Month: May 2022

Throughout its run on Netflix, Stranger Things has celebrated the relationships of its young protagonists. Their bonds were strengthened through the shared trauma and triumph of fighting creatures from another dimension and the careless government agencies that enabled them to enter our world. But the story succeeds largely because of its 1980s setting, which not
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George Carlin’s American Dream presents George Carlin as standup comedy’s greatest wordsmith. Seven of these words made him infamous and earned him a place in legal history. Directors Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio’s two-part documentary highlights how Carlin’s brain-droppings started conversations which carry on today. The “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” bit
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This article contains spoilers for the last two years or so of Marvel X-Men comics. “Humans of the planet Earth. While you slept, the world changed.”  The opening line of Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz’s House of X hit like a bolt of lightning, and everything it promised paid off. Hickman took over the floundering
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Somehow, Richard Donner’s beloved 1978 Superman: The Movie didn’t spawn a successful franchise. A lovingly made celebration of the Man of Steel, featuring arguably the most perfectly cast superhero movie lead of all time in Christopher Reeve, immediately ran into directorial, financial, and creative trouble with its sequel, and the franchise ultimately sputtered out with
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Fans of a certain age will never forget a few great cinematic “almosts” in Batman movie history. Billy Dee Williams played Harvey Dent in Tim Burton’s first Batman movie, but we never got a chance to see his Harvey become the villainous Two-Face. Robin was supposed to appear in that film and then again in
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Every video game genre begins somewhere, but it’s not always easy to identify the true roots of even gaming’s biggest and most important genres. Open-world games are one of the best examples of that sometimes frustrating fact. Whenever gamers dive into a modern open-world title, they usually know about what to expect. A multitude of
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