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Justice League’s Epilogue Is Its Messiest, Most Dangerous Indulgence
Zack Snyder’s Justice League is, in ways good and bad, an exercise in indulgence. After all, it is Snyder’s unleashed vision for what his Justice League movie could have been, in some form, writ large: literally, given that the film is a four-hour undertaking. But for all its extensions and additions, its most peculiar indulgence…
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HBO’s The Last of Us Adaptation Will Deviate From the Games in Some Big Ways
Scott Derrickson’s return to horror has found its star. The Boys’ collegiate spinoff gains more student-supes. Ryan Murphy lifts the lid on his plans for the next American Horror Story. Plus, what’s coming on Supergirl and Wynonna Earp. To me, my spoilers!
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Invincible Would Like to Introduce You to the Concept of Daddy Issues
You can immediately feel the work that went into making Amazon’s new animated Invincible series feel like a tonally-accurate adaptation of the source material that highlights the show’s stellar cast. But the show arrives at a time when stories like the original comic and other narratives it drew inspiration from have essentially become the default in…
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The Spine of Night Is the Gory Animated Fantasy Epic of Your Wildest Dreams
Imagine a fantasy with the scope and scale of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings or HBO’s Game of Thrones, but animated, extra violent, and clocking in at a cool 90 minutes. Well, you don’t have to imagine it: it’s called The Spine of Night and it’s one of the sickest, coolest, most mind-bending…