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, […]
People come to Comic-Con International to gawk. The reason everyone always has their smartphone in their hand isn't because they're texting, it's because they want to be able to snap photos of celebrities they spot. It’s as much of a […]
Click:deep groove ball bearing As a child, Ann Leckie dreamed of growing up to be an archaeologist. Instead, she became a best-selling science fiction author—though she didn’t write her hit debut novel, Ancillary Justice, until she was well into her […]
Adam West may not have been the first Batman—the Caped Crusader appeared in a few 1940s serials long before West donned the cowl—and the brood-dudes who followed definitely overshadowed him. But to my mind, no actor ever made the Dark […]
Ursula Le Guin imagined the future for a living, but her most prescient statement may have come in a speech. "I think hard times are coming," the writer said at the National Book Awards in November 2014, "when we will […]
The Fourth of July is a holiday consecrated in meat smoke. On this day, lovers, neighbors, children, and friends gather around a BBQ, cold beers sweating in hand, to stare into piles of pork belly, strip steak, burger patties, and […]
Han Solo was never one for backstory. That’s why the pilot enjoys perhaps the most fuss-free introduction of the entire Star Wars saga. “Han Solo,” a cool-in-every-way Harrison Ford says in 1977’s Star Wars. “I’m captain of the Millennium Falcon.” […]
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is a virtuoso maker of monsters—from the Pale Man of Pan’s Labyrinth to Pacific Rim’s Kaiju, they’re wondrous yet terrifying. But the star of his new film, The Shape of Water, is no mere beast, del […]
Facebook may have decided it doesn’t want to be a media company, but it might just want to be a gaming platform. The company announced today that it will be the exclusive destination for multiple leagues from esports federation ESL. […]