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30 Apr

The Marvel Cinematic Multiverse Is Deeply Flawed

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This article contains Marvel Cinematic Universe spoilers. Something the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been able to incorporate well is taking certain ideas and building on them through the years, allowing them to balloon in importance until they go critical. Phase 1 was built around the novelty of a cinematic superhero team made of established characters. Phases 2 and 3 took the existence of the Infinity Stones and turned it into a massive, climactic two-parter. The finale to that story then opened Pandora’s box, giving us both time travel and the multiverse. Several years later, we’re about to get Doctor Strange…
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29 Apr

Marvel News: MCU Release Date Changes, Fantastic Four Director Trouble

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It’s been an eventful day for fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, although not necessarily the kind of events that you usually want to see. The MCU is usually (the endless release date leapfrogging during the early days of the pandemic aside) such a steady rolling juggernaut that any time there are a bunch of shake-ups in a row, it seems alarming, even though it probably isn’t. The more innocuous Marvel movie event of the day is that a pair of movies from their 2023 schedule have switched places on the release calendar. Captain Marvel sequel, The Marvels, had previously…
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29 Apr

The Rock Claps Back After Black Adam Trailer Confuses Fans

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Do heroes kill? The Rock certainly isn’t the first person to raise this question, but he does need to answer it after fans expressed frustration with the latest trailer for his upcoming DCEU movie, Black Adam. According to reports about the new trailer released at CinemaCon this week, the Rock’s character Black Adam declares, “Heroes don’t kill people… Well, I do.” Responding to a report on the trailer from Fandango reporter Erik Davis, a Twitter user pointed out that several DCEU heroes have killed, including Superman and Batman, deciding, “That line doesn’t make sense.” BatmanAquamanSupermanWonder WomanThey have all killed people, that…
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29 Apr

How The Avengers Set up the Future of the MCU

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This article contains Marvel Cinematic Universe spoilers. When Marvel Studios released The Avengers in 2012, they probably didn’t know that they were about to change the Hollywood film industry forever. The movie would go on to gross over $1.5 billion at the global box office, and it set the template for Marvel’s blockbuster MCU movie strategy over the next decade. Other studios tried and failed to replicate the movie’s superhero team-up success, but their output never quite earned the right to take a place at its side. Only Marvel could beat Marvel. These days, The Avengers is an odd movie…
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29 Apr

Best Movie Comedies of the Last 15 Years

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There is likely no genre of film or performance more subjective than comedy. You either laugh or you don’t. To explain why something is funny will more often than not rob a joke of its power, and to attempt to classify one type of humor over another could be a fool’s errand. Which must mean we’re feeling pretty foolish here at Den of Geek, because in honor of our company’s 15th year, we decided to rank and list all the best laughers from the last decade and a half. Now admittedly, what qualifies as a “comedy”—versus, say, a drama with…
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28 Apr

Making Iron Man 2 Was as Messy as the Finished Film

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Perhaps the least surprising announcement coming out of CinemaCon was the revelation that Kevin Feige and others have gathered at a retreat to plan out the next 10 years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Under Feige’s direction, the MCU has developed a reputation for order that mirrors its comic book predecessor. Characters and plot points introduced in one film do not reach their end their conclusion until several movies later. But that wasn’t always the case. Back in the late 2000s, the fledging Marvel Studios was still scrambling to establish itself. No movie better encapsulates that scramble than 2010’s Iron…
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28 Apr

Terminator: Salvation Director Reflects on the Movie’s Failure

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Terminator: Salvation had so much potential when it hit theaters in 2009. Instead of following the T-800’s story or undoing the bleak ending to Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Salvation boasted a new story that finally gave us the heroic John Connor who has been promised since the first movie in 1984. With writing support from Jonathan Nolan and starring Christian Bale, both of whom had just made the mega-smash The Dark Knight, and co-starring Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese, with then-up-and-coming Sam Worthington as cyborg Marcus Wright, Salvation seemed like the rare prequel that could effectively stand alongside…
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28 Apr

The Flash Movie Just Spoiled a Big Batman Easter Egg

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After countless delays, it’s beginning to feel like Warner Bros.’ long-gestating The Flash movie is never actually going to see the light of day. But the studio wants to keep the hype train rolling anyway. WB has just unveiled new footage from The Flash at this year’s CinemaCon, and the big focus is (unsurprisingly) the return of Michael Keaton as Batman. The promo even shows Keaton back in the Batsuit for the first time since 1992’s Batman Returns. The audience attending the Las Vegas event were also treated to glimpses of Wayne Manor, “iconic” Batsuits from the hero’s past, and…
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27 Apr

The Offer: Why The Godfather Is a Metaphor for 1970s Filmmaking

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Paramount+ is going to the mattresses on April 28. The streamer will debut the first three episodes of The Offer. Based on the experiences of producer Albert S. Ruddy, played by Miles Teller, the original miniseries is about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 gangster classic, The Godfather. But it is really a love story to early 1970s filmmaking. Paramount+ will also add remastered versions of the full Godfather trilogy to its streaming library. Promoted as an epic tale of betrayal, power, and murder, the first film is an allegory to the American dream, corporate malfeasance, and family. The…
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27 Apr

Volcano vs. Dante’s Peak: Which Is the Better Disaster Flick?

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It was 25 years ago that several Hollywood studios indulged in the town’s occasional and curious practice of releasing two movies about the same subject within months of each other, if not weeks. On Feb. 7, 1997, Universal Pictures released Dante’s Peak, in which Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton try to save a small Washington town from being obliterated by a long dormant and suddenly active volcano. Just over two months later, on April 25, 1997, 20th Century Fox delivered Volcano, with Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche leading the efforts to stop a newly formed underground vent from erupting…
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26 Apr

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: Who Are the Illuminati?

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The Illuminati may be relatively new to Marvel Comics, but they are one of the universe’s most compelling concepts. The Illuminati have been absent from the MCU, but recent trailers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness confirm the existence of the organization, albeit in a slightly different form. In Marvel Comics, the Illuminati is a gathering of the smartest and most influential heroes on Earth. They exist to deal with galactic and multiversal threats; complex problems that demand difficult solutions. They first appeared in the pages of Brian Michael Bendis’ run on New Avengers and played a major role in the…
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26 Apr

How Modern Star Trek Gets Khan Wrong

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Star Trek Picard is, unsurprisingly, an absolutely treasure trove of continuity and easter eggs. Sometimes that’s fun, like when Seven of Nine silences the same bus punk that Spock did in Star Trek IV, and sometimes it’s baffling, such as when Guinan mysteriously de-ages and forgets Picard existed some time between the 19th and 21st centuries, or Picard’s Hallucination Dad adding a bunch of unnecessary backstory while gloating he kept his hair (despite the fact we already know he didn’t). One of the subtler and longer-running threads of this series has been the plot around geneticist Adam Soong, ancestor of…
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26 Apr

Why We’re Still Obsessed With The Batman’s Origin Story

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Matt Reeves’ The Batman takes us all back to the very early days of The Caped Crusader. He’s not quite the figure he will go on to be, and neither are his rogues. While Reeves didn’t want to do another “origin” movie, given the towering cultural behemoth that is the Christopher Nolan trilogy, with Batman Begins firmly occupying that space, The Batman is still deeply fascinated by that period for the character. It’s not so much the assembling of the costumes or a training montage, as much as the raw uncertainty, the flaws, and the incomplete nature of a larger…
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26 Apr

Doctor Strange 2’s Horror Content Unveiled by BBFC

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This article contains spoilers for Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. When Marvel Studios first announced that they were pressing ahead with a sequel to 2016’s Doctor Strange, the news was welcomed by fans of the character and of the movie’s returning director, Scott Derrickson. It seemed like the MCU was about to finally start embracing the kind of horror themes that run through a swathe of Marvel Universe comics. Retaining Derrickson, a favored creator who had previously helmed the likes of Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose, seemed like the right choice. But some pesky “creative…
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26 Apr

Batgirl Theatrical Release Rumors and the Problem with Streaming

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Once upon a time, former WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar had a dream: build HBO Max into a streaming service that could rival Netflix and Disney+. It was the goalpost that determined as many decisions during his tenure, which began in May 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence the rush to release the entire 2021 Warner Bros. film slate simultaneously on HBO Max (which certainly left money on the table with Dune), and the choice to pillage explore WarnerMedia’s entire library for streaming content. Like Game of Thrones? Want a spinoff? How about six? But perhaps nothing in the Warner catalog…
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25 Apr

Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Will Finally Honor Former Teammate

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For most fans, the Guardians of the Galaxy consist of five to eight members. There’s the main team of Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Groot, and sometimes Yondu, Nebula, and Mantis. But comic fans have been waiting for another player to be added to the team, one who has been teased in both of the Guardians movies. Cosmo the Spacedog was seen briefly in the Collector’s cell in the first movie before joining Howard the Duck for the post-credit sequence. He was initially intended to be in Avengers: Infinity War but was cut for time, leaving a brief shot in the Guardians Vol. 2 credits as…
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25 Apr

The Batman Viral Video Replaces Robert Pattinson with Adam West

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With its recent release on HBO Max, The Batman continues to reshape the public’s perception of what a superhero movie can be. But it’s hardly the first time that the Dark Knight appeared on screen. In fact, outside of some serials of questionable quality in the 1940s, Batman’s feature film debut came with 1966’s Batman: The Movie. For some viewers, there could not be a larger disparity between the pop art of the 60s movie and the gothic look of Matt Reeves’s film. But the Corridor Crew on YouTube found a way. A recently-posted video recreates The Batman’s first trailer, digitally replacing actors from…
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24 Apr

New Nicolas Cage Movie Has Amazing National Treasure Easter Egg

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This article contains mild The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent spoilers. You know you’ve entered the uncanny valley when it is Nicolas Cage who cautions against hyperbole and overly dramatic line readings. Hence the snickers when Cage, playing a version of himself, looks Pedro Pascal dead into the windows of his soul and says, “Very dramatic, but is there an actual plan?” The moment, which occurs right before the third act of Tom Gormican’s delightfully self-aware comedy, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, is appealing because it works on several levels at once. And in all of them, Cage is…
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23 Apr

The Batman: When Does the Joker Deleted Scene Take Place in the Movie?

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Much has already been written about The Batman‘s biggest surprise. In fact, Warner Bros. even let the clown out of the bag early in the film’s theatrical run, revealing that director Matt Reeves had shot not just one scene with Barry Keoghan‘s new take on the Joker but two. The second scene was cut for time, though, and who could blame the director? This film is already just shy of three hours long, a superhero epic that, while excellent, isn’t exactly as jovial or action-packed as other comic book flicks fighting at that weight, and the extra scene is very…
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23 Apr

The Northman Ending and Mysteries Explained

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This article contains massive THE NORTHman spoilers. I will avenge you, father! I will save you, mother! I will kill you, Fjölnir! By the time The Northman concludes, Alexander Skarsgård’s wayward Viking prince has accomplished two out of the three. But was any of it worthwhile? Before the credits roll, Uncle Fjölnir (Claes Bang) is well and truly dead by his nephew’s hand; his head cleaved clean off with a massive stroke of Amleth’s arm. However, the prince without a kingdom is also slain, stabbed through what I believe is the heart and left to simmer by a lake of…
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