The first trailer for Fantastic Four: First Steps brims with 1960s Marvel goodness. We’ve got the Marvel-1, we’ve got H.E.R.B.I.E. with a reel-to-reel for a face, we’ve got Baxter Building in all of its glory. However, we don’t have much of another defining aspect of 1960s Marvel: Cold War politics. Unless, of course, the mystery villain played by John Malkovich is not the Puppet Master, as was initially rumored, but rather Ivan Kragoff, aka the Red Ghost. If Malkovich is indeed the Red Ghost, then First Steps is embracing the ’60s even more than we previously thought. The character also…

It’s Oscar season again in Hollywood, although it can hardly be said that this year has seen a smooth, celebratory homestretch leading to the big event. Between the results of the 2024 election and the horrific fires that swept through Los Angeles almost as soon as 2025 began, it almost seems as if Tinseltown’s biggest, most congratulatory night is more a desperate attempt to pull something, anything, good out of the last year instead of a genuine commemoration of 2024’s cinematic achievements. Which is a shame, since 2024 was in fact a pretty damn good year for film. But even…

The Marvel Age of Heroes is about to begin! Yes, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has existed since 2008, and yes, the Fantastic Four have made three big screen appearances already. But Fantastic Four: First Steps feels like something special, a proper movie version of the team that launched Marvel Comics when Jack Kirby and Stan Lee introduced them in 1961. The first trailer for Fantastic Four: First Steps only further builds that anticipation, a teaser filled with big reveals and tantalizing omissions, ready for adventurers to explore. Watch it below if you haven’t already. There are tons of things to…

The countdown is on. Our first real look at the upcoming MCU Fantastic Four movie will come at 7 am ET on Tuesday, Feb. 4 (FF, get it?). We’re not getting just a trailer for the movie, but a whole lead-up to the release, complete with a lead spot on the chat show Good Morning America. As is increasingly common, Marvel has announced the big trailer event with a smaller teaser. But this one’s a bit more substantial than the usual quick montage of images that constitute other trailers for trailers. The Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer teaser shows people…

Two elite snipers. One year-long mission in a mysterious, deadly location. No contact. Those are the rules of The Gorge, a new Apple Original high-octane thriller from director Scott Derrickson. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Miles Teller and Sigourney Weaver, The Gorge is headed to Apple TV+ on February 14. As a special treat, Den of Geek readers have the unique opportunity to watch the movie early, for free and in style at our extra-special screening in a premium London location.  From the director of Doctor Strange and The Black Phone, The Gorge follows two highly-trained operatives (Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy)…

In one of the warmest moments during Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, a kindly professor inquires about the ownership of a cat. The feline in question is keeping company with a woman cursed by a vampire’s attention. Even so, she has the good humor and sense to know that a cat is neither owned, or waits on, on any human. “She has no master or mistress,” young Ellen Hutter smiles. One suspects cinematographer Jarin Blaschke can relate. After all, despite earning his second Oscar nod last week for his entrancing work on the vampire epic, not even the afternoon of the Academy…

Leave it to ol’ Steve Rogers to say, “No, I don’t think I will.” Initial reports suggested that Chris Evans would join Robert Downey Jr. and the Russo Brothers for Avengers: Doomsday. But in a new conversation with Esquire, Anthony Mackie stated that Evans downplayed those rumors. “He goes, ‘Oh, you know, I’m happily retired,'” Mackie explained, a comment that Esquire later confirmed with Evans himself, getting a word-for-word response: “Yeah, no—happily retired.” Between the awkward way of stating his intentions, and the long history of Marvel actors such as Andrew Garfield giving misleading statements about their upcoming MCU projects,…

Star Trek might be a franchise about humanity overcoming its divisions and working together for the common good, but Star Trek fans remain divided on almost everything. And no question breaks the bonds of peace like that of the best captain in Starfleet. Before we add fuel to the fire in which we burn with our rankings, we need to point out that this list only covers Captains who starred in their own series. On one hand, that restriction does prevent the comments section from exploding when they see how high Carol Freeman from Lower Decks would rank on our…

It’s a good time to be a hero who throws bone-crunching punches in the streaming world. Amazon Prime Video’s list of new releases for February 2025 features a third season for both Invincible and Reacher. Invincible season 3 is set to arrive on February 6 and will find young Mark Grayson leveling up in his training to become the superhero Earth needs. The third season of Reacher follows on February with Alan Ritchson’s title character flexing his massive biceps and trying to rescue a DEA informant. Other Amazon original series of note this month include Laverne Cox-starring comedy Clean Slate…

Like most other redos, horror movie remakes begin their journey on shaky ground. The name recognition that often gets them made is the same recognition that leads to them being judged before anyone watches. It’s hard enough to make a good movie and get people to see it; imagine having to do so while battling the perception that your work diminishes the significance of another beloved movie?  Yet the best horror movie remakes remind us that the existence of remakes is about more than lazy studios looking for cheap cash-ins. When done well, a horror movie remake can elevate the…

In the new trailer for Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s first foray into the horror genre, a worldly voice warns, “There are legends of people where the gift of making music [is] so true, it can conjure spirits from the past and the future. This gift can bring fame and fortune, but it can also pierce the veil between life and death.” For anyone steeped in the history of American music, such mysticism and menace is part and parcel for a story set in the South. Still, the vampires are a new innovation on the part of writer-director Coogler’s film, which follows…

It’s already a rare win for a horror movie to get an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, especially one as gleefully gross as Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance. It would be rarer still for one to actually win, but Demi Moore’s lead performance has collected at least one hefty early award at the Golden Globes, and she’s now the odds-on favorite for Oscar night. No stranger to baring it all onscreen in previous roles, including Striptease and The Scarlet Letter, Moore’s turn as an aging actress in crisis—and the nudity required for its body-swapping plot—is no longer a cause for…

This Star Trek article contains spoilers for Section 31. Like the Bell Riots of Deep Space Nine, the movie Star Trek: Section 31 is such a disaster for Trekkies that we’ve stopped our petty debates about Janeway killing Tuvix, or Kirk’s captaincy compared to Picard’s, and have finally come together. As much as Section 31 deserves the drubbing it’s getting, the first duty of every Star Trek fan is still to the truth, and the truth is that the movie does get one thing right about Star Trek. Section 31 is fundamentally an ensemble story about people with vast differences…

Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke and director Robert Eggers go way back. They’ve worked on every one of Eggers’ features to date—The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman, and Nosferatu—plus several shorts well before those, starting with 2007’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Yet while their resources and scale have exponentially increased, culminating in last month’s triumphant Nosferartu remake, their working methods and tastes have not. “We would just hang out all the time, because we weren’t working,” Blaschke says while speaking with Den of Geek in correlation with the digital home media release of Nosferatu (available now). “There’s like seven years of that really.…

On the one hand, it’s a simple enough image: Oscar Isaac, veteran stage and film actor, stands before an audience of physicians and academics. We can tell from the style of dress and unkempt hair that Isaac’s Dr. Frankenstein lives in the 19th century (so a bit unlike his literary counterpart). But there’s also a look of mania in his eyes; a face of obsession. It’s fitting for a new screen version of literature’s first mad scientist, and yet it is perhaps more befitting Guillermo del Toro, a celebrated director and dreamer who’s been trying to bring his Frankenstein to…

Doctor Stephen Strange may have the ability to see 14,000,605 futures, but his actor Benedict Cumberbatch cannot. So let’s cut him a bit of slack for being wrong when he initially said that he would not be reprising his role as Doctor Strange for the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. Cumberbatch retracted that statement on the red carpet at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, telling Business Insider, “I got that wrong, I am in the next one… Don’t ever believe anything I say.” This comes a week after Cumberbatch told Variety he wasn’t in Doomsday but that Strange would be “in a…

“This is a twisted web,” private detective Benoit Blanc tells his partner Marta (Ana de Armas) in 2019’s Knives Out. “And we are not finished untangling it, not yet.” We begin with that quote not just because it’s always nice to recall the syrupy Southern accent Daniel Craig gives Blanc, but because it’s important to keep our limitations in mind when getting a new look at the upcoming Knives Out movie Wake Up Dead Man. Where the first images from Knives Out and Glass Onion highlighted the ensemble cast of those movies, a new first look photo from Wake Up…

Depicted in countless movies and TV shows, as well as in hip hop lyrics, the Shaolin Temple is a very real place, one of China’s historic treasures and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Established in 495 CE, the original Shaolin Temple lies in the heart of China and is considered the birthplace of Zen and Kung Fu. But before Jet Li came, it was in ruins.  The 20th century was tough on the temple too. In 1928 during the turbulent Republic of China period, the temple was burned down by a warlord named Shi Yousan, who was suspicious of the…

This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Section 31 and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Dr. Julian Bashir is furious. The Chief Medical Officer aboard Federation Starbase Deep Space 9, Bashir has spent the entirety of the season six episode “Inquisition” being mentally tormented by Luther Sloan, a member of Starfleet Intelligence. Sloan came to DS9 to investigate reports of a senior officer collaborating with the enemy Cardassians, and thinks he’s found his man in Bashir. Worse, Bashir begins to question himself, as evidence mounts that he might indeed be the traitor and has wiped his own mind as a…

Cognitive dissonance plays a big role in Companion. It is after all designed to be a feature in the film’s titular companion series, synthetic lifeforms built to offer physical and emotional assistance to their owners (or “fuck-bots” as Jack Quaid’s Josh enthuses about his purchase). These artificially intelligent machines are meant to emulate human consciousness up to a point—but they must never be aware they’re robots. And yet, by virtue of the movie’s title, trailer, and overall marketing campaign, we know that Iris (Sophie Thatcher) is very much a robot during the movie’s first act, even if she and the…