Comics Excerpt: The Arrival Author Shaun Tan Tells Tales From Outer Suburbia
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Janel Helmers
Laurent and Jean de Brunhoff’s Babar and his teammates are going all out to win the famous Celesteville Regatta (1989). We were big fans of Shaun Tan’s 2007 graphic novel The Arrival, naming it the best of the year – and we weren’t alone, as the book garnered accolades everywhere and became a surprise bestseller. But that solemn, silent tale of immigration didn’t prepare us for the wordy whimsy of Tan’s new book, Tales From Outer Suburbia.
[Read More]Conan OBrien Wanted to Play a Good Dad in Please Dont Destroy Movie
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain found the ultimate treasure: casting the perfect person to play Ben Marshall’s dad — Conan O’Brien. In a discussion with director Paul Briganti, star Meg Stalter, and co-producer Albertina Rizzo, the team explained that outside of physical similarities between the two actors, it was very easy to get O’Brien onboard. “He was very excited and took it very seriously,” explained Briganti.
[Read More]Conan Writer Todd Levin on Why Some Jokes Just Bomb
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
Conan writer Todd Levin’s “Just Like That But Funny” essay for Good magazine explains point-by-point what can and will go wrong when you’re working in the “volume-driven business” of a daily comedy show. There are so many fail factors at play when you’re cranking out sketches at such a rapid rate, he writes, like for example, poor acting, unforeseen bloopers like botched dialogue or “subpar” puppetry, the inability to perceive the crappiness of one’s own work and, of course, the propensity for comedy writers to go too dark.
[Read More]Congratulations To The Happy Gay Couple, Okra and Flix, In Star Wars Resistance
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
Flix and Okra are here, and they’re queer. Time for the animators of Star Wars Resistance to render a rainbow flag. The show’s executive producers, Justin Ridge and Brandon Auman, sat down with the Coffee With Kenobi podcast and said that they’ve got a happy gay couple on their show. Okra, a Chadra-Fan, and Flix, a different unconfirmed alien species, are “an item” in the words of Ridge.
[Read More]Could We Just Lose the Adverb (Already)?
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Zora Stowers
How are “there,” “yesterday,” “quite,” “assiduously,” and “indeed” all members of the same family? I’m cursed with a mind that looks at a sentence and sees grammar before it sees meaning. It might be that I’m doing math by other means, that I overdid it with diagramming sentences as a boy, or that my grasp of English was warped by learning Latin. Translating Horace felt like solving math problems. Reading Emily Dickinson began to feel like solving math problems.
[Read More]Countdown to Beyoncs The Renaissance: Act I (Non-Leaked Version)
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Zora Stowers
Queen Bey. I’ve prayed for days like these. Days when Beyoncé announces her seventh studio album. The last time she dropped a solo project was six years ago. Obama was still president, I lived in a college dorm with 59 cents in my bank account, and Blue Ivy was just beginning her career as Yoncé’s manager. The visual triumph that was Lemonade bubbled with ideas about Black art and maternity, infidelity and the pain of forgiveness, and, most important, fits inspired by Julie Dash’s film Daughters of the Dust.
[Read More]Cunk on Earth Is So Perfectly Stupid
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
Philomena Cunk, the host of Netflix and BBC Two’s Cunk on Earth, a mockumentary series about the history of human civilization, asks the stupidest questions. Half historical tour guide and half field reporter, the character, played by comedian Diane Morgan, trains her glassy gaze upon real academics who’ve dedicated their lives to scholarship and poses queries like, “How did Egyptians build the pyramids? Did they start at the top and work down?
[Read More]Cynthia Erivo Sings Cant Help Falling in Love and You Cant
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
“I really love love songs. I feel like they’re the best way to have a human express true emotion,” Cynthia Erivo says, so she’s built a whole concert set list around them. “I love ballads. I love music that allows people to feel emotion. My intention was to use the night to tell love stories. I wanted to find pieces that were wonderful representations of how we as human beings love.
[Read More]Dan Stevens Will Be the Beast in Disneys Beauty and the Beast
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
Dan Stevens. The Hollywood Reporter reports Downton Abbey’s Matthew Crawley, a.k.a. the actor Dan Stevens, will take on (assumedly!) the heavy prosthetics of the Beast in Bill Condon’s upcoming live-action adaption of Beauty and the Beast. He’ll play opposite Emma Watson (Belle) and Luke Evans (Gaston), and if you still aren’t quite sure your Matthew can pull off the growl, you haven’t yet seen him in The Guest. Imagine the Beast played as the semi-deranged shut-in he was meant to be?
[Read More]Dangerous Liaisons Season-Finale Recap: Accusation at the Opera
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
Dangerous Liaisons It’s War Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Dangerous Liaisons It’s War Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » We have to wait until next season to find out who the duke is? (Editor’s note: Sorry, but Starz canceled season two.) FINE, Dangerous Liaisons, have it your way, but the part of me that loves instant gratification (it is the main part) is displeased.
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