Superheroes A Superhero on Your Own Terms: An Interview With Rachel Pollackthenib.com - Annie Mok Talking to the Doom Patrol and Tarot Wisdom author about just going out and living your life.
China What Are We Saying When We Grant a Movie ‘Universal’ Status?lithub.com - By Simon Han It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a critic praising Lulu Wang’s The Farewell must describe it as “universal.” A close cousin to …
TV We Can Be Heroes: How the Nerds Are Reinventing Pop CultureWIRED - Condé Nast Pay attention to the structure. That's one of the first things they teach you when you start writing for television. If you want to tell a decent …
Jerry Seinfeld The One Where We Talk About How "Friends" Actually Sucksbuzzfeednews.com - Scaachi Koul Friends' 25th anniversary is in September, but here's the thing — this show has always been awful. I’m starting to realize that in internet years, I’m …
WandaVision Seriously, What Is ‘WandaVision’?theringer.com - Daniel Chin Since Marvel began its dynastic run at the box office back in 2008, the studio has taken its fair share of risks, experimenting with—and in some …
Ms. Marvel Ms. Marvel will get a live-action TV series on Disney PlusPolygon - Susana PoloDuring the company’s Disney Plus Showcase panel at the D23 convention, Walt Disney studios confirmed that Kamala Khan will get her own live-action TV series on Disney Plus — and she’ll appear in a future,
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reuniting for new Amazon seriesconsequenceofsound.net - Michael Roffman Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are back in the spooky business. According to Variety, the longtime collaborators will reunite for Truth Seekers, a new …
We're Already De-Aging Kids For Moviesio9 - Beth Elderkin Visual effects are starting to take on a life of their own, by digitally recreating other people’s pasts. It’s been used to de-age Kurt Russell in …
If You Haven’t Yet Had Time to Read Moby-Dick Here’s a Pop-Up Booklithub.com - By Literary Hub Two hundred years ago, Herman Melville was born and the course of American literary history changed forever. In celebration of the author’s …
Solace and Salvation in the Marvel Universe, at 12 Cents a Comic BookThe New York Times - By DANA JENNINGSI was there when Peter Parker got bit by that rogue radioactive spider. I was there when the Avengers found Captain America frozen in a block of ice. I was there during the very first Kree-Skrull War.
It’s fun playing with The Boys—too bad they don’t have anything to sayThe A.V. Club - Liz Shannon MillerReal talk: The Boys is about how superheroes are bad. In fact, the most shocking reveals of The Boys are when people turn out to be somewhat good. The Amazon Prime Video drama rolls around in this ethos
Dead Man Logan: How Marvel is Killing Old Man Logan | CBRcbr.com - Renaldo Matadeen Old Man Logan started as a pretty simple concept. In an alternate reality from Mark Millar and Steve McNiven, Logan put aside the Wolverine persona …
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV Series Heading to Hulu | CBRcbr.com - John Ridlehoover A TV show based on Douglas Adams' popular The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novel series is making its way to Hulu. The series is being developed by …
25 Years Later, Dinosaurs Still has TV's Most Shocking Finalecbr.com - Timothy Donohoo The hardest part of any series finale is wrapping up the story and giving viewers a sense of finality, and there are a lot of ways a TV show might …
Play button Goodbye, Alan Moore: the king of comics bows outThe Guardian - Sam ThielmanOne of the most significant fiction writers in English is retiring, to the greatest fanfare of his singular and titanically influential career. Alan Moore has promised that the (extremely late) final of
Two Comedy Writers Take “Face/Off” to a New Level of WeirdnessThe New Yorker - Amanda PetrusichOn a recent Sunday afternoon, Cage in the Park, a theatre series created by Sebastian DiNatale and Zachary DiLanzo, staged a Shakespearean reënactment of the 1997 action film “Face/Off,” at the Grecian
Al Jaffee's MAD Life: how a traumatized kid from the shtetl became an American satire iconboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow Back in 2010, It Books published Mary-Lou Weisman's biography of MAD Magazine icon Al Jaffee: Al Jaffee's Mad Life: A Biography; I missed it then but …
Some lunatics are performing Face/Off in iambic pentameter for New Yorkers this weekendThe A.V. Club - Reid McCarterShakespeare is responsible for some of the finest drama in the history of the English language. Still, despite the breadth of his work, The Bard never did manage to write the most important story ever
Sonic the Hedgehog: Tim Miller Promises ‘Fans Will be Pleased’ with Redesigncbr.com - Narayan Liu In surprising response to early audience reactions, the team behind the upcoming live-action Sonic the Hedgehog was tasked with redesigning the star …
The new Lion King doesn’t even tryPolygon - Matt PatchesThe 1994 Lion King and this month’s remake take Simba the lion on the same exact arc. Born to Mufasa, king of Pride Rock, the scrappy cub spends his savanna days boasting about royalty status. Simba’s
Marvel Comics Announces Fantastic Four: Grand Design | CBRcbr.com - Tim Adams Writer and artist Tom Scioli is putting his own spin on the Fantastic Four's history with Fantastic Four: Grand Design. The two-issue miniseries will …
Marvel and DC Get Politicalcomicbook.com - Chase Magnett The intersection of the superhero genre and politics dates back to the dawning Golden Age of Comics. In the first issue of Action Comics #1, Superman …
Data Reveals Why Netflix Cancels Shows After Two Seasonscomicbook.com - Charlie Ridgely While Netflix has become a mainstay in just about every household around the country, delivering a wide array of unique original TV shows and movies …
From the Graphic Novelist Seth, a Masterwork 20 Years in the MakingThe New York Times - By BRIAN SELZNICKWhat does time look like? How do we represent its passage when time is an abstract idea, yet (as the linguist George Lakoff points out) we often discuss it as though it were a physical object? We lose
Viral and Loving It: The Thoroughly Modern Comedy of Demi Adejuyigbetheringer.com - Brian Raftery It’s probably been a while since you thought about the short-lived internet sensation known as Darwin, the IKEA monkey. If so, a brief primate …
Taika Waititi hired to try and figure out how to make a Flash Gordon movieThe A.V. Club - Sam BarsantiIt’s been a few months since we heard about long-delayed Flash Gordon reboot, which means it’s now time to hear about… another Flash Gordon reboot. After all, kids of all ages are just constantly screaming
How Pixar's animation has evolved over 24 years, from 'Toy Story' to 'Toy Story 4'Business Insider - Kyle Desiderio, Ian Phillips, INSIDERNarrator: This is a dog in 1995's "Toy Story." It was a staggering achievement at the time, but the detail in the fur just isn't there. Compare that to this cat in "Toy Story 4." The difference is clear.
“The Dead Don’t Die,” Reviewed: Jim Jarmusch’s Fiercely Political Zombie ComedyThe New Yorker - Richard BrodyThe film that Jim Jarmusch’s new horror comedy, “The Dead Don’t Die,” most reminds me of is Frederick Wiseman’s “Monrovia, Indiana,” a 2018 documentary about social life and civic routines in a small town.
The abandoned X-Men movie of the 1980s isn’t missed by anyone involvedPolygon - Petrana RadulovicIn 1979, no one wanted to make a Marvel movie. Alice Donenfeld-Vernoux, a former vice president of business affairs at Marvel, had one mission during the late ’70s: Bring the comic company’s heroes to
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