Galaxy Brains

Galaxy Brains

Star Trek: First Contact is a meta movie about the creation of the Trek franchise

By Dave Schilling December 1, 2021

We asked Dan Aykroyd to explain the origins of Ghostbusters’ ghost lore

By Dave Schilling November 20, 2021

The Eternals is Marvel’s Superman movie

By Dave Schilling November 16, 2021

Suspiria was a perfect horror film not once but twice

By Dave Schilling November 5, 2021

Michael Myers is a stand-in for toxic something

By Dave Schilling October 29, 2021

David Lynch’s Dune bombed, but was actually foundational

By Dave Schilling October 24, 2021

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

By Dave Schilling October 14, 2021

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

By Dave Schilling October 1, 2021

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

By Dave Schilling September 23, 2021

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

By Dave Schilling September 17, 2021

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

By Dave Schilling September 10, 2021

Candyman is horror’s ultimate antihero

By Dave Schilling September 7, 2021

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

By Dave Schilling August 27, 2021

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

By Dave Schilling August 19, 2021

Suicide Squad and hard-R movie food pairings

By Dave Schilling August 13, 2021

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

By Dave Schilling August 5, 2021

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

By Dave Schilling July 29, 2021

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

By Dave Schilling July 22, 2021

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

By Dave Schilling July 16, 2021

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

By Dave Schilling July 8, 2021

Wait, is Dom an actual angel in F9?

By Dave Schilling July 1, 2021

Loki reinvents every Marvel movie for the better

By Dave Schilling June 25, 2021

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

By Dave Schilling June 17, 2021

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

By Dave Schilling June 3, 2021

Cruella can be Disney and punk as hell

By Dave Schilling May 27, 2021

As our technology advances, so do our horror movies

By Dave Schilling May 20, 2021

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

By Dave Schilling May 13, 2021

Patton Oswalt helps us imagine the future of Star Wars

By Dave Schilling May 12, 2021

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

By Dave Schilling April 29, 2021

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

By Polygon Staff April 27, 2021

Is Zack Snyder’s Superman the best onscreen Superman?

By Polygon Staff April 24, 2021

Godzilla is a metaphor for everything in 2021

By Dave Schilling April 22, 2021