‘Power Rangers’ at 30: How Japanese monsters and teen drama captured a generation

[ad_1] It’s hard to imagine TV without an intergalactic dinosaur robot teen drama. Yet, that’s how children’s television was in the U.S. until Aug. 28, 1993, when the first episode of “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” hit the airwaves and forever changed pop culture. A year prior, Fox had established itself at the top of cutting-edge… Continue reading ‘Power Rangers’ at 30: How Japanese monsters and teen drama captured a generation

‘The Pod Generation’ review: Comic sci-fi satire lacks edge

[ad_1] It’s easy to agree with the premise of Sophie Barthes’ gleaming, quasi-dystopian “The Pod Generation”: With every technological advance, we’re leeching what’s natural from our lives, and letting the simulations take over. But the movie’s core — a marital seriocomedy in which Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor start a family in a brave new… Continue reading ‘The Pod Generation’ review: Comic sci-fi satire lacks edge