Colette Arrand May 27, 2022. 4 minute read
Britt Baker’s Johnny Depp T-shirt Is a Fun Reminder That You Can’t Escape Anything
I’m going to begin this piece by acknowledging that last week, Fanfyte ran two reviews that were decidedly in favor of an Abortion Rights Are Human Rights! shirt that CM Punk wore on an episode of AEW Dynamite. This is a political statement he’s now made twice when performing in…
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David Bixenspan May 27, 2022. 6 minute read
AEW Is Finally Back in Vegas, and Boy Have Things Changed
Double or Nothing, AEW’s annual Memorial Day weekend pay-per-view event, was supposed to be in Las Vegas every year, just as it was for their debut show in 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic changed that, with the 2020 (in front of wrestlers serving as the crowd) and 2021 (in front of…
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Dylan Roth May 27, 2022. 8 minute read
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Review: Ride Into the Navy Zone
In 1986, producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson, director Tony Scott, and star Tom Cruise hit paydirt with the blockbuster success of Top Gun, a drama loosely based on the real-life magnet program for the US Navy’s most talented aviators. It was the highest-grossing film of the year and propelled…
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Steven Nguyen Scaife May 27, 2022. 5 minute read
‘Men’ Review: Trash Indeed
Still recovering from the death of her husband James (Paapa Essiedu), Harper Marlowe (Jessie Buckley) has rented a country cottage, retreating to the sort of stone-and-brick village that makes her blue car look like an intruder. The landlord, Geoffrey (Rory Kinnear), seems harmless enough, insofar as she won’t be seeing…
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Steven Nguyen Scaife May 27, 2022. 6 minute read
‘Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers’ Review: The Loneliest Number
Does it really matter if I dislike Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers? I found it empty and pandering, an instance of some typically reliable comedians on autopilot, but is it even for me? It’s a PG-rated movie that got dumped on Disney+, that comes with a supplemental list of what…
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Natalie Weiner May 27, 2022. 3 minute read
Softball Is Proof Of Sports Investors’ Terrible Logic
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. When you’re a fan of women’s sports, it’s very hard…
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