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18 Oct

Kill the Justice League: Evil Superman Could Be the Best Video Game Superman

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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League‘s latest story trailer offered an intriguing look at Rocksteady’s upcoming game, brought up a few questions that still need to be answered, and, maybe most importantly, strongly suggested that its portrayal of “evil” Superman might just be the best video game version of Superman yet. I couldn’t even start to argue that I’m the biggest Superman fan in the world, but generally speaking, I tend not to be a fan of “evil” or even “dark” portrayals of Superman. I absolutely love stories like Superman: Red Son that find compelling new ways to present that…

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18 Oct

The Tragedy of The Last Duel Flopping at the Box Office

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The Last Duel did not have a good weekend at the box office. As a medieval epic from director Ridley Scott for the post-#MeToo era, the 20th Century Studios release posted a meager $4.8 million over its first three days in release. And that is on a reported budget of $100 million—a figure which does not include marketing and publicity costs. There are many aspects that likely contributed to The Last Duel’s box office failure. The pandemic, for one, has left the movie industry on uncertain footing for nearly two years, a period of time where Scott’s pricy melodrama had…

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18 Oct

Elden Ring Delay Throws the 2022 Video Game Release Schedule Into Chaos

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From Software has recently confirmed that they’ve decided to delay Elden Ring‘s release date from January 23, 2022, to February 25, 2022, and, in the process, have thrown an already hectic 2022 release schedule into chaos. First off, the Elden Ring delay itself seems simple enough and probably isn’t enough reason to make fans worry that there are serious problems behind the scenes. Many people were stunned to see Elden Ring get such an “early” release date in the first place, and the Elden Ring team seems to be saying that they just need a little time to get it…

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18 Oct

Doctor Strange 2 and More MCU Movies Delayed: What Do Those Release Date Shifts Really Mean?

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Disney kicked off this week by announcing a slew of release date changes, almost all of them involving the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Indiana Jones 5 was also bumped from next year to 2023, while unrelated, untitled Disney live-action and 20th Century Studios releases were removed). Several major Marvel films were moved back in the schedule by anywhere from three to five months, while a couple of untitled Marvel slots were also removed entirely from the 2023 slate. As a result, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness moves from March 25, 2022 to May 6, 2022, Thor: Love and Thunder…

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18 Oct

Succession Season 3: Kendall Roy is Back On Top, But for How Long?

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Despite how many times Logan Roy demands it, we at Den of Geek cannot just “fuck off” and stop watching the gloriously dysfunctional Roy family scramble and squabble for power on HBO’s megahit Succession. Full of clever and profane burns, two-faced tête-à-têtes, and obnoxious opulence, Succession manages to make the most contemptible qualities of the real-world megarich quippy and irresistible. It’s the guiltiest of TV pleasures, like bingeing on ortolan every Sunday night. After heir apparent Kendall Roy was treated like a kicked dog and forced into subservience, season 2 ended with Kendall throwing his father under the bus for…

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18 Oct

Kill the Justice League: Does Deadshot Retcon the Arkhamverse?

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The latest Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League story trailer finally reveals more information about Rocksteady’s long-awaited return to the DC universe, but anyone familiar with Rocksteady’s previous Batman: Arkham games will probably walk away from that trailer with more than a few questions about exactly how Kill the Justice League‘s Deadshot fits into the Arkhamverse. There’s a lot to break down here, but the first thing you need to know is that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is set in the same universe as the Arkham games. There’s a deeper discussion to be had about the exact ways…

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18 Oct

Link Tank: James Wan Promises a More Mature Aquaman Sequel

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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom director James Wan promises the sequel will be a more mature outing for the character, but won’t lose the fun aspect that made the original the most successful DC movie of all time. “2018’s Aquaman was surprising in so many ways. Formerly a superhero punchline, Aquaman shocked audiences with an ambitious, balls-to-the-wall action-adventure. The film had everything: deep-sea monsters? Check. Octopus playing drums? Check. Julie Andrews voicing an ancient sea creature? Check. After Nolan’s self-serious Batman trilogy and Snyder’s humorless time helming the DC universe, Aquaman was a breath of fresh air. A colorful, silly romp that never took itself too…

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18 Oct

Netflix’s You: Ranking Every Kill by How Much the Victim Deserved to Die

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Throughout their lives, Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) and Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) have murdered a whopping total of fifteen (15!) people. A few of these characters were undeserving of an untimely end, but in many cases, Joe and/or Love did a service to society by offing their prey. Neither Love nor Joe has a real credo or ethos surrounding their kills, ala Dexter Morgan, but they do occasionally eliminate bad actors from society when they target their victims.  Read more TV You Season 3 Ending Explained By Erin Qualey TV You Season 2 Review (Spoiler-Free) By Delia Harrington While viewers…

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18 Oct

The Beatles: Get Back Reissues Set the Stage for Mop Top Comedy

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The new trailer for Disney+ original docuseries The Beatles: Get Back promises “the most intimate and honest glimpse into the creative process and relationship between John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr ever filmed.” From the first looks at all the accoutrements which come along with it, one thing is apparent: Peter Jackson knows The Beatles’ cinematic roots. The musicians’ onscreen personas were primed to be their generation’s Marx Brothers. They drop one-liners, social commentary, and physical comedy. Ringo even drops his pants in the lab of a mad scientist, which Groucho says is the first rule of…

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18 Oct

Best Halloween Costumes: When TV Characters Dress Up As Other Characters

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Imagine this: a Halloween costume contest, featuring only TV characters dressed as other fictional screen characters. Now wait, you don’t have to imagine it, because it’s happening, friend. We’ve gathered 30 memorable instances of TV characters making meta costume choices for Halloween, and ranked them in order of greatness. To get the points system straight, we’re rewarding ingenuity (home-made beats shop-bought; the incorporation of household items into outfits will be noted), and nicheness (is anybody else wearing it? No? Good), execution (has enough effort been made or was this arrogantly pulled together at the last minute with minimal thought?). Bonus…

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18 Oct

Charles Addams Biographer Defends Addams Family Values

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The Addams Family, Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1991 comedy classic, will celebrate its 30th Anniversary this month. The Addams Family 2 recently resurrected the classic characters for a cross-country holiday, and the classic TV series The Addams Family can still be seen on syndication, streaming, and in memes and dreams. The malevolently mischievous artist Chas Addams is as mysterious as his comic The Addams Family is iconic. Addams was the only cartoonist at The New Yorker magazine whose mental facilities were questioned. He was rumored to sleep in a coffin, to keep eyeballs in martini glasses, and show up in a full…

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18 Oct

The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 4 Review: The Wayz We Were

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This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 4 Love meant never having to say you’re sorry until The Simpsons’ “The Wayz We Were.” Moe himself puts it best at the ending, the song is pretty good, but the movie, well, he didn’t like it. That might explain why he is sadly miscast. Oh, he’s believable. For years we’ve watched Moe go from pug ugly to fugly and pug fugly to eating his own pickled eggs. We can completely accept the premise: he is stuck in a traffic jam, sees the only woman he’s ever loved in…

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18 Oct

Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 1 Review: The Beacon

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This Fear the Walking Dead review contains spoilers.  Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 1 Welcome to a new season of Fear the Walking Dead in which we’ve left old villains behind. Gone are cult leader Teddy and his protégé Dakota, who were both vaporized by nuclear blasts in last season’s finale. Teddy’s legacy isn’t much of one—his grand plan to cleanse the world of undesirables has left behind a barren, mustard-colored landscape. If our survivors thought the zombie apocalypse marked humanity’s rock bottom, they were sorely mistaken. Sure, the undead still persist, but the missile strikes have left the living…

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17 Oct

Is Halloween Kills Box Office Success a Good Sign for Dune?

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With a title like Halloween Kills, maybe we shouldn’t be so surprised when the movie slays? Nevertheless, David Gordon Green’s hack and slash follow-up to 2018’s Halloween exceeded all expectations when it grossed an estimated $50.4 million this weekend. That number comes in ahead of even distributor Universal’s projections, which pegged the Michael Myers stabathon at opening around $40 million. This is of course good news for movie theaters and horror aficionados. Indeed, Halloween Kills is the biggest horror movie and R-rated release since the COVID-19 pandemic began, even outgrossing the PG-13 rated A Quiet Place Part II, which earned…

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17 Oct

Young Justice Season 4 Episodes 1 and 2 Review: Phantoms Starts Strong

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This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 4 Episodes 1 and 2 Jeez, it’s been a long time.  Young Justice: Phantoms picks up essentially where Outsiders left off, but it’s been a little over two years since the last episode came out, and…uh…a lot has happened since then. You know. Out there. So it was a little jarring to be dropped in the same spot as if no time had passed.  And then Young Justice flashed the Legion of Super-Heroes flight rings at me, everything came rushing back, and it was all better. The story elements of…

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17 Oct

The Flash Movie Theory: Flashpoint Villain is Hiding in Plain Sight

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The first footage from Andy Muschietti’s hotly anticipated The Flash movie arrived at DC FanDome and folks, it is quite a ride. We’ve long known that this film would take at least some inspiration from the Flashpoint comics story (which was also adapted for the third season of the TV series), but it seems that there’s a little bit more to it than that. Sure, the big headline is the fact that Michael Keaton is indeed back as Batman, and it seems that a chunk of this film takes place in the corner of the DC multiverse that Tim Burton’s…

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17 Oct

The Batman Feels Like It Picks Up Where The Dark Knight Left Off

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It was supposed to be the Riddler. That’s who Warner Bros. wanted as the villain in the sequel to Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, according to David Goyer. The Batman movie screenwriter—who helped Jonathan and Christopher Nolan crack the stories for all three films in The Dark Knight Trilogy, and who co-wrote the first one—admitted this way back in 2012 when he told the press that studio executives came to Nolan and said, “It’s gonna be the Riddler, and we want it to be Leonardo DiCaprio.” Well, that obviously did not happen in The Dark Knight Rises, but with the arrival…

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17 Oct

15 Best NES Horror Games

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There’s no getting around the fact that the NES era isn’t generally considered to be the best time for horror games. While the popular narrative that horror gaming didn’t properly begin until Resident Evil was released in 1996 obviously isn’t accurate, it’s safe to say that the ’80s and early ’90s were a strange time for the genre. In a way, though, that makes it that much more interesting to look back at the NES era of horror games and try to find the gems. Because there are so few stone-cold classics from that time, you’ve really got to dig…

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17 Oct

Superman is Bigger than The American Way: A Better Tomorrow for the Man of Steel Awaits

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Superman has a brand new mission statement, and it’s one that speaks to the realities of both the 21st century and the history of the character. “We’re excited to announce that to better reflect the storylines that we are telling across DC and to honor Superman’s incredible legacy of over 80 years of building a better world, Superman’s motto is evolving,” DC Chief Creative Officer and Publisher Jim Lee said at DC FanDome. “Superman has long been a symbol of hope who inspires people, and it is that optimism and hope that powers him forward with this new mission statement: Truth,…

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17 Oct

Peacemaker: All the DC Heroes and Villains in that HBO Max Trailer

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John Cena’s Peacemaker was the breakout star of this summer’s The Suicide Squad, so the post-credits scene that served as a bridge between the movie and his upcoming show was an absolute delight. And now we’ve got a trailer! As part of DC’s FanDome festivities, we got our first extended look at Peacemaker, Cena’s new show, directed largely by The Suicide Squad director James Gunn, and carrying over several characters from the movie. And as usual, we dug through the trailer with a fine toothed comb to see what we could figure out. Haven’t watched it yet? Well, turn it…

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