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Some movies make a powerful first impression that sets expectations sky high. The opening minutes can establish tone, introduce compelling ideas, and immediately pull the audience into the story. But when that early momentum fades, the rest of the film can feel uneven despite a strong start. These openings often remain memorable on their own, standing out for their energy, tension, or creativity. They show how effective a beginning can be, even if the overall experience doesn’t fully sustain it. These are films where the first ten minutes leave a lasting impact that the rest struggles to match.

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As regular viewers of the FX anthology series already know, American Horror Story can be something of a mixed bag. Over the past 15 years, the series has tackled everything from serial killers and aliens to vampires, witches, ghosts, and famous true crime cases, with varying degrees of success. The show’s later seasons, in particular, have struggled to recapture the magic of the earlier outings, which saw its stars — most notably Oscar winner Jessica Lange — racking up awards season nominations and hardware. (In fact, if you haven’t seen them, you should probably just skip AHS: Delicate and AHS: Double Feature entirely.) 

But the franchise certainly seems on an upswing again with its forthcoming 13th season, which will bring back many of the franchise’s most popular regular players, including Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Gabourey Sidibe and Leslie Grossman, while adding Arianna Grande (who starred in Murphy’s wildly underrated Scream Queens) to the mix.

But, and perhaps most importantly for fans: Lange herself will be back this season, for the first time in a regular capacity since season 4’s Freak Show. 

Lange’s long-awaited return is probably already enough to get the most lapsed of AHS viewers to return to the fold. But now that it appears the show is going to return to the world of one of its most popular installments? Heck yeah, sign us up.

Creator Ryan Murphy has been cagey about what sort of story this Avengers: Doomsday-level season is likely to tell. But thanks to the events of American Horror Story: Apocalypse, any Coven follow-up has plenty of options. The ending of Apocalypse essentially erased or rewrote many events across the anthology’s interconnected timeline. The witch Mallory (Lourd) was sent back into the past, where she killed Michael Langdon (Cody Fern), the Antichrist child born at the end of the series’ original installment, Murder House. 

His death not only prevented the apocalypse of season 8’s title, but also resurrected many dearly departed Coven characters, including Paulson’s Supreme with Cordelia Foxx, and her fellow witches Misty Day (Lily Rabe), Zoe Benson (Taissa Farmiga), and Queenie (Sidibe). It also revived Lange’s Constance Langdon, the grand dame of the infamous Hollywood murder mansion. Basically, at this point, any character who wasn’t already canonically a ghost at the end of the show’s first season is probably back on the table for a potential appearance in this presumed sequel series. 

Set images from Murphy’s production company have confirmed that Paulson and Roberts are reprising their respective Coven characters, and while there’s no official word about whether Lange is returning as Constance, the set images that have been shared sure look a whole lot like it. (That is not a Fiona Goode hairdo, is what I’m saying.) Does this mean we won’t see Fiona again? Never say never — if Madison Montgomery can be sprung from her department store hell, there’s no reason to assume Fiona can’t be similarly freed from her eternal prison of knotty pine.

Mallory has already been theoretically established as Cordelia’s successor and the next Supreme witch, so the question of what new danger or drama arises at New Orleans’s infamous Robichaux Academy is still up in the air.

But we won’t have to wait that long to find out — Murphy has already confirmed the new season will arrive in September, just in time for spooky season. 

The post American Horror Story Season 13 Is Shaping Up to Be a Timeline-Shifting Coven Follow-Up appeared first on Den of Geek.

It’s hard for a movie to be a hit with critics right away. In fact, some films that are now widely loved were dismissed, misunderstood, or outright panned when they first released. Over time, audiences found something critics didn’t, whether it was originality, emotional impact, or simply rewatch value.

Through word of mouth, home releases, and changing tastes, these movies built strong reputations that outlasted their initial reviews. Looking back, it’s hard to imagine them being seen as anything less than classics or cult favorites. These are the films that proved early criticism doesn’t always tell the full story.

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As regular viewers of the FX anthology series already know, American Horror Story can be something of a mixed bag. Over the past 15 years, the series has tackled everything from serial killers and aliens to vampires, witches, ghosts, and famous true crime cases, with varying degrees of success. The show’s later seasons, in particular, have struggled to recapture the magic of the earlier outings, which saw its stars — most notably Oscar winner Jessica Lange — racking up awards season nominations and hardware. (In fact, if you haven’t seen them, you should probably just skip AHS: Delicate and AHS: Double Feature entirely.) 

But the franchise certainly seems on an upswing again with its forthcoming 13th season, which will bring back many of the franchise’s most popular regular players, including Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Gabourey Sidibe and Leslie Grossman, while adding Arianna Grande (who starred in Murphy’s wildly underrated Scream Queens) to the mix.

But, and perhaps most importantly for fans: Lange herself will be back this season, for the first time in a regular capacity since season 4’s Freak Show. 

Lange’s long-awaited return is probably already enough to get the most lapsed of AHS viewers to return to the fold. But now that it appears the show is going to return to the world of one of its most popular installments? Heck yeah, sign us up.

Creator Ryan Murphy has been cagey about what sort of story this Avengers: Doomsday-level season is likely to tell. But thanks to the events of American Horror Story: Apocalypse, any Coven follow-up has plenty of options. The ending of Apocalypse essentially erased or rewrote many events across the anthology’s interconnected timeline. The witch Mallory (Lourd) was sent back into the past, where she killed Michael Langdon (Cody Fern), the Antichrist child born at the end of the series’ original installment, Murder House. 

His death not only prevented the apocalypse of season 8’s title, but also resurrected many dearly departed Coven characters, including Paulson’s Supreme with Cordelia Foxx, and her fellow witches Misty Day (Lily Rabe), Zoe Benson (Taissa Farmiga), and Queenie (Sidibe). It also revived Lange’s Constance Langdon, the grand dame of the infamous Hollywood murder mansion. Basically, at this point, any character who wasn’t already canonically a ghost at the end of the show’s first season is probably back on the table for a potential appearance in this presumed sequel series. 

Set images from Murphy’s production company have confirmed that Paulson and Roberts are reprising their respective Coven characters, and while there’s no official word about whether Lange is returning as Constance, the set images that have been shared sure look a whole lot like it. (That is not a Fiona Goode hairdo, is what I’m saying.) Does this mean we won’t see Fiona again? Never say never — if Madison Montgomery can be sprung from her department store hell, there’s no reason to assume Fiona can’t be similarly freed from her eternal prison of knotty pine.

Mallory has already been theoretically established as Cordelia’s successor and the next Supreme witch, so the question of what new danger or drama arises at New Orleans’s infamous Robichaux Academy is still up in the air.

But we won’t have to wait that long to find out — Murphy has already confirmed the new season will arrive in September, just in time for spooky season. 

The post American Horror Story Season 13 Is Shaping Up to Be a Timeline-Shifting Coven Follow-Up appeared first on Den of Geek.

Not all movie trivia is fun to learn. Some behind-the-scenes facts and production details leave a very different kind of impression, the kind that lingers for the wrong reasons. Whether its actors pushed beyond their limits, dangerous filming conditions, or creative decisions that raise uncomfortable questions, these stories add a layer to certain films that can be hard to ignore.

In some cases, the reality of what happened off camera is more unsettling than anything shown on screen. These are the kinds of facts that, while slightly informative, change how you see the movie entirely.

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As regular viewers of the FX anthology series already know, American Horror Story can be something of a mixed bag. Over the past 15 years, the series has tackled everything from serial killers and aliens to vampires, witches, ghosts, and famous true crime cases, with varying degrees of success. The show’s later seasons, in particular, have struggled to recapture the magic of the earlier outings, which saw its stars — most notably Oscar winner Jessica Lange — racking up awards season nominations and hardware. (In fact, if you haven’t seen them, you should probably just skip AHS: Delicate and AHS: Double Feature entirely.) 

But the franchise certainly seems on an upswing again with its forthcoming 13th season, which will bring back many of the franchise’s most popular regular players, including Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Gabourey Sidibe and Leslie Grossman, while adding Arianna Grande (who starred in Murphy’s wildly underrated Scream Queens) to the mix.

But, and perhaps most importantly for fans: Lange herself will be back this season, for the first time in a regular capacity since season 4’s Freak Show. 

Lange’s long-awaited return is probably already enough to get the most lapsed of AHS viewers to return to the fold. But now that it appears the show is going to return to the world of one of its most popular installments? Heck yeah, sign us up.

Creator Ryan Murphy has been cagey about what sort of story this Avengers: Doomsday-level season is likely to tell. But thanks to the events of American Horror Story: Apocalypse, any Coven follow-up has plenty of options. The ending of Apocalypse essentially erased or rewrote many events across the anthology’s interconnected timeline. The witch Mallory (Lourd) was sent back into the past, where she killed Michael Langdon (Cody Fern), the Antichrist child born at the end of the series’ original installment, Murder House. 

His death not only prevented the apocalypse of season 8’s title, but also resurrected many dearly departed Coven characters, including Paulson’s Supreme with Cordelia Foxx, and her fellow witches Misty Day (Lily Rabe), Zoe Benson (Taissa Farmiga), and Queenie (Sidibe). It also revived Lange’s Constance Langdon, the grand dame of the infamous Hollywood murder mansion. Basically, at this point, any character who wasn’t already canonically a ghost at the end of the show’s first season is probably back on the table for a potential appearance in this presumed sequel series. 

Set images from Murphy’s production company have confirmed that Paulson and Roberts are reprising their respective Coven characters, and while there’s no official word about whether Lange is returning as Constance, the set images that have been shared sure look a whole lot like it. (That is not a Fiona Goode hairdo, is what I’m saying.) Does this mean we won’t see Fiona again? Never say never — if Madison Montgomery can be sprung from her department store hell, there’s no reason to assume Fiona can’t be similarly freed from her eternal prison of knotty pine.

Mallory has already been theoretically established as Cordelia’s successor and the next Supreme witch, so the question of what new danger or drama arises at New Orleans’s infamous Robichaux Academy is still up in the air.

But we won’t have to wait that long to find out — Murphy has already confirmed the new season will arrive in September, just in time for spooky season. 

The post American Horror Story Season 13 Is Shaping Up to Be a Timeline-Shifting Coven Follow-Up appeared first on Den of Geek.

A clever improvisation, a happy accident, or a last-minute decision that somehow worked are moments that enhance what movies are trying to show. In many cases, these moments reveal just how unpredictable filmmaking can be, with some of the most memorable scenes coming together in unexpected ways.

Instead of breaking the illusion, these details deepen the appreciation for the craft and the people behind it. These are the kinds of facts that don’t ruin the magic, they make it even better. After all, if the people making the movies we love are having fun, so are we.

The post 20 Movie Facts That Just Make Everything Better appeared first on Den of Geek.

As regular viewers of the FX anthology series already know, American Horror Story can be something of a mixed bag. Over the past 15 years, the series has tackled everything from serial killers and aliens to vampires, witches, ghosts, and famous true crime cases, with varying degrees of success. The show’s later seasons, in particular, have struggled to recapture the magic of the earlier outings, which saw its stars — most notably Oscar winner Jessica Lange — racking up awards season nominations and hardware. (In fact, if you haven’t seen them, you should probably just skip AHS: Delicate and AHS: Double Feature entirely.) 

But the franchise certainly seems on an upswing again with its forthcoming 13th season, which will bring back many of the franchise’s most popular regular players, including Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Gabourey Sidibe and Leslie Grossman, while adding Arianna Grande (who starred in Murphy’s wildly underrated Scream Queens) to the mix.

But, and perhaps most importantly for fans: Lange herself will be back this season, for the first time in a regular capacity since season 4’s Freak Show. 

Lange’s long-awaited return is probably already enough to get the most lapsed of AHS viewers to return to the fold. But now that it appears the show is going to return to the world of one of its most popular installments? Heck yeah, sign us up.

Creator Ryan Murphy has been cagey about what sort of story this Avengers: Doomsday-level season is likely to tell. But thanks to the events of American Horror Story: Apocalypse, any Coven follow-up has plenty of options. The ending of Apocalypse essentially erased or rewrote many events across the anthology’s interconnected timeline. The witch Mallory (Lourd) was sent back into the past, where she killed Michael Langdon (Cody Fern), the Antichrist child born at the end of the series’ original installment, Murder House. 

His death not only prevented the apocalypse of season 8’s title, but also resurrected many dearly departed Coven characters, including Paulson’s Supreme with Cordelia Foxx, and her fellow witches Misty Day (Lily Rabe), Zoe Benson (Taissa Farmiga), and Queenie (Sidibe). It also revived Lange’s Constance Langdon, the grand dame of the infamous Hollywood murder mansion. Basically, at this point, any character who wasn’t already canonically a ghost at the end of the show’s first season is probably back on the table for a potential appearance in this presumed sequel series. 

Set images from Murphy’s production company have confirmed that Paulson and Roberts are reprising their respective Coven characters, and while there’s no official word about whether Lange is returning as Constance, the set images that have been shared sure look a whole lot like it. (That is not a Fiona Goode hairdo, is what I’m saying.) Does this mean we won’t see Fiona again? Never say never — if Madison Montgomery can be sprung from her department store hell, there’s no reason to assume Fiona can’t be similarly freed from her eternal prison of knotty pine.

Mallory has already been theoretically established as Cordelia’s successor and the next Supreme witch, so the question of what new danger or drama arises at New Orleans’s infamous Robichaux Academy is still up in the air.

But we won’t have to wait that long to find out — Murphy has already confirmed the new season will arrive in September, just in time for spooky season. 

The post American Horror Story Season 13 Is Shaping Up to Be a Timeline-Shifting Coven Follow-Up appeared first on Den of Geek.

To hear him tell it, Corbin Bernsen became an actor when his father, producer Harry Bernsen Jr., recruited him to be in the 1974 Blaxploitation flick Three the Hard Way, starring Jim Brown and Fred Williamson. “The script said, ‘A pair of naked young limbs, thrashing in the backseat of a Rolls Royce,’” Bernsen recalls […]

The post Corbin Bernsen On Embracing a Roger Corman Spirit, Working With His Son in Woodstockers appeared first on Den of Geek.

As regular viewers of the FX anthology series already know, American Horror Story can be something of a mixed bag. Over the past 15 years, the series has tackled everything from serial killers and aliens to vampires, witches, ghosts, and famous true crime cases, with varying degrees of success. The show’s later seasons, in particular, have struggled to recapture the magic of the earlier outings, which saw its stars — most notably Oscar winner Jessica Lange — racking up awards season nominations and hardware. (In fact, if you haven’t seen them, you should probably just skip AHS: Delicate and AHS: Double Feature entirely.) 

But the franchise certainly seems on an upswing again with its forthcoming 13th season, which will bring back many of the franchise’s most popular regular players, including Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Gabourey Sidibe and Leslie Grossman, while adding Arianna Grande (who starred in Murphy’s wildly underrated Scream Queens) to the mix.

But, and perhaps most importantly for fans: Lange herself will be back this season, for the first time in a regular capacity since season 4’s Freak Show. 

Lange’s long-awaited return is probably already enough to get the most lapsed of AHS viewers to return to the fold. But now that it appears the show is going to return to the world of one of its most popular installments? Heck yeah, sign us up.

Creator Ryan Murphy has been cagey about what sort of story this Avengers: Doomsday-level season is likely to tell. But thanks to the events of American Horror Story: Apocalypse, any Coven follow-up has plenty of options. The ending of Apocalypse essentially erased or rewrote many events across the anthology’s interconnected timeline. The witch Mallory (Lourd) was sent back into the past, where she killed Michael Langdon (Cody Fern), the Antichrist child born at the end of the series’ original installment, Murder House. 

His death not only prevented the apocalypse of season 8’s title, but also resurrected many dearly departed Coven characters, including Paulson’s Supreme with Cordelia Foxx, and her fellow witches Misty Day (Lily Rabe), Zoe Benson (Taissa Farmiga), and Queenie (Sidibe). It also revived Lange’s Constance Langdon, the grand dame of the infamous Hollywood murder mansion. Basically, at this point, any character who wasn’t already canonically a ghost at the end of the show’s first season is probably back on the table for a potential appearance in this presumed sequel series. 

Set images from Murphy’s production company have confirmed that Paulson and Roberts are reprising their respective Coven characters, and while there’s no official word about whether Lange is returning as Constance, the set images that have been shared sure look a whole lot like it. (That is not a Fiona Goode hairdo, is what I’m saying.) Does this mean we won’t see Fiona again? Never say never — if Madison Montgomery can be sprung from her department store hell, there’s no reason to assume Fiona can’t be similarly freed from her eternal prison of knotty pine.

Mallory has already been theoretically established as Cordelia’s successor and the next Supreme witch, so the question of what new danger or drama arises at New Orleans’s infamous Robichaux Academy is still up in the air.

But we won’t have to wait that long to find out — Murphy has already confirmed the new season will arrive in September, just in time for spooky season. 

The post American Horror Story Season 13 Is Shaping Up to Be a Timeline-Shifting Coven Follow-Up appeared first on Den of Geek.

The following contains spoilers for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2 episode 7. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters has what is probably the best stunt casting on TV right now. This isn’t an insult, by the way. And not even entirely accurate; it’s actually more like a very human sort of special effect. The sci-fi series, […]

The post Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Stars Kurt and Wyatt Russell Break Down Their Time-Bending Moment appeared first on Den of Geek.

As regular viewers of the FX anthology series already know, American Horror Story can be something of a mixed bag. Over the past 15 years, the series has tackled everything from serial killers and aliens to vampires, witches, ghosts, and famous true crime cases, with varying degrees of success. The show’s later seasons, in particular, have struggled to recapture the magic of the earlier outings, which saw its stars — most notably Oscar winner Jessica Lange — racking up awards season nominations and hardware. (In fact, if you haven’t seen them, you should probably just skip AHS: Delicate and AHS: Double Feature entirely.) 

But the franchise certainly seems on an upswing again with its forthcoming 13th season, which will bring back many of the franchise’s most popular regular players, including Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Gabourey Sidibe and Leslie Grossman, while adding Arianna Grande (who starred in Murphy’s wildly underrated Scream Queens) to the mix.

But, and perhaps most importantly for fans: Lange herself will be back this season, for the first time in a regular capacity since season 4’s Freak Show. 

Lange’s long-awaited return is probably already enough to get the most lapsed of AHS viewers to return to the fold. But now that it appears the show is going to return to the world of one of its most popular installments? Heck yeah, sign us up.

Creator Ryan Murphy has been cagey about what sort of story this Avengers: Doomsday-level season is likely to tell. But thanks to the events of American Horror Story: Apocalypse, any Coven follow-up has plenty of options. The ending of Apocalypse essentially erased or rewrote many events across the anthology’s interconnected timeline. The witch Mallory (Lourd) was sent back into the past, where she killed Michael Langdon (Cody Fern), the Antichrist child born at the end of the series’ original installment, Murder House. 

His death not only prevented the apocalypse of season 8’s title, but also resurrected many dearly departed Coven characters, including Paulson’s Supreme with Cordelia Foxx, and her fellow witches Misty Day (Lily Rabe), Zoe Benson (Taissa Farmiga), and Queenie (Sidibe). It also revived Lange’s Constance Langdon, the grand dame of the infamous Hollywood murder mansion. Basically, at this point, any character who wasn’t already canonically a ghost at the end of the show’s first season is probably back on the table for a potential appearance in this presumed sequel series. 

Set images from Murphy’s production company have confirmed that Paulson and Roberts are reprising their respective Coven characters, and while there’s no official word about whether Lange is returning as Constance, the set images that have been shared sure look a whole lot like it. (That is not a Fiona Goode hairdo, is what I’m saying.) Does this mean we won’t see Fiona again? Never say never — if Madison Montgomery can be sprung from her department store hell, there’s no reason to assume Fiona can’t be similarly freed from her eternal prison of knotty pine.

Mallory has already been theoretically established as Cordelia’s successor and the next Supreme witch, so the question of what new danger or drama arises at New Orleans’s infamous Robichaux Academy is still up in the air.

But we won’t have to wait that long to find out — Murphy has already confirmed the new season will arrive in September, just in time for spooky season. 

The post American Horror Story Season 13 Is Shaping Up to Be a Timeline-Shifting Coven Follow-Up appeared first on Den of Geek.

Though actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnan’s latest role sees her playing a superhero that can talk to crows on The Boys, her breakthrough performance was as the lead of Netflix’s Never Have I Ever, a charming teen comedy that follows the coming-of-age journey of an Indian American girl in Los Angeles. Ramakrishnan played Devi Vishwakumar, an ambitious […]

The post Maitreyi Ramakrishnan Talks Never Have I Ever and Why We Need More Teen Dramas Today appeared first on Den of Geek.

As regular viewers of the FX anthology series already know, American Horror Story can be something of a mixed bag. Over the past 15 years, the series has tackled everything from serial killers and aliens to vampires, witches, ghosts, and famous true crime cases, with varying degrees of success. The show’s later seasons, in particular, have struggled to recapture the magic of the earlier outings, which saw its stars — most notably Oscar winner Jessica Lange — racking up awards season nominations and hardware. (In fact, if you haven’t seen them, you should probably just skip AHS: Delicate and AHS: Double Feature entirely.) 

But the franchise certainly seems on an upswing again with its forthcoming 13th season, which will bring back many of the franchise’s most popular regular players, including Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Gabourey Sidibe and Leslie Grossman, while adding Arianna Grande (who starred in Murphy’s wildly underrated Scream Queens) to the mix.

But, and perhaps most importantly for fans: Lange herself will be back this season, for the first time in a regular capacity since season 4’s Freak Show. 

Lange’s long-awaited return is probably already enough to get the most lapsed of AHS viewers to return to the fold. But now that it appears the show is going to return to the world of one of its most popular installments? Heck yeah, sign us up.

Creator Ryan Murphy has been cagey about what sort of story this Avengers: Doomsday-level season is likely to tell. But thanks to the events of American Horror Story: Apocalypse, any Coven follow-up has plenty of options. The ending of Apocalypse essentially erased or rewrote many events across the anthology’s interconnected timeline. The witch Mallory (Lourd) was sent back into the past, where she killed Michael Langdon (Cody Fern), the Antichrist child born at the end of the series’ original installment, Murder House. 

His death not only prevented the apocalypse of season 8’s title, but also resurrected many dearly departed Coven characters, including Paulson’s Supreme with Cordelia Foxx, and her fellow witches Misty Day (Lily Rabe), Zoe Benson (Taissa Farmiga), and Queenie (Sidibe). It also revived Lange’s Constance Langdon, the grand dame of the infamous Hollywood murder mansion. Basically, at this point, any character who wasn’t already canonically a ghost at the end of the show’s first season is probably back on the table for a potential appearance in this presumed sequel series. 

Set images from Murphy’s production company have confirmed that Paulson and Roberts are reprising their respective Coven characters, and while there’s no official word about whether Lange is returning as Constance, the set images that have been shared sure look a whole lot like it. (That is not a Fiona Goode hairdo, is what I’m saying.) Does this mean we won’t see Fiona again? Never say never — if Madison Montgomery can be sprung from her department store hell, there’s no reason to assume Fiona can’t be similarly freed from her eternal prison of knotty pine.

Mallory has already been theoretically established as Cordelia’s successor and the next Supreme witch, so the question of what new danger or drama arises at New Orleans’s infamous Robichaux Academy is still up in the air.

But we won’t have to wait that long to find out — Murphy has already confirmed the new season will arrive in September, just in time for spooky season. 

The post American Horror Story Season 13 Is Shaping Up to Be a Timeline-Shifting Coven Follow-Up appeared first on Den of Geek.

For most of its cast and audience, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie offers a chance to make childhood real again. The film recalls those carefree days of sitting in front of a Nintendo Entertainment System or one of its successors, being dazzled by the fantastic adventures in the Mushroom Kingdom. Not so for Luis Guzmán, […]

The post Luis Guzmán Looks Back on His Filmography: Super Mario, Community, and The Limey appeared first on Den of Geek.

As regular viewers of the FX anthology series already know, American Horror Story can be something of a mixed bag. Over the past 15 years, the series has tackled everything from serial killers and aliens to vampires, witches, ghosts, and famous true crime cases, with varying degrees of success. The show’s later seasons, in particular, have struggled to recapture the magic of the earlier outings, which saw its stars — most notably Oscar winner Jessica Lange — racking up awards season nominations and hardware. (In fact, if you haven’t seen them, you should probably just skip AHS: Delicate and AHS: Double Feature entirely.) 

But the franchise certainly seems on an upswing again with its forthcoming 13th season, which will bring back many of the franchise’s most popular regular players, including Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Gabourey Sidibe and Leslie Grossman, while adding Arianna Grande (who starred in Murphy’s wildly underrated Scream Queens) to the mix.

But, and perhaps most importantly for fans: Lange herself will be back this season, for the first time in a regular capacity since season 4’s Freak Show. 

Lange’s long-awaited return is probably already enough to get the most lapsed of AHS viewers to return to the fold. But now that it appears the show is going to return to the world of one of its most popular installments? Heck yeah, sign us up.

Creator Ryan Murphy has been cagey about what sort of story this Avengers: Doomsday-level season is likely to tell. But thanks to the events of American Horror Story: Apocalypse, any Coven follow-up has plenty of options. The ending of Apocalypse essentially erased or rewrote many events across the anthology’s interconnected timeline. The witch Mallory (Lourd) was sent back into the past, where she killed Michael Langdon (Cody Fern), the Antichrist child born at the end of the series’ original installment, Murder House. 

His death not only prevented the apocalypse of season 8’s title, but also resurrected many dearly departed Coven characters, including Paulson’s Supreme with Cordelia Foxx, and her fellow witches Misty Day (Lily Rabe), Zoe Benson (Taissa Farmiga), and Queenie (Sidibe). It also revived Lange’s Constance Langdon, the grand dame of the infamous Hollywood murder mansion. Basically, at this point, any character who wasn’t already canonically a ghost at the end of the show’s first season is probably back on the table for a potential appearance in this presumed sequel series. 

Set images from Murphy’s production company have confirmed that Paulson and Roberts are reprising their respective Coven characters, and while there’s no official word about whether Lange is returning as Constance, the set images that have been shared sure look a whole lot like it. (That is not a Fiona Goode hairdo, is what I’m saying.) Does this mean we won’t see Fiona again? Never say never — if Madison Montgomery can be sprung from her department store hell, there’s no reason to assume Fiona can’t be similarly freed from her eternal prison of knotty pine.

Mallory has already been theoretically established as Cordelia’s successor and the next Supreme witch, so the question of what new danger or drama arises at New Orleans’s infamous Robichaux Academy is still up in the air.

But we won’t have to wait that long to find out — Murphy has already confirmed the new season will arrive in September, just in time for spooky season. 

The post American Horror Story Season 13 Is Shaping Up to Be a Timeline-Shifting Coven Follow-Up appeared first on Den of Geek.

As regular viewers of the FX anthology series already know, American Horror Story can be something of a mixed bag. Over the past 15 years, the series has tackled everything from serial killers and aliens to vampires, witches, ghosts, and famous true crime cases, with varying degrees of success. The show’s later seasons, in particular, […]

The post American Horror Story Season 13 Is Shaping Up to Be a Timeline-Shifting Coven Follow-Up appeared first on Den of Geek.

As regular viewers of the FX anthology series already know, American Horror Story can be something of a mixed bag. Over the past 15 years, the series has tackled everything from serial killers and aliens to vampires, witches, ghosts, and famous true crime cases, with varying degrees of success. The show’s later seasons, in particular, have struggled to recapture the magic of the earlier outings, which saw its stars — most notably Oscar winner Jessica Lange — racking up awards season nominations and hardware. (In fact, if you haven’t seen them, you should probably just skip AHS: Delicate and AHS: Double Feature entirely.) 

But the franchise certainly seems on an upswing again with its forthcoming 13th season, which will bring back many of the franchise’s most popular regular players, including Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Gabourey Sidibe and Leslie Grossman, while adding Arianna Grande (who starred in Murphy’s wildly underrated Scream Queens) to the mix.

But, and perhaps most importantly for fans: Lange herself will be back this season, for the first time in a regular capacity since season 4’s Freak Show. 

Lange’s long-awaited return is probably already enough to get the most lapsed of AHS viewers to return to the fold. But now that it appears the show is going to return to the world of one of its most popular installments? Heck yeah, sign us up.

Creator Ryan Murphy has been cagey about what sort of story this Avengers: Doomsday-level season is likely to tell. But thanks to the events of American Horror Story: Apocalypse, any Coven follow-up has plenty of options. The ending of Apocalypse essentially erased or rewrote many events across the anthology’s interconnected timeline. The witch Mallory (Lourd) was sent back into the past, where she killed Michael Langdon (Cody Fern), the Antichrist child born at the end of the series’ original installment, Murder House. 

His death not only prevented the apocalypse of season 8’s title, but also resurrected many dearly departed Coven characters, including Paulson’s Supreme with Cordelia Foxx, and her fellow witches Misty Day (Lily Rabe), Zoe Benson (Taissa Farmiga), and Queenie (Sidibe). It also revived Lange’s Constance Langdon, the grand dame of the infamous Hollywood murder mansion. Basically, at this point, any character who wasn’t already canonically a ghost at the end of the show’s first season is probably back on the table for a potential appearance in this presumed sequel series. 

Set images from Murphy’s production company have confirmed that Paulson and Roberts are reprising their respective Coven characters, and while there’s no official word about whether Lange is returning as Constance, the set images that have been shared sure look a whole lot like it. (That is not a Fiona Goode hairdo, is what I’m saying.) Does this mean we won’t see Fiona again? Never say never — if Madison Montgomery can be sprung from her department store hell, there’s no reason to assume Fiona can’t be similarly freed from her eternal prison of knotty pine.

Mallory has already been theoretically established as Cordelia’s successor and the next Supreme witch, so the question of what new danger or drama arises at New Orleans’s infamous Robichaux Academy is still up in the air.

But we won’t have to wait that long to find out — Murphy has already confirmed the new season will arrive in September, just in time for spooky season. 

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As regular viewers of the FX anthology series already know, American Horror Story can be something of a mixed bag. Over the past 15 years, the series has tackled everything from serial killers and aliens to vampires, witches, ghosts, and famous true crime cases, with varying degrees of success. The show’s later seasons, in particular, have struggled to recapture the magic of the earlier outings, which saw its stars — most notably Oscar winner Jessica Lange — racking up awards season nominations and hardware. (In fact, if you haven’t seen them, you should probably just skip AHS: Delicate and AHS: Double Feature entirely.) 

But the franchise certainly seems on an upswing again with its forthcoming 13th season, which will bring back many of the franchise’s most popular regular players, including Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Gabourey Sidibe and Leslie Grossman, while adding Arianna Grande (who starred in Murphy’s wildly underrated Scream Queens) to the mix.

But, and perhaps most importantly for fans: Lange herself will be back this season, for the first time in a regular capacity since season 4’s Freak Show. 

Lange’s long-awaited return is probably already enough to get the most lapsed of AHS viewers to return to the fold. But now that it appears the show is going to return to the world of one of its most popular installments? Heck yeah, sign us up.

Creator Ryan Murphy has been cagey about what sort of story this Avengers: Doomsday-level season is likely to tell. But thanks to the events of American Horror Story: Apocalypse, any Coven follow-up has plenty of options. The ending of Apocalypse essentially erased or rewrote many events across the anthology’s interconnected timeline. The witch Mallory (Lourd) was sent back into the past, where she killed Michael Langdon (Cody Fern), the Antichrist child born at the end of the series’ original installment, Murder House. 

His death not only prevented the apocalypse of season 8’s title, but also resurrected many dearly departed Coven characters, including Paulson’s Supreme with Cordelia Foxx, and her fellow witches Misty Day (Lily Rabe), Zoe Benson (Taissa Farmiga), and Queenie (Sidibe). It also revived Lange’s Constance Langdon, the grand dame of the infamous Hollywood murder mansion. Basically, at this point, any character who wasn’t already canonically a ghost at the end of the show’s first season is probably back on the table for a potential appearance in this presumed sequel series. 

Set images from Murphy’s production company have confirmed that Paulson and Roberts are reprising their respective Coven characters, and while there’s no official word about whether Lange is returning as Constance, the set images that have been shared sure look a whole lot like it. (That is not a Fiona Goode hairdo, is what I’m saying.) Does this mean we won’t see Fiona again? Never say never — if Madison Montgomery can be sprung from her department store hell, there’s no reason to assume Fiona can’t be similarly freed from her eternal prison of knotty pine.

Mallory has already been theoretically established as Cordelia’s successor and the next Supreme witch, so the question of what new danger or drama arises at New Orleans’s infamous Robichaux Academy is still up in the air.

But we won’t have to wait that long to find out — Murphy has already confirmed the new season will arrive in September, just in time for spooky season. 

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