Galaxy Brains

Galaxy Brains

Paul F. Tompkins helps us ask: Who should be the next James Bond?

By Dave Schilling October 14

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What’s the deal with Seinfeld? It was all in Jerry’s mind.

By Dave Schilling October 1

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The Lord of the Rings movies redefined ‘epic,’ but how long will the definition last?

By Dave Schilling September 23

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Debating Y: The Last Man’s #girlboss world with The Bechdel Cast’s Jamie Loftus

By Dave Schilling September 17

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Rethinking Shang-Chi’s problematic origins in the Marvel universe with Gene Luen Yang

By Dave Schilling September 10

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Candyman is horror’s ultimate antihero

By Dave Schilling September 7

Kumail Nanjiani and the impossible-to-top satire of Idiocracy

By Dave Schilling August 27

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Greg Miller on Free Guy and optimizing the video game film genre

By Dave Schilling August 19

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Suicide Squad and hard-R movie food pairings

By Dave Schilling August 13

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We played The Green Knight RPG and ... it might be even better than The Green Knight?

By Dave Schilling August 5

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Sit down, Schwarzenegger, The Rock is the greatest action star of all time

By Dave Schilling July 29

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We ask Adam Pally: Why did Space Jam 2 make us feel space sad?

By Dave Schilling July 22

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Is Black Widow as close as we’ll ever get to a female James Bond?

By Dave Schilling July 16

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Austin Powers is a beta male simp (and we love him for it)

By Dave Schilling July 8

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Wait, is Dom an actual angel in F9?

By Dave Schilling July 1

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Loki reinvents every Marvel movie for the better

By Dave Schilling June 25

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The (real?) magic at the heart of the Lin-Manuel Mirandaverse

By Dave Schilling June 17

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A Quiet Place Part II is really a movie about divorce, stepdads, and the ’burbs

By Dave Schilling June 3

Cruella can be Disney and punk as hell

By Dave Schilling May 27

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As our technology advances, so do our horror movies

By Dave Schilling May 20

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Josie and the Pussycats is cinema’s greatest takedown of capitalism

By Dave Schilling May 13

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Patton Oswalt helps us imagine the future of Star Wars

By Dave Schilling May 12

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AEW’s Excalibur helps us grapple with the fantasy fights of Mortal Kombat

By Dave Schilling April 29

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Disney’s Mighty Ducks show is ... basically a satire of a Mighty Ducks reboot

By Polygon Staff April 27

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Is Zack Snyder’s Superman the best onscreen Superman?

By Polygon Staff April 24

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Godzilla is a metaphor for everything in 2021

By Dave Schilling April 22

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Listen to the premiere of Galaxy Brains, our new deep-dive podcast

By Polygon Staff April 22

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