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Satire’s corporate takeover: “Community,” “Silicon Valley” and the entertainment-industrial complex
Evan Selinger
As TV turns increasingly to product placement, it's still trying to pretend it's in on the joke. Here's the problem
Jack Bauer has become a different kind of hero
Neil Drumming
The "24" hero returns for a ninth season, surrounded by the moral ambiguity of a new political age
The BBC needs a science fiction lesson
Neil Drumming
The BBC's new series about the history of sci-fi forgets something important: The best sci-fi show ever
Piketty shrugged: How the French economist dashed libertarians’ Ayn Randian fantasies
Lynn Stuart Parramore
"Capital in the 21st Century" reveals once and for all that the invisible hand of the market can't solve inequality
TV’s dinosaurs are going extinct: The rise of anti-heroes & the fall of Barney Stinson
Amanda D. Lotz
How the rise of cable TV made depictions of masculinity like "How I Met Your Mother's" seem laughable and outdated
11 countries that don’t trust their citizens to name their babies
Emily Lodish
New Zealand, Germany and others have decided to ban egregiously awful names like "Monkey" and "Pluto"
“Noah”: Aronofsky’s deranged biblical action flick
Andrew O'Hehir
Stone giants, battle scenes, a satanic antihero and Russell Crowe's vegan cult leader -- Aronofsky's nutso "Noah"
25 biggest moments in Internet history
Jessica Phelan
The Web turned 25 this week. To celebrate, we look back on some of its most important milestones
“Parenthood” and the charter school dream
Neil Drumming
"Parenthood's" Kristina Braverman of Berkeley, CA takes up a cause New Yorkers are becoming all too familiar with
The 8 best comics featuring old Batman
Mark Peters
From "The Dark Knight Returns" to "Kingdom Come," some of the best Batman stories show him as an older man
The man behind the “Gravity” special effects thinks it can beat “12 Years a Slave”
Daniel D'Addario
SFX supervisor Neil Corbould on why "Gravity" could win, and why 3-D movies and special effects usually bore him
Michael B. Jordan’s casting in “Fantastic Four” brings out the trolls, again
Daniel D'Addario
The "Fruitvale Station" star is getting flak for playing a superhero. But it's a great, progressive decision
NFL executives respond to Michael Sam’s coming out with cynical homophobia
Katie McDonough
An openly gay player would "chemically imbalance an NFL locker room and meeting room," said one anonymous insider
“The LEGO Movie”: Plastic blocks fight for freedom!
Andrew O'Hehir
Yeah, "The LEGO Movie" is contradictory and nonsensical, but it's also a joyous, imaginative pop-culture ride
Jesse Eisenberg is the world’s next Lex Luthor
Prachi Gupta
The "Social Network" star will play the super villain in Zack Snyder's Batman-Superman movie
The 10 best superhero comics of 2013
Mark Peters
Superheroes aren't just on the big screen. From Spider-Man to the Hulk, these are the year's essentials
The 17 most jaw-droppingly terrible lyrics of 2013
Nico Lang
Whether outright offensive or just plain dumb, these songs featured truly regrettable word choice
Beefcakes are the new cheesecakes
Justin Hall
Hollywood has a new fascination with sexualized male heroes. Now if only more if its films passed the Bechdel test
The year in movies: Iron Man, Ted Cruz, race and power
Andrew O'Hehir
The chaos of 2013, from Snowden to the shutdown to complex films about race relations
“Superman’s” forgotten Jewish roots
Samuel Sattin
The comic book's first publisher was Romanian-born. Zach Snyder's epic captures none of its hero's complex history
Wall Street is designing the future of public education as a money-making machine
Anna Simonton
Why are finance types investing in local school board elections? Just follow the money
Superheroes are a bunch of fascists
Richard Cooper
Today's comic-book movies are all about superior beings dominating everybody else. Where's the left-wing superhero?
If you like “The Walking Dead,” you’ll love this addictive comic
Mark Peters
"Walking Dead" author Robert Kirkman's series "Invincible" tells a fun, scary story that's better than the show
“Thor: The Dark World”: Loki saves the day
Andrew O'Hehir
Tom Hiddleston's delightful trickster-god nearly redeems this action-packed, cosmically jumbled comic-book sequel
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