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One Battle After Another's Perfidia Beverly Hills Doesn't Fit in Easy Moral Boxes
1+ hour, 42+ min ago (250+ words) One Battle After Another is a story about humans, not a piece of political propaganda. Of course, over the next two hours, we'll find that Perfidia Beverly Hills is so much more than just a single-minded revolutionary. She gets angry,…...
Margo's Got Money Troubles Trailer Is an Antidote to Our Wealth Obsession
3+ week, 1+ day ago (207+ words) Time to see the poor instead of eat the rich in the new Apple TV series. Look, we all love to hate the rich. It's fun to see the emptiness of the lives of the guests on The White Lotus,…...
How Tim Robinson Made Cringe Palatable for Gen Z
4+ week, 1+ day ago (531+ words) Few generations are as sensitive to "cringe culture" as Generation Z. So why do they love the comedic works of Tim Robinson? For as long as human beings have communicated with each other, the concept of "cringe" has plagued social interactions....
Meet the Archaeologist Changing What We Know About Ancient Egypt
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (1105+ words) Exclusive: Zahi Hawass opens up about his new documentary, the latest discoveries changing what we understand about the family religion of King Tut, and why folks keep falling for conspiracy theories. Yet when we meet him on a brisk January…...
Star Wars Is Now Nostalgia for Millennials Instead of Gen X
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (203+ words) Star Wars Is Now Nostalgia for Millennials Instead of Gen X'Den of Geek Will millennials share Star Wars better than Gen X did? It's finally official. Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as head of Lucasfilm, to be replaced by Dave…...
Peter Capaldi Says Doctor Who Has Become a Victim of Its Own Success
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (369+ words) The former Twelfth Doctor says Doctor Who's expansion into a global brand has changed expectations for its success. "The show became very, very big. And it was never like that when I loved it. So it became a different thing,…...
The Elevator Down: Life After the Severance Procedure
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (132+ words) One writer explains why the Apple TV science fiction series Severance resonates with viewers like her. This article appears in the new issue of'DEN OF GEEK'magazine. You can read all of our magazine stories'here. For the past decade, I have…...
The Fart That Almost Ruined Weird Science
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (294+ words) It turns out that one silent fart can create a lot of chaos on set. There's a lot of madcap stuff going down in the climactic party scene of John Hughes' classic sci-fi comedy Weird Science, as nerdy teen Frankensteins…...
Doctor Who Needs to Do Better By the Rani
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (855+ words) Doctor Who should take advantage of its built-in second chance to get the Rani right. Despite Disney, the BBC, and returning showrunner Russell T Davies being adamant that the Ncuti Gatwa era of Doctor Who would be super friendly to…...
Doctor Who Needs to Be More Careful With its Legacy Villains
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (580+ words) Villains like Sutekh, the Rani, and Omega are all nice to see again. But Doctor Who needs to rethink how it deploys them in the future. The fate of televised Doctor Who hasn't been this unclear in decades. We don't…...