While Warner Bros. finds itself increasingly torn between two potential new owners in Netflix and Paramount, one of Hollywood’s most powerful proponents of preserving the big-screen experience has spoken up (again). Director James Cameron‘s long list of box-office hits includes the smash-hit Avatar series, and he’s already made it clear that he’s here to keep...
Post-presidency, Obama has remained relatively tapped out of current events and politics. Outside of a few rare, emergency exceptions where he felt it necessary to get back into the weeds—like the threat of NBA players striking or Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic primary—he’s mostly laid low and let our current elected officials cook. His plate’s...
Much like his arch-nemesis, Spider-Man, Venom is about to be taken to a whole other dimension on the big screen. Sony Pictures has decided that the next Venom movie will be animated and that Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, the team behind last year’s surprise hit Final Destination: Bloodlineswill direct. The Hollywood Reporter broke...
There are no two ways about it: gatekeeping and those who uphold it are the fun police, standing in the way of people getting put onto something worth celebrating. But in manga circles, gatekeeping series like Claymore by never talking about them is less about keeping the freaks out from ruining the series and more...
Few franchises in history have as rich a connection to their toys as Star Wars. It’s why, whenever a new Star Wars project is announced, the reveal of its toys can be such a big deal. In recent days, fans not only got a new trailer for the latest Star Wars movie, The Mandalorian and...
One of the first big Ls of the second Trump administration was just handed to him by an unlikely source: The Supreme Court of the United States. After years of Trump-friendly rulings—upholding the travel ban, permitting ICE to racially profileand OKing his freezing foreign aidto name just a few—the Roberts court has finally found one...
If there’s one bet that will always hit on one of the various “prediction markets” that are now apparently undergirding our economyit’s that America will take the wrong lesson from a crisis. One of the starkest bits of evidence for this truism is what remains changed in our society post-COVID lockdown. Our all-too-brief tastes of...
In 1994, Russian archaeologists unearthed a tiny cemetery with a grave holding a mummified woman wearing a wig. More than 30 years later, researchers revisited the long-dead body—exposing what appears to be a primitive prosthetic in her jaw. In a statementarchaeologists at Novosibirsk State University in Russia announced that a recent analysis of a 2,500-year-old skull...
Following an investigation into the Starliner mishap that left NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore stuck on the International Space Station for nine months, the agency says its own leadership is largely to blame. During a Thursday press briefing, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said that while Williams and Wilmore were aboard the ISS and...
As carbon emissions push Earth’s temperature higher and higher, Antarctica is taking the brunt of the impact. This frozen continent is warming nearly twice as fast as the rest of the world, threatening its ecosystems, driving sea level rise, and destabilizing global food chains. Humanity’s choices over the next decade will determine Antarctica’s fate, according...
