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Marvel’s CLOAK & DAGGER Season 2 premiered last week on Freeform; graciously returning for a fresh new interview is filmmaker Jennifer Phang, who directed S2’s premiere episode “Restless Energy.” (My earlier chats with Phang on her work on CLOAK & DAGGER S1 and THE EXPANSE can be found here and here.) Dom Mah: Hi again!…
You may have been asking yourself, what’s next for Paul Thomas Anderson following his multiple-Oscar-nominated PHANTOM THREAD (2017)? The renowned filmmaker confirmed recently that he has completed a “pretty strong draft” for a sequel to his 1999 film MAGNOLIA, and that pre-production is already underway. The announcement seems timed to coincide with the film’s upcoming…
….And it’s looking like ‘19 is gonna be another tumultuous year for the planet, am I right? And yet we still push ahead. SPOILERS for the CAPTAIN MARVEL film ahead, as well as fun facts, science-fiction trivia, and Marvel Minutiae: 1. The score by Pinar Toprak is, I would opine, a bad-ass score. One of the…
SIX DEGREES OF LIKE BUTTON (inspired in part by a preview performance of the play White Noise, by Suzan Lori-Parks) Distance OK, I get it. New York is gray. I miss the California air, with its whiff of euphoria, the hint of the holy. In Los Angeles, you don’t die at night from exposure to…
MC Frontalot’s new album NET SPLIT: OR, THE FATHOMLESS HEARTBREAK OF ONLINE ITSELF dropped this weekend. (Or, is it still dropping? Is the moment of album-drop an indivisible quantum thing? Probably no one cares.) Five years in the making, NET SPLIT is in some sense a concept breakup album, in which the Godfather of Nerdcore…
