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The first trailer for Alita: Battle Angel, Robert Rodriguez’s adaptation of the classic manga of the same name, was dominated by the off-putting eyes of Alita herself. In an attempt to mimic the style of the manga, Rosa Salazar’s eponymous battle angel was given big anime eyes, which wouldn’t have been nearly as…

When we think of David Bowie, we tend to think of Ziggy Stardust and lavish stage shows and scene-stealing film roles. We don’t, it’s safe to say, think of Bowie, shoddy guitar in hand, playing an empty coffee shop or recording in his garage. And that’s why a newly unearthed, 55-year-old recording of Bowie singing…

Joe Bob Briggs, horror’s resident good ol’ boy, literally broke streaming service Shudder when he commandeered the platform earlier this month for a live B-movie marathon. It was supposed to be a one-off appearance, but Shudder has announced that the former host of Joe Bob’s Drive-In Theater and MonsterVision will be…

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, the critically acclaimed new documentary about Fred Rogers, is routinely reducing its audiences to deep, salty pools of tears. It’s both lovely and bewildering in these mean, divided times to see such a pure portrait of human kindness, the story of a man who still believed in the inherent…

Montreal is a tough city to leave. As soon as you think you’re starting to figure out its geography—let alone the dense knot of unspoken rules and centuries-old grudges that shape its dual cultural and linguistic identities—it’s time to turn around and go home. Its charms are so great that it’s even possible to remain…

It’s Monday and, because it’s Monday, you may still be shaking cobwebs out of your brain, looking out at the week ahead with a vague sense of horror at everything that lies in front of you. Something deep inside may be recoiling at the prospect of the distance between now and the next time you don’t have to get up and…

Profiles of Billy Joel frequently paint him as a cynical depressive, but according to Joel himself he’s actually a “happy-go-lucky guy.” That quote comes from a new interview with the musician, published as part of Vulture’s “In Conversation” series. In honor of the singer’s record-setting 100th concert at Madison…

In news that seems to come as a surprise even to the seasoned prognosticators at Box Office Mojo, The Equalizer 2, the sequel to the film you may vaguely remember renting from a Redbox about three years back, is currently the No. 1 movie in America. The film opened to $35.8 million, $1.7 more than its predecessor’s…

Last week, Disney fired Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 director James Gunn over a series of tasteless jokes he posted on his Twitter years ago. People were understandably upset. It was well-known that the spread of these tweets and the ensuing campaign to get Gunn fired were orchestrated by conservative trolls,…

Joker, Todd Phillips’ gritty, dark, grim, serious, gritty, important, gruesome, twisted, gritty, psychologically dense origin story for the Clown Prince of Crime, is now being staffed up in earnest: Deadline reports that Robert De Niro, he of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and, um, Analyze That fame, is in talks to join…

Chicago’s weather this weekend felt like a hug from a very large, sweaty man, with rain looming over nearly every set at Pitchfork Fest; and when the sun made a rare appearance, it was brutal. Fortunately, it didn’t stop anyone from taking the stage: Acts big and small blew us away this weekend, from hometown hero…

A Woman’s Smile could spawn a Literally Unbelievable Tumblr just as easily as The Onion did. It’s billed as a podcast where co-hosts Patti Harrison and Lorelei Ramirez “talk about, well, everything! But especially the gentle and kind nature of a woman’s smile,” a summary that exemplifies the tone—but it could be taken…

The Lego Batman Movie, last year’s extended riff on the Dark Knight’s legacy, got a lot of laughs out of poking fun at Batman’s goofier villains and the many movies about him. At its core, however, it was still just a very weird superhero movie. Teen Titans Go! To The Movies, on the other hand, is more of an absurd…

There hasn’t been much news about the third season of Stranger Things, besides a Fast Times At Ridgemont High-esque first look video at the new mall coming to Hawkins, Indiana. The clip seems to suggest that we may have to wait until summer of 2019 for the third season, but we can’t wait that long. In the mean time,…

The first Iron Man film debuted with such phenomenal confidence that it set the template for a whole new kind of superhero movie storytelling. Twenty films later, Marvel is still largely building on the template of that original Iron Man film for its ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe. But the success of Iron Man…

In what year does the quiet, deliberate Puzzle take place? There are little clues—a teenager with a Stankonia poster on his wall; a fortysomething woman who still uses a landline; a father who thinks there’s something suspiciously non-manly about the idea of a male chef—that accumulate for a while, seeming to vaguely…

DC Comics has a huge roster of compelling villains who can carry stories without a superhero anchor, and this week’s Beach Blanket Bad Guys Summer Special gives 10 evildoers the spotlight in short stories by a fantastic line-up of creators. Lee Bermejo and Francesco Mattina pit the Joker versus Bizarro. Paul Dini and…

“Very valuable.” So said former Vice President Dick Cheney as he signed a waterboard kit on last night’s episode of Who Is America?, Sacha Baron Cohen’s new satirical Showtime series. He wasn’t kidding; the signed bottle popped up on eBay yesterday, earning a bid of nearly $4,000 before the auction site, for some…

About three weeks ago, archaeologists unearthed a 2,000-year-old, black granite sarcophagus from a construction site in Alexandria, Egypt. According to the BBC, Egypt’s Ministry Of Antiquities created a committee to open said sarcophagus, which contained three skeletons and puddles of red-brown sewage water, “which…

Early in the actor’s career, Parker Posey once spazzed out so much during an audition that the casting director asked her agent if she was on drugs. “I wasn’t,” Posey recounts in her memoir, “but just had a lot of energy and was excited to be there.” As it was in person, so it goes on the page. In You’re On An Airplane…

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Samsung’s U3-rated microSD cards are some of the fastest and most popular options out there—I have the 128GB model in my own Nintendo Switch—and all four sizes are down to new all-time low prices today on Amazon. If you need extra space for your action cam, smartphone, tablet, Switch, or anything else, these are…

On Wednesday, Hulu will premiere Castle Rock, the new series “based on characters and settings” by Stephen King. If that sounds an awful lot like “here’s a bunch of Easter eggs referencing the work of Stephen King,” that’s because it is. But the show is obviously trying to do more than just work in some…

And so we come to it at last: The final episode of Ghosted. (Except for all those other episodes of Ghosted.) The grand resolution to the Agent Checker saga. (Hey, remember him?) And the second series finale this show has somehow managed to air in as many weeks—and the less satisfying of the two by far. Which is all…

By now, we’ve all seen the clip (captured above) of former Vice President and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney signing a waterboard kit. It was the first clip Showtime released of Who Is America?, and for good reason. Cheney so casually and happily writing his name on an instrument of torture more or less affirms his…