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Category: Pop Culture
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DiCaprio and Pitt team up in Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The first trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s 9th film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was just released and we’re super excited to see it. Here’s the quick synopsis: Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double…
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Captain Marvel’s biggest battle is fighting audience superhero fatigue
Captain Marvel is here! And accompanying her are dudes complaining about feminism, social commentators applauding representation, and a multi-billion-dollar franchise that turned Disney into the overlord of entertainment. So, great conditions to enjoy a popcorn superhero movie, right?
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The trailer for the final season of Game of Thrones has landed
HBO just released the official trailer for the final season of Game of Thrones and it does what all good trailers should do: gets you hyped without giving away too much. There are dragons, there are emotional moments, and there’s the impending threat of almost certain doom from the White Walkers. We can’t freaking wait…
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‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ is safe but not sensational
Like the filler queens on RuPaul’s Drag Race, Solo: A Star Wars Story isn’t the hot mess it could have been, but it also won’t have us quoting it years into the future.
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Marvel’s ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Combines All the Best of the MCU
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ is everything you want in an epic Marvel movie, plus a lot of awesome twists and turns you won’t expect. Check out our spoiler-free review here.
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‘Black Panther’ is the comic book movie we’ve been waiting for
Culturally rich, colorful and technologically advanced, it’s no surprise that Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ is one of the highest-rated movies in the MCU.
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Fans are why we can’t have nice things
This year, we saw some pretty crappy “fan” behavior, from Rick and Morty fans storming McDonald’s for dipping sauce to Star Wars fans claiming The Last Jedi ruined their childhoods. Was it always like this, or were fans of 2017 just way, way too passionate about pop culture?
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi is damn good, even when it isn’t great
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi’ has the difficult task of being the middle child in the new Star Wars trilogy, but even when it isn’t great, it’s still damn good.
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Explore the weird, wild world of Wiseau in ‘The Disaster Artist’
With ‘The Disaster Artist’, James Franco seeks to give us a little glimpse into the completely insane world of Tommy Wiseau—and it is fascinating!
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Star Wars grows up with ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’
If the main saga Star Wars movies are The Lord of the Rings, then Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is more like Game of Thrones. Instead of legendary heroes and Jedi magic, Rogue One is more grounded in reality with a small, rag-tag group of rebels who manage to do something extraordinary. Because of…
