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Moana Sails Past Fantastic Beasts
Another long Thanksgiving weekend, another Disney princess atop the box office. Three years ago, Disney’s Frozen climbed to the box office dais during the gobble-gob

Culture Clips: The Post-Truth Edition
We live in a post-truth world. Or, at least, so says the Oxford English Dictionary. The hallowed caretaker of the King’s English dubbed the phrase

Fantastic Beasts Find No. 1
After two rather strange weeks in theaters, the box office took a fantastic turn. A fantastic beasty turn, that is. Fantastic Beasts and Where to

Arrival and Us: Are We All Speaking the Same Language?
Almost everyone likes Arrival. The $24.1 million worth of people who saw it thought it was just fine. (It gets a “B” from viewers, according

Smartphone Parental Controls and You
Here we are once again about to celebrate the holidays. And, as we all know, that means kids with a lot of time on their

Culture Clips: Hollywood Reacts to the Election
We begin this week where we began last: with the election. Even though President-Elect Donald Trump was a former reality star himself, that doesn’t mean

Doctor Strange Wins Again
It’s autumn, no question. We’re watching football. We’re raking leaves. Some of us may already be basting the Thanksgiving Turducken. But at the movies, it

Vodcast: The Curious Case of Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange is nothing if not an odd, curious duck. Both the character and the movie, to be clear. The “good” doctor himself is a

When Doctor Strange Went to Ephesus
Doctor Strange is casting its lucrative spell on the box office. It’s Marvel’s latest successful introduction of a character whom only really “inside baseball” comic

Culture Clips: How Google Shapes Election News
And so it begins. As Adam Holz said last week, Culture Clips is moving to a new time (now) and a new place (here), also
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