Devin Meenan
Expertise
Film History, Marvel Comics, Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Devin makes a habit of tracking every movie he watches for the first time each year and bringing the count up the following year.
- While writing for /Film, Devin interviewed Dan Perri, title sequence designer for "Star Wars," "Taxi Driver," and a dozen other classic films.
- Devin's essay on Charles Laughton's "The Night of the Hunter" was published in print by Film Matters Magazine, "The Magazine For the Future Film Scholars."
Experience
Devin's writing ranges from entertainment criticism to news reporting. To pursue his passion, he first wrote movie reviews recreationally at Letterboxd and for his university's student paper, "The Denisonian." He has since taken up freelancing and has written for IGN, Comic Book Resources, Film Matters Magazine, and of course /Film.
Education
Devin holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema and English. He graduated Cum Laude from Denison University, located in Granville, Ohio.
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Stories By Devin Meenan
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Fox's first-ever Best Picture Oscar winner, How Green Was My Valley, was also the film that infamously upstaged Citizen Kane at the Academy Awards.
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If you love Wolverine's X-Men spinoff movies and FX's Shogun, then Hiroaki Samura's samurai comic Blade of the Immortal is a must-read.
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The first MCU Captain America movie featured a set that proved hazardous to more than a few ankles.
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Across the four Kung Fu Panda movies, we've had four primary antagonists who each challenge the Dragon Warrior Po in new ways. But which villain is the best?
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Homelander is reshaping the Seven as 'wrathful gods,' but the new trailer for The Boys season 4 hints at another villain emerging.
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Quite a talent you have there, Pyro. Here's what you should know about the fire-manipulating X-Men character before he appears in Marvel's Deadpool & Wolverine.
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While most of the cast of The Wicker Man has passed away, a few members who were very young when they starred in the horror classic are still with us.
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The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola shares a first look at his upcoming movie Megalopolis, starring Adam Driver and Giancarlo Esposito.
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The Star Wars prequels have their defenders, but the best version of that story is in the popular manga, Berserk.
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Marvel star Chris Hemsworth really wanted to be in Mad Max: Fury Road, but he wasn't a big enough name yet.
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'Magneto was right' rings harder in Marvel's X-Men '97 because his radicalization stems from a real act of human evil.
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The latest episode of X-Men '97 has a ton of Marvel cameos. Let's break them down right here!
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GKids has announced the home media release dates and details for Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-winning animated film The Boy and the Heron.
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One of the sexiest scenes in Luca Guadagnino's tennis love triangle movie Challengers involves verbal sparring over churros.
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From the Anthology of Interest episodes to standalone anthology specials, Futurama has taken its already weird characters to some even weirder places.
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The tragedy of Clone Commander Bly the Unquestioning began in a comic book before his appearance in the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
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Episode 7 of Marvel's X-Men '97 showed that not all of the mutants died on Genosha, but will they join the X-Men?
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The latest episode of X-Men '97 saw a crossover with the leader of Marvel's most famous superhero team.
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Does Taylor Swift's new album, The Tortured Poets Department, really hint at her having a role in Deadpool & Wolverine? Join us as we investigate.
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Upon further inspection, it looks like Deadpool & Wolverine will feature even more Marvel mutants than we thought.
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If you fancy yourself a horror fan, you've gotta get your hands on The Creature From The Black Lagoon Lives!
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The new trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine teams up Ryan Reynolds' fourth-wall-breaking jokester and Hugh Jackman's grumpy metal-clawed mutant.
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Though the Cylons were the main baddies of Battlestar Galactica, the show's best villain was Admiral Helena Cain, played by Star Trek alum Michelle Forbes.
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Director Justin Lin wanted to dig deeper into the origins of Krall's army in Star Trek Beyond, but these 'loftier ambitions' had to be set aside.
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Julian Glover had key roles in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies thanks largely to a combination of luck and neighborly connections.
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The horror movie Abigail was made by people who know their vampire lore, and therefore knew which rules to follow and which rules were worth breaking.
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Go back to where the Transformers began in the first trailer for the animated prequel movie Transformers One.