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Galaxy Brains

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

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

By Dave Schilling
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The Eternals is Marvel’s Superman movie

By Dave Schilling
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Suspiria was a perfect horror film not once but twice

By Dave Schilling
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Michael Myers is a stand-in for toxic something

By Dave Schilling
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David Lynch’s Dune bombed, but was actually foundational

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

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

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

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

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

By Dave Schilling
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Candyman is horror’s ultimate antihero

By Dave Schilling
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Kumail Nanjiani and the impossible-to-top satire of Idiocracy

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

By Dave Schilling
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Suicide Squad and hard-R movie food pairings

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

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

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

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

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

By Dave Schilling
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Wait, is Dom an actual angel in F9?

By Dave Schilling
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Loki reinvents every Marvel movie for the better

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

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

By Dave Schilling
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Cruella can be Disney and punk as hell

By Dave Schilling
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As our technology advances, so do our horror movies

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

By Dave Schilling
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Patton Oswalt helps us imagine the future of Star Wars

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

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

By Polygon Staff
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Is Zack Snyder’s Superman the best onscreen Superman?

By Polygon Staff
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Godzilla is a metaphor for everything in 2021

By Dave Schilling
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