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A few weeks ago, Forbes magazine declared that Tony Stark—a.k.a. Iron Man—was worth a whopping $9.3 billion, making him the world’s fifth richest fictional character

Have you ever had this experience? You go to a movie with a friend, a movie that perhaps has some content that’s a bit edgy.

“Don’t listen to him, he’s just a [fill in blank here]” You may not have noticed as the world has subtly changed, but labels have

What if you walked into the Smithsonian American Art Museum and on display was … wait for it … video game art? Well, wonder no

I’m in the middle of reviewing the ABC show Scandal—a strange little drama that’s a little hard to box inside a recognizable genre (look for

Well, we knew it was gonna be big. But this big? The Avengers, Marvel’s supersized superhero flick, didn’t just win the weekend box-office crown. It

For the last few weeks, we’ve been talking about seeing problematic or challenging movies. Not so much about how to decide whether you see them,

My wife and I both like going to a good movie. She may not ramble on afterwards about a pic’s artistic nuances and production values

In its first five days in foreign theaters, Marvel’s The Avengers raked in a whopping $185.1 million. That’s right. By the time the latest supersized

Every parent of a teenage daughter has, at some point, wrestled with the makeup issue. Should it be allowed? If so, when? What kind? And