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Saturday Night Live host Josh Brolin teamed up with Heidi Gardner to play bank customers caught up in a heist who use their kinkiness to help get the robbers to abandon their mission. After two armed men dressed in black enter, Gardner eggs them on despite their hesitancy to engage with her. “No one gets hurt? Yeah, right. I’ve seen enough movies to know what happens to a chick like me. Take me to the vault and get it over with, you nasty boys!” she exclaims, prompting one of the robbers (James Austin…

Can the third time really be the charm? At 76, uncompromising filmmaker Paul Schrader wraps up his trilogy on men confronting their pasts. Meanwhile, the third — and sadly final — season of one of TV’s best contemporary crime series — “Happy Valley” — hopes to save the best for last. But as great as they are in considerable ways, each has an issue with sticking the landing. Here’s our roundup. “Master Gardener”: Is it possible that Paul Schrader, the gifted and cranky screenwriter of…

Big Shot Comics is an underappreciated title featuring Skyman, with an impressive array of comic book and comic strip talent behind it. | During the boom years of 1939 and the early 1940s of the Golden Age of American comic books, most new entrants in the field naturally had little or no experience in comics publishing.  Such was not the case for Columbia Comics Corporation, which entered the field in April 1940 with Big Shot Comics #1, a series debut that had an impressive array of creative talent behind it.  Columbia…

| The historically important DC Comics series Strange Adventures was launched in 1950 and ran for 244 issues before ending in 1973.  The title introduced a number of well-remembered DC Comics characters over the years, including Captain Comet, Animal Man, and Deadman. Largely remembered as one of a number of 1950s comic book titles during this early Cold War era that featured weird science fiction, the debut of the series also included a healthy dose of science fiction history while remaining a fascinating artifact of…

Marqeta celebrates IPO at the Nasdaq on June 9th, 2021.Source: The NasdaqShares of payment processor Marqeta closed down 24% on Thursday after founder Jason Gardner announced plans to step down as CEO, and the company said it's being cautious given the challenges in the economy and fintech sector.Gardner started Marqeta in 2010 and grew it into a company that was worth over $16 billion after its stock market debut last year. However, the stock is more than 75% off its high, and the broader tech market swoon has pushed the…