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Denzel Washington’s Frank Lucas in Ridley Scott’s American Gangster is exactly that: an American gangster. The real Frank Lucas was born in North Carolina so dirt poor that he never even attended school. But he could have taught at any business college. His success is the American dream, and he has a lot to be

Warning: This Masters of the Universe: Revelation article contains spoilers for parts 1 and 2. Masters of the Universe: Revelation is a true love letter to He-Man fans. Crafted in part by filmmaker Kevin Smith, a longtime fan of all things geeky, the first part of the Netflix series was filled to the brim with

Warning: contains spoilers for Doctor Who: Flux Chapter 4 ‘Village of the Angels’ The Weeping Angels are back, and they are not playing. To be honest, even attempting another Weeping Angels episode is a pretty brave feat in itself. Moffat’s trilogy of stories pretty covered all the bases. ‘Blink’ established the rules for Angels. ‘The

When it comes to Thanksgiving, we all have our non-eating traditions. Many like to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade or check out a game or two of football. For many a geek, Thanksgiving is a day that lets us sit back and watch a whole lot of Mystery Science Theater 3000. It’s part of

Someone at Sony today could quite possibly be ringing a bell and shouting, “We got one!” because Ghostbusters: Afterlife’s opening weekend suggests there’s life in the old franchise yet. Indeed, the fourth movie about ghosts and the people who catch them, and third picture set in the original 1984 movie’s continuity, has beaten both Sony

This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 8 The Simpsons season 33 episode 8, “Portrait of a Lackey on Fire,” is a celebration of the long-running series’ most closeted icon. For years, Waylon Smithers did time as an all-too-standard bearer of hidden identity in a workplace where labels stick with the

By just about any metric, Paramount Network drama Yellowstone is one of the most popular shows on television. Created by actor-turned-filmmaker Taylor Sheridan and starring Kevin Costner, Yellowstone boasts some truly eye-popping viewership numbers. Though the show was a hit right out of the gate, it’s reached new heights in its fourth season. The season

The Wii is Nintendo’s best selling console to date, a testament to the appeal of gameplay over graphics. While it was even underpowered in its time and infamously couldn’t output HD graphics, the Wii’s innovative motion controls made it appealing to groups far beyond the typical gamer demographic. It wasn’t unheard of to hear stories

This Hellbound article contains major spoilers through Episode 3. Hellbound creator Yeon Sang-ho may come from a feature film background, but you wouldn’t know it from the six-part supernatural horror series’ impeccable pacing, including a mid-season time jump that gives the drama new narrative life just when the world’s horror is perhaps becoming too much.

This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 4 Episode 7 Getting off of Mars was the best thing to happen to Young Justice: Phantoms, and even though it returns there this week, the parallel structure of the episode combined with the show taking on a HUGE story from the comics and making

It would take a unique kind of audacity to reach out to Stephen Sondheim and insist he be your mentor. But then it took a unique kind of audacity—and pain, and tears, and talent—to be Jonathan Larson. As the brilliant if ill-starred artist who wrote a generation-defining musical in Rent, and then didn’t live to

When will shady organisations learn that if they’re going to breed a squadron of teen girl super soldiers, their range of genetic enhancements needs to include an off switch? Yes, teenagers can fly under the assassin radar (as Hanna CIA baddie John Carmichael says, “Who’s really going to suspect an 18-year-old freshman in pigtails of

This Hellbound review is based on the first three episodes of the Netflix series. It contains minor spoilers. We’re all going to die, but most of us don’t know when, how, or what will happen to us (if anything) after the inevitable event. This is a reality we all live with, and that much of

With Peter Jackson’s re-cut of The Beatles: Get Back coming at the end of November, we are reminded the Beatles were cinematic stars as well as musical artists. Beyond the group’s films, John Lennon played Private Gripweed in Richard Lester’s How I Won the War, and Ringo Starr acted in quite a few films. His

Production on HBO’s The Last of Us has moved from the Boston QZ set in the city of Calgary in Alberta, Canada to the town of Canmore in the country’s Rocky Mountains region. It’s there that HBO is filming the scenes set in the Jackson,Wyoming settlement from the games. As fans of the 2013 PlayStation

In an interview with GQ, Xbox boss Phil Spencer continued to suggest that The Elder Scrolls 6 will be an Xbox exclusive title without just outright saying that the long-awaited sequel will be an Xbox exclusive title. “It’s not about punishing any other platform…I fundamentally believe all of the platforms can continue to grow,” Spencer

The absolutely botched release of the “Definitive Edition” of the GTA Trilogy is rightfully being called out by fans and critics everywhere, but it has to be said that getting the chance to explore these games again and hear everyone talk about them again has been a real joy regardless of the unforgivable quality of

This Dexter review contains spoilers. Dexter: New Blood Episode 2  For a guy who’s supposed to be laying low, living under an assumed identity to avoid being recognized, caught, and convicted as a prolific serial killer, Dexter Morgan sure picked a hell of a love interest to get involved with. If it’s not bad enough

Doctor Who Series 13 Episode 3 Review Warning: this Doctor Who: Flux review contains spoilers. Well, I wasn’t expecting that. I’d initially intended to start this review comparing ‘Once, Upon Time’to the deliberately ambiguous ‘Listen’, the Peter Capaldi serial that left whether the ‘monster’ even existed up to the audience. Then I thought, no, it’s

Many of us assumed that the seemingly inevitable remasters of GTA 3, GTA: Vice City, and GTA: San Andreas would eventually be guaranteed (and welcome) hits, but the release of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition has already been met with scorn and ridicule from franchise fans who are stunned by these

One of the big new Marvel shows announced for Disney+ is Echo, starring Alaqua Cox. The character will be introduced in Hawkeye later this month and now is the perfect time for her to shine. In the comics, Echo was never truly a top-tier hero. Echo has mostly been portrayed as a supporting character, but

Peter Jackson’s upcoming The Beatles: Get Back is poised to reframe the breakup of “the greatest show on the earth, for what it was worth,” into a race-against-the-clock musical comedy. Good Morning America dropped a video showing the serious business of hitting the right notes.  It’s obviously an early take, none of the nuances which

This November is a big month for some of the most well-known names in the genre, from a new addition to The Expanse to Brandon Sanderson’s space opera. Here’s what we’re looking forward to in November 2021 … Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey Type: NovelPublisher: OrbitRelease date: Nov. 30 Den of Geek says: Does The Expanse need an

This article contains DC’s Legends of Tomorrow spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 7 Episode 5 It was almost impossible for Legends of Tomorrow to follow up the spectacular 100th episode with something that matched it, and while they didn’t hit the same high, they came really close. Could they pull off three all-time classic episodes

Warning: contains spoilers for Endeavour series 1-8. Love them as we do, a great episode of Endeavour isn’t only down to the central pillars of Morse, Thursday, DeBryn, Bright and Strange. It also takes memorable turns from the host of actors playing one-time characters who leave their own indelible mark on the detective drama. After

This article contains ETERNALs spoilers. Eternals arrived at the Marvel Cinematic Universe table with a grandiose cosmic tale involving immortal titans and celestial beings, bearing stakes consequential to the very nature of the world. Yet, since said tale represents an entirely unseen avenue of a vast canon consisting of 25 films and several television shows,

Ridley Scott’s 2007 feature, American Gangster, let Denzel Washington lead a regime change in uptown mob movies. That heralded position had always been held by Bumpy Johnson, who steered the underworld through the real-life Harlem Renaissance, holding his own against the Irish and Jewish mobs, and enjoying a long relationship with New York’s Italian criminal

Ever since jumping into the 32nd century, Star Trek: Discovery has had a new lease on narrative life. In addition to the character consequences that organically come from an entire crew leaving their friends, family, and homes for a future entirely unknown, Season 3 began to delve into an exploration of what the Federation looks

It’s strange to consider 20 years later, but once upon a time studio executives were obsessed with Kevin Costner playing Robin Hood. This is ironic, of course, since Costner’s English “accent” in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves has become a meme unto itself over the decades. But nevertheless, we are still talking about his adventures

This article contains MAJOR ETERNALS spoilers. You can read our spoiler-free review of the MCU movie here. If you break Marvel’s Eternals down to a barebones premise, the latest MCU film is the story of a family that loves each other but is torn asunder by ideological differences in spite of that love. It’s one