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Galaxy Brains

Galaxy Brains

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

By Dave Schilling

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

By Dave Schilling

The Eternals is Marvel’s Superman movie

By Dave Schilling

Suspiria was a perfect horror film not once but twice

By Dave Schilling

Michael Myers is a stand-in for toxic something

By Dave Schilling

David Lynch’s Dune bombed, but was actually foundational

By Dave Schilling

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

By Dave Schilling

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

By Dave Schilling

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

By Dave Schilling

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

By Dave Schilling

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

By Dave Schilling

Candyman is horror’s ultimate antihero

By Dave Schilling

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

By Dave Schilling

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

By Dave Schilling

Suicide Squad and hard-R movie food pairings

By Dave Schilling

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

By Dave Schilling

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

By Dave Schilling

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

By Dave Schilling

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

By Dave Schilling

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

By Dave Schilling

Wait, is Dom an actual angel in F9?

By Dave Schilling

Loki reinvents every Marvel movie for the better

By Dave Schilling

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

By Dave Schilling

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

By Dave Schilling

Cruella can be Disney and punk as hell

By Dave Schilling

As our technology advances, so do our horror movies

By Dave Schilling

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

By Dave Schilling

Patton Oswalt helps us imagine the future of Star Wars

By Dave Schilling

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

By Dave Schilling

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

By Polygon Staff

Is Zack Snyder’s Superman the best onscreen Superman?

By Polygon Staff

Godzilla is a metaphor for everything in 2021

By Dave Schilling

The next level of puzzles.

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