After two decades of being frozen in time, or canceled for lack of a better word, the amusing genetic copies of Abe Lincoln, Joan of Arc, JFK, and Cleopatra are ready to defrost and enter a new era of high school drama. The long-awaited revival of the early 2000s adult animated cult classic, Clone High […]
Imagine, if you dare, the time before this golden age of international streaming services. Oh the horror! All those hit US TV shows we had to wait so patiently for, wondering when the UK would finally air the next series of Friends, The Sopranos or The West Wing. These days we’re much luckier, with most […]
This article contains spoilers for Succession season 4 episode 9. We as fans don’t often think about the small details of the filming process of our favorite TV shows. To be honest, why would we? Even the most astute viewers and critics are outside of it all, not privy to the minutiae that makes a […]
This article contains some spoilers for the 1985 movie, Lifeforce Vampires! They seduce, they enrapture, they hunger for us, and sometimes that’s not 100 percent horrifying, even if it might mean our imminent demise. We humans are a complex sort in that way. Though vampires are typically depicted as being smart, powerful, sexy, and slick, […]
All through the run-up to series eight of Inside No. 9, audiences were told to expect an episode called ‘Hold on Tight!’, set on a No.9 bus. Inside No. 9 is an anthology show, in which writer-actors Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith take on different roles in each self-contained episode, alongside an impressive array of […]
This article contains spoilers for Clone High season 1 and the season 2 premiere. What memories does the year 2003 stir up? The first Pirates of the Caribbean film? Ugg Boots? Freedom Fries? When the only Fast and Furious franchise sequel was 2 Fast and 2 Furious? It was a time when two fresh faced […]
When Everything Everywhere All At Once burst into the multiverse, it rocked our cinematic world like never before. Not only did Michelle Yeoh become the first Asian woman to win Best Actress at the Academy Awards, EEAAO captured six other Oscars including Best Picture, and both Best Supporting Actor and Actress. Beyond that, EEAAO collectively […]
This article contains spoilers for Succession season 4 episode 9. It’s one minute to midnight on the doomsday clock of HBO’s Succession, as Jesse Armstrong’s series heads into its finale after four seasons of watching the Roy family tear each other apart. Logan Roy (Brian Cox) might’ve bowed out early, and while we wait with […]
This article contains spoilers for season 4 episode 9 of Succession. Succession’s Logan Roy (Brian Cox) is well known for his complicated relationships with the women in his life, keeping them at arm’s length until they are no longer useful to him. There are very few people that Logan respects in general, but even women […]
This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. Get your copy here. If you want to see a musical adapted from stage to screen and adapted well, Rob Marshall is your dream director. For Chicago, he went high-concept, recontextualizing the Broadway songs as vaudeville numbers from the imagination of Roxie Hart. With Into the […]
This Yellowjackets review contains spoilers. Yellowjackets Season 2 Episode 8 The cabin fever escalates yet again in the past, and in the present, the survivors have the most macabre group therapy session ever in “It Chooses,” the penultimate episode of Yellowjackets’ second season. The show continues to benefit from having the present-day characters convened at […]
This article contains spoilers for Succession season 4 episode 9. Though they may not be conventionally intelligent (and in many cases they’re outright dumb), Logan Roy’s children sure are a well-educated bunch. Never has that been more apparent than in Succession‘s second-to-last episode “Church and State.” Even as the Roy siblings gather at a church […]