celebration

DC Introduces New Hero in Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration

DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration, is a timely new anthology showcasing DC’s Asian superheroes. Arriving in May for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, it presents many of the top Asian storytellers of comics. Included in the 100 page commemorative anthology is an original 12-page story by Gene Luen Yang and Bernard Chang. “The Monkey Prince Hates Superheroes” introduces a new DC superhero who teams up with Shazam to battle Doctor Sivana and a Chinese deer demon.  Monkey Prince references the 16th century Chinese classic, Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en. It is the story…
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A Celebration of Tom Holland’s Dark Side

Tom Holland seems like a really lovely chap. Outside playing Spider-Man in the MCU, the 24-year-old Brit is possibly best known for being unable to stop himself from leaking spoilers and his genuinely amazing performance of Rihanna’s ”Umbrella” during a lip sync battle. From his breakout turn in The Impossible to his watery adventure with Chris Hemsworth in In The Heart of the Sea, Holland proved himself versatile and talented even before he put on the Spidey suit. Lately though Holland seems to be exploring his dark side and it fits him well. Reuniting with his Captain America: Civil War,…
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Star Wars Celebration 2020 Canceled

Well, it’s not surprising news but it’s disappointing news all the same. Star Wars Celebration 2020 has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement was posted to StarWars.com, and pushed across all Star Wars and Star Wars Celebration social media feeds. The annual gathering of Star Wars fans and creators was set to begin on August 27 and run through August 30 of this year. Now the event will be rescheduled for August 18 – 21, 2022 in Anaheim. The announcement reads: “At Star Wars Celebration, the health and safety of our fans, attendees, exhibitors, guests and staff…
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Sesame Street’s 50th Anniversary Celebration!

Recommended This second DVD release from Shout Factory Kids celebrating Sesame Street's 50th anniversary consists of a special made this year for prime time on both HBO (where the show has moved for its first run episodes) and PBS (which still presents the show delayed after the HBO showings, and with an annoying "E/I" symbol at the top of the screen to count towards the FCC's required hours of "educational programming" each week- in that regard it's likely for the better that its new primary home is HBO.) Like the 25th anniversary special, which was one of the very first…
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Celebration

Filmed over the course of three years, this portrait of fashion colossus Yves Saint Laurent’s final show was suppressed right after its first and only public screening at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival. The film was blocked by YSL’s business (and on-and-off romantic) partner Pierre Berge, who objected to the couturier’s portrayal as frail and not quite all there, and to his own depiction of being the behind the scenes mastermind. (The dynamic between the two is said to have inspired Paul Thomas Anderson’s depiction of Daniel Day-Lewis and Lesley Manville’s characters in Phantom Thread.) Fortunately, Berge relented in 2015…
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