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"Rat Queens" revolves around a group of foul-mouthed female mercenaries. 
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‘Rat Queens’ entertains with laugh-out-loud dialogue, ‘Bone’ takes a fresh spin on the coming-of-age genre

By Eli Radtke | Nov. 30, 2017

With the new “Marvel: Infinity War” trailer out this week, new seasons of superhero shows like “Agents of Shield,” “Runaways” and new episodes of “The Gifted,” I’m just trying to hide somewhere dark and deep where the Marvel Universe hasn’t pried its grubby little fingers yet. It’s not that I dislike Marvel; I just like to breathe the fresh air on occasion, so, let’s lead off with a suggestion from an entirely different angle.

While its heroes entertain, "Justice League" suffers from tonal inconsistencies and lacks complexity.
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‘Justice League’ drowns its iconic characters in a CGI-filled, basic story

By Alex M. Jankovich | Nov. 27, 2017

Upon leaving the theater after viewing “Justice League,” it can be misleading to judge the film based on excitement for its characters or the introduction of humor into the DC universe. However, DC’s first attempt at a large-scale team-up movie fails to bounce back from “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” the universally panned previous installment in the franchise.

Saoirse Ronan stars as the titular character in Greta Gerwig’s film.
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‘Lady Bird’ captures uncompromising reality of adolescence

By Christian Memmo | Nov. 20, 2017

In preparing for Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut in “Lady Bird,” I hads a sense of apprehension about the experience I presumed I would have. As industry costs increase and fall to the consumer, it becomes a greater gamble of financial precarity when $15 is the entry fee for the chance of an entertaining film and an enjoyable evening. Naturally, trailers yield the byway method of circumventing our concerns about this very problem, yet often find themselves under heavy critique for their own representation of the film they aim to market. With “Lady Bird,” I found an unfortunate parallel to this issue. However, it seemed to work astoundingly, and in a manner I hadn’t truly expected.

Swift's determination to create a new image for herself comes at the expense of originality.
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Taylor Swift slithers but doesn’t bite in new album, ‘reputation’

By Carl Zabat | Nov. 20, 2017

With reputation, Taylor Swift makes a transformation — one that many huge stars have attempted — into a darker, more serious version of herself. Bruno Mars did it with Unorthodox Jukebox, Michael Jackson scowled on the cover of Bad and Beyonce embraced her sexuality like never before on her self-titled album. Swift, however, had slightly different circumstances

UW-Madison alumnus Charlie Berens discussed his popular show.
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Charlie Berens, of 'Manitowoc Minute' fame, kept it movin' with the Daily Cardinal

By Maggie Chandler and Nina Bertelsen | Nov. 20, 2017

With a Wisconsin accent and growing bread for No-Shave-November, Charlie Berens walked up to the fifth floor of Vilas Hall after sleeping on a plane. The J-School alum and former Daily Cardinal arts writer was in town for the Michigan game and spent the afternoon chatting with current Badgers. In his time away from Madison, Berens moved around a lot, taking risks and networking as a TV-broadcaster in Dallas before transitioning into satire and comedy.

Amazon pilots like “Sea Oak” saw high ratings from viewers.
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Amazon’s TV pilots showcase strong female representation

By Monique Sheidler | Nov. 16, 2017

Last Friday, Amazon released three new shows as a part of their biannual pilot season program. The way the pilot season works is they release a bunch of pilot episodes for new shows, after which the viewers are able to rate and review them. The ones with the best ratings get picked up for a series order. This winter, they released three new pilots — “I Love You More,” “Sea Oak” and “The Climb” — showing a push for female representation both on and off the camera.

Though he is new to the music scene, Petit Biscuit proves to be a noteworthy artist in the electronic music genre.
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Petit Biscuit features ambient sounds, maturity on debut album

By Erin Bates | Nov. 16, 2017

Petit Biscuit released his debut album, Presence, this past Friday. Though he is most known for his song “Sunset Lover,” which boasts over 226 million plays on Spotify, Petit Biscuit displays an advanced sound on his new album, which features 14 tracks — almost entirely new releases. With collaborations from fellow producers Lido, SONIA and Bipolar Sunshine, Presence offers a creative mix of electronic melodies from all the featured artists.

Jidenna unexpectedly dropped his new EP over the weekend, but it doesn't live up to expectations.
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Jidenna’s ‘Boomerang’ EP stumbles in attempt to reinvigorate past songs

By Edgar Sanchez | Nov. 13, 2017

Over the weekend, Jidenna dropped a surprise EP titled Boomerang. Some may remember the billboard-charting, electro R&B hit, “Classic Man” from 2015. Since then, Jidenna has pushed out some great work and performed at a slew of festivals, including this past summer’s Lollapalooza in Chicago. Fans of the Netflix show Luke Cage will likely remember Jidenna’s appearance with his stellar performance of the melodic single, “Long Live The Chief.”

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