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22 Oct

Which Ghost Would You Want To Haunt You?

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There are certainly plenty of movie and TV ghosts we don’t want haunting us. The murderous ones boxed up in the glass house of THIR13EN Ghosts? Absolutely not. Slimer from Ghostbusters? He’s a friggin liability. Sleepy Hollow’s Headless Horseman? No, we need our heads, we’re using them for important stuff like overthinking and retaining the lyrics to “Baby Shark” for whatever reason. And god forbid Pipes ever gets past the door. There are, however, notable pop culture ghosts that wouldn’t make our lives considerably worse. Perhaps they’re genuinely helpful, and wouldn’t be too much of a bother to have hanging…
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21 Oct

The Best Horror Movies of the 1960s

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When cinephiles of a certain sensibility talk about the best decades for horror, they’ll probably point to the 1980s with its explosion of cutting-edge special effects and home video-induced demand for material. Or they might point to the era of Universal Pictures’ domination in the 1930s, followed up then by the moody Val Lewton thrillers of the 1940s. Maybe even a very unpopular kid will try to make an argument for the 2010s, at least until everyone pulls the A24 hat over his eyes and kicks him out.  But moviegoers would be foolish to overlook the 1960s. The decade saw…
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21 Oct

Killers of the Flower Moon’s Missed Opportunity: Not Centering Mollie Burkhart’s Story

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This article contains Killers of the Flower Moon spoilers. Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon is a towering achievement in moviemaking, one which has lingered in my memory for over a week. The storied filmmaker’s expansive vision of the Osage murders, which were perpetrated between the 1910s and ‘30s, is brutal, unflinching, and ultimately haunting. It is difficult to think of a film that better encapsulates the almost industrialized manner in which American racism is harnessed to create cold hard cash for the greediest and cruelest who nestle at the top of white privilege. Yet I’ve struggled to use…
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21 Oct

Cobweb Ending Explained: The Truth About the Monster and Peter’s Parents

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This Cobweb article contains spoilers. By the time poor little Peter (Woody Norman) and his caring substitute teacher Ms. Devine (Charisma Carpenter) manage to lock Sarah back in the basement pit in the depths of the old house, Peter’s vengeful older sister has already dismembered a whole bunch of kids and painted the walls red with their blood. And just before that, she convinced Peter to spike their parents’ dinner with a healthy portion of rat poison, their final agonizing moments spent vomiting the black sludge from their exploding organs all over the kitchen and foyer. Orphaned but now free…
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20 Oct

Netflix’s The Devil on Trial Questions Ed and Lorraine Warren’s Conjuring Legacy

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This article contains spoilers for The Devil on Trial. For most of its 80-minute runtime, Netflix‘s newest true crime doc, The Devil on Trial, is as sensational as the subject matter it’s covering, down to a “shock twist” at the end that might finally break this case of demonic possession wide open. Or at least it’s one of the many possible explanations this film flirts with while presenting its largely paint-by-the-numbers retelling of a story you’re likely already familiar with if you’ve watched The Conjuring movies about famous paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. But here’s a quick summary: in…
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20 Oct

Every Leonardo DiCaprio Performance Ranked

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These days it’s somewhat difficult to fathom there was a time when Leonardo DiCaprio was not recognized as one of the finest actors of his generation. Born with preternaturally good looks, talent, and an obvious degree of taste, DiCaprio has grown onscreen from precocious child actor to heartthrob, to movie star, and finally to revered leading man. At least onscreen. With that meteoric career-trajectory beginning at the remarkably early age of 18 in the movie This Boy’s Life, DiCaprio has had the rare opportunity to carefully curate and shape his career from virtually the beginning, and in the process has…
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19 Oct

The Shining Movie vs. the Miniseries: Comparing the Stephen King Book Adaptations

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When it was announced in 1978 that legendary director Stanley Kubrick was adapting Stephen King’s third novel, The Shining, for the big screen, interest in the project immediately skyrocketed. The book, in which an alcoholic writer and his family (including his psychically gifted son), are tormented by supernatural forces in a snowbound hotel was considered a horror masterpiece almost as soon as it was published. King’s career was taking off like a rocket. The success of The Shining and his two previous novels, Carrie and ‘Salem’s Lot (as well as the hit movie version of Carrie), had crowned the young…
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19 Oct

Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Explores the Origin of Evil

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This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. Get your copy here. Fans might have been surprised when author Suzanne Collins announced a new novel in her bestselling Hunger Games series, but director Francis Lawrence was not. Working closely with Collins and producer Nina Jacobson on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and Part 2, there was always some idea that the dystopian world of Panem still had stories left to tell. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes looks back at one of the most important periods in Hunger Games’…
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18 Oct

What’s Going On With Cloverfield 4?

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The Cloverfield franchise may have been dormant for the past few years, but like the titular creature, it will rise again when you least expect it. That’s the fun of this sci-fi horror franchise, which first made its name as a viral hit in 2008 before expanding into a larger universe of stories involving aliens and alternate dimensions. You never know when a new installment might drop. Such is the case with Cloverfield 4, which, as is tradition in this series, is shrouded in mystery. What we know for sure is that it’s being penned by British screenwriter Joe Barton…
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18 Oct

Matthew Vaughn’s Solution for Star Wars: Reboot the Skywalker Saga

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When writer-director Matthew Vaughn came by the Den of Geek studio at New York Comic Con over the weekend, it was a curious time for many of the subjects and stories which naturally intrigue him. Chief among them, of course, is his new meta-spy-action-romance thriller, Argylle. Due out next February, that film returns to the espionage genre which Vaughn has already visited via the Kingsman movies, although now with a twist. In a riff on Romancing the Stone, Argylle is about an espionage novelist (Bryce Dallas Howard) who ends up commandeered into a real-world caper. The film isn’t exactly subverting…
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16 Oct

Killers of the Flower Moon Review: Martin Scorsese’s Anti-Western About American Sin

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The West wasn’t won, nor was it discovered. The West was taken. The West was conquered. The West was stolen. For generations and centuries, Americans have grappled with reconciling this original sin, be it by way of whitewashed mythology or self-flagellating apologia. And for more than a hundred years, the great stage of this struggle has been at the movies, that all-American medium of art and commerce. Dreams and lies. Martin Scorsese is of course aware of this. He loves the classic Westerns of Golden Age Hollywood with their fairy dust, and when he broke into the business, nihilistic and…
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14 Oct

The James Bond Movies’ Biggest Changes to the Ian Fleming Books

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The James Bond film series has never been known for its fealty to the original Ian Fleming source material, which comprise 12 novels and two short story collections. There have since been other books too, more than two dozen, in fact, all written by different authors. But the movies have only glancingly touched on them. Although some of the initial 007 films stayed fairly faithful to the source novels, the franchise began to veer away from the Fleming tales by the mid-1960s, only intermittently returning to them. Intriguingly, recent (if dubious) rumors have suggested that Eon Productions has reached out…
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13 Oct

Loki Easter Egg Confirms Marvel Hasn’t Forgotten About One of Their Most Divisive Movies

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This article contains spoilers Loki season two continues to drop Easter eggs left, right, and center, but in its second episode the show happily climbs aboard Marvel’s “running gag” bandwagon by throwing in a visual reference to one of the MCU’s most divisive movies: Eternals. During the opening scene of this week’s Loki, the God of Mischief and his TVA analyst BFF Mobius (Owen Wilson) travel back in time to capture the slimy Brad Wolfe (Rafael Casal), a TVA hunter and variant who has absconded to a past point on the Sacred Timeline to build the life he never got…
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13 Oct

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Movie Has Paved the Way for Huge Changes in Hollywood

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It’s a Friday the 13th weekend in October, and Halloween is just two weeks around the corner, yet the biggest chills occurring in Hollywood tonight is the prospect of trying to do business opposite Taylor Swift’s crowning moment of cinematic glory. That’s right. It’s The Eras Tour movie weekend, and the impact could be bigger than just those initial rounds of box office receipts. Not that the impending box office gross of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour isn’t also dazzlingly important to the exhibition industry. As of press time on Thursday afternoon, industry prognosticators at Hollywood studios are pegging the…
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13 Oct

Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving Brings Back “The Most Offensive Movie Ever Made”

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As it turns out, what makes a good trailer does not necessarily make a good movie. Or, rather, what makes a hilarious and debauched fake trailer, one sandwiched between Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino at their most gonzo, does not automatically translate to modern horror cinema. This is the realization that allowed Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving slasher movie to transition from a ghoulish gag 16 years ago to the potential holiday horror staple of today, and one that is coming home just in time for Turkey Day.  “When Quentin first pitched us Grindhouse and doing these trailers, he said, ‘You guys…
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12 Oct

Priscilla Review: Sofia Coppola Punctures Elvis Mythmaking

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There is almost no Elvis Presley music in Priscilla. There is an Elvis, played ambiguously by Jacob Elordi, and a few moments where he flicks the piano ivories or stretches the creases of a caped jumpsuit, but unlike nearly ever film set in the world of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, there’s hardly any rock. This is, of course, the point for Sofia Coppola, who achieves her aim in making a film that is neither about a so-called king or, for that matter, a queen. This is the story of a woman so young and in love that she…
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11 Oct

The Kids Animated Movies That Will Break Adults

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There’s nothing like lying in bed after a long day of work, doing your best to turn off your churning, tired thoughts, and suddenly having a traumatic childhood memory shoot into your brain. Bonus, it’s not anything bad. It’s a glimpse of some shockingly dark kids’ movie you watched when you were nine, and it still haunts you at the worst times. The only thing that sucks more is sitting down with a kid’s movie as an adult, hoping to chill with your microwaved nuggets and some comfortable nostalgia, only to get punched in the face by a bag of…
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10 Oct

Get Out’s Original Ending Was a Lot Bleaker (and More Truthful)

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It is hard to recall a more vocal or stunned reaction at the movies than when my theater echoed with a hundred different gasps in Jordan Peele’s Get Out. You know the scene. Daniel Kaluuya’s Chris Washington has finally realized just how sinister the Armitage family’s designs for him are: the doorway is blocked by snide little brother Jeremy (Caleb Landry Jones), the patriarchal Dean (Bradley Whitford) has finally stopped bragging about how he voted for Obama and is now speaking about how white people are gods, and Chris’ white girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams), is desperately searching her massive purse…
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09 Oct

The Forgotten Connection Between Little Women and The Mummy Movies

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For more than a hundred years, the face of the ancient Egyptian mummy has been synonymous with horror, dread, and the ever reliable go-to Halloween costume. (Seriously, all you need is some toilet paper and tape, and you’re done!) This can probably be traced to almost exactly a century ago when Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon, and the latter’s daughter, Lady Evelyn, crossed the hitherto unbroken seal of King Tutankhamun’s tomb on Nov. 26, 1922. Until that moment, the boy pharaoh had largely been forgotten by history. Yet as fate would have it, he left behind the only pharaonic tomb ever…
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09 Oct

 19 Post-Credits Scenes That Led to Nowhere

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Moviegoers are truly living in the golden age of post-credit scenes. What was once considered something of a novelty has been rendered a necessity in an era when the Marvel Cinematic Universe and other film franchises are expanding faster than Dwayne Johnson’s biceps in a 5 a.m. weight session. However, the concept’s origins date back further than the dawn of the superhero movie era or anything equally fast and furious. Back in 1966, in fact, Dean Martin was proving to the world that not all heroes wear capes or drive ludicrously fast cars; some prefer a suave suit and a…
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