Movies can be cinematic masterpieces or massive dumpsterfires, and even then, we can’t know what was going on behind the cameras. A bad movie could’ve been a lot of fun to make for the people involved, while a good one could’ve been, as you might expect, a nightmare to shoot. That’s what we’ve decided to focus on today: movies that were problematic behind the scenes. We aren’t talking about the quality of the finished product, rather the difficulties people had making, mixing, and bringing the project to the finish line. IMDb Waterworld Making a movie called Waterworld on the actual…

Batman has defeated some of the greatest villains in pop culture history: Joker, Two-Face, Ra’s al Ghul. He shot Darkseid with a god gun. He even survived George Clooney. Yet, for whatever reason, the Robert Pattinson version of the Caped Crusader can’t seem to find a way to victory. According to Deadline, production on The Batman: Part II has paused as director Matt Reeves has stepped away to focus on a family matter. Obviously, the report doesn’t go into greater detail, to allow the Reeves family their privacy. But one thing is clear: the night has never been darker for…

This article contains spoilers for Digger. Something strange happens during the final credits for Digger. Not a sequel tease or an easter egg. Rather, we just watch as an audience files out of a theater and into post-apocalyptic streets, while Melanie’s folk song “What Have They Done to My Song Ma” plays. That is, until a buzzer cuts off the song and a voice declares, “Level 4,” leaving the rest of the credits to unfold in silence. The declaration “Level 4” also occurred a few minutes earlier in the film, telling the characters on screen, an audience who has been…

Paul Bettany and VISIONQUEST are embarking on their final Marvel mission in the latest issue of Den of Geek Magazine about to make landfall at New York Comic Con! The cover story includes an exclusive look into the Bettany and James Spader-led Disney+ limited series that will bring the curtain down on the WandaVision trilogy. The October issue also comes with the magazine’s most packed spooky season preview yet, which includes deep dive interviews with Robert Eggers ahead of WERWULF’s Christmas transformation, Takashi Yamazaki finally opening up about bringing back GODZILLA’s greatest foe, Mike Flanagan revealing how he got Stephen…

“One of the goals of the series was to scale up with each successive title,” observes Final Fantasy Remake trilogy director Naoki Hamaguchi ahead of the April 2027 release of Final Fantasy VII Revelation, the trilogy’s concluding installment. “Rebirth was big and each individual area was connected but one of the things about it was that it was wide. For Revelation, rather than just making everything feel wide, we really wanted to create this sense of scale and verticality with everything.” To confirm, having played an early build of Final Fantasy VII Revelation at Tokyo Game Show 2026 where I…

This article contains spoilers for Lanterns. Look how far Lanterns has come. Just months ago, we were wringing our hands about HBO‘s Green Lantern adaptation, thanks to promotional materials that had as little green as the show’s title. Fans worried that the series would be embarrassed about the franchise’s weird mythology and instead try to sell the public a True Detective knock-off that was Green Lantern in name only, if even that. Turns out, everyone was right and wrong. Lanterns did indeed mostly play like a True Detective riff, with Silver Age sci-fi sprinkled along the sides. But creators Chris…

This article contains spoilers for Lanterns season 1 episode 8. As we all expected, the finale of Lanterns ends by establishing John Stewart as Earth’s new Green Lantern. What we didn’t expect, however, is that he’s just the Green Lantern of Earth… not of Space Sector 2814 and all the other planets within it, just Earth. Moreover, John will be doing his patrols with a ring and a lantern created by Sinestro, not sanctioned by the Guardians and, therefore, not as part of the Green Lantern Corps. We know that Aaron Pierre will next show up as John Stewart in…

This article contains spoilers for Lanterns season 1 episode 8. Fan expectation was at an all-time high leading up to the finale of Lanterns, and not just because it is a Damon Lindelof show. Lanterns has been an oddity in superhero media, a mix of grounded detective fiction, strong character work, and bits of Silver Age comic book sci-fi around the edges. The mystery surrounding the identity of the Manhunter and the death of Hal Jordan, to say nothing of the vast mythology of the Green Lantern comics, have led viewers to fill Reddit with all sorts of hopes and…

This article originally appeared as part of the Den of Geek “Absolute Cinema” newsletter. Find out how to subscribe here. In 1969, director Stanley Kubrick was on top of the world. He had, as the director once mused to his later-friend Steven Spielberg, made a dint on cinema thanks to the extraordinary vision of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film was also produced by MGM, the once reigning studio in Hollywood that by 1968 was bleeding—which might have been why restless and unimpressed executives walked out of the New York City premiere early, demanding cuts from Kubrick after being baffled by…

Very few of us expected the Evil Dead franchise to be still alive and kicking 45 years after the first movie burst onto screens, but Sam Raimi’s cult classic The Evil Dead has now spawned five more movies with another on the way, not to mention a TV show following the ongoing Deadite-plagued adventures of the original trilogy’s main character, Ash Williams. We thought it was about time to look back at the Evil Dead series and rank all the movies so far, but of course, this list is subjective. Some Evil Dead fans prefer the more comedic movies in…

While there have certainly been Star Wars racing games after 1999’s high-octane fan-favorite Star Wars Episode I: Racer, none had quite captured the same level of bombastic action in speeding around that galaxy far, far away. Fortunately, that high-speed glory is recaptured and then some with the upcoming racing title Star Wars: Galactic Racer, developed by Fuse Games and published by Secret Mode in association with Lucasfilm Games. As feature-rich as the racing game genre gets, Galactic Racer has enough thrills to excite genre enthusiasts while taking full advantage of its iconic space opera setting. Fuse Games had been founded…

When The Silence of the Lambs won all of the big five categories at the 1992 Oscars, including Best Picture, observers had to do all manner of hand-wringing to explain why the movie wasn’t just a horror movie. One could point to Jonathan Demme’s incredible direction, which brought a level of empathy to the proceedings. One could point to the triumph of former child actor Jodie Foster‘s performance as FBI trainee Clarice Starling or to respected theater thespian Anthony Hopkins towering take on Hannibal Lecter. One could argue that the lurid stuff—the semen throwing, face eating, or frontal nudity—occurs only…

This article contains Digger spoilers. How will our descendants view us? It’s a question that seems to haunt Alejandro González Iñárritu, the director and co-writer of Digger. He is old enough to vividly remember when folks around his age—albeit perhaps more so in the U.S. than outside of it—began looking at their parents as “the Greatest Generation.” They were the ones who lived through the Great Depression and faced the horror of World War II. Yet, almost miraculously, they left the world better than they found it. They even gave us films like Dr. Strangelove, which parodied their era’s most…

My full introduction to the RPG genre, more specifically in regard to the pixelated, turn-based titles, was through games developed and published by Square for the Super Nintendo with titles like Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, and Final Fantasy. One RPG series by Square I wasn’t familiar with at the time was Romancing SaGa, which was a Japanese exclusive franchise for the Super Famicom for years. My genuine first hands-on introduction to this particular RPG series was through a preview of Romancing SaGa 3: Destinies United, the upcoming remake for modern consoles, at Tokyo Game Show 2025. Originally released in…

We’re going to ask you a series of questions. Please just relax and answer them as simply as you can. 1. It’s your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet. 2. You’ve got a little boy. He shows you his butterfly collection plus the killing jar. 3. You’re watching television. Suddenly you realize there’s a wasp crawling on your arm. If you don’t have any immediate responses to these Voight-Kampff test prompts, you’d best start thinking of some before the world of Blade Runner 2099 comes to New York. The Prime Video series set in the canon of Ridley Scott’s…

Different entertainment mediums have their own strengths and weaknesses, with their works being made around them. Books and movies work very differently from one another, so when adapting one to the other, changes are bound to happen, like cut characters or added plotlines. These changes, though, can take the soul out of what made the book special, or try to cram too much into the length of your average movie. And even when they do everything right, it turns out movie audiences are not the same as book readers. These are the worst adaptations we could find of books to…

This article is sponsored by Hachette Partworks. There were always certain things horror fans looked for when aimlessly strolling the aisles of their local video store late at night. A catchy title. Some cool artwork (the more lurid, the better). Over time, they may have even grown to recognize a studio logo or two. And if they saw Full Moon on the box, they knew they were probably in for a particularly good time. Full Moon is best known for being the purveyors of long-running horror franchise Puppet Master, atmospheric Romania-shot vampire flicks like Subspecies, not to mention some true…

Some movies might be unsettling while you are watching them, but some stay with you long after you leave the theater. They might contain scenes that are difficult to forget, stories that become increasingly bleak, or ideas that leave you wishing you had chosen something lighter that night. The reasons may vary wildly, but sometimes one particular scene is enough to make a second viewing feel completely undesirable. IMDb Funny Games (1997) Two young men invade a family’s vacation home and turn their stay into an increasingly cruel psychological ordeal. IMDb The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) A surgeon’s…

Some actors seem to be everywhere once you start looking for them. You may recognize someone from a major movie, then discover they have actually appeared in dozens of other films, television shows, animated projects, or even video games. In some cases, their faces are easy to remember, while their smaller roles are almost invisible until you revisit them. Others have built enormous careers by constantly taking supporting parts that never become the main focus of a movie. Sometimes it’s a strange feeling when you realize just how often you have actually seen someone on screen without consciously registering them.…

When it comes to the modern fighting game scene, Street Fighter 6 has been consistently wowing fans since it launched in June 2023, selling over seven million copies by the third anniversary of its debut. In addition to its ambitious World Tour mode, giving the franchise a sweeping story to explore, and a robust online multiplayer fanbase, Capcom has steadily supported the game with updates and new playable characters every year. At Tokyo Game Show 2026, we got to play around with Arjun, Year 4’s second fighter weeks before his official arrival on October 13. Backstory released surrounding Arjun so…