For a movie full of sky-shrieking aircraft, cacophonous bomb blasts, and a relentless tick-tocking score, it's notable just how quietly Dunkirk snuck up on movie audiences. There were no major film festival premieres or fan-targeting convention campaigns in the months […]
Six months ago, in the face of tragedy, Zack Snyder stepped away from the upcoming Justice League movie. While the director and his wife dealt with the death of their 20-year-old daughter, Autumn, Joss Whedon stepped in to finish the […]
Begun, the new Star Wars rumors have. The usually reliable Heat Vision blog at The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that the next installment in the Star Wars extended universe (after the director-juggling Han Solo prequel and, probably, a Boba Fett […]
Having nearly run out of eye-rolling Avengers conjoinings and bastardized reboots, Hollywood execs have landed on an even lazier way to sell movie tickets: 3-D releases of beloved classics. The latest victim of this desecration? Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Twenty-six […]
Last week was a whirlwind in the media. The owner of Gothamist and DNAinfo shuttered them both. ESPN issued new guidelines for what their employees can say on Twitter and other social platforms. And Disney declined to give the Los […]
OK, where to begin? Well, last week was a half-fortnight during which folks learned Donald Trump Jr. didn't call his dad when everyone thought he did (more on him in a minute); an Apple bug allowed other people to eavesdrop […]
"MIT Professor Exposes ‘Egregious Error’ & Evidence Tampering in US Report on Syria Sarin Incident." Pretty good headline, right? You've got a qualified expert from a prestigious university, discussing verifiable facts; even if you're a born skeptic, you're going to […]
Earlier this week, the New York Times posted a comprehensive accounting of President Donald Trump’s lies. It is, among other things, a triumph of web design. Orange, san-serif dates turn each falsehood into bricks in a vast wall. Scrolling turns […]
Take in the price of Finnish tomatoes with me. In winter, when there’s more darkness than daylight, a kilo of tomatoes costs almost €4 ($4.50) in Tampere, a city of 300,000 in southern Finland. “Finnish vegetables are really expensive,” Lauri […]
The only way to explain the reaction to Merriam-Webster’s year-end announcement that “doggo” was one of the dictionary’s “Words We're Watching” is to use another colloquialism: Twitter lost its damn mind. It wasn’t the first time Merriam, the hippest dictionary […]