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Nicolas Cage Is a Perfect Dracula In the Cheerfully Bloody and Funny Renfield: Review
The violent R-rated comedy stars Nicholas Hoult stars as the titular familiar. Nicolas Cage Is a Perfect Dracula In the Cheerfully Bloody and Funny Renfield: Review Liz Shannon Miller
The Boys Presents: Diabolical Offers Wild Superpowered Raunch As We Wait for Season 3 — Review
The Pitch: Animated spinoff anthologies for popular nerd properties are all the rage, it seems; hot off the back of Star Wars Visions a mere few months ago, Prime Video’s hit superhero satire The Boys gets one in the form of The Boys Presents: Diabolical. Taking inspiration, presumably, from their other blood-soaked comic book adaptation Invincible, here we’ve got eight distinct stories, with eight distinct animation styles, telling stories in and around the show’s world of corporate-sponsored (and created) superheroes, and the intestine-strewn trails they leave in their wake. Across eight Adult Swim-sized stories, the anthology peeks into the following tales of superpowered mayhem: Advertisement • A Tex Avery-style silent caper with a Vought scientist chasing down...
Awkwafina Quits Twitter After Suspect Blaccent Non-Apology, Slander Continues
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Today (Feb. 5), Asian-American actress Awkwafina took to Twitter to reveal she would be quitting the social media app at the behest of her therapist. But before that, she offered up what’s widely considered a non-apology for her much-maligned use of a “blaccent,” before making her exit. Most everybody except her fiercest fans are calling her out for her far too late mea culpa and dramatic exit. Born Nora Lum, the Queens native copped pleas, years after the fact. After years of what many consider the mocking of Black culture via her liberal use of African-American vernacular English (AAVE), she offered up some quaint words of explanation, including her love of Hip-Hop and where she grew up. “As a non-Black POC, I stand by the...
Marvel Unleashes the Legend of the Ten Rings in New Shang-Chi Trailer: Watch
Marvel has shared a new trailer for their first film starring an Asian superhero, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. In addition to showing the titular weapons in action, the preview unveils two new villains — including the surprising return of one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first bad guys. The new preview lays out the plot of the film, with Simu Liu’s Shang-Chi being heir to the brutal legacy of his father, Wenwu (played by Tony Chiu-Wai Leung). Armed with the Ten Rings — arm bands that possess immense power — Wenwu runs a criminal empire, an organization he uses to go after his own son. With the help of his friends (Awkwafina’s Katy and Ronny Chieng’s Jon Jon), Shang-Chi sets out to create his own destiny. Along the way, he does battle with a number of classic Marvel...
