The Quarantine Playlist: Anatomy of a Murder
There’s something so inherently American about the legal drama. It’s the idea that our institutions work the way they’re supposed to, the idea that fairness and right will win out….
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The Quarantine Playlist: Amistad
When you found your own film studio, you can do whatever the hell you want. It’s common knowledge. That’s not quite what Steven Spielberg did after co-founding Dreamworks, but it’s….
The Quarantine Playlist: The American Friend
It’s all about escape, and identity, in Wim Wenders’ The American Friend, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game. Wenders’ film is hallucinatory and dreamlike where Highsmith’s prose is….
The Quarantine Playlist: Alien: Resurrection
If there didn’t exist a venerable franchise based around the word Alien, would anyone have gone to see a movie called Alien: Resurrection? It’s an objectively stupid, terrible title, better….
The Quarantine Playlist: Alien 3
What an impossible task first-time director David Fincher had in front of him: make a (mostly unnecessary) follow-up film to Alien and Aliens, two films that represent the apex of….
Leaked Docs Show TikTok Prioratizes Pretty People
TikTok seems like a fun little app where the young folk share clips of themselves doing silly stuff, but the owners of the company are some accused of doing some….
Best Buy Limiting In-Store Customers to 10-15 At a Time
The coronavirus is wreaking havoc and Best Buy is taking precautions by limiting customers inside its stores to 10 to 15 at any given time beginning on March 23. This….
Disneyland To Close In Response to Coronavirus
The Walt Disney Company released a statement that Disneyland and California Adventure parks will close on Saturday (3/14/20) in only the fourth time in company history. The parks will be….
Jif Peanut Butter Seeks To Settle “GIF” Pronunciation Debate
Choosy moms choose Animated PNG. Look, we’ve all had the conversation. Is it GIF with a hard “G”, or soft? Heretofore, none have managed a definitive answer. But that’s what….
Only Gen-X Will Be Able To Name These Obscure 80s TV Shows
Television in the 1980s often felt like it came from the depths of a drug-induced boardroom meeting. Underwater fish-people with trumpets on their heads, toys that you had to point….
PUMA and SONIC Team Up For New Collection
PUMA, the world’s fastest sports brand, and Sonic, the world’s fastest hedgehog, are once again joining forces ahead of the release of the blockbuster movie “Sonic the Hedgehog”. SEGA’s famous….
Atari 2600/7800 Visual Compendium Opens Pre-Orders
Atari 2600/7800: a visual compendium aims to showcase the very best pixel art, cover art and product design on each system. Spread over 528 pages, it features over 200 classic….