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When Asgardian magic is detected in relation to a string of mysterious murders on Earth, Odin sends Loki to investigate. As he descends upon nineteenth-century London, Loki embarks on a journey that leads him to more than just a murder suspect, putting him on a path to discover the source of his power-and who he's meant to be.

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Movies, Black Christmas, Blumhouse Productions, Sophia Takal

Black Christmas Trailer Gives Us the Feminist Holiday Horror Movie We Deserve

Black Christmas will give us horror for the holidays this December.
Oh there's nothing like a little horror for the holidays.
Big on the Internet, Crazy Rich Asians, Wage Equality, Women in Hollywood

Crazy Rich Asians Writer Adele Lim Quits After Discovering Her White Male Colleague Was Paid 10 Times Her Salary

Adele Lim on the red carpet at the Crazy Rich Asians premiere.
Crazy Rich Asians' co-writer Adele Lim will not be returning to work on the romcom's sequels, thanks to Warner Bros' insistence on tokenizing and severely underpaying her.
TV, Archie Comics, Riverdale, The CW

Who Is Katy Keene and Why Is She Getting Her Own Riverdale Spinoff?

Lucy Hale as Katy Keene
Why turn the fashion icon of Archie Comics, Katy Keene, into a television show? Because every generation needs their unrealistic young people in New York City show.
Big on the Internet, Gabrielle Union, Kirsten Dunst, Rodarte

Torrence and Isis Are Back for Rodarte’s 2020 Lookbook, With More of Our Pop Culture Faves!

Scene from Bring It On
Honestly, I'd like to live in these pictures and wear all these outfits on the regular, so can Rodarte hook me up?
TV, Birds of Prey, The CW/WB

Alright, Let’s Talk About the Birds of Prey TV Show: Was It That Bad?

Ashley Scott, Dina Meyer, Rachel Skartsen "Birds of Prey" (2002)
In The Year of Our Lady 2002, after the success of the show Smallville, the smart people at The WB (now The CW) decided that the next best thing to do would be to make a Batman-related product to go with their Superman product.
Big on the Internet, app, Jeremy Renner, marvel

The Rise and Fall of the Jeremy Renner App

Hawkeye/Ronin looking confused in Avengers: Endgame.
Jeremy Renner's self-titled app is no more. It died as it lived: making no sense whatsoever.
AMP Featured, TV, contributors, Netflix, Stranger Things

Stranger Things’ Steve Harrington: From ’80s Stereotype to Fan Favorite

Steve Harrington and Dustin on Netflix's Stranger things.
Steve Harrington has been a fan favorite on Netflix's Stranger Things for a good long time now and only gained more love after season 3 dropped in July. At the very beginning of the show, Steve fit right into the '80s stereotype of the popular jock kid who rules the school, and for a good portion of season 1, he went back and forth between really fitting into the role of being “King Steve,” as he was called, and showing his more real side.
TV, David Tennant, Good Omens, Michael Sheen

David Tennant at Dragon Con: “Maybe I Should’ve Married Michael Sheen”

Good Omens starring Michael Sheen as Aziraphale and David Tennant as Crowley
Here's one for all the Aziraphale/Crowley shippers out there. At his recent Dragon Con panel in Atlanta, actor David Tennant got candid about the chemistry he's had with actors throughout his career, and joked about his Good Omens castmate Michael Sheen.
TV, Hulu, The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments

I Might Be Wrong, But Maybe Hulu Doesn’t Need To Develop The Handmaid’s Tale Sequel The Testaments For TV

Elisabeth Moss as June in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale.
Margaret Atwood is going back to Gilead with The Testaments, her sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, and already Hulu has optioned the project and is developing it for TV
News, Brock Turner, Chanel Miller, sexual assault

Things We Saw Today: Stanford’s “Emily Doe” Is Chanel Miller and She’s Telling Her Own Story

Chanel Miller narrates her story into in a microphone.
Viking's editor in chief calls Chanel Miller's memoir "one of the most important books that I’ve ever published” because it has the potential to “change the culture that we live in and the assumptions we make about what survivors should be expected to go through to get justice.”
AMP Featured, TV, Mark Brendanawicz, Parks and Recreation

Rewatching Parks and Rec, I Realized Mark Brendanawicz Is THAT White Guy

Mark Brendanawicz in Parks and Recreation
Mark Brendanawicz led Leslie Knope on, very rarely took a stance on anything, and thought he was in love with Ann Perkins until she turned him down. 
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