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The Witcher Season 2: Why Does Jaskier Sing ‘Burn, Butcher, Burn’?

One of the standout accomplishments of the first season of The Witcher was the sheer addictiveness of the song, “Toss a Coin To Your Witcher” as sung by Joey Batey, who plays the bard Jaskier in the show. Now lightning has struck twice with the season 2 entry, “Burn, Butcher, Burn,” which is just as much of an earworm. Given that it’s been awhile since we last saw Jaskier, the circumstances related by the lyrics might have been forgotten by some. Why is the bard so pissed at his friend Geralt, who is clearly the subject of this rage anthem?…
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How Anna and the Apocalypse Shows Zombies are, in Fact, Christmassy

There are some things we just automatically associate with Christmas. Tinsel, Christmas trees, crackers with bad jokes in, fairy lights. There are also stories we keep coming back to at this time of year. Scrooge and his ghosts, George Bailey seeing what the world would be like if he’d never been born, and yes, John McClane single-handedly foiling a terrorist attack that is actually an elaborate heist. But one thing you probably don’t associate with Christmas is hordes of the shambling undead attempting to batter your door down and feast on your brains. In 2017 Anna and the Apocalypse set…
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Link Tank: Find Out Who Rhys Ifans Wants The Lizard to Fight Next

Spider-Man: No Way Home actor Rhys Ifans says he wants to see the Lizard take on Venom in a future movie. “The Lizard is in Spider-Man: No Way Home, but is Rhys Ifans? The actor, who also stars as Rasputin in The King’s Man (2021) is keeping his lips closed on the new Spidey movie, but he still has opinions on why his The Amazing Spider-Man character was such a good antagonist for Peter Parker.” Read more at Inverse After her standout performance in What If…?, Captain Carter is getting her own run in the comic books. “Peggy Carter has gone through many different titles during…
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1883: Everything to Know About The Yellowstone Prequel’s Cast

At first glance, Yellowstone didn’t have the makings of a major TV hit.  By the time Yellowstone premiered in 2018, its creator Taylor Sheridan didn’t have much name recognition beyond action movie die-hards. The show’s name was generic and certainly not search engine friendly. And its home on Paramount Network? One could be forgiven for not knowing where that was in their cable package. And yet, Yellowstone did become a TV heavy hitter, arguably one of the biggest ones on television. Its ratings are absolutely massive, with the season 4 premiere pulling in a mind-boggling 14 million viewers before streaming…
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The Expanse Season 6 Episode 2 Review: Azure Dragon

This review contains spoilers for The Expanse. What a difference a week makes! If Prime Video had released the final season of The Expanse all at once, viewers would have seen the premiere as nothing more than the preamble to episode 2, but on its own “Azure Dragon” stands out as an action-packed but also emotionally powerful installment that deserves its own week of appreciation. Although it’s still easy to wonder how the story can possibly wrap up in four more episodes, things are definitely on a good track. Even small moments like Naomi freezing up during the mission to…
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Spider-Man: No Way Home Easter Eggs and Marvel Universe References

This article contains Spider-Man: No Way Home spoilers as well as potential spoilers for the wider MCU. Spider-Man reaches the end of a trilogy, which in its way now feels like the culmination of a trilogy of Spider-Man sagas. In what we can best describe as the end of the “Son of Stark” era of Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, our hero goes big. Thanks to an ill-advised team-up with a wizard, heroes and villains from other continuities and past movie franchises show up, including a bizarre cameo from a drunken wild card trying to make sense of this…
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Spider-Man: No Way Home Ending Explained

This MCU article contains MAJOR spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home. Spider-Man: No Way Home, the latest installment in the Marvel pantheon, has hit theaters, complete with an ending that is sure to reverberate across the MCU—if not because Doctor Strange has left cracks in the multiverse than in the space it will leave in the Avengers where Peter Parker once stood. The movie crams a lot into its two-and-a-half-hour runtime, giving rewarding endings to not one but three Peter Parkers. How does it do it? And what does No Way Home’s ending mean for the future of Spider-Man and the…
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Spider-Man: No Way Home Post-Credits Scene Explained

This article contains significant Spider-Man: No Way Home spoilers. Going into this event movie weekend, there were a whole lot of fan theories and guesses at what the post-credits scene would be in Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: No Way Home. Would the worst kept secret in the world—that Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield were coming back for another inter-dimensional Spidey adventure—give way to extra cameos from Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson and Emma Stone as a resurrected Gwen Stacy? Could it be revealed that Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange had been Mephisto all along? Or, my personal favorite, would Bruce Campbell…
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What Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Toys Reveal About the Movie

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has effectively kept its plot details covered under a magic cloak of secrecy, but the time for touting approaches, especially as its direct predecessor, Spider-Man: No Way Home, hits theaters this weekend. Consequently, a tradition for Marvel Cinematic Universe tentpole pictures has just been fulfilled with a grand unveiling of the 2022-scheduled sequel’s tie-in toys, providing previews of unseen characters and costumes. Hasbro Toys is now teasing the Marvel Legends 6” scale action figure line’s wave of tie-in toys for Multiverse of Madness. Among the various surprises, the preview provides a potentially profound…
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The Batman: Are There Too Many Jokers in the DC Movie Multiverse?

In the latest edition of its Heat Vision newsletter, the Hollywood Reporter dropped a little news item saying that Warner Bros. Pictures recently test-screened two different versions of director Matt Reeves’ The Batman — one featuring a particular actor, and one without him. Although the Reporter would not say who the actor was, or what role he played, it was heavily implied that it was Irish actor Barry Keoghan, and the part in question was the Joker. Keoghan is in fact listed in the cast of the movie, as Gotham police officer Stanley Merkel (who, in the comics, was James…
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Final Fantasy 14: Common Error Message Meanings and Solutions

While I’d love to be able to talk more about Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker‘s story, characters, best moments, and mechanics, the fact of the matter is that most of the conversations about this game so far have been focused on the MMO’s ridiculously long queues and various error messages. I hope that Square Enix’s recent decision to suspend sales of Final Fantasy 14 will help fix the game’s worst server issues, but it’s likely that you will continue to encounter the most common problems until the hype surrounding the latest expansion dies down a little bit and Final Fantasy 14‘s…
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When is Spider-Man: No Way Home Set In the MCU Post-Blip Timeline?

The Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline was hard to keep track of before a universe-changing event occurred in Avengers: Endgame, prompting the main chronology of the series to skip five years ahead mid-movie. Now we’re on the other side of “the Blip,” and the five-year time jump it prompted, but what does that mean for the latest MCU movies and TV shows, including Spider-Man: No Way Home? Let’s break it down, year by year. MCU: 2018 Endgame begins in 2018, not too long after the events of Infinity War where half the universe was “blipped” out of existence with a snap…
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Link Tank: Should Batman Returns Be Considered a Christmas Movie?

While everyone is enjoying the Christmas-time Marvel show Hawkeye, let’s take a look back on the holiday-themed DC flick Batman Returns. “Batman Returns (1992) is undoubtedly one of the most bizarre movies ever made. You wouldn’t expect anything less from a Tim Burton movie, but even then, it’s a hard movie to pin down. It’s a Batman movie, a comic book movie, and somewhere between an action and sci-fi movie—that much is clear. But is the superhero showdown also a Christmas movie? Read more at Mental Floss Could Hawkeye be taking another step further into making Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. no longer MCU canon? “Fans are now…
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Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 5 Easter Eggs & References

This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 5. Following in the footsteps of Season 3, the first batch of episodes in Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 do two things: The overall story of the season-long arc is explored, but, the episode itself presents a standalone story in the classic Star Trek tradition. Last week, Tilly got her “Galileo Seven” moment, but this week, in “The Examples,” DISCO tackles a classic Trek ethical dilemma. As Burnham and Book navigate the morality of saving prisoners on a doomed colony, “The Examples” front-loads the episode with a ton of…
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Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 5 Review: The Examples

The following contains Star Trek: discovery spoilers. Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 5 After several weeks of smaller, character-based stories, Star Trek: Discovery dives right back into the apparent season-spanning question of the mysterious gravitational anomaly that is capable of destroying entire worlds. And, in doing so, it manages to – albeit briefly – wrestle with just the sort of ethical conundrums with no easy answers that Star Trek has always been so uniquely good at exploring. (And that’s not even counting the fact that the ship’s computer seems to be somehow developing human emotions, which is going to…
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Nightmare Alley: Guillermo del Toro Noir Is Devilishly Good

Time to share a secret: as much as I respect and admire Guillermo del Toro–not just for many of his films, but for his genuine love of cinema and particularly of genre, and his championing of the latter in all forms–his last several movies have left me cold. Pacific Rim (2013) and Crimson Peak (2015) were both disappointments, technically impressive and stunning to look at, but lacking in the humanity and emotional resonance that fueled his personal masterpieces like The Devil’s Backbone (2001) and Pan’s Labyrinth (2006). His 2017 Best Picture and Best Director winner, The Shape of Water, was…
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Best Books of 2021

It’s been a difficult year for the publishing industry, as global supply chain issues, as well as labor and paper shortages, have led to delays. But many wonderful and nerdy books have made it over those obstacles to make it into the world and into our eyeballs and brains. As we reflect back on 2021, here are 20 books—from horror to fantasy to science fiction—that meant something to Den of Geek staff and contributors over the past year. The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix 2021 has seen something of a slasher renaissance in film, with the Fear Street…
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Star Wars: What The Book of Boba Fett Trailers Might Be Hiding

Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett is only a few weeks away, marking a major turning point for the fan-favorite character who was originally “killed off” on the big screen in 1983. But now Boba Fett‘s back (played by Temuera Morrison) and teaming up with assassin Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) to take over Jabba the Hutt’s old criminal empire on Tatooine. According to the trailers released so far, the prime focus of the seven-episode series will be Boba and Fennec’s adventures on the dangerous desert planet and their quest to reunite Jabba’s captains under their banner. But could there…
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Hawkeye Episode 5: MCU Easter Eggs and Marvel Comics References

This article contains Hawkeye episode 5 spoilers, as well as potential spoilers for future episodes and the wider MCU. Hawkeye Episode 5 It’s Yelena Belova’s world, we just live in it. Or maybe it’s Wilson Fisk’s. Either way, the two characters everybody’s gonna be talking about after Hawkeye episode 5, “Ronin” for once, aren’t Clint Barton or Kate Bishop. It’s a “light on Easter eggs” kind of episode, but there’s still some cool connections to be made. And as always, we’d love to hear from you about anything we might have missed! BLACK WIDOW We get a lot of ties…
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Spider-Man: No Way Home Originally Had a Civil War Cover Story

The secrets of Spider-Man: No Way Home have escaped into the ether, thanks to a plethora of advance reactions (including our own review) and even some leaks, but most moviegoers remain enthusiastically unsullied going into this weekend’s wide release. While this is arguably a testament to Sony’s ability for keeping crucial secrets, the studio originally had loftier plans when it comes to the film’s marketing strategy, according to Tom Holland. Imagine, if you will, a scenario in which the threequel’s heralded multiverse villains served as a surprise plot twist. Sony Pictures has spent months inundating us with Spider-Man: No Way…
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