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Aug 22, 2019
God bless Miley Cyrus for making all of our non-eternal-Hemsworth-matrimony-based dreams come true today, as the singer-songwriter finally allowed us to combine the worlds of Hotel Transylvania coverage and genital-shaped baking into a single, compact news story—just as the prophecies always said we might. Cyrus…
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Aug 22, 2019
It's been a rough summer for Chidi fans, as anyone who saw Midsommar can attest; not only did they have to watch William Jackson Harper—who plays The Good Place's endearingly conflicted ethical philosopher—act like kind of a jerk in Ari Aster's brightly lit horror opus, but also, well…If you've seen the movie, you've…
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Aug 22, 2019
According to Rolling Stone, Dave Chappelle is going to host the "Gem City Shine" block party and benefit concert on August 25 in Dayton, Ohio, to honor the victims of the mass shooting earlier this month. No other performers have been announced beyond Chappelle, but Rolling Stone says the event's Facebook page…
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Aug 22, 2019
Fun fact: As of today, there have now been more directors who have dropped out of Sony's "Fuck it, we have the rights, so why not" film adaptation of the bestselling Uncharted video game franchise than there have been actual Uncharted games. That's because—per IGN—10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg just…
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Aug 22, 2019
Stan Lee died in 2018, leaving behind a legacy as a tireless promoter of comics, a bombastic showman, and an enthusiastic performer of superhero movie cameos. And also, you know, Spider-Man, perhaps his most beloved and iconic co-creation, and one whose tone he helped set for much of the character's early crime…
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Aug 22, 2019
Marvel brings people a lot of happiness, right? Certainly, though one subsection of the fandom just can't seem to get over their disdain for Brie Larson, who plays Captain Marvel in the MCU. On Twitter, on YouTube, on Change.org petitions, and, yes, this very site right here, the vitriol flows. The latest target?…
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Aug 22, 2019
Much concern has been raised in the past few years about the role of social media in the iteration and spread of hateful rhetoric, and rightfully so. There is no shortage of stories of once-moderate or politically uninvolved family members getting pulled past an event horizon of paranoia and mistrust via far-right…
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Aug 22, 2019
Lunella "Moon Girl" Lafayette has gradually developed a strong relationship with the Fantastic Four over the years, at one point becoming an unofficial member of the team with her giant dinosaur companion when Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman disappeared. This relationship is a smart way to link a newer hero to…
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Aug 22, 2019
In her native Mexico, Issa López is an established—and celebrated!—novelist, director, and screenwriter. It's those of us north of the border that have been slow to catch up. López's third feature film, Tigers Are Not Afraid, seems poised to serve as her breakthrough in the U.S., riding praise from the likes of…
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Aug 22, 2019
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
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Aug 22, 2019
ASMR, otherwise known as autonomous sensory meridian response, has long been dominated by the kinds of hushed whispers that make some of us mortals feel like a knife will meet our throat any second. Bless these hungry turtles, then, who calm not with words of love or violence, but rather soft, urgent, deliciously…
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Aug 22, 2019
Netflix has just found someone to play one of the most important characters in the Cowboy Bebop saga for its live-action adaptation, and the simple fact that she's going to be there has some big implications about what the streaming service is planning to do in this 10-episode series. According to Variety, Elena…
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Aug 22, 2019
It's not that we have anything against proper rest. It is healing, it keeps us healthy and it's an essential tool for dealing with the corroding world around us. However, when Melissa "Missy" Elliott tells us that it's time to party, then that qualifies as the final word. And according to the hip hop legend herself,…
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Aug 22, 2019
Hey, remember the Titanic? You know, that twentieth-century monument to human hubris, muse to Celine Dion, and possibly the only thing James Cameron loves more these days than his precious Na'vi? If you're wondering how it's faring at the bottom of the ocean, we hope you're fans of both blunt metaphors and the …
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Aug 22, 2019
In an apparent nod to the fact that there's nobody as effortlessly charming or adorkably handsome as Paul Rudd, Netflix is set to release a new TV series where a guy played by Paul Rudd is quietly replaced by an all-around better guy who is… also played by Paul Rudd. Titled Living With Yourself, the show will mark…
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Aug 22, 2019
Edward Norton's been wanting to bring Jonathan Lethem's Joycean 1999 novel Motherless Brooklyn to the screen since it was published. Now, 20 years later, a trailer has arrived for the hard-boiled story, which transports Lethem's story back to the 1950s with plenty of familiar faces in tow.
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Aug 22, 2019
Some parents will go all out for their child's birthday party. For Nailed It! stans, that includes putting an offer out to the show's host, Nicole Byer, to come host the whole she-bang. Byer tweeted about the phenomenon recently, saying she'd host these parties for $1 million a piece, mostly because she hates kids. As…
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Aug 22, 2019
Since news broke this week that a financial impasse between Disney and Sony Pictures Entertainment will mean the end of Spider-Man's involvement in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-fans have been making a kerfuffle online. Given the success the Tom Holland incarnation of Spider-Man has had under the stewardship…
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Aug 22, 2019
When Scooter Braun and record label Big Machine struck a deal that allowed him to acquire Big Machine Group—essentially making him owner of the master recordings of Taylor Swift's earlier work—the pop songstress called the deal her "worst case scenario." Citing Braun as a bully in a scathing Tumblr post, Swift claimed…
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Aug 22, 2019
It's been a long and winding road for the Flash movie, which—for various reasons—has proven to be significantly harder to get off the ground than a freakin' Aquaman movie. Multiple writers and directors have signed on and then dropped out, including presumed star Ezra Miller (who played the Scarlet Speedster in …
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Aug 22, 2019
The people who own Monopoly, a board game that everyone plays and nobody really seems to like all that much, are always trying to find ways to broaden its appeal. Hasbro has, in the past, allowed the internet to vote on new game pieces, tried to get a board game musical going on Broadway, occasionally says stuff…
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Aug 22, 2019
Spacesaver Premium Vacuum Storage Bags, 6 Pack | $22 | Amazon
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Aug 22, 2019
Despite the fact that he's a big bag of shit who helped support and promote the Trump administration and its many nightmarish misdeeds, Sean Spicer is set to compete on this season of ABC's Dancing With The Stars. It's not a particularly big deal in the grand scheme of things, since Trump's current cronies are still…
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Aug 22, 2019
Are you dissatisfied with the cards life dealt you? Sick of feeling like you have no control? Stuck at the bottom while so many enjoy the their time on top? There has to be a better way!
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Aug 22, 2019
Amazon is full of perks that persuade you to buy more stuff: like free shipping for orders over $25, or same-day shipping for Prime orders over $35. In other cases, Amazon punishes you for not purchasing enough, like those
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Aug 22, 2019
The turn of the millennium was a heady time. There was the Y2K bug and a change in American presidents to worry about, Creed was a legitimate force in pop culture, and, most importantly, those damn kids couldn't stop talking about their damn Pokémon. Pokémania was spreading so quickly, in fact, that even Norm…
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Aug 22, 2019
You know the old adage: "A's attract B's, B's attract C's..." and so on. Unfortunately, the English language runs out after only 26 letters, making it somewhat difficult to measure who exactly remains attracted to the Trump Administration, but this week The Daily Beast uncovered at least one more person who still…
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Aug 22, 2019
Simple Cord Cable Concealer On-Wall Cord Cover Raceway Kit | $14 | Amazon
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Aug 22, 2019
If you've ever wanted to see Andie MacDowell wield a bow and arrow while hunting down her daughter-in-law in a deadly game of hide-and-seek, then Ready Or Not is the film for you. In the new comedic horror-thriller, MacDowell plays Becky, the matriarch of a gaming dynasty with some peculiar family rituals. In our…
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Aug 22, 2019
Adam Driver enthusiasts are having quite the week. First, Netflix drops companion teasers for Noah Baumbach's divorce comedy-drama, Marriage Story. Days later, the general public is catching its first glimpse of the film festival darling, The Report. Prior to its release, the movie's Twitter account teased the clip…
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Aug 22, 2019
Jillian Bell began her career as a writer on Saturday Night Live, but it wasn't long before she was stealing scenes in everything from Workaholics and Eastbound & Down to Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master. Now, the actor and comedian is headlining films like Brittany Runs A Marathon and Lynn Shelton's Sword Of Trust …
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Aug 22, 2019
Extra 50% Off Sale | PUMA | Promo code ONLYU
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Aug 22, 2019
Two Pounds of Ground In Every Box For Life | Butcher Box
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Aug 22, 2019
Anker 3-Outlet & 3 PowerIQ USB Ports Surge Protector | $17 | Amazon | Clip coupon on page
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Aug 22, 2019
The world of HBO's Barry is as absurd as it is brutal, and no character moves through it quite like NoHo Hank. A Chechen mobster by trade, Hank is the kind of guy who would also organize his crime outfit's Secret Santa gift exchange—he's equally motivated by ambition and a desire for meaningful connections. He's the…
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Aug 22, 2019
Hollywood Game Night might not be the most challenging game show in TV history, with its roster of chummy celebrity party games coming in just a hair above Saturday Night Live's version of Celebrity Jeopardy in terms of intellectual rigor. But, hey, if you want to see some mid-range famous folks goofing around on your…
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Aug 22, 2019
Here's what's happening in the world of television for Thursday, August 22. All times are Eastern.
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Aug 21, 2019
Few cooking shows have blended the deeply informative with the delightfully stupid as well as Alton Brown's Good Eats, perhaps the only culinary show in history whose budget for fake mustaches, silly costumes, and giant foam appliances was even a fraction of what it spent on equipment or ingredients. Although the show…
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Aug 21, 2019
"Insult to injury" is one of those phrases that gets tossed around a lot in certain circles, enough that it can often feel diluted when the time to truly deploy it finally arrives. Which leaves us with something of a conundrum tonight, as we struggle to figure out what to call the news—reported on by Variety—that…
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Aug 21, 2019
Following the age-old Hollywood adage that says, "If you can film a bunch of bored-looking white guys talking quietly about nothing for several hours, you can probably film anything," Disney announced today that it's tasked Jay and Mark Duplass with producing a new YouTube series for the Disney Channel, centered on a…
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Aug 21, 2019
BREAKING: The entire staff of The A.V. Club turned to dust today, then blew away on a hollow and howling wind, shortly after viewing the latest Donald Trump-focused "special" aired by the cast and creators of The Simpsons. It's not clear yet if said fatal desiccation was caused by the short's butchering of a Rita…
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Aug 21, 2019
Nostalgia is a funny thing. Because it tends to work only in relative values—i.e., "then" was better than "now," so "then" must automatically be good—it can do a lot of work to shave the more craptastic edges off of a person or a moment, even if they were, from an objective point of view, trash.
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Aug 21, 2019
Today, Netflix released the teaser art, premiere date and first images for the third season of Big Mouth. The adult animated series about the perils of teen puberty returns on October 4, and if the teaser art is anything to go by, it promises to maintain its unique brand that screams, "Uh, is this okay?" At this…
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Aug 21, 2019
Watching Kirsten Dunst perform, you get the feeling she could take down just about anyone or anything—an immortal, a former mentor, a head of state, a crime outfit—with a mix of cleverness and sheer determination. The Emmy nominee (for Fargo season two, obviously) brings a certain physicality to these declarations of…
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Aug 21, 2019
By now, everyone's heard about the Spider-Man custody battle between Sony and Disney. It's been a tough 24 hours of confusion and frustration, but it's starting to look like your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man won't be swinging around Marvel studios any longer. And while Deadline reported the current iteration of…
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Aug 21, 2019
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
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Aug 21, 2019
Casper makes our readers' favorite pillows, but they rarely get discounts outside of bundle deals that require you to buy a mattress. Well, you know what? You need to buy pillows a lot more often than you need to buy mattresses.
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Aug 21, 2019
It's easy for a wrestler to be hated by an audience. You can trash the hometown sports team, call everybody ugly, or be forced into becoming the next John Cena by Vince McMahon (hi, Roman Reigns!). To be hated properly, however, is very, very difficult. For an audience to hate you as much as they love to watch you is…
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Aug 21, 2019
There is a surprisingly humbling element to Liza Mandelup's documentary Jawline, a bristling look at social media fame from the perspective of 16-year-old Austyn Tester. At first, Tester's plan to use the power of positivity to become famous (a goal that he repeats often without ever really getting specific) rings…
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Aug 21, 2019
In the elevated high plains of Denver, CO, just east of the foothills of the mighty Rocky Mountains, a man named Robb Manes captured a rare and stunning sight: a herd of mattresses, bouncing and bounding and flopping their way across the steppe.
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Aug 21, 2019
If you've been waiting (so very) patiently for a more complete Twin Peaks box set to arrive, we are pleased to inform you that your wait is almost over. CBS Home Entertainment is finally releasing what can only be described as an "ultimate" Twin Peaks box set, which includes—extremely deep breath—seasons one and two…
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Aug 21, 2019
L.A. rockers That Dog delivered three albums of timeless, hook-heavy power-pop between 1993 and 1997, resulting in relatable, deliriously angsty cuts like "Never Say Never," a song this writer will (very loudly) call one of the best of the ‘90s. The band officially split in ‘97, but began playing reunion shows in…
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Aug 21, 2019
When we sat down with Samara Weaving to talk about her new role in Ready Or Not, we had to commend her on the rage-filled screams she lets out as the film's tormented bride, Grace. But when we mentioned the term "Scream Queen," Weaving was quick to point out that she wanted Grace to be much more proactive in her…
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Aug 21, 2019
Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), the protagonist of the Has Fallen movies, isn't just a Secret Service agent. He is the Secret Service agent, a neanderthal with veins of pure American cheese and a single-minded devotion to the bodily integrity of the president of these United States. In Olympus Has Fallen, a Die Hard …
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Aug 21, 2019
Jurassic Park is one of the most important movies in modern history, which is why it's been a bummer to see how its sequels have paled in comparison. The original's power is explored in a new video essay from Films&Stuff, which chronicles the way director Steven Spielberg used scale and framing to make his prehistoric…
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Aug 21, 2019
Wayne Williams, to use a phrase I've heard detectives say on TV, looks good. His stories are inconsistent, his movements suspicious—seriously, who goes out at 3 AM to "scout out" a vague address of someone you've never met, or even talked to on the phone?—and, most importantly to Agent Holden Ford, he fits the…
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Aug 21, 2019
With the arrival of the highly anticipated Steven Universe: The Movie just around the corner, fans will soon have the answers to some of their burning questions—mainly, "Who is this new gem messing up Steven's whole retirement plan?" The trailer doesn't reveal many clues as to their identity, but it does promise that…
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Aug 21, 2019
Thanks in no small part to the success of It, Hollywood has renewed its interest in Stephen King's bibliography—and with a rather expansive collection of works comprised of novels, novellas, short stories, and e-books, the movie and TV industries should be well-stocked on material for the foreseeable future. The next…
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Aug 21, 2019
What is it about serial killers that inspires such fascination within the American psyche? Perhaps it's the feelings of voyeurism inspired by learning their crimes' lurid details, the case file mysteries that never fully close and questions that never get answered, or even our country's obsession with violence and the…
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Aug 21, 2019
This post should be read in an extreme Chicago accent.
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Aug 21, 2019
With Sony regaining the full rights to Spider-Man and ending its deal with Marvel (reportedly over a producer credit, which seems petty), the future of Tom Holland's Peter Parker is somewhat unclear—leaving fans to wonder who will survive the great un-merging, and what will be left of them? Here's what we do know:…
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Aug 21, 2019
Good news for fans of anthology series of horror films and/or people who still don't have Shudder for some reason: Hulu is bringing back more Into The Dark for another season, meaning you've got at least one additional year of watching monthly horror films and rolling the dice as to whether it will be one of the…
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Aug 21, 2019
All of us ordinary people living in our hovels, collecting dirt into our hands, and spitting on it to sculpt model houses of the kind we'll never be able to afford, often feel as if we're impossibly far beneath the rich and powerful celebrities who dominate our culture. Fortunately, sometimes things happen to remind…
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Aug 21, 2019
Netflix may have found the next actress to take on the role of Tejano music sensation Selena Quintanilla. The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Christian Serratos, best known for her ongoing role as Rosita on The Walking Dead, is in talks to play the late icon in Netflix's upcoming miniseries, Selena: The Series.…
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Aug 21, 2019
Following a day in the life of a medical transport driver, Kirill Mikhanovsky's Give Me Liberty is a portrait of chaos—specifically, how small, coinciding crises pile atop each other to create a manic web of stress. Vic (Chris Galust) has to drive a coterie of people with disabilities to their various appointments…
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Aug 21, 2019
There's plenty to be excited about on Netflix this month—Sturgill Simpson anime!—but nothing has us more curious than Between Two Ferns: The Movie, the film adaptation of Zach Galifianakis' bizarro interview series. Comedy Bang! Bang!'s Scott Aukerman directed the comedy, which finds Galifianakis taking his fern on…
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Aug 21, 2019
Let's get this out of the way first: We're not mad at you, Conan.
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Aug 21, 2019
As Secret Service agent Mike Banning, Gerard Butler has taken his share of spills—and bullets—in the Has Fallen franchise. Now, Banning and Butler are back for the third movie, Angel Has Fallen, which features the usual explosions and gunfights, but also attempts to address how Banning deals with the PTSD and chronic…
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Aug 21, 2019
If you weren't already familiar with Bombshell, the upcoming film from director Jay Roach, then this teaser might be a teensy bit confusing at first watch. Even then, you might still admire it as a masterfully tense piece of marketing, and it's hard to deny the allure of a film featuring the awesome acting triumvirate…
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Aug 21, 2019
Death Stranding, the upcoming game from Metal Gear Solid designer Hideo Kojima, has been a source of bafflement for several years now. Its trailers have shown digital versions of actors like Norman Reedus, Léa Seydoux, and Mads Mikkelsen hanging out with babies in weird tubes (and human throats), munching on bugs, and…
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Aug 21, 2019
There isn't a lot of room for erotica in superhero comics. It's a genre tailored for mass market appeal, and while there are plenty of sexualized characters, explicit sexual content has a ceiling at publishers like Marvel and DC. Chip Zdarsky and Kris Anka are two creators with a passion for erotic art; Zdarsky is the…
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Aug 21, 2019
A Clarks Private Sale, a Blink XT2 Outdoor/Indoor Smart Security Cam, and $10 off your preorder of Dragon Quest 11 S for Switch lead off Wednesday's best deals from around the web.
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Aug 21, 2019
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Aug 21, 2019
In advance of James Gray's anticipated Ad Astra blasting off at TIFF next week, a new trailer has been dropped teasing its eventual IMAX release. Well, it gets the job done, because now we can't imagine not seeing it in a way engulfs every single one of our senses.
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Aug 21, 2019
Anker PowerLine C to C 2.0 cable (6ft) | $10 | Amazon | ANKER742 | Red only
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Aug 21, 2019
After years of neglect, Apple finally revived the Mac Mini late last year with a brand new model, featuring four Thunderbolt 3 USB-C ports, a speedier quad core processor, and all-SSD storage. You'll still need to provide your own monitor and peripherals, but if you own those already, you can plug this straight in and…
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Aug 21, 2019
Refurbished Apple AirPods 2nd Gen w/ Charging Case | $115 | eBay | Discount shown at checkout
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Aug 21, 2019
All-new Blink XT2 Outdoor/Indoor Smart Security Camera Starter Kit | $80 | Amazon | Additional camera kits also on sale
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Aug 21, 2019
The third single from The Marshall Mathers LP earned Eminem some of the highest praise of his career, but back when "Stan" was grabbing VMA nominations and giving a three-year-old Dido single a piggyback ride up the charts, who would've guessed the song's lasting legacy would be lexicographical? "Stan" is literally…
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Aug 21, 2019
Look, Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend is a really good podcast, okay? All 30-plus episodes of the late-night legend's first foray into the "no makeup, no hair" world of online celebrity chit-chat are genuinely funny, thoughtful, and filed with the sort of loose, faux-fraught banter (among Conan, assistant Sona Movsesian,…
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Aug 21, 2019
I took Molly with my best bud. We wound up cuddling and telling each other everything. We didn't mess around—we're both straight guys—but one of the things I told him is that I would much rather eat pussy than fuck, and one of the things he told me is that he's not at all into eating pussy and pretty much only likes…
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Aug 21, 2019
Here's what's happening in the world of television for Wednesday, August 21. All times are Eastern.
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Aug 20, 2019
Pose's triumphant finale doesn't tie up all the storylines from its second season (hello, does Elektra still have a dissolved body in her closet?), but it hits all the right emotional beats for the show, bringing a season that took a lot of big swings—not all of which hit their target—to a head and sharply refocusing…
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Aug 20, 2019
Sony and Marvel Studios may be breaking up, with Sony taking full custody of the Spider-Man movies and all of the money they've been bringing in, but we'll always have the memories. Remember when Spider-Man took Captain America's shield, and he was like "I'm from Queens, you're from Brooklyn, Empire Strikes Back is an…
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Aug 20, 2019
Former actor/tequila baron George Clooney is tentatively getting back into show business, first with Hulu's Catch-22 show and those Nespresso ads, and later this year he'll start production on his adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton's 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight. The book is about the parallel stories of a…
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Aug 20, 2019
The second season of Netflix's Mindhunter just dropped recently, with the new batch of episodes partially dealing with a real-life case known as the Atlanta Child Murders. Between 1979 and 1981, an apparent serial killer murdered more than 31 people in and around Atlanta, with most of the victims being young Black…
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Aug 20, 2019
There's currently a beer commercial known as "the bra ad." It shows a woman dressed in office clothes returning to her apartment, kicking off her heels, opening her fridge, and cracking open a Coors Light before unhooking her bra and throwing it onto her couch. The on-screen text proclaims Coors Light "the official…
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Aug 20, 2019
Disney has been absolutely stuffing the box office lately with live-action (or "live-action") remakes of its classic animated films, but at least one animated classic evidently does warrant the big-screen revival that Aladdin and The Lion King recently got. Last March, the company announced that it was putting…
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Aug 20, 2019
Maybe the hype behind Pokémon Go has subsided in your social sphere, but according to Forbes and app-centric news outlets, the app is currently pushing over $2.45 billion in revenue since its debut in 2016. Sure, the mental stimulation given by swiping is an awesome sensation for most of us, but that can be found…
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Aug 20, 2019
Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed.
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Aug 20, 2019
It's always tempting, when someone asks how you've been, to tell them the truth. It's something I think about a lot, and it's what Agent Tench does to Agent Ford when Ford presumes to lecture the older agent during their investigation of the Atlanta Child Murders. To be fair, Tench is popping in and out of the…
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Aug 20, 2019
The world of superhero movies just got a lot less friendly: Not long after Spider-Man: Far From Home became the highest-grossing Sony film of all time, the studio has rejected a plan from Marvel Studios that would've made them co-producers on future Spider-Man movies, effectively kicking Disney out of the Spidey…
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Aug 20, 2019
Though it died a pretty swift death at the box office in the fall of 1990, Adrian Lyne's hallucinatory horror freakout Jacob's Ladder has gone on to a better place, climbing to an afterlife of cult fandom. Written by Joel Bruce Rubin, whose script sat on the Hollywood blacklist for a solid decade, the film fancied…
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Aug 20, 2019
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
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Aug 20, 2019
As it turns out, those denials of a new Matrix sequel were every bit as much of an illusion as that damned spoon. Variety brings the rather surprising news that Lana Wachowski—one-half of the duo behind the original trilogy—is returning to direct a fourth installment in The Matrix series. And in a whoa-worthy turn of…
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Aug 20, 2019
If you've watched any television in the past twenty years, you've seen Mel Rodriguez. With guest spots on everything from Gilmore Girls to Big Love to Community, the actor made a habit of popping up for an episode or two—often as a law enforcement officer—before landing the role of Nurse Patsy De La Serda on HBO's…
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Aug 20, 2019
At the end of Avengers: Endgame, Steve Rogers makes an important choice without seeming to make any choice at all. After going back to the past to return the Infinity Stones and Mjolnir (in order to avoid disrupting the other timelines created by their shenanigans), Rogers stays in the past so he can live a normal,…
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Aug 20, 2019
One of the best reasons to get the Nintendo Switch is its huge and ever-growing library of indie titles.
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Aug 20, 2019
Taking on a role for which one of the world's most famous actors has won an Oscar—not all that long ago, even—has to be mighty intimidating. It didn't work out so well for Julianne Moore as the new Clarice Starling in Hannibal, but Moore eventually received a gold statuette of her own, and so may Elizabeth Debicki,…
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