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article start “Trainwreck,” the new Amy Schumer comedy, has a strong female protagonist who does things her own way – one small step for feminism and one giant leap for Hollywood. But the movie also advances a misleading trope about working women that is starting to get a little tired: the female journalist who hooks…
Marvel’s latest superhero movie, Ant-Man, is very well made. It has some good action and a few really clever bits. There are some funny parts, along with some not-that-funny parts. This movie pretty much gets the job done. But it’s not particularly memorable, or especially amazing. Minor spoilers ahead… In a sense, Ant-Man shows how…
A lot of Pixar films come packaged with a quasi-humanist narrative hook that enables the public digestion of their work. Viewers nodded thoughtfully over WALL-E’s depiction of a future earth choked by the refuse of big-box retail, and of a human race infantilized and rendered obese by mindless consumption, while Brave was the first Pixar…
newest format for blog old blog format Rapper 50 Cent’s recent declaration of bankruptcy raised quite a few eyebrows, and for obvious reason: in May, his net worth was valued by Forbes at $155 million for 2015, making him the fourth-richest hip-hop artist. In addition to his music career, 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) has…
Media This Man Took On Fox News And Became A Hero To His City by Judd Legum Jul 15, 2015 6:35pm Scott Wiener, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, knew Fox News was lurking. “They’ve been stalking various members of the board of supervisors for the last week. They went to someone’s…
There’s been a steady stream of images and information coming from the set of Suicide Squad, and after footage from Saturday’s Comic-Con presentation leaked, David Ayer just released the preview footage from his film. As you’d expect from a movie by Ayer (Fury, Training Day), it’s gritty and grim — with Jared Leto’s Joker intoning,…
San Diego Comic-Con may be over, but Conan O’Brien‘s superhero coverage is still in full swing.Wednesday night’s skit was a list of imaginary international superheroes, which was…kind of hit-and-miss. The idea of a polite Canadian Lex Luthor is basically a harmless joke (although Canada does already have a famous superhero in the form of Wolverine),…
Comic-Con may be over, but the superhero news keeps rolling in. EW has unveiled our first look at some of the characters in the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse and, um, well they’re going with some really interesting looks here. OK, let’s break this down character by character. Oscar Isaac as Apocalypse What, just what? Who is that giant…
This article mentions sexual assault and rape. It also includes spoilers for Steven Universe. Steven Universe has never shied away from issues regarding sexuality, introducing topics such as unconventional family dynamics and gender fluidity into the lore and backstories of the characters since the beginning. In the recent episode “Keeping it Together,” which clocks in…
The pay gap in Hollywood is real, and Amanda Seyfried is the latest actress to speak out about it. Seyfried recently told the Sunday Times that she recently made far less money than an equally famous male co-star on one of her movies. “A few years ago, on one of my big-budget films, I found…