In anticipation of Sunday's Emmy Awards, this week WIRED staffers are looking back at some of their favorite shows from the last year. "No sane person would do this,” director Ezra Edelman told WIRED in January, not long after his […]
Every year more movies hit theaters than any sane person could ever hope to try to see. Yet we here at WIRED are crazy enough to try to see as many as we can. And in the process we often […]
For genre un-enthusiasts, it's easy to dismiss science fiction as a land of make-believe—a place where androids can become sentient and no one bats an eye. But for those who are willing to suspended disbelief and don't mind looking beyond […]
Click:milling “People didn’t hear me for a long time because I was so concentrated on those issues,” US representative Maxine Waters (D-California) said this week during an interview on The Breakfast Club, the contentious New York City morning radio show. […]
There’s really no nice way to put this: In his new film, Zone Out, Silicon Valley star Thomas Middleditch makes you want to do just that. It’s not simply that he talks about having sex with a jar of salsa, […]
There is a series of questions that every person asks themselves when a relationship falls apart. Why did this happen? What could have been done differently? How did we end up here, after everything we shared? And then the most […]
The opening scene of Shooter, a USA Network drama starring Ryan Phillippe as former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, could be read as a sort of conservative fable. As with many fables, it begins with the hero encountering an animal […]
Steve Jobs was a visionary, perfectionist, tyrant, and genius. Now the late technologist is something new: a baritone. The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, an original opus by Pulitzer Prize–winning librettist Mark Campbell and DJ-slash-composer Mason Bates, premieres at the Santa […]
Plotting director Steven Soderbergh's latest project—an interactive smartphone app called Mosaic—required covering most of the walls in a Chelsea loft with color-coded cards and notes. The app contains a 7-plus-hour miniseries about a mysterious death, but because viewers have some […]
Last week Facebook decided that maybe it should make some changes to the information people see on the platform; also, a lot of people got very interested in the pay discrepancies between Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams. But, beyond that, […]