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2021’s Oscar Nominations Show Off a Diverse Field, Few Genre Titles
We all know 2020 wasn’t exactly a good year for movies. That’s not to say good movies didn’t come out — there’s Nomadland, Minari, Judas and the Black Messiah, just to name a few. But for those hoping for genre fare in awards season, studios for the most part decided to hold their big-budget, potentially…
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The Sandman Audio Drama’s an Escape From Reality Into a World of Dreams
In the world of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, which is also the world of DC’s core comics continuity, all living things in existence are in some way connected to the Endless, seven anthropomorphic beings who control various facets of reality. As Dream of the Endless is torn out of his realm by humans searching for…
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Venom Is A Surprisingly Solid Action Movie That Just Wants To Show You A Good Time
Venom strikes an imperfect balance between two extremes—sticking too close to, or straying too far from, Marvel’s source material. And that’s a testament to Sony’s belief that audiences are going to want to watch a charmingly-disheveled Tom Hardy murder and eat people in the name of twisted justice in this movie and any potential sequels.
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Rogue One’s Riz Ahmed On Playing An ‘Average Joe’ In The Star Wars Universe
At the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story press event this weekend, we got a chance to talk with Riz Ahmed, who plays Bodhi Rook, a skilled pilot who leaves his gig with the Empire to join the Rebellion for reasons we learn early in the film (but won’t spoil here). Soon he becomes involved…