The Friday Edition - May 10, 2019
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This gorgeous collection of quotes from throughout Wonder Woman's iconic history in comics, film, and TV, fully illustrated by a wide range of classic and modern visuals, showcases her wisdom on fighting systems of evil, defying expectations in Man's World, standing up for peace and love, and embodying the true meaning of strength.
Celebrate Wonder Woman.
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Movies, Avengers: Endgame, Hawkeye, ronin

Hawkeye’s Ronin Arc Is a Glaring, Ugly Issue in Avengers: Endgame

Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye / Ronin in Avengers: Endgame
A viral thread on Twitter has a lot of people talking about an issue we've long had with Hawkeye's positioning in Avengers: Endgame. Clint Barton, under the identity "Ronin," becomes a vigilante serial killer—primarily of people of color.
Movies, The Matrix, The Wachowskis

John Wick Director Says the Wachowskis Have Another Matrix Film in the Works

Keanu Reeves in The Matrix (1999)
It has been twenty years since the first Matrix movie came out, and that means it's in a prime place for a comeback, and if Chris Stahelski is right, that might be coming soon.
AMP Featured, News, free lunch, Students

Chobani CEO Steps up to Pay off Lunch-Shaming Student Debt, but It’s a Band-Aid on a Much Deeper Problem

A small child looks out of a school bus window.
Earlier this week, a Rhode Island school district announced that any student who owed money on a paid, free, or reduced lunch plan would be given a sun butter and jelly sandwich instead of the full hot lunch until the balance was paid. The issue drew national attention for food shaming children, meaning not only does the policy draw attention to a child's financial situation, but it instils an internal sense of shame in a child's relationship with food.
Movies, Anthony Mackie, Letitia Wright, Sebastian Stan

We Can’t Stop Watching Four Avengers Stars Navigating an Escape Room

Benedict Cumberbatch, Anthony Mackie, and Letitia Wright try to escape the Avengers: Endgame escape room that director Joe Russo concocted.
Apparently, our favorite Avengers who got dusted by The Snap wound up in an escape room after Thanos wiped out half the universe.
Movies, Peter Parker, Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Far From Home

Spider-Man Maybe Doesn’t Have This Under Control in New Spider-Man: Far from Home Clip

Mysterio in 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'
Spider-Man, he save! Well, sort of. 
Movies, Halle Berry, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Keanu Reeves

Review: John Wick: Chapter 3 Delivers the Great Action You Expect While Expanding Its Central Mythos

Keanu Reeves and Anjelica Huston in John Wick- Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019).
Super-assassin John Wick (Keanu Reeves) has returned in this third installment in the beloved action-thriller franchise, directed once more by Chad Stahelski, and it expands the world of John Wick beautifully, while also keeping the high-momentum ballet of violence going for its meaty 131-minute runtime.
AMP Featured, Movies, Loki, Thor, Tom Hiddleston

Where Will Loki Go in His Disney+ Series?

Tom Hiddleston as Loki in Ragnarok
The dust has settled after Avengers: Endgame, and we've got a better idea of where the Loki-centric TV series will be headed on Disney+.
Movies, domestic violence, Olivia Wilde, vigilantes

Olivia Wilde’s A Vigilante Gives Us a Quiet Yet Brutal Female Revenge Story

olivia wilde plays sadie in a vigilante.
Pop culture is filled with brutal, violent revenge fantasies starring men. But female revenge stories are a unique beast. Meet 'A Vigilante.'
TV, CBS, Eliza Dushku, Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg’s Company Walks Away From Bull Due to Harassment Allegations

Eliza Dushku in Bull living her best life
Last year, actress and Chosen One Eliza Dushku came forward about the sexual harassment she has allegedly faced on the set of CBS's Bull from its lead actor, Michael Weatherly. Now Steven Spielberg's production company, Amblin, will be pulling out from the show.
News, abortion, contributors, reproductive rights

How Many Women Will Die Because Lawmakers Don’t Understand Basic Sex Education?

Woman holding sign that says, "Ugh, where do I even start?"
HB 481, signed into law this week but still yet to take effect, is shocking and terrifying in its cruelty, but in the context of the United States’ awful sex education and the horrific impact this has on drafting of bills like this, what more could we expect? HB 481 and the “fetal heartbeat” abortion bans routinely popping up in state legislatures across the country each week are the products of ignorance almost as much as they are of misogyny and cruelty.
AMP Featured, TV, contributors, What We Do In The Shadows

Queer Representation, Vampires, & What We Do in the Shadows

An old photograph of vampires from the What We Do in the Shadows tv show.
Whether it’s a human familiar who has spent a decade serving a Staten Island vampire in hopes of a being turned himself, a troupe of werewolves ready to mark their territory at any cost (provided they aren’t distracted by a squeaky toy), or a soldier of the Ottoman Empire so relentless he was named for his relentlessness, everyone needs characters to whom they can relate—and the FX comedy series What We Do in the Shadows delivers just that.
TV, Glee, Lea Michele, Rachel Berry

Things We Saw Today: Glee’s Rachel Berry Could Have Been so Much More

Lea Michele as Rachel Berry in Glee
I always saw Glee's Rachel as a character that was grossly misunderstood, not a villain.
AMP Featured, News, abortion, nolite te bastardes carborundorum, The Handmaid's Tale

Remember When Men Said We Were Overreacting by Comparing Modern America to The Handmaid’s Tale? So Do We.

A woman dressed as a character from the novel-turned-TV series "The Handmaid's Tale" walks through the Hart Senate Office Building
For as long as people have been expressing fear and discomfort around parallels between modern politics and The Handmaid's Tale, there have been others—mostly white cis men, natch–telling us to calm down.
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