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‘SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME’ REVIEW: ANOTHER FUN SPIDEY TALE OF POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY

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🤵 MATT SINGER   Date : June 27, 2019 ⏱️ 12:30 PM The following review contains no spoilers for Spider-Man: Far From Home. It does spoil the hell out of Avengers: Endgame, though, so be aware of that. Spider-Man: Far From Home is best viewed as the dessert at the end of an elaborate and overindulgent tasting menu. You’ve already eaten six courses, you’re totally stuffed and in no mood for more food, and then they bring out the cookie sampler with eight different kinds of homemade sweets and of course you eat it and you’re even more full than before but it was worth it because the cookie sampler is amazing. That’s Far From Home. Just two months after Avengers: Endgame — literally the biggest superhero movie ever created — I’m not sure anyone is dying for another Marvel movie already. But the one that Marvel (and Sony, who holds the big-screen rights to Spidey and co-produces his movies) have produced is light and frothy and sweet. It’s a lovely capper on the 23-...

HOW DOES THE NEW ‘TWILIGHT ZONE’ COMPARE TO THE ORIGINAL?

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CBS 🤵 MATT SINGER June 27, 2019 ⏱️ 11:30 AM Starting today, CBS All Access has submitted a new version of   The Twilight Zone  for the approval of its subscribers. Produced and hosted by  Get Out  and  Us  director Jordan Peele, the show is heavily indebted to the original version of the series, which ran for five seasons in the 1950s and 60s, and was created, produced, and hosted by writer Rod Serling. Peele’s  Twilight Zone  is actually the third such revival of the landmark sci-fi anthology, following versions in the mid-1980s on CBS and syndication, and one in the early 2000s on UPN. No matter the iteration, every subsequent  Twilight Zone  has been compared to the first. Serling’s  Twilight Zone  was never a massive ratings success in its day, but decades of syndicated reruns, VHS and DVD compilations, and holiday marathons, have transformed it one of the most celebrated and influen...