"Mirrors" Reflects Some Backstory Onto Discovery's Antagonists

Star Trek: Discovery Episode 505, "Mirrors," gives its own spin to some classic tropes. Space anomalies and enemies forced to work together, anyone? Check out our review!

Welcome back, my Disco Fans! (Disco Ducks? Is that something?) It’s time to once again get back to the chase for the Progenitor’s God Engine. Last week, a Time Bug disabled Discovery long enough for our villains, Moll and L’ak, to get ahead of them and seemingly disappear into space. After Stamets scans the area for all forms of radiation, he discovers a wormhole that seems to be the hiding place…

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How Dr. Walter Greason and Tim Fielder bring history to life in 'The Graphic History of Hip Hop'

'The Graphic History of Hip Hop' combines art and history to examine a music revolution. Check out our interview with the creators, interdisciplinary scholar Dr. Walter Greason and Afrofuturist artist Tim Fielder.

“Hip hop isn’t just beats and rhymes…it’s a movement that fought to redefine the times.” And The Graphic History of Hip Hop by interdisciplinary scholar Dr. Walter Greason and Afrofuturist artist Tim Fielder brings that movement to life through text and images, examining a music revolution that unfolded over five decades and continues to unfold today. The two creators originally met in 2015 at a…

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"Face The Strange" is Some Classic 'Trek' Time Shenanigans

Star Trek: Discovery Ep 504 takes Burnham and Rayner through some classic Trek time shenanigans in one of its most fun episodes this season so far. Check out our review!

Welcome back, fans of Disco! This week, Discovery’s quest to find the Progenitors’ tech hits a speed bump… well actually, more of a time bump. It turns out that the tracker that Moll planted on Adira last week was actually a literal Time Bug, a black market device designed to trap Discovery in a time bubble, where the ship goes back and forth through time from when it was being built to the end…

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Truly Unsettling Monsters Buoy Arcadian

Truly Unsettling Monsters Buoy Arcadian

Creature Features really live and die by their creatures. That seems obvious, but it’s kind of amazing how many movies really don’t grasp that concept. For every Alien or Godzilla, there are a whole bunch of Velocipastors and Sharknados. For every Jaws, there’s a dozen Jaws 3D. So by having some of the freakiest and most unsettling monsters I’ve seen in a movie in a while, Arcadian has already…

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Uh oh... "Jinaal" Sees Discovery Slip Back Into Bad Habits

After a promising star, Star Trek: Discovery slips back into old habits in episode 503, "Jinaal," though Wilson Cruz shines.

After a strong start to the final season, episode 503, “Jinaal,” has our crew on the trail of the Progenitors’ mysterious tech. Let’s dive right in, with my co-reviewer, Mary Fan.   Image: Paramount+ MARY: So we’re continuing the treasure hunt this week, with Discovery heading to Trill to find the next clue to the progenitors’ super-tech. With the whole season being set up as a treasure hunt, you…

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Season 5 of 'Star Trek: Discovery' Starts Off With a Bang

Episodes 1 & 2 of 'Star Trek: Discovery' Season 5 made for an exciting kick-off to the season, but will the show be able to sustain the momentum?

Welcome, Trekkers, to fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery. This is the show that launched Paramount+ and was the first new live-action Trek show in over a decade when it premiered in 2017. It’s been quite a ride, as the show has taken us from the start of the Klingon War and gone over 900 years into the future and introduced us to memorable new characters and brand new aliens and Anson…

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No Sleep 'Til Crookin' in One Operation Joker Vol. 2

In the first volume of One Operation Joker brought to us by a collaboration between DC and the Kodansha publishing company, I was thrust into an Earth where Batman’s greatest enemy, the virulently vivacious Joker becomes a beleaguered guardian to Gotham’s favorite les enfant terrible, a bouncy, bubbly boy named Bruce after both fall into a vat of Ace chemicals. Forget about “one bad day”, shit’s…

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Don't Touch That Dial! Late Night With the Devil is Must See TV

How far would you go for success? What are you willing to sacrifice? Who are you willing to hurt? That’s the question posed by Late Night With the Devil, a new horror film from Australian brothers Cameron and Colin Cairnes. It is framed as the long-lost master tape of the legendary live Halloween 1977 broadcast of Night Owls, a late-night talk show hosted by Jack Delroy. Jack’s (David…

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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Can Only Muster a Feeble Roar

Readers of this site know that I am a massive fan of Godzilla and all things kaiju. The brilliant Godzilla Minus One was my favorite film of last year. I thought the Apple+ series Monarch was fantastic, adding layers of humanity to the recent WB/Legendary films. And I have enjoyed all of those recent movies, starting with Godzilla (2014) and going through Godzilla vs. Kong, to varying degrees.…

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X-Men '97 is a Reboot Done Right

Rebooting or reviving a beloved series is always a tricky proposition. Do the show runners try to do something new and risk alienating old fans? Or do they wallow in nostalgia and try recreating the magic of the old show and risk being stagnant and hidebound? It’s a tightrope, for sure. Several of my all time favorites have gotten reboots in recent years, and the results were not encouraging.…

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Avatar: The Last Airbender - What went right and what went wrong with the live-action remake

What went right and what went wrong with the live-action remake of Avatar: The Last Airbender? Reviewers Victor Catano, Mary Fan, and Sunil Patel discuss the pros and cons of Netflix's adaption of the beloved cartoon.

Nickelodeon’s animated show Avatar: The Last Airbender (ATLA) has been widely praised across the years, and the announcement a few years back of its live-action remake on Netflix was met with both excitement and skepticism. Having watched all eight episodes of the new show, Sunil Patel, Victor Catano and I discussed what we thought worked… and what fell flat. Mary: So having been a fan of the…

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'Quantum Leap' Ties Up Loose Ends in its Two-Part Season 2 Finale

Quantum Leap Episodes 212, "As the World Burns, and 213, "Against Time," wrap up season arcs and mysteries. Will Ben finally come home?

I’ll confess, I hadn’t been paying enough attention to realize that Season 2 of Quantum Leap would only be 13 episodes long, but started having suspicions after Episode 211. With the big Gideon Rydge reveal, things were starting to feel finale-ish. So when Episodes 212 and 213 dropped and I realized they were a two-parter to wrap up the season, I was like “Oh, no wonder!” By now y’all know that I…

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Chatting with Chandra Free: The God Machine Creator Talks Art, Influence, and Industry

Chatting with Chandra Free: The God Machine Creator Talks Art, Influence, and Industry

Sometimes, things just hit at the right time. It was New York Comic Con 2013. I was writing for a transgressive culture website called “Moneygunsweed.com.” Like the Electric Banana, “Don’t look for it; it’s not there anymore.” Though not my first rodeo at the Javits, that year was my first foray into the venerated hall of immeasurable talent that is Artist Alley. To be among so many whose art you…

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Madame Web Review: I Liked Morbius and Thought This Was Bad, That’s How Bad It Is

How bad was Madame Web? Well, even our reviewer who liked Morbius thought it was pretty bad, like a teaser for a much cooler movie you'll never get to see. Read the review!

I genuinely enjoyed Morbius and remain baffled at the hyperbolic hate it received, but Madame Web deserves to be crushed under the boot of a gleefully destructive Internet. I am kinder than most, of course, so I found some saving graces here and there, but… this movie is legitimately bad, folks. There’s no getting around it. The film begins when Ezekiel Sims was in the Amazon with Cassandra…

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10 Things You Didn't Know About the Lord of the Rings Concert

10 Things You Didn't Know About the Lord of the Rings Concert

Recently, I got to perform the score of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on stage at Radio City Music Hall, where they played the movie and had live instrumentalists and singers perform the music. I was one of 100 adult choristers as part of MasterVoices (altos rule!); there was also a children’s choir (Brooklyn Youth Choir), a full symphonic orchestra (the Orchestra of St. Luke’s), and a…

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La Brea's “The Road Home, Part 2” ends on high notes all around

Finales are tricky things. Most long running series have their work cut out for them, but high concept shows – even without having the trouble of a long run – pose a particular problem. Depending on the concept upon which they’ve been built there is added shit to deal with. Not only do you have your standard character issues to clean up, but you’ve got that high concept that needs settling. La…

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