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‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ Decodes The Superhero Genre Without Subverting It
by Glen Weldon You’d be forgiven for wondering how Netflix’s Jupiter’s Legacy compares to other recent entries in the glut →
A Black Samurai Fighting Giant Mechas? ‘Yasuke’ Asks, Why Not?
by Andrew Limbong At first, it’s not clear who’s fighting whom. All you know is that it’s Kyoto, →
C. Tangana: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
by Anamaria Sayre The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music’s Tiny →
‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Finale Makes A Poignant Reveal
by Eric Deggans Warning: There are spoilers aplenty here regarding the final episode in the first season of →
The 2021 Oscars Recap
by Linda Holmes, Aisha Harris, Glen Weldon, and Stephen Thompon We are wrapping up this year’s Oscars. It was a big night for Nomadland, which took best picture, best actress for Frances McDormand, and a historic best director win for Chloé Zhao. But there were also huge upsets, most notably in best actor, where Anthony Hopkins →
Cinerama Dome Among ArcLight, Pacific Theaters To Close Due To Pandemic Losses
ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theaters said late Monday they are ceasing operations, closing all of their roughly 300 screens mostly found in California. →
Xavier Omär: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
by Bobby Carter Xavier Omär decided to turn his Tiny Desk home concert into a whole Texas affair. Initially, Omär wanted to recreate the look of the Desk: “I wanted to kind of bring the feeling of Tiny Desk back, so I had booked a library,” he said. Ultimately the library didn’t work out, but Rosella →
Emerald Fennell’s ‘Promising Young Woman’ Doesn’t Let Anyone Off The Hook
by Sam Briger In the dark comedy Promising Young Woman, Cassie (Carey Mulligan) works at a coffee shop by day, →
‘Lovecraft Country’ Creator Aims To Reclaim The Horror Genre For People Of Color
Sam Briger The HBO series Lovecraft Country takes the real horrors of the Black experience in the 1950s and adds to it the supernatural terrors of the horror genre. Series creator Misha Green says she sees the show — and the novel by Matt Ruff upon which it is based — as a chance to reclaim “the →
For Actor-Activist Sacha Baron Cohen, Being Called A ‘Bouffon’ Is A Good Thing
by Elizabeth Blair British actor and satirist Sacha Baron Cohen is having a very nice year, as his fictional character →