Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
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Heroes and villains join forces to become DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, beginning January 21 on The CW! SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/TheCWSubscribe About DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: Time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter must assemble a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat to the planet…and to time itself. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is coming…
We got the briefest of glimpses for Legends of Tomorrow earlier this year, when Oliver and Barry teamed up to recruit a team of time-travelling superheroes and villains. But now we’ve got our first offical look at the series, and it’s looking amazing. http://io9.com/arrow-and-flas… There’s a mix of old and new footage in…
The week before Thanksgiving saw some of the most overtly xenophobic, militaristic and fact-free media proclamations since the weeks in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and Glen Greenwald appeared on CNN over the weekend to call out the cable news network for its role leading the beat of war drums. “Reliable…
A couple months ago, you may have seen a commercial for Apple Music floating around the internet, perhaps accompanied by a praise hands emoji or an all-caps “SLAY.” Unlike previous ads for the streaming service, it eschews the global “everyone listening to the same Pharrell song all the time” vibe and aims for the hyper-relatable: just a…
early 10,000 people are petitioning moviegoers across the country to boycott Paramount Pictures’s upcoming Zoolander sequel on the grounds that the movie is transphobic and to be honest…they’re probably right. Last week, the first trailer for Zoolander 2 finally dropped and we got a look at what to expect from Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson’s…
In 2001, two unlikely friends created a music festival in Mali that drew the likes of Bono and Robert Plant. Then radical Islam tore them apart. When Mohamed Aly Ansar studied international law at the University of Bamako, in the capital of Mali, he spent his days thinking about how to bring development to his…
Last month, at long last, we enjoyed Back to the Future Day — the day to which Marty McFly travels in 1989’s Back to the Future Part II. It’s a kind of death sentence for our era: we’re all living in the future now; the time in which things might have changed has passed, and all…
Colin Trevorrow’s Hollywood fairy tale started at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. The bespectacled, bearded director, then 35, came to Park City, Utah, with an endearingly quirky time-travel romantic comedy executive-produced by the endearingly quirky Duplass brothers, Mark and Jay, and starring Mark. The $750,000 indie film, ‘‘Safety Not Guaranteed,’’ went on to make…
The “Jem and the Holograms” comic books have a lot to say about power, what it means to be girly, and what comics can do. Credit Image courtesy IDW Publishing Barrier Status: ‘none’ If you want to see an exuberantly colorful all-ages tribute to girl power—colorful as in candy-floss pink and lime green—where serious ideas…