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We live in a period of not-so-great media literacy. Bruce Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine fans decry their one-time favorites for criticizing Trump. People go to message boards to complain that Star Trek is woke, decades after Kirk reprimanded Stiles for his bigotry. Marvel readers boycott Captain America for

The explosive first season of Daredevil: Born Again has a lot in common with the Marvel Comics story Devil’s Reign. In both tales, Wilson Fisk becomes mayor of New York City and wages war against his enemies, especially Daredevil. At the end of the comic story, Luke Cage becomes the

X-Men: The Last Stand deserves almost no praise. Not only did it replace the franchise’s gross first director with an equally gross new director, but it utterly fumbled the Dark Phoenix Saga, one of the greatest X-Men stories of all time. Moreover, it filled the screen with all manner of

In Man of Tomorrow, the upcoming sequel to Superman, German actor Lars Eidinger will play Brainiac. An intergalactic collector from the planet Colu, Brainiac’s cold, computer brain strips him of all emotion. He simply travels from planet to planet, shrinking cities he finds interesting and bringing them into his ship,