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“Is it more sexist not to hit you?”- The Women of Deadpool By Valerie Estelle Frankel Poster for Deadpool So the famous R-rated Deadpool came out, offering a far different kind of Marvel. And with it, some unusual twists. Deadpool, out fighting a world of bad guys, finds himself confronting one who’s female — a bit of…
Only a competing Republican debate could have messed this up for CBS — so luckily, it was the network who broadcast this week’s. The network swept the top 10 shows in the ratings, with the exception of The Walking Dead on AMC, which finished third with 13.7M viewers. But the other nine of the top…
Kanye West has once again changed his release plans for The Life of Pablo, and this change will be pretty meaningful for listeners if he sticks to it: he says the album will only ever be available to Tidal subscribers. West had originally planned to stream the album exclusively on Tidal for a week while…
Watching Ben Folds perform his songs on piano at the Tiny Desk, there seems to be a direct line between thought and expression, except perhaps when he stumbles or forgets a line or two. Folds has a knack for plainspoken, smartly crafted words that sometimes sting and always seem to speak the truth — like…
TV comedies love callbacks, running jokes, and hidden “Easter eggs.” In this video, we explain the difference between those three devices — and how Comedy Central’s Broad City uses them all to make its fictional world weirder and more wonderful with every episode. Broad City is a hilarious, profane delight. Since its Comedy Central premiere…
Well, that didn’t take long! A mere two days after Deadpool’s shocking box office success, Fox has begun going all-in on “adult” superhero films. At the New York Toy Fair, the studio announced that it wants the third solo Wolverine movie to also be rated “R.” http://io9.gizmodo.com/deadpool-has-c… This is only the beginning, folks. But the…
Hey, were you at all worried that, when it returns on February 29, Gotham won’t continue to be completely bonkers? Let me happily assure you that this is definitely not going to be the case, as this first look at the arrival of Batman’s eventual work acquaintance proves. Spoiler warning! We all knew Azrael was…
Less than a year ago, Tidal was a punchline: a vanity project promoted by a slew of out of touch musicians who knew a crap ton about making music, but absolutely nothing about selling it. Now, Tidal is the number one free app on the Apple App Store. And it’s all because of exclusivity deals….
Forget Days of Future Past. Sending Wolverine’s consciousness back to the 1970s may have erased the calamity of X3: X-Men United, but that’s small potatoes compared to how Deadpool may have altered the trajectory of the future of Fox’s X-Men movie universe—and a lot of other superhero movies, too. Here’s the deal: Deadpool is a…
Last week, I was able to watch an early screening of “No Way Out”, Sunday night’s mid-season premiere. Upon my first viewing, I was struck by a single scene that disturbed me mightily. Upon Sunday night’s viewing, I had the opportunity to be appalled by every other aspect of the episode, which was one of…