May 2026

The Adventures of Superman – The Birthday Letter

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  • Title: The Adventures of Superman – The Birthday Letter
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Superman Sunday takes us back to the 1950s and a strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Originally airing on Halloween 1952, “The Birthday Letter” involves a coincidence of young Kathy (Isa Ashdown) who accidentally overhears a crucial piece of information involving a counterfeit plot and also writes to The Daily Planet that her most fervent wish is for Superman to take her to the fair (as apparently Kathy’s leg brace is too much of an impediment for her mother to do so).

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Alice in Wonderland

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  • Title: Alice in Wonderland (1951)
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Disney’s 1951 adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s novel is a fever dream dropping young Alice (Kathryn Beaumont) down the rabbit hole into a nonsensical world which is both everything she ever wanted and far more than she bargained for. The film follows Alice through a series of odd, mostly disconnected, and admittedly beautifully rendered, adventures coming across the likes of the Mad Hatter (Ed Wynn), the Cheshire Cat (Sterling Holloway), the Queen of Hearts (Verna Felton), and others, while following the White Rabbit (Bill Thompson).

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Spider-Noir – Step Into My Office

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  • Title: Spider-Noir – Step Into My Office
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Distinctly different than the original comic character or the character shown in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (also voiced by Cage), the opening episode of Amazon Prime’s Spider-Noir series introduces Private Detective Ben Reilly (Nicolas Cage) as a former super-hero turned struggling gumshoe just trying to make a living in the big city which is still reeling from the Great Depression and machinations of crime lord Silvermane (Brendan Gleeson).

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