7 Things to Know About Your Next Spider-Man, Tom Holland

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  629 words  |  Zora Stowers

With great fame comes great responsibility. Your new Spider-Man, Tom Holland, is a 19-year-old Gemini hailing from Kingston Upon Thames in southwest London who enjoys slow-motion flips and Taylor Swift. Most recently, he’s appeared as Thomas Cromwell’s son in Wolf Hall, but his first taste of fame came when he made his West End debut in Billy Elliot the Musical, which eventually led to a role in The Impossible opposite Naomi Watts. [Read More]

8 Comics to Read (and One Comics Movie to Watch) in November

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1510 words  |  Zora Stowers

Joy on the page and on the screen. Each month, Abraham Riesman offers recommendations on comics, including book-length graphic novels, comics-format nonfiction, and ongoing series. With any luck, at least one of them will be a match for you. Present by Leslie Stein (Drawn + Quarterly) One should feel thankful that Leslie Stein keeps her narratives so simple — after all, you’re reading them in a new language. In her collection of strips, Present, Stein offers up a visual approach wholly unlike anything else in the comics ecosystem today. [Read More]

99 Homes Tidily Critiques Our Swampy Financial Ecosystem

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  674 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Andrew Garfield in 99 Homes. 99 Homes is the fifth and most sensational feature by Ramin Bahrani’s, a slam-bang morality play in the Wall Street mode set closer to home. Here, the embodiment of rapacious, conscienceless, deregulated capitalism is now a Florida realtor, Rick Carver (Michael Shannon), who evicts people who’ve been foreclosed on (sometimes under criminally false pretenses), using cops to pull crying, pleading, raging families out of the houses. [Read More]

A Black Lady Sketch Show

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  40 words  |  Aldo Pusey

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A Cinematic History of Destroying Americas Monuments

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1696 words  |  Zora Stowers

To say nothing of the rest of the world, American audiences seem to love watching our national landmarks blown to smithereens. Movie after movie, national landmark after national landmark, there seems to be no great national symbol we won’t blow to pieces. In the decades since 1956’s Earth vs. The Flying Saucers treated the landmarks of Washington, D.C., like a demolition-derby checklist, we’ve sicced aliens, mutants, terrorists, and various acts of God on the nation’s capital, Mount Rushmore, and the Statue of Liberty. [Read More]

A Complete Guide to Whos Still Together From Netflixs Dating Shows

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  46 minutes  |  9728 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Jump To Love Is Blind Love Is Blind: Brazil Love Is Blind: Japan Too Hot to Handle Single's Inferno Indian Matchmaking Love on the Spectrum Perfect Match The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On The Ultimatum: Queer Love Dated & Related Netflix’s first original reality dating show, Love Is Blind, debuted just three years ago, and yet it seems like you can’t go anywhere these days without hearing “pod” this or “Bartise” that. [Read More]

A Few Decent Laughs Cant Save Disneys Haunted Mansion

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  708 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Haunted Mansion. Disney’s new Haunted Mansion is a hot mess, but it’s a sporadically entertaining one. Family-friendly horror-comedies have always been a tough subgenre: You need the scares to prove your horror bona fides, but go too far and the children will run screaming from the theater; rely too much on comedy and you’ll undermine the thrills. This one also comes with franchise expectations and a big price tag, as it’s based on a theme-park attraction. [Read More]

A Guide to Eurovisions Craziest Performances

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  1973 words  |  Janel Helmers

Eurovision doesn’t do subtle. When the first Eurovision contest was held, in May 1956, founder Marcel Bezençon couldn’t have imagined his soon-to-be wildly famous Pan-European song competition would one day give us the likes of dancing grannies, rapping astronauts, and the almighty Ukrainian drag queen Verka Serduchka. But as the contest for catchy three-minute tunes has grown, so has its propensity for outlandish costumes, staging, and choreography. As many of its most unforgettable moments prove, some of the best Eurovision competitors involve one country submitting a performance with the simple hope that millions of others will either tap their feet or get the joke. [Read More]

A Guide to Pandemic-Themed Board Games

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1303 words  |  Sherie Connelly

While we’re all stuck at home now, board games are having a moment. And as it happens, there’s a curious intersection of tabletop games and our current experience, as the spread of diseases has long been fodder for game designers, going back to John Horton Conway’s famous mathematical simulation called the Game of Life, created in 1970. (Conway, sadly, passed away last weekend due to COVID-19.) With so many options, we’ve put together a helpful guide to the world of pandemic-themed board games. [Read More]

A Guide to the Ricks and Mortys of the Rick and Morty Multiverse

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1159 words  |  Janel Helmers

What started innocently enough as an animated comedy about a mad scientist and his grandson has become the kind of pop-culture phenomenon over which the internet obsesses. Trying to pull apart the logic of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty can turn you into a mumbling Jerry, but that doesn’t stop devoted viewers from untangling the many timelines of a show that posits the existence of infinite universes. As the third season hits its homestretch, we decided to break down the different iterations of the title characters that we’ve seen to illuminate where this complex, daring show might be headed next. [Read More]