Netflix’s passive-aggressive war with the world’s internet service providers rages on. Yesterday (May 18), the streaming giant launched a free speed test website, so you can check if you’re really getting the internet speeds that you pay for.
On House of Cards, Claire Underwood is a ruthless schemer, a dogged postulant of power in the vein of Lady Macbeth. She is every bit the equal of her husband, US president Frank Underwood (played by Kevin Spacey). Often, she is even more impressive and imposing than he is.
As anyone proficient in outdoor grilling knows, a skewer is a “pin of wood or metal for fastening meat to keep it in form while roasting” (as explained by Merriam-Webster). Its verb form, to skewer, means to push said skewer through food—or, metaphorically, through something else, like a person.
The death of the network television drama has been long, and it’s been slow, but it’s never been more real than it was on Monday morning (May 16) at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
You’ve probably heard of Cormac McCarthy’s inscrutable 1985 Western novel Blood Meridian. Many literary critics consider it one of the greatest American novels ever written. But unless you’re a member of the relatively small, fanatical, masochistic club who has actually read the book, you may not know quite how cinematic it is in its sweep.
Early this morning (May 12), 20th Century Fox released the first trailer for Assassin’s Creed, the film based on the popular Ubisoft video-game franchise of the same name. It looks good.
Scripted television these days is not the immutable experience it once was—it’s subject to the whims of its audience, and sometimes changes in response to viewers’ feedback or internet blowback. Generally, however, the audience doesn’t literally make those changes itself.
Donald Trump is a man-baby.
Because the current American presidential election is apparently not crazy enough, CNN has decided to puts its famous “magic wall” to another use: an in-depth analysis of HBO’s Game of Thrones.
Lucasfilm announced last year that Han Solo, the gruff antihero of the Star Wars franchise, will be getting his own spinoff adventure in 2018. It will be directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the talented duo behind 21 Jump Street and The Lego Movie. It will be co-written by Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote two of the three original Star Wars films, as well as last year’s The Force Awakens. And, we learned today, the talented young actor Alden Ehrenreich will don the iconic black vest.
Fifty years after he first appeared in a Marvel comic book, the Black Panther—the world’s first mainstream black superhero—is making his film debut in Captain America: Civil War. The film has already been released in several countries, and will hit theaters in the US this Friday (May 6).
Every time you watch something on Netflix, Netflix is watching you back.
There are a million things Hamilton hasn’t done, just you wait. And that includes winning a Tony award. Judging by the hit musical’s record-setting performance today, you won’t have to wait long.
This story contains plot details from the most recent episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones.
The rascals behind NASA’s peerless social media presence are at it again.
At the NFL Draft, football players replace their pads and uniforms with exquisitely tailored Armani and Versace suits. A boisterous crowd fills the bleachers, but they don’t cheer or jeer plays made by the athletes—they react, overzealous and histrionic, to personnel decisions made by team executives behind closed doors. Millions of Americans fanatically watch this all unfold on television and across social media, just as they would any other live sporting event.
The official trailer for Oliver Stone’s upcoming movie Snowden is here, and it looks somewhat akin to a Jason Bourne spy thriller—if Bourne were a baritone Harry Potter and Nicolas Cage randomly showed up to ratchet up the frenetic energy (as if this real-life story needed any more urgency).
Soon, you’ll have no excuse not to watch Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors trilogy that your film school friend keeps telling you is an unadulterated masterpiece.
Twin Peaks was one of the strangest television shows ever, so it’s only fitting that the cast of its revival is similarly wacky.
This story contains spoilers for HBO’s Game of Thrones.
If you’re looking to fill your summer binge-watching schedule, the Peabody Awards have you covered.
When Game of Thrones returns to HBO for its sixth season this Sunday (April 24), characters will die. We don’t know who, or how, or whether they will be resurrected at a later date, but it’s a near certainty that some of the hit fantasy show’s major players won’t survive the season.
Louis C.K. dared to try something different, and now he’s paying the price—literally. The American comedian said he’s now “millions of dollars in debt” after deciding to finance his own TV show instead of pitching it to a network.
Innovation in space exploration requires bright minds and deep pockets. A new ambitious space project, announced today (April 12), boasts the best of both those worlds.
