Warning! The following contains spoilers from the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode “New Life and New Civilizations.” Stream the episode with a Paramount+ subscription and read at your own risk! Star Trek: Strange New Worlds closed the curtain on Captain Pike and Batel’s relationship, with her ultimately sacrificing herself to prevent the Vezda from
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Egypt’s Youssef Chahine is among the world’s important filmmakers who remain woefully unfamiliar to audiences in Region 1, so it’s no minor event that Criterion finally brings one of his films to Blu-ray. Perhaps ironically, that film was Chahine’s most notorious failure upon its 1958 release. Decades later,Cairo Station(Bāb al-Ḥadīd) was rehabilitated into possibly the
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Wartorn Ukraine might not be the first place you’d expect to find the Dropkick Murphys lead singer, Ken Casey, but that’s precisely where the Boston legend found himself this past summer. After dedicating considerable time, money, and merchandise sales to Ukraine’s ongoing humanitarian crisis amidst a brutal, decades-long conflict with Russia, Casey thought it was
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The memorial for Dr. Monica Quartermaine, played by the late Leslie Charleson, on General Hospital would not have been complete without the presence of Genie Francis, whose character, Laura Webber Collins, has a rich and loving history with Monica. Francis combined Laura’s roles as both the mayor of Port Charles and her being Monica’s dear
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe consistently releases new content, both in theaters and streaming with a Disney+ subscription. The most anticipated upcoming Marvel movie is definitely Avengers: Doomsday, which will feature Robert Downey Jr.’s return to the shared universe. Rather than Iron Man he’ll play the villainous Doctor Doom, and some promo art has seemingly revealed
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I am going to get on my usual hobby horse about August supposedly being a slow month! And it covers the full spectrum! Starting from the outskirts, Abhorrent Expanse continue to abstract away death metal into drone and free improvisation, while the collaborative effort of Mendoze/fluke-mogul/Perez is a wild ride through the avant-metal headspace. In
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Designer, Entrepreneur, Storyteller From the earliest moments of her childhood, Mandy Johal, professionally known as MJ, knew she was meant to create. She was always sketching designs, painting, and imagining new worlds—a foundation for a career defined by storytelling, design, and thoughtful creative expression. MJ’s journey in fashion began in Vancouver, where she built her
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My obsession with shoegaze was not immediate. I got through My Bloody Valentine’s “Only Shallow”, with its heavy, driving guitars fine enough, but then the sound on Loveless devolved into disparate, unconnected, almost shimmering bits, no centrality of clear lyrics or three-chord melody propping them up. It was the same with Slowdive, though, being from
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