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Film Review: DC League of Super-Pets
Taking classic DC super pet characters and giving them a Secret Life of Pets style treatment.
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Taking classic DC super pet characters and giving them a Secret Life of Pets style treatment.
Today we talk about the new Pale Waves tour announcement, the teaser trailer for Wakanda Forever, and Adele heading to Vegas. Pale Waves Tour Announcement If you haven’t jumped on the Pale Waves train, now is the time. The band announced today that they’re making their way to North America this fall for a headlining tour with support from Gatlin. Pale Waves also dropped their new single “The Hard Way” last Wednesday, taken from their new album coming next month, and they’ve just finished up a run of dates supporting 5 Seconds of Summer. The North American leg of their… Read more »
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Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week talks about
Today we talk about Bridgerton season 3, Panic! at the Disco’s new single, and Justin Bieber heading back out on tour. Bridgerton Season 3 Shondaland and Netflix officially have season 3 of Bridgerton moving full steam ahead. Production has begun in London and it looks like we’re in for a classic “will they, won’t they” situation as Penelope Featherington has given up on her love for Colin Bridgerton. She begins to distance herself from him, while searching for a husband but her insecurities get in her way and she isn’t finding success. Colin feels the distance between them and offers… Read more »
Basically: NOPE is Jordan Peele’s JAWS turned up into a sensory spectacle Jordan Peele, much like Hitchcock, Serling, Clouzot, and even Shyamalan, has sculpted a niche out of the horror-tinged thriller genre—to such a stylistic degree it is a fingerprint. Exhibit A: During the first third of his films, Peele creates a symbolic framework of backstory, objects, trauma, character idiosyncrasies, and music. Those become the 3D glasses we as the audience use to fully experience the context as well as the denouement of the story. Exhibit B: Black American culture. Period. Blackness in all of its hues is another signifier… Read more »
Today we talk about a new college course on Harry Styles, The Chainsmokers going to space, and Rage Against the Machine’s latest message on social injustices. Harry Styles 101 Who’s ready to go back to school? You might be more inclined to start studying if you go to Texas State University. Professor Louie Dean Valencia is introducing a new class titled “Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet and European Pop Culture.” The course will follow Styles’ career and will study how he grew into the phenomenon he is now and how topics like gender, sexuality, race,… Read more »
Properties featured: Motherland: Fort Salem, Virgin River, grown-ish, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, Rap Sh!t, Blown Away, Anything’s Possible
Today we talk about this year’s Library of Congress National Book Festival, the new trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and Chris Hemsworth on the set for Thor: Love and Thunder.
A big blazing homage to your favorite action movies AND lots of assassins!
