School
Denison University
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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Superhero Movies
By Devin Meenan
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is one of the best Batman movies ever made, so it's a good thing its directors didn't heed the feedback from WB's executives.
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Animation Movies
By Devin Meenan
Denji finds a new chance at love in Chainsaw Man: The Movie - Reze Arc. What could go wrong? Here's how the movie sets up season 2.
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A Marvel Comics crossover brings together two of New York City's weirdest families: the Fantastic Four and the Gargoyles.
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Robert Picardo played the holographic doctor on Star Trek: Voyager, and he came up with a great reason for the character to appear in Star Trek: First Contact.
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Drama Movies
By Devin Meenan
Bruce Springsteen is rarely seen on stage without the backing of the E Street Band, but they barely appear in biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere.
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Animation Movies
By Devin Meenan
Netflix has had a huge year with its animated offerings, including a new adaptation of a beloved children's author's weirdest story.
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Cartoon Shows
By Devin Meenan
A new Transformers and G.I. Joe animated series is in the works, and it's being developed by a major comic book creative who's a big fan of both properties.
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The finale of Gen V season 2 sets up The Boys season 5 in multiple ways. Here are some of the biggest threads left dangling and characters who may appear.
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Comedy Shows
By Devin Meenan
One of the main cast members of Everybody Loves Raymond came pretty close to joining the main cast of Seinfeld first. Here's what happened.
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Superhero Shows
By Devin Meenan
Long before he scored the lead role in the Shazam movies, Zachary Levi almost played a very different comic book character: Lex Luthor.
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Cartoon Shows
By Devin Meenan
An all-but-forgotten Western-themed cartoon from the late 1960s featured a parody of John Wayne as one of the main characters.
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History Shows
By Devin Meenan
The beloved 1990 adaptation of Stephen King's IT was almost directed by horror legend George Romero, but he left the project for a very good reason.
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Anime Shows
By Devin Meenan
Trigun Stargaze is a remake of a '90s space western anime, but the second season of the remake is finally bringing back a beloved original character.
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Drama Movies
By Devin Meenan
Actors love working with director Christopher Nolan, but his favorite movie performance of 2025 was in someone else's movie.
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Horror Movies
By Devin Meenan
Scott Derrickson had many plans for his never-made sequel to Doctor Strange, but Black Phone 2 gave him a chance to revisit some of those ideas.
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Thriller Movies
By Devin Meenan
Edgar Wright's The Running Man might share a name (and source material) with the 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, but it's not a remake.
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Superhero Movies
By Devin Meenan
Marvel's new Ultimate Universe has largely been a refreshing reinvention, but ending in 2026 will afford it an opportunity that many Marvel comics don't get.
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Superhero Movies
By Devin Meenan
Absolute Batman #13 brings a pair of major DC Comics antiheroes into the mix, one of which is a much more unconventional re-imagining than the other.
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Superhero Shows
By Devin Meenan
The villain in Gen V season 2 is a twisted reflection of Professor Charles Xavier, the benevolent leader of Marvel's X-Men.
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Thriller Shows
By Devin Meenan
The Yellowjackets creators originally planned for the series to run for five seasons, but here's why the hit show will end after season 4.
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Horror Movies
By Devin Meenan
The Last of Us drew from a nature documentary featuring the Cordyceps fungus, which also inspired another zombie apocalypse story.
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Quentin Tarantino once revealed he wishes he could've worked with legendary Western bad guy Lee Van Cleef, who died in 1989.
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Superhero Shows
By Devin Meenan
The ultimate villain in Invincible is finally coming to the series, and season 4 of the hit Prime Video series has cast the perfect voice.
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Animation Movies
By Devin Meenan
One animated Disney movie from the 1990s managed to win both an Oscar and a Razzie, but did it really deserve the latter? Let's take a closer look.
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Drama Movies
By Devin Meenan
One of Diane Keaton's best known roles was Kay Adams-Corleone in the Godfather movies, but she found her casting very strange.
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Superhero Movies
By Devin Meenan
This lesser-known super-villain may yet make their Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Avengers: Secret Wars, if Marvel's comics are anything to go by.
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Movie Reviews
By Devin Meenan
Scarlet is being sold as an anime reimagining of Hamlet, but don't expect a full-blown adaptation of the classic play. Here's our review.
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