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This article appears in the next issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. SUBSCRIBE HERE! While you’re dealing with the lingering buzz in the lead up to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in theaters or wondering when Secret Invasion is finally going to premiere on Disney+, there’s another Marvel project you absolutely should not overlook: Moon Girl and Devil

For the most part, fans have reacted positively to the establishment of James Gunn and Peter Safran as heads of the new DC Studios. But there’s one group of people who look with disappointment at Gunn’s announcement of the upcoming DC Studios slate: fans of the Snyderverse. Although his DC Comics adaptations have been unquestionably

This article contains spoilers for You Season 4 Part 1. In the fourth season of You, Joe (Penn Badgley) finds himself on the other side of the Atlantic. After hitting a few roadblocks in seeking out his former paramour Marianne (Tati Gabrielle), Joe settles into a new life as a professor named Jonathan Moore at

This article contains spoilers for Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence. When news first broke in 2020 that a man named Larry Ray had been arrested for operating a sex cult at Sarah Lawrence College, the casual news observer could be forgiven for finding the ensuing headlines slightly humorous at first. The existence

This The Ark review contains spoilers. The Ark Episode 2 Sometimes when too much goes wrong in a show centered on survival, it can be very stressful to watch. Not so with The Ark, possibly because even though the crew in the show is on rationed water and very little sleep, no one looks particularly

This article contains spoilers for all of Better Call Saul. Halfway through Better Call Saul’s fifth season, we arrived at the moment the whole series had been building up to. A story about the origins of Breaking Bad’s comic relief lawyer had become a Cain-and-Abel war between two embittered brothers then, in turn, a strange

It’s been almost 20 years since Peppa Pig first aired, and this popular UK children’s TV show is now a hit with preschoolers the world over, with the show’s achievements including over 350 episodes, eighteen music singles, and four theme parks across three continents. While many top kids’ TV shows are so irritating they make

It would seem the bombshell cliffhanger that fans of Paramount’s Yellowstone have been anticipating this season didn’t come on screen, but behind the camera.  Deadline is reporting that due to disagreements in regards to shooting schedules, and conflicts with other projects, star Kevin Costner is perhaps asking too much from Paramount. There are reports that

Two different types of viewers tuned in to check out The Ark on Syfy last week: those looking for a fun sci-fi adventure and those seeking a cutting edge space epic. While the pilot certainly met the needs of those expecting an enjoyable romp, others may have found any true depth lacking in the premiere,

As much as Star Trek promises to boldly go where no one has gone before, the franchise has never been afraid to look back at its past. We’ve seen that in appearances by Janice Rand and Khan Noonien Singh in the movies, cameos from most of the original crew in The Next Generation, and even

This article contains spoilers through the most recent episode of The Last of Us. Fans of The Last of Us know that music is a key part of the video games’ story. The Last of Us Part II shows us how Joel and Ellie use music as a way to connect with and understand each

It’s that time of the year again: the big game is upon us. The Super Bowl is a yearly tradition in most American households, and it unites families and friends for a variety of reasons. For football purists, seeing who holds the Lombardi trophy at the end is the most important part of the evening.

The Snow Girl is a tense, well plotted thriller based on the novel La chica de nieve by Spanish writer Javier Castillo. Though it’s set in Málaga it shares a lot in common with Scandi-noir thrillers and it follows the story of a missing girl and the journalist with her own dark past attempting to

This article contains spoilers for Gunther’s Millions.  Netflix is always armed with a wacky true crime series, and Gunther’s Millions – the story of a supposed “millionaire dog” – is the latest tale they’ve added to the collection.  Based around a German Shepherd whose Countess owner leaves behind an untold fortune, soon things take a

I’m not gonna lie, being a TV fan is hard right now. Not only do we have to worry about the shows we love getting canceled before the story is complete, but now we also have to worry about shows being canceled at random stages of production, or worse getting erased from their streaming platforms

Days after her grandmother’s death, a young professional woman returns to her family home to sort through what was left behind. Wrapped in a blanket to warm herself from the storm raging outside, the woman senses a ghostly presence, one that visited her in a dream the night before. The presence begins to speak, bidding

Warning: contains plot details Watching Nolly will divide a generation: you’ll either be surprised you haven’t heard of her (even if she was ‘a bit before your time’), or even more surprised you’d somehow forgotten she ever existed. She certainly seems instantly unforgettable, thanks in part to Helena Bonham Carter’s assured depiction of her full-throttle,

HBO announced last week that its multi-time Emmy-winning drama Succession is finally returning for its fourth season starting on March 26, and the full trailer for the new set of episodes has us hyped to learn about all of the new developments in the lives of the highly-dysfunctional Roy family.  The last time we were

What a tumultuous time it is to be a fan of DC TV and movies. Aside from the fact that the DCEU was a mass of chaotic energy almost from the word go, there’s also been the ongoing confusion about the multiversal aspects: the multiple Batmen and Jokers, the fact that the TV shows have

This Star Wars article contains spoilers for The Bad Batch. The premise of The Bad Batch has its roots in The Clone Wars animated series, where the central squad of mutant clones first made their debut, so it only makes sense that the spinoff would bring back some of our favorites from that era of

The future is finally here for DC fans. After years of false starts from a parade of creatives, and months of teases, DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran finally shared their vision for DC movies and TV series going forward, christened, simply enough as the DCU. The pair outlined what they called “the

This article contains spoilers for The Last of Us Part I and Part II Ellie’s immunity to the Cordyceps infection is an important part of The Last of Us game lore. In both the HBO series and the video games it’s based on, Ellie is the only person we know of who doesn’t become infected

Worlds will live, worlds will die. And the DC Universe will never be the same. But that’s no crisis. It’s just what happens when a massive media conglomerate like Warner Bros. Discovery puts two new executives at the top of a studio and tells them to take a different approach. So while the DC Extended

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is now heading into Phase 5, and there’s a lot of speculation as to how Marvel Studios will approach its latest narratives. The way the franchise has previously taken shape has been experimental from the off-set. Marvel’s television department has constantly been in flux, from its status as a separate division

Warning: this Happy Valley review contains spoilers. Well, this is embarrassing. Every acting award for this year has already been engraved with the name Sarah Lancashire, but now someone’s going to have to take a sharp screwdriver to a couple and scratch ‘James Norton’ over the top. He deserves one for his guileless delivery of the line

This article contains MCU spoilers Some superhero stories truly glide on the idea of a hero’s redemption. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we have seen characters like Tony Stark, Stephen Strange, Natasha Romanoff, and Gamora make up for their past sins via heroism. A viewer’s love for a great redemption story occasionally mixes itself with

If there’s any show that took a heavy dose of inspiration from Power Rangers back in the ‘90s and still brings back fond(ish) memories, it’s without question Big Bad Beetleborgs. Premiering in 1996 on Fox Kids and running two seasons, the show was another hybrid of stock Japanese action footage and original American shot scenes.

Junji Ito is undoubtedly a mastermind of the macabre. Merging his own monsters with Japanese folklore and tentacles of Lovecraftian inspiration, Ito’s graphic novels, such as Gyo and Uzumaki, have gripped horror fans worldwide with claws of fear. The things that creep in the darkest alleys of his imagination will easily take up residence in

Unfortunately, HBO Max is adding a couple more DC shows to its ever-growing list of casualties. Titans and Doom Patrol have officially been canceled by Warner Bros. Discovery. Both shows still have another half of a season to air on HBO Max at a yet-to-be-determined date, but these season 4 episodes will serve as their

The wait is almost over: the BBC have just announced that Series 8 of Inside No. 9 will be released on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer this spring. The 2022 Christmas special – the macabre and comedic The Bones of St. Nicholas, set in a haunted church and guest starring Simon Callow (A Room with