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I was ten years old when Ghostbusters came out in 1984, and it hit me hard. I loved that movie, which melded two of my geeky kid interests – horror movies and trying to stay up late to watch Saturday Night Live. Ghostbusters II was one of my earlier experiences with movie disappointment (it built on my foundational experiences, Howard…
HA HA HA Look At These POWER RANGERS Costumes Oh, my god, POWER RANGERS, what the hell are you even doing right now? By Scott Wampler Jul. 19, 2016 Via USA Today: As revealed in a pre-SDCC 2016 post over at USA Today, these are apparently the costumes you will see in 2017’s Power…
The posture of the filmmakers was that this was normalized in the future and it was nothing, really. It was a big revelation yet handled in a way that communicated it wasn’t anything the crew didn’t already know about him. You mentioned that Mr. Takei was one of few Asian actors you saw growing up….
The CIA has a long history of “spooking the news,” dating back to its earliest days when the legendary spymaster Allen Dulles and his top staff drank and dined regularly with the press elite of New York and Washington, and the agency boasted hundreds of U.S. and foreign journalists as paid and unpaid assets. In…
He’s crazy, she’s crazy, and, almost as an afterthought, they’re all the “Worst Heroes Ever”: Warner Bros.’ long-awaited “Suicide Squad” movie opens in less than two weeks, and ifthe trailers are any indication, it devotes a significant amount of screen time to The Joker and Harley Quinn. But while Jared Leto has done a great…
Harley Quinn has sported several memorable looks since her 1992 debut — across animation, comic books and video games — but perhaps none is as iconic as her original jester costume. As the fan-favorite DC Comics antiheroine leaps to live-action with director David Ayer’s “Suicide Squad,” an effort was made to bring the red-and-blue suit…
“Ghostbusters,” a revival of the 1984 original, hits theaters nationwide on Friday. As a reboot of a beloved, male-led science fiction film from the 1980s with a female-led cast, the reboot has proved somewhat controversial in the circles you would expect. But regardless of the quality of the film, it serves as a perfect demonstration…
Did you hear some weird noises last night, sometime between the hours of 7 p.m. and midnight? First there was a kind of saddest-trombone-in-the-world sound that went on for a while, followed by shouts of righteous joy and a multi-octave chorus of Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman.” The first, of course, was the sound of…
If an anti-Ghostbusters revolution is fomented on Reddit and no one upvotes it, are women actually funny? That’s more of a hypothetical sort of question, but the first part, at least, is based in reality. Yesterday, Reddit user Better_Butter321 proposed this bit of social-media subterfuge: No one upvoted it, though, suggesting that maybe, like the…
Vitaly Mansky’s documentary Under The Sun is really two films, threaded together: one a carefully crafted lie, and the other something closer to the truth. A child of the former Soviet Union, Mansky has spent much of his career recording life in post-communist Russia, while occasionally taking his cameras to places like Cuba, where some…