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18 Jan

Magic: The Gathering – The Legend of the Black Lotus Continues

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Every trading card game has those rare cards that are so few and far between, getting a glimpse at one in real life feels special. In Pokémon Trading Card Game, you’ve the likes of the pre-release Jungle Raichu, or the Pikachu Illustrator, and in Yu-Gi-Oh there’s the original print of Dark Magician Girl, or the Chinese Blue Eyes White Dragon. For Magic: The Gathering, there’s  the Power Nine, the most valuable of which is Black Lotus, and one’s about to become available – if you’ve got the money for it. The Power Nine are a set of cards that stretch…
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16 Dec

How Viola Davis Became A Blues Legend in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

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Premiering on Netflix this week, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a film adaptation of the award-winning 1982 play of the same name by August Wilson. The stage version was part of Wilson’s 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle, which acted as a chronicle the African American experience in the 20th century. And in the Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom portion of that cycle, events take place over the course of a single recording session in 1920s Chicago. There a fictionalized version of real-life blues singer Ma Rainey (played in the film by Viola Davis) and the members of her band–including the ambitious and hot-headed…
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30 Nov

Link Tank: Fun Facts About Martial Arts Legend and Pop Culture Icon, Bruce Lee

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Last Friday was Bruce Lee’s 80th birthday. Check out these ten amazing facts about the martial arts and movie legend. “Bruce Lee is one of pop culture’s most multifaceted icons. Legions of fans admire him for his movies, his martial arts prowess, his incomprehensible physical fitness, his championing of Chinese culture, and even his philosophies on life. Yet for all the new ground Lee broke, most of his recognition only came after his death at the age of 32.” Read more at Mental Floss. With The Mandalorian now well into its second season, let’s take a look at how the father-son…
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20 Nov

Disney Refuses to Pay Royalties to Star Wars Legend Alan Dean Foster

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Alan Dean Foster, the legendary science fiction writer behind the novelizations of the original Star Wars, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, and the godfather of the original Star Wars Expanded Universe with his authoring of the first sequel in the franchise, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, says he hasn’t been paid royalties owed to him by Disney since the megacorporation’s acquisition of those series’ rights. In an open letter posted by (and added to by) the Science Fiction Writers of America, the writer, who is living with an advanced form of cancer, says that Disney has…
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11 Sep

The Legend of Korra: Who is Amon?

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The following contains spoilers for AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER and THE LEGEND OF KORRA. The Legend of Korra‘s first season had a big mystery attached to it. Who was the real identity of Amon, the leader of the Equalists? At the time of the show’s airing there were tons of theories thrown around about who was under the mask. Possible suspects included Koh the Face Stealer, Jet, and even Aang! However, the true person hiding under the mask was much more complicated and not whom anyone suspected. MASSIVE spoilers for The Legend of Korra season one are ahead so proceed at your own…
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05 Sep

The Legend of Korra: Why Was Air Bending So Difficult For Korra to Learn?

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The following contains spoilers for AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER and THE LEGEND OF KORRA. “I’m the Avatar, you gotta deal with it!” With these words we were introduced to Korra, the hero and main character of The Legend of Korra. What an intro, seeing a little kid bending earth, water, and fire. She was completely different from Aang and had no problem letting you know it. Despite her massive amounts of confidence however she still had trouble bending the element of air. The other three, no problem, but even into her late teens, airbending seemed impossible. This is what led her to Air…
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04 Sep

How Double Dragon’s Abobo Became a Beat em up Legend

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In the late ’80s, video games started featuring over-the-top, meaty musclemen. Metro City had Mike Haggar, a shirtless former wrestler who became mayor and decided that being “tough on crime” meant ridding the streets of criminals with his bare hands, his girlfriend’s psycho boyfriend, and a ninja in Nikes. Circus strongman Karnov scoured the world for adventure and treasure, fighting all kinds of mythical monsters. Bald Bull was trying to dominate both the boxing ring and the arm-wrestling circuit. Gutsman was a jacked construction robot who was later rebuilt as a 40-foot-tall tank centaur. And then there was Abobo, the…
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03 Sep

Mulan And The Chinese Women Warriors of History and Legend

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While American audiences know the story of Mulan through the 1998 animated Disney film and the upcoming live-action reboot, they may not know that the films are based on a Chinese legend. Hua Mulan is a legendary figure whose story was first told in “Ballad of Mulan,” a folksong first transcribed in the 6th century. In the legend, Mulan is a girl who disguises herself as a man and goes to war in place of her father. Mulan fights for many years as part of the army and, after earning much honor and gifts from the emperor, returns home to…
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03 Sep

Mulan: The Real History of the Chinese Legend

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Disney has been killing it with live-action remakes of their beloved animated movie catalog. While the upcoming Mulan might look like yet another relatively straight adaptation of a previous animated film, it’s not quite the same. Mulan, in 1998 and now, is based on an ancient Chinese legend. Not a fairy tale. Her story was commonly known across Asia long before Disney’s animated feature, and it’s that story (as much as the animated feature) that makes up the inspiration for the new film. When it was announced that the new live-action film would not include the songs or her mini-dragon…
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01 Sep

Link Tank: How Legend of Korra May Have Explained a Weird Avatar Mystery

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Here’s how The Legend of Korra may have explained one of the weirdest mysteries from Avatar: The Last Airbender. “Avatar: The Last Airbender is full of hybrid animals. There’s Appa, Avatar Aang’s beloved sky bison. Naga is Korra’s polar bear dog. The ancient lion turtle is another example of the unique creatures that inhabit this world to the point that Aang and his friends think it’s weird when the Earth King has a pet bear that’s not a hybrid with some other animal.” Read more at Inverse. The newest addition to Marvel movies, The New Mutants, contains some questionable scenes…
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31 Aug

The Legend of Korra: Why is Lightning Bending Common?

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The following contains spoilers for AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER and THE LEGEND OF KORRA. Lightning bending is one of the strongest abilities in Avatar: The Last Airbender, with Azula’s lightning attack nearly killing Aang for good. It’s also one of the rarest techniques, with only Ozai, Iroh, and Azula able to generate lightning on their own. Even Aang, the avatar, and Zuko could only redirect lightning. It was incredibly powerful and only used for huge moments in the story. This is why when The Legend of Korra first debuted (and as new fans have rediscovered it on Netflix) many fans were confused why…
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27 Jul

Screen Legend Olivia de Havilland Dies at 104

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Olivia de Havilland, one of the last remaining actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age and the last surviving star of Gone With the Wind, died July 26 of natural causes at her residence in Paris, where she lived for more than six decades, according to Variety. De Havilland was 104. De Havilland turned 104 on July 1. She was the older sister of Joan Fontaine, who died in 2013 at 96. The two Academy Award-winning actresses were estranged for most of their lives. Olivia Mary de Havilland was born in Tokyo on July 1, 1916. Her parents, Walter de Havilland, an…
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21 Jul

Helter Skelter: An American Myth Director Deflates the Legend of Charles Manson

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Charles Manson was five foot, two inches tall. He would claim to be five foot six, and some papers list him as 5’4″, but he was much smaller than how he has been presented. He is certainly not as physically imposing as the stature of his lore. Helter Skelter: An American Myth in one of the most comprehensive examinations of Charles Manson found in one title. The six episodes of the documentary series delve deep into the childhood of the man who would start the Family that committed the Crime of the Century. Directed and executive produced by Lesley Chilcott,…
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21 Jul

The Legend of Korra Comes to Netflix Next Month

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Watch out, everyone. Netflix is on an Avatar-collecting spree.  Netflix today announced that Avatar: The Last Airbender sequel series, The Legend of Korra, is set to arrive on its streams on August 14. The announcement came with an appropriate tweet of course.  She’s the avatar, you’ve gotta deal with it. The Legend of Korra is coming to Netflix on August 14th in the US. pic.twitter.com/r16aGudm7s— NX (@NXOnNetflix) July 21, 2020 The Legend of Korra (also known as Avatar: The Legend of Korra) premiered on Nickelodeon on April 14, 2012 and ran for four seasons through October of 2014. The series…
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15 Jul

How Katherine Langford Shakes Up Arthurian Legend in Netflix’s Cursed

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Netflix’s new fantasy drama Cursed is an Arthurian retelling that asks an intriguing – and long overdue – question: What if the central figure of the story is a woman, instead of a man? For while there are several familiar female figures in the various legends of King Arthur, they’re not generally presented as the drivers of the action. Instead, they tend to live largely at the margins of stories about men, popping up just in time to fall in love, get kidnapped, or give birth to a son with a destiny that far outstrips their own. Cursed attempts to…
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01 Jul

Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado Trailer Foretells Good Omens

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A beloved astrologer’s spiritual and sexual influence is lovingly recounted in Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado. “Love is the essence of everything,” we read in the first Mucho Mucho Amor trailer, and the new Netflix Original Documentary has nothing but love for the iconic astrologer Walter Mercado. Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado will hit the streamer globally on July 8. The documentary was directed by Cristina Costantini (Science Fair) and Kareem Tabsch (The Last Resort), and produced by Alex Fumero (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson). They got “unprecedented access to Walter…
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10 Mar

Acting Legend Max von Sydow Dies at 90

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Stage and screen acting legend Max Von Sydow, who starred in The Seventh Seal and appeared in The Exorcist, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Flash Gordon, and Game of Thrones, died on March 8 at the age of 90, according to Variety. “It is with a broken heart and with infinite sadness that we have the extreme pain of announcing the departure of Max von Sydow,” his wife, the producer Catherine Brelet, said in a statement. Von Sydow made his Hollywood debut as Jesus in the 1965 Biblical epic The Greatest Story Ever Told.  This gave him the authority to…
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