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This article contains Marvel’s Eternals spoilers. I did not love Chloé Zhao’s Eternals. This isn’t a controversial statement to make for the first Marvel Studios film to receive a negative “Rotten” score on the aggregate movie review site, Rotten Tomatoes. Despite its expansive pacing—which, believe it or not, is two minutes longer than Denis Villeneuve’s
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Red Notice will be writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber’s third action film collaboration with his star of choice, Dwayne Johnson. And although this latest offering follows the familiar heist movie formula, the recognizable narrative patterns in all Thurber/Johnson collaborations are becoming their own trademark. Like Skyscraper (2018) and Central Intelligence (2016) before it, Red Notice is
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Warning: contains spoilers for the Showtrial finale, available to stream on BBC iPlayer. In episode four, BBC courtroom thriller Showtrial includes an exchange that handily lays out the drama’s premise for anybody snoozing at the back. On the deck of his luxury lakefront villa – in the Cotswolds just outside Cirencester if you fancy it – billionaire property developer
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This SUPERGIRL article contains spoilers for Season 6, Episode 18, “Truth or Consequences.” Supergirl Season 6 Episode 18 This episode serves as an example of the way that the totem story arc has forced Supergirl to mow through convoluted plot at speeds usually reserved for soap operas. It feels like the show barely pauses to make room
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This article contains spoilers for Army of Thieves and Army of the Dead. Army of Thieves, the prequel to Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, has less to do with zombies than you might expect. Yes, there are a few undead creatures shambling around the claustrophobic hallways of Ludwig Dieter’s (Matthias Schweighöfer) nightmares and on
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This article is part of our Collector’s Digest series powered by: Halloween may be over, but Spooky Season never really ends here at Den of Geek. Thus, there’s no better time than the present to take a look at the most terrifying characters in comics. It’s tough to pull off jump scares on the page,
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Warning: contains spoilers for Doctor Who: Flux ‘The Halloween Apocalypse’ Why did the Doctor travel half the universe to, as she told Yaz, “see a man about a dog”? Firstly, because the Doctor is more evasive than a mid-scandal cabinet member at a press briefing and refuses to confide in the people who regularly risk
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“They’re really nice people you know. [Laughs] They look very frightening, but they’re really very nice.” That compliment, dubiously delivered on Saturday Night Live’s 1981 Halloween episode by a thematically-apropriate host in Halloween star Donald Pleasance, served as the introduction for the show’s most unique musical act: SoCal hardcore punk rock band Fear. However, differing
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What happens when one of the biggest musical artists in the world covers a song from one of the other biggest musical artists in the world? We’re about to find out. BTS just released a cover of Harry Styles’ “Falling,” as performed by Jungkook, the group’s main vocalist, and it’s wracked up more than 2.5
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New York, London, Paris, Munich, everybody talks about, um, Count Orlok? Yes, vampires are everywhere. Movies have documented them in tall mountains, small towns, icy landscapes, and in the desert wind. But why rough it in remote locations when you can enjoy all the discomfort of a torn throat in the hustle and bustle of
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Bill Murray has confirmed that he has a secret role in Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in a new interview with German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Interviewer Patrick Heidmann revealed the unexpected news over on Twitter this week, and Murray’s comments were then translated for clarity. “You know, I made a Marvel movie recently,”
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So, you’ve decided that this Halloween you’re going to put on a movie marathon, but you’re not sure where to start. Or maybe you’ve got an inkling, but there are so many different factors involved that your head hurts just thinking about them all. Don’t stress, take some deep breaths. We’re here to help! Setting
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Can you believe that Legends of Tomorrow, a show that started off as a home for characters who had completed their arcs on other DC Arrowverse shows, began with a tricky/impenetrable premise, and has since evolved to be one of the weirdest and most unique TV shows around is about to celebrate its 100th episode?
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This Fear the Walking Dead review contains spoilers.  Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 2 Oh boy, where to even begin with this one? After setting up Strand as this season’s big bad in last week’s premiere, “The Beacon,” Fear the Walking Dead now shines the spotlight on its would-be saviors, namely Morgan and Grace. (And I say
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This article contains major Dune spoilers, for both the page and screen. Denis Villeneuve first daydreamed of making the definitive adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune when he was 14-years-old. He’s said as much when he confided to Den of Geek that “the bible is the book…. I want people who love the book to feel
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This article contains massive Dune spoilers, as well as potential spoilers for Dune Part Two. House Atreides has fallen. That’s where we leave things at the end of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune (or Dune Part One as the film waits until the opening title card to reveal). Oscar Isaac’s Duke Leto lies dead, murdered by his
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High drama about the ultra rich, Succession, is a truly wonderful show populated by truly terrible people – and that’s all part of the fun. Focusing on the Roy family, whose patriarch Logan Roy is the owner of a massive media conglomerate (he’s loosely based on Rupert Murdoch), it’s drenched in familial fighting, lies, corruption
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