Entertainment News: Marvel, Star Wars, Netflix, Stan and more
We have all the nerdy entertainment news from across the globe. Here you’ll find everything from the latest movies hitting cinemas to what’s going on with every streaming service in Australia.
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Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang Are on a Mission in Their New Holiday Special
Heartwarming as Peanuts stories tend to be, Apple TV+’s upcoming For Auld Lang Syne animated special tells a story about just how stressful and emotionally exhausting the holiday season often ends up being. Though Lucy Van Pelt prides herself on doling out mental health advice to her friends, Auld Lang Syne finds her in sore…
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Silent Night Offers a Downbeat Blend of Doomsday and Christmas
There are tons of movies about humans trying to negotiate the post-apocalypse. Less common are films about people counting down until the end of the world — though they certainly exist, with approaches as varied as Roland Emmerich’s big, loud disaster flick 2012 and Lars von Trier’s pensive, nihilistic Melancholia. Writer-director Camille Griffin’s Silent Night…
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Hong Kong’s Disney+ Nuked an Episode of The Simpsons That Mocked Mao Zedong
The irony gods have smiled upon us once again: After Disney+ made its long-awaited Hong Kong debut earlier this month, a 2005 episode of “The Simpsons” lampooning Chinese government censorship seems to have been discreetly scrubbed from the app in the region.
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Masters of the Universe: Revelation Had the Power, But Lost It
Part 1 of Netflix’s Masters of the Universe: Revelation was better than it had any right to be. Billed as a sequel to an ‘80s cartoon that never had enough story to make a sequel feasible, Kevin Smith managed to pull off a minor miracle by staying true to the foundations of the franchise while…