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Juliet Miles fled her home in Uganda at 15, with her mother, two sisters, two brothers, one suitcase and hopes for a better life in California.  Uganda had suffered six years under “life president” Idi Amin’s brutal dictatorship by the time Miles’ family was able to escape; ultimately, some 300,000 were killed under his rule.  Miles says little about that time. “We fled the country from Idi Amin...” she said. “Idi Amin was the president and Tanzania had ...

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Alerts When Wyatt Russell was cast as the new Captain America, it wasn’t without caveats. For one, he’s not really Captain America, depending on who in The Falcon And The Winter Soldier you ask. That role was held by Steve Rogers and Steve Rogers only, and anyone donning the shield is just a pretender. Secondly, how Russell’s character John Walker even got the shield is a bit dubious, since Sam Wilson gave it to the Smithsonian in the first episode, only to have it re-emerge a couple of...

s, the first prime-time TV series to prominently feature DC’s world-famous Man Of Steel since Smallville leapt—or, rather, stepped—onto the small screen back in 2001. It’s lucky timing, considering network resistance to superheroes and their superpowers has softened considerably over the years, Expectations have been high for Superman & Lois, and not just because it’s “the new Superman show.” Though it’s meant to provide a much-needed burst of energy from a network franchise ...

It’s hard to beat Superman in a fight. And not just a physical one, but a moral one too. As Lois points out when Clark fails to show up to support her at a town vote on whether Morgan Edge should take over the Smallville mine, Clark always has the most valid of reasons for his absences. When he misses an event, it’s because he’s literally off saving lives. Logically, it’s hard to begrudge that. But, emotionally, it’s hard not to be made to feel small when your everyday human problems...

Screenshot: Disney+ With more than a decade of hindsight, we can now clearly see how ridiculous mid- to late-2000s fashion really was. At the time, it was both acceptable and even kind of cool to wear big belts, military patrol caps, and layers upon layers of tank tops, t-shirts, and vests. Now, we look back at the ’00s with the same mixture of embarrassment and fascination that inevitably follows after a trend has died, marveling over the era’s pop culture artifacts like archaeologists exa...

Illustration: Russell Dauterman/Marvel Beyond the functional, protective aspects of a superhero’s costume, the outfits they wear are often extravagant reflections of their personalities, power sets, and most iconic plotlines from classic comics. While the X-Men have all been updating their looks lately as part of Marvel’s Dawn of X, the world’s most famous mutants are all about to switch things up again for a special occasion. Advertisement As per the dress code for the Hellfire Club’s...

MYSTERIES ABOUND ABOARD A DURGE-ANGED SHIP! • DOCTOR APHRA and SANA STARROS discover an eerie abandoned ship while on a new mission from DOMINA TAGGE. • But on board they will come face-to-face with a nightmarish horror not seen in the galaxy for untold eons. • And then there’s….THE FEARSOME BOUNTY HUNTER DURGE! If Durge hasn’t been around for “untold eons” then he presumably no longer played any role in the canon Clone Wars stories. I hope to god he still has an army of IG lanc...

/Film reports Blumhouse is producing eight new horror films exclusively for Pennyworth’s EPIX. The first in the series, A House on the Bayou, comes from writer-director Alex McAulay and is said to follow “a troubled couple and their preteen daughter who go on vacation to an isolated house in the Louisiana bayou to reconnect as a family. But when unexpected visitors arrive, their facade of family unity starts to unravel, as terrifying secrets come to light.” Advertisement Reshoots on Tr...

Image: Disney+ WandaVision, the next story in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is ready to be told. (Which is nice considering we waited well over a year between the last two installments.) That story is called The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and the six-episode Disney+ series will center on two of the MCU’s most fascinating, complex heroes. Advertisement Now, a short wait between MCU shows should be a good thing. The problem is, you might not have time to properly go back and watch everythi...