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Umbrella Academy’s Ellen Page on Giving Vanya Space to Open Up
The first trailer for Umbrella Academy’s second season made it abundantly clear that the Netflix series is pivoting into a markedly different direction than the Dark Horse comics series it’s based on. Where the initial comic arc left Vanya (Ellen Page in the series) quite incapacitated thanks to a gunshot, the TV show ended its…
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10 Years Later, Christopher Nolan’s Inception Remains Magnificent
Somehow, 2010’s Inception has suddenly become topical again ” an idea that seems like it was mysteriously planted in our minds by Leonardo DiCaprio himself. In reality, though, people are talking about Christopher Nolan’s trippy hit for a few good reasons:Â it’s about to celebrate its 10th anniversary; it recently screened inside Fortnite; and there’s even…
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Netflix’s Umbrella Academy Lacks The Batshit Whimsy Of Its Source Material
While you could always see flashes of the X-Men and other comics that inspired writer Gerard Way and artist Gabriel Bá in their Eisner award-winning limited series The Umbrella Academy, the book always felt like its own unique animal. It drew on classic cape tropes to tell a fresh story about the struggles that’d come…
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The Cured Finds A Fresh Take On Zombies By Turning Them Back Into Humans
A million movies have been made about zombie invasions, but very few have focused on what happens afterwards. Do the zombies get cured? How will society rebuild? Will the survivors actually be safe? These are questions without familiar answers in zombie lore, which makes a movie like The Cured immediately exciting.