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02 Nov

Doctor Strange 2 Villain Leaked

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Given its premise, pretty much anything could happen in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the upcoming Doctor Strange sequel that sees Strange messing with the Time Stone in a post-Loki MCU. Maybe that’s why any concrete details about the Sam Raimi film are both so precious and also so precarious. In Strange’s Multiverse, reality—and therefore canon—is a bit more malleable. That being said, merch is forever, so you better believe we’re side-eying what appears to be some official Marvel tie-in toy teasing a Doctor Strange antagonist who has recently popped up elsewhere in the MCU… Australian retailer Booktopia…

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02 Nov

Thor: Love and Thunder Set Photos Reveal Key Flashback Scene

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Thor Odinson and Jane Foster had a blooming MCU romance during the first two Thor franchise movies, but following the Ultron Offensive depicted in Avengers: Age of Ultron, the happy couple split for reasons that have yet to become clear. It looks like we’ll find out exactly why the relationship deteriorated in Marvel’s upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder, though, as Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Jane (Natalie Portman) have just been snapped on set during reshoots for the film in what looks to be a flashback scene. The images, which capture the pair sporting Thor: The Dark World-era hair and clothing,…

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02 Nov

Behind the Scenes of Marvel’s New Spider-Man

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This is not Zeb Wells’ first time in a comic book writers’ room. It’s not even his first time breaking Spider-Man stories as part of a team. The big difference with this one (besides the focus shifting to Ben Reilly, Peter’s returned clone wearing the official red and blue for the first time in decades) is that hopefully no children get eaten on his watch.  “I deserve that,” the new Amazing Spider-Man lead writer chuckles when we compare this new team project to “Shed,” the critically acclaimed, impossibly bleak story he wrote back when Peter Parker was in the middle…

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02 Nov

How Hans Zimmer Brought the Dune Soundtrack to Life

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Remember when Timothée Chalamet tries to get out of a knife fight by saying, “give us a song, Gurney?” It’s a throwaway moment in Dune: Part One, as Josh Brolin’s Gurney Halleck tries to teach Paul the finer points of being a badass, but it’s a relevant beat. In Frank Herbert’s novel Dune, Gurney doesn’t just lead the Atreides soldiers into battle, he also plays the baliset, a fictional musical instrument that is kind of a cross between a mandolin and a sitar.  Though some scenes were filmed for Dune: Part One with Gurney holding a baliset, we didn’t get…

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02 Nov

Raw Milk, Jaywalking and Cuban Cigars: US Laws That Puzzle Sitcom Viewers in the UK

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England and America are two countries separated by a common language but – as George Bernard Shaw would doubtless have added if he’d had a Sky TV package in the 1990s – joined by a common love of The Simpsons. Homer and co. are universal. It doesn’t matter if you buy your groceries at Walmart or do your big shop at Asda, The Simpsons speaks to us all. Every so often though, what The Simpsons speaks to UK viewers is momentarily baffling – a reminder that wherever Springfield is, it’s not where we’re from. The same goes for other US…

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02 Nov

The Book of Boba Fett Trailer Breakdown and Star Wars Easter Eggs

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In The Book of Boba Fett, the bounty hunter is taking full advantage of his new lease on life. No longer content to work for greedy crime bosses like Jabba the Hutt, Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) is starting his own crime syndicate with assassin Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) on Tatooine. But that won’t be so easy as the first trailer for the new Disney+ series shows. He’ll have to deal with rival gangs, dissent from within, and even his own past as a merciless killer. Will Boba really be able to carve out a new path for himself or will…

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02 Nov

The 10 Scariest Comic Book Monsters Ever

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This article is part of our Collector’s Digest series powered by: Halloween may be over, but Spooky Season never really ends here at Den of Geek. Thus, there’s no better time than the present to take a look at the most terrifying characters in comics. It’s tough to pull off jump scares on the page, but comics are perfect for over-the-top monsters, skin-crawling psychological horror, and the kind of existential terror that can only be inspired by a large stone man in a purple skirt. Let’s take a look! RASPUTIN There have been plenty of fictional depictions of Rasputin through…

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01 Nov

Antlers and Last Night in Soho Box Office Asks If Audiences Will Return to Theaters for Non-Franchise Movies

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The beginning of autumn is supposed to be spooky season, particularly in the U.S. where Halloween is treated with more reverence than most national holidays. It’s that time of year where children go trick ‘r treating and adults also dress up as ghosts and goblins—seeking out out new chillers and thrillers of every stripe. Even so, that setting was no help to Last Night in Soho and Antlers, two new horror movies that sank like bewitched stones at the box office. Grossing a near identical cume of $4.16 million over the weekend—with Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho squeaking out…

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01 Nov

What The Book of Boba Fett Trailer’s B’omarr Monk Might Mean

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The Book of Boba Fett trailer touts the belated fulfillment of a TV series concept focused on the seedier, “scum and villainy” side of the galaxy as once teased in Lucasfilm’s nixed pre-Disney TV project, Star Wars: Underworld. Yet, its focus on classic concepts was made clear with the clip’s opening shot, featuring one of Return of the Jedi’s most curious creatures, a B’omarr monk. While the order’s morbid, jar-brained backstory is interesting in its own right, the monk’s presence could prove indicative of Boba’s criminal syndicate power consolidation. Casual Star Wars fans were likely left doing a double-take upon…

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01 Nov

Bloodborne Demake Reminds Us How Lovably Bad PS1 Graphics Were

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Fan developers Lilith Walther and Corwyn Prichard have revealed that their beloved PS1 “demake” of FromSoftware’s Bloodborne will be released for PC on January 31, 2022. As the name suggests, Bloodborne PS1 Demake is an elaborate fan project that recreates Bloodborne in the style of a PS1 game. While the project won’t go beyond the boss fight against Father Gascoigne (though its creators say it will feature “extended areas and some bonus post-game content”), Bloodborne PS1 Demake will be released for free early next year, so there’s really no reason not to try it if you’re one of the many…

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01 Nov

Spencer: Kristen Stewart Conjures Diana and Her Own Hollywood Ghosts

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Little girls growing up wanting to be princesses might think again after seeing Kristen Stewart in this dramatized snapshot of three days in the life of the late ‘people’s princess,’ Lady Diana Spencer. Though the movie doesn’t deal with Diana’s death, the looming knowledge of what is to come for the young mother hangs heavy throughout. But instead of directly dealing with that sorrow, Pablo Larraín’s “fable from a true tragedy” focuses on the gilded cage of Diana’s life over Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day in 1991. What results is one the most depressing Christmas movies of recent…

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01 Nov

Army of Thieves: Inside Zack Snyder’s Vision for a Whole Army of the Dead Universe

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Coming less than a year after its predecessor, Army of Thieves is a prequel to Zack Snyder’s recent Netflix hit zombie movie, Army of the Dead. But Thieves is not an action-horror hybrid like that earlier movie, which was directed and co-written by Snyder. Instead Thieves is a heist thriller (one based on a Snyder story and written by Shay Hatten, who worked on the first film’s screenplay) and set in the early days of Dead’s zombie pandemic. Hence the new film focuses on one character we met in the previous film and what he was up to before the…

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01 Nov

Doctor Who: Flux – What’s the Story With Claire? Theories & Questions

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Warning: contains spoilers for Doctor Who: Flux ‘The Halloween Apocalypse’ “Nothing’s as it should be, Yaz. Too much out of the ordinary tonight.” Between The Flux, the dog, the new Companion, the Sontarans, the Swarm, his sister, the Outpost, the Doctor’s hunt for information about the Division, and the TARDIS malfunctions, ‘The Halloween Apocalypse’ barely paused for breath. One sequence though, slowed things down and created a much-needed moment of hushed intrigue amid all the noise and rushing about. Outside Anfield Stadium on the trail of Karvanista, Yaz is busily telling the Doctor off for refusing to confide her secrets,…

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01 Nov

Link Tank: Hocus Pocus 2 Cast Revealed

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Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham headlines new cast members for Hocus Pocus 2, heading to Disney+ next fall. “Now, this is the kind of Halloween news we love to see: Hannah Waddingham is joining the cast of Hocus Pocus 2! The Emmy winner, best known for playing Rebecca on the smash-hit series Ted Lasso, will be playing an undisclosed role in the highly anticipated sequel. Disney confirmed the sequel and announced several new cast members on Twitter.” Read more at The Mary Sue Sorry, everyone, there will not be a director’s cut of Dune despite campaigns from star Jason Mamoa.…

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01 Nov

Fear the Walking Dead Finally Reveals John and Teddy’s Darkest Secrets

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This Fear the Walking Dead review contains spoilers.  Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 3 I’m going to borrow a page from Teddy’s philosophy that the end is the beginning—at least as it relates to my review of “Cindy Hawkins.” Why? Because by the end of the episode, it occurred to me that viewers’ enjoyment of Fear the Walking Dead’s seventh season will rely heavily upon whether you accept Morgan and Strand as archrivals. This is an important consideration because everybody else will likely find themselves caught in the crossfire of competing ideologies. Perhaps the one thing more dangerous than Morgan and…

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01 Nov

Doctor Who: Flux – Who Is Karvanista?

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Warning: contains spoilers for Doctor Who: Flux ‘The Halloween Apocalypse’ Why did the Doctor travel half the universe to, as she told Yaz, “see a man about a dog”? Firstly, because the Doctor is more evasive than a mid-scandal cabinet member at a press briefing and refuses to confide in the people who regularly risk their lives by her side, and secondly, because the Doctor enjoys making dog-related jokes at the expense of new alien Karvanista. (See also: “I’ve got a bone to pick with you.”) Not a dog Karvanista may look like a dog, sniff things inquisitively like a…

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01 Nov

Amazon Prime Video New Releases: November 2021

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Amazon Prime Video’s epic The Lord of the Rings series won’t arrive until 2022. Thankfully, with its list of new releases for November 2021, Amazon has a pretty major fantasy adaptation to hold us over. The Wheel of Time is set to premiere on Nov. 19 and will bring Robert Jordan’s massive fantasy universe to life. Rosamund Pike stars as Moiraine, a powerful magic-user who guides five young people on a perilous journey around the world. One of them just might be the reincarnation of the Dragon, a powerful entity who could save the world…or destroy it. Read more TV…

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01 Nov

New on Netflix: November 2021 Releases

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With its list of new releases for November 2021, Netflix will attempt to bravely step into a post-Squid Game world. Helping it in that mission is a diverse array of original series and films. On the TV side of things, it’s a good month to be animated with both Big Mouth and F is for Family premiering their fifth seasons (on Nov. 5 and Nov. 25 respectively). It’s the live-action version of an animated classic, however, that might be Netflix’s crown jewel this month. Cowboy Bebop premieres on Nov. 19 and based on the first trailer, it will maintain the…

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01 Nov

Best Movies Coming to Netflix in November 2021

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Sadly, spooky season is over. That pumpkin you carved a few nights ago? It’s starting to look scary for all the wrong reasons as it decays. Those ghost decorations? Maybe you can let them ride for a few weeks more, but turkey season is around the corner if you’re in the U.S., and the neighbors are going to start talking. Yep, we always regret seeing October end, but that doesn’t mean we have to be blue about it! Indeed, Netflix alone has waited until November to put out some of its best spooky content, from one of the better Dracula…

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01 Nov

Disney+ New Releases: November 2021

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With its list of new releases for November 2021, Disney+ is continuing its dream of always having one big ticket Marvel series running on its servers. After the interesting and entertaining animated effort Marvel’s What If…? wrapped up its run in early October, Hawkeye is set to pick up the Infinity Gauntlet and run with it with two episodes premiering on Nov. 24. This live-action series features Jeremy Renner reprising his role as expert marksman Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye and encountering the next generation of heroes in the form of Hailee Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop. Also there will be a dog…and…

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