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Charles Pulliam-Moore

Charles Pulliam-Moore

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    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Two episodes in, The Idol doesn’t seem to have the heat.

    After all the drama surrounding (HBO) Max’s The Idol from Sam Levinson, one would hope the show might actually have something interesting to say that warranted co-creator The Weeknd’s pre-premiere theatrics. But as Variety so elegantly puts it, at two episodes in:

    “It’s a bit frustrating to watch a show so plainly and plaintively depict the quest towards perfection in a way that seems so clumsily unable to get to ‘consistently pretty good.’”

    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    What We Do In The Shadows season five takes flight this July — BAT!

    It hasn’t even been a full year since we saw Baby Colin Robinson grow back into an adult energy vampire, but What We Do In the Shadows is set to make its season five return to FX on July 13th.

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    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    Meet the 14-year-old animator behind Across The Spider-Verse’s Lego world.

    While most of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verses creatives were seasoned professionals, Preston Mutanga, the genius behind the movie’s brief foray into a stop-motion world full of Lego characters, is a Canadian teen — the same who recreated the movie’s trailer:

    “We found out that it was a 14-year-old kid who made it and we were like, ‘This looks incredibly sophisticated for a nonadult, nonprofessional to have made,” [Across the Spider-Verse writer/producer Chris] Miller said on a video call. “It blew us all away, including some of the best animators in the world.”

    Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is the start of something big, but it’s a terrible Beast Wars movie

    Paramount’s new Transformers feature barely capitalizes on Beast Wars’ Maximals, but the action-packed movie has a couple of surprises sure to please a certain kind of fan.

    Charles Pulliam-Moore
    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.