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This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. You can read all of our magazine stories here. It might be the culmination of Oscars week in Hollywood, but down in Texas a new year of moviegoing is in full boom. The SXSW festival is here and with it comes

By 1988, Jason Voorhees was a shambling corpse without purpose, both literally and metaphorically. Paramount Studios, who released the original 1980 film by director Sean S. Cunningham and writer Victor Miller, had ordered Jason’s death for the third entry, 1984’s Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. When that too proved

The Best Picture nominee Train Dreams features a rarity in Western fiction: a protagonist with little agency and even less interior life. Where most stories, especially American stories about men, the heroes are strivers and individualists—the untamable Huckleberry Finn, the self-made Jay Gatsby, the indomitable Charles Foster Kane—Robert Grainier of

All You Need Is Kill, the light novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka and Yoshitoshi Abe, saw success in Hollywood when it was adapted as Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. The story follows a human soldier who dies combating an alien invasion only to wake up earlier that

Too often storytelling treats science like magic, a hand-waving variation of “abracadabra” for the modern world. This might be one of the reasons Andy Weir’s novels have proven such fertile ground at the movies. Despite penning wildly outlandish scenarios set almost entirely in space, the one-time video game programmer drills