Introverts and extroverts view the world in different ways. For most extroverts, a road trip with friends where small talk transforms into the random minutiae of a wandering mind sounds like a blast in eight-hour chunks. To an introvert, the prospect of spending even a fraction of that time “shooting the shit” can be its own special type of torture. In writer-director Alex Ullom’s debut horror movie, It Ends, both sides of the mind find common ground in a cosmic hell that is as fresh as it is economically clever. It’s the story of four childhood friends who, now as…

Some movies end and you immediately know how you feel about them. Others leave you sitting through the credits wondering whether you missed something, whether any of it actually made sense, or whether you just watched the strangest thing ever committed to film. A Reddit discussion about exactly that feeling produced an interesting mix: some people named movies they absolutely hated, while others picked films they loved precisely because they couldn’t stop thinking about them afterward. That’s the fun of the “What did I just watch?” category. A movie doesn’t necessarily have to be bad or impossibly confusing to qualify.…

When Adam Driver was announced as the villain of the upcoming X-Men movie, fans felt both relief and confusion. Driver is one of our best working actors, someone who shines in indie films like Marriage Story and Paterson, but who can also bring depth to genre pictures, as his Kylo Ren was one of the best parts of the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Moreover, it was nice to see a villain who wasn’t Magneto announced for the first movie, with Driver stepping into the thigh-high boots of Mister Sinister. At the same time, fans were confused to hear the name…

What happens to a weather-controlling mutant when she gets put in an X-Men movie? Same thing that happens to every other-weather controlling mutant who gets put in an X-Men movie? She’s largely ignored, except for being saddled with the worst lines in the franchise. In the original X-Men from 2000, Halle Berry had to ask about a toad getting struck by lightning, the payoff of a running gag written by Joss Whedon by excised from the finished film. Alexandra Shipp’s Storm set up the funniest part of X-Men: Apocalypse, asking En Sabah Nur what he was doing with his face…

The Walking Dead may have concluded its run back in 2022, but the universe lives on in a string of spinoffs like Dead City and Daryl Dixon. Not content with waiting for viewers to demand more franchise stories, AMC also explored a few spinoffs while the mothership show was still on the air. But how many of those spinoffs are worth a watch, and how many of them should you feel comfortable skipping? We’re ranking every The Walking Dead spinoff so you can figure out if you should spend your precious time on them. However, if you’re a true Walking…

The world of lions is full of shifting power dynamics, fragile monarchies, and feline strife. This applies not only to The Lion King; it extends into the savannas of Africa, where the roiling ecosystems showcase clashes between beasts of all shapes and sizes.  An upcoming docuseries is set to explore the exciting world of a lion pride in extreme detail. Lion will air Wednesday, August 19 on National Geographic and then hit Disney+ and Hulu on Thursday, August 20. The four-episode series follows a male lion cub named Kio and his four-year journey in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Preserve as…

The experiences we have at work are as varied as there are people on Earth, so not all claims of what happens in the workplace should be taken as fact. However, having insider knowledge of the ins and outs of certain companies can be more of a boon than a burden. A recent Reddit thread asked people to share the things they learned on the job that customers, patients, travelers, and the general public probably never see, letting us have a peek at that insight. We’ve rounded up some of the strangest and darkest claims, always keeping in mind that…

This article contains spoilers for Lanterns season 1 episode 1. At the start of the pilot episode of Lanterns, a young John Stewart watches a television interview with Hal Jordan, the first human member of the Green Lantern Corps. Jordan talks a little about being a space cop, but for the most part, he focuses on the quality that makes him a suitable choice to join the Corps: his absolute lack of fear. The interview sets the model for the rest of the episode, in which Hal trains the adult John by mentioning a few details about the power ring…

This article contains spoilers for Lanterns season 1 episode 1. John Stewart spends most of the premiere episode Lanterns living in the shadow of his mentor, Hal Jordan. And it’s an unpleasant place to be. Hal never misses an opportunity to needle the young hopeful, whether it’s abandoning him in a crashing car or making him navigate his own way to Rushville, Nebraska. But Stewart does manage to earn the older man’s respect in one case, when he describes the copy that Hal made for himself as a “Hal-o-Gram.” The name makes Hal smile and say, “That’s clever,” before checking…

This article contains spoilers for Lanterns season 1 episode 1. The first episode of Lanterns begins the way any show with knotty lore should: with a flashback to 1996, where a young John Stewart watches the Green Lantern interviewed on 60 Minutes. Through the interview, we learn about Hal Jordan, the first human member of the intergalactic space cops known as the Green Lantern Corps, who were granted power rings by immortal blue beings known as the Guardians of the Universe. When John’s father sees what his son is watching, he orders John to go outside and places an apple…

When 12,000 fans, press, and professionals stuff themselves into Anaheim’s Honda Center you can expect electricity. And on a sweaty Southern California Friday night Disney hoped to channel that energy into another win — building on the momentum of the record breaking opening of Spider-Man: Brand New Day — on the opening night of their “Ultimate Fan Event” D23.  After a slew of huge announcements across the Disney spectrum, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige came on stage and intro’d a new teaser for VisionQuest — which was very Wandavision coded — before bringing on Sadie Sink as Jean Grey. Of…

This article contains spoilers for The End of Oak Street David Robert Mitchell’s late-summer sci-fi movie The End of Oak Street has landed in theaters, and its final scenes feature some truly unexpected narrative twists and turns worth thinking twice about after the credits roll. In the film, we follow the Platt family, an all-American clan of four who are transported back in time from 1982, along with the rest of their neighborhood, to an era when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Yet for a film that has time travel built into its core concept, it spends surprisingly little time dwelling…

Ever since Superman debuted in 1938’s Action Comics #1, superheroes have been the primary draw of comic books. Since then, superheroes have spread into every type of popular culture, from TV and movies to toys and video games. But here’s the secret about superheroes: most of us aren’t coming just for the good guys. The heroes only matter to the degree that they have interesting people to fight, and that’s where the bad guys come in. The great heroes have some great enemies: Captain America and Red Skull, the Avengers and the Masters of Evil, Wonder Woman and Circe. But…

Hollywood has spent decades building an image of glamour, success, and larger than life entertainment, but the industry’s history contains plenty of stories that are much harder to celebrate. Studios once had extraordinary control over performers, dangerous practices were treated as normal, and scandals were often buried rather than confronted. Some of these chapters eventually led to major changes in the way movies and television were made, while others remained hidden for years before coming to light. Looking behind the famous names and iconic films reveals an industry that was often far less glamorous than the finished product suggested. Giant…

Most people are not expecting much entertainment from a trip to the grocery store, a walk through town, or a drive down the highway, but then a sign catches your attention and suddenly the whole day gets a little better. Some signs are accidentally hilarious, others are wonderfully weird, and a few seem to have been written by someone who knew exactly how people would interpret them. The best ones turn ordinary instructions into tiny moments of comedy, leaving you wondering how they ever made it onto a wall, storefront, road, or public building. These signs prove that sometimes the…

Some movies simply refuse to feel old. They may have been made decades ago, long before today’s digital effects, franchise culture, and streaming platforms, yet they can still feel more entertaining, more thoughtful, or more effective than plenty of modern releases. That is exactly what makes these movies so interesting. They are not necessarily flawless, and they do not need to be the biggest films ever made. They simply have something that audiences believe has become harder to find. Reddit users were recently asked which older movies still stand above anything being made today, and the answers produced plenty of…

This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. Find out how you can subscribe to get the full physical copy right here! SAKAMOTO DAYS looks like a straightforward action-comedy about a retired hitman turned family man. However, the series’s greatest strength lies in its colorful cast of characters, each with their own unique motivations, fighting styles, and emotional depth that push the story further. From legendary hitmen to eccentric allies, and merciless serial killers, every character shapes the chaotic and heartfelt world of SAKAMOTO DAYS. For those looking to understand the personalities that have made this show one of…

“It’s a tough act to follow, to join a franchise like this,” admits Silent Hill: Townfall director and writer Jon McKellan in an interview with Den of Geek. “It’s nerve-wracking, but not a challenge that you turn down. Within the team, we all had our own stories. I was a teenager when I played Silent Hill 1 for the first time. It was an awakening game because I didn’t know that games could be like this. Younger people in our team discovered it 20 years later, playing retro games, which puts it through a different lens.” As part of a…

There is something strangely satisfying about watching a movie where nobody is trying to save the world, solve a murder, win a war, or uncover a shocking secret. Sometimes people just sit around, walk around, clean things, drink coffee, have conversations, or stare into the distance while the clock keeps moving. These movies can feel almost aggressively uneventful, yet that is exactly what makes them work. They are not necessarily empty, and they are not always boring. They simply refuse to hurry toward a conventional story, giving everyday moments room to breathe. Reddit recently had plenty of suggestions for movies…

A great scene can be remembered for decades, but every once in a while, one does something bigger. Maybe filmmakers start copying the technique, an entire genre suddenly gets new rules, or audiences discover something they didn’t even know movies could do. Looking back, it’s easy to take those moments for granted because we’ve seen their influence everywhere since. At the time, though, they could be genuinely strange, technically ambitious, or completely unlike what audiences were used to seeing. From horror and comedy to animation and action, these scenes didn’t just become famous. In one way or another, they helped…