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It’s been quite the month for DC Entertainment. Announcing that they would be restructuring their Vertigo imprint—the home to such iconic, mature-readers game changers as The Sandman and Preacher—DC also revealed the dismissal of longtime Vertigo editor, Shelly Bond. Bond, who began as an assistant editor in the imprint’s first year, has been with the…
The queen, in middle-fingers-up mode, makes her most powerful, ambitious statement yet What does it mean for Beyoncé to drop a new surprise album on the world within days of a giant like Prince leaving us? It’s a welcome reminder that giants still walk among us. Lemonade is an entire album of emotional discord and marital meltdown,…
The trailer for the animated film Batman: The Killing Joke, featuring the voice acting talents of Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill, is finally here. The Killing Joke is one of the most iconic stories in Batman canon, and for many years fans assumed it would never get a screen adaptation. But thanks to the growing popularity of…
As social media becomes more prominent, traditional journalism is being increasingly driven by democratized information. Source: Bleeding Cool According to a report from Bleeding Cool, DC Comics is investigating reports of sexual harassment by a different DC editor than Eddie Berganza. The investigation is in response to an account posted on Tumblr by artist Katie…
Good news, Steven Universe fans! In a surprise move, the show is coming back in two weeks, ahead of its previously announced June return. Slightly less good news? This fantastic new trailer has us freaking the hell out for Steven and the Crystal Gems. http://io9.gizmodo.com/steven-univers… Revealed late on Friday by Entertainment Weekly, the show is…
Last night, an investment bank and a venture capital firm co-hosted a premiere screening of a farcical premium cable show about tech companies. It sounds like the setup to a joke, but like on the show itself, it’s not clear who gets the last laugh. A few minutes before the crowd of industry insiders gathered…
Photo Credit Dadu Shin HERE’S an understatement: It isn’t easy being an Asian-American actor in Hollywood. Despite some progress made on the small screen — thanks, “Fresh Off the Boat”! — a majority of roles that are offered to Asian-Americans are limited to stereotypes that wouldn’t look out of place in an ’80s John Hughes…
Over the Christmas holidays, I made the decision to forgo perming my hair and go natural. For me, it felt like if I was ever going to come to terms with my black womanhood, then I had to confront my fears. When the hairdresser swivelled the chair so I could see myself in the mirror,…
UPDATE: June Ambrose, a costume designer and creative director who has worked with Jay Z and Beyoncé in the past, weighs in on Twitter. There’s no truth to the rumor, folks. No truth at all to Jay Z and Rachel rumor, ridiculous! — juneambrose (@juneAmbrose) April 24, 2016 See original story below. Anyone who…
Vera Farmiga and Eric Bana show strong comic chops, but this limp riff on “Wag the Dog” is barking up the wrong tree. READ MORE: The 2016 Indiewire Tribeca Bible If Ricky Gervais’ amiable but utterly asinine new movie has anything new to say, it’s that Netflix has a bit of a problem. Maybe it’s…