The Every: When Big Tech rules all, don’t say Dave Eggers didn’t warn us
Bestselling author talks latest “sequel,” in which humanity cedes control to tech.
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Iké Boys review: If you love kaiju so much, why not just be one?
Clever use of animation, deep affinity for shows that inspired it carry this indie genre film.
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Mad God: What happens when the best practical VFX artist, ever, writes a film?
Phil Tippett’s love letter to practical effects and monster creation is be-a-u-tiful.
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Samurai-themed sci-fi flick It’s a Summer Film! expertly slices expectations
Stream this samurai-loving genre mashup when you can. Speaking of: ATTENTION US DISTRIBUTORS.
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Tiong Bahru Social Club review: Won’t you be my algorithmic neighbor?
In this Fantasia Fest film, happiness algorithms dictate terms of community living.
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Strawberry Mansion: A great sci-fi premise with trippy, arthouse execution
In this film, society can track dreams, so of course someone’s out to monetize ’em.
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Dread Pirate Roberts escaped development hell: Making Silk Road work as a film
“There’s so much we had to leave out. Really, what this needs is a six-hour limited series.”
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Circling—or cycling—the track at F1’s famous Circuit of the Americas
Be warned: Calves needed to climb all 133 feet of Turn 1 if you’re using a road bike.
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Sweet Tooth review: Evidently The Walking Dead just needed a deerboy
It’s light(ish) but includes masks, disease-driven death, and humans being bad to each other.
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Another media acquisition? This one would involve Amazon, MGM, and ~$9B
Does this at least mean we can watch No Time to Die at home soon?
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Invincible S1: Clearly, TV’s most fun superhero shows are on Amazon these days
Not even Smallville could combine YA drama and superhero DNA this well.
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Office default Calibri will join Clippy, Internet Explorer in Windows retirement
“Calibri in Office” could almost drive (15 years old), but a new sans serif will soon emerge.
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DC’s Rorschach: A detective walks into a world shaped by squids and superheroes
During COVID-19, Rorschach has been something to look forward to each month.
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The Emoji Story: You should never have this much fun learning about Unicode
“800M people could use a period emoji right now. How many people are talking about broccoli?”
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Hop on COVID-19’s most famous ship—the Diamond Princess—in HBO’s The Last Cruise
A staffer sums it up (before knowing the damage): “The walking dead, a dystopian situation.”
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Can you make a comedy set during COVID-19? Recovery takes the idea for a drive
Director: “I want people thinking it’s a Marvel movie. And that Timothee Chalamet is in it.”
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YouTuber Patrick (H) Willems has thoughts on movies—lots of thoughts
In this edition of “Personal History,” we talk with Willems about his YouTube comments.
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Mother to Earth: When an NES prototype lands on eBay and inspires a documentary
Kickstarted movies can go down pretty narrow rabbit holes, but this is some real hyperfocus.
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GamersNexus’ Steve Burke overclocks his YouTube channel’s best comments
Learn the true secrets of thermal paste application from the Six Billion Hertz Man.
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More Disney 2021 plans: Kate McKinnon as Elizabeth Holmes, Y: The Last Man on FX
Wait… they got Mahershala Ali to revive Blade, too?
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Insert Coin, the arcade documentary worth feeding all your quarters into
Midway created icons from Mortal Kombat to NBA Jam; this doc is finally widely available.
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Ford is making new Broncos; mockumentary John Bronco has its ideal pitchman
“Walton Goggins as a charming, country idiot” should be all you need to hit play.
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In The Columnist, reading the comments isn’t bad—being a toxic online troll is
Revenge fantasy has never been more understandable than when it involves being a woman online.
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FAA chief tests a Boeing 737 MAX—including its infamous flight control software
FAA Administrator Steve Dickson spent 2 hours at the controls, then spoke for 30 minutes.
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Feels Good Man, a film that truly gets how things are passed across the Internet
Exhaustively researched and reported, doc stays riveting no matter your Pepe familiarity.
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How do music festivals adapt to a pandemic? They Fest in Place, of course
WWOZ—one of the best US community radio stations—charts a temp path for festivals.
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Don’t risk your health to see Tenet, which is uber-fun but still just a movie
No film critics were at risk in the making of this review—thank you rural Texas drive-ins.
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NASA versus Katrina: August 29, 2005
From the archives: How 38 NASA employees kept the program alive amid the devastating hurricane.
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things: The most un-Netflix “Netflix film” to date
“You’re being willfully obtuse,” Lucy says to Jake (and not to Charlie Kaufman, I think).
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New Bill & Ted: Two ‘80s dudes have no business working this well in 2020
See the originals first, but Face the Music is fun and hopeful—so, a nice 2020 antidote.
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The Internet’s illusionist, Zach King, on popcorn Vines and re-engineering illusions
The “digital sleight of hand” artist prefers practical VFX these days, loves The Mandalorian.
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This COVID-19 summer’s must-watch show is… an NBA rookie’s YouTube page?
NBA player/amateur filmmaker Matisse Thybulle has created essential epidemiological viewing.
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Netflix’s Project Power, the most fun you won’t have at the movies this summer
Engaging premise + nice scenery + stars + action + some humor = pairs well with popcorn.
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An extended interview with Subnautica director Charlie Cleveland
If 20 minutes on this underwater gem wasn’t enough, can we interest you in 90 minutes?
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AMC tries to reopen again, with 15-cent tickets as COVID-19 risk incentive
AMC won’t pay you to come, but it’ll show old movies—that you can stream at home—for cheap.
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Good sci-fi speaks to the times, and Domain has done that twice in four years
“After a deadly virus,” people only have a “video interface for communication.” Hmm.
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