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08 Feb

Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Who Are the Villains?

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This article contains speculation that could lead to spoilers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and the wider MCU. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier dropped a new trailer during the Super Bowl with some tantalizing new hints at the world Sam and Bucky are fighting in. And while we still don’t have a total grasp of the full scope of the story or what our heroes are up against in this post-Captain America world, we got glimpses of new characters, a new (possible) hate group, and a good look at a classic villain’s iconic ski mask. But who…
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08 Feb

The Falcon and The Winter Soldier Trailer Reveals Wolverine’s Favorite Vacation Spot

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This article contains WandaVision spoilers and speculation that could lead to spoilers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and the rest of the MCU. While WandaVision is busy keeping everybody guessing with its mysterious sitcom-inflected weirdness, the Super Bowl just reminded us that there’s a more relatively straightforward superhero action show coming to Disney+ next month. Right after WandaVision finishes its nine episode run, Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will hit the streamer on March 19, telling the tale of the uneasy partnership between Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes, and the ongoing quest to fill Captain America’s…
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03 Feb

George R.R. Martin Sees His Shadow, Provides Hopeful Winds of Winter Update

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February 2 is an important date on the United States calendar. That’s the day when a beleaguered, snow-stricken nation casts its eyes to a Midwestern meteorological rodent, who then communicates to us whether spring is on the horizon or winter will last for six more weeks. Funnily enough, this year’s Groundhog Day also indulged another increasingly frequent tradition. For, just like Punxsutawney Phil, beloved Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin emerged from his den to let us know if Winter was on the way…The Winds of Winter that is. Martin took to his charmingly outdated Livejournal blog, fittingly titled…
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29 Jan

How Winter’s Orbit Went From AO3 to Published Space Opera

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There have been some very public examples of works that began life as fanfiction (i.e. not-for-profit stories written in the already existing fictional worlds or pop culture, often by and for writers from communities underrepresented in commercial storytelling) only to later become published books— the most famous examples probably being E.L. James’ 50 Shades of Grey, Cassandra Clare’s City of Bones, or Anna Todd’s After. But not all works published on fanfiction websites are fanfiction. Fanfiction platforms, such as Archive of Our Own or Wattpad, also play host to “original” (not based on an existing canon) non-commercial fiction. While these…
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13 Jan

Winter 2021 TV Preview

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Every New Year’s celebration comes along with some excitement, pomp, and circumstance, but rarely has the countdown from 10 felt more urgent in the waning seconds of 2020. Yes, 2020 is just a number and yes, time is just an abstract concept created to explain celestial bodies moving around one another. But darn it all, it still feels great to see “2021” at the top of this article. 2021 will hopefully come along with some good news (though admittedly early signs aren’t looking great on that front). At the very least, however, it should come along with some interesting TV…
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25 Nov

The Batman Set Photos Tease a Tough Winter for Bruce Wayne

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Filming on Matt Reeves’ highly anticipated The Batman continues apace in the UK, and some new behind the scenes images have given fans a better look at the state of Gotham in the upcoming DC movie. Robert Pattinson, who stars as the Caped Crusader in the Year 2 film, is nowhere to be seen in the aerial pics, and neither are any of the other cast members. Instead, we’re given what is tantamount to an exterior set tour. Not that we’re complaining. In some of the images, you can see several Gotham buildings that seem to have been subjected to…
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24 Nov

Zappa Review: Alex Winter’s Documentary Profiles a True Mother of Invention

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Alex Winter’s musical documentary Zappa is a fun movie which frames Frank Zappa the way he should be, as a hero. While this may ring particularly true for fans of the original Mother of Invention, the film is also a must-see for anyone who plugged in a guitar, banged drums, pounded a piano, ruined their teeth on clarinet reeds, or waited for their triangle part to come up in a Julliard School of Music chamber ensemble. It is also for social justice warriors stretching to see beyond the warning labels. The feature documentary is an intimate look at an artist…
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24 Nov

Zappa Director Alex Winter Talks Preserving The Mothers’ Inventions

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Zappa is an intimate look into the innovative life and eclectic works of Frank Zappa, the composer. The Beatles, Brian Wilson, and Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd pushed boundaries of what rock could do in the mid-1960s, but Zappa ignored any preconceived compositional restraint. He mixed rock with classical, jazz with chamber, and twelve-tone with Spike Jones. From his 1966 proto-punk, garage band debut, Freak Out, through the immediate experimental turns he took on Lumpy Gravy, We’re Only In it for the Money, and continuing through his career, Zappa’s music sounds unlike any other sonic unit. Not only was Zappa a…
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23 Oct

The Falcon and The Winter Solider Star Describes “Awful” Filming Conditions

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Anthony Mackie has described the latest leg of production on Disney+ and Marvel‘s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as “awful.” The highly-anticipated Marvel Cinematic Universe spinoff is set to reunite Mackie’s confident hero Falcon and Sebastian Stan’s often-brutal and psychologically damaged Winter Solider, as the pair are forced into a begrudging team-up against foes new and old. The project had almost finished filming at the start of the year before the depressing events of 2020 delayed its shoot. Now, the pair are back in Prague to film the final scenes on the series, but progress has been naturally slow-going…
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09 Oct

DC’s Endless Winter Introduces Viking Justice League

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Reaction around the virtual office water cooler mid-pandemic when DC’s winter crossover, Endless Winter, was announced was guarded excitement, along with the occasional wry “Oh you mean March?” Turns out, it wasn’t that far off, according to co-writer Ron Marz. “The fact that we’re doing this [online] instead of in person at the Javitz Center is part of it,” he said at DC’s Endless Winter panel at New York Comic Con replacement Metaverse. “We’re all feeling a sense of isolation.” Endless Winter is a nine part crossover that runs through two bookend issues, three specials, and the regular issues of…
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07 Oct

Netflix Announces 2020 Winter Holiday Lineup

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Please do not adjust the calendar settings on your Internet-connected device. No, you have not fallen into some kind of transcendental wormhole in which time is but a mere suggestion. That headline is correct. It is October 7 and Netflix has announced its 2020 Holiday season lineup.  For starters: shame on you, Netflix. Let the spooky season breathe. But given that this will be a most unusual holiday season due to the coronavirus pandemic, I suppose we can give the streaming giant a pass this time for wanting to get a head start on some Christmas cheer.  Just as Netflix’s…
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22 Sep

Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Release Date, Cast, Trailer and News

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Marvel is working on a host of limited series that will bring the stars of the MCU to the Disney+ streaming service, and it’s set to use some of those shows to introduce brand new characters, too. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, from Empire’s Malcolm Spellman and John Wick creator Derek Kolstad, was meant to be the first of these projects to arrive, but due to the nature of things, and the way that the chips have fallen during Marvel’s disrupted 2020 production schedule, it will now be released AFTER the Scarlet Witch and Vision-flavoured WandaVision, but absolutely before…
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17 Jul

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Will Miss its August Premiere

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will have to wait until a later time to assemble on streamer Disney+ than previously thought. The list of programming set to premiere on Disney+ in August has been released, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was notably absent; a fact that, as sources confirm to outlets such as EW and TV Line, indicates that the Marvel series is off the slate for that month. The reason, of course, is (what else?) complications from the COVID-19 pandemic, which halted the show’s Prague production back in March—well before the more widespread shutdowns. If there’s…
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17 Apr

Winter Flies

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Police interrogate 14-year-old Mára at the station after he is caught behind the wheel far across country from where he lives. He and somewhat eccentric Heduš had set out for the frozen landscape down south to seek adventure, but the mischievous breeziness with which Mára gives his story, and his concealment of the details of the trip, gradually strip his statement of credibility…. With uncommon directorial playfulness, Olmo Omerzu leads his central pair of young nonprofessional actors through the expanding narrative, in which a variety of detours arise with the same elegant spontaneity as they later disappear. A road movie…
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28 Jun

Winter Brothers

Max SchindlerMovie reviews,
Two brothers work in a rural chalk-mining community during a cold winter. The younger brother, Emil, distills moonshine made from stolen chemicals from the factory. Emil is an outsider, an oddball, who made a conscious choice for loneliness and is only accepted by the mining community due to his older brother Johan. Emil longs for passion, for being wanted and loved. When a fellow worker becomes sick, the moonshine and Emil are prime suspects. Gradually a violent feud erupts between him and the tightly-knit mining community. Parallelly, Emil feels betrayed by his brother when he finds out that the neighbor…
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