Marvin Miranda

"I'm going to tell you this story of a family you consider illegal but you're gonna recognize as uniquely American," writer Rafael Agustin says of the "edgy, Latino Wonder Years" TV show he's sold based on his life growing up undocumented in L.A....

There's a studio in town making epic CGI movies starring legendary characters like Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Thor and Hercules, adapting authors such as Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs. "We're the shitty Disney!" exclaims the Asylum's chief operating officer, Paul Bales, answering my riddle....

If at any time in history it could be said that as a nation our collective unconscious actualized a Troma movie directed by Lloyd Kaufman, that time is now. We live in a world where a genius billionaire sends into space a roadster with an astronaut dummy listening to David Bowie; and a fake billionaire turns what was arguably the most commanding job in the world into a grotesque and toxic farce. So it's not hard to imagine that at some point we slipped through a crack in the multiverse and ended up in a mashup of a Douglas Adams science fiction comedy and Tromaville....