Fifty-four years ago, US president John F. Kennedy told his country that it was going to the moon (video). “As we set sail, we ask God’s blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked,” he said in his now-legendary 1962 speech at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas.
A blazing sun rises over the sierra of the American West—or is it an industrial lamp shining across the rib cage of an android skeleton? In Westworld‘s unsettling opening credits, it’s hard to tell. And that’s the point.
This is what it looks like when a sitting US senator loses his job in realtime.
Vine is dead. The team behind the Twitter-owned six-second video app announced today in a Medium post that it would be discontinued “in the coming months.”
Matthew Weiner is taking his talents to Amazon. The Emmy-winning creator of Mad Men will develop a new show for the streaming service, his first since the story of Don Draper and company ended in 2015.
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You’ve heard the news by now: Over the weekend, AT&T agreed to buy Time Warner for $85 billion, marrying one of America’s largest mobile and broadband providers with the content factory responsible for Warner Bros., CNN, TBS, and TNT.
If you’re not familiar with the X-Men, you could make it 88 seconds into the 107-second trailer for Logan before you realized you were watching a movie about a Marvel superhero. Set to Johnny Cash’s spartan cover of “Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails, the film’s first trailer looks like an intimate character study of an aging, gnarled man—one who just happens to have Adamantium claws and regenerative healing abilities.
Tomorrow (Oct. 21), Black Mirror is back. The sci-fi horror anthology series once broadcast on the UK’s Channel 4 moved to Netflix, where creator and writer Charlie Brooker has cooked up six new episodes to make us dread the future.
It’s over! If you’re reading this, you survived the 2016 US presidential debates. Tonight (Oct. 19), the last debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Chris Wallace, an anchor for Fox News, was the moderator and, well…
Here’s the full list of carefully curated words, phrases, and actions, you can look forward to for the third presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Tune in to this page for real time updates during the debate. (It starts at 9pm, US eastern time.)
Well, it’s finally here. The third (and final!) US presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump is tonight (Oct. 19) at 9pm US Eastern time. Just one more to go, folks.
The Force is perhaps too strong with this one. So strong, in fact, that he’s drawn the ire of the Empire itself: Disney.
Nov. 9, the day after America picks its next president, Donald Trump will need something new to do. Increasingly, it looks like starting his own media empire could be his next business endeavor.
What follows is a complete account of the 28-year relationship between US presidential candidate Donald Trump and the American broadcast network NBC.
Gabrielle Union, one of the stars of The Birth of a Nation, is telling moviegoers that she supports their choice to boycott the recently released slave revolt film. It’s a fairly unprecedented move, but one that’s more than understandable given Union’s own past and the controversy surrounding the film’s director and lead actor, Nate Parker.
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is flailing. He’s five points behind Hillary Clinton, according to FiveThirtyEight’s average of the polls, most of which were tallied before the leak of a 2005 tape in which Trump bragged about sexual assault. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll conducted over the weekend, that accounted for the leaked tape but did not include Sunday’s debate (which Trump lost), showed Trump down by double digits.
Here’s the full list of carefully curated words, phrases, and actions you can look forward to for the second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Tune in to this page for real time updates during the debate. (It starts at 9pm, Eastern time.)
Netflix has three shows featuring dark, wounded, brooding superheroes: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage, with three more on the way. Amazon Video, meanwhile, has only The Tick—a ham-handed blue doofus. At this point, that doofus is all Amazon wants.
“All good things must come to an end,” retiring NFL quarterbacks and doomed sci-fi characters are fond of saying. HBO is less willing to accept that adage—at least when it comes to its crown jewel, Game of Thrones.
Mike Pence, the Republican governor of Indiana running to be Donald Trump’s vice president, has devoted his life in public service to impeding the rights of LGBT Americans. But if you watched tonight’s one and only vice presidential debate, you would have had no idea.
The one and only US vice presidential debate between Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence will take place Tuesday (Oct. 4) at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia (the state where Kaine served as both governor and senator, perhaps giving him a home field advantage).
Saturday Night Live returned for its 42nd season this weekend (Oct. 1), and with it came a new impression of Donald Trump, courtesy of Emmy-winning actor Alec Baldwin. Baldwin’s impersonation of the businessman-turned-US-presidential-candidate was so uncanny that it’s hard to even call it parody. To put it another way: If Hollywood were to make a serious film about the 2016 presidential election, Baldwin could play Trump with pretty much the same imitation he used on SNL.
“Everything in this world is magic, except to the magician.”
