This post contains spoilers for the whole first season of Obi-Wan Kenobi (now streaming on Disney+) and the season to date of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (now streaming on Paramount+). There’s plenty of overlap between the audiences for Star Wars and Star Trek, yet for decades the two fan …
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Growing up, I’m not sure the idea behind any comic-book series excited me more than Marvel’s What If…? Each issue used the titular question to examine a version of Marvel history that went very differently, like, “What if… Spider-Man Had Never Become a Crimefighter?” or, conversely, “What If… Doctor Doom …
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The Courier Benedict Cumberbatch stars as an ordinary British businessman – who has been recruited by MI-6, the U.K.’s intelligence service, and a CIA operative. The goal? infiltrate the Soviet Union. The film is based on the true-life of Greville Wynne. He’s the farthest thing from a spy, but the …
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Disney’s long-awaited, live-action remake of Mulan is full of legends. There’s the historic warrior Hua Mulan herself, of course, the hero of Chinese folklore immortalized in the 6th-century poem “The Ballad of Mulan,” who disguised herself as a man to go into battle in her father’s stead. Her story was …
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Lin-Manuel Miranda is currently living in the past. Or maybe it’s that, at this particular moment in time, the past just seems to keep catching up with him, tapping him on the shoulder, nudging him in the ribs. The 40-year-old playwright/actor/director/producer has spent the previous week watching Hamilton — the …
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