Anyone who has seen Avengers: Endgame knows that the character of Thor took a really dark turn. The superhero, played by Chris Hemsworth, was so depressed by the loss of his friends and family that he gained weight and started heavily drinking. So it makes sense that Fat Thor would …
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It’s as if a half century of progress in racial and gender politics never happened. That’s Shaft for you. In Ride Along director Tim Story’s updated, shamelessly regressive take on the “black private dick who’s a sex machine to all chicks,” three generations of Shafts take center stage. Jessie T. …
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Dark Phoenix doesn’t just suck big time. It’s the worst movie ever in the X-Men series. That’s 12 films since the first X-Men in 2000. Even series low points — that’s you X-Men Apocalypse — offered compensations. Dark Phoenix just lies there like a dying fish, futilely flapping about on …
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When Armistead Maupin began writing Tales of the City —his serialized, sudsy stories about life in San Francisco in the late Seventies —the central character was a very naive, very straight Midwestern girl, Mary Ann Singleton. Mary Ann served as a point-of-entry figure for readers unversed in queer fiction, just …
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Millie Bobby Brown appeared on The Tonight Show to promote her new film Gozilla: King of the Monsters and host Jimmy Fallon tapped her to participate in a round of “Beat Battle.” In the segment, The Roots play random beats for Fallon and Brown to sing over, each taking turns …
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Instead of focusing on politics, this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live featured a cold open centered on pop culture. Reprising his role as Steve Harvey in the sketch, Kenan Thompson hosted a game of Family Feud where Game of Thrones characters battled their counterparts from Avengers: Endgame. On each …
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Serial killers and cuckoo soldiers, talking birds and friendly demons — it’s an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink month in streaming programming. Hulu and Amazon have both attempted to translate a complex literary treasure for the screen, while Netflix reintroduces Zac Efron as a bloodthirsty dreamboat and turns Ali Wong and Tiffany Haddish into …
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Netflix premiered the trailer for ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads, an original documentary film on the life and death of legendary blues guitarist Robert Johnson. As the trailer details, Johnson was a little-known musician and juke joint performer in Mississippi during the early 1930s, before mysteriously disappearing for a year …
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A group of un-super humans try to take down a corrupt cadre of superheroes in the trailer for the new Amazon series, The Boys. The show will premiere April 29th at the Tribeca Film Festival before arriving on Amazon July 26th. Based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic of …
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Hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy explores the racially-charged history of the War on Drugs, specifically marijuana, in his directorial debut, Grass Is Greener, set to premiere on Netflix — fittingly — April 20th. The new trailer for the documentary opens with Freddy examining the connection between music and marijuana, with …
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