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Charles Pulliam-Moore

Charles Pulliam-Moore

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    The Flash’s meta-ness is its only trick, and its undoing

    While the core conceit of Warner Bros. Discovery’s The Flash is solid, the movie’s too-meta nostalgia plays highlight everything that has gone awry with the studio’s superhero movie experiment.

    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    If it comes to it, the members of SAG-AFTRA are ready to strike.

    Should the Screen Actors Guid’s upcoming talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers not result in a new labor contract that both sides agree on, the entertainment labor union will be in a position to strike now that an majority of SAG-AFTRA’s members voted to authorize the move.

    As Variety notes, SAG-AFTRA’s vote to strike comes as the WGA’s ongoing strike enters its sixth week.

    Disclosure: The Verge’s editorial staff is also unionized with the Writers Guild of America, East.

    Across the Spider-Verse’s greatest feat is the way it takes Spider-Man’s fandom to task

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse deepens the mythos of Miles Morales by turning one of the ugliest parts of Spider-Man’s fandom into a canonical conundrum.

    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Across the Spider-Verse is the new definitive Spider-Man movie.

    Sony’s Across the Spider-Verse isn’t just a breathtaking work of art — it’s a seminal piece of Spider-Man storytelling that rightfully establishes Miles Morales as this generation’s definitive webhead. Across the Spider-Verse’s trailers alone have been tremendous, but check out our review to read more about what makes the movie work so, so well.

    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Spider-Verse producer Amy Pascal says live-action Miles is on his way.

    At Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s LA premiere this week, producer Amy Pascal teased that Miles Morales is definitely making his live-action debut in the near future, and Sony’s already working on another Spider-Man starring Tom Holland:

    “We’re in the process, but the writers strike, nobody is working during the strike. We’re all being supporters and whenever they get themselves together, we’ll get started.”

    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    And Just Like That... Kim Cattrall was back as Samantha Jones.

    While Kim Cattrall might still be on the outs with some of her former Sex and the City cast mates, Variety reports that she’s reprising her role as Samantha Jones for Max’s And Just Like That...:

    “According to sources, Cattrall shot her dialogue on March 22 in New York City, without seeing or speaking with the stars of the series, including Sarah Jessica Parker, or with “And Just Like That” showrunner Michael Patrick King.”

    Across the Spider-Verse is an animated masterpiece that upends Marvel’s Spider-canon

    Sony’s Into the Spider-Verse sequel is a bigger, bolder, more ambitious film than its predecessor — and a powerful deconstruction of Marvel’s Spider-Man mythos.

    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    ABC’s Lost was reportedly a “cruel, brutal, destructive, racist, sexist” place to work.

    In TV critic Maureen Ryan’s forthcoming book Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, multiple writers and actors who worked on ABC’s Lost describe the hit network show’s inner workings as a toxic nightmare of Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse’s making:

    “It’s very easy to think, well, it can’t have been that bad or someone would have done something. It was that bad, and no one did anything because retribution was a constant and looming presence.”