This is a spoiler-filled first set of reactions to Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The ultimate courage of what Rian Johnson has done here, is that he fully embraced what it is to be a director who obviously grew up as true fan of Star Wars, and retconned the whole universe into a new understanding of The…

So, how on Earth did Ridley Scott reshoot 22 scenes in “ All The Money In The World ,” with Christopher Plummer replacing disgraced actor Kevin Spacey , a mere six weeks before the film was scheduled to open? You simply get it done. “I move like lightning. I’m already two scenes ahead. It’s simple!…

Some of the fonts listed below explore new technologies in font engineering, other push boundaries of “regular” font developing process, but all of them are one-of-a-kind hallmark of 2017. FIT by David Jonathan Ross Fit is one of the first typefaces available in the brand new OpenType variable font…

Over the course of their three-decade career, Joel and Ethan Coen have buried a man alive, fed a body into a woodchipper, and shot a grinning Brad Pitt in the face at point-blank range. The most vicious act in their oeuvre, though, involves no physical violence whatsoever. It’s the blunt verdict…

Viceland, a Vice Media television channel, celebrated the start of a show at Comic Con in San Diego in July. Credit Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for VICELAND By One woman said she was riding a Ferris wheel at Coney Island after a company event when a co-worker suddenly took her hand and put it on his…

Shea : Justin, for this article I have a very simple idea: Let’s you and I go through some rap albums that came out this year and decide if they were good or bad. Can we do that? Let’s do that. And you’re only allowed to pick from one of those two words. There’s no alternate option. Justin : The…

The more you learn, the less you know. It was in late 2016 when I caught the coding bug. At first, it was a subtle twitch, then it took over my headspace and eventually it pushed me into unknown territory. One year later I have a new profession, a new workplace and (supposedly) a new compartment in…

In 2015—long before the name Juicero became unofficial shorthand for Silicon Valley snake oil—Doug Evans appeared on Ventured , a podcast run by his investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers . For the past two years, the founder had been operating the company in “stealth mode,” an industry term for…

Insight and justice at the end of the worst year in American political history. We must be grateful for the smallest of blessings. Last week I saw and heard some things that provided a measure of hope and nuance in these grim and hysterical times. First, in San Francisco I saw two formidable legal…

Jennifer Lawrence, pre-screaming. Photo: Paramount Pictures Spoilers for Mother! below No one said watching Mother! was going to be easy. Indeed, writer-director Darren Aronofsky recently told Vulture that he wanted audiences to be “ prepped that it’s a very intense ride ,” that it’s “a cruise…

The brilliant minds over at Pop Culture Detective changed the way that I see the Jedi Order in Star Wars in a mere 25 minutes. The same folks who created the excellent video about “adorkable” misogyny in The Big Bang Theory and coined the “ Born Sexy Yesterday ” trope have a new video that’s a…

Well, shit. I’ve been watching this situation for a few years, and assuming it would just blow over so we wouldn’t have to talk about it here in this place where we are supposed to be busy improving our lives. But a collective insanity has sprouted around the new field of ‘cryptocurrencies’, causing…

City Lauren O'Neil Posted 7 months ago Report Inaccuracy Another car got stuck inside the TTC's Queens Quay tunnel City Lauren O'Neil Posted 7 months ago Report Inaccuracy Stay in the loop Unsubscribe anytime or contact us for details. It looks like someone in Toronto finished off 2017 with a bang…

A manual is to be put in the bottom drawer never to be opened. If I can't work something out then I don't want it. Don't view success as anythin g other than happiness. If you're happy then nothing else matters. I grew up loving every creature. If I saw a toad in my garden, it was a privilege that…

As the year comes to a close, there’s one group we’ve yet to hear from about the Best of 2017: the directors. IndieWire has reached out to a number of our favorite filmmakers to share with us their lists and thoughts on the best of the year. From Benny Safdie breaking down the brilliance of “Nathan…

Jake Kazdal, an American video game developer who lives in Kyoto, Japan, spent a night in early March refreshing the website of GameStop, the video game retail chain in the United States. He wanted to buy Nintendo’s just-released console, the Switch. But the device had already sold out in Japan,…

Every so often, a right-wing commentator who purports to abhor dishonesty among media elites admits that they’ve been guilty of dishonestly purveying propaganda. These figures are not marginal. In the final years of the Bush administration it was Rush Limbaugh, easily the most popular talk-radio…

Swatting is the practice of tricking police SWAT teams into storming your victim's home by phoning in fake hostage situations; it's especially prominent among cybercriminals, gamers and was a favored tactic of Gamergater trolls. Last night, Andrew Finch, a 28 year old man in Wichita, was shot dead…

Polygon is kicking off its best of entertainment series, which will run through the end of December and beginning of January, coming to a close just before the 2017 Golden Globes. These personal essays will examine the best, most important and weirdest moments that occurred in television, film,…

Netflix plans to release 80 original films in 2018 , and those films will not be given a theatrical release. If you want to watch what might be some of the most interesting movies of the year — if Netflix’s 2017 slate is anything to go by — by some of the biggest names in filmmaking, you’re going to…

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea on Tuesday responded to an overture from the North and proposed holding high-level talks between the countries on their border next week. North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, had suggested on Monday that the countries open dialogue on easing military tensions and on…

Photo by Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images Over the course of 2017, both in Congress and in the executive branch, we have watched the task of government devolve into the full-scale looting of America. Politicians are making decisions to enrich their donors — and at times themselves personally — with a…

Driven by outrage and a resolve to correct a power imbalance that seemed intractable just months ago, 300 prominent actresses and female agents, writers, directors, producers and entertainment executives have formed an ambitious, sprawling initiative to fight systemic sexual harassment in Hollywood…

The more popular a computer platform becomes, the more of a bind in which it inevitably finds itself. A platform is only “finished” when it is abandoned. It needs to evolve to remain relevant, but it’s difficult to change in unfamiliar ways without angering the base of active users. Adding new…

John Oliver. Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Depending on whom you ask, John Oliver was either a hero or a quintessential British villain when he grilled Dustin Hoffman about his long-standing sexual-harassment allegations at a 20th anniversary screening of Wag the Dog earlier this month. “It’s…

IT HAPPENED is a series reflecting on our memories of 2017, one month at a time, as we head into the new year. I was raised in the Christian church, and Revelation was my favorite book of the Bible. As a kid, I’d read it for the imagery: hellish monsters rising from the ocean, angels sounding…

Did you hear that? For more than a week, students and staff in at least four campus buildings heard a five-second tune, but couldn’t pinpoint exactly where it was coming from. Some ignored it. Others questioned if they might be imagining things after one too many all-nighters. Many wondered where…

On December 14 director Morgan Spurlock, known for his comic documentaries Super Size Me and Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? , posted a lengthy statement to Twitter in which he admitted that he has played a role in the ongoing epidemic of sexual harassment in the workplace. “You see, I’ve…

When the ball finally dropped at the end of 2016, women knew the year ahead was going to be weird: Game of Thrones was becoming a summer show, wide-legged pants were back in fashion, and Donald Trump would soon be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. That last development, more than…

Amsterdam’s secret sights Here’s our selection of 10 lesser-known Amsterdam attractions well worth seeking out on your next visit to the city. An original Picasso in the Vondelpark It’s easy to walk right past this concrete sculpture at the southern end of the Vondelpark without realising that it…

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Photo: Getty The price of bitcoin plunged on Friday, continuing a steady downward spiral that’s lasted all week. True believers are shrugging it off, but with its newfound notoriety, a lot of latecomers are feeling some pain. All but two of the top 100 cryptocurrencies were significantly down this…

Just 15 miles separate Cardi B’s childhood home in the Bronx and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where she donned a floor-length pink feather coat to perform her №1 hit “Bodak Yellow” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in October. To reach late-night-television levels of cultural ubiquity, though, “Bodak Yellow”…

Universal Pictures/Ringer illustration In a year when it felt like a lot of film criticism (good and bad) served to parse movies for their messaging — what they said about a particular subject and whether that argument was (politically or socially) correct, worth listening to, or worth making in the…

Getty Images/Ringer Illustration It’s been quite the year for breakups — Nick Viall and Vanessa Grimaldi, Carmelo and Lala (and the Knicks), America and the illusion of democracy — but some of 2017’s most concerning moments happened when two or more parties collaborated to make something so horrible…

I lived in Canada for eight years, long enough to learn that the one about Canadians constantly apologizing has some truth to it. On a winter road trip from Chicago to Toronto, I joked to my American carmates that our northern neighbors have a New Year’s tradition where they shout “Sorry!” at the…