There really isn’t a whole lot to say about The New Mutants that we don’t cover in less time than they did. There’s easily about a podcast’s length of plot that was left on the cutting room floor. Josh was legitimately excited by the first trailer for this film, but corporate monopolization and global pandemics got in the way of a film that could have been good enough to overcome Charlie Heaton’s… “accent.”
- Do you believe in Majik?-
- Watch the first five minutes of Secret Invasion! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3y5U_0G3H8
- Once upon a time, Leslie Uggams was singing a song she didn’t know and the cue card guy fell over as she bulldozed over him to the stage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrma76T5Wa4
- If you haven’t seen Taskmaster, the cult thing may have worried you https://youtu.be/2BNpnbiFlTk?t=2026
- Willow and Tara were trailblazers, but the queer rep in Buffy wasn’t perfect https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-first-lesbian-kiss
- In case you need context for why Bryan Singer should never be heard from again https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/bryan-singers-accusers-speak-out/580462/
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Research and references completed using Wikipedia, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Box Office Mojo, and Disney.Fandom.Com.
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