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September 3, 2015 Trae Dorn Disney, Kevin Feige, Marvel, Marvel Studios

Marvel Studios Creative Committee No Longer a Thing

The news came down the other day that Kevin Feige would begin to report directly to Disney, and that Marvel

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September 2, 2015 Trae Dorn Alex Kingston, BBC, BBC America, Doctor Who, River Song

Alex Kingston’s River Song Will Appear in the ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas Special

After her last appearance at the end of series seven, most thought we might never see Alex Kingston’s River Song

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September 1, 2015 Trae Dorn Dark Matter, Defiance, Killjoys, Syfy, SyfyFriday

Syfy Renews ‘Killjoys’ and ‘Dark Matter,’ No Word Yet On ‘Defiance’

Syfy brought back Sci Fi/Syfy Friday this year, and it featured two new shows, Killjoys and Dark Matter (alongside returning

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September 1, 2015 Trae Dorn CW, Flash, The Flash, Tony Todd, Zoom

Tony Todd Cast as the Voice of Zoom in ‘The Flash’ Season 2

We just got rid of one Reverse Flash on the CW’s The Flash, so it apparently is time to introduce

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August 31, 2015 Trae Dorn MTV, Shannara, Terry Brooks, The Shannara Chronicles, trailer

‘The Shannara Chronicles’ Gets its First Trailer

Last year we reported that MTV had greenlit a TV series based on Terry Brooks’s Shannara series of novels. Well,

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August 31, 2015 Trae Dorn AMC, Fear the Walking Dead, the walking dead

AMC Producing Zombies on a Plane Special

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that AMC is producing a half hour special about zombies on a plane set in the

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August 30, 2015 Celeste Startwin Nightmare on Elmstreet, RIP, Scream, Swamp Thing, The Hills Have Eyes, Wes Craven

Horror Legend Wes Craven Dies at 76

We are sad to report that Wes Craven, the director of horror classics including Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, and my all-time favorite Swamp

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August 28, 2015 Trae Dorn Captain America, Captain America 3, Civil War, Marvel

Spoilers: Leaked ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Art Confirms Who is on What Side

We’re pretty hyped about Captain America: Civil War. I mean, it’s the anti-Avengers movie. One of the big questions about

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August 28, 2015 Trae Dorn Fan Film, fanfilm, Star Trek, Star Trek Renegades

‘Star Trek: Renegades’ is Here… and it’s Terrible

So we’ve been following Star Trek: Renegades for a while. We were originally hopeful (though skeptical). I mean it had

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There’s an annoying thing in the witchcraft community where every new idea or trend gets cast as an “ancient” practice even if it’s just a few years old. Time and time again, we see people constructing false narratives about the supposed historicity of ideas, spells, and rituals in witchcraft spaces, and all of it is bad for us. Why do people feel the need to lie? Why does something being a new idea make it less credible in people’s eyes? Why have we been doing this as a community from the start?

So I thought about calling this “Older Doesn’t Mean Better Part 2” or “Older Doesn’t Mean Better Redux” since this is some of the same territory we covered back in episode 17, but I think I’ve gotten more surly on the topic over the last six years, and wanted to talk about it again. Also, I kind of forgot I’d recorded an episode on this when I was prepping the episode, but I like this version better.

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