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Question of the day:


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ITEM: Marvel is killing the popcorn movie. Furthermore, it doesn’t care. And Avengers: Age of Ultron is proof.

So says this op/ed piece in Wired, which is not a diatribe against popcorn films, but against the approach that Marvel has taken to them, and the effect it’s having on the overall popcorn-film genre.

I don’t agree that A:AoU will have a ( Read more... )

By today’s standards, anyway.


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You know you’ve reached a certain milestone in journalism when comic strips qualify for fact-checking.


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I’m old enough to remember this.


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And here’s why.


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It’s Banned Book Week in the US again, in which we celebrate freedom of speech by commemorating all the people who try to take it away from us.

I’ve written before about the importance of Banned Book Week at a time when books are easily available outside of libraries (where book banning is usually attempted). You can read that here if yr so ( Read more... )