Month: November 2025

Bride of Chucky director Ronny Yu hasn’t helmed a full feature film since Saving General Yang back in 2013, but A Nightmare on Elm Street star Robert Englund would love…

Movie-goers don’t need to look far to see signs of Stan Lee‘s influence on the big screen. Characters that Smilin’ Stan co-created with Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and others continue…

The chronically online got a belated apology from Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings this week after an October 24 episode of the series inadvertently sowed (there are a few more pig…

We live in strange times, pop culturally speaking. Deep cut comic book characters who, just twenty years ago, would be discussed only in hushed tones in lunchroom corners are now…

The Kelvinverse has come to an end. The universe that J.J. Abrams inaugurated with his 2009 reboot film Star Trek has now been officially shelved, as Paramount seeks a new…

As the son of filmmaker Mira Nair, New York’s newest mayor Zohran Mamdani knows the difference between Hollywood and reality. He knows that he’ll have a hard time living up…

I’m not sure when I first heard this quote, but it’s something that has stayed with me over the years. How do you create services for situations you can’t imagine?…

We’ve been having conversations for thousands of years. Whether to convey information, conduct transactions, or simply to check in on one another, people have yammered away, chattering and gesticulating, through…

In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasn’t possible to run a mile in less than four minutes. Runners had been attempting it…

Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that “intention without strategy is chaos.” We’ve discussed how our biases, assumptions, and inattention toward marginalized and vulnerable groups lead to dangerous and unethical tech—but…