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David A.M. Wilensky

Fabulist media critic David A.M. Wilensky is the digital editor of jweekly.com and modmin of the Star Trek Jewposting group on Facebook.

‘WandaVision’: A superhero mystery wrapped in a sitcom

By David A.M. Wilensky | Jan 19, 2021
The Marvel Cinematic Universe juggernaut has arrived on Disney+, and in our living rooms, with "WandaVision." The nine-episode TV serial finds two thus far underused MCU superheroes happily trapped with no memory inside what seems ...

Excited about the new ‘Picard’ series? Here’s what to watch to get caught up.

By David A.M. Wilensky | Jan 20, 2020
“Picard,” a new “Star Trek” series featuring an older Captain Jean-Luc Picard dragging himself out of retirement for one last hurrah, premieres on January 23. In interviews about the forthcoming series, the producers (Alex Kurtzman, ...

Herzog in a Star Wars western? Meet ‘The Mandalorian’ (Review)

By David A.M. Wilensky | Nov 13, 2019
“The Mandalorian,” the first live action Star Wars TV series, is the Star Wars fan’s wet dream. It is a gritty take on Star Wars, so obsessed with the scum and villainy side of the ...

Here’s a li’l dish of Disney’s latest Star Wars and Marvel trailers …

By David A.M. Wilensky | Aug 26, 2019
(Above, the new WandaVision TV series appears to be pegged to a 2015 Marvel comic.) There's a dope new trailer-ish thing for Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, mashing up previous episodes and ...