Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, and Judy Greer reunited to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their seminal film 13 Going on 30. The actors shared the video celebration on Instagram, writing, “We are three Boomers braving zoom—because we want to thank you. To every person who has loved this movie along …
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You’d think being royalty would afford one all kinds of privileges, but in the case of Nintendo’s Princess Peach, it’s been a mixed bag. Despite appearing in dozens of games since her initial appearance in 1985’s Super Mario Bros. — including as a skilled tactician in Super Mario RPG and …
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Oh, how the folks behind Earth’s Mightiest Heroes have fallen. Going into 2023, Marvel Studios was still busy licking their wounds from the previous year. Recent big-screen entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe had underwhelmed, notably Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Thor: Love and Thunder (despite the …
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When Lee Eisenberg first read Lessons in Chemistry, he found himself immediately captivated by the world of Bonnie Garmus’ bestselling novel. Upon finishing the book, he immediately cold-called representatives at Apple, who held the rights to the novel, and asked for a job. “I said, ‘I don’t know what’s happening …
Read More »'Scott Pilgrim Takes Off': Inside an Animated Spinoff for the Ages
This post contains spoilers for Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, which is currently streaming on Netflix. The first episode of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off seems designed to make even the most passionate fans of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s comic books — or the cult classic film Edgar Wright made from them — …
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When it was released in 2010, Edgar Wright‘s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was considered a disappointment. It grossed less than $50 million at the box office, on a reported production budget of $85 million. And the reviews, while mostly positive, were less than enthusiastically so. In hindsight, though, Wright’s …
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The rocky current state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is partly due to its over-extension into too many streaming shows of varying quality — but at the same time, the best of those series have introduced some of the current MCU’s most promising characters. In the just-released The Marvels, the …
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It’s a truth universally acknowledged that the Marvel Cinematic Universe — or, and we’re just coining this term right this very second, the “MCU” — has had a shaky time trying to find a post-Infinity Saga groove. But one of the major highlights of the past few years has been …
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The character lineup featured in Netflix‘s Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is one that can only be revealed by a selection screen in Mario Kart or Mortal Kombat. The series — featuring the same actors from the 2010 live-action film — arrives on Nov. 17. Watch the official trailer below — …
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“Politics and Potatoes” would have been a better name for the cooking show at the center of the Apple TV+ limited series Lessons in Chemistry. Set in the early 1950s, the eight-episode series stars Brie Larson as Elizabeth Zott, a chemist who ends up cooking in front of the nation …
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