Author: James

You probably can’t name the president who made the Transformers possible but you know every character by name. That’s how the 1980s toy industry worked. It didn’t sell products. It colonized the imagination of an entire generation of children whose parents spent money they didn’t necessarily have because the urgency felt medical. Some of these…

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On its opening night, “Supergirl” did not go over like gangbusters with the general public. Audiences gave the film an average grade of B- on CinemaScore, a market research firm that polls moviegoers on the opening nights of new releases to figure out what word-of-mouth will look like. CinemaScore data can offer a mildly useful glimpse into…

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