Thor: The Dark World

In the long, important, trillion-dollar history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, 2011’s Thor represented its first semi-risk. Iron Man, the 2008 film that launched the franchise, introduced a character who wasn’t terribly well-known outside the comic book shop, but it starred Robert Downey Jr. right when America needed him back. The Incredible Hulk cast an Oscar-winning actor as pop culture’s most famous humanoid monster (non-Frankenstein category), and had only to be better than the movie that made us wonder whether we were wrong about Ang Lee. Continue reading at 'Slate'

[ Slate | 2013-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Max Brooks's 'Devolution' follows Bigfoot into the dark forest of terror

Ron Charles tracks the Sasquatch legend that won't die in Max Brooks's "Devolution" Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2020-06-08 08:25:32 UTC ]
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Walliams returns with World's Worst Parents

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Rob Biddulph sets new world record for largest online art lesson

Children's author and illustrator Rob Biddulph has broken the Guinness world record for largest online art class, in collaboration with Entrepreneur First and Art World Records. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Opinion: How digital media can get serious about building transparency, privacy and neutrality in a post-cookie world

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Science Fiction for Early Readers: The Fantastic World of DINOSAUR TRAIN

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A look at the post-apocalyptic world envisioned in the novel ‘After London’

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BookExpot 2020: Rebecca Roanhorse Offers Readers a Different Fantasy World

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MCB signs Riddell's world-saving poetry anthology

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Samanta Schweblin’s ‘Little Eyes’ envisions a world connected — and sometimes torn apart — by tiny, adorable gadgets

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