“USS Callister,” the best episode of Black Mirror‘s fourth season, is a Star Trek parody that serves as a parable about the dangers of the angry online fanboy.
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Whiplash: A jazz movie that has nothing to do with jazz
You’ve heard about Damien Chazelle’s much-praised Whiplash—now here’s the backlash.
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In The Night Gwen Stacy Died, our superheroes take a midwest road trip
In The Night Gwen Stacy Died, our superheroes take a midwest road trip.
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Do I have Kramer living above me?
Shower-man, my latest upstairs neighbor, cannot be called very environmentally aware.
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A $65 Million Stage Production of a Comic Book Somehow Goes Wrong
Spider-Man has a bad day on Broadway.
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Up: Yours!
The new Pixar animation opens today. Also in this week’s issue, Sam Raimi’s “Drag Me to Hell,” the Oscar-winning “Departures,” and a Jonathan Rosenbaum review of the Noel Coward adaptation “Easy Virtue.”
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Spider-Man musical needs female villain, preferably “foreign”
One might hope, given that the sainted Bono is involved in the upcoming Spider-Man musical, it wouldn’t be stuck in the old “female villain = foreign woman” rut.