Spread the loveTweet When J.J. Abrams was wrapping up Star Wars: The Force Awakens, he showed a rough cut to Ava DuVernay, the Selma director he’d recently befriended. It needed…
Spread the loveTweet Twenty-three years. It’s been twenty-three years since a female superhero has anchored her own movie—1994’s Supergirl being the most recent example. (Catwoman and Elektra? Both antiheroes. Don’t…
Spread the loveTweet Hey, did you hear? Ethiopia shut down the internet to stop kids from cheating on exams. You didn’t? Huh. That’s usually the kind of thing that makes…
Spread the loveTweet Sofia Samatar’s story “The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle,” which appears in her new book Tender, is inspired by stories from Tales of…
Spread the loveTweet Gal Gadot is the perfect Wonder Woman. And not just because she spent her two years in the Israeli army as a combat trainer and loves wielding…
Spread the loveTweet Note: This story contains spoilers for the current seasons of Twin Peaks: The Return and American Gods. Diane, I’m lost: For the last week and a half,…
Spread the loveTweet Leave it to Donald Trump to keep Twitter guessing. Just after midnight Eastern this morning, the president did what the president often does at odd hours: He…
Spread the loveTweet Welcome back. We hope you all had fun celebrating the 40th anniversary of Star Wars last week. Did you commemorate it by re-watching A New Hope? Was…
Spread the loveTweet HBO’s Silicon Valley is a world of seesaws. Swift, meteoric rises and abrupt, catastrophic falls govern the lives of the entire Pied Piper team. One day they’re…
Spread the loveTweet It wouldn’t be a Thursday on the internet if folks weren’t irrationally upset over something. The latest installment? A bunch of dudes who are mad that Austin’s…