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The following post contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Acolyte Episode 5. The latest episode of The Acolyte answered the biggest question on the show to date — namely the mysterious identity of Mae’s Sith Master. (It was Qimir! The guy who looked like the obvious red herring was … actually just the bad guy all along?! Huh.) But the new Acolyte episode also raised some new questions along the way. Mainly viewers are puzzled by one recurring element of “Night”: The fact that the Jedi lightsabers keep sputtering out and malfunctioning during the battle with the Sith. This is something that’s alm...
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Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, and the Eagles all received the all-star tribute album treatment in the early ’90s. Why not Kiss? It’s a question that might have seemed a little ridiculous in the ’80s, when they had to struggle a bit to remain relevant during a stretch of middling albums and lineup changes, but as a new decade dawned, the members of the band realized a funny thing: they were being name-checked as influences by a surprising number of up-and-coming young bands. “I was stunned that, all of a sudden, after years of being the black sheep of rock and roll, people were coming out,” recalle...
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The following post contains SPOILERS for Inside Out 2. After this, you’re not allowed to scream at me like Lewis Black while fire explodes from your head. You have been warned. Pixar’s Inside Out 2 takes us further into the recesses of 13-year-old Riley’s mind. Joy and company’s quest to retrieve Riley’s “Sense of Self” from the “Back of Her Mind” winds through all sorts of locales cleverly inspired by the human psyche — like the “sar-chasm” that opens near the “Stream of Consciousness.” At one point, Joy, Anger, Fear, and Disgust are all captured by the “Mind Police” (which really should be t...
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After the original DC writers and artist who created Batman and Superman, and the Silver Age icons who built the Marvel Universe, there may not be a single more important American comic book creator in history than Frank Miller. Although Miller did not necessarily create a ton of globally iconic characters, he’s had a massive impact on heroes at both Marvel and DC: Daredevil at the former, thanks to his groundbreaking run on that title in the early 1980s, and Batman at the latter, via his enormously influential graphic novels The Dark Knight Returns and Year One. Miller’s work on both those ch...
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Did you know that one of the best movies of the year just premiered on Netflix? I hope so, but it wouldn’t surprise if you didn’t. Sometimes it looks like Netflix’s distribution strategy is designed to finally answer the age-old question about whether a tree falling in the woods makes a sound if no one is there to hear it. Don’t just take my word for it. Listen to the people who actually make their movies. Describing his experience directing his 2022 animated movie Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhoodfor Netflix, filmmaker Richard Linklater said he was proud of the finished product, but did fe...
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The first thing that leaps out at you when HBO’s Ren Faire begins is the way it looks. Every month, streaming services are flooded with new documentary series, most haphazardly constructed from talking head interviews and archival footage. If I have to watch one more doc that begins with the interview subjects arriving in their seat, adjusting their clothes and their microphones, and then saying something like “I’m ready, let’s dot his,” I’m going to lose it. Ren Faire is something else entirely. The three-part series, directed by Lance Oppenheim (Some Kind of Heaven), has cinematic visuals co...
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The following post contains SPOILERS for the end of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, should you choose to witness them. Prequels don’t usually end with mysteries. They exist to explain; to illuminate the backstories and secrets of characters and events from other movies. In the case of George Miller’s Furiosa, the film reveals more than a decade of tragedy and pain in the life of the title character, who was introduced in 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road as a haunted survivor (played by Charlize Theron) who wants to escape the clutches of her future’s brutal dictator, Immortan Joe. Where did this woman come ...
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If you used to buy movies at the mall, it’s a lock you did your shopping at once place: Suncoast Motion Picture Company. Informally known as Suncoast Video to most of its customers, the chain was ubiquitous in malls all over the United States in the 1990s. The stores stocked hundreds of titles on VHS and later on DVD. They also sold music, and various movie and pop-culture related toys and collectibles. All the stores had the same distinctive red neon sign hanging over the entrance. If you grew up loving movies in the ’90s, just that logo alone will probably make you nostalgic. I worked in a m...
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If you watched the recently-concluded X-Men ’97on Disney+, you may have noticed the series had a small but important difference from the Marvel’s previous Disney+ series. Instead of opening with the traditional “Marvel Studios” animated logo featuring clips from previous Marvel Cinematic Universe films and series, it began with a slightly different logo for something called “Marvel Television.” You may have simply assumed that the change was meant to indicate X-Men ’97 was animated instead of live-action, but apparently that’s not the case. A new article claims the new logo is part of a delibe...
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If only IHOP stood for “Imaginary House of Pancakes.” Then I wouldn’t have to eat anything today. Alas, unlike the magical creatures in John Krasinski’s new kids movie, IHOP is very real. And so is their new themed menu inspired by Krasinski’s IF, which consists of four entrées and two drinks. Today, I’m going to eat all of it. Now, you might be wondering: Why would a person with multiple college degrees, two kids, and no evident death wish do such a thing? I ask myself that same question a lot. It all started a few years ago when, looking for a mea culpa to offer my boss after a screwup, I vo...
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