This article contains spoilers for Lanterns season 1 episode 2. We still aren’t getting many scenes of Hal Jordan and John Stewart in green tights, but the second episode of Lanterns has a lot of comic book weirdness. Not only do the Manhunters get a mention and John makes a construct, but we also see a lantern tucked away in a pocket dimension. Hal and his fellow GLs have been keeping their lanterns in pocket dimensions since John Broome and Gil Kane have been telling their stories in the early Silver Age. But the most exciting reference might be the…

This article contains spoilers for Lanterns season 1 episode 2. We’re only two episodes in, and Lanterns has already had a lot more comic book weirdness than some detractors had guessed from the trailers. But when John Stewart asks Hal Jordan about Manhunters, Lanterns gets really weird. Most fans of Green Lantern comics know Manhunters as the killer androids created by the Guardians of the Universe before the Green Lantern Corps, unfeeling and brutal enforcers of justice who have become one of the Lanterns’ most bitter enemies. But behind the scenes, the Manhunters are some of the most convoluted characters…

This article contains spoilers for Lanterns season 1 episode 2. At the start of Green Lantern #192 (1985), by Steve Englehart and Joe Staton, the supervillain Star Sapphire carries Hal Jordan into the air and drops him. Despite the fact that Hal no longer wears a power ring, having rescinded his membership in the Green Lantern Corps months earlier, he remains unafraid. He looks around as he plummets, searching for a way to continue his mission, despite the fact that he no longer has superpowers. Nothing from that issue appears in the second episode of Lanterns, “Trust Fall,” but it’s…

The past week has turned into full-blown chaos for Rockstar Games, as a wave of leaked Grand Theft Auto VI footage has spiraled into a legal fight over the identity of the person, or people, behind them.  The ordeal started roughly around August 18, when gameplay clips began circulating online under the alias “Cyberleek.” The material, ranging from short clips to map details, spread first through underground forums before jumping to mainstream platforms like Twitter/X and Reddit.  The leaker also launched a website featuring a manifesto, dubbed “The CYBERLEEK Edict,” that criticized monetization practices in the gaming industry and Rockstar…

The hunt is back on. Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai is officially gearing up for another round of blood-soaked justice, and fans finally have a date to mark on their calendars.  The streamer announced that season 2 will premiere sometime during January 2027 at Anime NYC, ending a wait that has stretched on since the series first debuted in late 2023. Alongside the announcement, Netflix also released a teaser trailer that offered a first look at what’s ahead for Mizu’s bloody quest for revenge.  Blue Eye Samurai became one of Netflix’s most acclaimed animated series almost immediately after release, holding a…

At first glance, the new movie Colony seems to cover a lot of the same ground that South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho explored in his 2016 breakout Train to Busan. In Colony, people transform into rabid killers and invade a public space, this time a shopping mall instead of a commuter train. But where the monsters of Train to Busan remained mindless beasts, Colony features creatures who evolve and learn to communicate and become a single community. And that’s truly scary to Director Yeon. “For me, zombies illustrate the peril of collectivity,” Director Yeon tells Den of Geek. “They can…

Two creative forces from two very different disciplines — one a blockbuster filmmaker with a penchant for spectacle and humanity, the other a nature documentarian with decades of field experience — have formed an unlikely partnership for a new project about the world of nature. Jon Favreau, director of Iron Man and the live-action remake of The Lion King, first formed a creative bond with Mike Gunton, the legendary producer behind Planet Earth II, while both executive produced the Apple TV dinosaur series Prehistoric Planet.  Now Favreau and Gunton have come together again for Lion, a new National Geographic documentary…

This article contains spoilers for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Jane Schoenbrun‘s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a distinctive film, a mix of surreal postmodernism, gender critique, and surprising humor. It’s also a celebration of ’80s slashers, filled with references to movies that most people dismiss as tasteless trash, even if icons like Jason and Freddy remain in the popular culture. The specificity in those references reveals Schoenbrun’s deep love for subgenre, as does the movie itself. Among the many other things it does spectacularly well, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma also argues…

“What kind of edgerunner are you?” That’s a question asked…nay, screamed midway through a brand new first look at the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2 (styled Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2), the next standalone installment set in Netflix’s anime adaptation of the Cyberpunk 2077 universe. It’s a good question too, as fans of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (which includes notable names such as Cyberpunk tabletop RPG creator Mike Pondsmith and acclaimed video game industry visionary Hideo Kojima) have also wondered what kind of edgerunner they’re going to get to see next. The first season of the Netflix series provided an open-and-shut case, which means the…

This article contains full spoilers for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Trailers for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma made clear that the film would celebrate ’80s slashers. What’s more surprising is the fact that Jane Schoenbrun‘s latest is also about junk food. Not only do up-and-coming director Kris Williams (Hannah Einbinder) and reclusive actor Billy Presley (Gillian Anderson) eat a lot of candy throughout the movie, but a stand-out scene involves the latter seductively placing pieces of KFC on a silver platter to serve to the former. While preparing the meal, Billy half-apologizes for serving take-out,…

This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 episode 5. The title of the latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “Level Five Transporter Accident,” brings to mind one of the most upsetting moments in franchise history. In Star Trek: The Motion Picture, a transporter accident results in two people merging into one, screaming in agony as they die a painful death. Yet, what actually happens in “Level Five Transporter Accident” doesn’t come anywhere near horror, despite the fact that Pelia gets sliced in half by Orion pirates. Instead, “Level Five Transporter Accident” pushes Star…

Wolverine is the best at what he does, and what he does is talk about his past, apparently. Marvel has announced Wolverine: Origin III – The Dark Age, an upcoming miniseries written by Paul Jenkins and illustrated by CAFU, which will explore Logan’s actions in the 1950s, leading to his recruitment into the Weapon X program that gave him his famous adamantium skeleton. Marvel’s pitching the series as a look into an unexamined part of Wolverine’s history, which is true enough. But when they also present Origin III as a 25th anniversary celebration of the original miniseries Origin, by Jenkins…

We all have those moments when somebody mentions an ordinary fact, and suddenly the world feels slightly different. Something you have seen, heard, eaten, used, or said countless times can hide a surprisingly obvious explanation. The funny part is that these discoveries rarely feel like obscure trivia. They are the kinds of things that make you wonder how you managed to miss them for so long. A recent Reddit discussion brought together plenty of those moments, with people admitting they had completely missed facts that seemed obvious once explained. These are twelve everyday facts that might make you stop and…

This article contains spoilers for Lanterns season 1 episode 1. The first episode of the HBO series Lanterns has received praise from almost everyone who watched it, from critics to casual fans to many comic book readers. But there’s one group of people who are not happy with the Green Lantern show, particularly what happens in the final moments. It’s not just that fans of Hal Jordan hated that the first episode ended with their hero dead from a bullet in his head. It’s that the series killed Hal after keeping him almost entirely out of costume, unmasked, and only…

Turn on a television, stroll the bookstore, walk through a movie theater, and you’re bound to see a cop. It doesn’t matter if you’re watching Spider-Man touch base with Jean DeWolff in Brand New Day, enjoying Jake Peralta goof around on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, or reading the latest John Sandford thriller to pass the time at the airport, the police are everywhere. Moreover, they’re almost always the heroes—certainly flawed, often beleaguered, but at the end of the day, effective and morally good. But that wasn’t always the case, at least in film and literature. While several different events sent cops to…

Hot Spot isn’t an easy movie. Directed by Polish auteur Agnieszka Smoczyńska—best known for The Lure, a horror/musical take on The Little Mermaid—Hot Spot explores pressing issues like AI, state surveillance, police violence, and immigration. But it does so through a surreal, sci-fi lens, one that takes time out for ecstatic dance sequences and animal transformations. Hot Spot may baffle as many viewers as it thrills, but that’s nothing new for star Noomi Rapace. After all, she was in Prometheus, the highly-anticipated Alien prequel that turned out to be a mediation on humanity’s relationship to God. “I love Prometheus. I…

Not every movie needs to be good to be worth watching. Some are messy, over the top, painfully cheesy, or simply fail to deliver what they promised, yet they still manage to offer something interesting. A bad movie can teach you about filmmaking mistakes, capture a fascinating moment in pop culture, showcase an actor before a career breakthrough, or become so entertainingly ridiculous that its flaws are part of the experience. Some are even useful precisely because they get things wrong, giving viewers a chance to question the history, science, or ideas they put on screen. These movies may not…

There was something wonderfully excessive about American cars in the 1970s. Big engines, long hoods, aggressive grilles, wild paint jobs, enormous tires, and interiors that could feel more like living rooms than places to sit behind the wheel. Street machines were built to be seen, heard, and enjoyed, often with modifications that made each car feel like a reflection of its owner. The photographs from the era capture a particular kind of car culture that is difficult to recreate today, when these machines were still relatively new and their owners were turning parking lots, streets, and driveways into personal showcases.…

Some of the most memorable movie moments weren’t sitting neatly on the page waiting to be filmed. An actor tried something unexpected, reacted naturally to another performer, or kept going after a scene took a turn nobody had planned. Sometimes the director loved the result enough to leave it in. Other times, the accidental moment became more famous than anything anyone could have scripted. Of course, Hollywood stories have a habit of turning every good performance into an “it was completely improvised” legend, so not every famous example actually qualifies. These 15 do, at least in some meaningful way, and…

A director can spend years building a reputation for making great movies, earning awards, attracting major stars, and delivering exactly what audiences expect. Then one project comes along and somehow everything falls apart. Sometimes the idea sounds perfect on paper, sometimes the cast is stacked with talent, and sometimes the director’s previous work makes the disappointment even harder to understand. Even highly respected filmmakers have movies that simply do not connect with audiences or critics. These are the films that stand out in otherwise impressive careers, proving that even the safest names in Hollywood can occasionally make a movie that…