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02 Sep

Does Netflix’s Red Notice Really Look Like a $200 Million Blockbuster?

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If one were to devise a formula for box-office-breaking blockbusters, then Red Notice would resemble the hypothetical end product. How else would you describe a frenetic actioner bearing a buddy cop dynamic, headlined by the A-list trifecta of Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot, with a budget believed to be in the range of $130 million to $200 million? However, this particular product has been long set to stream exclusively on Netflix, where it will stand as the streamer’s most expensive feature. Now, the release of the Red Notice trailer touts what that exorbitant bill has bought. The reluctant…
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29 May

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 15 Review: Is This Really How It’s Going to End?!

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 15 “He’s not trying to win an election; he’s trying to win a war.” Lucifer does heartwarming and heart wrenching as well as any television series when the story requires it, but nothing adequately prepares us for the devastating news of Detective Daniel Espinoza’s death at the hands of mercenaries hired by Lucifer’s brother Michael. However, it’s the powerful, multi-layered narrative in the season’s penultimate episode that vaults “Is This Really How It’s Going To End?!” into rarified critical air leaving an impossibly high benchmark for others to aspire to. And,…
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26 May

The Flash Really Needs to Fight Some Bad Guys Again

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The following contains THE FLASH spoilers through Season 7, Episode 11. Good news, The Flash fans: Our long national nightmare that was the Forces of Nature storyline is finally over. Granted, “Family Matters, Part 2” has many of the same problems as last week’s installment – the nonsensical sibling connection between the various Forces of Nature, the show’s insistence on calling them godlike beings even while treating them like Barry and Iris’s literal children, the general creepiness of Speed Force Nora’s existence, the cringe-y dialogue and awkwardly forced emotion. Let’s not even try to figure out how Barry and friends…
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12 May

Emily Blunt Denies Fantastic Four Casting Rumors, Says ‘I Really Don’t Like’ Superhero Movies

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If you ever glanced at Marvel fans on Twitter, you might’ve noticed many love the idea of real-life power couple John Krasinski and Emily Blunt starring in Marvel’s upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. And while fans can always have their dream castings, it doesn’t mean Marvel Studios or Disney have made any overtures—or that they’ll necessarily be well-received. Take Blunt’s latest reaction to fan casting rumors when the prospect of playing Marvel Studios’ version of Sue Storm was brought up on The Howard Stern Show. Blunt has commented before on the rumors—she told Den of Geek just last year that “it’s…
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31 Mar

Were Rampage’s Monsters Really Based on King Kong, Godzilla, and The Wolf Man?

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If the release of Godzilla vs. Kong has you feeling nostalgic for the golden age of giant monsters, you’re not alone. There was a time when it felt like giant monsters ruled TVs and theater screens everywhere. They were even prominently featured in one of the most beloved arcade games of the 1980s: 1986’s “smash-em-up” Rampage. Actually, there were quite a few years after Rampage‘s release when it remained one of the best ways to live out your giant monster fantasies. Later games would more fully realize the “destroy everything” philosophy that Rampage was built on, but it took a…
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23 Mar

Did The Dark Knight Really Influence the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

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In 2008, there were two seismic events in the superhero movie genre so close together that you’d be forgiven for thinking they signaled the same thing. Over the span of a few months, Marvel Studios launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) via Iron Man, and director Christopher Nolan changed the perception of how seriously to take these movies with The Dark Knight. Both are credited as watershed moments for how audiences and (more importantly) the industry approached such stories; and The Dark Knight is specifically singled out as the gold standard by which all other masked crimefighter films are measured.…
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16 Mar

The Legend of Zelda: Are Zelda and Link Really Brother and Sister?

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In a recent look at the many unsolved mysteries and urban legends of the Legend of Zelda franchise, I briefly mentioned the idea that Zelda and Link are somehow related. At the time, I felt that the idea that those two characters could possibly be related was simply an urban legend. However, it’s since been pointed out that some interpretations of their relationship actually make that idea something closer to an unsolved mystery. It sounds crazy, but what’s really crazy is that a deeper look into this subject reveals that the nature of Link and Zelda’s relationship throughout the years…
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22 Feb

WandaVision: What Does Agnes Really Want?

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This article contains WandaVision spoilers. Pulling off twists in the Marvel Cinematic Universe means playing with what comics fans think they know. To those who read Ed Brubaker’s Captain America run, there was no surprise in Bucky’s unmasking during the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but then you get the Skrulls in Captain Marvel, who were played much more sympathetically than their comics portrayals. That’s what has kept us guessing with WandaVision’s Agnes, otherwise known as Agatha Harkness. Kathryn Hahn’s been playing the hell out of the character, but for much of the season, she’s had us second-guessing everything.…
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20 Feb

I Care a Lot: Can Professional Guardians and Conservatorships Really Get THAT Bad?

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This article contains I Care a Lot spoilers. You can read our spoiler-free review here. How odd that in the span of a couple days it seems like everyone is debating the virtues of professional guardianships and what it means to become a legal conservator. Only a week ago, Hulu and The New York Times debuted its social media lightning rod of a documentary, Framing Britney Spears, and now barely more than seven days later, Netflix is debuting J Blakeson’s I Care a Lot, a baroque comedy (or tragedy?) in which Rosamund Pike plays a professional legal guardian who cares.…
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28 Jan

Does Game of Thrones Really Need to Be a Shared Universe?

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From the harbor of Oldtown to the top of the Wall, it is known throughout Westeros that all men must die. That they must, yet the phrase may soon be amended to include, “and all geek properties must live on… forever.” It certainly appears to be the takeaway from the news that a Game of Thrones animated series for HBO Max is currently in development. The revelation came late Wednesday afternoon via THR when it was reported that HBO Max, the streaming arm of WarnerMedia, was meeting with writers to hear ideas for a potential animated drama in the same…
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11 Sep

NBA 2K21 Review: Not Really an Upgrade

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Every game in the decades-old NBA 2K series has hit consoles between September and November in time for the leadup to the next NBA season. Makes sense, right? But what happens when, come early September, the pros are still trying to complete the previous campaign because of, oh, I don’t know, a global pandemic that has disrupted just about everything in the world in one way or another? You get NBA 2K21, a game that feels too much like last year’s model. The game actually makes for a great metaphor for the 2019-20 NBA season. The on-court action is as…
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22 Aug

Gotham Knights: Is Batman Really Dead?

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Gotham Knight‘s debut trailer begins with a stunning sequence in which Bruce Wayne informs his closest allies that he is dead and that it’s now up to them to protect Gotham City. This sequence is actually an extension of the end of Batman: Arkham Knight, which saw Bruce Wayne initiate the Knightfall Protocol, ending his own life. While Batman’s death at the end of the game seems like an open and shut case, not everyone is convinced the Dark Knight is really gone. And while WB Games has certainly made it look like the Caped Crusader is really gone in…
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21 Aug

Lucifer Season 5 Episode 1 Review: Really Sad Devil Guy

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This Lucifer review contains spoilers. We have a spoiler free review here if you prefer. Lucifer Season 5 Episode 1 It’s been over a year since the endearing Prince of Darkness last graced the small screen, but the fifth season premiere of Netflix’s Lucifer quickly reminds fans of the fantasy police procedural why they’re so inexorably drawn to the show. After last season’s devastatingly emotional conclusion, “Really Sad Devil Guy” brings back an old foe whose presence allows the Devil and the detective to take the first steps toward what viewers hope will be a short-lived separation. Lee (Jeremiah Birkett)…
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19 Sep

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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Rent It In 10 Words or LessManipulating your way to the top--in song!Reviewer's Bias*Loves: The look of classic cinema, musicalsLikes: Absurdity, Kino Lorber's Studio Classics LineDislikes: Robert Morse's muggingHates: Old accepted corporate sexismThe MovieThe problem with a film where the plot sees its hero push forward with success through either luck or favor is the lack of genuine conflict. That's exactly the issue when it comes to J. Pierpont Finch (Robert Morse) and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Starting out as a window washer guided by the titular book, Finch climbs the corporate ranks by either manipulating…
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16 Sep

What Really Happened When Harrison Ford Gave George Lucas Crap On Set

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This has become a long-running among Star Wars fanatics and the actors who have played their heroes over the years. Mark Hamill also has a lot of fun blasting George Lucas for the terrible dialogue that he put into the mouths of characters like Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. This has become a long-running among Star Wars fanatics and the actors who have played their heroes over the years. Mark Hamill also has a lot of fun blasting George Lucas for the terrible dialogue that he put into the mouths of characters like Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. Source from..
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