Month: July 2026

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has made over $32 billion at the box office across 37 movies featuring hundreds of characters, but a select few are the franchise’s biggest moneymakers. Superteams like The Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy have been focal points of some of the MCU’s highest-grossing movies, giving their members a leg up
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For amedium so indebted to memory in the way it evokes, retains and edits images together, cinema often underestimates the importance of forgetting. Identity is predicated on remembering in the same way that narratives are based on conflict and resolution, but this is not the case for aremarkable feature debut called Familiar Touch. Sarah Friedland’s
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Now Hear This is a monthly A&R column that provides you with exciting new sounds we discovered through the innovative new music discovery platform Groover. Each month, you can expect a varied bouillabaisse of songs from a vast spectrum of artists from all over the globe, regardless of genre or geography. For July, SPIN has
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Victor Willis, the original lead singer for the iconic disco group the Village People, died on Tuesday after “a short but aggressive illness,” according to an announcement posted to the band’s social media. He was 74. Willis was recruited as the group’s lead singer by gay French music producer Jacques Morali, who targeted disco’s massive
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. PEN America Has Announced Its 2026 Emerging Voices and Mentors Looking at the fellows and mentors chosen for this year’s Emerging Voices Fellowship feels like looking into the future. I say that because I’m sure
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