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09 Oct

Inside Pixar’s Soul and the Secrets of Life Before Death

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In 2015 Pixar and director Pete Docter brought us Inside Out, a brilliant, moving exploration of how our emotions affect our relationships as we grow older. The Oscar-winning film’s script (by Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley) was heavily inspired by the filmmakers’ research into neuropsychology and the mysteries of how the human mind works. Now five years later, Docter and a new team have gone in a completely different direction–the metaphysical–with Soul. Den of Geek was given a chance to view the first 20 minutes of the film and speak afterward with Docter, co-writer Kemp Powers, and producer Dana…

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05 Oct

The Walking Dead: Beta’s Death Explained

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This Walking Dead article contains spoilers. When it came to the Whisperers, Alpha was the leader, the planner, the brains of the operation, and Beta was her muscle. If The Walking Dead were an action movie, Beta would be the henchman that has to be dispatched before the hero confronts the real boss. But The Walking Dead, for all of the killing and fighting involved, isn’t an action movie. As Alpha learned earlier this year, the best way to kill the body is to take out the head. It works for walkers, and it works, eventually, for the Whisperers. With…

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03 Oct

Death of Me

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Vacationing on an island off the coast of Thailand, Christine (Maggie Q) and Neil Oliver (Luke Hemsworth) awake hungover and with no memory of the previous night. They find footage on Neil’s camera, and watch, horrified, as Neil appears to murder Christine. With twenty-four hours until the next ferry and a typhoon threatening the island, Christine and Neil attempt to reconstruct the night’s events—and are snared in a web of mystery, black magic, and murder.Rated: RRelease Date: Oct 02, 2020

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01 Oct

South Park Pandemic Special: What Does The Return of Death Mean?

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It’s understandable for any series, let alone one like South Park, to develop a level of cynicism when it’s been on for over two decades. South Park has turned out numerous episodes like “Cancelled,” “You’re Getting Old,” and “Unfulfilled” that have all looked at the growing pains of not just South Park, but also its creators. There have been a handful of episodes that exhibit such self-criticism that it’s sometimes easy to wonder if Trey Parker and Matt Stone are still truly in love with the series or just going through the motions.  “The Pandemic Special” looks at a lot…

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15 Sep

Taika Waititi Pirate Comedy Our Flag Means Death Set for HBO Max

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Taika Waititi has a lot of irons in the entertainment industry fire at the moment, and the Kiwi comedy and action visionary has just added another one in Our Flag Means Death, a period-set pirate comedy series, which is headed to HBO Max. Fresh off a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar win for his starring/directing turn in JoJo Rabbit, Waititi has added the duties of executive-producer and director for the manic maritime madness of Our Flag Means Death to his surreally stacked backlog of shows and films. HBO Max describes the series as being loosely based on the real-life adventures of…

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14 Sep

Happy Death Day 3 Working Title and Status Revealed by Director

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Happy Death Day 3 may be sidetracked by the pandemic, but director Christopher Landon is making it abundantly clear that it’s still on his docket, and he’s itching to get back to work. Thusly, Landon has revealed the film’s actual working title, its current status and a potentially game-changing plot detail. Happy Death Day to Us is the working title for the threequel, as returning franchise-spanning director Landon reveals in an interview with Empire. The film franchise, a horror genre hybrid of sorts that puts an irreverent self-parodying spin on the Groundhog Day-esque concept of time-looping, became a surprise hit…

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03 Sep

The Curious Life and Death of… Examines the Mysterious Cases of Brittany Murphy and Brian Jones

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Smithsonian Channel will mix forensics, true crime, and well-known names in its new series The Curious Life and Death of… Hosted by famed medical historian Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris, the show performs post-mortem examinations on some of the most puzzling deaths in history. The six-part series will premiere on Sunday, Sept. 6 at 9 p.m. ET. “Whether its 90s icon Brittany Murphy, Rolling Stone founder Brian Jones, or axe-murderess Lizzie Borden, the lives of these fascinating individuals are revealed through tests, investigation and autopsies as medical historian, Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris provides a curious and sometimes macabre glimpse into a biography from…

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19 Aug

Death on the Nile Trailer Shows Gal Gadot in Egypt

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“The romance of the desert has the power to seduce,” we hear in the first Death on the Nile trailer. Thus director Kenneth Branagh continues his loving obsession with mystery writer Agatha Christie, gathering as much star power as his 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express. The opening shot lingers on the sun-drenched pyramids and entombed pharaohs with fetishistic delight. Gal Gadot and Armie Hammer also do a slow burn into the camera lens. These are killer shots, and the Death of the Nile release date, Oct. 23, brings a welcome relief but still leaves questions. The 20th…

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28 Jul

Batman: Death in the Family Interactive Movie Lets You Kill Robin

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With Netflix going hard on interactive movies like Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, it was only a matter of time before other studios started experimenting with them. Now, DC’s animated movie division has figured out a way to use the format to make a true-to-life adaptation. With Batman: Death in the Family, a new animated short film, the fans will get decide whether Robin (aka Jason Todd) lives or dies. Announced by IGN, the movie version of Death in the Family will be fully interactive and let viewers choose one of multiple, branching fates for Jason Todd. It’s also a rough prequel…

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26 Jul

Man of Steel Screenwriter Explains Controversial Zod Death

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When Man of Steel came out in 2013, the Zack Snyder-directed reboot of Superman’s origins became immediately controversial with fans due to two sequences. In the first, a young Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) watches as his adoptive father Jonathan Kent (Kevin Costner) is killed by a tornado, with Jonathan covertly discouraging Clark from attempting to save him and possibly revealing his true identity as the Kryptonian alien Kal-El in the process. The second and even more hotly debated scene involved a final standoff between the now-adult Superman and the villainous General Zod (Michael Shannon) in a Metropolis train station, with…

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24 Jul

Lake of Death

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Lillan and some friends travel back to the remote cabin by the little lake, where her twin brother died last year, and soon after arriving strange things starts happening. Inspired by the 1958 classic horror film.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Jul 16, 2020

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17 Jul

Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid Artist Yoji Shinkawa on Creating Iconic Video Game Art

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Death Stranding is one of the most bizarre and unique games ever made, which isn’t so surprising when you consider it’s the first project from an independent Kojima Productions, where the legendary video game auteur Hideo Kojima is finally completely free to let his imagination run wild. Setting players on a grueling trek across a post-apocalyptic United States while delivering valuable cargo along the way, Death Stranding may be Kojima’s most divisive game (although I love it). Some have labeled it a “walking simulator” while others hail it as a prescient work of art that may even have predicted the…

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11 Jun

Kenneth Branagh Describes His Death on the Nile as Dark and Sexy

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Kenneth Branagh and his absolutely ludicrous moustache will return to the big screen (plague dependent) later this year as Agatha Christie’s iconic Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Death on the Nile, Branagh’s follow up to the box office-raiding Murder on the Orient Express, is eyeing an October 9 release date, but Branagh has already witnessed the path of his latest movie, Artemis Fowl, veer off towards the streaming service pastures of Disney+ thanks to the current state of things, so we shall wait to see if Poirot’s next case is theater-bound. Branagh summoned a big cast for his new spin on…

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06 May

Josh Trank Slept With Gun by Bed After Fantastic Four Death Threats

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Josh Trank says that he was so deeply paranoid during the making of Fox’s comic book reboot flop Fantastic Four that he slept with a gun on his nightstand. In an explosive new interview with Polygon – conducted over four years and published in the week before his new movie Capone hits VOD – Trank has described the nature of his work on the 2015 movie, which suffered from significant studio interference, and the volatile relationship he had with Fantastic Four‘s co-screenwriter, Jeremy Slater, who had seen the success of Joss Whedon’s The Avengers preceding their attempt at the Marvel…

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04 Mar

Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man Shows Life After Dark Universe Death

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Over the last weekend, an eerie thing happened at the box office: Leigh Whannell and Blumhouse Productions’ The Invisible Man brought the Universal Monsters legacy back with a vengeance. Over-performing with a monstrous box office bow of $29 million in the U.S. alone, the horror reimagining of the H.G. Wells novel (and James Whale’s 1933 film) more than quadrupled its $7 million budget in only three days. This is of course good news about a good horror movie, one of the best in a while with its panic attack-inducing allegory about a woman being gaslighted by an abusive ex. But…

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16 Jan

Intrigo: Death of an Author

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A small open boat ploughs through a troubled sea off the Dutch coast. One solitary man at the rudder. A few days later, when the wind has settled, the smashed up remains of the boat will be found a few kilometres to the south. Meanwhile in Stockholm. David is contacted by his publisher. A manuscript by the famous author Germund Rein has turned up at the publishing house. David has translated the earlier works of Rein and is now given first option to tackle this one. However the manuscript has arrived in Sweden cloaked in strange circumstances. It has not…

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11 Dec

The Death and Life of John F. Donovan

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A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives. Rated: RRelease Date: Dec 13, 2019

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23 Sep

The Death of Dick Long

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Holy Crap. Dick is dead. Died last night after band practice, and his bandmates, Zeke & Earl (Michael Abbott, Jr. & Andre Hyland), don’t want anybody finding out how. That’s too bad though, ‘cause news travels fast in small town Alabama, and these guys suck at covering their tracks. The authorities haven’t ID’d the body just yet, but Zeke’s wife (Virginia Newcomb) and his daughter are suspicious already. [A24]Rated: RRelease Date: Sep 27, 2019

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12 Feb

Happy Death Day 2U

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Jessica Rothe leads the returning cast of Happy Death Day 2U, the follow-up to the surprise 2017 smash hit of riveting, repeating twists and comic turns. This time, our hero Tree (Rothe) discovers that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead.Rated: PG-13Release Date: Feb 14, 2019

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11 Feb

Death House

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Skip It Director: B. Harrison SmithStarring: Cortney Palm, Cody Long, Dee WallaceYear: 2017It's nice to be one of the few people who has seen an under-the-radar, low-budget, throw-cares-to-the-wind horror flick, because there's a sense of community that comes with watching something that precarious, that delicately connected and held together. It might be strange to think of horror as being fragile, with the monsters and the decapitations and the blood and whatnot. But that's exactly what the genre is, a delicate balance between production, money, fandom, and expression, with the resulting final product usually something that almost no one sees. I…

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