Does Mando Still Believe In the Creed? The Mandalorian, Explained
After the absolute barrage of announcements that came out of Disney’s Investor Day yesterday, including the confirmation that 10(!) new Star Wars properties are...
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Separating the Art from the Artist Isn’t Always Possible
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The Evolution of Ted Danson, Mr. Mayor of Television
If it feels like Ted Danson has always been on our television screens, well, it’s because that’s more or less true. He’s been around...
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Stephen King’s The Stand Recap, Episode 1, “The End”: Easter Eggs and Answers | Podcast
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Radio Public | Stitcher | RSS At long last, Stephen King’s epic novel The Stand hits CBS All Access. Languishing for years in development...
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Sean Connery’s Final Role Perfectly Capped Off His Career
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was a disaster. Less an adaptation of the Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill graphic novels of the same name...
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Warning: This editorial discusses scenes depicting rape and sexual assault. HBO’s Lovecraft Country has been a wild ride so far. In just four episodes,...
Cobra Kai Offers Lifelong Lessons on Redemption
“You can’t let the mistakes of your past determine your future.” Cobra Kai is a study in redemption. On August 28th, the former YouTube...
Chadwick Boseman Made a Career Playing Strong Black Men
For four years, Chadwick Boseman battled colon cancer in private. No one outside of his very tight, supportive circle knew of his diagnosis. To...
Ghost at 30: Patrick Swayze’s 1990 Blockbuster Defied Genre to Live Forever
Blockbuster Month is celebrating the true titans of the genre. In the weeks ahead, you’ll read through a variety of features digging deep into...
Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois Spins a Tale By the Everyman That’s Still Being Written Today
How does the story of America begin? When encapsulating the country’s essence in musical form, which is the best foot forward with such rich...
The Pop-Culture Lesson of 2020 May Turn Out to Be Empathy
Music, Movies & Moods is a regular free-form column in which Matt Melis explores the cracks between where art and daily life meet. Today,...
Gone with the Wind Raises Questions About How We Handle Problematic Art
Film critic J Hoberman was sitting at his desk in the offices of legendary defunct paper The Village Voice in the early ’90s when...
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Americans aren’t happy, and they haven’t been for a very long time. A Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index from 2018 concluded that folks haven’t been this...