TV Shows
The Gilded Age Season 3 Episode 2 Says Goodbye To Love and Hello To Power Plays
Bertha Russell is playing with fire.There’s a fine line between trying to help your children secure a better future and engineering it for them without their input.Berth is currently walking that line, and The Gilded Age Season 3 Episode...
TV Shows
I can’t believe the show with the maddest plots possibly in TV history has just been axed after only one season
I love Doctor Odyssey, so I feel a huge sense of loss that it has been sunk after just one season.Doctor Odyssey was no ordinary show! Over 18 glorious episodes, we followed the medical team of Dr Max Bankman...
Comics
Anime Review: TO BE HERO X’s Queen fails forward
TO BE HERO XDirector: Li HaolingProducers: Aniplex, bilibili, BeDreamStudios: Pb Animation Co. Ltd., LAN Studio, Paper Plane Animation StudioStreamer: CrunchyrollRelease Date: April 5, 2025Rating: PG-13Genre: Action, donghua
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Curiosities
Mapped: The Cheapest European Destinations for an Aperol Spritz
<!--qv q:id=am q:key=vcaa:It seems like the Aperol Spritz came out of nowhere in the past few years to become the summer drinker’s tipple of choice, but the cocktail actually debuted in the 1950s (and Aperol itself has been in...
Comics
Jock OA sells for $288K at auction; artist won’t see any money from the sale
An auction concluded yesterday, June 27, 2025, at Heritage Auction. At the auction, Jock‘s Detective Comics #880 Joker Cover Original Art (DC, 2011) was sold for $288,000. While this would typically...
TV Shows
Characters of the Week: The Heart, the Heat, and the Healing
We had some big premieres this week.Apple TV+’s Smoke made its debut, and as you’ll learn from our Smoke Review, it’s a must-see series. Meanwhile, The Bear returned with a fourth season that already has us abuzz.It’s no wonder...
Movies
59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival to Honor Stellan Skarsgård, Vicky Krieps, Dakota Johnson and Peter Sarsgaard | | Roger Ebert
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will pay tribute to Stellan Skarsgård, Vicky Krieps, Dakota Johnson, and Peter Sarsgaard, welcoming the actors to personally present screenings of their recent films, festival organizers for the upcoming 59th edition announced Wednesday.In...
Movies
AMC’s “Nautilus” Gives Us Indiana-Jones Worthy Adventure with Imperialist Villains | | Roger Ebert
AMC’s (formerly Disney’s) “Nautilus” is nine-tenths fun adventure. We’re talking otherworldly sea creatures, lost treasure, and 1850s technical marvels, portrayed by the best our 2020s studios can offer. The ten-part first season follows Nemo (an appealing Shazad Latif), the...
Movies
We’re All In This Together: “Brazil” at 40 | | Roger Ebert
There is a moment in Terry Gilliam’s 1985 dystopian masterpiece “Brazil” where the film stops being dazzling, sets aside the Pythonesque humor, and lets humanity have a moment to itself. The lowly bureaucrat, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), drops off...
Books
Why Oppressive Fictional Societies Suppress Reading–and How They Mirror Our Current Culture
Over the last several years, conservative groups have proposed laws that ban certain books from libraries or even penalize librarians. These bills depict books about LGBTQIA+ people as inappropriate for kids and claim that learning about systemic racism scapegoats...
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Canadian wildfires prompt New York air quality alert
An air quality health advisory has been issued for New York City and its surrounding areas because of smoke...