Charles Pulliam-Moore
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Steve From Blue’s Clues Is Sorry for Ghosting You
There are two scandals in Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues history that will be forever seared into the memories of folks who grew up watching the series during its original run: when Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper had their baby Paprika in the season one finale, and when Blue’s first owner Steve (Burns) left the show in…
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Rick and Morty…This Is Heavy
To think of Rick and Morty as simply a bawdy, nihilistic riff on ‘80s time travel classic Back to the Future is to minimise the thought and effort the series creators have put into the series. What they’ve made is a surprisingly thoughtful reflection on free will, depression, and finding one’s place in the multiverse.…
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Director Nia DaCosta Says Landing Captain Marvel 2 Didn’t Magically Erase Her Student Loan Debt
A few months after Nia DaCosta officially signed on to direct the new Candyman — which has gone on to become the first movie directed by a Black woman to premiere at the top of the box office — the director happened to bump into New York Times columnist and illustrator Julia Rothman, who was…
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Nia DaCosta’s Candyman Is a Haunting Fairytale Trapped in a Horror Franchise
Though director Nia DaCosta’s Candyman is the latest chapter in an iconic, decades-long slasher franchise, the movie is also one of the many recent studio projects trying to transmute the real-world horrors of anti-Black racism into a thrilling story meant to capture imaginations. Like its contemporaries, this feature walks in the footsteps of Bernard Rose’s…