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The vaunted human capacity for reason may have more to do with winning arguments than with thinking straight.CreditIllustration by Gérard DuBois Barrier Status: ‘none’ In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one…
The Sports Bubble Has Already Burst 3.8k shares share tweet sms send email By: Ty Duffy | March 10, 2017 2:10 pm ET Follow @tyduffy There’s a word to describe the past year for sports on TV: brutal. NFL ratings declined. Sports debate programs were down year over year. NBA games on regional sports networks…
Terrence Malick is just embarrassing movie stars with weird sex stuff now Are these poor people being punked?Image: Broadgreen pictures Terrence Malick apparently isn’t making movies anymore, he’s making elaborate excuses to put our hottest movie stars into extremely awkward sex-fetish scenarios that are about as titillating as invasive dentistry. Only two reasons I can…
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Daredevil season 2. Sometimes, it feels unfair to overanalyse plot holes in comic book adaptations. The genre relies on suspension of disbelief, and as long as the narrative makes emotional sense, who cares if there are a few discrepancies? Daredevil‘s second season, however, went further than most. Its…
Television googleon: index Jack Is Back: After A 13-Year Hiatus, ‘Samurai Jack’ Returns For A Final Season END CLASS=”STORYTITLE” END CLASS=”STORY-TOOLS” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” The Way Of The (Temporarily) Peaceful Warrior: Samurai Jack, in repose. Turner hide caption toggle caption Turner The Way Of The (Temporarily) Peaceful Warrior: Samurai Jack,…
Editor’s note: This review is spoiler-free. Iron Fist arrives with more baggage than its creators intended. Dogged by accusations of cultural appropriation (was it really a good idea to cast a white man as the protector of a mythical Asian culture?), it’s a show with something to prove. And in the six episodes made…
“Let’s see where it goes,” Ben Seklow, his director, replies. Later in the episode, the guru hands Aslan a bit of human brains, saying “Look, I am eating.” The Aghori pops the brains into his own mouth. “Eat,” he says. Aslan looks at the brains, clearly disgusted. After hesitating, he pops it into his mouth…
Magneto is a Jewish Holocaust survivor. But Marvel might be making him allies with Hydra, an organization with Nazi roots. In the eyes of its most fervent fans, Marvel has assassinated Magneto, arguably the most beloved villain the comic book company has ever created. And they did it with just one cover. This past week, Marvel revealed…
How ‘Captain America: Steve Rogers’ Is Trying To Disassociate HYDRA From Nazis And Why It Won’t Work I’ve written about this on Twitter a few times, but I think it’s worth getting down all in one place. In the pages of Captain America: Steve Rogers it was revealed that Steve — through Cosmic Cube related…
GTM DataLayer Umbel End Umbel [if lte IE 9]>< ![endif][if gte IE 10]>< ![endif] Google Tag Manager Container End Google Tag Manager Container Amazon has never ordered a show straight to series from a woman. Why? On paper, it seems pretty reasonable that Amazon Studios asked Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino to produce a pilot episode of her new…