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Netflix’sOne Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) centers around the enchanted and often tragic world of the Buendia family. Based on Gabriel García Márquez’s novel of the same name, the drama series traces seven generations of the Buendías through recurring names, forbidden romance, civil wars, and inescapable solitude in Macondo. One Hundred Years…

Once upon a time, DC Comics was the first name people thought of when they thought of superheroes. Sure, Spider-Man was popular, but when most people thought of costumed do-gooders, they thought of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Justice League. A big part of that was the cartoon SuperFriends. This Saturday morning classic brought…

In 1996, id Software smashed through to another dimension – in one sense of the word, pioneering first-person shooters in the third dimension with the release of Quake, and in another, hurtling players feet-first into Quake’s otherworldly realm – a place beyond our reality where kinetic combat and a moody eldritch setting took FPS players…

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During his lifetime, the Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, arguably the greatest ever Spanish-language writer, considered One Hundred Years of Solitude, his 1967 magnum opus, to be unfilmable. “The novel, unlike film,” he told an interviewer in the 1980s, “leaves the reader room for creativity, allowing them to imagine the characters, settings, and situations as…