Month: July 2024

It’s been over three years since Disney+ started bringing Marvel shows to TV screens everywhere, and they’ve come full circle with Agatha All Along. The series is a spinoff of the first Marvel phase four series, WandaVision, which many consider one of the best. Now, everyone’s favorite practitioner of the dark arts is back to
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The Pitch: Adapted from the 1981 film of the same name, Time Bandits follows a rag-tag team of hooligans bouncing around through time in an effort to steal history’s greatest riches. Along the way, the gang (kinda-sorta led by Lisa Kudrow’s Penelope) runs into Kevin (Kal-El Tuck), a gleeful, factoid-loving kid who doesn’t quite fit in
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Harris books are moving, Hugo culls fraudulent votes, N.K. Jemisin on the literature of survival, and more. Kamala Harris Book Sales Soaring A 60,000% increase in book sales means (at least) two things are true: enormous surge in interest and a low starting point. If Harris were selling 1000 copies a week, say, before Biden
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View gallery Image Credit: WireImage It’s hard to believe it’s been more than a decade since the British boy band One Direction was formed on The X Factor. July 23 marks the 14th anniversary of the band — Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, and former member Zayn Malik — being placed together by Simon Cowell. Their rise
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Bad news for you, SPIN readers. When asked who would win in a street fight—SPIN readers or the cast of one of his operas—Ricky Ian Gordon did not choose you. “The characters I am drawn to are fierce, individualistic, brave, iconoclastic…and face gigantic obstacles, so I think all of my opera casts would win,” he
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The Design of Us by Sajni Patel The cover alone is giving glam, cute beach read, which it pretty much is. Bottle of sunshine Bhanu, runs into her work nemesis Sunny, the grump who has a “Denzel voice” (!!), while she’s visiting family in Hawai’i. She can’t stand him, sure, but she does feel a
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Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference at the FGCU Kapnick Education and Research Center in Naples on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Photo: Jonah Hinebaugh/Naples Daily News/USA Today Network-Florida / USA TODAY NETWORK While Republican lawmakers have repeatedly failed to pass legislation to prevent transgender people from updating their birth certificates to reflect their
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The 1981 film Time Bandits is a curious one: While not officially a Monty Python project, the legendary British comedy troupe’s voice can be felt in the writing and direction, given that Python members Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam co-wrote the script, with Gilliam directing. Fortunately, Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, two of the creators
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Share Tweet Share Share Email A Southern Gothic thriller starring Jordan Doww, Robyn Lively, and David Koechner. In the thrilling new Southern Gothic horror film Ganymede, a young wrestler’s forbidden crush unleashes a nightmarish demon, blending queer love and terror in a gripping tale. The trailer for “Ganymede” starts with a harrowing scene of young
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Taylor Swift is the influencer to end all influencers, able to wield her massive popularity and power effectively enough to impact economies and legislation, moviemaking practices and album release strategies. She’s lent her voice in the past, to great effect, to voter registration efforts, but with the news that Vice President Kamala Harris is the
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Singer Rachael Price and drummer Mike Calabrese of Lake Street Dive are in Cleveland, Ohio, hours before their band’s show at the TempleLive Cleveland Masonic, a 2,200-seat theater known for its Romanesque Revival style and its renowned acoustics. It’s a far cry from the dive bars where they cut their teeth 20 years ago.   “We
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL
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Image Credit: AFP via Getty Images In one of the most historic moments in American history, President Joe Biden has decided to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race for reelection. Weeks after multiple celebrities, politicians and other public figures called on Biden to drop out of the race, several responded to the president’s announcement on
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