Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine offers a history of the biggest player in streaming.
Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu gets at the heart of what makes vampires an eternally fascinating fixture in our sexual imaginations.
Our staff writes about the best books they read over the course of the year.
John Chu’s Wicked sequel was always going to need some sort subtitle to set it apart from Part One, and it seems the studio has decided on calling it Wicked: For Good — an allusion to one of the songs we’ll all probably be humming to ourselves next year.
Director Kenji Kamiyama’s new Lord of the Rings anime film feels like what happens when you try to turn a footnote into a feature-length story.
It took a lot of technical know-how to create Dune: Part Two’s mesmerizing score, and this new video from Expressive E breaks down how Hans Zimmer made it happen using a fleet of Osmose synthesizers.
Alison Schapker sees Dune: Prophecy as a story about the ebb and flow of institutional power.
Lots of folks are probably watching F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu before Robert Eggers’ new remake premieres later this month. Obviously, the 1922 film played a huge rule in influencing Eggers’ ideas about how to present the classic vampire tale. But in a new interview with Deadline, he explains how seeing the original on VHS before it was remastered gave him a deep appreciation of how real it could feel.
The era of the LLM means you now have to figure out whether you are talking to another person — or just some bot. There’s one sci-fi author who focused on just that.
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Jon M. Chu’s Wicked adaptation gets at the heart of what makes musicals such a spectacular form of storytelling.
Our sister site just released a new book with Insight Editions called Year of the Ring. It’s an incredibly fun (and totally comprehensive) look at the history of the franchise and its fanbase.
You can re-live the adventure through a series of thoughtful and humorous stories that chronicle the original trilogy and its impact on culture. It also makes a great gift for the Tolkien fan in your life — or yourself!
HBO’s new Dune prequel series sharpens the Bene Gesserit’s history into a pointed drama that calls for some patience.
But Marvel’s WandaVision follow-up stuck the landing by spelling out the secrets that were hiding in plain sight.
Sony’s third Venom feature feels like another throwback to when comic book movies kept things short and silly.
The Annihilation author talks about jumping back into the Southern Reach series 10 years later and whether this is truly the end of the story.
Though it’s a bit mind-boggling to hear Lionsgate refer to American Psycho as “potent and classic IP,” the news that Luca Guadagnino is directing the studio’s new reboot is definitely intriguing. The question now: who’s gonna be Patrick Bateman?
We’ve known for a while now that HBO was aiming to debut its Dune: Prophecy prequel series at some point this fall. But in addition to dropping a new trailer, the network has finally announced that the show will premiere on November 17th.
Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer is a gripping erotic thriller about the power stories have over us.
Darryl Campbell’s new book, Fatal Abstraction, argues that many of Big Tech’s issues are related to “managerialism.” His reporting — some of which he published for The Verge — finds that Silicon Valley’s love of spreadsheets, productivity software, and MBAs has undermined many companies’ ability to ship good products. Or in Boeing’s case, keep doors from flying off planes.
The book isn’t out until next April, but you can pre-order it now.
Todd Phillips’ new Joker sequel is a pitchy mess that wants to explore what happens when villains become folk heroes.
Journalist Jason Schreier discusses his new book, Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment.
Remember when Joe and Anthony Russo snatched up the rights to adapt Simon Stålenhag’s The Electric State?
Netflix does, and the streamer has just released a handful of new images from from the movie, which tells the story of “a young woman (played by Millie Bobby Brown) who embarks on a perilous journey across the robot-ravaged US, accompanied by a mysterious toy robot and a roguish smuggler (Chris Pratt).”
While Netflix has yet to officially announce who will be voicing / portraying Tony Tony Chopper in the second season of its live-action One Piece adaptation, the (CGI) anthropomorphic reindeer makes a brief appearance in this new behind-the-scenes video.
Though production on the third and final season of Good Omens was well into production in Scotland, Deadline reports that Amazon has put the project on hold seemingly in response to sexual assault allegations surrounding author Neil Gaiman.
The pause comes just a few days after Disney suddenly pumped the brakes on its adaptation of Gaiman’s novel The Graveyard Book.
Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show continues to be phenomenal in ways that only a truly wild budget could make possible.
House of the Dragon ended its second season with a reminder that this is all just one part of a much larger story.
The feature, called Maven, lets you type prompts like, “show me fantasy audiobooks that I can complete on an 8-hour road trip.” Audible will then use AI to come up with matching audiobooks.
Audible is rolling out Maven as a beta to half of US-based users on Android and iOS. Amazon just debuted an AI-powered discovery feature on its Music app as well.
Even though you can’t see Bill Skarsgård’s Pennywise in this new teaser for HBO’s It prequel series Welcome to Derry, it’s pretty obvious the clown’s going to be up to his regular, degular demonic tricks when he makes his small screen debut.
Amazon’s new Batman show is a jazzy blend of style, substance, and nostalgia.
Interview With the Vampire’s second season finale closed out on Lestat (Sam Reid) getting together a band, and it looks like the group’s going to be the subject of a documentary when the show returns for season three.
Ahead of the season two premiere of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon — The Book of Carol in September, AMC has renewed the spinoff for third installment. The Walking Dead: Dead City, which debuts in 2025, has also been renewed for a second season, and a new trailer for the series teases how Maggie Green (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) reunite.
