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19 Jul

New Justice League Report Is a Bad Look for Zack Snyder

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For some, the phrase “Release the Snyder Cut” has been a rallying cry for artistic integrity. They use the phrase to push back against mega-corporation Warner Brothers, demanding that director Zack Snyder be given the opportunity to complete his vision for DC Comics heroes the Justice League, which he began with Man of Steel in 2012. For them, the phrase rejects the 2017 theatrical release of Justice League, which was completed by Joss Whedon after a family tragedy pulled Snyder away from the production. But for others, “Release the Snyder Cut” is a threat, a demand to silence all criticisms…
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18 Jul

Star Wars Finally Fixes Prequel Era Plot Hole That Hurt Original Trilogy

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It’s one of the most famous and consequential scenes in Return of the Jedi: before Luke Skywalker heads off to face Darth Vader and the Emperor, he must first reveal a long-buried truth to Princess Leia about who she really is. The audience only learned the news several scenes before on Dagobah, that Luke and Leia are brother and sister, but how will Leia take the news? Back in the Ewok village on Endor, Luke asks Leia if she has any memory of her mother in hopes of learning something about his own. “Just a little bit. She died when…
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17 Jul

Persuasion Discourse Has Revealed Racism in Jane Austen Fandom

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Netflix’s Persuasion starring Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot and Cosmo Jarvis as Capt. Wentworth has become a very controversial adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel since debuting on Netflix, with many critics and writers already debating the pros and the cons of the movie. However, in my personal opinion as an Afro-Caribbean American Austen fan, there has not been enough discussion of the harm racists and gatekeepers have done with the way they have engaged in discussing this movie. I personally experienced the wrath of Austen fandom racists during “PineappleGate” and know that the debates over the merits of director Carrie…
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16 Jul

Clueless, Easy A, and Romeo + Juliet: Best Movie Modernizations of Classic Literature

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What makes a story a “classic?” It’s a vague yet glorious distinction applied to books, films, art, and even models of vintage cars whose value is passed down from one generation to the next. But is it just the length of time a text or work survives that qualifies it as a “classic” or is there something more? Generally speaking, the classics that tend to be celebrated one generation after another, and especially those that are passed down from one century to another, are works that speak of something timeless. The times we live in will change, culture will change,…
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16 Jul

Rollerball: James Caan Was the Good Sport in a Bad Game

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Norman Jewison’s 1975 dystopian sports allegory, Rollerball, looms large as an icon of cult filmmaking, but its power in the science fiction pantheon is grossly underestimated. The film has the force of a deeply personal vision from its director, and the full support of a nuanced performance from the late James Caan as Jonathan E., aka the star Rollerballer. Prior to redefining movie gangsters in The Godfather, Caan executed a game-changing role in Brian’s Song. He played Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo against Billy Dee Williams’ Gayle Sayers, his rival and roommate in an era when Black and white…
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15 Jul

Dwayne Johnson Reveals Black Adam on Den of Geek Magazine Cover

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SUbscribe to Den of Geek Magazine here! Den of Geek, the leading entertainment media company, is proud to announce its return to San Diego with a seismic footprint at the epicenter of pop culture fandom, Comic-Con International, and the reveal of the brand’s highest-profile magazine cover star to date: Dwayne Johnson. The star of Black Adam, produced by New Line Cinema, DC Films, Seven Bucks Productions, and FlynnPictureCo, and set for distribution by Warner Bros. Pictures, revealed the magazine cover to his social media followers on Thursday, marking an exciting kick-off to the Den of Geek Comic-Con activations for 2022.…
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15 Jul

Tom Hardy’s Batman Villain Bane Is More Relevant Today Than 10 Years Ago

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No one expected it to be Bane. In retrospect that is a bit odd since, generally speaking, when most comic book nerds think of the villains who pose the greatest threat to Batman, Bane always rounds out the top five or 10 by virtue of being the one baddie to “Break the Bat.” Yet after Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight thrillingly ended on the noble rush of Bruce Wayne riding into the night, accepting he was not the hero Gotham needed, no fan (nor apparently many Warners executives) anticipated the villain of Nolan’s inevitable sequel to be Bane, the beefy…
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15 Jul

Meet the New MCU Characters in Phase 4

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This article contains major MCU spoilers, up to and including Thor: Love and Thunder Ooh, the MCU is a lot, isn’t it? It was always a lot, but now it’s a LOT lot. With the ongoing rollout of Phase 4, fans don’t just have a handful of blockbuster films to keep up with every year; there are now multiple TV shows streaming on Disney+ that introduce important new characters and corners of the Marvel Universe that interconnect with those aforementioned big budget theatrical releases. It’s been a gamble for Marvel Studios, who first properly tested audience reactions with the release…
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15 Jul

Persuasion Review: Does Jane Austen Need to Be a Messy Millennial Woman on Netflix?

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Bridgerton has been a roaring success for Netflix with its period setting, literary heritage, and “color conscious” casting. Not to mention its liberal approach to sex that the show is celebrated for (especially in season one). So it’s not especially surprising that the streamer might decide to take one of the less frequently adapted Jane Austen novels, Persuasion, hire an attractive cast, sex it up a bit, and add in a carriage load of Fleabag snark to the mix. Winner, winner, lavish seven course dinner, as a member of the Ton would almost certainly never say. Unfortunately in this case,…
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14 Jul

What Ethan Hawke Discovered About Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward for New HBO Doc

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Ethan Hawke was born in 1970, barely a year after Paul Newman received his fifth Oscar nomination, this one for producing Rachel, Rachel (1968). That film was the first passion project in which Newman directed his wife, muse, and lifelong partner, Joanne Woodward. It would not be the last. They would go on to collaborate again as director and star, and sometimes as co-leads, three more times before Hawke entered the industry. And by the time Hawke was himself getting his start as a teenager in movies like Explorers (1985) and Dead Poets Society (1989), Newman was still racking up…
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13 Jul

The Best A24 Movies Streaming on Plex in July

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Temperatures are heating up in July, and so is the content on Plex! July kicks off Plex’s new collection, The Cinephiles — A24 on Plex. Each month, thought-provoking, genre-bending, and boundary-pushing films from the production house and distributor A24 will hit Plex TV for streaming! Plex offers a one-stop-shop streaming service offering 50,000+ free titles and 200+ of free-to-stream live TV channels, from the biggest names in entertainment, including Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, Lionsgate, Legendary, AMC, A+E, Crackle, and Reuters. Plex is always overflowing with thousands of new and old familiar favorites on its platform…
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13 Jul

Karl Urban Becomes Marvel’s Star Mutant in Wolverine Deepfake

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Ever since X-Men veteran Hugh Jackman put away his claws after 2017’s Logan, Marvel fans have been very busy debating who should replace the Australian actor as Wolverine in an MCU reboot. Many names have been thrown around over the years, including Daniel Radcliffe, Pablo Schreiber, Keanu Reeves, Gael Garcia Bernal (who’s actually been cast as a different Marvel character), and The Boys scene-stealer Anthony Starr. But it’s another The Boys star who’s long been at the top of the fan cast list: New Zealand actor Karl Urban. It’s easy to see why. Even before the Amazon Prime comic book…
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13 Jul

The Chris Hemsworth Action Movie You Missed Becomes a Netflix Hit

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It’s getting easier to predict which movies will become seemingly out-of-nowhere successes on Netflix. While on the television side of the spectrum, flashy new series or returning hits routinely become the top streaming shows, the calculus doesn’t always add up the same way for the streamer’s film library. For instance, this week one of the top film on Netflix was 2018’s 12 Strong, a Chris Hemsworth-led war film set in Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. When the film was released, it received middling reviews from critics and an unspectacular $70 million at the box office, about half of…
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13 Jul

What’s Next For Millie Bobby Brown After Stranger Things Season 4?

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Eighteen years old. At the age a lot of young people would currently be looking ahead to a summer of watching Netflix, Millie Bobby Brown is Netflix. She’s not only the superpowered lead in Stranger Things – which still has its fifth and final season to film – but also set to be the star of multiple upcoming movies on the streaming service. A UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Louis Vuitton house ambassador (sounds Hogwarts-y), the founder of a vegan beauty brand, owner of PCMA Productions and the star of her directorial debut – a short film in which she leaps about…
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12 Jul

Will Natalie Portman Return to the MCU After Thor: Love and Thunder?

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This post contains spoilers for Thor: Love and Thunder Whatever your feelings about Thor: Love and Thunder, no one can deny that Natalie Portman’s performance as Dr. Jane Foster aka the Mighty Thor lights up the screen like a flash of lightning. After an absence of nine years, Portman returns to the MCU with an energy and lightness not always seen by the cerebral actor. With a meaty role that lets her play both the cancer-stricken Foster and the Mjolnir-wielding Mighty Thor, Portman goes all-in with the performance, adding vibrancy to a movie that sometimes feels like a retread of its…
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11 Jul

Marvel VFX Artists Air Their Grievances About “Boring” and “Badly Managed” MCU

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For all the dominance it enjoys in the cultural consciousness, there’s one frequent criticism that the Marvel Cinematic Universe cannot seem to overcome: these movies tend to be pretty ugly. Sure, there are outliers, such as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 or Thor: Ragnarok, but too often, fans find themselves loving the movies despite their washed-out color palettes and unconvincing CGI. Even when directly copying an image from the comics that inspired it, such as Bruce Banner falling into the Sanctum Santorum in Avengers: Infinity War, the movies fail to capture the power conjured by the original artists. Turns out, fans aren’t the…
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11 Jul

Star Wars Finally Solves Big Darth Vader Cliffhanger From Return of the Jedi

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Return of the Jedi may have concluded George Lucas’ Original Trilogy in 1983, but that’s not stopped Star Wars from continuing to dig into the trilogy’s mysteries in the decades since its debut. Take the current slate of post-Return of the Jedi live-action series making their way onto Disney+, for example. The Mandalorian generally explores the power vacuum in the Outer Rim left in the wake of the fall of the Empire, and The Book of Boba Fett tackles that even more directly on Tatooine. Both shows also continue the story of newly-christened Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker after defeating the…
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11 Jul

Boo, Bitch Is 2022’s Mean Girls if One of Them Was Dead

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Contains spoilers for Boo, Bitch With great power comes great responsibility. And that’s if you’re Spider-Man. But arguably it’s even more true if you’re a popular high school senior with the power to destroy a reputation with a fart, and make a prom king with… well, kind of, the power of that same fart. But more on that later. Lana Condor (To All The Boys series) stars as high school senior Erika Vu, who due to some casual cruelty from her own personal equivalent of Rachel McAdams’ Regina George from Mean Girls, has spent the last four years being invisible…
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11 Jul

Grease 2: A Cult Classic That’s Way Cooler Than The Original

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When I was in high school there was an unspoken rule that said you were either a superfan of The Cure or The Smiths, but not both. Looking back now, this is an invented rivalry, as both groups cover much of the same artistic ground and appeal to like-minded fans. I’ve been thinking about this theory a lot lately, because it really showcases the sort of things that feel of world-shattering importance when you are a teenager. And while I squandered much of my misspent youth dancing in my bedroom to both “Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This…
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11 Jul

Thor 5: Best Theories and Predictions for His Next Marvel Movie

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This article contains Thor: Love and Thunder spoilers Thor: Love and Thunder concluded in the way that all fans of the God of Thunder would have hoped for, with the familiar words ‘Thor will return.’ There was always some speculation that this could be Chris Hemsworth’s last outing as Thor, but it’s clear that either Thor 5 or some kind of spin-off story is in store for the Asgardian warrior.  What could that story involve, though? While it’s easy to speculate about all the directions a potential sequel could go in based on the comic books, Thor: Love and Thunder…
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