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17 Oct

Scrapped Star Trek 4 Movie Would Have Borrowed from Classic Next Generation Episode

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Because it served as a reimagining of Captain James T. Kirk’s adventures on the USS Enterprise, the Star Trek Kelvin trilogy mostly referenced the original series and its spin-off movies. In 2009’s Star Trek, Karl Urban’s McCoy says he’s a doctor in the same manner as DeForest Kelly. Chris Pine’s Kirk says there is no unknown, only the temporarily hidden in Star Trek Beyond, paraphrasing William Shatner’s Kirk from the TOS episode “The Corbamite Manuever.” Star Trek Into Darkness builds to the reveal that Benedict Cumberbatch’s character is actually Khan, because audiences have heard of Khan. But for the planned…

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16 Oct

Halloween Timeline Explained for Wild Horror Movie Franchise

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This article contains HAlloween Ends spoilers. There are plenty of iconic slasher movie franchises that have become emblematic with the Halloween season. When it comes to holiday horrors, however, it’s hard to beat John Carpenter’s prototypical slasher classic, Halloween, which first introduced unsuspecting audiences to the blunt, brutal evil of Michael Myers. Michael, also known as “The Shape,” has terrified horror fans for more than 40 years, and the boogeyman has endured so long because there’s a scary simplicity to the cipher. Michael Myers is an evil force of nature and there’s something deeply unsettling about his unstoppable presence.  The…

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16 Oct

Andor, Star Wars, and the Need for More Space Heist Movies

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This week’s episode of Andor reminded us of an age old question: Why are there not more movies about heists in space? To be clear, we are not just talking about sci-fi crime stories set in space; a heist is a specific and beautiful form of crime when it comes to cinematic storytelling, the kind of which that has become its own subgenre over the decades. And as the Diego Luna-led series just remembered, it requires three key essential elements: the Crew, the Take, and the Plan. The Crew is the element most sci-fi movies set in some type of…

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16 Oct

One Piece Film: Red – Uta Fulfills Eiichiro Oda’s Wish To Stop Drawing Old Men

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Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece is an anime phenomena that’s still going strong after 25 years and more than 1000 episodes. Extravagant One Piece feature films have become a popular tradition for the franchise and the 15th movie, One Piece Film: Red, has broken box office records and set new standards for the series.  The new film is a significant change of pace for the anime and One Piece Film: Red feels like it’s as much a concert film as it is an action spectacle. Renowned musician, Uta, performs a legendary concert that puts a dangerous target on her back. Uta’s…

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15 Oct

Halloween Ends: Where Can the Franchise Go From Here?

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This article contains Halloween Ends spoilers. Evil has the same face it’s had for the past 44 years—that’s the motto of David Gordon Green’s Halloween Ends. Four years after he brought the seminal slasher back to our screens for the confusingly titled Halloween (2018), the director is back to round out his trilogy with Halloween Ends. While the name suggests Michael Myers will be put in the ground for good, we know that’s not how this franchise usually goes. Jamie Lee Curtis is once again brandishing her butcher knife as final girl Laurie Strode while also doing a great job…

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15 Oct

Halloween Ends: Ranking All Michael Myers Death Scenes at the End

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This article contains Halloween Ends spoilers. Michael Myers is dead. Again. As the title of Halloween Ends all but guaranteed, the third film in David Gordon Green’s trilogy of sequels to the 1978 original brings the curtain down for good and all on the story of Michael Myers and his war with the babysitter who would not die, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). Granted, Michael Myers has died before, including more than once at the hands of Curtis’ indomitable Laurie Strode—as well as other variations of these characters when they were played by different actors! And yet, Halloween as a…

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15 Oct

How One Piece Film: Red Breaks The One Piece Rules

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Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece has been a staple of the manga and anime industry for nearly 25 years. Now, more than 1000 episodes later, it appears that Oda’s prolific adventure story is finally preparing for its final act. The One Piece feature films have become exciting ways to push the anime in unexpected directions, but the recent One Piece Film: Red, the franchise’s 15th film, is easily the most unique movie to date. One Piece Film: Red focuses on Red-Haired Shanks and Uta, a revered musician, who just so happens to be his daughter. Uta’s musical performances border on spectacles,…

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15 Oct

The Horror Movie Directors Who Could Direct Marvel’s Blade Reboot

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As recently reported, Marvel Studios has tweaked a good-sized chunk of its upcoming release schedule, shifting the release dates of five confirmed movies and taking one unannounced one off the calendar for now. The films that are moving include some biggies like Fantastic Four and Avengers: Secret Wars, but the whole thing – because any MCU moves tend to have a domino effect – seemed to start with the studio’s reboot of Blade being shot out of its November 2023 berth all the way to September 2024. That was precipitated by the departure of director Bassim Tariq from the project,…

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14 Oct

Halloween Ends Explained: The Legacy of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode

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This article contains Halloween Ends spoilers. Michael Myers is dead. For realsies this time. Yes, we’ve seen the embodiment of pure evil, this personification of cruelty, the HUMAN VESSEL for what his own psychologist dubbed “the Devil’s Eyes,” die on screen before. He’s been shot, stabbed, and burned across multiple movies. In fact, all of the above occurred in the last one, Halloween Kills! But this time Michael is gone and he’s not coming back, at least in this current form. Halloween Ends shows Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) not only bleed the Shape dry from the neck and wrists…

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14 Oct

Hellraiser: What Happened to Voight?

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This article contains spoilers for Hellraiser (2022). Hulu and David Bruckner’s updated take on Hellraiser deepens the lore of the franchise in gruesome ways, setting up inevitable new stories and sights yet unseen in the Cenobite saga. The unsavory fates of struggling addict Riley (Odessa A’zion) and monstrous billionaire Voight (Goran Visnjic) we see at the end of the movie act as parables of sorts, illustrating in different ways how one’s obsession with life’s excesses can ultimately lead to an existence defined by pain. “Pain,” of course, is a multi-dimensional word in the Hellraiser universe. Voight and Riley are both…

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14 Oct

New Ironheart Footage Reveals Iron Man Callback

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Target has everything, doesn’t it? Where else can you buy tube socks, motor oil, and a Frog-Man (or is it Leap Frog?) action figure at the same time? Well, yes, lots of places, but if a new Target ad is to be believed, the retailer also carries stuff that Marvel’s newest tech genius needs to build her own suit of armor. “Wakanda changed things, forever,” Williams (Dominique Thorne) says at the start of the commercial, as we see images of ships flying over the capital of the fictional nation. The commercial then cuts to a less fantastical location, Boston, where…

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14 Oct

Hellraiser: Are Pinhead and the Cenobites Demons or Angels?

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Director David Bruckner’s Hellraiser reboot just made a big and gooey splash on Hulu. In its messy aftermath, folks are discovering the old burning questions fans have long had about the world of Cenobites and chains: Are these creatures, created by Clive Barker, demons out of the actual biblical Hell, and is their menacing puzzle box (aka the Lament Configuration) a gateway to the whole of damnation, debasement, and diabolical disfiguration? Or is it something more… delicious? The original Pinhead in 1987 teased that they are “demons to some, angels to others.” So can these monsters represent a more heavenly…

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14 Oct

10 Deleted Scenes That Would Have Completely Changed the MCU

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This article contains MCU spoilers. It’s been 14 years since Robert Downey Jr. first stepped into our lives as Iron Man, and across four phases, a whole Infinity Saga, and more Easter eggs than we care to count, the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to go from strength to strength.  The journey from page to screen is never an easy one, and while the MCU packs a lot into its runtimes, there’s inevitably some stuff that gets left on the cutting room floor. Whether it be post-credit stingers or entire characters, the carefully-crafted franchise could be completely upturned by axing a…

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14 Oct

Best Horror Movies of the Last 15 Years

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Fifteen years ago, the term “elevated” and “horror” rarely shared the same sentence, lest someone was talking about the setting of Snakes on a Plane; found footage was considered the spookiest new trend in terrifying audiences; and at least according to box office receipts, October signaled one thing: It was time for a new Saw movie. So, yes, things have changed a lot in horror and the larger moviemaking landscape in the years since Den of Geek launched in 2007. And through it all, we’ve been there to cover how 21st century horror cinema seemed to come of age. After…

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14 Oct

Halloween III: Season Of The Witch – The Inside Story Of A Cult Classic

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In the modern era of movie making, where the franchise is king, sequels haven’t just become a byproduct of box office success, they’ve become an inevitability.  Nowhere is this better exemplified than in the world of horror. Deliver 90 minutes plus of scares to large swathes of the cinema-going public and the chances are an order for seconds will be up before the original movie has even left multiplexes.  Blame it on market forces and the fact movie-making is fundamentally a money-making enterprise, but the results have proven gruesome for fans, in every sense of the word.  While critically-lauded sequels…

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14 Oct

Halloween Ends Review: Do You Promise?

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How do you explain what is at the center of a black hole? By definition, the color black is the absence of light. Trying to comprehend that on a cosmic scale, where a vast inky emptiness is so overwhelming that literal light cannot escape its gravitational pull, remains difficult to fathom, be ye astronomers or storytellers. Take this weekend’s Halloween Ends for example. For two movies now, director David Gordon Green and his team of co-writers, which includes Danny McBride, have attempted to graph a rationalization for the absolute absence of light onto John Carpenter’s Boogeyman made flesh. Which is…

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13 Oct

Star Wars Brings Back Original Trilogy Legend for New Disney+ Series

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Somehow, Palpatine returned. Again. Okay, that’s not a real surprise, especially for an animated series like Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, which is set in the Prequel Trilogy era. Created by Dave Filoni and Charles Murray, the Disney+ series tells the story of young Jedi Ahsoka Tano and Count Dooku before he abandoned the Jedi and fell to the dark side. Along the way, Ahsoka and Dooku encounter many familiar faces, including Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, and yes, Senator-turned-Chancellor-turned-Emperor Sheev Palpatine. As one would hope, the series features a number of fan-favorite actors returning to their signiture roles. Although…

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13 Oct

The Lord of the Rings Scene That Almost Destroyed the Peter Jackson Movies

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With The Rings of Power doing great numbers on Amazon, The Lord of the Rings is experiencing a resurgence. The mixed reaction to The Hobbit trilogy has largely faded and fans are ready to return to Middle-earth. While the first and best source for the enthusiasm garnered by the new series must be J.R.R. Tolkien‘s original books, there’s no denying that The Rings of Power would not enjoy its current level of prestige were it not for The Lord of the Rings trilogy from director Peter Jackson. The movies took a beloved but notoriously unfilmable series of books, filled with…

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13 Oct

First Black Adam Reactions Pour In

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It’s almost here! The long promised Black Adam movie, starring Dwayne Johnson in a role that the actor has spent over a decade preparing for, has finally screened for critics and a handful of fans. And the response so far? Well, we’ll call it mixed but positive. Early viewers (including this writer…and you can spot my reaction tweet later in this piece, as well) are praising Black Adam as an action-packed spectacle, one that is packed to the absolute gills with DC Comics and DCEU lore, and Johnson’s performance, while singling out the writing and pacing something of a mixed…

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13 Oct

Michael Sheen’s Best Roles Show Why He’s a National Treasure

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Michael Sheen recently went viral for an epic ‘pre-match’ speech to the Welsh football team on A League of Their Own – so much so that he was actually invited to address the Welsh World Cup squad for real – but anyone who’s seen a Michael Sheen role won’t have been remotely surprised he had such a rousing monologue in him. The man has range, charisma, and an extraordinary talent for channelling the characteristics of real people without resorting to impersonation. He’s also clearly game for anything, as the news he’ll be playing Coleen Rooney’s lawyer in Channel 4’s newly…

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