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What If These Fake Batman Movies Happened?

Who hasn’t dreamed of making their own Batman movie? Getting to play in the ultimate superhero toy box of Gotham City has long been the fantasy of DC comic book fans everywhere. What if Batman were to face off against vampires? What would have happened if Bruce’s parents never died and someone else became Batman? What would happen in a Batman Beyond movie? The scenarios fans have come up with for dream Batman movies are endless. In the last few hours, Twitter has turned into a particularly fun pitch meeting for fans who want to see the Dark Knight in…
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Golden Globes: Bill Murray Knows EXACTLY How Seriously to Take These Awards

There were some remarkable moments during last night’s 78th annual Golden Globes awards. How could one not smile when Chloé Zhao won the Globe for Best Director due to her sterling work on Nomadland? Similarly, I doubt there was a dry eye in your living room when Chadwick Boseman’s wife Taylor Simone Ledward accepted her late husband’s award for Best Actor in a Drama. Still, if one moment captured the zeitgeist of the evening, it was probably Bill Murray showing up in a Hawaiian shirt—holding a martini. Just one in a slew of familiar faces Zooming in to 2021’s first…
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Link Tank: These I Think You Should Leave Fan Posters Are Amazing

An artist has created posters for Paul Bufano, Marcus “The Worm” Hicks, and Mookie Kramer from I Think You Should Leave‘s game night skit. “In an homage to the completely made up (yet incredibly influential and highly acclaimed) jazz musicians Paul Bufano, Marcus ‘The Worm’ Hicks, and Mookie Kramer from the game night skit, we’ve imagined a world where not only do these musicians exist, they left behind these faux-vintage-letterpress-style concert posters.” Buy the posters on Redbubble. Nomadland, now available to stream on Hulu, is a close look at modern America’s relationship with the American Dream. “There are some actors…
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Steve McQueen’s Small Axe: ‘I Wanted These Stories to Go Through the Bloodstream of the Country’

If there’s a sense of planetary alignment in the timing of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe – five films about London’s West Indian community airing weekly from this Sunday on BBC One – it’s not by design. Over a decade in the making, the creators couldn’t have known that these stories would land in a year marked by both the global Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd, and the disproportionately devastating impact of Covid-19 on black communities in the UK.  The collision of 2020’s events with five stories celebrating black British history feels fortuitous to the cast. “The…
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Snowpiercer Episode 8 Review: These Are His Revolutions

This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Episode 8 The only thing keeping Snowpiercer in any sort of working order, aside from hard work and Third Class laborers, is belief. The belief that Mr. Wilford is up in the front of the train, guiding the eternal engine, making sure everyone has enough food, and space, and frolic to keep them all from going mad. Mr. Wilford, the benevolent genius behind the life-saving train, and the man single-handedly keeping the human race from extinction. For people like Ruth (Alison Wright), Wilford is next to God in their eyes. For people like the…
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