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Lil Nas X’s “Panini” Finally Gets the Chowder Treatment It Deserves
When Lil Nas X’s debut EP 7 dropped earlier this year, there was an understandable rush deep read and interpret the meanings and influences behind some of the rapper’s songs—tracks that seemed out of step with the “Old Town Road” aesthetic and energy that first made him global phenomenon. “Panini,” some thought, was an interpolation … Continued
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Little Monsters‘ Red Band Trailer Wants You to Know What a Disgusting Movie It’s Gonna Be
The premise of Abe Forsythe’s upcoming Little Monsters, a movie about an elementary school field trip that veers into the zombie apocalypse, makes it a little easy to lose sight of the fact that it’s a movie about, you know, a zombie apocalypse. Sure, it’s a comedy that’ll involve at least a few little kids … Continued
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HBO’s Developing Another Game of Thrones Prequel Focused on the Targaryens’ Destruction
Fire can’t kill a dragon and neither can the end of Game of Thrones, apparently. Deadline reports that HBO is close to moving forward with yet another Game of Thrones prequel that will focus specifically on House Targaryen—300 years before the events of Game of Thrones when their house was just beginning to fall apart. … Continued
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Why Don’t We Talk About Shelley Duvall’s Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Rhyme More?
Every so often, you come across a cult classic that you’ve somehow never heard of, despite the fact that it’s so exactly your specific brand of weird. Take, for example, Shelley Duvall’s Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Rhyme, the candy-colored, existential fever dream of a Disney Channel musical from 1990. Like a lot of the Disney … Continued
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Consummate Actor Joaquin Phoenix Allegedly Stormed Off the Joker Set a Lot
From the sounds of it, Joaquin Phoenix’s behavior on the set of Todd Phillips’ Joker film was a far cry from Jared Leto’s alleged abhorrent Suicide Squad antics, but that’s not to say that the actor wasn’t prone to moments of classic Hollywood extra-ness that can make film sets rather chaotic places to work. While … Continued
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Watch the Birth of Detective Pikachu‘s Terrifying Mewtwo in This 10-Minute Clip
Remember when Ryan Reynolds thought it’d be cute to troll everyone with a fake leak of Detective Pikachu before the movie came out earlier this year? Warner Bros. would apparently like to make up for that. Warner Bros. has uploaded the first 10 minutes of Detective Pikachu for all those folks out there who’ve yet … Continued
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Shang-Chi‘s Director Isn’t Interested in Bringing Any More Racial Stereotypes to the MCU
With Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, director Destin Daniel Cretton isn’t just crafting the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first feature with a predominantly Asian cast, he’s also presenting a narrative that explores the relationships that exist between Asian characters of related, but distinctly different, ethnic backgrounds. In a recent interview with the Observer, … Continued
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It Chapter Two‘s Queer Subplot Is Too Subtextual to Be Scary Good
It Chapter Two opens with a horrific, homophobic hate crime that Stephen King plucked from the headlines and incorporated into his 1986 novel. After a group of very human bigots attack Adrian Mellon and his boyfriend, they unceremoniously dump Adrian over the side of the bridge, and just as he begins to drown, he sees … Continued
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Titans‘ Season 2 Premiere Feels Like a Step Backwards for DC Universe
While Titans’ second season premiere is ostensibly meant to kick off the series’ progression into the future, it feels less like the first episode of a fresh, new arc and more like a series of scenes that were originally intended to be part of the first season’s finale. To be sure, that was actually the … Continued
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The Kids Are Far From All Right in This Week’s Best New Comics
Often times, when we’re talking about how “alright” the kids are, what we’re really talking about is how we, as a society, are doing—because the children are the future, and if they’re not doing well, we’re all probably screwed more than we know. For everyone living in this week’s best new comics, the kids are … Continued
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Steven Universe: The Movie‘s New Fusion Is Remixed Storytelling at Its Best
When a charmingly to-the-point Steven Universe fan asked series creator Rebecca Sugar whether The Movie would introduce any new fusions—Gems whose arrivals have always been major events for the show—she smiled and insisted that everyone would just have to wait and find out. And wait we did. The movie centers around a new villain coming … Continued
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Titans‘ Showrunner Knows the Superhero Series Is Getting Ridiculously Big and He Likes It
We recently had the chance to speak with Titans showrunner Greg Walker ahead of the premiere of the second season of the DC Universe series. He explained that more than simply seeing the heroes become better allies with one another, the show is also going to dig into the things about them as a collective … Continued
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Steven Universe: The Movie Introduces Some Wild Ideas About Pearls
While Steven Universe: The Movie’s very much a story about the Crystal Gems’ future, it spends a fair amount of time exploring the Gems’ pasts in a novel way that makes you appreciate how far everyone’s come. The movie introduces some rather interesting new aspects of all the Gems’ personalities, Pearl in particular. Deedee Magno … Continued
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Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Show Has Found Itself a Narnia Star
Amazon really is dead set on keeping everyone more or less in the dark about its upcoming Lord of the Rings prequel series that’s set before the events of The Fellowship of the Ring. The studio’s still keeping quiet about the story’s details, but it’s just announced another actor who’s set to join the cast. … Continued
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Doom Patrol‘s Showrunner Drops Hints of What to Expect in Season 2
In its first season, Doom Patrol did the important work of proving how much fun cape shows could be having if only they stopped taking themselves so seriously and leaned into the ridiculousness of their source material. From the sound of things, the series isn’t about to let up on the weirdness in season two—which … Continued
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Netflix Is Adding to Its Horse Agenda With Centaurworld
Somewhere, Lil Nas X is nodding and saying to himself “yeehaw, fellow equine-enthusiasts.” According to the Hollywood Reporter, Netflix is betting on Megan Nicole Dong’s Centaurworld to be its next big animated hit that captures the internet’s imagination, because we’re all into that weird horse energy that’s dominated 2019 (Bojack Horseman’s continued presence notwithstanding). https://gizmodo.com/netflix-really-clucked-up-by-canceling-tuca-bertie-1836693303 … Continued
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It Chapter Two Wants to Make You Laugh in the Face of Death
Taken at face value, It Chapter Two is a strange title for a film because it reads like a declaration. “Hey, look. It chapter two.” You understand that the movie’s a sequel to Andy Muschietti’s It, but the title’s grammatical oddness jumps out when you read it, and it makes you wonder why the studio … Continued
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Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass‘ Creative Team Opens Up About Reinventing Gotham’s Most Dynamic Antihero
Though Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman would never admit it publicly, Harley Quinn is arguably one of the most important characters in DC’s comics, film, and television worlds because of the way she lends herself to a wide variety of reimaginations and deconstructions. More than that, though, Harley’s always been a fascinating character who ends … Continued
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Craig of the Creek Turned Pokémon Into an Important Life Lesson
For all the jokes that have been made about the Pokémon anime’s protagonist never really aging, the larger franchise has always been focused on telling stories about change and growth. Even setting aside the anime, the games themselves are, at their core, about understanding how evolution’s a natural part of life. The Pokémon games don’t … Continued
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G. Willow Wilson Discusses Killing Love in Wonder Woman and Her Dreams for Ms. Marvel’s MCU Debut
G. Willow Wilson’s current Wonder Woman run has pitted the Amazons against one another and pushed Diana to her psychological limits in ways that have surfaced complicated, human emotions in her. She’s every bit the badass warrior we’ve always known Wonder Woman to be, but Wilson’s spent time trying to dig into the flesh and … Continued