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27 Nov

New Christmas Movies to Stream: A Holiday 2020 Streaming Guide

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It’s the holiday season again. Thank goodness. After what has been a particularly difficult year, a little seasonal cheer has never felt more comforting or needed, even if the smiles need to be hidden behind  Christmas themed masks. There’s never been a better time to curl up with a good Christmas movie on the streaming service of your choice. Of course that includes all of your favorite Christmas classics, which we’ve rounded up a schedule guide for here, but it also means a chance to try something new. Netflix has already gotten a hardy start to the holiday season, and…

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26 Nov

Christmas Movies: A Complete Holiday Streaming Guide

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So, maybe there isn’t enough Christmas and holiday programming on TV for your liking. We get it. You can’t be stuck at the mercy of broadcasters and cable networks all the time, not when there are so many Christmas movies to watch, right? Read more TV Christmas Movies and TV Specials: Full 2020 Schedule By Den of Geek Staff Movies Christmas Movies: A Complete Holiday Streaming Guide By Alec Bojalad and 1 other Well, because we’re a little crazy, we’re working on an index of every Christmas movie and other piece of seasonally appropriate holiday-themed film available on various streaming services.…

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23 Nov

Why NVIDIA GeForce Ray Tracing Is the Best Way to Game This Holiday

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This article is presented by NVIDIA.  2020 is an exciting year for PC gamers, thanks to NVIDIA’s powerful next-gen GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs and ray tracing-enabled RTX gaming laptops. Needless to say, there is absolutely no better way to game this holiday than with NVIDIA GeForce graphics, which deliver the most cutting edge visuals currently on the market.  As we learned last year when we installed a RTX 2080 Ti in our official Den of Geek PC, and after testing several RTX laptops earlier this year, once you’ve experience ray tracing — a new technique that brings advanced lighting…

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21 Nov

Best Thanksgiving Movies to Watch This Holiday Season

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This year marks a unique Thanksgiving, to be sure. With the pandemic carrying on, families and loved ones across the United States are testing out new ways to celebrate a national holiday that might be best described as food, football, and then, of course, more food. For some that means outdoor gatherings are the order of the day; for others it will mean the first time you might be cutting turkey while wearing a mask. However you might wish to celebrate the holiday though, gathering with loved ones around a movie never goes out of style. For that reason, we’ve…

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17 Nov

Is the Lego Star Wars Holiday Special Canon?

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This Star Wars article contains spoilers. It’s Life Day once again in the Star Wars galaxy. Set after The Rise of Skywalker, the Lego Star Wars Holiday Special picks up Rey, Poe, Finn, and Rose’s stories some time after their battle with the Emperor on Exegol. With the threat of the Final Order behind them, Rey’s friends have busied themselves with throwing the best Life Day party ever on the Millennium Falcon, while the Jedi Knight trains Finn in the ways of the Force. Yes, the first five minutes of the special reveal what has been teased for so long:…

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29 Oct

Nintendo Holiday Gift Guide: Best Consoles and Games to Buy

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This article is presented by Nintendo. Got a video game fan in your life and want to treat them to something special? Luckily, with the holidays just around the corner and the 35th Anniversary of Super Mario Bros. is currently in full swing, there are plenty of Nintendo-themed gifts to choose from. But if you need some guidance on the latest and greatest from the House of Mario, we’ve created a helpful guide for you! The following is a curated list of products we think would be ideal for both dedicated Nintendo players and those ready to have their first…

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09 Oct

Supernatural Season 15 Episode 14: Last Holiday Review

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WARNING: This Supernatural review contains SPOILERS! Supernatural Season 15 Episode 14 The Final Countdown Begins. Supernatural is back, baby, and there are only seven episodes left until the end.  The previous episode of Supernatural aired all the way back on March 23, 2020. A little over six months later, the highly anticipated fifteenth season continues with “Last Holiday,” a mostly light hearted affair—and very nearly a bottle episode—that brings the boys out of quarantine and back into our lives.  We discussed the meaning of a “bottle episode” as evidenced so brilliantly in the episode “Baby,” a Season 11 highlight that…

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07 Oct

Netflix Announces 2020 Winter Holiday Lineup

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Please do not adjust the calendar settings on your Internet-connected device. No, you have not fallen into some kind of transcendental wormhole in which time is but a mere suggestion. That headline is correct. It is October 7 and Netflix has announced its 2020 Holiday season lineup.  For starters: shame on you, Netflix. Let the spooky season breathe. But given that this will be a most unusual holiday season due to the coronavirus pandemic, I suppose we can give the streaming giant a pass this time for wanting to get a head start on some Christmas cheer.  Just as Netflix’s…

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14 Aug

Lego Star Wars Holiday Special Is Everything Star Wars Doesn’t Need Right Now

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This Thanksgiving, around the time we’ll all be reading articles online about whether or not it’s safe to insult your extended family in person, or over Zoom, there will also be a new Star Wars “festive” product to watch on Disney+. The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special is coming whether your want it or not, and even if you haven’t paid attention to any of the other Lego Star Wars things, something in the Force tells me everyone is going to have an opinion about this thing specifically. Stream your Star Wars favorites right here! In an exclusive report, USA…

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13 Aug

Lego Star Wars Holiday Special Will Introduce Rey to a Young Luke Skywalker This November

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More than 40 years after the original, Star Wars is getting a new Holiday Special on Disney+. But there’s a twist. Fans hoping for live-action Wookiee shenanigans will instead get a new adventure in LEGO animation. As revealed by USA Today, the 45-minute Lego Star Wars Holiday Special will reunite Rey, Finn, Poe, and other characters for a new Life Day celebration that nods to the original Holiday Special from 1978. It will also feature appearances from Kylo Ren, Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, and of course, Chewbacca himself. Executive producer Josh Rimes even teased that…

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08 Feb

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Young and beautiful Sascha discovers her dream life of recklessness and fun comes at a price when she is welcomed into the ?family? of her drug-lord-boyfriend at his holiday villa in the port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera. Physical and psychological violence are a way of life in this volatile household, but when Sascha seeks the attention of another man, the velvet veneer is stripped bare: is it possible for her to leave this life of luxury and violence behind? [Breaking Glass Pictures]Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Feb 08, 2019

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