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Cartoons, by their nature, have a shorter shelf-life than most anything else in popular culture. Ask someone just a couple of years younger or a couple of years older than you, and they probably remember a nearly-completely different assortment of childhood animated series. There are a few major exceptions: Disney’s Mickey Mouse and friends, Warner…

Beginning with Godzilla (1954), the Japanese film industry has repeatedly returned, at steady intervals, to the spectacle of giant monsters laying waste to the archipelago. From the outset, the kaiju film offered more than destruction as entertainment. It provided a framework for confronting a deeply political and unresolved question: how should Japan respond to an…

The Silent Hill franchise has evolved with its most recent entries, expanding into settings that go beyond the eponymous foggy American town. In Silent Hill: Townfall, it also taps into a new way to terrify players, shifting from a traditionally third-person perspective to first-person. The series has previously offered glimpses of first-person gameplay, including Silent…

TV

The Green Lantern Corps are getting plenty of time in the spotlight lately, courtesy of Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre’s detective double act in HBO’s live-action “Lanterns,” but this isn’t the first time the GLC got its own dedicated TV time. In 2011, Warner Bros. were trying to make a big deal out of DC’s…