Punks at the Georgetown Roy Rogers fast-food restaurant in Washington, D.C., 1985. (Photo by Bettmann / Getty Images)
There are some people those of a certain age and a certain disposition, mostly middle class and white, often male who will always remember just where they were when they heard the news. I was working as a bike messenger in San Francisco that spring day in 1994, and I can still recall locking up outside City Hall, getting ready to make a court filing, when the boss came on the two-way radio and blurted it out. “It’s all over,” he said, delivering the grim news with an air of barely restrained, mordant self-satisfaction. “Kurt Cobain killed himself, put a shotgun in his mouth.”
Reckoning With Identity Politics
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When Trump won the 2016 presidential election, an editor I worked with asked me: What did I think as a Muslim American? The question troubled me, because I had never thought of myself as a “Muslim American.” A few months later when Trump became president, a friend from high school, who only gets in touch every few years, wrote asking me whether the “Muslim ban” upset me; again, the question troubled me. Soon, I was having arguments with friends about my refusal to identify as a “brown man.” These arguments forced me to say “yes” in one form or the other after all, I am Muslim, and I am not
Wonder Woman 1984 is an overstuffed sequel Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot reunite for a superhero sequel that buries its best elements underneath an incoherent storyline by Norman Wilner on December 21st, 2020 at 2:30 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1
Wonder Woman 1984
Starring Gal Gadot and Chris Pine. Directed by Patty Jenkins. Available to rent on digital platforms on Friday (December 25).
I was really rooting for
Wonder Woman 1984 or
WW84, as the disco-neon title treatment would have it. After watching Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot bring the comic-book character of Princess Diana to vivid, compassionate life in 2017’s
Wonder Woman, which broke Warner’s DC movie franchise out of its grimdark torpor, I was eager to see what the duo might accomplish without a nervous studio second-guessing their choices at every turn.
Review: Wonder Woman 1984 is an overstuffed sequel
Review: Wonder Woman 1984 is an overstuffed sequel
Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot reunite for a superhero sequel that buries its best elements underneath an incoherent storyline By Norman Wilner
Diana (Gal Gadot) and Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) enjoy the fireworks in Wonder Woman 1984.
WONDER WOMAN 1984 (Patty Jenkins). 149 minutes. Available to rent on digital platforms December 25. Rating:
NN
I was really rooting for Wonder Woman 1984 – or WW84, as the disco/neon title treatment would have it. After watching Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot bring the comic-book character of Princess Diana to vivid, compassionate life in 2017’s Wonder Woman, which broke Warner’s DC movie franchise out of its grimdark torpor, I was eager to see what the duo might accomplish without a nervous studio second-guessing their choices at every turn.