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Beyond Bond: Alt-Spy Dramas Swap Angst for Action
It’s a gray day in London and two men in suits contemplate chess pieces crowned with crumpled photographs of double agents employed by Britain’s secret spy service, code-named “The Circus.” “There’s a...
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Best of 2011: Pop Culture’s Tastiest Bits
This year was filled with weird and wonderful movies, music, TV shows and books. Here are our favorites.
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Review: Riveting Homeland Probes Post-Traumatic Spy Syndrome
Homeland's weirdly prescient season 2 opener kicks off with unsettling images that could have been lifted straight from video streaming in from the Middle East this month: Outraged Muslims burn the...
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5 Easy Pieces This Week on a Super-Sized Monitor
There's so much good stuff in the world of pop culture these days that this week's episode of The Monitor is a little meatier than usual -- highlighting two comics and two albums along with the best TV...
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Geek's Guide to the Galaxy | With Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow Grows His...
His latest Young Adult novel is sure to inspire, thanks to its alluring tale of tech-savvy anarchist runaways who attempt to take on the entertainment industry.
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The Monitor’s 10 Favorite Things of 2012
How many times did we see or read something that made us want to tell you about it on The Monitor? Somewhere in the neighborhood of eleventy million, we think. So, as you can image, narrowing it down...
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Video: What If Homeland Were a 16-Bit JRPG?
The high-tension, terrorism-themed drama Homeland doesn’t return with fresh episodes until 2014, but in the meantime, espionage fans can revisit the show’s first season in a video that reimagines Brody...
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Homeland Season 3 Premiere Leaks Online Three Weeks Before Debut
An unfinished version of the season 3 premiere of Showtime's spy drama Homeland has been downloaded by thousands of fans, weeks ahead of its television broadcast.
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5 Unlikely Christmas Episodes We’d Love to See
The problem with today's best TV shows is that not one realizes how important the Christmas special episode tradition is -- so we've tried to remind them.
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8 Resolutions to Make 2014 a Better Year for Pop Culture
So, 2013 has been a pretty good year for pop culture, but 2014 could be even better — as long as everyone involved follows these simple suggestions.
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