The cast member leading the charge to reference Sonic Boom is Colleen O’Shaughnessey, who got her start voicing Sonic’s sidekick Tails in that series and now voices him in the films. O’Shaughnessey, who spoke with Den of Geek ahead of Sonic the Hedgehog 2‘s streaming release, wants to bring a very specific element of the series to the big screen, the band “Dude-itude.” In the Sonic Boom series, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles form a cross between a rock and boy band, and perform several songs of their own creation....

Until now. The duo, who were just inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last month, have composed the electronic portion of the music for the new Pixar film, Soul, which also features jazz compositions, performances, and arrangements by Jon Batiste. Asked if the idea of Nine Inch Nails scoring a Pixar film was met with a raised eyebrow or two, director (and Pixar chief creative officer) Pete Docter tells us, “That’s what was attractive about it, because I think we all have a little bit of ‘let’s pull the rug out from underneath all of this....

While the character of Mary Jane hasn’t technically been recast, Zendaya’s “MJ” sure has figured prominently in the new Marvel Studios take on the Spider-Man comic book mythos. And those Tom Holland-led films themselves constitute the second remake (or “reboot”) cycle at Sony in under a decade, following on the heels of the Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone-fronted The Amazing Spider-Man films. “It seems like a lot of movies I do get remade,” Dunst told EW....

Nearly 15 years and two reboots later, it turns out they could! Indeed, THR confirmed Tuesday that Molina will return as the metal-armed scientist in the Tom Holland-led, and Marvel Studios produced sequel to Spider-Man: Far From Home. The movie doesn’t have a title as of yet, but with Molina joining Jamie Foxx—who played Electro in the much less revered The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)—clearly the film is going to be playing with the space time continuum, and bringing back some old favorites....

Death Race 2000 (1975) Not technically a live-action adaptation of Hanna Barbera cartoon Wacky Races with a deadly twist – though that’s very much the vibe – this Roger Corman camp-fest is a cult favourite. The film stars Kung Fu’s David Carradine as the mysterious champion driver of the Transcontinental Road Race, an ultra-violent race across America designed as an outlet for the population’s simmering violence under a totalitarian regime – much like sports day at school, but with muscle cars instead of eggs and spoons....

Squid Game uses a premise we’ve all seen before: People are thrown into an artificial arena where they must fight for their lives. In Netflix‘s new series, the arena is a massive, secret compound; the competition is a series of children’s games; and the people are 456 contestants who desperately need the ₩45.6billion ($39 million) prize money more than they need the illusion of safety the outside world periodically provides....

Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, Episode 2 Star Trek: Discovery season three continues to take its time in the second episode, which acts as a satisfying parallel to the season premiere. Last week, we followed Michael in her first day in this strange, new frontier. This week, we’re doing the same with the rest of the Discovery crew. Like Michael, their introduction to this new time begins with a traumatic, dizzying fall from space....

The Star Trek universe is not only expanding, but reinvesting in beloved characters from Trek series past in some wonderfully integrated ways. What started with Spock’s role on Discovery and the launch of the Picard series, has now extended into the universe’s animated world. In the Lower Decks season finale, the USS Titan warps in to save the day, led by none other than Captain William T. Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Commander Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis)....

But one name you might not associate with the earliest days of Star Trek is Lucille Ball. When director Brian Volk-Weiss set out to make The Center Seat: Celebrating 55 Years of Star Trek, one of the things he set out to change was that a lot of the history of Star Trek that had been covered by books and journalism had never been seen in a documentary, and Lucille Ball was the most egregious example of that....

Obi-Wan Kenobi finally returns to Tatooine, but not before pitting two Star Wars greats against each other in a reference-filled finale. Darth Vader and Obi-Wan’s rematch opens up the wounds of their former friendship, while also setting them up for their future roles in the Original Trilogy. Meanwhile, Reva heads back to the Lars homestead. While she has a big decision to make, it’s inevitable that she comes face to face with a young Luke Skywalker, played by newcomer Grant Feely....

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Episode 16 The Bad Batch has answered its central question: “What happened to the clones during the Empire?” As with many things in Star Wars, the answer is that a lot ended in fire. Like most of the show, it’s fun but inconsequential, a bingeable, cinematic adventure that is lovely to watch on a big screen the first time and starts to get stale on the second....

The Bad Batch are in more trouble than ever after running into ace bounty hunter Fennec Shand in “Cornered.” Although they manage to escape with their lives, and with Omega still safe and sound, Hunter and his team of clone mutants know that the bounty hunter (and new Imperial super-agent Crosshair) won’t give up that easy. In “Rampage,” a plan is hatched to get more info on the mysterious bounty hunter (they don’t know it’s Fennec from The Mandalorian yet) as well as the person who hired her to kidnap Omega....

The first season of Stargirl centered on Courtney Whitmore taking on the mantle that she thought belonged to her father while building a new Justice Society of America team. While we saw new iterations of Doctor Mid-Nite, Wildcat, and Hourman, there were a couple of team members who were only hinted at through their accessories. Alan Scott’s Green Lantern was seen in the old JSA headquarters along with Johnny Thunder’s pink pen....

At the same time, the success of Brian De Palma’s 1976 big screen adaptation of Carrie, followed by the 1979 CBS-TV miniseries based on ‘Salem’s Lot, helped open the floodgates for a massive influx of screen adaptations of his work. That wave was launched with Stanley Kubrick’s prestigious and controversial take on The Shining, although the films that followed in its wake certainly varied in terms of quality and the level of filmmakers involved....

Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok follow-up Thor: Love and Thunder ended up being a surprisingly divisive movie when it bowed last month, but one thing that most fans agreed on was its perfect casting of Ted Lasso star Brett Goldstein in the film’s post-credits scene. While Love and Thunder largely eschewed the idea of setting up other MCU projects for the most part, and rounded up characters we already knew and loved instead, the fresh casting of Russell Crowe as Zeus led to an opportunity for Marvel to introduce, albeit briefly, a Marvel Comics fave in his son, Hercules....

And that’s why, when I was a small child, I would cower behind the sofa when the Scooby-Doo theme played. I’m too young to remember the Daleks in their ’60s heyday when they drove audiences out of the room with their immortal cry of “exterminate” and so the program that sent me quivering with fear was Scooby-Doo. But, like the pepperpots of Doctor Who, I watched the television with one eye open....

The Americans Season 6 Episode 6 This show doesn’t even need the spies. It doesn’t need the Cold War, or the espionage, or the smoldering sexual tension between Mail Robot and anybody he (it’s a he) shares an elevator with. What “Rififi” reveals definitively is that all The Americans needs is Philip and Elizabeth Jennings. “Stan came by,” Philip says. “He was very upset about a couple who was murdered in front of their 7-year-old kid....

As we learned from Pattinson himself in our The Batman cover story for the new issue of Den of Geek magazine, this version of the character definitely sounds a bit more unhinged than what’s come before, someone who loves to unleash his vengeance on the villains stalking the darkest corners of Gotham City. Indeed, the film looks so violent that some fans were genuinely surprised to learn that The Batman had actually been given a PG-13 rating....

And this is a truly great slate of books, too. We’ve got standard superhero fare, which seems to get bigger, weirder, and better every year. We’ve got the deeply personal, slice of life books full of self reflection and quiet moments, done in the brilliant way only the finest cartoonists can do. We’ve got high energy books that are the product of a singular vision, that could only be made by the right person telling the perfect story for them at a key point in their comics career; and we’ve got the big huge event books that are the culmination of years of work by hundreds of creators across an entire publisher....

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