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12 Aug

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Review – A New High for Dragon Ball

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This Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero review contains no spoilers. “You have the potential to become the most powerful being on Earth. You need to believe in yourself and release that power!” Dragon Ball is a totemic anime series that’s practically synonymous with heightened animated battles. The anime has exploded to the point where there are nearly 300 hours in the franchise’s combined works and there’s still no end in sight. Dragon Ball adventures are never in short supply, but the series has struggled to top the heights of its previous cinematic spectacle, Dragon Ball Super: Broly. This new movie,…

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11 Aug

The DC Universe Deserves Better than the Marvel Formula

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If you haven’t already, please take a moment to examine the image above. It’s a collage photo of three different moments at three different studios that were each chasing a “shared cinematic universe.” On the left, we have the most infamous failure-to-launch story out of the Hollywood of the 2010s: Tom Cruise stands between Johnny Depp and Javier Bardem. Between them were the intended stars of new “Universal Monsters” movies (aka superhero movies in disguise). They were meant to be the Frankenstein Monster, the (new) Mummy, and the Invisible Man of the Dark Universe. On the right of the collage,…

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11 Aug

Why Star Trek 4 Still Hasn’t Happened

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Chris Pine was promoting his upcoming movie Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 when Deadline asked him what was happening with a fourth Star Trek movie starring him as Captain Kirk. “I don’t know,” he replied. “I haven’t heard anything about it other than the news.” Pressed about whether he’d even be interested in a fourth voyage aboard the Enterprise, Pine added, “Yeah, of course, I am. If it happens, I think all of us would come back.” The “news” that Pine was referring to, of course, was the surprise announcement by Paramount back in…

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10 Aug

Star Wars Finally Reveals the Unseen Consequences of the Original Trilogy’s Biggest Twist

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It’s arguably the biggest twist in cinema history. His son defeated, just one false step from falling to the depths of Bespin, Darth Vader reveals the truth. The Dark Lord of the Sith is Luke Skywalker’s father. Star Wars would never be the same. The last few minutes of The Empire Strikes Back begin to unpack how this revelation has completely shattered Luke’s world. All of a sudden, as he escapes Cloud City on the Millennium Falcon, our hero can hear Vader in his thoughts, calling out to him to embrace their family’s dark legacy. He’s already accepted the truth,…

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10 Aug

Ted Lasso Star Brett Goldstein Reveals Unexpected Marvel Meeting Details: “Is This a Wind-Up?”

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This article contains Thor: Love and Thunder spoilers Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok follow-up Thor: Love and Thunder ended up being a surprisingly divisive movie when it bowed last month, but one thing that most fans agreed on was its perfect casting of Ted Lasso star Brett Goldstein in the film’s post-credits scene. While Love and Thunder largely eschewed the idea of setting up other MCU projects for the most part, and rounded up characters we already knew and loved instead, the fresh casting of Russell Crowe as Zeus led to an opportunity for Marvel to introduce, albeit briefly, a Marvel…

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10 Aug

Prey Revealed the Perfect Template for Future Predator Movies

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So Prey has managed to do what five previous attempts at a Predator sequel have failed at. In the process, it not only created a good follow up movie to Predator but also a solid template for creating many, many more Predator movies—if you were so inclined. Yet at the same time, it has also placed hard limits on what future movies can (or should) do with that concept. The Clue is in the Name The concept behind Predator was simple. Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the biggest, meanest, beefiest mothers in Hollywood movies. The alien Predator’s whole deal is…

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09 Aug

Black Panther 2 Hero’s Costume Revealed in Marvel’s Ironheart Set Photos

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For most MCU fans, the trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was both a relief and a revelation. Not only did it assure fans that the film would handle the untimely death of star Chadwick Boseman with respect and dignity, but it also gave us glimpses of new characters entering the MCU. Antagonist Namor the Sub-Mariner (Tenoch Huerta) may be the most notable of these new additions, but we also saw Dominique Thorne as super genius Riri Williams. In her two scenes in the trailer, we see Williams greeting Shuri in a Wakandan lab, and later pounding a heart-shaped emblem…

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09 Aug

What Prey Haters Fail to Grasp About the Original Predator Movie

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This article contains Prey spoilers. It must be gratifying for filmmakers to know that the Monday after Prey’s premiere on Hulu (and Disney+ in Europe), many were debating whether the Predator prequel should’ve been released in theaters. The quality is certainly good enough with the film generally impressing most critics as demonstrated by its 92 percent “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes. A majority of viewers also seem pleased if social media chatter is to be believed. The emerging consensus about this one seems to be that director Dan Trachtenberg and a cast of primarily Indigenous actors knocked it out of…

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09 Aug

Michael Keaton Confesses Real Reason for Batman Return

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After 30 years, Batman is ready to return. Sure, we’ve had more Batmen than ever before, from Ben Affleck’s grizzled Superman stomper to Robert Pattinson’s emo rich boy to George Clooney playing Batman as a handsome movie star who looks and sounds just like George Clooney. And then there’s that wiry guy from Batman and Batman Returns, the guy who sat around Wayne Manor waiting for the Bat-signal to shine. Few actors have left a more definitive mark on the Dark Knight like Michael Keaton. When Keaton’s Bruce Wayne told Viki Vale that his life was “complex,” audiences believed it.…

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08 Aug

Predator Movies Ranked from Worst to Best

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Like many a horror franchise, Predator has seen its share of ups and downs over the years. Some entries in the series are considered classics, and others are notorious pieces of trash. A few of them could even be deigned unwatchable. The latest movie in the franchise, Prey, is on Hulu now, so we thought we’d see how it stacks up against the rest of the franchise. Is it possible that Prey or one of the other sequels could lay claim to the throne as the ultimate Predator movie? Read on to find out! 7. Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)…

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08 Aug

DC Finally Admits Its Plan to Copy the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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Ever since Marvel Comics launched in the early 1960s, they have been rivals with the older, more established DC. When DC introduced the Justice League, Marvel created the Fantastic Four. When Marvel did a major crossover with Secret Wars, DC followed with Crisis on Infinite Earths. The X-Men copied the Doom Patrol (or vice versa), Swamp Thing copied Man-Thing (or vice versa), and so on. For that reason, no one should be surprised that the newly-installed head of Warner Bros, David Zaslav, would want to emulate Disney’s triumph with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Many studios have tried to launch their…

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07 Aug

Is Bullet Train Guilty of Whitewashing?

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This Bullet Train article contains some spoilers. Bullet Train comes barreling into theaters loaded with a heaping helping of gratuitous violence. This is no surprise from director David Leitch, who began his career as a stuntman, specifically Brad Pitt’s stuntman. Consequently, Leitch is a master at delivering action and ultra-violence on a grand scale. The title reflects this and its setting, with the Shinkansen, a 50+ year old network of high-speed railways, colloquially known as the “bullet train” in Japan. Since it began, there has not been a single passenger fatality or injury on board these lines due to either derailments…

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07 Aug

Predators Is Still the Most Underrated Sequel in the Franchise

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After watching his comrades be hunted and torn down by an alien hunter, the human prey is ready to fight back. To throw off the hunter’s heat vision, the human has stripped off his shirt and smeared mud over his muscled body. He stands in the center of a trap, ready to lure the hunter into one final showdown.  “Do it now!” he bellows, taunting the hunter. “Kill me!” For most people, the above description recalls an iconic scene from Predator, the 1987 action horror classic directed by John McTiernan, but the human I’m describing is not Major Dutch Schaefer,…

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06 Aug

The Definitive Predator Movies Watch Order

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This week sees the release of Prey, the prequel (Preyquel? Predaquel?) to the Arnold Schwarzenegger’s biceps vehicle and alien grudge match, Predator. The beauty of it being a prequel is that you are not obliged to do an all-night marathon session binging all the other Predator films before it comes out. No, instead you get to do that after you’ve watched Prey. So to help you along, here’s a handy guide to the viewing order of the Predator franchise, with only a little editorializing over which ones you can safely skip or drink through. 1. Prey (2022) It’s new! It’s…

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06 Aug

Prey Post-Credits Scene Moment Makes You Read Between the Lines

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This article contains Prey spoilers. Who knew the secret to the Predator franchise’s future was to always go back in time? It seems director Dan Trachtenberg did! This weekend’s Prey is the culmination of years of passion, and years of planning, from the filmmaker who wrested the Predator movies away from their recent and failed experiments of franchise-building in the future. Instead the new movie finds a simple and potent blend of historical fiction and sci-fi fantasy when one of those aliens from above decides to go hunting on Comanche lands during the early 1700s. It’s there we find the…

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06 Aug

Tim Roth Reveals Secret to Playing Great Marvel and Quentin Tarantino Villains

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Tim Roth was on his way to the Cannes Film Festival a couple of years ago when a script came through from his agent. It was for a movie called Resurrection. “I had taken my boy with me, my youngest,” Roth tells Den of Geek. “And I sat down and I read it, and I was kind of shellshocked afterwards. So my son was like, ‘What is that?’ And I said, ‘Well, I don’t know how you would describe it. It’s a psychological horror movie, but it’s a new thing to me.’ So he said, ‘Give it to me.’ He…

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05 Aug

They/Them: How the Kevin Bacon Horror Film Changes the Rules of Friday the 13th

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“We’ve come a long way, baby,” says Kevin Bacon with a laugh, when asked about starring in a new summer camp slasher movie more than four decades after launching his career with the definitive summer camp slasher movie, the original Friday the 13th. The new one is called They/Them, and it’s from Hollywood horror factory supreme Blumhouse, but it’s got an exceptionally modern twist (thanks to writer-director John Logan) on what quickly became a stale formula after Friday the 13th initially changed the game back in 1980. Bacon stars as Owen Whistler, who welcomes a new group of LGBTQ+ “campers”…

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05 Aug

Canceled Batgirl Movie Leaks Photo of Michael Keaton’s New Batman Costume

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There are many reasons that fans were looking forward to Batgirl, from watching a beloved character star in a Hollywood movie to following In the Heights break-out Leslie Grace as she becomes a superhero. For others, the biggest draw was seeing Michael Keaton don his black rubber suit once again as Batman. But the surprise cancelation of Batgirl, a movie nearly completed and originally headed to HBO Max, means that we won’t see Keaton alongside Grace’s Barbara Gordon or J.K. Simmons’ Commissioner Gordon. Yet, amid the fallout of the announcement, Adil El Arbi, who co-directed Batgirl with creative partner Bilall…

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05 Aug

Bodies Bodies Bodies Cast: Meet A24’s New Generation of Horror Stars

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What kind of friend are you? We all fall into certain friendship archetypes, whether we’re the responsible “parent” of the group, the instigator, or the one that never responds in the group chat. Sometimes we fill these archetype roles to bring out the best in our friend groups, but more often than not these roles are set in stone during our youth, before we define ourselves, and coalesce into something toxic and decidedly unfriendly. Taking a psychological approach to exploring lifelong friendships, digital communication, and Gen-Z individualism, A24‘s SXSW breakout horror film Bodies Bodies Bodies is sure to stir up…

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05 Aug

Prey Review: Predator Franchise Finally Hits Its Stride

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Prey is the fifth installment in the Predator franchise (and seventh if you count the two Alien vs. Predator films). It’s also easily the third best in the series by default, following the original Predator and 2010’s underrated Predators. The bar is, admittedly, fairly low for this series, which is marked by pretty unwatchable entries like Shane Black’s 2018 The Predator and 1990’s Predator 2 (although some Den of Geek staff keep threatening to write a re-appreciation of the latter). Nevertheless, we’re pleased to say that Prey takes an approach that is both fresh and back to basics with this…

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