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03 Feb

Yesterday Is History: Meet the Latest Addition to the Time Travel Romance Genre

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There’s a reason that time travel romances are popular, and it isn’t just the success of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander (both the books and the television series). The idea of traveling to a different time is, in itself, a bit romantic, and lovers crossed by time and space pluck the heartstrings of hopeless romantics. Kosoko Jackson’s newly released Yesterday Is History hits all the right notes for the genre by both drawing on its predecessors and striking out in a new direction, giving queer readers—especially queer Black men—representation in a genre that’s normally more female-focused. Andre Cobb is a young Black…
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02 Dec

Link Tank: How the Horror Genre Got Us Through 2020

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Now that we’re in the last month of the year, let’s take a look back at how the horror genre helped us cope with 2020. “It’s tempting to think that since 2020 was basically one real-life nightmare after another, the last thing anyone would want to do is engage with fictional horror on top of that. But that would be discounting the positive power of certain horror movies, TV shows, and video games that helped us navigate through the year’s darkest times.” Read more at Gizmodo. YouTube is bigger than ever in 2020. Here are the top trending videos on…
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10 Aug

How The First X-Men Movie Changed The Superhero Genre

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Back in the late 1990s, things didn’t look so hot for superhero movies. Warner Bros. Pictures crashed its Batman franchise into the ground with 1997’s disastrous Batman and Robin and showed no signs of resurrecting either that or any of its other DC comics heroes. Meanwhile, with the one bright exception of 1998’s Blade, not a single Marvel Comics character had made it to the big screen in a meaningful way. All that changed, however, in 2000, when 20th Century Fox released X-Men. Based on one of Marvel’s most enduring properties, the Bryan Singer-directed film introduced the concept of mutants…
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