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The End of ‘Brat Summer’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think
Charli XCX said it, so it must be true: Brat Summer is over. In a tweet so echoey…
How the Cyber-Thriller ‘Red Rooms’ Became a Cult Classic Before It Was Ever Released
Digital piracy often gets a bad rap. Maybe it’s memories of those old “You wouldn’t steal a car”…
The Search for the Face Behind Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
Jazmin Jones knows what she did. “If you’re online, there’s this idea of trolling,” Jones, the director behind…
Online Action Movie Fandom Birthed a New Film Fest Era
Young and Robinson weren’t planning on entering the exhibition space back when they were touring their movies, but…
The 7 Best Projectors According to Our Reviewers (2024)
Projectors offer larger screen sizes and a more cinematic viewing experience than their TV counterparts, but that doesn’t…
The Studio Executive Who Wants Hollywood to Get Real About Bad Storytelling
That’s fair. When you think about building stories from multiple audiences, not just audiences of color, but also…
Shockbuster Season: Why the Death of the Summer Movie Is a Good Thing
Forty-seven years ago today, everything changed. True believers might already know what it was: On May 25, 1977,…
Scarlett Johansson’s OpenAI Feud Makes Her an Uncanny Folk Hero
There is a distinct moment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe when Black Widow became a hero for the…
‘Furiosa’ Crystalizes the Power—and Limits—of Cli-Fi
The title card that opens 1979’s original Mad Max places the action in a very near future, looming…
What Scarlett Johansson v. OpenAI Could Look Like in Court
It doesn’t matter whether a person’s actual voice is used in an imitation or not, Rothman says, only…