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The Future of ‘Star Trek’ March 28, 2024
“I can’t believe I get to play the captain of the Enterprise.”Anson Mount is sitting across from me on one of the Toronto soundstages for the Paramount+ series “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” which is set in the years when his character, Capt. Chris...
Cabrini Film Falls Short on Faith March 13, 2024
Mother Cabrini is anything but frail. Despite suffering from a long-term debilitating lung condition as a result of nearly drowning as a young girl, the Italian-American saint exhibits a tenacious resolve, tending to downtrodden immigrants in New Yor...
'Reacher' Loses Its Charm March 13, 2024
When the first season of Reacher came out in 2022, it truly felt like a breath of fresh air. At a time when the world was still recovering from the Covid lockdowns, superhero fatigue had set in, and woke storytelling and diversity quotas ruined most ...
Akira Toriyama Rode the Cloud Into Imaginations Everywhere March 11, 2024
On Friday morning, Bird Studio, a small production workshop in Nagoya, Japan, announced the death of its founder, Akira Toriyama, the legendary manga artist, character designer, and creator of the long-running manga and anime franchise Dragon Ball. T...
Are Autofiction and Reality TV the Same? March 05, 2024
What do the Real Housewives franchises have in common with Karl Ove Knausgård? According to the critic Anna Kornbluh, they both speak to our century’s dominant aesthetic: immediacy. What Kornbluh is referring to is the project of replicating reality ...
