Tag: Slate Magazine

Harry Styles! As heralded by his hobbit-looking attendant, Pip the Troll is playing Eros, aka Starfox, aka Thanos’ brother. While his birth name is Eros, after the god of love, he sometimes goes by Starfox when he’s acting more ostentatiously as a superhero, so now you know that for better or worse this isn’t an […]

Back then, she lived to tell the tale—but in 1998, Michael finally caught up to her in the memorable opening sequence to Halloween: H20, when her chain-smoking, wisecracking character finally had a fateful encounter with his butcher knife. As a bit of a Halloween head myself, I was delighted when she turned up again in […]

We started talking and I thought, Here’s the kind of person who can revitalize the study of literature.” As the chair—Ji-Yoon, played by Sandra Oh—visibly blanches, I guessed gleefully that the “new blood” she would be forced to award the prize of delivering her department’s prestigious lecture would be James Franco, Ph.D. Recently, he’s published […]

Whatever wizard Damon and Affleck managed to cross in their Cambridge days must have been very powerful, because eight years later, the curse seems to be going strong. Both would underperform at the box office, while things picked up for Damon with a supporting role in Ocean’s Eleven in 2001 and then a starring one […]

Stine—traces the origins of an ancient evil that menaces the doomed suburb of Shadyside, a witch’s curse that turns out to be much more complicated than it seems. With Fear Street’s third part, set in 1666, now streaming, Slate talked to director Leigh Janiak, who had the massive task of directing and co-writing all three […]

As for why it takes place then, well, Marvel made 20 movies before they made their first standalone centered on a female superhero, and it’s probably not a coincidence that they didn’t get around to making a Black Widow movie until after the character was already dead. They’re just there to provide a little sentimental […]

True, teenage Luca lives underwater with his fish-finned family, but when he steps out of the water and into an Italian fishing village, he becomes a human boy in the very recognizable 1960s, a time period fixed by the pop music that is frequently blaring from tiny portable radios. I’ll say that in the inception […]

The show’s main characters—the Stone family, half of whom were passengers on Flight 828—are aggressively bland. But the odd qualities of this show go far to explain why that sprawling conspiracy theory jibed with so many people These callings alienate the passengers from others, but they must stay true to the mystery despite their families’ […]

But was this show actually in any way furry-approved? To find out, I called up Joe Strike, the author of Furry Nation: The True Story of America’s Most Misunderstood Subculture and a certified greymuzzle, i.e. I was already reading the comments under the under the trailer, and there are still a lot of furry haters […]

Even I, a person outside Inside—the special mostly fell flat for me—was moved to sympathy by the desperately self-conscious agony of its protagonist. In trying to better understand the zeitgeisty nerve it hit—combing fan forums, eavesdropping on loving discussions of it online—I’ve been struck by the number of viewers for whom the special captured some […]

This week’s season finale of The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu was typically dark, both in subject matter and in lighting. We see the seat of power: the commanders, who make decisions about justice , the economy, and international relations. Rarely do we see the rest of the population, known as “Econopeople.” The Handmaid’s Tale Wiki […]