This article appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. You can read all of our magazine stories here. Even in these divisive times, we can all at least agree on one thing: Leslie Nielsen can’t be replaced. Amid his prolific 60-year acting career, which featured hundreds of roles in film
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Director Francis Lawrence has a thing for dystopias. His next film is The Long Walk, an adaptation of the bleak Stephen King novel set in a brutal, totalitarian future America. That’s still due in September, but already Lawrence is hard at work on his next movie: The Hunger Games: Sunrise
25 Best Movies of the 2020s You Probably Haven’t Even Heard Of
Somehow, we’re already halfway through the 2020s. The world’s still on fire, the algorithms and A.I. have taken over, my readership is down (people love video, and yet, here I remain), and despite the fact that there is continued chatter about the death of cinema… great movies keep slipping through
EXCLUSIVE: We Can Be Heroes Trailer Spotlights Young LARPers on a Path to Self-Discovery
Live action role-playing (LARP) is an international phenomenon that gives fantasy fans an opportunity to inhabit the magical lives of characters that they create. We Can Be Heroes, the documentary from directors Carina Mia Wong and Alex Simmons, follows the exploits of a unique group of young LARPers finding their
IL DONO: Michelangelo Frammartino’s Memento Mori
Michelangelo Frammartino’s 2003 debut feature, Il Dono (The Gift), is a film about a dying place—specifically the tiny Calabrian village of Caulonia, the filmmaker’s ancestral home—so it’s only fitting that it is bookended by scenes of loss. The film opens with an elderly man (Angelo Frammartino) summoning local boys to