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Streaming's YouTube problem can't be solved with more YouTube

My godson doesn’t know who Rocky and Bullwinkle or Madonna are. He is only aware of Xena: Warrior Princess because of a Fortnite skin. This is, in part, because he’s 11, but mostly, it’s because he w…

In an ingenious restoration project, the humble oyster shell is transformed into a powerful tool to halt coastal erosion- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

Loitering towards war

While Vienna’s coffeehouses bred modernism, in Belgrade’s kafanas grew conspiracy and rage. Their clash consumed Europe- by Anton CebaloRead on Aeon

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Will Ferrell's golf comedy The Hawk lands a few feet shy of the pin

Lonnie “The Hawk” Hawkins is deep in the rough, with his haystack hairdo peeking out of his signature visor and a farmer’s tan shown off by a sleeveless purple golf top clearly designed for a woman. …

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Paramount is shoving Avatar Aang into just enough theaters to qualify for awards

Upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender sequel movie Avatar Aang has not had an easy road to release, to put it mildly. To start with, the film was initially set for theaters, before being moved by its o…

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Danny McBride to play with G.I. Joes for his feature directorial debut

Like a child who missed the memo about Ninja Turtles action figures in 1989, Hasbro remains weirdly fixated on its G.I. Joes, and insistent that someone (and, specifically, a Hollywood filmmaker with…

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Andy Serkis wades into Lord Of The Rings casting controversy, calls The Shire "very white"

Fresh off his animated, fart joke-heavy Animal Farm, actor and director Andy Serkis is already well underway on his (slightly more epic) next project: The Hunt For Gollum, which will nestle comfortab…

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You can add "Paramount investors" to the groups of people suing over the Warner Bros. sale

Over the last few days, numerous forces of undeniable potency—state attorneys general, Hollywood unions, Alan Cumming—have stepped forward to try to do what the federal government won’t, and impose s…

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AI rip-offs have come for the movies

Just a few innocent years ago, it seemed like the soulless cinematic cash grabs that were going to dominate the movie theater were horror films based on public domain figures, like Winnie The Pooh, P…

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The trailer for Bill Maher's Mark Twain prize takes it easy on him

Last month, Bill Maher was feted with the Mark Twain Prize For American Humor at the Kennedy Center. The reporters that were there already gave us a pretty good idea of who we’d be able to expect to …

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Mrs. Lincoln's play will come to screen with Oh, Mary! live film

Good news for anyone who doesn’t live in New York, London, or the 1860s: Oh, Mary! is getting a live stage film featuring Cole Escola performing their title role, per Playbill. Escola is currently pe…

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Blaxploitation came of age with the help of Barry White and War

In the year-long series Sounds Of Blaxploitation, Craig D. Lindsey plays the hits that defined a genre, drawing connections between the music of the moment and the films that gave it a platform. The …

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Brendan Carr received thousands in gifts from Paramount before approving merger

Nothing to FCC here—just Brendan Carr accepting thousands of dollars’ worth of gifts from Paramount ahead of approving its mergers. According to a new report from ProPublica, FCC chair Carr accepted …

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Old and new Hollywood collide in Christopher Nolan's invigorating Odyssey

Despite the impossibly high standards Christopher Nolan set for himself with Oppenheimer, he and his team, including cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, pushed things even further with The Odyssey by …

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Robert Pattinson's Caped Crusader is back in first look at The Batman: Part II

The journey to The Batman: Part II has been something of an odyssey, especially for Robert Pattinson, who accepted a role and fully filmed and released The Odyssey since the first The Batman movie ca…

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Alan Cumming promotes snowballing effort to stop Warner Bros.-Paramount merger

Though it’s never been especially popular, the efforts to stop Paramount Skydance’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery have really been ramping up in recent weeks. This week, 12 states filed a lawsui…

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I Play Rocky trailer introduces Sylvester Stallone fighting for his movie

The theme of 1976’s Rocky—about an underdog boxer beating the odds to become triumphant—also applies to the film’s tumultuous production saga itself. Writer-star Sylvester Stallone had to fight hard …

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New York passes a one-year moratorium on AI data centers

AI isn’t just polluting our internet feeds and Hollywood, but literally polluting where people live. As a report in the BBC last weekend highlighted, people living near AI data centers find water com…

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King Of The Hill and Malcolm In The Middle chart the road to revival redemption

You know the feeling: You’re watching a favorite TV show, but something’s off. The writing’s a little creaky, the actors appear to be getting back in character in real time, and though the sets look …

The diffusion pilot

What does it mean to make art in the age of inexhaustible AIs? An animator ponders his purpose and reclaims some control- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

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Finally taking cues from Veep, House passes permanent daylight saving time bill

In some ways it was inevitable. While the masses were busy calling Idiocracy a documentary, we should’ve been keeping a close eye on Veep‘s Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons), whose flagship political issue…

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Apple TV's propulsive crime thriller Lucky falls short of its potential

Anya Taylor-Joy is no stranger to essaying the role of an underdog on TV—after all, she brought chess prodigy Beth Harmon to life with a quiet but fierce (and Emmy-nominated) determination in 2020’s …

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James Gunn reportedly rescuing Blue Beetle from cinematic universe limbo

The crisis on infinite cinematic universes is full of refugees. But of all the orphaned superheroes trapped in the limbo between Zack Snyder’s DCU and James Gunn’s, few have a more confusing existenc…

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WGA joins legal battle to stop Paramount-WBD merger

Though Paramount hopes to run its wrecking ball through what remains of Hollywood by the end of Q3, the legal battle to stop David Ellison from buying Warner Bros. is just getting started. Today, the…

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Andy Serkis slips into his dot suit to announce The Hunt For Gollum is on

Like the Fellowship looking to avoid the Mines of Moria, The Lord Of The Rings: The Hunt For Gollum has an uphill climb ahead of it. Peter Jackson’s beloved Lord Of The Rings trilogy set an extremely…

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Prime Video’s genre-bending spy comedy Ride Or Die strikes up a friendship worth killing for

In a world too cowardly to give us Hannah Waddingham as 007, Prime Video’s Ride Or Die is the next best thing. Created by British multihyphenate Tessa Coates, the genre-bending miniseries casts Waddi…

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Netflix continues YouTube makeover with Good Mythical Morning

After picking up those Architectural Digest videos and other shorts that people watch during their shrinking lunch breaks, Netflix has added another YouTube mainstay to its offerings. Good Mythical M…

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After Last Rites, Ed and Lorraine Warren backtrack to ‌The Conjuring: First Communion

Calling the last Conjuring movie Last Rites was a grift worthy of its star characters. Nobody bought that the lucrative series was ending, no matter how creatively bankrupt the last movie, The Conjur…

The looting of science fiction

Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future- by Ali Rıza TaşkaleRead on Aeon

Patricia Evangelista on journalism

The ‘worst’ and ‘best possible’ job at once: what it’s like to dedicate your life to documenting crimes against humanity- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon