In classrooms and college dorms across the world, students are turning to a new kind of mentor: not teachers, not parents, but celebrities. Whether it’s Taylor Swift’s poetic vulnerability, Billie Eilish’s emotional honesty, or YouTubers like MrBeast modelling philanthropy, American pop culture figures have taken on a role once reserved for real-life guides. For Gen…
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Florence Pugh jumping off the second-highest building in the world. The high-flying, high fashion-favoring Pugh performed the leap for Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*,” hailing the studio’s new era and looking absolutely fabulous while doing it. Here are the highlights from Pugh’s press tour — put together with the help of…
Hong Kong Disneyland is introducing a brand-new Pixar entertainment experience along with the previously-announced Marvel area. The news comes as the theme park prepares to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Michael Moriarty, managing director of Hong Kong Disneyland, announced the upcoming Pixar area on Instagram. According to the director, the “all-new, exclusive Pixar entertainment experience” will…
Don’t blame Thanos: “Marvel Snap” is a casualty of the U.S. government’s move to ban TikTok over fears about its parent company’s Chinese ties. It’s not just TikTok that winked offline for U.S. users Saturday, just hours before the Jan. 19 deadline specified by the U.S. divest-or-ban law targeting TikTok. At least 10 other ByteDance-owned…
Following the path carved out by Venom, Kraven the Hunter, which hits theaters Dec. 13, provides an origin story for one of Spider-Man’s villains while simultaneously casting him as an anti-hero tasked with taking down an even worse Big Bad. Why anyone would care about this evil character outside the context of a Spidey adventure,…