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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The first season of X-Men '97 just swerved hard with episode 5, 'Remember It' - but if you're familiar with the comics, you may have seen this coming.
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Did the latest trailer for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes reveal a massive twist?
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Jeremy Allen White is in talks to play the Boss in a movie about the making of Bruce Springsteen's best album.
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Immaculate and The First Omen are both films about American nuns who fly off to a new life in Italy and fall into a web of forced birth conspiracy.
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The Cartoon Network series Transformers: Animated never made it to season 4. Here's why.
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is ultimately an action story with fights that flawlessly mix color, motion, and sound. Here are its five best action scenes.
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Suicide Squad Isekai may only be the beginning of DC Comics branching out into anime. Here are five other DC properties that should follow suit.
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Want to read some Marvel comics but intimidated by the vast number of them? Newcomers can jump right in with these new Ultimate superhero comics.
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In Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, young chimpanzee Noa (Owen Teague) will venture out into the Forbidden Zone, a concept from the original trilogy.
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X-Men '97 is exploring a relationship between Rogue and Magneto, but this isn't unprecedented; the pair have a romantic history in Marvel's comics.
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Who is X-Men '97's Goblin Queen, and why does she call herself Madelyne Pryor? The answers lie in the comics ... and that story is fairly complicated.
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Sinister and The Black Phone director Scott Derrickson is developing a new take on the classic '50s novel turned Noir film, The Night of the Hunter.
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Sydney Sweeney's Immaculate was inspired by one of the greatest horror films ever made.
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Disney's 21st century success has largely come from acquired properties like Star Wars and Marvel, and it looks like anime is now a major target.
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After Battlestar Galactica ended in 2010, there were two attempts to keep the franchise going with prequel shows - but neither made it very far.
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Years before the X-Men movies, Sir Patrick Stewart and Famke Janssen shared an onscreen screen in the Star Trek: TNG episode 'The Perfect Mate.'
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The final battle with The Avengers battling a swarm of Ultron's robots was quite challenging to pull off, but does it measure up to the MCU's other great shots?
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Which state is Springfield in? The Simpsons has deliberately avoided resolving this mystery, but the show has had some fun with it.
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Young Justice's failure to sell enough superhero toys led to Cartoon Network canceling the DC series after just two seasons.
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A creepy portrait that haunts the background of Pet Sematary is based on real nineteenth-century paintings of children who died in infancy.
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X-Men '97's series bible contained what supervising producer/head director Jake Castorena defined as the X-Men's ethos: they must be an allegory for prejudice.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and End of Evangelion both find room for hope in fatalism.
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X-Men '97 episode 2, 'Mutant Liberation Begins,' suggests the show is drawing from Chris Claremont's defining run on the X-Men comics (like the '90s cartoon).
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To mark the 15th anniversary of the Battlestar Galactica finale, /Film spoke with several folks who worked on the show about how its final season came together.
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The Sith have seemingly been vanquished, but darkness is stirring among the Jedi in the first trailer for Star Wars series The Acolyte.
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Some members of the original X-Men voice cast are reprising their roles in X-Men '97, while others are returning as new characters.
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Disney's Bambi seemingly inspired the even darker Japanese animated movie Ringing Bell, which itself helped give rise to the Vinland Saga anime.