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Clockwise from top: Resident Evil; Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom; Traitors: New Blood; and The Weight.Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Everett Collection (Dusan Martincek/Sony Pictures, Vertical Entertainment), GKIDS, Euan Cherry/NBC

One of the semi-regular editions of this week’s links, below, filed from the rails of these fair British Isles, as some time is to be taken completely away from the internet, staring out at the sea off the coast of Scotland, before inevitably caving to switching mobile data back on to check the cricket scores,…

A couple of years ago while I was conducting research for my book, Cosplay: A History, I attended DragonCon for the first time. If you’re not in the cosplay scene, this convention is something of a mecca for cosplayers: tens of thousands of fans descend on Atlanta, Georgia for the con, and in addition to…

DC‘s Golden Age, lasting from 1938 to 1956, introduced many of its most enduring super-heroes and villains. This Golden Age was kicked off by the almost-mythical Action Comics#1, the comic that introduced Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s Superman, a cultural icon whose selflessness and decency have become the standard against which all other super-heroes are…