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Hillbilly Elegy review: “Awards are inevitable for Glenn Close”

The timing of Ron Howard’s classy yet unremarkable Hillbilly Elegy, an adaptation of J.D. Vance’s bestselling memoir charting his upward mobility from Ohio poverty to Yale law school, couldn’t be more pertinent, arriving as it does when we’re all unpacking President Trump’s legacy. Published in 2016, Vance’s book seemed to explain the …

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The next C2E2 and ECCC postponed until end of 2021

The first two major North American comic conventions of 2021, Emerald City Comic Con (ECCC) and Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2), have been postponed until the end of 2021. Seattle’s next ECCC is now set for December 2-5, 2021, moving off the previously scheduled March 4 – 7 date …

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Meet the mutants of the new S.W.O.R.D. #1

Marvel Comics has released a preview (opens in new tab) of unlettered interior pages from S.W.O.R.D. #1 by writer Al Ewing and artist Valerio Schiti. The new volume of the title introduces a new incarnation of the space security force, now re-organized as a mutant-centric squad with ties to Krakoa …

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