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It feels like we’re standing at the gates of hell. This week has been, namely, a lot. A lot of grief, mourning, anger, dismay,...
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It feels like we’re standing at the gates of hell. This week has been, namely, a lot. A lot of grief, mourning, anger, dismay,...
Welcome to the coronavirus shutdown! Well, “welcome” is too strong a word. I went into work-from-home, or WFH as we’re saying now in the...
Did you hear? A new James Bond movie is coming out. And, as such things happen, we got a new Bond theme to add...
Written by Mark Russell Art by Richard Pace Inks Leonard Kirk Colored by Andy Troy Lettered by Rob Steen Introduction by Patton Oswalt Published...
Through the fog of a head cold on a sleepy Sunday afternoon, I rolled into a theater to watch Birds of Prey (And the...
Crisis on Infinite Earths is over. They did that. They really did that! Despite my calling for a Crisis event back in May 2016,...
Amid a busy life of paid work, house work, performer work, marriage work and pet work, even watching TV can feel like work. In...
I miss Detroiters. And Veep. Not only because these were these two shows with acid humor and occasional heart. But more importantly, where do...
Google thinks I’m a big He-Man fan. I think this is mostly because I look up a lot of Skeletor stuff, and my Gmail...
It’s the first night in August, and I’m standing on the stage of my favorite bar, Troupe429 in Norwalk, CT. I’m dressed in a...
If you’re keeping up with the news, it’s tough to pursue joy right now. So when I’m feeling low, and it happens often enough,...
The word is out! Robert Pattinson will play Batman It came down to Pattinson and Nicholas Hoult and the Brothers Warner have officially named...
Amazing Grace the film is finally here. Just, wow. A full-powered, creative-prime Aretha Franklin at age 29 in 1972, singing the gospel of her...
Did you know we’re a week away from a new Hellboy movie? I sure as hell forgot, until I was inundated with a million...
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say this 44th season of Saturday Night Live hasn’t been all that good. Daring talk,...
I did a lot of things in 2018. For starters, I learned things with fire. My spouse and I moved into a new apartment...
And so, in case you forgot that life after 2016 has been about the worst people winning, we got some other news recently: We’re...
Look, you don’t need me to tell you Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is great, but I’m saying it anyway. It’s so good! It’s pretty...
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally supposed to run before the holidays, but I screwed up. Fortunately, it’s a damned good piece and since...
As we approach 20 years of this here 21st century, I keep thinking about how rapidly things move, how events and news seem both...
Ah, Halloween season. The grand time when, as my friend and burlesque performer Lillian Bustle says, you can let out your inner stripper. And,...
Thank the pop culture maker! The TV season is back! Not that I don’t love summer TV, with all its easy, breezy reality shows...
I attended Terrificon, held the weekend of August 17 at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn., to meet up with a friend. This...
BlacKkKlansman¸ Spike Lee’s winner of the top prize at Cannes this year, is one of those films that gnaws at you weeks after you’ve...