Netflix Should Embrace Having the Number One Movie at the Box Office

Across the country this weekend, the following refrain echoed between movie theaters: “I’m done hidin’, now I’m shinin’, like I’m born to be.” Those words, sung by the trio Huntr/x, come from the Korean animated film KPop Demon Hunters, whose theatrical opening weekend earned approximately $18 million dollars at the North American box office, taking […]

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Ne Zha 2 and the Secret of Making a Good Dub for Anime and Donghua

English dubbing of international animated films is a sticky tightrope to walk across. When done correctly, it can make a property enduring in the minds of animation fans. When done wrong, it goes down in infamy and, in today’s tech-savvy times, becomes a meme to be clowned on forever. Ne Zha as a story and […]

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With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people

Why AI chatbots validate grandiose fantasies about revolutionary discoveries that don’t exist.

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Remembering Terence Stamp’s Most Underrated Performance

Starring Terence Stamp as the mourning transgender Bernadette Bassenger, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is even more relevant, moving, exquisite, funny, and bitchy than when it rolled over the land down under on release in 1994. Writer/director Stephan Elliott’s now-cult classic should be studied for its performances, social commentary, and expert indulgence […]

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KPop Demon Hunters Soundtrack Songs Ranked: From Catchy to Golden

Netflix and Sony Animation’s action-musical animated extravaganza, KPop Demon Hunters, has quickly become a global cultural phenomenon. Anecdotally, when I went to the top of the Empire State Building with some friends this past weekend, I noticed a young girl wearing a Huntr/x shirt while a stranger gushed about how much he and his friend […]

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