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25 Feb

Is Marvel Phase 4 Turning Doctor Strange into Reed Richards?

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It’s commonly accepted that the greatest villain in Fantastic Four history is Doctor Doom, but what’s typically less understood is that the second greatest villain in the F4 pantheon is Reed Richards himself. Or at least parallel versions of him. And what’s absolutely fascinating about the world we live in now is that Marvel seems to be doing their damnedest to turn the movie version of Doctor Strange into the comics version of Reed Richards.  To understand how Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness might take a good chunk of its inspiration from the journey of Reed Richards in…
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25 Feb

How the Real Donnie Brasco Bought Mob Family a Reprieve from the FBI

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The 1997 mob movie, Donnie Brasco, celebrates its 25th anniversary this week. This is almost as long as the real-life title character has been on the run with a half-a-million-dollar contract on his head. Johnny Depp plays Joe Pistone in the movie, an undercover federal cop codenamed “Donnie Brasco.” He gets so deep into the wheels of the Brooklyn operations of the Bonanno crime family that he almost becomes a made man. Donnie is one hit away from getting straightened out, joining the official rank and file of the organization, when the FBI pulls him in from the case. The…
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25 Feb

Marvel Teases Big Future for Ant-Man in New Series

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This article contains spoilers for Marvel’s Loki We still need to wait until 2023 before we get to see Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang and Evangeline Lilly’s Hope van Dyne back in action in Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, but Marvel is giving Ant-Man fans reason to celebrate in June of 2022! Marvel Comics has announced a special 4-issue miniseries to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Ant-Man’s first appearance in 1962’s Tales to Astonish #35. Written by Al Ewing (The Immortal Hulk) with art by Tom Reilly (The Thing), Ant-Man promises to dig into the hero’s legacy by looking at each…
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25 Feb

Star Trek: We Dodged a Photon Torpedo with Quentin Tarantino’s Movie

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When the news broke in December 2017 that Quentin Tarantino had approached Paramount Pictures with a pitch for a new Star Trek film, one could hear the collective sound of countless fans’ jaws dropping open. One of the most respected (and controversial) filmmakers of his time, the imagination behind modern classics like Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds, wanted to put his imprimatur on one of the most beloved (if creaky) sci-fi franchises of all time? Apparently that was the case, even if it was unclear whether Tarantino actually wanted to direct the thing himself or just sort of shepherd his…
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24 Feb

How Peter Dinklage Finds a Deeper ‘Truth’ in His Cyrano

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When filmmaker Joe Wright was first invited to see a workshop of Cyrano, a new musical adaptation of the Edmond Rostand play, he thought he already knew the material. He grew up reading and relishing the original Cyrano de Bergerac, and still admits with a faint smile that the first thing he thinks of when he hears that name is the character’s big nose—that nose, plus the character’s even bigger mind and sense of pride. Yet when actress Haley Bennett (The Magnificent Seven, The Girl on the Train) invited him to her theatrical debut in a little workshop production in…
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24 Feb

Kingsman 3 and Where the Franchise Goes from Here

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This article contains some The King’s Man spoilers. By the time The King’s Man rolled credits late last year, more than a century’s worth of lore and internal mythology had been established in the three-film franchise. From the Kingsman spy syndicate’s earliest origins during the Second Boer War in 1902 to that time Eggsy, aka Agent Galahad, rescued Elton John in 2017, there’s now a vast timeline of adventures, world-saving hail marys, and espionage double crosses littered throughout world history. That’s pretty impressive for a franchise that writer-director Matthew Vaughn started as a riff on early James Bond flicks, as…
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22 Feb

Why Escape from L.A. Deserves a Better Look

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At the end of Escape from L.A. (1996), Kurt Russell’s Snake Plissken fingers a device which can shut down all technology across the planet. Luckily, Paramount Home Entertainment will have the sequel to John Carpenter’s Escape from New York available on 4K Ultra HD before he can punch the 666-access code into the keypad. Made for $50 million in the year Jurassic Park was budgeted at $65 million, the cult epic follow-up turned up the volume, action, FX, and nihilistic cynicism of its predecessor for an over-the-top high-tide hang glide. Escape from L.A. is a dystopian satire where the U.S.…
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21 Feb

The Dark Knight: When Plot Holes Don’t Matter

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Movies have the ability to bend time–not just in a screenplay, but in real life itself. There’s a strange but accepted phenomenon that if a movie is working, it could be three and a half hours long but that time will fly by like a starship buzzing across the cosmos at Warp 7. Conversely, if a film doesn’t come together, it could be 80 minutes long (without credits) and that will feel like an eternity. We’ve all gone through that, and we’ve also experienced another curious, organic side effect of watching movies: if the film is generally firing on all…
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20 Feb

The Real History of The King’s Man

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This article contains The King’s Man spoilers. Matthew Vaughn’s The King’s Man is on streaming now. That’s a quick turnaround since its Christmastime release last year, but perhaps it’s for the best. With the largely underappreciated (and under-seen) Kingsman prequel making its debut on HBO Max and Hulu, there’s a chance the strange action mash-up may finally find its audience. Indeed, the film’s pitch always seemed a bit niche, even for this franchise. By eschewing the modern class conflict of the first two Kingsman movies, which created a dynamic of “street” versus posh spy, the World War I-set The King’s…
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20 Feb

Texas Chainsaw Massacre Ending Is Unexplainable

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There are so many things wrong with the new Netflix movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a dull, pointless, mean-spirited, and cynical cash-grab so unimaginative that the filmmakers couldn’t even be bothered to come up with at least a variation of the title. But surely the film’s ending is one of the shabbiest and dumbest aspects of this entire fiasco. To recap: entrepreneurs Dante (Jacob Latimore) and Melody (Sarah Yarkin) have raised enough money from investors to buy an entire abandoned town in Texas with the goal of turning it into some sort of new hipster utopia–Williamsburg South, you might say. But…
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19 Feb

Uncharted: Best Easter Eggs and References in the Tom Holland Movie

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This article contains spoilers for Uncharted. Uncharted isn’t just a somewhat surprisingly fun movie that tries to capture the spirit of classic adventure films gone by, it’s a video game adaptation that generously cites its source material through a variety of easter eggs. Thos movie seriously pays tribute to the blockbuster PlayStation games (as well as a variety of other genre staples). While some video game adaptations are more than happy to ignore their source material entirely or just nod at it once in a while, Uncharted wears its heart on its sleeve when it comes to referencing the best-selling…
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18 Feb

Give James Gunn a Justice League Movie

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This article contains The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker and spoilers. Picking up right where James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad left off, Peacemaker was a profane, hilarious, and brutally violent exploration of the weirder side corners of the DCEU that fleshed out the world of ARGUS and Task Force X. It even brought some new depth to Amanda Waller as a bonus. Like Gunn’s DC movie, Peacemaker wasn’t afraid to revel in some obscure DC Comics references and by implication expand the boundaries of the DCEU (Green Arrow! Doll Man! Matter-Eater Lad!). But nobody really expected the Justice League to show…
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18 Feb

The Beatles and India Doc Captures More Than One Spiritual Journey

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In 1968, The Beatles, the biggest band in the material world, went searching for lesser-known alternatives in the spiritual one. Directed by Ajoy Bose and co-directed by Pete Compton, The Beatles and India is more than just a travelog of the band’s famous trip to Rishikesh, India to study transcendental meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The documentary shows how Indian music helped refine the group’s sound and how the country embraced the band as cultural ambassadors with deep roots which continue to this day. The Beatles impacted India almost as much as the country influenced them. The group was first…
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18 Feb

Robert Eggers and Anya Taylor-Joy Still Planning Nosferatu Remake

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Robert Eggers has been planning to remake Nosferatu for a long time. It was announced as an intended second feature after his first movie, The Witch, won the Directing Award at Sundance in 2015. Frequent collaborator Anya Taylor-Joy has been similarly attached to the reimagining for nearly as long. Yet seven years later, and after several other ambitious projects, the emerging auteur with a taste for Jungian horror is still waiting to sink his teeth into the classic vampire material. Hence when we sat down with the director to discuss his new film The Northman for Den of Geek magazine,…
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18 Feb

Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre Carves Out a Tasteless Mess

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What is it about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise that leaves Hollywood revival after revival in such a bloody state? Tobe Hooper’s original Texas Chain Saw Massacre is certainly not a flawless movie. It doesn’t even spell “chainsaw” correctly! But what that motley crew of young, independent filmmakers achieved while fumbling around in the grueling summer sun of 1973 has been impossible to replicate. Numerous studios and desperate IP holders proved that when, every few years, they let the movie rights change hands and someone else sends more aspiring filmmakers down to Texas with a bigger budget… all but dooming…
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18 Feb

Who Is Peacemaker’s Chukwudi Iwuji Playing In Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3?

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This article contains Peacemaker spoilers. One of the strengths of James Gunn’s delightful HBO Max series Peacemaker has been its cast, and one of the breakout actors on the show has been Chukwudi Iwuji, who’s portrayed the original character Clemson Murn, leader of the black ops Project Butterfly team and, as it turns out, an alien butterfly himself. Iwuji is a veteran actor who has worked primarily on the British stage, with a number of forays into TV and film, but Peacemaker is perhaps his most high-profile mainstream project to date. Until his next one, that is. Coming off his…
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18 Feb

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Makes What If Essential Marvel Viewing

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Marvel’s What If…? comic was always good for a nice, fun one-off story, but just because they were self-contained takes on alternate realities doesn’t mean they never mattered to Marvel Comics’ main continuity. An issue about the Avengers forming in the 1950s created the concept of the superhero team Agents of Atlas. Situations like the Spider-Man Clone Saga and Jane Foster as Thor first originated in that comic series. Even Skaar, Son of Hulk showed up in a What If…? story a week or so before appearing in regular continuity. The animated What If…? show on Disney+ seemed like it…
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18 Feb

Best Sci-Fi Movies of the Last 15 Years

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Fifteen years is a long time. We at Den of Geek can certainly attest to that as we’ve seen the industry change and grow, embrace streaming, and pivot toward intellectual property. Yet even as our present stays in a constant state of flux, our fascination with the future remains unwavering. What dreams may come in 15 years? Or 30? Or a hundred as technology evolves and its relationship with humanity is renegotiated? If you told a room full of geeks in early 2007 that 2022 would be a world filled with smartphones and tablets, social media-shaped democracies, and something called…
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18 Feb

How Fistful of Vengeance Connects to Wu Assassins

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This article contains Fistful of Vengeance spoilers. “Like the Avengers…but Asian.”  When Tommy (Lawrence Kao) quips this line in a Fistful of Vengeance, it’s almost meta. Fistful of Vengeance is the feature film sequel to Netflix’s 2019 10-episode martial arts driven series Wu Assassins. It is produced in the same spirit as Fox’s Firefly and Serenity or Netflix’s own Sense8 by the Wachowskis (which also had a lot of martial arts.)  Beyond Tommy, two other Wu Assassins leads reappear in Fistful of Vengeance. Indonesian martial arts superstar Iko Uwais reprises his role as Kai Jin, the San Francisco Chinatown chef…
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17 Feb

Queen of the Damned: The Vampire Classic That Almost Was

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Michael Rymer’s Queen of the Damned (2002) celebrates its 20th anniversary next week. The film is notable for the breakthrough performance of Aaliyah as the title character Queen Akasha. The rising singer tragically died at age 22 during post-production, with the movie offering only a glimpse of her greater talent. But 20 years on, the movie is most remembered as a famously flawed fright flick follow-up to one of the best vampire movies ever made–a rush job which doomed a promising franchise. It earned its cinematic notoriety because it ignored its natural and unnatural resources. The late Anne Rice reinvented…
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