+’s list of new releases for June 2023. The big release this month is undoubtedly Marvel’s Secret Invasion on June 21. Samuel L. Jackson will reprise his hallowed MCU role of Nick Fury to investigate a (secret) Skull invasion in this six-episode series that’s been described as a paranoid thriller. With Emilia Clarke, Cobie Smulders, Ben Mendelsohn, Don Cheadle, and Olivia Colman also involved this could be…
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01 Jun

Amazon Prime Video New Releases: June 2023

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With its list of new releases for June 2023, Prime is bringing a handful of Amazon Originals and many recent movie hits to the fold. It’s actually quite a busy month for non-American programming in Amazon Originals department. Shows and movies like Deadloch, My Fault, and Medellín all originate from outside the U.S. and U.K. For the American and British crowd, however, the streamer is debuting two big tentpoles. The first is I’m a Virgo on June 23. Acclaimed director Boots Riley’s TV followup to Sorry to Bother You will tale the surreal and satirical tale of a giant in…
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31 May

The Most Controversial Movie Characters of the 1990s

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History ended in the 1990s, at least according to a famous essay by American political scientist Francis Fukuyama. Under his inflammatory headline, Fukuyama argues that the end of the Cold War and the establishment of the United States as the world’s sole global power pole meant that liberal democracies have become the ultimate form of government. As if to prove the argument correct, the US and the UK entered a period of governmental peace and capitalist expansion.  However, those of us who actually lived through the 90s know that the decade wasn’t nearly as rosy as some predicted (or recall).…
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30 May

The Little Mermaid Review: Halle Bailey Is Only Bright Part of Disney’s Remake World

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There is a moment near the end of The Little Mermaid, the latest in Disney’s ongoing series of live-action (or “sort of live-action”) remakes in which King Triton (Javier Bardem) emerges from the deep to impart a message to his mermaid daughter Ariel (Halle Bailey). This is supposed to be the mighty god of the sea, but Bardem’s outfit of armored scales looks cheap in the sunlight—a fact previously hidden by watching it in mostly dark scenes—and the actor appears to be standing in about three feet of water in a pool. It feels like director Rob Marshall just wanted…
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30 May

The Best Stephen King Stories That Still Haven’t Been Made Into Movies

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When The Boogeyman arrives in theaters later this week, it will be the first feature-length adaptation of one of Stephen King’s oldest short stories. Written in 1973, “The Boogeyman” was first published in Cavalier magazine and then showed up in King’s seminal 1978 collection, Night Shift. The brief story finds a man named Lester Billings in his psychiatrist’s office, recounting how each of his three children were murdered in their bedrooms by a monster in the closet—the “boogeyman” of the title—before he himself comes face to face with the evil entity. While “The Boogeyman” has served as the basis for…
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30 May

The Little Mermaid and Other Disney Movies That Should Have Much Darker Endings

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Disney animation is famous for producing movies that are sweet, magical, romantic, and have uplifting happy endings that the whole family can enjoy. But if you go back to the source material they generally ignored, it turns out a lot of those childhood favorites should have had endings that were… different. Darker. Sadder. Sometimes even murder-y. Like these… The Little Mermaid The Little Mermaid is based on a story by 19th century Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. A lot of the details are pretty similar. A little mermaid who loves human things rescues and then falls in love with a…
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29 May

How The Boogeyman Brought a Classic Stephen King Monster to Life

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This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. Get your copy here. British director Rob Savage captured lockdown perfectly in 2020 with his Zoom-based horror, Host. And now that we’re allowed out of the house again, he’s back to scare your pants off with The Boogeyman, an adaptation of the Stephen King short story first published in 1973. “I remember reading the short story when I was a kid, and it scared the fuck out of me,” Savage tells Den of Geek magazine. “And so when I got an email in my inbox that they were looking for somebody…
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29 May

George Lucas’ Original Indiana Jones 4 Story Was Even Worse Than Crystal Skull

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull does not have a good reputation. Released in 2008 and almost a full 20 years after what was considered the ending of a trilogy, the fourth Indiana Jones picture was directed by a different kind of Steven Spielberg, one who’d been primarily focused on adult historical dramas since the turn of the century, and starred a much older Harrison Ford. It felt different too, even as it tried to act largely the same as the film that came before it, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). This internal refusal to…
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27 May

Return of the Jedi Almost Killed Off a Major Star Wars Hero (And It Wasn’t Han Solo)

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Longtime Star Wars fans know the story by now: Harrison Ford believed Han Solo had reached the end of the line by 1983. Frozen in carbonite in The Empire Strikes Back and shipped off to Jabba the Hutt, the lovable scoundrel’s fate was certainly in question leading into Return of the Jedi. And Ford was convinced that the right thing to do was to kill off the smuggler for good. “I thought Han Solo should die. I thought he ought to sacrifice himself for [Luke and Leia],” Ford explained in the 2004 making-of documentary Empire of Dreams. “He’s got no…
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27 May

Disney Live-Action Remakes Ranked: From The Little Mermaid to The Lion King

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It’s kind of funny now, but there was a time (decades, really) when Walt Disney Animation Studios refused to even make a sequel to their classic works. Millennials of a certain age will of course recall the deluge of straight-to-video sequels released by the Mouse House in the 1990s and early 2000s, but those were never made by WDAS Proper, which for the whole of the 20th century almost always viewed every effort as a single work that should not be revisited. How times change. In the 21st century, WDAS has gotten with the program as the Walt Disney Company’s…
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26 May

Is Deadpool 3 a Secret X-Men Sequel?

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It looks like the dead pool is growing, as the ever-expanding cast of Shawn Levy’s Deadpool 3 could be adding some major names from the singed remnants of Fox’s X-Men franchise. As we wait patiently for the X-Men to arrive in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s more than just Hugh Jackman’s return as Wolverine that can unite the various eras of marvelous mutants.  Once upon a time, Charles Xavier’s gifted youngsters were everywhere, with planned movies for everyone from Gambit to Multiple Man, as well as a proposed trilogy of New Mutants movies. Following the disappointment of the troubled Dark…
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26 May

Rise of the Beasts Expands the Transformers Movie Universe Beyond What We’ve Seen Before

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This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. Get your copy here. Steven Caple Jr. is known for grounded, character-focused stories about the sort of people you might run into every day, without a giant robot fight in sight. Films like The Land and A Different Tree. Even his most recent film, Creed II, only features fights on a decidedly human scale. But Paramount believed this made him the perfect name to take over the core Transformers franchise after Michael Bay’s departure. “They wanted me to bring that grit and character from my dramas to make people feel for…
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26 May

The Deeply Personal Story Behind Pixar’s Elemental Is a First for the Studio

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This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. Get your copy here. Ember and Wade, the odd couple at the center of Pixar’s Elemental, are visual effects confections unlike any other. Their bodies, made of pure fire and water, respectively, are in perpetual flux, which pushed the studio’s artists and technicians beyond their limits. Element City, the backdrop for the couple’s unlikely meet-cute, is an imaginative urban tapestry of intricate components that took thousands of hours of designing and tweaking to bring to the screen. But all of the visual effects wizardry in the world means nothing if it’s…
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26 May

Remembering One of Ray Stevenson’s Most Overlooked Roles

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Ray Stevenson died on location in Italy this week while working on the film Cassino in Ischi. In it, he plays Nic Cassino, who appears to be the title character. But throughout his career the actor was renowned for strong supporting roles. Stevenson exemplified this “one for all” spirit as Porthos in The Three Musketeers (2011) and honed it through The Book of Eli (2010), King Arthur (2004), the Thor movies, and the upcoming Star Wars Disney+ series, Ashoka. He was at his most supportive, even as a lead character, when he played legionnaire Titus Pullo in HBO’s Rome. Pullo…
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26 May

Hayley Atwell’s Mission: Impossible Character Is Dead Reckoning’s Biggest Secret

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This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. Get your copy here. After 27 years, the Mission: Impossible movies are coming to a gigantic, explosive, two-part conclusion featuring bigger stunts and, presumably, more rubber masks than you have ever seen before. Den of Geek magazine talked to Hayley Atwell about introducing a mysterious new character to the saga in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1, and how to pull off those terrifying stunts without self-destructing in five seconds. Den of Geek: From what I’ve read so far, everyone’s been a bit cagey about Grace, the character you’re playing.…
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26 May

How Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Channels Raiders of the Lost Ark

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This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. Get your copy here. James Mangold did not say no, exactly, to Indiana Jones when the man in the fedora came knocking. But he didn’t open the door at first either. Instead, during those precious few months before a pandemic changed the world, Mangold experienced the surreal sensation of having his filmmaking idols Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, and Kathleen Kennedy approach him about directing the fifth Indiana Jones film—and essentially turning them down. “There seemed like a lot of danger on a project like this,” Mangold recalls about that early discussion,…
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26 May

How The Little Mermaid Reimagined Ariel’s Classic Songs for Live Action

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This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. Get your copy here. If you want to see a musical adapted from stage to screen and adapted well, Rob Marshall is your dream director. For Chicago, he went high-concept, recontextualizing the Broadway songs as vaudeville numbers from the imagination of Roxie Hart. With Into the Woods, every prince, witch, and baker’s wife got a show-stopping number that justified why movie audiences should care about them. Marshall is keenly aware that, while theater is a heightened space in which it’s completely natural for characters to belt out their “I want” and…
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26 May

The Darkest Movie Dystopias Ever

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In 1516, English philosopher Thomas More published Utopia, a piece of speculative fiction filled with musings about the ideal society. Of course, it was all nonsense. So even though it took a few more centuries for the word to come into use, “dystopia” has always captured the human imagination better than utopia. Literally stories about “bad places,” dystopias show humanity at its worst. As you might expect, dystopias tend to be cynical works of imagination. But that’s not all they are. By looking at how dark things could be, dystopias shine a light on the world as it currently is.…
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26 May

The Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movies of the 1970s

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If the 1950s was the decade in which science fiction cinema began to mature and evolve, and the 1960s was the era where it started to experiment and stretch in new directions, then the 1970s was the period when the genre more or less went batshit insane. The movies of the era continued to touch on socially and globally relevant themes, a trend that began 20 years earlier, while also continuing the literary pedigree and even more progressive concerns of the decade prior. But they did so in ever weirder ways, taking big swings (and often steep plunges as well)…
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