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Are you ready to live under Nazi and Japanese occupation? Amazon is adapting Philip K. Dick’s beloved alt-history novel The Man in the High Castle for television, and today at Comic-Con, we found out what to expect from the show’s first season. The first episode of Man in the High Castle already appeared online months…
IN PERSON (Jen Chung/Gothamist) The Long Island lacrosse-playing college student who burst into Broadway history as the first, social media-documented idiot to barge onto a stage to charge his precious cellphone faced the press today. Nick Silvestri, 19, read a statement before a group of reporters admitting, “I don’t go to plays very much, and…
Kelly Sue DeConnick and her peers are changing the face of an industry that won’t leave women out any longer. Kelly Sue DeConnick is talking to a class of aspiring comic-book writers assembled in a ballroom, located in the back of a former gentlemen’s club on Powell Street in San Francisco. “I hate when I…
Every time a superhero loses their powers (or, if it’s Batman, his belt full of expensive gadgets), we hear the same thing: It’s not the powers/belts that make a hero, but the fact that they’re all so gosh dang good and virtuous. These are the guys we’re supposed to aspire to be, as evidenced by…
Guys, it’s time to clear the air. There are some rumors going around in the comments sections of Complex dot com that I am literally out to get all white people (see: here, here, here, and here). But I promise that’s not true! I have white friends, I promise! There is a white dude coworker…
Maggie Gyllenhaal isn’t alone. In the wake of Gyllenhaal’s revelation that at 37 years old she’d been told she was too old to play the love interest of a 55-year-old man, Vocativ analyzed blockbuster films of the past five years and found a clear pattern: Hollywood insists on casting much younger women as the love interests of…
3. While Bieber sharing nude photos of himself is not a new thing, the large majority of his fans were very excited by the snap. The photo has had over 2 million likes. Of the 600,000 comments, the majority of fans declared their love for Bieber, used heart-eyed emojis, and/or asked him to “turn around”….
As San Diego Comic-Con begins, we also get our first superhero movie casting. First up, Marisa Tomei has been cast as Spider-Man’s new aunt, filling the role once held by Sally Field and Rosemary Harris. Um, does anyone see a pattern here? Marisa Tomei is currently 50. Sally Field was 66 when she played Aunt…
As former stripper Channing Tatum stands in his expansive, glistening marble kitchen putting the finishing touches on his signature dish — an egg white omelet, minus the whites — his crowd-pleasing abs are encased in a loose-fitting, slightly sheer garment that skims the top of his jeans in an almost loving way. He’s at ease…
Say the words “Tim Burton’s Superman Lives” on the Internet and you feel the hate. Nicolas Cage as Superman? Those terrible costumes? It would’ve been the worst movie of all time. Well, The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened? just might prove that the entire internet is wrong. Directed by Jon Schnepp, The Death of…