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“A League of Their Own is a half-hour comedy infusing the warmth, humor and DNA of the classic film, while taking a contemporary spin on the stories of the women surrounding the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The show will begin with the formation of the league in 1943 and follows the Rockford Peaches, season to season as they struggle to keep the team alive through close games, injuries, late night bar crawls, sexual awakenings, not crying and road trips across a rapidly changing United States....

Agents of SHIELD season 6’s main villain could be an escapee from Doctor Strange’s Fear Dimension. Over the last few years, Marvel Television has essentially evolved into a superhero mystery show. Each season sets up a grand, overarching adventure-mystery for the SHIELD team to solve. Last season was all about working out what had destroyed the Earth and how to avert it. This season is all about the Coulson doppelganger and another potential extinction level event....

Historical dramas have captured the imaginations of audiences since the invention of theater. The genre has never lost popularity. We love to view our history through a dramatic lens. If you’re looking for something based in truth with perhaps a bit of artistic license, Netflix has quite a catalog to offer. The streaming service’s ‘Historical Drama’ category is ripe for the picking. If you’re having a hard time narrowing down your choices we’ve rounded up the 10 best titles available to stream right now....

Christopher Nolan is one of the most acclaimed directors in all of Hollywood. Among his notable film credits are The Dark Knight trilogy, Interstellar, The Prestige, Inception, and Dunkirk. Each film he makes is either a mind-bender, visually captivating, or a combination of both. Nolan is currently working on his next epic film, Tenet, set to release in 2020. He took some time out of his busy schedule to come up with a list of movies he encourages people to watch....

The fantastic second season of Marvel’s Agent Carter has come to a close, albeit with a bit of a whimper. While the season itself was filled with a great story arc, a fantastic female villain and the luminous Hayley Atwell, viewers didn’t exactly flock to see it. Although the numbers weren’t what the network was hoping for, there are still rumblings that the show will get a new season come next year, and we’ve argued that that’s exactly what ABC should do....

Will Clay Jensen get arrested at the start of 13 Reasons Why season 3 for his involvement with Tyler’s deadly plan? 13 Reasons Why season 2 ended with a monumental cliffhanger that had many viewers wondering about Clay’s (Dylan Minnette) fate moving forward. And so, when 13 Reasons Why season 3 releases (possibly later this year), there will be a lot to discuss. Much of 13 Reasons Why season 2 focused on the legal battle between Hannah Baker’s parents and Liberty High School....

The Arrowverse began five seasons ago when Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) returned to his home after being lost at sea. Since then, Arrow has been joined by The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl for plenty of team-ups, universe hopping, and time travel adventures. When a TV show’s universe incorporates time travel and multiple worlds into its storylines, things can get complicated. Heroes can have evil doppëlgangers and villains can turn to the other side quicker than a flash....

When it comes to opinions on movies, your own personal reaction is the most important, despite what many critics would like you to believe. Critical writing does have its place, of course, and when there are armfuls of new movies coming out each and every week, a critic can be useful in separating the wheat from the chaff and advising you where you should spend your hard-earned cash. Having said that, there is definitely a divide between critics and audiences....

When Peter Jackson delivered The Lord of the Rings cinematic trilogy, it was a long-awaited dream come true for fans of the epic JRR Tolkien tomes. Truly, there was no way to properly bring such a spectacle onto the big screen until we were well into the era of CGI. It was something of a miracle that the director formerly best-known for splatter-fests like Dead Alive and light horror comedy fare like The Frighteners could so successfully craft a series of complex films (later taking on The Hobbit as well)....

Pietro and Wanda Maximoff, also known as Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, are some of the most complex and complicated characters in the world of comic books. With backstories that encompass different family trees, not knowing who or what they are, and with powers that seem to unlock more tragedies than they know what to do with, these two sibling superheroes are as interesting as they are confusing. Although they are brother and sister, their relationship takes twists and turns not normally known to most siblings....

It’s crazy to think that Lost has been off the air for almost a decade. Few shows, apart from maybe Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad, have had the level of popularity and fandom that the hit ABC drama received. Fan theorizing, intrigue, and anticipation helped evolve Lost into one of the cornerstone shows in modern television history. The immense cast and even more immense stories allowed for viewers to experience the show long after the credits rolled....

When it comes to animation, Pixar movies have become the gold standard. The studio produces hit after hit — its best efforts leave audiences in tears, and even its worst films are entertaining box office successes. Pixar has defined animation for an entire generation of moviegoers and each film feels like it’s made with more passion than the last. Pixar’s concept art reflects that, but sometimes its passion can be a little misguided....

Casting directors are one of the most important, yet rarely discussed occupations in the film industry. They certainly don’t get interviewed or discussed in the same light as the actors who they propel to fame and fortune. Perhaps it’s because few casting decisions draw intense scrutiny. We expect Ryan Gosling to get leading men roles, and Jennifer Lawrence to get leading female parts, and the likes of Paul Giamatti and Allison Janney to get memorable character roles....

One of the essential elements between characters on a TV series is onscreen chemistry. Usually depicted between two would-be lovers on a show, the “will they, won’t they” dynamic of a couple’s potential romance adds to the appeal for the audience. Although viewers tune in for the possibility of their favorites getting together, they also tend to transfer those hopes to the actors and actresses themselves. On occasion, we become so engrossed in our love for two TV characters that we hope the actual stars become an item as well....

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Stories discussed in this episode: Face ID repairs are about to get a whole lot easier Apple 5G modem talks underway ahead of 2023 production Leaked Intel roadmap reveals more efficient chip to beat M1 Follow Chance: Twitter: @ChanceHMiller Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Overcast RSS Stitcher TuneIn Google Play Don’t miss out on our other daily podcasts: Quick Charge 9to5Toys Daily Share your thoughts! Drop us a line at happyhour@9to5mac....

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Will Netflix’s adorable rage-filled anime Aggretsuko return for season 3? Based on the mascot created by Sanrio (the company behind Hello Kitty), Aggretsuko started out life as a series of animated shorts before making the jump to Netflix last April. The series follows the 25-year-old Retsuko, a red panda working in a Tokyo based trading firm’s accounting department. Crushed by her own anxieties as well as the endless frustration of terrifying bosses, a pushy mother, and a lack of social life, Retsuko finds cathartic release through the power of death metal karaoke sessions....

Superhero movies are currently some of the most popular and successful in Hollywood. As a result, more and more of them are getting released every year. Because of that, actors are inevitably turning up in more than one of them and playing multiple characters. In some cases, you’ll notice obvious similarities between the different characters a single actor has played, but the most interesting thing is seeing just how different some of them are....