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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Zapp Brannigan wears quite the short miniskirt throughout Futurama, but the original design actually didn't intend to have him showing so much leg.
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The Transformers comics are re-imagining a classic storyline from the original Transformers cartoon involving the treacherous Decepticon Starscream.
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Marvel fans have been eagerly hoping for the return of Scarlet Witch, but Elizabeth Olsen has said she'll only return under one condition.
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Stephen King once lent his talents as a writer to Marvel Comics on a special X-Men issue featuring a very scary (and very King-esque) villain.
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Family Guy creator and song-and-dance man Seth MacFarlane's favorite movie is an Oscar-winning 1960s musical he's parodied several times in the animated comedy.
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Actor Hugh Grant researched a real serial killer to better play his villainous role in the new A24 horror movie Heretic.
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Mass Effect, only one of the best sci-fi video game properties of all time, is finally being adapted into a TV series for Prime Video.
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Our exclusive preview for Uncanny X-Men #5 reveals what happens to Rogue after battling a pretty terrifying new Marvel Comics villain.
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Black Adam and Superman are both super-strong, nearly invulnerable, and capable of flight - but who packs more of a punch? Let's investigate.
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Working on this 1993 Batman comic is when Mike Mignola realized the types of stories he wanted to tell, and that experience inspired him to create Hellboy.
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In our exclusive preview of X-Men #7, Cyclops gets some tough love from Magneto as he struggles to become a leader to the X-Men.
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It's impossible to think about Star Trek without Spock, but studio executives were afraid of something truly absurd and almost changed the iconic character.
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Harley Quinn was famously created for Batman: The Animated Series, but she's far from the only Batman villain to originate in the realm of animation.
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Before The Boys stars Erin Moriarty and Colby Minifie played Annie and Ashley, they portrayed two rather different characters on a Marvel TV show.
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Jason Alexander thinks he, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Michael Richards damaged the economics of TV when they made a deal for more money at the height of Seinfeld.
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One of Marvel's greatest heroes is crossing over with one of 20th Century Studios most formidable foes and we have the first look at the comic's third issue.
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Venom: The Last Dance is bringing Knull to the big screen. Here's why the Marvel Comics character is a pretty dang terrifying super-villain.
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Frank Miller's highly influential comic The Dark Knight Returns helped lay the groundwork for the controversial death of Robin in DC's Batman comics.
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Charles Dance & Peter Dinklage may have played father-son characters who hated each other on Game of Thrones, but things were much different behind the scenes.
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The end credits of Avengers: Endgame appear to borrow an idea from the end credits of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
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In The Simpsons season 7, Paul McCartney affirmed Lisa's decision to become a vegetarian - but his cameo came with one important condition.
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Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky once pitched Kevin Feige a Marvel animated series in the style of his Clone Wars vignettes, and it never happened.
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Game of Thrones recast several major characters over the course of its run, one of which went largely (but understandably) unnoticed.
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As frequently as the TV show version of The Boys crosses the line into controversy, it's got nothing on the original comic books.
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A creepy scene in the newly released horror sequel Smile 2 seems to be heavily influenced by a classic anime horror movie.
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Check out our exclusive preview of Marvel Comics' Incredible Hulk #18, which has made itself a monster horror comic first and foremost.
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Marvel's Ultimate universe has allowed for wider experimentation, which will continue when an upcoming comic combines two famous superheroes into one.