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05 Apr

Godzilla vs. Kong Writer Talks About Spending 8 Years in the MonsterVerse

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This article conatins spoilers for GODZILLA VS. KONG. Aside from studios Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, and certain behind-the-scenes executives, the four MonsterVerse movies to date have embraced largely different creative and directorial visions for each outing. This includes the latest installment Godzilla vs. Kong. But even though all four movies have had different directors, somewhat different tones, and mostly different casts, one of a handful of constant names has been that of Max Borenstein. Borenstein has had a writing credit on all four MonsterVerse movies, starting with penning the screenplay for 2014’s Godzilla. Since then he’s co-authored the…

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03 Apr

The Falcon and The Winter Soldier: What Do the Normies of the MCU Know About the MCU?

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This article contains spoilers for The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Midway through The Falcon and The Winter Soldier’s third episode, “Power Broker,” Helmut Zemo (now fully recognized as a Baron) demonstrates some impressive quick thinking. Alongside an undercover Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes, Zemo is in the Lowtown underworld of Madripoor trying to score a meeting with the Power Broker. When things are going poorly and the trio is forced to defend themselves, Zemo decides to pretend that Bucky is still the brainwashed Winter Soldier who can be controlled through some helpful Hydra keywords like “Winter Soldier. Attack.” This…

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24 Mar

Tina Documentary Directors Talk About Making an Artist’s Final Statement

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HBO’s feature documentary Tina is an intimate overview of Tina Turner, the person behind the musical icon. It is also a final statement, as the singer is moving on from the performance part of her life. The documentary tells Tina’s story the way the singer wanted it told: honestly. Some of Turner’s musical highpoints are skipped, like her scene-stealing role as the Acid Queen in Tommy or her appearance on the bulk of Frank Zappa’s Overnight Sensation. But the story of her early rise to fame, and the oppressive influence her musical mentor, husband and onstage partner Ike Turner had…

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08 Mar

Link Tank: Facts About George Orwell’s 1984

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Check out some little-known facts about George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984. “George Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four has given us a whole slew of shorthand phrases for dystopian or oppressive governments and surveillance, but even if you’ve already read about Winston Smith’s struggle against Big Brother, there are a few facts, stories, and theories about the novel that are worth a closer look.” Read more at Mental Floss. One of the most anticipated conflicts on Titans, Starfire versus Blackfire, has a long history in DC Comics. “In the upcoming season of DC’s Titans on HBO Max, we will see a…

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17 Feb

Nintendo Direct Is About to Drop and the Internet Has Made Its Predictions

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To many fans, it seemed like this moment would never come, but it’s finally happening: a new Nintendo Direct is set to drop today at 5 pm ET. This is the first major Direct broadcast since September 2019, so it’s not surprising that Nintendo fans have some really high expectations regarding what might be announced during the 50-minute conference. Nintendo has confirmed that the Direct will cover some new updates for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which means you should probably expect to hear about a new fighter joining the fray. Beyond that, everything seems fair game, although the focus will…

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17 Feb

How the Passion of Hannibal Lecter Inspired a New Opera About Dante

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When you hear the name Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a few things spring to mind—and none of them are likely to involve Italian poet Dante Alighieri or opera. Of course there’s good reason for this, with Lecter’s exotic cooking ingredients superseding his gentler affectations. But even so, when author Thomas Harris first imagined how the character might move in the wild for the novel Hannibal, it was with baroque glee he unleashed the doctor in Florence: Italy’s Renaissance city and Dante’s medieval stomping grounds. Director Ridley Scott similarly understood that secret recipe. His film version of Hannibal relishes every Italian colonnade…

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16 Feb

Link Tank: 18 Facts About The Silence of the Lambs

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The Silence of the Lambs turned 30 over the weekend. Check out some fun facts about this gruesome movie. “Believe it or not, The Silence of the Lambs was released on Valentine’s Day in 1991. The movie was scheduled for release in the middle of February because Orion Pictures, its distributor, already had a can’t-miss hit with Dances With Wolves, and they wanted to give Kevin Costner as little competition as possible for the 1991 awards season.” Read more at Mental Floss. After an outpouring of support from her female Buffy and Angel co-stars, a few men have spoken out…

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16 Feb

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie – What to Know About Mugen Train

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It’s always very exciting when a popular television series is able to spin off into a feature film that tells an even bigger story. These movies are so often beautiful odes to what makes the original series so important in the first place. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is one of the biggest anime hits of the past few years. It tells a fairly traditional story about a boy, Tanjiro, who suffers tragedy only to channel it into his journey to become an acclaimed Demon Slayer, but it’s full of incredible action sequences, lovable characters, and remarkable animation. The first season…

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15 Feb

Why Kid Cosmic Is About “People, Not Powers”

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This feature contains some spoilers for Netflix’s Kid Cosmic. After exploring the stretches of space, wonder, and imagination in shows like Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends and Wander Over Yonder, Craig McCracken returns to the realm of superheroes with Kid Cosmic, a more direct, comic book-esque take on the genre than his first smash hit show, The Powerpuff Girls.  The show stars Kid, a young boy who finds a set of superpowered stones, and from there, all heck breaks loose. In the midst of fighting waves upon waves of aliens and creatures from other worlds, however, is an earnest, realistic…

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13 Feb

WandaVision Episode 6 Commercial Explains What They’ve All Been About

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This article contains WandaVision spoilers. In an already odd show, the commercials on WandaVision take an extra step into weirdness. While we know it’s part of the sitcom-within-a-show premise and is seen by those able to watch it, nobody has actually acknowledged or questioned them. Each one feels like part of the era the episode is copying, but they’re each cryptic and unique. WandaVision episode 6, “All-New Halloween Spooktacular,” features the fifth commercial so far. It’s easily the most alarming. While the other four commercials have had references to major Marvel characters and moments — especially in regard to Wanda…

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06 Feb

Why The Truth About Britney Spears Is So Elusive

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Britney Spears is one of the most-covered and least-known celebrities of the modern era. She is a millennial icon whose songs were the soundtrack of a generation. A choreographed contradiction from her earliest burst onto pop stardom, the singer became a blank canvass for anyone carrying a paint brush. The FX docuseries The New York Times Presents “Framing Britney Spears” is an attempt to find the artist’s place in the gallery. It is also searching for Britney’s whereabouts in general. Spears was placed into a conservatorship when she was 26 years old. That was 13 years ago this month, and…

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01 Feb

Link Tank: Fun Facts About Ghost Adventures from Zak Bagans

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Ghost Adventures recently becoming available to stream on Discovery+. Check out some fun facts about this show from its investigator Zak Bagans. “For more than a decade, Ghost Adventures has been spooking up the airwaves of the Travel Channel, ‘capturing groundbreaking proof of the paranormal’ on camera in different haunted destinations across the globe and using the latest scientific gadgets and technology to obtain physical evidence of spirits.” Read more at Mental Floss. This week’s episode of WandaVision is the first time the Marvel Cinematic Universe touched on the horror of The Blip. “At the end of Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity…

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29 Jan

Animal Crossing’s Turnip Market Tried to Warn Us About the GameStop Stock Drama

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The ongoing GameStop stock situation, which we’re all learning about through a combination of reputable sources and an onslaught of memes, has captured the internet’s attention for reasons ranging from “WTF?” to “LOL.” One of the most common things you’ll hear about the whole situation is that it caught everyone by surprise. Even those closest to this story from the beginning would have a hard time honestly telling you that they ever thought a group of investors on Reddit who trade stocks as often as memes would have been able to predict that GameStop, one of the worst companies in…

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29 Jan

Before GameStop, Wall Street Kid for NES Taught Gamers About the Stock Market

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If you haven’t been following the simply incredible story involving the WallStreetBets subreddit using GameStop stocks to beat hedge funds and large investors at their own game (and make a bundle in the process) I highly recommend you start doing so. This bizarre saga isn’t over, and it will likely have repercussions that will be discussed for years to come.  While many of you probably didn’t expect to learn so much about the inner working of the stock market thanks to the suddenly surging stock price of a video game company left for dead, this is hardly the first time…

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25 Jan

Harry Potter: What an HBO Max TV Series Could Be About

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The only real magic left in this world is intellectual property and its nigh supernatural ability to print money. With media conglomerates prioritizing their streaming services, beloved IPs have never been more valuable in garnering interest, sign-ups, and subscriptions for streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+, and HBO Max. WarnerMedia, the owner of the lattermost streaming service, also holds the rights to the Harry Potter IP, and of course they want to conjure up ideas to bring the world of The Boy Who Lived to television. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a Harry Potter live-action TV series is in early development…

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25 Jan

Link Tank: Behind-the-Scenes Facts About Netflix’s Bridgerton

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Bridgerton on Netflix is one of the streaming giant’s most watched series of all time. Check out some behind-the-scene facts about it. “Though it only premiered on Christmas Day 2020, Bridgerton is already proving to be one of Netflix’s most popular series of all time. The lavish period drama, which is set in Regency-era England, is based on Julia Quinn’s eight-book series.” Read more at Mental Floss. Krystina Arielle’s role as host of Star Wars: The High Republic Show prompted a wave of attacks from racist Star Wars fans—and then a counter wave from fans supporting her. “This should have…

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23 Jan

What Star Wars: The High Republic Reveals About the Galaxy Before the Movies

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This Star Wars: The High Republic contains spoilers. With Star Wars: The High Republic, Disney and Lucasfilm set out to explore a new galactic era that looked and felt different from anything that came before. Long before the rise of the Empire and the fall of the Jedi, the Republic was stable and prosperous. In fact, the High Republic books and comics released so far show Jedi using their skills for situations other than all-out war. New Star Wars characters, villains, and settings are enough to get any fan excited but getting in on the ground floor of this era…

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20 Jan

Film About a Father Who

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Over a period of 35 years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. Film About a Father Who is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings. With a nod to the Cubist renderings of a face, Sachs' cinematic exploration of her father offers simultaneous, sometimes contradictory, views of one seemingly unknowable man who is publicly the uninhibited center of the frame yet privately…

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09 Jan

Sean Bean Opens Up About How He Prepared to Die (On Screen)

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If any living actor knows how to prepare for a death scene, it’s probably Sean Bean. From The Lord of the Rings to GoldenEye, Patriot Games or Clarissa, the man has learned his away around simulating that last breath. But probably his most famous death scene, at least this side of Gondor, was also one of the most brutally sudden: when Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell gets beheaded on the steps of Baelor in Game of Thrones. The sequence, which occurs during the ninth episode of Game of Thrones’ first season, ominously titled “Baelor,” is the one that came to…

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31 Dec

Bridgerton: Let’s Talk About Sex Education, Baby

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This Bridgerton article contains MAJOR spoilers for Season 1, including the ending. If you think our sex education could be better today (which you should), then Bridgerton‘s depiction of Daphne’s pre-marital lack of knowledge around sex may astound you. In the first season of the delightful romance drama, Daphne has to find out about masturbation from Simon and heads into her wedding night knowing next to nothing about what might happen between two adults in lust, aside from the fact that it has something to do with the act of having children. Later, Simon keeps the details of his “inability”…

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