The Monday Edition - Apr 15, 2019
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Movies, Avengers: Endgame, Brie Larson

Not Even the Marvel Actors Know What They’re Filming

Carol Danvers meeting Thor in Avengers: Endgame
We're back with another rousing round of "No one knows what is going on in Avengers: Endgame" but this time starring Brie Larson!
AMP Featured, Big on the Internet, history, Notre Dame, Paris

Notre-Dame Cathedral Is Burning

Notre dame fire
A major fire has broken out at the historic French cathedral immortalized in literature and film. The damage is devastating and ongoing.
News, Ilhan Omar, Islamophobia, women in politics

Donald Trump & Other Conservatives Are Attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar Over a Speech They Clearly Didn’t Actually Watch

Rep. Ilhan Omar stands in front of a microphone, beaming during a climate change rally.
Last week, Donald Trump tweeted out a deliberately misleading video criticizing Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's recent comments about anti-Muslim discrimination following the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The video takes an excerpt from a speech Rep. Omar gave at a banquet hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), in which she describes the attacks as how "some people did something," cut together with footage of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon burning.
Big on the Internet, Movies, David Harbour, Hellboy, Neil Marshall

Hellboy Is a Boring Box Office Bomb—Which Is a Shame

Hell Boy Bomb Shame
Neil Marshall’s 'Hellboy' is underperforming at the box office and leaving audiences cold, which is a damn shame for a franchise once so promising.
Movies, female directors, women in film

Percentage of Female Directors in Hollywood Has Been Stagnant for 20 Years

Laurie Metcalf, Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan, lady bird, female directors, female characters study women in film
In the 2019 lineup at CinemaCon, we were gifted with films with a whole different kind of character, making it one of the most diverse seasons we have seen to date. So ... where are all the female directors
TV, A Song of Ice and Fire, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin

Why Do People Need Dany to Be Nice?

Closeup of Daenerys Targaryen in HBO's Game of Thrones.
"I was born to rule the Seven Kingdoms, and I will." Season eight's first episode calls into question Dany's right to be queen based on her tendency to be a little ... fire and bloody.
AMP Featured, Space, black hole, Event horizon telescope project, Katie Bouman, space

Of Course Katie Bouman Should Get Credit for the Picture of the Black Hole

First-ever image of black hole.
Worried people were starting to be fun and normal again? Think again! Katie Bouman, who came up with the algorithm and tested five petabytes of data to achieve the picture of the black hole for the Event Horizon Telescope project, is now facing internet trolls saying she's getting too much credit. I'd like for them to try and even figure out how to start writing an algorithm.
TV, Arrow, contributors

Interview: Arrow’s Juliana Harkavy Tells Us What’s Coming for Dinah in Tonight’s “Lost Canary”

Juliana Harkavy as Dinah Drake/Black Canary in The CW's Arrow.
We talked to Black Canary/Dinah Drake herself, Juliana Harkavy, about tonight's episode and Dinah’s multiple journeys in season seven so far.
Movies, Star Wars Celebration, The Mandalorian

Things We Saw Today: All The Mandalorian, All the Time

the mandalorian is the new star wars show starring pedro pascal on disney+..
Star Wars Celebration wrapped up today, but not before giving us some more information regarding the upcoming live-action Star Wars television show, The Mandalorian.
AMP Featured, TV, Hollywood, WGA

Here’s Why Hollywood’s Writers Are Publicly Firing Their Agents This Weekend

Patton Oswalt, Ashley Nicole Black, and Megan Amram, all of whom have fired their agents this weekend.
If you were hanging out online around midnight Pacific time on Friday night, you might have noticed a rash of high-profile screenwriters all announcing that they'd fired their agents.
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