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Link Tank: Superheroes Other Than Iron Man Who Deserve VR Games

Iron Man VR on PlayStation VR got some thinking about other superheroes who need their own VR games. “Iron Man VR is a game for the PS4’s PlayStation VR headset that lets you climb into Tony Stark’s armor. While modern VR gaming is still in its infancy, there’s no denying that superhero games are an attractive use of the technology. Who hasn’t wanted to slip into the leotard of their favorite comic book heroes (metaphorically) and really feel what being superhuman is like?” Read more at PCMag. Hamilton hit streaming for the first time over the weekend. Check out these…
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Hamilton and 10 Other Ways to Watch the American Revolution

Hamilton will debut on Disney+ on July 3rd, the start of a long holiday weekend. The Walt Disney Company paid good money for the Broadway phenomenon, a reported $75 million for the rights to the film, which features performances by the original cast (we wrote a primer on the cast and where they are now). If you’re healthily avoiding crowds and already had your fill of fireworks, here are 10 more movies and TV shows that explore the American Revolution from different angles.  1776 (1972) Making the Founding Fathers sing was truly revolutionary when Sherman Edwards’s musical debuted on Broadway…
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AEW vs. WWE Ratings War Heats Up as Companies Take Shots at Each Other

WWE and AEW have taken some veiled shots at each other since Dynamite debuted last fall and NXT hit the airwaves on USA Network about one month earlier. However, the companies seem to be taking their shots up a notch in recent weeks. There have been one ongoing news story that intertwined both companies together. Renee Young, a WWE interviewer and wife of AEW Champion Jon Moxley, revealed last week that she tested positive for COVID-19. Moxley’s main-event title defense against Brian Cage scheduled for next week’s Dynamite episode has been postponed due to Moxley living with someone who is…
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“They Hated Each Other”: How Pretty In Pink’s Tensions Created a Perfect Romance

“Sydney Pollack said ‘everything’s a love story’, and it is. Everything is, if you think about it,” says Howard Deutch. He’s chatting to us ahead of the remastered Blu-ray release of Pretty In Pink which he directed from a script by John Hughes, first released some 34 years ago in 1986. It was Deutch’s feature directorial debut, one of several collaborations with Hughes and with his follow up Some Kind Of Wonderful (also written by Hughes) it arguably formed the apex of ‘80s teen romance as we know it. Deutch is chatting to us via Zoom – the norm during…
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The Other Lamb

For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah (Raffey Cassidy) has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd (Michiel Huisman), a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence—including her allegiance to the increasingly dangerous Shepherd. [IFC Midnight]Rated: NRRelease Date: Apr 03,…
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The Other Story

Two rebellious young women - one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of faith; the other desperate to transcend her oppressive religious upbringing for sexual and spiritual freedom-cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem, to startling consequences.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Jun 28, 2019
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The Other Side of the Wind

Surrounded by fans and skeptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford (John Huston) returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his comeback: a career summation that can only be the work of cinema's most adventurous filmmaker, Orson Welles. [Netlfix]Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Nov 02, 2018
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The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales

The countryside isn't always as calm and peaceful as it's made out to be, and the animals on this farm are particularly agitated: a fox who mothers a family of chicks, a rabbit who plays the stork, and a duck who wants to be Santa Claus. If you think life in the country is a walk in the park, think again!Rated: GRelease Date: Oct 19, 2018
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The Other Side of Everything

A locked door inside a Belgrade home has kept one family separated from their past for generations. An intimate conversation between the director and her mother, the dynamic activist and scholar Srbijanka Turajli?, reveals a house and a country haunted by history. What begins as the chronicle of a childhood home grows into an elegant portrait of a charismatic and brilliant woman in times of great political turmoil. [Icarus Films]Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Jul 13, 2018
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The Other Side of Hope

Displaced Syrian Khaled (Sherwan Haji) lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged salesman Wikstrom (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves behind his wife and job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable seafood restaurant. After Khaled is denied asylum, he decides not to return to Aleppo?and the paths of the two men cross fortuitously. [Janus Films]Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Dec 01, 2017
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