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18 May

Why Obi-Wan Kenobi Is the Most Important Star Wars Character

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On May 27, director Deborah Chow and writer Joby Harold will introduce Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi to a new generation of Star Wars fans. Crafting any tale in this universe can be a huge undertaking, so just imagine the expectations that come with continuing the story of the most important Star Wars character of all time. “I think at the beginning, you feel the intimidation, for sure. You’re lying if you say you don’t,” Harold tells Den of Geek over Zoom. “Once upon a time, George Lucas wrote that name on a piece of paper, and now you are custodian…
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17 May

Best Movies to Watch After Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

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This article contains Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness spoilers If box-office receipts are any indication, you’ve probably watched Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness at least once. You may have loved it, thrilled by Sam Raimi’s wild direction and its gnarly imagery. Or you may have hated it, disappointed by its nonsensical plot decisions and waste of talented actors. Whether you’re all in or all out on Multiverse of Madness, the latest MCU entry has connections to a bevy of other cinematic offerings. These ten movies are sure to appease those disappointed by Doctor Strange’s trip across…
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17 May

Lightyear: Why Buzz Needed a New Voice and New Look

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In 1995 a boy named Andy received a toy for his birthday: Buzz Lightyear, Space Ranger. The toy had electronic parts, flashing lights, and far more catchphrases than the cowboy, which had previously been Andy’s favorite toy. And in a movie where toys come to life, Buzz Lightyear didn’t realize he was a toy at all, believing he was a real Space Ranger, stuck on a strange new planet. For Toy Story fans, this is a tale that’s been familiar for two decades—but what fans have never gotten to experience is Andy’s favorite movie, the film that inspired the toy.…
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17 May

Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers Review – Space Jam But Disney Style

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At some point “references” and “Easter eggs” took over franchise movies. They’re expected. The first question out of many a fan’s lips is what are the easter eggs? For some it’s the bar by which a franchise movie is successful or not. How often can this new movie remind you of something old? This doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Easter eggs and sly references are fun in small doses, and we certainly cover them on Den of Geek with great joy.  But big studios have begun to use references and Easter eggs as a crutch. An easy way…
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17 May

Star Wars Finally Confirms Truth About Rian Johnson Trilogy

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Since its announcement a month before the release of The Last Jedi in 2017, Rian Johnson’s Star Wars trilogy has been a constant subject of discussion in fan circles. What seemed at first like confirmation of a long-lasting partnership between the director and Lucasfilm that would shape Star Wars for years to come soon unraveled into uncertainty. The reason seems clear. No installment in the Disney era of Star Wars films has been more divisive than The Last Jedi, which sought to push the franchise forward in a way its predecessor, the very nostalgic The Force Awakens, had not. But…
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16 May

Twitter Tackles Deadpool and X-Men MCU Question with Amazing Results

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This article contains spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, WandaVision, Hawkeye, and Spider-Man: No Way Home It all started, as many things do, with a simple Tweet. Twitter user @AlexVsPop came up with a fun way to integrate Deadpool and the X-Men into the MCU now that those characters have come together under the Disney umbrella, and the post was soon doing numbers. “The X-Men should be introduced to the MCU through Deadpool on a laptop clicking and dragging the X-Men from a folder labeled “20th Century Fox” to a folder labeled “Marvel Studios”, and then we…
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16 May

Doctor Strange 2: How the Villain Changed during Rewrites

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This article contains Doctor Strange 2 spoilers Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has had a somewhat bumpy ride to the screen. The film was officially announced in July 2019 at that year’s San Diego Comic-Con, with Benedict Cumberbatch returning to the title role and Scott Derrickson coming back as director. But Derrickson left the following January and was replaced by Sam Raimi – a choice approved almost across the board by Marvel fans. Raimi started from scratch, with Michael Waldron coming on board to pen the script, but filming was delayed from a May 2020 start due to…
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16 May

Superman ’78 is the Sequel Fans Always Wanted

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Somehow, Richard Donner’s beloved 1978 Superman: The Movie didn’t spawn a successful franchise. A lovingly made celebration of the Man of Steel, featuring arguably the most perfectly cast superhero movie lead of all time in Christopher Reeve, immediately ran into directorial, financial, and creative trouble with its sequel, and the franchise ultimately sputtered out with 1987’s Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.  But Donner’s vision and Reeve’s performance were so definitive that they’ve influenced every new take on Superman since, from comics to TV and back to the big screen. But fans still dream of what other, better sequels could…
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14 May

Top Gun: Maverick Review – Tom Cruise Sticks Landing

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Top Gun: Maverick is probably the best possible follow-up that fans of the late Tony Scott’s original 1986 movie—now very much considered a classic—could hope for. With star Tom Cruise returning to one of his signature roles, a well-placed original cast member, and a lineup of new faces, plus the narrative beats and action footage that the name Top Gun demands, director Joseph Kosinski’s legacy sequel checks off all the boxes. More satisfyingly, however, the long-delayed movie is genuinely engaging and exciting enough to draw in others as well, including even those of us who (yes, we’re out here) don’t…
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14 May

The Northman, Hamlet, and the Story Both Are Based On

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This article contains The Northman spoilers. “To be or not to be.” That is a question which never occurs to Alexander Skarsgård’s Amleth in The Northman. He knows exactly what he’ll be next week. It’s the same thing as last week: a bloodthirsty Viking. Nevertheless, the character has much in common with William Shakespeare’s Danish prince, who famously uttered the above quote during a soliloquy in Act Three of Hamlet. And whether viewers are familiar with the Bard’s tragedy or not, that connection to Elsinore pervades throughout this weekend’s bare-chested epic. “I felt if I’m doing Hamlet or The Lion…
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13 May

Bryce Dallas Howard Opens Up About Directing a Star Wars Movie

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The Disney+ era of Star Wars has not only gifted fans with beloved characters like Din Djarin, Fennec Shand, and Grogu, it’s also introduced a whole new lineup of talented filmmakers to the franchise. Among the directors who have made their Star Wars debuts in The Mandalorian are Rick Famuyiwa, Deborah Chow, Peyton Reed, Robert Rodriguez, Taika Waititi, and Carl Weathers. In fact, the flagship Star Wars series has become an excellent jumping on point for many of these directors to then go on to helm their own adventures set in the galaxy far, far away. Rodriguez executive produced and…
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13 May

Firestarter Review: Remake Flames Out

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Firestarter is not often mentioned in lists of Stephen King’s classic novels; although it was his sixth published novel (under his own name) and came out during his initial decade of phenomenal success, it’s not exactly held up there with landmarks like The Shining or The Stand. Of course there was still the inevitable movie, released in 1984 when it seemed like there was a new King adaptation hitting screens every month. Directed by Mark L. Lester (replacing John Carpenter early in development), with a screenplay by Stanley Mann, the ’84 Firestarter is actually very faithful to the book in…
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13 May

Operation Mincemeat: The Real WW2 History of the Netflix Spy Movie

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This article contains spoilers for Operation Mincemeat. Operation Mincemeat is now celebrated as “the most spectacular episode in the history of deception.” That is one of the commanding final sentences at the end of Netflix’s World War II drama, Operation Mincemeat. And barring the likely fictional story of the Trojan Horse (which is also name-checked in the new film as one of the early, poorly selected codenames for this spy game), that assertion is fairly true. As a plan to convince Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich’s espionage service, the Abwehr, that Britain and her allies would invade Greece and…
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13 May

Our Father: Netflix Makes Terrifying True Life Doc with a Soul

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It actually sounds like a story from a comic book about a super villain: an evil doctor impregnates countless women without their knowledge to breed a vast aryan race of offspring who grow up to form an army. And when we say vast, we’re talking 96 siblings and counting. Sadly, this is a true story and the subject of Netflix’s latest documentary, Our Father. In Indianapolis fertility doctor Donald Cline used his own sperm as donor material for his patients repeatedly, without their knowledge or consent – sometimes replacing anonymous sperm, and sometimes, horrifically, replacing their partner’s sample. Many of…
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13 May

Why Jason X Is a Perfect Friday the 13th Sequel

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This article contains Jason X spoilers Anyone watching a Friday the 13th movie today comes to the classic slasher franchise with more than a few expectations. They want to see Jason Voorhees, of course, complete with his hockey mask and machete. But they likely also want to see some intellectually-challenged teens (played by people in their late 20s and early 30s) get torn apart by a lumbering monster they could never hope to stop. It may surprise some Friday neophytes to learn that as formulaic as the series may be, not every entry contains all of those expected elements. Not…
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12 May

Dune: Part 2 – Christopher Walken Is Perfect Choice for a God Emperor

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Continuing in the trend of the first Dune film from director Denis Villeneuve, the newcomers to the Dune: Part Two ensemble cast have been nothing but heavy-hitters: Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan; rising star Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha (allegedly); and now the Grand Poobah of them all, Christopher Walken as Shaddam IV, head of House Corrino and Padishah Emperor of the Imperium! It seems fitting. The news, which comes out of Deadline ahead of the film’s fall start date for principal photography, is in-keeping with a universe already populated with familiar faces after the first movie. In that 2021 picture,…
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12 May

Doctor Strange 2 Writer On That Tom Cruise Iron Man Rumor

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This article contains spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness It’s easily the coolest moment we’ve seen yet in Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (maybe the second coolest, after a certain convening of several webslingers in Spider-Man: No Way Home): two-thirds of the way through Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the Master of the Mystic Arts (Benedict Cumberbatch), stuck for the moment on Earth-838 in a different universe, is brought before the Illuminati, a council of superheroes who do their best to guide history and protect their realm. The members of the Illuminati include…
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12 May

Why Danny Boyle’s James Bond Movie Didn’t Happen

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This article contains spoilers for No Time to Die. With the MCU continuing to dominate cinemas, much talk has been directed at producer Kevin Feige and his ability to maintain a popular franchise of 14 years. But before Feige, there was Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, producer of the James Bond franchise. Since the first Bond feature film, Dr. No, released in 1962, the Broccoli family has remained at the helm, ensuring that the beloved secret agent remains his essential self, even as he keeps up with the changing times. For that reason, it was a bit of a surprise when, in…
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12 May

Lloyd Kaufman Directed His Last Film But Troma Continues to Cancel Culture

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Troma Entertainment’s Lloyd Kaufman is as unique as his studio is independent. Ironic, sarcastic, or provocatively caustic, Uncle Lloyd has got something to say and gets his point across on several levels simultaneously. It’s more economical. The iconic studio is renowned for cult classics like Class of Nuke ‘Em High, Chopper Chicks in Zombietown, and Surf Nazis Must Die, but the low-budget auteur maintained a diverse career of almost 50 years of “reel independence.” Troma was founded in 1974 by Yale film society buddies Kaufman and Michael Herz. Their movies were produced on tiny budgets and were proudly proclaimed to…
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11 May

Why Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Doesn’t Connect to Loki

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This post contains very light spoilers to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. For detractors of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the franchise’s interconnectedness can be a burden. Case in point: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which builds directly off the resolution to WandaVision. But it’s somewhat surprising that Multiverse of Madness did not at all connect to another Disney+. Loki was not only the installment that first unleashed the multiverse on the MCU but also shared a head writer in Michael Waldron.  But Waldron has a simple reason that the two properties did not intersect: “If it…
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