Pennywise, the Dancing Clown: you’re soaking in It. I’m not a big Stephen King fan. I never read It (or any other King novel, not all the way through anyway) , never saw the original miniseries, wasn’t avidly anticipating the new film adaptation. When I read the Mercury‘s review, by Erik Henriksen, my expectations (to […]
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “The First White President” Is Required Reading, No Matter How Sick You Are of DFT
Future historians will look back on the clarity and style of Coates’s writing with deep gratitude.
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New Stranger Things S2 Trailer Enlists Ronald Reagan in Apparent Effort to Bum Everyone Out/Pander to Trumpmerica?
Any decent story set in the 1980s could only have one villain. Courtesy photo/ JOSEPH SOHM/SHUTTERSTOCK I liked season one of Stranger Things quite a bit. It was an excellent evocation of what it was like to be a white kid in the mid-’80s, riding around the suburbs on a BMX bike during that sharp […]
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Is This the Third Apes prequel, or the Future of Trump’s America? You Decide!
The re-rebooting of the Planet of the Apes series is the best thing to happen to sci-fi dorks since Christopher Nolan rescued Batman or J.J. Abrams got into the Star Trek and Star Wars salvage business. However edifying those films were, they were essentially there to restore first principles, and reclaim the titles in question […]
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War for the Planet of the Apes and the End of Humanity
Is This the Third Apes prequel, or the Future of Trump’s America? You Decide!
Is this the third Apes prequel, or the future of Trump’s America? You decide!
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RIP Chris Cornell Read This 2015 Interview with the Seattle Music Icon
Chris Cornell Interview, Extended Version
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Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, Dead at 52. Goddamn It.
Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell is dead.
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Season Two of Aziz Ansari’s Master of None Arrives May 12
Dev wants to ride his bicycle, Dev wants to ride his bike. Netflix just released the trailer for the second season of Aziz Ansari’s much loved series Master of None. It looks like Dev’s going continental, Brexit be damned. The 10 new episodes show up May 12.
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Looking to Understand the Mind of Steve Bannon? Watch His Documentaries
Well before the National Day of Patriotic Devotion, on which the 45th president’s inauguration was cheered by a crowd of dozens of admirers, it had become clear that despite his mortifying inventory of moral, ethical, and verbal deficiencies, Donald Trump was only the second-worst thing about the Trump administration. Steve Bannon is the latest and […]
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Milo Dropped by Simon & Schuster (Like a Cuck)
News Flash: Medium Talent Gay Blogger loses book deal Bummer, man. Statement: After careful consideration @simonschuster and its @threshold_books have cancelled publication of Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos— (((Adam Rothberg))) (@AdamRothberg) February 20, 2017
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Grammys 2017: Adele vs. Beyoncé, A Tribe Called Quest vs. Trump, Bruno Mars vs. Reality, Who vs. Cares?
Metallica and Lady Gaga at the Grammys: Could’ve been better. Could’ve been much worse, too. Christopher Polk/Getty News Flash: The Grammys are of no significance to anyone who isn’t an employee or employer of the music industry. With that out of the way, WHAT A SHOW! Just kidding. But there were some good performances, especially […]
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Mary Tyler Moore, Dead at 80
RIP MTM Mary Tyler Moore, the brilliant TV and film actor, comedian, producer, and impresario, died today at the age of 80, following a long battle with diabetes. She was Laura Petrie, Mary Richards, Beth Jarrett, and Pearl Coplin, but above all she was always irreducibly Mary Tyler Moore—part modernist, part classicist, and all trouper. […]