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Who is Darkman? In the summer of 1989, I had only been working in the marketing department of Universal Pictures for a few weeks...
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Who is Darkman? In the summer of 1989, I had only been working in the marketing department of Universal Pictures for a few weeks...
I’ve been waiting for two years to watch the debut of the re-imagined Shōgun, one of my all-time favorite novels, and I’m happy to...
WandaVision is basically four shows in one. There’s the fun one that goes meta on sitcom visions of family life across the decades. There’s...
It’s getting hard out there for The Boys. Not just the lads themselves, nor for boys in general —although a season that begins with...
James Cameron gave two speeches on the night that Titanic won eleven Academy Awards. The first one for Best Director began with his declaration...
When author Neil Gaiman was challenged to give a one-line summary to his famously sprawling The Sandman, he offered the following: “The King of...
During the second hour of Maestro, there’s a scene where Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein comforts his dying wife Felicia, then draws all three of...
Judy Garland’s only animated role could have been a classic… but for who? There seems to be an unwritten rule that any review...
Can dead things come back to the world of the living? I used to hope so. But it’s starting to look like no power...
When I saw the recent footage of Burning Man attendees slogging their way to dry ground under torrential rains, I texted an image to...
A few weeks before the release of Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan told Variety that “some people leave the movie absolutely devastated.” My response at the...
Charlie Booker, the creator and principal scripter of Black Mirror, insists that the moral of his series isn’t that “tech is bad” but (as...
Disney’s second trailer for Haunted Mansion (the “The” appears to have been sent down the Endless Hallway) has confirmed what many fans suspected/hoped for:...
Season 1 of Schmigadoon was a one-joke show, but it was a good joke. The setup of this Apple TV+ series—a disenchanted couple gets...
If someone can retire at 99, die at 102, and still leave us feeling like we didn’t get enough of him, then it’s fair...
Sometimes the hardest choice of all is when you don’t have one I did not want to like The Last of Us. Not...
When author Neil Gaiman was challenged to give a one-line summary to his famously sprawling The Sandman, he offered the following: “The King of...
Did Dorothy Gale really dream Oz? If so, then she probably deserves a MacArthur Genius Grant for it. MGM’s adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s...
While we’re all busy giving Wonder Woman 1984 its well-earned lambasting, I’d like to point out that another Christmas streaming release, Soul, is the...