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

10 comments / new

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

By Dave Schilling November 20, 2021

9 comments / new

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

1 comment / new

Michael Myers is a stand-in for toxic something

By Dave Schilling October 29, 2021

14 comments / new

David Lynch’s Dune bombed, but was actually foundational

By Dave Schilling October 24, 2021

17 comments / new

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

By Dave Schilling October 14, 2021

23 comments / new

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

By Dave Schilling October 1, 2021

13 comments / new

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

By Dave Schilling September 23, 2021

3 comments / new

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

By Dave Schilling September 17, 2021

10 comments / new

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

By Dave Schilling September 10, 2021

5 comments / new

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

13 comments / new

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

By Dave Schilling August 19, 2021

1 comment / new

Suicide Squad and hard-R movie food pairings

By Dave Schilling August 13, 2021

5 comments / new

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

By Dave Schilling August 5, 2021

7 comments / new

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

By Dave Schilling July 29, 2021

44 comments / new

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

By Dave Schilling July 22, 2021

1 comment / new

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

By Dave Schilling July 16, 2021

40 comments / new

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

By Dave Schilling July 8, 2021

27 comments / new

Wait, is Dom an actual angel in F9?

By Dave Schilling July 1, 2021

4 comments / new

Loki reinvents every Marvel movie for the better

By Dave Schilling June 25, 2021

1 comment / new

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

By Dave Schilling June 17, 2021

2 comments / new

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

15 comments / new

As our technology advances, so do our horror movies

By Dave Schilling May 20, 2021

2 comments / new

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

By Dave Schilling May 13, 2021

45 comments / new

Patton Oswalt helps us imagine the future of Star Wars

By Dave Schilling May 12, 2021

8 comments / new

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

By Dave Schilling April 29, 2021

1 comment / new

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

By Polygon Staff April 27, 2021

11 comments / new

Is Zack Snyder’s Superman the best onscreen Superman?

By Polygon Staff April 24, 2021

49 comments / new

Godzilla is a metaphor for everything in 2021

By Dave Schilling April 22, 2021

1 comment / new