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Noted critical race thinker bell hooks is no stranger to letting people know that she doesn’t exactly see it for Beyoncé. Two years ago, while speaking on a panel at The New School titled “Are You Still A Slave: Liberating the Black Female Body,” hooks accused Beyoncé of being a cultural “terrorist” when it came…
LFDHDaryl Hall is the taller, more visible half of Hall & Oates, one of the best-selling musical duos of all time who, despite being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, never quite got the sort of critical love that many other inductees have generated. Hall and John Oates met while attending Temple…
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.entry-header I spy Agent Carter on the unemployment line. ABC has cancelled the Hayley Atwell-fronted Marvel series after two acclaimed-yet-little-seen seasons, TVLine has learned. In TVLine’s annual “Keep or Cut” poll, 83 percent of respondents wanted to see the drama renewed. The show’s low ratings, however, likely made a third season cost-prohibitive for ABC. The…
Michael Strahan’s last day alongside Kelly Ripa is on Friday — and it’s not a moment too soon. Ripa is already talking about who should replace Strahan on “Live with Kelly and Michael.” And on Thursday she was photographed wearing a jacket with the word “Freedom” written on the back. Regular viewers of the talk…
There’s a lot going on in X-Men: Apocalypse. An ancient god-king-mutant-thing named En Sabah Nur awakens after centuries of dormancy, and decides to obliterate the modern world out of sheer disgust. Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) proudly presides over a thriving school for young mutants. His new students Scott Summers (Mud’s Tye Sheridan) and Jean…
/end .figure We can all think of actors who aren’t as appreciated as they should be, whether they are consistently stuck in roles that are beneath their talent, their screen persona is chronically misunderstood, or they have become a cultural meme that obscures the true beauty of what they create on that flickering screen. In…
Despite Dylan Farrow’s damning allegations of sexual abuse, the director of Cannes’ opening film today remains beloved by stars, paid by Amazon and rarely interrogated by media as his son, Ronan Farrow, writes about the culture of acquiescence surrounding his father. “They’re accusations. They’re not in the headlines. There’s no obligation to mention them.”…
If there’s any such thing as a national consensus anymore, surely it is this: The 2016 presidential election has been one embarrassment after another for the United States. The Republican Party—no stranger to unmitigated disaster—really outdid itself this year, watching powerlessly as Donald Trump steered the clown car off a bridge. Meanwhile, the chair of…
“Jesus Christ, I really have too much Batman stuff,” Michael admits to The Dot and Line as we catch up with him on the podcast, his approach to tracking down guests (fans and creators alike) who connect with the character, and the dutiful, almost religious, love of Batman: The Animated Series he’s cultivated for twenty…