Sometimes the chemistry audiences see on screen isn’t just great acting. Over the years, many movie romances have spilled beyond the script, turning co-stars into real-life couples. In some cases, those relationships lasted for years, while others became short but memorable Hollywood flings. Either way, these stories show how filmmaking
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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
Friday the 13th Part VII Should Have Been the Model for the Franchise
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
Best Picture Nominee Train Dreams is a Beautiful Movie About America’s Sins
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: Time Loop Anime Lives And Dies On The Repeat
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