I won't pretend to fully understand Japanese idols. I get the general concept: attractive young performers singing and dancing to pop music. If I had to explain it to someone with no concept of things like Hatsune Miku or Perfect Blue, I would say "boy bands, but Japanese, and
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I have not been a fan of, or consistently reading, Harley Quinn in years. I found the Conner/Palmiotti team's work to be contrary to what the character represented. Great, interesting stories can be written with this character, but for the better part of a decade, she was reduced to
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This article contains more spoilers than the film contains plot holes. Let me start by saying that I am a big Star Wars fan, or was when I was younger. I am old enought to have worn pre-Phantom Menace late 90s Yoda shirts to elementary school, get bullied, bury my
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A decade or so ago, I was very into horror and genre film. I wanted "the classics," or films that felt like them. I didn't want schlock, I didn't want so-bad-it's-good. I wanted to see the things that people had been watching for 20, 30, 50 years that
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The interest in "so bad they're good" movies has taken off in recent years. Names like Tommy Wiseau are being introduced into the lexicon of Oscar fodder, playing to an audience that would have watched Tim Burton's Ed Wood two decades ago. The phenomenon isn't new, but the
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