The tech-bro rich, they are not like you and me. They treat the world like it’s their frat house. They view atrocities not as losses of human life but as “atrocitopportunities.” They get high on the fumes of their own disruption. They buy private planes, private security armies, private compounds …
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Four tech “geniuses” watch the modern world they helped create descend into chaos in the new teaser for Mountainhead, the upcoming HBO movie from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong. The film stars Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youssef, and Cory Michael Smith as billionaire friends who gather for a luxury weekend …
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His name is Lee … Bill Lee. A man slouching toward middle age and suffering the malaise of someone who’s seen it all, heard it all, shot it all into his veins, he’s embraced the dissolute life of an ex-pat. Sporting an endless supply of filthy linen suits and ever-present …
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Alex Ross Perry was approached to make a documentary about Pavement. There was a slight hitch: The band kinda sorta did not want a documentary made about them. Or rather, they didn’t want one of those things where fans of the band talk about how amazing the quintet were, in …
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His name is Lee … Bill Lee. A man slouching toward middle age and suffering the malaise of someone who’s seen it all, heard it all, shot it all into his veins, he’s embraced the dissolute life of an ex-pat. Sporting an endless supply of filthy linen suits and ever-present …
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Joanna Sternberg has returned with “A Country Dance” for the upcoming film Between the Temples. The track — dedicated to Sternberg’s friend, Sami Bronowski — is a charming acoustic ditty packed with dazzling lyrics about drinking wine and dancing beneath the stars. “The joke of the song is: I don’t …
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This post contains spoilers for Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, which is currently streaming on Netflix. The first episode of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off seems designed to make even the most passionate fans of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s comic books — or the cult classic film Edgar Wright made from them — …
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Long before there was a Katniss Everdeen, future victor of the Hunger Games and Panem’s No. 1 revolutionary icon, there was Lucy Gray Baird — a young woman who also hailed from District 12 and found herself recruited as a tribute in a fascist world’s annual entertainment death march. She …
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Every world gets the Spider-Man it deserves. And here on Earth-1610, our webslinger is one Miles Morales: a half-Black, half-Puerto Rican teen who loves graffiti, Air Jordans, and quantum physics. Like most Spider-Folk, he was bit by a radioactive arachnid, developed the ability to crawl up walls and sense oncoming …
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In the second sketch of the third season of I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, one character admits, “I just take everything way too far! I got too hyper.” This line could be part of pretty much every ITYSL sketch, both in this new season and in the …
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