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Everything for Someone: San Diego Comic-Con 2026 Part 2
San Diego Comic-Con always has a few up-to-the-minute costumes (like someone dressed as Cyclospora lettuce), and a few looks especially popular among a wide range of people. This year, I saw Monkeys D. Luffy from “One Piece” in all...
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San Diego Comic-Con 2026: Composers, Costume Designers, and Brad Bird in Hall H
While clips and headlines exploded from Comic-Con 2026 this weekend about the upcoming “Avengers: Doomsday,” the casting of David Jonsson in Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther III,” and the fact that Ryan Gosling is playing “Ghost Rider” for Shawn Levy,...
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Fantasia 2026: You Are the Film, Someone’s Daughter, Los Vampires
As Fantasia chugs mightily along its first full week, its selections grow ever more niche and specific. That’s nothing new; Fantasia is nothing if not a pure genre festival, less concerned with attracting A-list talent than offering film dorks...
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Relive the Launch That Changed Gaming in “Halo: Campaign Evolved”
It’s no exaggeration to say that 2001’s “Halo” changed the entire gaming landscape. A launch title for the original Xbox a quarter-century ago, “Halo: Combat Evolved” not only started its own still-running franchise (that included a recent Prime Video...
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Cinema is My Calling Again: Nicolas Winding Refn on “Her Private Hell”
Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn shared with audiences at the Cannes premiere of his new film “Her Private Hell” that a near-death experience inspired his return from the streaming desert to the world of making movies. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark...
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Netflix’s “Ransom Canyon” Turns Up the Soapy Drama in Serviceable Second Season
In a world filled with far too many real-life horrors, the concept of the cozy comfort show has become more important than ever. These sorts of programs—think Netflix’s “Sweet Magnolias” or “Virgin River”—tend to be relationship dramas focused on...
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HBO Max Spin-Off “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe” Wastes Clever Concept
It feels like something that came to creators Chuck Lorre, Zak Penn, and Bill Brady after a couple drinks: What if we took characters from our show named after the beginning of the universe and hurled them into the...
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“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Keeps Boldly Swinging in Tone in Season 4
As a “Star Trek” fan, it’s hard not to feel the bittersweet sting of another set of Wilderness Years coming. With Paramount feeling the sweet sting of budget cuts and an impending merger with Warner Bros., it feels like...
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“The Map of Longing” Offers Real Catharsis Despite Its Teen Melancholy
Fans of the book by Alice Kellen probably already know–Netflix’s “The Map of Longing” is more “The Fault in Our Stars” than “Bridgerton.” Yes, the Spanish series is adapted from an adult romance, but it brings a certain teenage...
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CJP protest: India’s ‘Cockroach’ protesters have wounds consistent with pellet-gun fire, experts say
Independent ballistic experts have told the BBC that injuries sustained by some Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) supporters during last...