This is the first in a six part series leading up to the release of the latest Star Wars movie ‘The Force Awakens.’ In this installment I get sappy, lament some bad movies, and try to grapple with lowering expectations… My first memory of the original ‘Star Wars’ is seeing it on the Disney
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Hello and welcome, this is This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. November’s topic is… QUEEN ANNA NZINGA: The Humiliator of the Portuguese This has taken far, far, far too long but I am finally tackling African history. I’m sorry and formally
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Note: I wrote this after only viewing the first episode of Marvel’s Jessica Jones. Like a good nerd I have watched following episodes, but let’s go with this…enjoy. Fans of the Marvel Universe who have been clamoring for more depictions of darkness and grit in their entertainment as far as it appears in television and
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Much as I loathe to admit it, writer Brian Michael Bendis did a few things with his title Alias (now adapted on NetFlix, the one not starring Jennifer Garner) that reverberate today: one, he had Luke Cage shed his blaxploitation trappings in order to make the character more palatable for the 21st century (that of
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Yes, I am working on the Season 2 premiere of Law & Ordocki. However, I thought that while you waited for that no doubt tome of sheer brilliance, you may want to witness a parody of the series by better satirists than I. In MAD Magazine #328, they ran the following parody that coincided with
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